And I'm proud to say we've successfully bought down homelessness in our district by 29%.

And we've gotten over 2,000 people in permanent housing.

I'm really proud of that.

And you know, it's not over.

There's more work to be done.

I'm committed to using every city resource to bring more parks into CD10.

We're currently working on a plan to do a major expansion to Seoul International Park.

In the past few months, we've secured major renovations to be made to Chateau Park and Lafayette Park.

And we also just finished renovating the football field here at Obama Sports Complex.

So when we think of Koreatown, it's a very dense population.

And in going outside the box, thinking of ways to make spaces usable is why we expanded Popico Library to make a library park.

And we should see the completion of that, Rosa.

With the World Cup, All-Star Weekend, Super Bowl, and the Olympics all heading to Los Angeles.

We're standing on the edge of a massive economic boom.

But a boom only matters if the wealth stays in the neighborhood.

This is why our office launched our small business workshop series by giving our local businesses access to tools like RAM.

They can position themselves to secure formal city contracts, transforming them from spectators into vendors and workers that will make these games possible.

We're gonna celebrate all the works of Martin Luther King.

We have the MLK parade coming in January.

I'm excited.

And then Love Hut.

It is something I do in Women's Month to remind women about how important they are and to know that I care about their struggle.

I can't believe we're almost at 26.

Continuing to get our unhoused neighbors the housing and resources they need.

That's number one, every single day.

Continue growing park space across the district.

There's so many children and families who have limited access to being outside, to be in Park Center District.

And I feel like they're a necessity, so I'm committed to making sure we balance the gap.

I feel like we've had some lessons learned in 25.

25 showed how resilient Los Angeles is, and then we'll move on with that strength and resilience in 26.

All the good boy and girl dogs at the LA Animal Services shelters got holiday treats and toys.

While the generous gifts are a help, the intention is to highlight the dogs and help get them into their forever homes.

Today the Karen Cooper Foundation brought Santa Sacks for the dogs across our six animal services centers.

What else can I say?

Christmas came early for the shelter fets in LA City.

We know these shelter dogs don't really have that much of an opportunity to have any joy during the holidays.

So what we do is we bring them all these treats.

The other reason that we do it is to draw attention to the adoptions that are so much needed.

We wanted to adopt a dog, so he just came and he fell in love with one of the dogs when I was at work when he told me he already adopted him.

And I was like, why don't you tell me?

And then when I came to visit him, I'm like, my heart melted too.

So I'm like so happy that he decided to get this dog.

I know we're both super happy right now.

That's all I can say.

Michelle and I are here for this cause.

We're here to bring Christmas to them.

But at the end of the day, what needs to really happen is these little guys and gals need to be in their forever homes.

It's really helpful to adopt the dogs.

That would change a life.

To find more ways to support the department, whether it's volunteering, adopting, or donating, you can visit LA Animal Services.com.

The recent LA Rains couldn't dent the community spirit on display at the annual Kwanzaa Festival.

In fact, legend has it that rain on this parade is a sign of good luck and blessings to come.

The question came up, what are we gonna do for Kwanzaa?

Why don't we do a parade?

What the Kwanzaa Guaride does is it brings in the new year.

The theme of this year's Guaride is Kufu Fu Liwa, which is literally resurrection.

And so we're in a resurrection period.

I mean, Kwanzaa to me is celebrating black pride.

So just to have this moment for us to be able to gather together and do something meaningful with no drama, fun times.

Lamert Park is always a good time.

I'm excited to be out here getting these ladies 39 and over.

We get out here double dungeon, a line dance, hula hoop, play games, encourage each other.

Just bringing back childhood nostalgia.

We did excited about all of the fun, the cards, the marching and the walking and all the good things that are in this community.

Just glad to be here and go right for the young fucking.

Executive director Capri Maddox spoke about the department's year of action campaigning for civil rights and civil society in a Los Angeles that lights the way for all.

Making sure that we have housing as well as job fairs for this targeted population is a just service.

That's what I really love about our elected officials is you may represent a group and your identity, but you go out and you celebrate all of Los Angeles every Heritage Month.

We call our service day Tom LeBon's Day of Service.

Tom LeBonge loved people, oftentimes bringing together people from different backgrounds.

And the opportunity for us to do Tom LeBon's Day of Service gave us a moment for people to work shoulder to shoulder with their fellow Angelinos and have that common connection of wanting to serve.

We need to understand that it takes all of us to build a better Los Angeles.

We don't have hate crimes stopping at the door just based on your skin color or how you identify.

We also have tremendous hate crimes happening against folks based on their faith.

