with street lighting, please log your service requests with MyLA 311 or call 311 itself.

If there's any issues, live issues or theft and vandalism that's happening, 9-1-1.

For all other things, and if you're inquisitive about our history,

please visit lalights.lacity.org.

Or if we can, we'll see you by the office on one of these Wednesdays in a month.

Thank you so much. This is really, really fun.

Thank you.

And that's a wrap on this LA Currents.

Hello everyone, I'm Natalia Bilbao and here's what's happening in LA this week.

Affordable housing is coming to Lincoln Heights.

Council member Eunices Hernandez joined the community for the groundbreaking of Grace Villas.

The development includes a mix of units that will become much-needed homes in the neighborhood.

Right now, we're standing on a publicly-owned parking lot in Lincoln Heights in Council District 1.

We are celebrating the groundbreaking for Grace Villas, which is an affordable housing development that is long time in the making.

Homes for families, three bedrooms, two bedrooms, and also some homes for transitional aged youth and for families with members that have developmental disabilities.

and all of them will receive affordable rents and services that support whatever

their needs are so that they can move forward with the lives that they dream

of for themselves so we're excited about it I live in Highland Village and this

organization co-works by the apartment complex and the remodel the whole

apartment for in the main to low income for low-income rents and I've been

living there since they bought it like 20 years ago so it's been a great

experience for us.

Welcome to the first district welcome to an L.A. DOT lot that very shortly is

going to be 48 units of affordable housing it's good to be here surrounded

by neighbors partners and friends to celebrate the groundbreaking of Grace

Villas we're here because we believe that everyone no matter their income age

or ability deserves a safe dignified and affordable place to call home.

Back in 2022 voters passed Measure ULA, which is creating revenue to build affordable housing, to keep people in their homes.

And so this is just a demonstration and proof that when the voters ask for creating affordable housing, we can deliver on that.

We literally completed the funding for this development on Friday and are ready to start construction in a week.

But before we begin, we have a tradition of blessing the land which will ultimately house 48 families and young people, recognizing the peoples and communities who have preserved this place for us to use.

You guys want to grab some dirt?

Alright, when I count to three, you guys just toss it.

Ready? One, two, three, toss.

Perfect.

Alright.

Remembering Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

As part of a public art project, the city's Department of Cultural Affairs

of Cultural Affairs unveiled a memorial to Ginsburg,

who blazed a trail in advocating for women's rights.

A special monument will celebrate her impact and legacy.

Good morning, everyone.

It is a true honor to join you for the unveiling

of the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Memorial

and to celebrate a vision that has been in the works

for years now.

We are in the community of Van Nuys, particularly at the Van Nuys Civic Center, and we are so

excited because we were finally able to unveil our Ruth Bader Ginsburg monument. It's a project

that is being added to the DCA archives, Department of Cultural Affairs, but it's a really great story

of how when our departments work together in public-private partnerships, we can make these

beautiful things happen.

So this is a very long-term project.

I've been working on it for six years.

And one of the things that I did to create the monument was to speak to family members

of Justice Ginsburg.

I spoke to Jane Ginsburg, her daughter, and she told me about her incredible collars.

So Justice Ginsburg would wear these beautiful collars when she would wear her robes.

And I was inspired by those collars to create the ceiling and the floor of the monument.

I also researched a little bit about her going to Harvard Law School, and I was inspired

by the benches at Harvard Law School to create the seating area inside of the monument.

Finally, there is a door in the very back of the monument, which is slightly ajar, kind

of reminding us of how much more work there is to do to open doors for young women and

girls, but also how much work that Justice Ginsburg began to do for us to open those

doors of possibility.

We hope this monument will be an inspiration, especially to young women, to know that law

and government are careers that they can aspire to.

It was built next to the library, and that was purposeful, because they wanted to link

it to Ruth Bader Ginsburg's love of books, love of reading and writing, but also just

to enjoy a really beautiful green space.

This project is a gift to the city of Los Angeles, and it's collectively held by all

of us here in the United States and that was a very important part to me of the

project that it actually changes history because it becomes a part of the public

record and I really hope that people who come to see the monument understand

that it's their monument it's our public monument and that it's a gift for each

and every member of the city of Los Angeles.

Giving for Thanksgiving.

At the Hollenbeck Community Police Station,

the Los Angeles Police Department

joined My Gathering Place International

to help community members with turkeys

and more during this holiday season.

We're here at Hollenbeck Station.

We're partnering up with

My Gathering Place International

where we're here giving out turkeys

to the community who are in need.

Yes, well, we're from

My Gathering Place International.

This is our fifth year to be here in Boyle Heights to do our Thanksgiving outreach.

We call it unity in our community.

And we love to give.

We love to sow into people's lives.

So it's a gathering from our church.

We buy turkeys from our ministry.

People donate.

And this year we bought 50 turkeys, but we didn't have enough.

So we had to run out to the store and pick up 38 more turkeys and some gift cards.

So this year people were lined up all the way to the street

in the rain for hours.

Some of them got here at 6 a.m.

So we're thankful that we were able to meet a need.

Thank you, sir.

God bless you.

Happy Thanksgiving.

Happy Thanksgiving.

I think it's excellent because they're

helping the community with the difficult times

that they're going to be.

And they thank you for doing this type of event,

to help us, the people of the community.

So we want to make sure that the community knows

that the Los Angeles Police Department is aware

that a lot of people are going through tough times right now.

So we always welcome the community here.

We like to foster relationships with our local churches

so that people feel more comfortable coming to us.

Hopefully that also bridges the gap between the community and the police.

We just want to remind everyone that behind every badge is a heart and our police station

is open to everyone and anyone that is going through hard times and is in need of the police.

Please come in and report whatever crime you need to report.

You are encouraged to come in and speak with any of us or call 911 if needed.

Thanksgiving in the city continues bringing community together.

Council members Eunices Hernandez and Hugo Soto Martinez got into the spirit of the holiday

by teaming up for a turkey giveaway and the chance to connect with Angelinos.

Today we are here at the Dream Center right in the heart of Silver Lake in collaboration

with my compañera Eunices Hernandez.

We're giving out 9,000 turkeys to Angelenos from Council District 1, 13 and beyond to

make sure that we can fill the gap of food disparity and lack of income for a lot of

our families.

What better thing to give to our families than something they can share with their entire

families like a big old turkey.

Everything is very expensive.

So that helps us a lot, for all the families.

Thank you very much. You too. God bless you. Thank you.

It's a beautiful display of community.

I really miss the days in which we had more community.

It's been really hard to connect with people,

and this is a great opportunity for different types of people to connect,

and it's a very great cause.

I see it as a great effort to come together,

something that's much needed for a little more unity

within the government, within the city, and the people in the city, just showing that they care,

they care, that they pay attention.

You know, the most important thing about doing something like this is that we are telling

people that we care about them, that we care about, that they have a wonderful experience

during this Thanksgiving. And of course, you know, this is how we also build community. So when the

volunteers come in today, we struggle together, we fight together, we support families together,

and it just builds solidarity across so many different spectrums of our city.

It is our responsibility as council members to be the guardians of some of our most vulnerable

community members here in the city of LA. Today is an example of us stepping up to make sure that

families have everything they need to have a wonderful holiday season.

It shows that people care even in the moment where there's not a lot of that going on right

now. So we do appreciate that and it shows that there's still a lot of love and still a lot of

with compassion and empathy out there.

We need to make sure that we continue the support

because folks are struggling

and everything is really expensive,

from rent to groceries.

Then go to our online website

or add CD1 Los Angeles on social media

for more information on our regular food distribution

and our rental assistance program.

And as always, if there's ever a need,

our social media is CD13 Los Angeles.

Mayor Karen Bass joins state and regional leaders to launch LA is open, a recovery campaign

to boost LA's local economy and help businesses impacted by the January wildfires.

The campaign invites Angelenos and visitors to rediscover LA through Shop LA, Dine LA,

and Discover LA initiatives.

To prepare for upcoming events,

Mayor Bass launched the city's contract financing program

and announced the new centralized website, Business Navigator.

According to Bass, the new campaign sends a clear message

that the city is open and visitors will see why LA is second to none.

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

LA City Housing Authority, HACLA, joined Mayor Karen Bass along with Veterans and their families

at a recent celebration of service and partnership.

Under the House Our Vets strategy, which began in January 2025, nearly 400 Veterans have

already moved into stable housing.

HACLA is partnering with the Veterans Administration to increase housing referrals, offer personalized

help to match veterans to units and reduce move-in delays.

According to Mayor Bass, the partnership offers more

opportunities to rent to veterans and clears barriers

for the veterans to use vouchers to come inside.

HACLA is calling on potential partners to join with them

in a collaboration to get all veterans home for the holidays.

For more information, visit HACLA.org.

Mayor Karen Bass began the 1000 day countdown to the 2028 Paralympic Games by highlighting

citywide efforts to deliver the most inclusive games.