So we want to be unified with all faiths to say we see you, we stand with you, we celebrate you, and we want to create a Los Angeles where people are free to worship as they wish and to not feel like they're at risk if they're going to temple or going to the mosque or going to their churches.

That you belong here.

And so the campaign is I belong, you belong, we belong.

You know, people often say, and hey, go back to where you belong.

We wanted to blanket the city with the message that everyone belongs.

We were intentional to do this in a number of languages, but our first language out the box, we did it in Spanish.

Many of us have come from different places and spaces for the freedom and the liberties Los Angeles offers us all.

Our city is strong.

We are standing with all communities.

Join Council President Marquise Harris Dawson, Councilmember Kern Price, and Councilwoman Heather Hutt in partnership with Community Coalition and Destination Crenshaw to celebrate the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.

According to Council President Harris Dawson, this yearly staple provides hundreds of South LA residents with resources, culture, and connection.

This year's festival highlights the impact and unity in action with the theme Still We Rise, keeping the dream alive.

Head to LaMert Park for Freedom Festival on the Martin Luther King Jr.

holiday, Monday, January 19th, from 11 a.m.

until 5 p.m.

For more information, visit the Instagram account of Council President Marquis Harris Dawson at MHDCD 8.

Enjoy a guided tide pool walk with the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium Educators.

On Saturday, January 17th, as they interpret the various habitats of the Cabrillo Beach Coastal Park.

The walk begins at the Aquarium Courtyard and takes in the native gardens, salt marsh, beaches, and tide pools.

Along the way, you'll see fossils, native plants, birds, and other interesting finds.org.

Join the Los Angeles Public Library for Brick Playdate at the P.O.

Pico Koreatown Branch Library on January 17th.

If you love to build things, join the playdate at the library.

Families are welcome to come and use their imagination to build and play with the library's Legos.

Head to the community room at the P.O.

Pico Korea Town Branch Library for the hands on activity Brick Playdate on Saturday, January seventeenth at one thirty PM.

For more information, visit LAPL dot org Slash Events.

Madam Clerk, if we could begin our proceedings by calling the roll.

Blumenfield, Harris Dawson, Hernandez, Hutt, Herado, Lee, McCosker, Nazarian, Padilla, Park, Price, Raman, Rodriguez, Soto Martinez, Yaroslavsky.

Thirteen members present and a quorum, Mr.

President.

All right, first order of business.

Approval of the minutes from January 9th, 2026.

Councilmember Yaroslavsky moves.

Councilmember Hutt seconds.

What's next?

Commendatory resolutions for approval.

Councilmember Lee moves.

Councilmember Park seconds.

What's next?

Mr.

President, today is Tuesday and it's time for the flag salute.

All right, I'll ask everybody to rise, uh face the flag and join along with Councilmember Lee of the 12th District for the Pedge of Allegiance.

One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

All right, Madam Clerk, let's run through our agenda.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Items one through nine are items noticed for public hearing.

Items 10 through 21 are items for which public hearings have been held.

For item number sixteen, please note there is a typo and recommendation number one, and it should be the Board of Harbor Commissioners.

Items 22 through 38 are items for which public hearings have not been held.

Ten votes are required for consideration.

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

Do we have specials members?

Councilmember Jurado.

Thank you, Council President.

I'd like to call item 23 and item 27 special for a separate vote.

And I'd like to hold item 24 special for comments by Councilmember Blumenville.

All right.

Councilmember Lee.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

I'd like to call it number 25 for comments and item 26 for a technical amendment that I believe is being no.

Do I sorry?

A verbal amendment on the floor to make uh fire department the lead instead of the Department of Building and Safety for item number 26.

Okay.

Thank you, Mr.

Lee.

Is there a second to that motion?

Second.

Second by Mr.

McCosker.

All right.

Councilmember Padilla.

Yes, I like to call 29 special for comments.

All right.

Councilmember Raman.

I think it's already been called special, but item 26 for a separate vote.

Okay.

Councilmember Soto Martinez.

Good morning, everyone.

Uh uh like to call item 21 for comments, and I also have an amendment for item 26 that should be circulated soon.

All right, and Councilmember Rodriguez.

Item 10 for comments.

Okay.

Uh any other specials members.

All right.

See no other specials.

Uh Madam Clerk, what items are available for consideration at this time?

The council may now vote on items 11 through 20.

All right.

Open the roll on those items, close the roll, tabulate the vote.

13 ayes.

All right, what's next?

Mr.

McCosker.

Could we send item 20 fourth with, please?

Without objection, that'll be the order.

Mr.

President, there is also a request to continue item 22 for two weeks to January 27th.