In 2028, LA will make history by hosting its first ever Paralympic Games with the opening

ceremony on Tuesday, August 15th.

The 2028 Paralympic schedule sees competitions in 23 sports, including the new sport of

paraclimbing. According to BAS, the City Games Mobility Working Group, including the Department

on Disability, will help deliver a safe, accessible, and welcoming games experience. The city will also

establish a task force to improve hiring and retaining individuals with disabilities in the

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

With so much of life happening in the digital world, connection to the Internet is a necessity.

Council President Marquise Harris-Dawson joined local groups and community members to celebrate new connectivity along Crenshaw.

We're here on Crenshaw Boulevard in the Hyde Park neighborhood.

We're celebrating this morning because we got live, free, 24-7 Wi-Fi internet access

to everybody that's along the Crenshaw Corridor.

So if you're between Hyde Park and Leimert Park, you can use the internet for free.

That means if you're in a coffee shop, you can use it.

If you're in a park, you can use it.

If you're on the train, on the metro, you can use it.

Anywhere you are in this community, you'll have free Wi-Fi.

There's a lot of inequity in internet availability,

and we really saw it during COVID.

When all your business had to be conducted online,

what you saw is people gathering outside libraries

or outside McDonald's, even though those places were closed,

they kept their Wi-Fi going.

And eventually, we started doing that at the parks.

And so to have this community disconnected creates a gap.

Well, the California Community Foundation

is the community's foundation.

And for us, providing digital equity

to all of Angelenos is one of our most significant priorities.

Now, if you live in this community of which I'm one,

I live not too far away from here,

you'll be able to access Wi-Fi.

But now it also provides a quality lifeline

to access to jobs, to education, to healthcare,

in ways that all Angelenos deserve.

So we found out about this program

through Destination Crenshaw.

They approached us about this new community Wi-Fi program

access if we'd be interested in kind of being one of the first piloters for the program.

And we were like, absolutely, that sounds amazing.

Like, especially being like a farmer's market and an outdoor space with really no access

to like electricity or anything.

We're kind of like pack in, pack out.

So just being able to kind of have the opportunity to test out what that would look like to have

kind of free access on a weekly basis and see how we can utilize that was something that

we were really excited about.

You know, today we live in a digital world and the amount of information, the amount

of access you have really depends on your connectivity as well.

And so this is just another way for us to make sure that every resident has equal footing.

The city's department of Wreck and Parks, Play LA is all about inclusivity in sport

and empowering those with disabilities.

They are teaching blind soccer, proving that being visually impaired is no barrier to staying

active and taking part in a team sport.

So today, the city of Los Angeles, Play LA and the United States Association of Blind

Athletes are hosting our fourth clinic where we are teaching blind and visually impaired

children how to play the sport of blind soccer.

Being active and healthy is a really important part of every child's life and so for kids

who are blind and visually impaired there aren't a ton of opportunities for them to be active

and be a part of a team sport so it's a really great opportunity to be active, to learn a

sport and also be around other kids who are just like them.

We invite anyone in our community to participate in our programs.

We also like to educate the community around us to ensure that we're bringing awareness

and attention to how we can empower our youth with disabilities.

I'm here working with Play LA as a recreational coach, working on blind soccer.

For visually impaired individuals specifically, it's kind of like a two-fold game.

You have the idea that you get to understand that you don't have to just sit in a corner

by yourself and not be able to do anything because you have a disability but in fact

because you have a disability you get to participate in a very unique and individualized sport

that's tailor-made and designed for individuals like yourself.

And the second benefit is the fact that you get to teach non-disabled individuals about

the sport and how it works and you can have them play blind soccer with you as well so

that way they can kind of relate and connect to you more.

So it's more or less about getting disabled people out there in the field, getting them

exercising and connecting with other disabled youth,

yet also getting it to where sighted

and non-disabled individuals can relate

and kind of connect to us individuals who have disabilities.

Man, who's not football?

We want to invite all of the parents

who are interested and want their children

who have visual disabilities to participate.

You can join the Play LA website or the XABA,

also from the Federation,

and you'll find different places where you can come to practice football.

And the most important thing is to enjoy and to know that you can learn Spanish and English.

our City Employee Appreciation Luncheon we have every year.

This is basically a thank you to all the city employees for them coming out doing all the work

they do in South LA, keeping our district clean, keeping it safe, keeping it memorable for people

to live, work and play here. So thank you to our city employees.

I'm here to visit the Current Price's community events in support of all of the great things

that Current Price is doing that is uplifting the community.

We really appreciate them.

That's why we're having this luncheon because they do stuff like this.

We care about the safety of the citizens we serve.

We care about the community and we're trying to clean it up.

Every day we're doing our best for our community.

We are the city of Los Angeles and we serve its residents.

I'm always improving myself to help the community.

Because we enjoy working for the people.

I think this is an amazing opportunity for the community to find appreciation, to know

that they are appreciated and that they are loved.

So whenever you see a city employee walking by doing their job here in the city, thank

them.

Thank them for us, thank them for our council office, thank them for everything they do.

I love my job and I love the city of Los Angeles.

In this week's feature story, we head to Herman Park, where the Department of Cultural Affairs supports Art in the Park.

They began with a hope that more kids could become college graduates.

Now the programs include Intergenerational Creativity and the Popular Community Band.

Art in the Park is a community-based artist-led arts organization.

We are located in Hermann Park in the Arroyo Seco.

We've been serving this community since 1997 through workshops and classes and art, music,

dance.

We also do readings and screenings.

We really strive to be kind of like a space away from your home that you feel comfortable

in.

We've been working in partnership with the Department of Cultural Affairs since 1997.

This partnership allows us to connect to community, amplify our programs, and be supported by

the cultural fabric of Los Angeles.

Art in the Park is located in a building that was built in 1939 as a clubhouse for lawn

bowlers.

Bertha Sosa pioneered Art in the Park to be a space where youth could envision themselves

going to college.

There was a really, really low graduation rate in this area, and her main focus was

she wanted kids to be able to envision a future in which they went to college.

We have consistent programming throughout the week and on the weekends.

We have a very robust Latin jazz program and community band.

Both those programs are multi-generational and open to all ages and abilities.

We have Creativity Club and Elder Guitar Class, which is for our elders in the neighborhood.

All of these programs are free and open to the community.

Now the event that I get the most joy from putting on is the weekly community band of

community arts, which is music happening in tandem with art where everybody can come out

and create art or make music.

And it's consistent so you can see your neighbors and community once a week.

Because of how long we have been serving this community, we're able to see kids that have

grown up within the programming, bring their children to the programming. We want to be

a space that people feel comfortable with, that they keep coming back to, that they bring

their kids back to.

Art in the Park invites everybody to come down and participate in a class or a workshop

or a film screening. For more information, you can go to artintheparkla.org.

In this week's Things to Do, get holidaying by the sea,

catch the library's Creators and Residents Showcase,

and celebrate 100 years of Granada Hills at their holiday parade.

All this up next on Things to Do.

There are holiday events, and then there is holidays by the sea at LA's Waterfront.

Come celebrate with the Port of Los Angeles and Councilmember Tim McCosker on Saturday, December 6th.

Enjoy performances from the San Pedro City Ballet, Victorian carolers, and a holiday puppet show.

Celebrate the season with snow, hot chocolate, churros, and photos with Santa.

Join the community for all the action, including the tree lighting, and finish the evening with the L.A. Harbor Holiday Boat Parade.

Holidays by the Sea takes place on Saturday, December 6th,

beginning at 4 p.m.

For more details, visit lawaterfront.org.

On Sunday, December 7th, join the LA Public Library

for the Creators in Residence Showcase,

when both creators will discuss their work.

Creator Ashley Walker's project called Threads of Los Angeles

reimagines LA history through the lens of fashion

of fashion and feature six newly designed costumes on display.

Creator Tin Wynn explored the library's menu collection and created new displays tracing

the history of neighborhoods through their menus.

Head to the Central Library for the Creators in Residence Showcase on Sunday, December

7th at 2 p.m.

For more information, visit lapl.org slash events.

with Granada Hills as they mark their 100th anniversary.

The occasion means this year's holiday parade

has a roaring 20s theme.

Over 100 entries are taking part

and taking the theme to heart.

Join the Department of Cultural Affairs,

Councilmember John Lee and the community

on December 7th for the 42nd Annual Holiday Parade.

The 2025 official Grand Marshal is NFL Hall of Famer,

Denver quarterback John Elway,

who went to the local high school graduating in 1979.

Head to Chatsworth Street

for the Granada Hills Holiday Parade

on Sunday, December 7th, beginning at 1.30 p.m.

For more information, visit GranadaHillsHolidayParade.org.

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

And that's all for this week.

I'm Natalia Bilbao,

And from all of us here at LA This Week,

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the third day of December in the year 2025.

Public comment for this morning's meeting

will be taken in person in this chamber.