Uh, without objection, that'll be the order.

Thank you.

Would the council like to move on to public comment?

All right.

Uh, we would like to move on to public comment, but before we move on to public comment, we've got a very special recognition today and a testimonial.

So we'll begin with special recommendation uh recognition by Councilmember Lee of the 12th district.

Robert Commissioner.

Colleagues, this motion colleagues, today we proudly are recognizing the 123rd of Korean American anniversary of Korean American Day when immigrants came to Hawaii in 1903 to help out with their agriculture there.

Standing with me is the president of the Korean American Federation, Robert Aan.

Like I mentioned, since January 13th, uh 1903, when the first Korean Americans arrived in the United States, generations of Korean Americans have helped shape our nation and our city through perseverance, hard work, and a deep commitment to our community.

Los Angeles is home to one of the largest and most vibrant Korean American communities in the country.

And this impact from them can be felt across our city, from local businesses as faith communities to education, the arts and civic leadership, all strengthening our neighborhoods and enriching our cultural landscape.

As we commemorate Korean American Day, we honor a legacy built through sacrifice, perseverance, and service, and we look ahead with gratitude and optimism for the continued contributions of the Korean American community.

It is because of these values passed from one generation to the next, that our city is stronger today and better prepared for the future.

Happy Korean American Day, everyone.

Thank you, Mr.

Ahn, for joining us today for this presentation.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Thank you so much, Mr.

Lee.

Councilmember Hutt.

Thank you so much, Councilmember Lee, for reminding us of how important a contributions of the Korean American people are here.

As I am the councilmember for the 10th district, which includes Koreatown, they are robust members of the 10th district.

So I want to say happy Korean American Day to all.

Here in Los Angeles, we have the privilege to be the home of a vast and thriving Korean American community.

Their over a century-long legacy is woven into every sector of our city, from businesses and technology to arts and civic life.

More than that, Korean culture is a foundational part of Los Angeles' identity.

In my district, Koreatown stands as a beacon of cultural vibrancy and economic strength.

Los Angeles sits at the forefront of a global wave of Korean culture and art.

While many around the world see this rise as a new trend here in Los Angeles, we've been fortunate to experience and celebrate its influence for decades.

While we're here, I'd like to acknowledge that this past Sunday, Korean arts took center stage at a global platform at the Golden Globes, where the Blockbuster film K-Pac Demon Hunters took home several awards, and we are very proud of that.

This uh made history for our Korean American community and was the first time Korean American women had received awards for best animated feature and best original song.

So as we celebrate the 123rd anniversary of Korean American Day, let's celebrate the incredible contributions of Korean Americans have made to our city's past, present, and future.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Thank you so much, Councilmember Hutt.

Thank you so much, Councilmember Lee.

Councilmember McCosker.

I just want to say uh I want to add my my wishes for Korean American Day.

I also want to say that one of those iconic and beautiful symbols of the great friendship between the United States and the Republic of Korea is in the 1-5 at the far south end of our district.

Uh we have the Korean Bell of Friendship.

And today at 2 p.m., we will be ringing the bell and a ceremony in honor of Korean American Day and our very own Don Lu, one of our general managers is the new chair of the Korean Bell of Friendship Foundation, which is working towards the celebration of the 50th year of that gift and our bicentennial.

And so happy Korean American Day, and we look forward to further celebrations as we celebrate the 50th year of that beautiful bell.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

And uh thank you to the Federation and thank you to the Korean American community for making Los Angeles the amazing place that it is.

We'll now move into our testimonial.

We've been having testimonials most, if not all mornings since the federal enforcement.

Immigration enforcement action has visited on our city and so many cities across the country.

It is literally on our news every night, but we want to make sure we drill down into our neighborhoods and identify what's happening and hear from folks on the ground facing this extremely uh challenging time in our city.

Councilmember Jurado of the 14th District.

Thank you, Council President.

Colleagues, I rise today holding two truths at once.

The profound grief carried by our neighbors and the power of collective action.

This year has already begun with heartbreak.

This year has already begun with heartbreak, and it opened with the murders of Renee Nicole Good and Keith Porter, two people remembered for their care, creativity, warmth, whose lives matter deeply to those around them.

Their deaths did not occur in isolation.

They come amid an escalation and radicalization of ICE activity, following years of surveillance, harassment, and violence under this federal administration.

Over the past six months, this has become a grim and familiar reality in many of our neighborhoods.

Yesterday brought another devastating blow.

My office received multiple reports of ice sightings and kidnappings in Eagle Rock, Highland Park, and El Serena.

This happened on the first day back to school after winter break when children should have been returning home with excitement and stability, not fear of losing another parent.

Moments like this can feel unbearable.

Grief, anger, and fear press in all at once, but solidarity reminds us we are not alone.

We show up for one another in mourning in resistance and in care, refusing to look away when our communities are under attack.

Today I'm proud to be joined by a community organizer who has long stood on the front lines of justice, clergy and laity united for economic justice, or Clue, mobilizes faith leaders and community members to stand alongside workers in the struggle for dignity and justice.

Last week, Clue held a peaceful demonstration in front of the federal building to honor the life of Renee Nicole Good.

Clue spoke out to denounce the violence that ICE has used against the public, which we have seen all across the country and right here at our home.

And they laid down flowers during the demonstration to hold a vigil for Renee, a life that was taken too soon.

We are honored to hear from Mary, a Dharma teacher and community organizer whose practice of engaged Buddhism brings compassion into action.

For more than 30 years, Mary has united spiritual practice with organizing, standing with communities facing injustice, and today she brings us a testimony rooted in compassion, courage, and our shared humanity.

I'm a Buddhist chaplain, an empowered Dharma teacher, and a longtime board member of Clue, clergy and lady united for economic justice.

And I want to thank Councilmember Horado for inviting me here today to speak about my interactions with ICE.

I do not have any firsthand experience with ICE, but I have definitely been impacted.

When my student, who is 80 years old and in a wheelchair, tells me that ICE pulled her out of a line at the airport, interrogated her about her immigration status.

When I drive by the U-Haul in my neighborhood, and no one is standing or sitting outside for the first time that I can ever remember in over 25 years, I am impacted.

When I see a black escalator similar similar vehicle in my neighborhood, I look to see where my neighbors are and whether the gardeners are okay.

I am impacted.

When the manager at the pet store tells me his children are crying because they're classmates, their best friends must leave this country where they were born.

I am impacted.

When I attend the Tuesday Vigil that happens every Tuesday for the disappeared, Los Desparacidos, and hear a story about how I subducted a son, a brother, an aunt, a daughter, a husband.

Clue has been administering a bond fund for people detained by ICE.

When I go to pay a bond and it's turned down for some reason, I cry for the person I have never met.

I cry for his family.

I am definitely impacted.

When I sit in the cafeteria in the federal building and chat with people next to me and hear their stories of how their uncle was taken from his job or their sister was taken while they were checking in, I am impacted.

When I'm invited to a city council meeting to share my experience, and I tell a friend, and she says, Is it safe to do that?

I'm impacted.

I'm impacted because I'm human, because I care about my neighbors, and I care about people I have never met.

I care about the laws that seem to be superfluous to ICE.

I am impacted.

In June, when I first arrived in Los Angeles and the National Guard wasn't far behind, I was part of an interface gathering of clergy and laity who walked down to the Metropolitan Detention Center.

LAPD had blocked off Alameda, so we stood at the corner of Alameda and Eliso.

We sang songs and we spoke words of peace and justice.

We also watched ICE vehicles bring people to the MTC.

I watched as LAPD began to line up and take a more formal stance.

Then I noticed the National Guard down the block come to attention and stand facing us as well.

And what I felt in that moment was fear.

Not my own fear, but waves of fear coming off the LAPD and the National Guard.

It was visceral.

Fear of pastors and rabbis and imams and chaplains.

It was not fear of anything we were doing, but it was a fear of the other.

Wishing and gladness and safety.

Living near or far away, born or to be born.

May all beings be at ease.

Let none through anger or ill will wish harm upon another.

So with a boundless heart, should one cherish all living beings.

And I am doubly committed to living this way.

I am doubly committed to ending injustice where I see it.

This is also how ICE has impacted me.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mary, for your continued work in protecting our community from rapid response organizing to tireless advocacy for immigrant rights.

And for those watching at home, if you see ice in your neighborhood, please call the Los Angeles Rapid Response Network immediately.

Again, that number is 1888-624-4752.

Again, it's 1888-624-4752.

Thank you.

Thank you so much, Councilmember, and thank you to your guests for coming to speak with us this morning.

Uh that moves us to public comment for this morning's uh meeting.

I'll ask the city attorney to prepare us for public comment.

Yes, Mr.

President.

To people providing public comment, when it is your turn to speak, please let us know 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 are 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 on the agenda that are open for public comment are items.

Items one through nine and items 23 through 38.

Again, the items that are open for public comment on the agenda are items number one through nine, and I apologize, not number 22 through 38.

Right.

Item number 22 has been continued.

So items one.

Let me start over.

The items open for public comment on the agenda are items one through nine and twenty-three through thirty-eight.

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 aloud to the room, please.