Madam Clerk, if we can begin our proceedings

by calling the roll.

Blumenfeld, Harris-Dawson, Hernandez, Hutt,

Gerardo, Lee, McCosker, Nazarian, Padilla,

Park, Price, Rahman, Rodriguez, Soto-Martinez,

Yaroslavsky.

Four team members present and a quorum, Mr. President.

All right, first order of business.

Approval of the minutes of December 2nd.

Council Member Park moves.

Council Member Yaroslavsky seconds.

What's next?

commendatory resolutions for approval council member Lee moves council member

who don't know seconds can we run through our agenda for this morning yes

mr. president item number one is an item notice for public hearing items 2 through

47 are items for which public hearings have been held for item number 45 the

economic development and jobs committee report has been submitted and posted to

the respective council file for item 46 due to the lack of quorum this item is

now a communication from the chair and member of the energy and environment

committee and will require public comment this item will also require 10

votes for consideration along with the other items for which public hearings

have not been held items 48 through 53 are items for which public hearings have

not been held items 54 and 55 on the continuation agenda are items for which

public hearings have been held 10 votes are required for consideration all

right without objection those items are before us councilmember Yaroslavsky got

it councilmember Padilla I like to call item 4 special for an amendment that

circulated okay technical minute that's circulating councilmember price

those president up with the abundance of caution and excuse myself from items 21

and 42 as I am a landlord all right for one and four two for mr. price

councilmember Soto Martinez I'd like to introduce item number 23 special I'm

introducing a technical amendment amendment on behalf of councilmember

ramen it should be circulated soon okay two three for an amendment council

member Yarslowski thank you council president I'd like to call special 51

for a separate vote please all right council member Rodriguez yes 37 for

comments and 50 for an amendment okay councilmember who don't I'd like to call

item 49 a continue item 49 to January 21st 2026 and I would like to call

item 44 for a separate vote and comments all right comes from a woman field thank

you like to call special items 51 52 and 54 for amending motions that are being

circulated all right councilmember Hernandez thank you council president I

would like to call item 2 and 19 special for comments thank you all right

councilmember Lee thank you mr. president I'd like to call item number

17 for an amendment that's being circulated at the moment council member

McOsker thank you very much mr. president I'd like to call item 43 we have a

friendly amendment on item 43 it's being circulated as we speak and on item 55 on

the continuation agenda I'd like to take it out of order and have it heard before

we get to the public comment it had full public public hearing below and had more

public hearing which was reopened yesterday I'm prepared to make a motion

to do so and I have a second unless mr. chair mr. president you will just make

that the order of the day we can make it the order of the day and move ahead

madam clerk how do we proceed in this regard yes we can go to item 55 council

president all right and if you'll indulge me mr.

Mr. McCosker, let me just make sure there's no more specials from anybody.

All right.

So with that, item 55 is before us, and we'll begin by hearing from Mr. McCosker.

Thank you very much, members.

I will try to be brief.

Yesterday we discussed this item.

This is an RV park proposed in CD15 in the Harbor City area.

We've heard a lot of comment on this, and there's been a lot of dialogue back and forth,

including litigation.

on this issue. The simple question that was presented yesterday was whether a

CUP would be required or whether it would be a ministerial project. There is

substantial evidence in the record including a determination from our CPC

and in the letter of determination that tells us that the standards under 14.007

have not been met and by simple operation of law that requires a

conditional use permit be processed or a new project that complies be submitted

I submitted amendment an amendment yesterday that was seconded by Council

member Park thank you very much that would memorialize that to say that this

project requires a CUP and to grant the appeal in part already granted to grant

the remainder of the appeal and to confirm that in fact a CUP is required

for this project. I'm going to ask for an aye vote on that matter. Now yesterday we also heard

that there's been litigation on this matter and at the writ level, the trial level,

that there was a filing and the issue presented was whether or not a CUP would be required on a

project that complied with all of the seven standard conditions. And at trial, the court

determined that if all seven standard conditions, or no, excuse me, not seven, it's 12, if the 12

conditions, those standards, are met, that a CUP is not required. At the end of that trial,

and while the CPC determination was going on, at the end of that trial, the court determined

without evidence, to the contrary, that the standards had been met and that a CUP was not

required. Our city attorney's office, who was meant to be here in closed session today but is not going

to present in closed session for reasons outside of my control, argued that, in fact, they wanted a

longer time period before the court's order took place. The court's order was 15 days, issue the

permits. And the city attorney correctly said, give us a longer time period because we have the

ability to appeal and in fact there's an administrative proceeding going on because one

the appellant excuse me the applicant the applicant had not exhausted their administrative

remedies the applicant themselves had not gone to the board of building commissioners and argued

their case, which normally would be a knockout punch on litigation, and two, what the city

attorney argued correctly, was that there's also a pending appeal by the neighbors saying

that the permits were issued in error and that the conditions had not been met.

The court ignored those arguments and issued its ruling, confirmed its ruling, that in

15 days, I believe, that we had to either issue the permits or file our appeal.

We filed a notice of appeal.

We're on appeal today, folks.

And once that notice of appeal is filed, the city council controls litigation.

It's our decision whether we proceed or not proceed.

And I suspect we will be in closed session sometime in the future, quickly, to talk about that appeal.

But in the meantime, and one of the important points on that appeal is that the judge ignored the offer

or the argument that there was already one pending

administrative process that hadn't been determined yet

and that the applicant, the litigant, the applicant,

the petitioner, had not filed its own administrative proceeding.

Those are two good appellate arguments.

And we'll hear that in closed session.

Unfortunately, we won't hear it today.

Today also is the last day for us to make a determination on the 245.

It is the last day.

If we don't act today, then the decision below will stand, and my proposed amendment cannot be heard.

Members, I'm going to urge you to vote yes on my amendment.

and to take the evidence that is in the record

and say that a CUP is required for this project

because it doesn't meet the standards.

Evidence in the record that our bodies have established.

And then separately,

separately allow the appeal to move forward

on the basis that I just described

and I'm sure other bases

because that's up to the city attorney to prosecute the case.

So members, I'm just going to urge an aye vote

to keep every option open to us today

and not for a closed option

and not walk away just because it's easy to walk away from a case.

Thank you.

Council Member of Bumenfield.

Great.

Well, I'd like to get planning and city attorney to speak to this issue.

I don't really...

I'm in a very uncomfortable position, you know,

in that we, in the planning department, we heard this

and we heard the closed session legal case

and it was pretty clear to us that what the planning commission did,

pursuant to what happened in court, basically has to move forward

or we're going to have an appeal, we're going to lose on the appeal.

Then there's a federal case as well, which is going to cost us a heck of a lot of money.

And then there's a cross-complaint issue as well,

which is going to also cost us a heck of a lot of money if we continue down this path.

And I understand why you want to continue down this path, because you want to support your community.

And I get that, and I respect that.

You don't understand.

And, you know, as I said, I was there in a similar situation with ED1,

and I also was there to support you on the 245 and to support moving this forward.

But I think we need to hear from planning, and we need to hear from the city attorney as much as they can say in open session,

because I don't really want to have this back and forth on it

because I'm not the expert on this issue,

but we have planning who's talked to us about this.

What you're asking us to do is to basically

what the court said to say the court was wrong,

what the planning department said to say they were wrong,

and for us to then deny the,

I mean to accept the appeal of the community,

which they have very good reasons for not wanting the RV park, and I get that.

It's why we did the ICO, so that moving forward we don't have to be in this position.

But in terms of the conditions, what we're being told is that even though they may not have met all the conditions at the time,

that that's typical, and I want the planning department to come forward and tell us this,

in that projects, when they get their permit, there are certain conditions that they then work out.

They don't actually get to do their project until they work out these conditions,

and there are different things that happen on a routine basis.

But planning department needs to come to the table.

So is there anyone here from planning or from the city attorney's office or both that can come to speak to this item?

Doesn't appear that there is.

We have a couple.

And again, this is, we should be hearing this in closed session.

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Mr. McOsker, Council Member Soto Martinez.

Yeah, I don't, sorry, I appreciate everyone's words on this.

Why aren't we getting the benefit of listening to this

in closed session just like the plan?

Mr. City Attorney?

It doesn't, it makes no sense to me.

So the issue is a Brown Act issue.

The issue is that the original agenda from yesterday did not

include closed session language.

and so by including it on the continuation agenda,

you can't make material changes to it.

But if you'd like to go into close, and there are two issues here.

I believe there is the internal appeal, and there's also the judicial appeal.

So it is absolutely okay to go into closed session

on the judicial appeal with proper notice.

So if council would like to do so at a future meeting,

that can occur if council would like.

Okay.

Well, it's a, yeah.

I mean there's a threat of litigation on this item it's all like it's narrative

this and you know if if I'm being asked to make a decision without being briefed

by you know whatever benefit they had in plum then I'm gonna have to side with

mr. McCosker on this one but it's just it's just really difficult to make a

decision we're not getting all the details agree mr. McCosker I just want

respond to a couple things I heard. My purpose here, well all of our purpose is to defend our

communities and defend the city and support the city. My purpose is to defend our authority under

the code, to defend the plain meaning of the code. And I am not asking you to entirely overturn

the CPC. In fact, the CPC granted the appeal in part and denied the appeal in part. They denied

the portion that said that anybody that they denied the portion that said and I'm going to put it in

the positive what they said is that if you meet all of the conditions you can act ministerially

they granted the appeal by saying there are problems with at least three of the standards

and they're not conditions my problem is not with that decision they were right about that

it's with what is the remedy the remedy when you don't meet the conditions is do a cup the remedy

is not you're going to go through multiple iterations change your project present a different

project and then bring it before us that gets approved no you either do a cup or you apply

for a different project I'm going to actually just call the question and ask for an aye vote

on the amendment thank you all right madam clerk we have a question has been called

mr. Blumenfield thank you mr. president if the count all the question if we haven't had

chance to hear from planning or the city attorney we haven't had a chance to hear

any of these these issues I mean is there a second to the motion to call the

question seconded by Councilmember Hernandez okay so a motion to call the

question is not debatable because there has been no discussion on it would

require ten votes to succeed so if you do not want to vote on this item now

then you would vote no against the motion to call the question but it has

been duly seconded all right so let's open the role on calling the question

close the role tabulate the vote you have a nice three nose the motion to

call the question it passes all right so item number 55 is before us before

before the council is I am 55 B the amending motion McOsker Park all right

55B is before us. Let's open the roll, close the roll, tabulate the vote. 13 ayes, 1 no.

All right. This item passes. All right. What's next? The council may continue to the rest of the agenda.

All right. I believe we're at, we've called all our specials, so which items are available for votes at this time?

The items available for the council to vote on are items 3 5 through 16

18 20

22

24 through 36

38 through 41

45 through 47

Alright, let's open the roll on those items

Close the roll tabulate the vote

14 eyes

councilmember Nazaria item 45 forthwith please without objection I'm in the

order item 4 5 forthwith what's next madam clerk apologies if the council

please reconsider item 46 it should remain open for public comment all right

let's open the roll on reconsideration of 46 close the roll tabulate the vote

Tabulate the vote.

14 ayes.

All right, what's next?

Thank you, the council may now move on to public comment.

All right, Mr. City Attorney,

if you can prepare us for public comment.

Yes, just one minute.

All right, we have 56 people signed up

for public comment today, so we will go until 11.35.

That gives us about an hour for public comment

for this morning's meeting.

to 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'll 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 our items number one item number

46 and items number 48 and 50 through 53 so again the items that are open for

public comment on the agenda are items number one item number 46 item 48 and

items 50 through 53 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 a couple more announcements if I could have the

interpreters make the first one allowed to the room please if you require a

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

Don't worry, we will pause your time while the interpreters are interpreting so you will get the same amount of time as everyone else. Thank you.

Additionally, if you have made an accommodation request or if you would like to make use of

the wireless handheld microphone because you have a qualifying disability under the ADA,

please let the sergeants know by raising your hand once you've heard your name called out.

And they will do their best to get you the microphone in a timely manner.

One final announcement before we move on to actual public comment.

In order to help us accommodate as many people as possible, we would ask that you please

wait until you hear the name that you signed up under called aloud before

lining up the order in which we call names is called at random which is to

say it is randomly generated so once you hear you the name that you signed up

under called aloud you can line up in any order on your left-hand side of the

council chambers thank you I will begin by calling the following names Jose

Trejo Michaela Gibson Antonio Lopez Cassandra Wicks and Stacey B

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Buenos dias.

I want to do a public comment with regards to the fast food work ordinance.

Okay, so you have one minute for general. Go ahead.

My name is Antonio Lopez. I'm a labor worker. I'm here to speak about the fast food work ordinance to have it approved without any more further delay. Thank you.

We need to know our rights so that our managers and our bosses cannot continue to harass us

and so that we may not continue to face any injustices in the workplace.

From my experience, such that have unjust and unfair rules, for example, like clocking in before it is time to work and being forced to work.

And also not having time off to spend with our families during the holidays.

We need the capacity outside of the workplace,

where we can learn our rights without represalias.

And that is why we need to have the ability

to learn our rights outside of the workplace.

And here in Los Angeles,

there are many workers like me

who can benefit from this law.

And I think here in Los Angeles,

there are many workers such as myself

who can benefit from this law.

Les pedimos concejales que apoyen la moción de trabajo justo en comida rápida sin demora.

And we ask you, council members, to approve the Just Fast Food Work Ordinance without any further delay.

Es todo. Muchas gracias.

That's all. Thank you so much.

Thank you. Next speaker.

And as we're waiting for the next speaker to come up, just FYI, once you speak, you can exit to your left.

So you'll exit to, sorry, exit to your right, my left.

Good morning. Which items would you like to speak to?

Say again?

Which items would you like to speak to?

Just general.

Okay. One minute for general public comment. Go ahead.

I just always come to these meetings and I just say a lot of things, but I just try to learn more than anything.

Can we pause this time for just a second?

So if you'd like to, if you move the microphone up, it'll be easier to hear you.

It's difficult to hear right now. So go ahead.

Is that better?

Yes, much better.

Thank you.

All right.

I just come to these meetings and I come as much as I can.

And it's basically to learn and see what I can do to help.

I mean, there's a lot of things I can mention, but there's nothing you probably haven't heard already.

I guess

I'm here to learn more

and help

or understand things better

that are happening in the city

no complaints

that's it

Okay. Good morning. Which items would you like to speak to? Item 17. Okay. So item number 17

isn't open for public comment, but you can speak to it during general. So you have one minute for

general public comment. Go ahead. Okay. That's fine. Thank you. Good morning. My name is Michaela

Gibson, and I'm here on behalf of the Valley Industry and Commerce Association, or VICA.

Since 2023, these transport costs have risen more than 30% and about 60% over the last three years.

Hospitals rely on these transfers to move patients safely between facilities,

and when patients are insured or undocumented, hospitals absorb the full cost.

LADOT is recommending a new method for setting future rates that matches L.A. County's approach,

which hospitals support.

But L.A. County uses a maximum allowable rate so hospitals and ambulance companies

can still negotiate lower contracted prices based on volume.

A flat rate, as written, removes that flexibility and can lead to higher costs.

VICA is asking the council to adopt these as maximum rates instead, consistent with the county model.

Thank you.

Before the next speaker begins, I would like to call up Josh Parker, Celia Fate, Andy Garcia, Emma Living, Justin Mazur, Ozzie, Christy Moxley, and Patricia Jay.

Good morning, which items good morning. I'm sorry. Could you remind me which ones are available for comment? Yes

So this is for everybody in the room the items that are open for public comment or items number one item 46

Item 48 and items 50 through 53

Okay, thank you

So I'll start with the items and then I'll do all items in general public

You have three minutes for the items and one minute for general. Go ahead great. Um, so item 46 is

is an appointment to the Board of Water and Power Commissioners from the mayor.

There's been a lot of talk among this body about making, for example, the city attorney an appointed position.

We have a lot of appointments, appointed positions throughout the city.

and council member from CD4 said when it that it removes the politicize the

politics from the position when it's an appointed position but I have to

disagree and I would encourage this board to not approve any of the mayor's

appointments because she's wildly unpopular right now and she's been

making a lot of bad decisions for our city I don't know about this particular

commissioner but our mayor has displayed a massive lack in judgment regarding a

lot of things so item 50 is relating to a committee report regarding the since

removed homelessness emergency declaration we we were under this

emergency declaration for quite some time but there was really a lack of

action on this body to make it actually feel like you really thought like it was

an emergency. I thought it was appropriate when the declaration was lifted even though the emergency

is ongoing. If you're unhoused, that's an emergency. Six unhoused people die every day in this city.

To me, that's an emergency. Lhasa was created because one unhoused resident died. Now we just

sort of accept the death of our unhoused population as business as usual, and I think that's unfair.

And I think that even though that declaration has been lifted, we should still be treating it like the emergency it is.

And I would love it if Eunice's and Heather would stop their chatting and pay attention,

because it's really disrespectful for our paid electeds to be chit-chatting while the public is up here.

Item 52 is amending prior council action.

I always take note when there's a motion on the agenda.

agenda. Thank you, Tim, for your attention. I always appreciate when there's a motion

on the agenda that seeks to revisit something to correct it. Because a lot of times when

you all make a decision that your stakeholders don't like, you say, well, it's already been

voted on, it's settled. But we see time and again that you actually have the ability to

reverse bad decisions, to revisit things. And so while I don't have any remarks to the

specifics of this amendment, I do think it's important to note that this body

does have the ability to revisit past motions when you get new information or

when there's something that you need to deal with and we should see more of

that. We should be given more consideration, especially when

neighborhood councils weigh in.