If you require a Spanish language 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.

So if you've made that accommodation request, once you hear the name that you signed up under, called aloud, you can raise your hand and the sergeants will come to you and bring you the wireless microphone.

One final announcement in order to accommodate as many people as possible.

If you could please make sure to wait until you hear the name that you signed up under before lining up, that would be appreciated.

Thank you.

Margarita Gonzalez.

So you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Yes.

So it's an honor to be here.

Uh happy new year for everybody.

This is a challenging year for most of us.

So and housing is a extremely need in our city.

So that's why the money is so important.

And the initiative ULA is providing the phones for continue doing the work.

So as a community organizer, I heard many, many uh broken heart histories from the community.

They need support.

So the initiative has an incredible plan for social housing helping people with education and with uh support with the rain and other uh aspects.

Please fully support ULA.

Thank you.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Yes, good morning, everybody.

My name is Irma Mehia.

I am a part of Inner City Struggle.

Yeah, I'm here to support accessible housing and the impact for ULA.

Soy Angelina y Klo que todas las personas merecen un lugar estable y asequible donde vivir.

Hello, I'm an Angelina, and I just I think that everybody deserves a stable and accessible place to live.

Support the accessible housing ordinance and to allow people to be able to stay in their homes with accessible rent.

And without this financial support, the city would not be able to help the situation of people who cannot afford their rent and who are no longer able to stay in their homes.

Go ahead.

So this isn't an opportunity for QA, but if you have specific questions on for example, how to request documents, if you could wait over on the side, I would appreciate that.

Thank you.

Because we know the necessity that our community has.

All of us pay taxes.

And we don't complain.

The person who has more costs has to pay more.

ULA measure will keep people in their homes.

Where we'll protect renters and it will allow them to live justly.

Because that is what we deserve.

That is why that you protect ULA because it was won democratically and it should stay firmly in Los Angeles.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

General public comment.

Okay.

So you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Hi, my name is Anna Ferrari.

I've been a renter in Los Angeles for 21 years, and I have watched it become increasingly less affordable.

Particularly the cost of housing.

My partner and I both work in the film industry, and I think most of you know that's it's been a rough time since 2023.

And it is only because of rent control that we are not more rent burdened right now.

It's only because of rent control that we've been able to stay in our current place.

And we've been there for 10 years right now.

I don't feel like I can afford to move.

And I volunteer with the United to House LA Coalition because I believe that housing is a human right.

And if I'm having trouble affording housing, then so many more disadvantaged people are having the same issue.

I think that the programs that are supported by measure ULA are so important, especially the supportive housing.

Please give the give these programs a chance to get off the ground and your time has expired.

Next speaker.

Also, Tran Latina also helped me too, because I hate to see somebody in my position as a transgender go through the crisis I've been through, any American, because I'm an American.

And you you need to sit out.

Next speaker.

We're going to call a few more names up.

Grace Estrella, Persevanda Munoz, Bambi Salcedo, George Harid, and Skylar Myers.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

My name is Margarita Gar Gonzalez.

I'm a power of collective community power.

I'm here right now to defend ULA.

ULA is the billions that our people won.

Attacking ULA is not just and as well as it's attacking not only the mortgage but also the immigrant communities.

And also the people, taxpayers, and people that think that they can take advantage of this situation.

Defender Aula is defender hogares y defender dignidad and nuestras familias tengan el derecho de vivir in una industria.

Yeah, defending ULA is defending housing and dignity, and for the people to be able to.

Speaker was cut off after that.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Uh general public comment.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Uh good morning, council members.

Um I wanna bless you as we start this new um session.

Um, but I'm here specifically on support of ULA, uh, but also to remind you that the Translatinal Coalition, along with other translate organizations and and allies, uh, we're here to push for the trans wellness and equity fund.

We are asking this year for an allocation of four million dollars to support translator organizations and support uh trans people here in the city.

We have been going at this for the past this is gonna be our third year, and we I am hoping that we can work together to ensure that transgender expensive and intersex people receive the support and services that they deserve and they need.

At this political times, it's important that we stand together and support our communities.

Trans people are the ones who are at the bottom of the bottom of the totem pool when social uh conditions.

Today, the Supreme Court is ruling, um and this is one of the issues that are happening in our Kapiko.

Your time has expired.

Next speaker.

Uh good morning.

Which items would you like to do that?

Good morning.

Uh 24, 25, and general public comment.

Okay, so you have two minutes for the items that's 24 and 25, and then one minute for general public comment.

Go ahead.

Thank you.

Uh good morning.