General?

I heard Nithya Rahman said that she doesn't give weight to CIS's because voter turnouts low.

She won't consider NC's when she casts her votes.

I hate to turn up so rarely now to council chambers just to air these grievances, but a lot of us are angered.

Your priorities need some rearranging if you care about your city.

Still, I won't call you a cunt.

To reiterate, I'm not calling anyone a cunt.

Even though I'm upset by your censorship,

still I would never call anyone here a cunt.

and shout out to Smoke and Scan.

Good to see everyone.

Can you hold the time, Madam Clerk?

You've violated Council Rule 7.

This is the only warning that you'll get.

That took you a minute, Marquise.

That's the only warning that you're going to get.

You're disrupting the meeting,

so you'll not speak while I'm speaking.

I mean, I'm not disrupting the meeting.

I still have one second on my phone.

Mr. City Attorney?

Speaker, the time is currently paused,

so it's not your opportunity to speak,

and it is disruptive to interrupt

the council president or any council member while they're speaking so thank

you sorry mr. president you have one second left hunt

you're dismissed from this meeting and all future meetings today subject to

rule 7 and rule 12 we'll look forward to seeing you next week

For something, something to be.

Good morning, Speaker.

You have three minutes for the items and one minute for General.

Go ahead.

Regarding Latuna Canyon, fuck item number one.

Now, on item 50, David O. Carter asked the bitches,

those fucking attorneys, Gibson and Dunn

and that fucking hamburger guy

and the LA County Board of Supervisors

to provide a report.

Did he get the report?

Not.

Why not?

Because all these bitches do is talk.

All these motherfuckers is do what they don't do, do

on the accountability report for David O. Carter

and for Donald J. Trump, who wants to make America great without this homelessness.

However, as you see, three-inch Dwarthin just walked by me, everybody.

Not that I should be afraid. He's only a pig.

So you've exhausted your one minute on item 50.

I get three minutes.

Move on to another item.

All right.

Juju's. There's two of them.

Juju's on item 52, so you know it's up on the board up there, smoking, and Katie, so Katie, this is what Los Angeles is like. Take it from me.

Los Angeles Municipal fucking LAMC,

incorporated by the fucking reference

or fucking portions of the motherfucking addition

to the California Building Standard Codes,

don't mean a fucking thing if you can't build Palisades, right?

But Los Angeles Municipal Code, however,

in the addition to the California Building Code

under building inspectors,

Hey, wasn't that one inspector known to do a roofie and a date rate?

Well, let's not talk about him.

That's Andrew Edelman.

Let me go back to another item in the agenda.

It'll take me a while to figure this out, but motherfuckers, life is a bitch without life.

44, public safety, Monaco.

You and the juju over there having a conversation.

I just want the world to know in my hand

these documents

about this fucking shit

LA City told the court

88 beds at homeless shelters

but 44 of them were missing

what kind of bullshit

is this

but going back to public safety

fuck housing

and homelessness on item number

44 everybody

so item 44 is not open for public comment

I'm going to ask that you move on to another item

or we can move you to general.

It's up on the board, asshole.

Understood.

But it's not in the list of items that I've read out aloud.

Now into my general public comment.

One minute. Go ahead.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,

to all you from Mexico,

to all you from other fucking countries,

Donald J. Trump is a hero, I believe.

Donald J. Trump is changing the culture of this fucked up city, this fucked up LA, and this fucking homeless crisis staffer B, you fucking chink.

Pay attention.

And you too, juju girl.

And that fat move.

You're not on topic, Mr. Herman.

We're going to ask you to sit down if you can't stay on topic.

Hey, this is non-agenda public comment.

I believe that what I'm saying under 42 SC 1983, fuck you, fool.

I got the floor.

Now, it'd be different if you charged me to interrupt me by saying you're a fucking cunt,

Marchese.

Fuck you.

All right, you violated rule seven.

This is your last and only warning.

Next speaker.

Good morning. Which items would you like to speak to?

Good morning. I'll be speaking on item 17.

So you have one minute for general public comment. Go ahead.

Thank you. So good morning. My name is Josh Parker, and I've been a Los Angeles City paramedic for 15 years.

I currently serve as a leader for one of the largest providers in LA City, which is PRN Ambulance.

I'm here today to support the LADOT's current rate methodology and proposed rate adjustment

for ambulance services.

This approach ensures that every patient receives the same high quality care, whether they have

private insurance, Medi-Cal, or Medicare.

It creates a fair and consistent framework that allows providers to stay focused on care

and readiness and not billing differences or market pressures.

Patients are already protected from balance billing, meaning this adjustment would only

impact insurers.

It would help us keep ambulances equipped with modern up-to-date equipment and ensure our EMTs, paramedics, and nurses are paid a fair, livable wage.

Our industry hasn't seen an increase since 2022, and this proposal simply helps us keep pace with rising costs and inflation.

I urge you to stand with the emergency service providers, labor, and the community and accept the proposal as written prior to the amendment today.

Thank you for your time.

Before the next speaker begins, I would like to call up Richardson N, Stacey S, Big Amy,

Adina Tesler, Amy Oakley, Joe F, Matilde Peregrina, and Terry.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Good morning.

Item 17 and general comment, if possible.

Okay.

So item 17 isn't open for public comment, but you can speak to it during general. So you have one minute. Go ahead. Thank you. My name is Justin miser

Represent PRN ambulance one of the largest

IFT ambulance providers in the city of Los Angeles

And I urge you to vote for the report from the transportation committee for a rate increase

So it's much needed for the industry and vote against the proposed amendment to make it a maximum

Because all that does is create a race to the bottom. It's unsustainable for the industry

We have thousands of EMTs, paramedics, and critical care RNs that we employ here in the city,

and we simply could not do business under that scenario where the large multibillion-dollar health plans

have the ability to drive costs down for the sake of quality and equity.

We've seen the county's model with a max only does not work.

The largest, most sophisticated ambulance company in the world, AMR-GMR,

completely exited LA County for IFT services because it's just not a

sustainable model thank you

good morning which items would you like to speak to all items in general public

comment okay so you have three minutes for the items and one minute for general

Please begin with the items.

Item one, this entire agenda is nothing more than an example

of how corrupt and incompetent clowns making over $20,000

per month have been running Los Angeles into the ground.

Item one, a dedicated easement is the best these incompetent clowns can come

up with and should receive a no vote by these incompetent clowns

in the face of raging homelessness and a city

which these incompetent clowns have bankrupt

with corruption and incompetence.

However, these clowns are going to sit there

basking in their corruption and incompetence

and vote for yet another dedicated easement

while giving stupid presentations.

This item should be entitled

Easements for Me and Homelessness for Thee.

I demand to know from Dinwit Nithya Raman, Bob Genocide Bloomfield, Poverty Pimp Heather Hutt, and Sleavy Marqueezy Dawson,

how this easement item or any of these other worthless items on the agenda are addressing the homeless epidemic raging uncontrollably in Los Angeles.

Item one is regarding yet another homeless declaration report.

Did you hear that public?

Is anybody dumb enough at this point to believe that with all the billions of dollars these clowns of the sleazy incompetent council have given to their campaign contributing developers that this homeless emergency declaration report is going to show a reduction in homelessness?

In my opinion, this so-called report should include funding proposals and massive investigations

and prosecutions of all the sleazy council criminals, including Marquise Dawson, out

on bail and currently on trial, Criminal Current Price, Poverty Pimp Heather Hutt,

Demwitt Nithya Raman, Racist Demon Tracy Park, and Bob Genocide Bloomfield.

In my opinion, this item should include a proposal and funding to investigate any homeless funds being wasted on this clown show

to have over 40 city employees standing around doing absolutely nothing for four hours per day, three days per week, every week.

Items 51 and 52 should all receive no votes because they are worthless fluff items that solve absolutely nothing

and don't even fund a fix to them, funding a fix to them

because these incompetent criminal clowns have bankrupt the citizens.

With their $1 billion increase to the LAPD budget

and their homeless generating incompetence,

all three of these items should include funding language

for investigations and Dawson's.

Karen Bass and the rest of the incompetent clowns.

General public comment.

Okay. Public comment. Because these clowns bankrupt the city, giving $1 billion increase to LAPD, the clowns won't take the money back because LAPD makes tremendous campaign contributions to Sleazy Dawson, Monica Lewinsky, Rodriguez, and racist Asian John Lee.

$1 billion emergency, tens of thousands of homeless epidemic emergency,

$275 billion fire damage emergency.

Sleazy D CD8 has the highest incarceration rate, the highest homeless rate,

the highest unemployment rate in the entire country, over 12.5%.

CD8 is a food desert.

Sleazy D has spent over $10 million on luxury offices for himself,

while tens of thousands are homeless.

The mass incompetence of these clowns, and I demand Sleazy D's resignation,

an apology from Dimwit Nithya Rahman, the Attorney General, the FBI,

and the IRS currently in a massive...

Okay.

Next speaker.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Comentario público.

Public comment.

So you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Hola, buenos dias.

Mi nombre es Matilde Peregrina.

Hello, good morning.

My name is Matilde Peregrina.

Quiero hacer un comentario público acerca de la moción del trabajo justo.

I'd like to make a public comment regarding the motion of fair jobs.

Go ahead.

I'm a fast food worker.

and I'd like for the motion to be approved today without further delay.

Los trabajadores de comida rápida como yo necesitamos conocer nuestros derechos para asegurarnos de que nuestras empresas paren los abusos y las injusticias que pasamos en nuestros lugares de trabajo.

Us as fast food workers, we need to know our rights to stop the abuse and unfair situations

that we face in the workplace.

There are too many workers here in LA that don't know their rights.

We need trainings outside of work hours.

We need this motion to be approved so we can have

our fair work conditions as fast food workers.

Thank you.

Next speaker.

Speaker, your time has expired.

Next speaker.

Good morning.

I was speaking on item number 14 and general public,

I'm sorry, 54 and general public comment.

My name is Joseph Fuchs and I'm a representative of the Western States Regional Council.

Check.

I'm a member of the Western States Regional Council of Carpenters.

I live and work in the area and I believe this project will impact me environmentally.

The city should require the project be built with contractors that hire locally and pay

prevailing wage and utilize apprentice programs from the certified apprentice training programs.

Workforce requirements reduce construction-related environmental impacts while benefiting the local

economy and workforce development. In a recent 2020 report titled, Putting California on the High Road,

the Jobs and Climate Action Plan for 2030, the California Workforce Development Board concluded

that investments in growing, diversifying, and upskilling California workforce can positively

affect returns on climate mitigation efforts.

I believe this should be a prevailing wage job.

Thank you for your time.

Next speaker.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Item 17 and public comment.

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

Go ahead.

Thank you.

Good morning, Adina Tesler on behalf of the Hospital Association of Southern California.

The Hospital Association supports the LADOT recommendation to adopt the county methodology

to determine private ambulance rates and asks that the council allow for a maximum allowable

rate that is subject to negotiations.

This is the way every jurisdiction across California handles private ambulance services.

and LA City should do the same.

Anything else disrupts and destabilizes the market.

A hospital's ability to negotiate creates healthy competition

and allows hospitals to determine the quality, safety, and service they receive.

This is not a race to the bottom.

It is a race to affordability and to equity.

Doing so is better for our hospitals and patients,

who ultimately will bear the cost,

whether through cost sharing, insurance premiums,

or inflationary pressures on the total cost of health care.

We urge you to approve item 17 with the amendment

to make the city's rate a maximum allowable rate.

Thank you.

Next speaker.

Before the next speaker begins,

I would like to call up Daniel Garcia, Smoke and Scan,

Yesenia M, Audit LA, and Maria Gonzalez.

Good morning.

I want to speak on item 17 and do you have a comment?

Item 15.

Thank you.

So you have one minute for general public comment.

Go ahead.

17, I want to say that about the issue that I'm concerned

about is that, remember that they're not accessible

for people with disability.

If you want to make sure that people with disability are going

to be fully involved in the patient's life and friend's life, you have to be able to

acquire the ADA so you can actually have an ambulance that permitting to go inside of

the vehicle.

Managing vehicles so far have been accessible for anybody else than non-disabled people.

That's my main point.

Now, on public comments, if you want to be a...

Am I allowed to be public comments?

Public comments?

I'm sorry.

So your time is expired, but can you remain over there?

I want to come ask you a question next speaker

Testing can you hear me now? Yes, we can hear you so three minutes for the items and one minute for general go ahead

You got it. Okay, so I want to start off with

Well first of all hello everyone, and thank you. Mr

Mr. McOsker, I see you're listening.

I appreciate that.

I want to talk about the street vacations.

I'm going to say no only because it seems like you're doing a lot of them.

And if Scientology ever comes because they said that they're going to put in for a street vacation of L. Ron Hubbard Way,

I want you to say no because it's bad enough that you change the name to a felon

and to somebody who destroys people and families and all that kind of stuff.

There's no reason for there to be anyone, any street in the city named after somebody like L. Ron Hubbard.

And, you know, so I don't want you getting in the habit of keep giving away or selling off our streets.

And, you know, although maybe the other people will take better care of it because you guys don't take good care of the streets.

I'll leave it at that with that the other thing I want to talk about is the the convention center

coming the CAO told you not to do it and why hire him or you know like if you're not going to take

his advice he's basically saying like don't do this and I think he's right you guys have a lot

of infrastructure to take care of right like you know maybe we need to get the sidewalks straightened

out because you know if you're going to be inviting all these people to our city you know you have to

deal with all the different issues that, you know, people might want to get around. They might want

to be able to drive without potholes. They might want to be able to take a train that has elevators

at work. You know, there's two stops right now in a row right next to each other that with no

elevator service. So it's just ridiculous. So instead of building like, you know, I know you

want to build the future. What about building the Palisades, right? Like, you know, I bet Smoke and

will agree with me that maybe you guys should rebuild what was burnt down.

And all these people suffering because they can't get their permits or anything,

and they didn't burn down their houses.

You guys created a situation that allowed the houses to burn,

and to not help them is criminal, in my opinion.

And so please help them rebuild.

and after that I'll just go on to my public comment.

Okay, I'm tired of the, oh he's not listening, okay.

I'm tired of the fact that Scientology's getting

to do all these events without proper permits.

From what I understand, their winter wonderland

does not have any permits or inspections.

If you can prove me wrong, please do.

I'll be happy to say I stand corrected.

They have on L. Ron Hubbard Way 25 foot towers

on the easement, and lights going all hooked up to houses

and buildings, and it's a hot mess over there.

Again, I don't see any permits.

I don't see any inspections.

I'm looking.

If you can find it, and I'm wrong, I'll say I'm wrong.

But until then, why are you continuing to allow it?

Would you allow any?

You wouldn't even let, if I built a little thing

to store on a property, a tiny little five-by-five

and didn't have the right permit, you'd be knocking it down,

and you'd be fining me and all that stuff.

But how come they can have these huge structures

where children go, because it's Santa, right,

and if it's not inspected?

So can you please look into it?

Can you please stop allowing it?

Thank you.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Buenos dias.

Good morning.

I want to make a public comment.

So you have one minute. Go ahead.

Sobre la moción de trabajo justos en la comida rápida.

Mi nombre es María González.

Soy trabajadora de comida rápida y estoy aquí para hablar sobre la necesidad y aprobar la moción de trabajo justos en la comida rápida sin demora.

Disculpe que la interrumpa.

I want to make a public comment regarding the for work ordinance for fast food workers.

Mi nombre es María González.

My name is María González.

I'm a fast food worker and I'm here to talk about the need to approve the motion for fair work in the fast food environment without further delay.

We need to know our rights so the employers stop abusing us and doing things that are unfair.

For example, in my own experience, I was pregnant.

When I got pregnant, my employer cut my hours.

I had 37 per week, and it went down to five.

and that is so unfair.

I'm here to ask you, Council, to support this motion

for fair work in the fast food environment

without further delay. Thank you.

Good morning. Which items would you like to speak to?

Item 17.

Okay, so you have one minute for general. Go ahead.

Thank you. Hello, I'm Yesenia Mansour,

Senior Director for Government Community Relations for Kaiser Permanente.

Kaiser Permanente, a non-profit entity,

strongly opposes the current language on item 17,

as it is bad policy and places an unfair burden on hospitals

that are desperately trying to manage health care affordability.

The proposed 30% increase over the prior 30% increase just a few years ago

will cost over 800,000 Angelenos for our members of Kaiser Permanente

an additional $25 million a year for inter-facility medical transport

benefiting private, for-profit ambulance companies.

At a time when we are all trying desperately to help Angelenos who are struggling to make ends meet

by making healthcare coverage more affordable and accessible,

these additional costs run completely counter to that attempt.

Thank you very much.

Next speaker.

Good morning again.

So appreciate your accommodation request.

We have received it and you have an additional one minute

for general public comment.

Go ahead.

My public comment is about the immigration policy

that happening all across the United States.

But I think we should have a powerful tool

that we can implement against ICE.

It's really, really, we need to have a commission

on truth and reconciliation.

Truth and reconciliation meeting commission

that you can actually have a powerful tool

to extract information from the public

that are in providing the information to you.

We need to collect the information

that you give to that .

Therefore, therefore,

you have a powerful tool.

Thank you very much.

And .

Thank you, Speaker.

Council President, all the names have been called

for public comment.