I'm here with the Translatina Coalition as well as different uh transgender, gender expensive, and intersex community members who want to make sure that they continue to be engaged and their voices.

Um, all of the items for which public comment has not been held have to do with public safety, land use, and um and again, just making sure that you are how are we going to prioritize care for our communities, whether that's housing, whether it's uplifting ULA, whether that's investing in the care of our communities and not just in the public interest.

Uh, we are in an election year.

Half of you are up for re-election, so we want to make sure that not just your seats, but also the the whole city, whether it's the mayor's administration or someone from council will take action to ensure that the city is trending genuinely investing in the care of our communities, not just in displacing uh renters, not just in criminalizing communities of color, and not just in uh facilitating uh ice taking all our away our peoples.

Uh we would like to thank every uh most of the council offices.

Uh we have been in discussion with your teams.

We want to make sure that there's action before March to ensure that for transgender data basibility, this city council stands up.

You don't just uh you don't just go in hiding and say like oh we support trans people, but you're genuinely taking a standard.

So your time is paused.

So I you you have your general public comment, but I'm listening to what you're speaking about, and it is not related to the items on the agenda.

So you please stick to those items for the remaining 48 seconds, or if you'd like, you can move to general public comment.

Well, care for our communities are a budget matter.

So again, everything that you're just uh prior to, but yeah, you can move in public comment, sure.

Um, anyways, as I was saying, one minute.

Uh we want to make sure that this city council and these meetings are an opportunity for you for truly hearing from the public, not for your staffers to catch you up, not for the private interests that you have here uh uh to support you, but making sure that you listen to the public that taking the time day and time again to make sure that their needs are being heard.

So we want to make sure that you are uplifting ULA, you're making sure that you're using those funds, not just only to uh prevent homelessness, but also to make sure that the care and needs of vulnerable populations, whether it's reentry folks, whether it's black communities or whether it's TGI communities, you're using those funds to invest in care opportunities, not just continue to fund the LEPD and all the carcel systems that your failed offices continue to support, and we don't continue to see any results.

So we look forward to continuing having conversation with you.

We look forward to the primaries and we look forward to a shift in the city council.

Thank you.

Okay, so you have one minute, go ahead.

Good morning.

My name is Skylar Myers, and I'm the education manager for State House Delay at Sage, a program made possible through United to House LA funds.

Through ULA, State House LA has secured more than 100 million dollars of savings for vulnerable LA families.

With these funds, we are able to educate thousands of tenants each year about their rights, the eviction process, and the protections that keep families stably housed.

This kind of proactive education funded directly by the property tax dollars that ULA generates prevents homelessness before it starts.

When we invest in knowledge, we invest in stability.

Weakening ULA would mean fewer workshops, fewer informed tenants, and more Angelinos push into crisis.

Keep these dollars where voters intended supported tenants, defending homes and building a more stable Los Angeles.

Thank you.

We shall go to the items would you like to speak to?

Uh to Dr.

King's birthday coming up.

My name is George Harriet aka Mr.

Pancake, housing organizer, activist, and artists with the Los Angeles Community Action Network.

Um supporting ULA, the mansion tax celebrating one billion dollars.

LA CAM was part of the coalition that fought to get it passed, and it was voted and by LA City voters in 2022.

To all the coalition members who pop for ULA.

The part the part of money is called the House ULA Fund.

Ultimately, the housing department and the mayor decide who gets house LA money.

Leo's push canal sees conduct as he is angling to get double dip into the house LA funds.

Keep LA House ULA ULA.

We would like to call up the next three names.

Can we sorry when you read the names?

Can we have you repeat those just a little bit louder?

I can't actually hear it.

So I assume that's the same.

Alfonso Directo Junior, Jasmine Lopez, and Abelia N.

Thank you.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Okay, hi, good morning.

I'm speaking on uh general comment.

Okay, so we have one minute.

Go ahead.

Good morning, everyone.

My name is Grace Estrella, and I am with community, the community organization, communities for a better environment.

I am also a resident of this great city of Los Angeles.

And I'm here standing in solidarity and in support of protecting Measure ULA.

Measure ULA is delivering real results in our community.

It makes it possible to educate tenants about their rights, provide funds for legal representation and eviction cases.

We see the positive results of using the LA the ULA funds as they are intended.

It makes that corporations and landlords that own uh buildings of more than five million dollars.

Um they have to pay what they should.

Those resources are used to uh build affordable housing and to help the people who is uh being uh evicted.

In Los Angeles I demasiadas personas viviendo in la calle y ULA is una herramienta clave mass familias pierdas modellos de vivienda social.

In LA there is way too many people even on the street.

This is a key tool to avoid families from suffering from that, and to uh supporting uh social uh housing.