All right, thank you so much to everybody who's came

shared with us today madam clerk what item is before us the council may now

vote on items 1 46 48 and 53 all right before we open the room we call on

councilmember Hutt thank you mr. chair I'd like to send number 17 and 17 a back

to committee 17 and 17 a madam clerk do we already vote on those no that is not

yet been voted on all right there's a pending amending motion by councilmember

Lee all right and and what committees well I can send the committee but the

amendment back to committee 17a I think if we send the item back to committee

the the amendment would go as well is that correct madam clerk yes you can do

that which committee would you like to refer it back back to transportation

transportation is there any objection any objections councilmember

Yaroslavsky can I come to budget to please all right and budget all right

thank you all right so without objection those two that item and the amendment

will go back to budget and Finance Committee as well as Transportation

Committee all right so can you repeat madam clerk what items are before us at

this time yes the council may now vote on items 1 46 48 and 53 all right let's

open the roll on those items close the roll tabulate the vote 14 eyes all right

what's next the council may go to item 2 which was called special by council

member Hernandez for Commons council member Hernandez thank you council

president colleagues I am asking today for your support on item 2 which is an

industry standards motion. But before I go into the weeds of my motion, I'll start

with the phone calls that we as council members all get. It doesn't matter if

you represent the valley, the west side, or the east side, when our constituents

call our offices, they aren't asking for the moon, they're asking for the basics.

They want to know why a tree hasn't been trimmed in 15 years, why has a

streetlight been dark for six months, why is the illegal dumping on their

corner still there, or why the crosswalk to their child's school has faded away.

And for too long as a city our answer has been we're doing the best that we can

with what we have but the reality is that we have normal normalized the system

based on scarcity we have normalized the patchwork approach to public service we

fight fires we fill individual potholes and we respond to the loudest

complaints but we rarely get ahead of the curve we are managing decline rather

than managing our infrastructure that's why I introduced the industry standards

motion this motion directs the Public Works Bureau's and LADO team with the

support of the CAO to come back to this council within 60 days with something we

desperately need. The truth. We need a comprehensive assessment of what it is actually, what it actually

takes to run the city. Not based on last year's budget and not based on what we think we can afford

in the short term, but based on industry standards and best practices. It asks for true staffing

levels needed to meet demand, the equipment and fleet requirements to do the job right, and a

five-year phase plan to get us from where we are today to where best practices say we need to be.

Finally, we can't hire more crews if we have nowhere to put them.

My motion directs General Services Department to report on the invisible infrastructure

of our maintenance yards, our fleet storage, and our facility capacity.

We have to make sure our physical footprint can support the workforce we need to build.

Thank you, Councilmember Yurovsovsky, for seconding the motion and Councilmembers Harim

Padilla for moving this through Government Ops and Transportation Committee.

Colleagues, we can't budget without a baseline.

We can't make smart investments if we don't know the total cost of repairs.

I urge your support in this motion.

Thank you.

Thank you, Council Member Hernandez.

Seeing no other, Council Member Padilla.

I'd like to ask that we move item three forthwith.

All right.

Let's open the roll on this item, and then I'll call that one forthwith.

All right.

So let's open the roll, close the roll, tabulate the vote.

14 ayes.

All right.

All right, and then, Madam Clerk, item three will go forthwith without objection.

Council Member McCosker?

53, forthwith, please.

All right, and 53, forthwith without objection.

I think that takes us to item number four, Madam Clerk.

Item number four called special by Council Member Padilla for an amendment.

All right, that item is before us as amended.

No comments.

Let's open the roll.

Close the roll.

Tabulate the vote.

14 ayes.

All right.

I think that takes us to item number 17, as amended by Council Member Lee.

Apologies, Mr. President.

That item has now been referred back to committee.

So the council may now move on to item 19, called special by Council Member Hernandez for comments.

Council Member Hernandez.

Council Member Padilla.

now that item 4 has been amended I'd like to ask for it to also be sent forth with all right

without objection that'll be the order councilmember Hernandez thank you council president

colleagues I ask for support today on a motion to help confront a reality we see on every single

block in the city you can go to Alvarado Street in Westlake go to Pico Union and you'll see

delivery trucks double parked in bike lanes gig workers idling in red zones parents pushing

strollers into traffic because curbs are blocked. Colleagues, this is not congestion. This is a

public safety hazard. In District 1, we have seen ambulances stuck behind walls of double-parked

trucks while responding to emergencies. We rely on yellow curbs, 30 minutes in commercial zones,

or five minutes for passenger drop-offs, but without management, rules are ignored,

and chaos reigns in the public right-of-way. We don't need to reinvent the wheel to fix this.

In 2022, the city of Pittsburgh partnered with the Los Angeles Clean Tech Incubator to launch a pilot program using digital permitting and automated enforcement.

Another city has solved the problem we struggle with.

This motion simply instructs LADOT to report back in 30 days on the steps necessary to bring a similar smart loading zone pilot program to Los Angeles.

Council Member Hutt, thank you so much for your support on this and for seconding this motion, especially as a chair of the Transportation Committee.

We are letting revenue evaporate and safety hazards multiply because we are using 20th century painted curbs for 21st century delivery volume issues.

We need to modernize loading zone access and streamline short-term delivery parking.

It's time to address the safety hazards in our high-demand corridors and reclaim the public right-of-way.

The Transportation Committee has already recommended approval, so I hope we can work together to make our city curbs work for the people of this city.

Colleagues, I urge your support. Thank you.

All right, thank you councilmember Hernandez. Let's open the roll on that item close the roll tabulate to vote

14 eyes

All right, what's next?

The council may now move on to item 23 called special by councilmember Soto Martinez for an amendment

councilmember Soto Martinez

No comments. All right, so that item is before us as amended. Let's open the roll

Close the roll tabulate to vote

14 ayes.

All right, what's next?

The council may move on to item 37 called special by Councilmember Rodriguez for comments.

Councilmember Rodriguez.

Thank you.

Colleagues, today I seek your support on this item and ask for your aye vote.

This report was intended to serve as a blueprint to the RV to Home program which I piloted

in my district and in partnership with West Valley Homes, yes.

You know, for many years it was suggested by service providers

that individuals residing in RVs didn't identify themselves

as being homeless and that they were dismissed

from ever really being encouraged to engage proactively

with these individuals to help ensure that they were moved

out because we know that many of these RVs are posing incredible

health and safety risks in our neighborhoods.

I'm happy to see that the committee recommended

the expansion of this initiative,

because it's actually proven very successful.

We are about to house the 300th individual in my district.

We have disposed of over 146 RVs, more on the horizon.

And the objective with this was to create a process

and a procedure that would allow us to systematically

replicate this effort not defer someone else to do the job for us we needed the

tools in each of our respective areas to be able to do this to help expeditiously

house individuals and dispose of these RVs and this has procedurally created a

blueprint for us to do just that we are at a point where this success that we

templated and piloted in my district can now be expanded to deploy citywide. And

so I'm really thankful for the work of my team, the work with our CLA and CAO

that has been instrumental in doing that. We know our goals have never been just

to move this problem from one side of the street to the other. It is about

housing individuals and disposing of these RVs because we don't need it to

just get moved to another part of the city. This is about making sure that we

are empowered with the tools and the resources to help ensure that we can

help lead the efforts in our own respective districts and not defer that

responsibility to anyone else that is doing so perhaps inequitably. So while I

recognize that at this time we don't yet have the funding in place for each of

you to continue to for each of you to now embark on this work. I know in my

district we were successful in securing an additional five million dollar grant

from from the state in order to expand this work but we really want I really

like to see each of you have the opportunity to expand this in your own

respective districts and so I'm hoping that now that we have the model now we

cannot work do the work to help allocate the resources so that everyone can do

this uniformly across this city so I ask for your aye vote and I want to thank

the committee for making this recommendation. Thank you Councilmember

Rodriguez and thank you for your leadership on RVs from day one on this

council. Alright let's open the roll on this item. Close the roll tabulate the

vote. 14 ayes. Alright what's next? Thank you the council may now move on to item 43

called special by Councilmember McCosker for an amendment. Alright that

item is before us as amended let's open the roll close the roll tabulate the

vote 14 ayes all right what's next Thank You Councilmember Jurado has called item

44 special for a separate voting Commons item 4-4 all right

councilmember Jurado Thank You council president colleagues the item before us

proposes more than four million dollars in LAPD overtime for what the

department calls homelessness related activities our city is facing difficult

financial times and we have been forced to make tough decisions all year and

this is yet another one of them on several occasions when I've gone on a

walkabout or talked to our own LAPD rank-and-file they have told me they

don't want to be the ones to address homelessness or participate in the

cleanups and oftentimes refer the issue to our office to handle. What's more, many of these

practices having officers on site at cleanups date back years and have not been meaningfully

revisited. We shouldn't allow outdated concerns from a 2020 report to dictate how we use our

limited resources, especially when doing so means trading real public safety work for responses

that don't even move us toward housing stability or justice. I can't support expanding an approach

that continues to view our unhoused neighbors as suspects, victims, or witnesses instead of Angelenos

who need housing care and services. A large portion of these overtime hours would be directed toward

operations that in practice criminalize poverty, and we know this doesn't reduce homelessness.

In fact, it often destabilizes people further and pushes them farther away from the services that

could actually help them get off the streets. If our goal is truly to reduce encampments and improve

public safety then our investments have to reflect that that means housing

supported services and coordinated outreach not additional police over time

those are the tools that actually create long-term change our resources should

reflect our values and what we know works increasing police over time to

respond to homelessness does neither for this reason I'm a no vote all right

thank you for your comments councilmember Jurado let's see ignore the

comments let's open the roll on this item close the roll tabulate the vote

11 eyes 3 no's all right what's next item 44 passes the next item before

council is item 50 called special by councilmember Rodriguez for an amendment

all right that item is now before us as amended let's open the roll close the

roll tabulate the vote 14 eyes all right what's next council may now move on to

Item 51 called special by council member Blumenfield for an amendment. All right. That item is before us as amended

Let's open the role. Close the role tabulate to vote

Will try to nice all right. What's next?

Item 52 called special by council member Blumenfield for an amendment

All right that item is before us as amended. Let's open the role. Close the role tabulate to vote

Will try to nice all right. What's next I?

item 54 as amended by councilmember Blumenfeld all right mr. Wilmenfield

just just a quick comment this is a large mixed-use project in my district

in the Warner Center with affordable units it's a great project I fully

support it reason I continued it yesterday as we were working some

technical modifications on the conditions of approval which we are

landed we're making today and so I just wanted to take a moment to thank the

department for all their hard work on all the Warner Center projects but I know

on this project in particular there was a lot of a lot of back and forth so I

just wanted to express some gratitude for that and ask for your aye vote all

right let's open the roll on that item as amended close the roll tabulate the

vote 14 eyes all right what's next items 21 and 42 are before council if

councilmember price would like to step out all right and while councilmember

is recusing a request matter of collective item 44 go forth with that

objection all right mr. price has recused so items 21 and 42 are before us

let's open the roll close the roll tabulate the vote 13 eyes all right

what's next the council has motions for posting and referral they are posted and

referred madam clerk can you confirm that the desk is clear the desk is clear

all right announcements members any announcements mr. Blumenfield yes I

wanted to announce to everyone here that tomorrow from 4 to 7 is my annual

holiday toy drive and holiday party. I encourage all of you to come. If you come, you get to Rampage.

I mean, you get to see Rampage, who is the mascot for the Rams. We'll be there along with the Rams

cheerleaders. But we're going to have some great food. We've got Saphir and Johnny Pacific

empanadas, all sorts of great stuff. So it will be fun. We have the San Fernando Valley Choir.

all are invited if you can bring a toy or the other we're also collecting for

homeless clothing and that and and food so whatever you can bring it will get

distributed it is a holiday party and toy drive and it's all right it's at my

district office which is the West Valley Municipal Building 19040 Van Owen Street

recede thank you thank you so much mr. Bowman Phil I'm gonna advise your staff

to make you taller than the snowman next year Mr. Councilmember Jurado I just

wanted to make an announcement for all the council members that we are still

doing our holiday door contest and the due date is December 8th you are standing

in stiff competition with councilmember Padilla who has got a corner going so

So just want to put people on notice that the decoration contest is happening.

Yeah, I think Council Member Padilla has shut down the east side of the building.

I don't think any of us are going to try to compete with CDC.

Council Member Rodriguez.

Bob, you inspired me, and I'm hoping that we each get a snow globe for Christmas this year.

But, yeah, I think a little Bob right here.

It would be fun.

But I, too, am having a tree lighting.

We're actually, you know, tis the season.

So beginning tomorrow, we have our annual tree lighting at the Pacoima City Hall with a beautiful 20-foot tree and just tons of activities for families.

Begins at 6 o'clock at Pacoima City Hall.

Free Santa photos for everybody.

And then we have on Friday, both in Sunland Park and in Silmar Park, our holiday tree lighting events there as well.

So I want to invite everybody to come on out and come have a good time with the community.

Thanks.

Thank you so much.

Any other announcements, members?

All right.

I'll ask everyone in the chamber to rise for adjourning motions and ask if there are any

adjourning motions to my left, any adjourning motions to the right.

All right.

With that, we're adjourned.

Thank you so much, everybody.

Thank you.

Thank you.

We need to make sure we know the names of them and they know your names, their information,

so that we can make sure that we are ready as a community to evacuate when that time comes.

Another issue is making sure you have a go kit.

And what I mean by that is you're prepared.

You've got the essentials that you need.

Now, that does not include your home and everything in it because those things are all replaceable.

So what we want to focus on are the people, the community members, right?

Those are the folks that are irreplaceable, your loved ones.

So we need to focus on those and getting out of harm's way.

And finally, when the evacuation time comes, we've got to make sure that we go and we leave when that order comes out.

That being said, there's one more thing I'd like to talk about, and that is if the warning comes out, red flag, that we need to not have street parking, we all need to focus and make sure our vehicles are off the roadways.

And what I mean by that is that if people are parked on some of the streets that are tight in our community,

it might be just barely enough for a small black and white to get by.

But when it comes to the apparatus of the fire department,

they're really going to struggle to get by those parked cars, and that could exasperate the fire issue.

Yeah, those are excellent points.

Knowing your neighbors, having your go kit.

And certainly we do have a lot of hairpin turns and natural choke points and narrow roads

in some of the areas that are next to wildfires.

So for those who want to get more information about that or to sign up for alerts to actually

be notified when there are the red flag no parking restrictions, you could go to lafd.org

slash red flag.

So thank you.

Excellent points.

Jennifer, we'll turn it to you for a minute with the emergency management department.

Now you play a very vital role in the preparation of wildfires.

Can you talk to us a little bit more about the role of the EMD and also particular to

alerting?

Yeah, so the Emergency Management Department makes sure that the city is ready to send

emergency alerts in as many ways as possible the second that a fire is dangerous.

And so the NotifyLA system is what we use to let everyone know what's going on.

That system has a lot of elements.

So if you go in, sign up, and register yourself in the system, you can actually choose the

addresses you care most about. It might be your home, it might be where your kids go

to school, or where a parent is getting care. You can put all of those places into the system

along with which ways you want to be contacted. A cell phone, a TTY or TVV device, text messages,

landline, VoIP phone, email. All of those systems are available to you. So if you go

to notifyla.org and sign up, you can get alerts specifically for those areas you care about.

There's another really important aspect to that emergency alerting system and it's wireless

emergency alerts.

This is a federal national program that allows your cell phone to get an alert based on its

active location in the moment the alert is sent.

So if you are in a fire zone, maybe you're going on a hike in the hills, maybe you're

enjoying a concert and a fire breaks out, we can actually draw a shape around that area

that needs to be notified and send a message to everyone's phones.

A lot of folks have gotten those before,

as an Amber Alert or a Silver Alert.

Use that same system.

And so one thing that we ask everybody to do

is check your phone settings

and make sure that you're opted in

to receiving those public safety and severe incident alerts,

that you haven't changed the phone settings

because you really need to get those

in the exact moment in which we send them.

And the good news is the city of LA

really does have one of the most robust alerting systems.

It's not just the emergency management department.

We partner closely with the fire department

and the police department and back each other up

on sending those alerts.

We've got the language pre-written.

We just plug in the area that's at risk

and we can get those alerts out really rapidly

to let people know what's going on.

One thing I'll add is we'll send a couple of kinds

of alerts during a wildfire.

So the first one is just gonna be

what we lovingly call the shake and shout.

Wake up, there's something happening

and we want you to know about it.

We want you to start preparing.

We're gonna send that as soon as we know

that a fire could be threatening structures or a large area.

Then we'll send an evacuation warning

if we need people to be prepared to evacuate,

an evacuation order if we need them to evacuate now.

So that evacuation warning,

if it's gonna take you longer to get out,

if you would maybe have pets

or somebody who needs special technology

to be able to leave their home, leave them, get out then.

But for everybody, when you get that evacuation order,

as Sergeant Lee mentioned,

we really need you to hit the road and get out of the way.

that will let the firefighters, the police officers protect your property, protect your

home without having to worry about you.

Thank you, Jennifer.

That was really some great information about Notify LA.

I like, too, that you brought up the fact that you could kind of reduce signal to noise

ratio and make sure you're getting signal and not too much noise by saying the geographic

areas that actually matter to you and also the way that you receive them can be specific

via text or email.

And I also know that when an emergency breaks out, we certainly have very close coordination.

And we appreciate all that you do in notifying people.

It's our pleasure.

The key thing is make sure you get notifications in a lot of different ways.

You don't want to rely on any one source to get those messages.

Excellent point.

The more the merrier, especially when it comes to life-saving information.

So it's not just about individually being prepared, but it's also important to be prepared collectively

as a community. And so that's where David Barrett from MySafeLA comes in. Can you

talk a little bit about your neighborhood education? Sure. You've been talking about

the collaboration in a response model.