To protect the community, even in emergency moments.

The ones who oppose uh ULA are the rich people and also uh real estate uh corporations.

But esta medida beneficial.

But this measure benefits the working class families and the most vulnerable.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Good morning.

I'll be speaking on the general public.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Thank you.

Um good morning, council members.

My name is Jasmine Look Nicole Lopez.

I am one of the um proud uh consistents that get assistance from Translatina coalition.

I'm here to speak on the TGI wellness and equity um initiative that they have going on.

Without them, I would have never been able to get out of the situation that I was in, uh, or become a director for health and wellness as well, working closely with other organizations.

Um I honestly feel like if we can get the uh two-year investment over uh for them, that would greatly help out the community as well as making sure that everybody gets assistance and it gives us an equal and fair fight to be able to continue and moving forward with this.

Um I honestly want to just thank you guys again for your time and I appreciate it.

I guess items would you like to speak to?

Hi, good morning.

General public comment.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Hi, good morning.

My name is Alfonso Directo Junior.

I'm the advocacy director at ACT LA, we're coalition advancing housing and transit justice in LA.

Measure ULA just raised one billion dollars and join us in celebrating this important milestone.

ULA is working as intended.

The first goal of ULA is to increase access to permanently affordable housing, and the social housing program in ULA will do just that.

In the city's first major release of funding, developers requested six hundred million dollars to build social housing.

That's six times the amount the city will award in this first round, and a strong signal that social housing is coming to LA.

We urge you to join us in celebrate and defend ULA and work with us to maximize this funding to build more social housing in Los Angeles.

Thank you.

We would like to now call three additional names.

Laura, Bijan G, and Rosa Miranda.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

I am interested in improving the proceedings here.

That is what I'm talking about.

General public comment.

You have one minute.

Go ahead.

General public comment.

My comments, my name is Frederick Williams Silic, and I'm a civilized citizen.

My common purpose is to provide more functional social manner to these proceedings.

My reflections have revealed these proceedings have demonstrated the illegitimate attributes of a child's game.

We need in these proceedings the attributes of legitimate social environmental creation.

We need we're in need of genuine decency, genuine dignity, genuine legitimacy, legitimacy, genuine function, genuine critique, genuine, genuine, genuine critique, genuine democracy.

We don't storm the city hall, we don't storm the White House.

We approach these institutional bastions with the attitude of a place of respectful honor, homage, sanctity.

The house the White House is not a house at all.

The sitting presence and the 45 predecessors have misunderstood.

Speaker, your time has expired.

Next speaker.

Hello.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Hi, I'm Laura Anderson again here to make sure the city is not tying any more connections into Scientology, their money, their budgets, their street closures through Streets LA.

We just found out that a budget of 42,000 dollars for one night at the Shrine Auditorium, New Year's Eve event for Scientology to close down all the streets for no reason, just so that protesters don't document the way they are acting and behaving and treating their indentured slaves.

So you guys have to divorce yourself.

Here's the divorce papers.

Divorce yourself from Scientology.

Find out what groups you guys are supporting, if it's drug free world, if it's narcond, if it's whatever it is, stop supporting Scientology, human trafficking, financial abuses.

They abuse the R1 visa.

Make sure they start using their parking lots that are empty for the homeless, people that spaces in Los Angeles that can actually be used.

Let's use Scientology for their money to help the homeless instead of using it to human traffic people into the speaker.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

General public comment.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Great.

Good morning.

My name is Lauren.

And I'm here with the Trans Latinal Coalition.

I'd like to begin by quoting the mayor of a city much similar to ours.

In his recent victory speech, Zohran Mamdani stated.

In this moment of political darkness, New York will be the light.

Here we believe in standing up for those we love, whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, or anyone else with their back against the wall.

Your struggle is ours too.

I ask the city council.

Have the courage to be like our neighbors in New York and pass the TGI wellness and equity initiative.

Thank you.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

General public comment.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Go ahead.

My name is Bijan Gaimi.

I'm a tenant organizer with Community Power Collective.

I'd like to speak today about measure ULA designed to fund programs to defend tenants against evictions and create and preserve permanently affordable housing.

Also want to mention what happened yesterday in my neighborhood, which is connected to this program.

Several immigrants, such as vendors and gardeners were snatched off the street by masked gunmen.

They were working to make rent and to avoid eviction.

LA has been facing this violent terror, not just since June, but for years.

Today I'm happy because I'm seeing a dream that I never thought that it would come true.

And one of the persons who went out and looked for that vote for ULA.

And today we're celebrating one billion dollars.

I will go to you.

Rent is impossible.

And as a council, you have a big responsibility.

And here we're going to see if you're actually supporting the rich.

I don't know if you feel happy when you go out on the street and you see families in campus.

Next speaker.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Soy una mujer transsexual.

Good morning.

My name is Deborah Escovar, and I'm a trans woman.

For seven years I lived on the street.

I have a HIV and I'm here to support the uh for you to support the organizations that we need with Translatinas.

Please help translatiness so they can help us with housing so we no longer have to live in the street.

Thank you very much.

We are gonna call three additional names.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Good morning.

I'm speaking for general public comment.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Good morning, City Council.

My name is B.

Curiel and I lead the policy work at the Trans Latina Coalition.

When I was 17 or 18 years old, I was kicked out of my house by my parents for coming out as queer and trans.

A lot of the times when we're in these situations, it's other people that are also queer and trans that help us get back on our feet, help shelter us, help us find our way, help us get mental health resources and the help that we need.

We have taken care of each other for decades while we are fighting for public integration and a public life.

So I ask you today to please consider an investment, uh concrete investment in the trans community's ability to continue helping each other, continue sheltering each other, continue continue keeping each other safe while we mitigate low quality of resources, while we mitigate the ending of emergency housing vouchers, while we mitigate this crisis that we are in in our federal tax.

Please be on our side and please continue to support the work we do.

Thank you.

Okay, so you have two minutes for the items and then you'll get you'll see one minute after that on the clock.

Go ahead.

Can I do it the opposite way?

Can I start off with the general public comment?

So in order to be consistent with everybody else, please start with the items and you can move into general.

Go ahead.

That sounds good for me.

Awesome.

So uh on item number 26, uh, environmental safety cannot be separated from the lived experience uh realities of TGI people, immigrants, low income residents, and unhoused communities.

Fire safe regulations matter, but they must be implemented in a way that does not punish the very people who are already living in the most vulnerable conditions.

Too often environmental rules become another tool for citations or displacement.

And TGI people who are on house or living in uh informal housing are among the first to be targeted.

If the city wants to protect people, then it must invest in the conditions that allow people to stay housed.

This is why measure ULA is essential.

ULA provides the resources needed to prevent displacement, stabilize tenants, and expand deeply affordable housing.

The foundations of true environmental and community safety.

Safety cannot be built through enforcement alone.

It must be built through housing, stability and dignity.

Now on item 28, strengthening policing infrastructure without centering the communities most impacting is dangerous.

TGI people, especially immigrants, low income residents, and those who are unhoused experience some of the most highest rates of profiling, harassment, and violence and interaction with law enforcement.

Any expansion of policing capacity, whether through equipment or operational support, will land hardest on the people who are already over policed and underprotected.

For TGI immigrants and in-house community members, increased policing often means increased vulnerability, not increased safety.

So we encourage you to please reach out to those community-based organizations that interact on a daily basis with our communities that are impacted by the changes that you make here today.

And Belinda H.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

So you have one minute, go ahead.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Thank you for a minute.

My name is Giovanna Escobar, Power of Community Collective Power.

I'm here to ask that you protect measure ULA.

As a renter, I deserve to live with dignity.

That hope is brought by ULA quiere quitar yes on now.

They want to take it away.

That's not fair.

Gracias.

That is why I say you protect ULA and protect the community.

Thank you.

Next speaker.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Everything plus public comment, please.

Okay, and since it's been a while, just reiterate the items that are open for public comment on the agenda are items one through nine and items 23 through 38.

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

Go ahead.

Okay, I want to talk about the one about the lighting district on New Hampshire.

I want to vote no, and it's not because Mr.

Lee owes me an apology or because I miss smoke and scan, because I do, it's been a long time, but that's not why I'm voting no.

I'm voting no because it's the corner right around from the blue building of Scientology.

And mind you, Scientology seems to run this town.

They seem to own it.

So why not let them finance it?

If the lighting district around the blue building needs um fixing or whatever, or updating, let them pay for it.

Okay, they're tax exempt, they're bringing all this money, they're paying a lot of money to the city for like they paid like what $32,000 for like six hours of for six cops overtime.

That's a lot of money.

So let them that that means they have enough money to pay for that lighting district upgrade.

Um, I know Kirsten Peterson and Kendrick Moxon will disagree with me, but they're stupid.

Um, the next one I want to talk about is the police um monies, and it's no offense to our officers here.

It but like the all that money coming in, and like I am for like where it doesn't cost the taxpayers, like I'm all for that.

Let other entities help contribute what's needed, but you guys don't allow us to see who's donating the money.

So again, it's another way for say Scientology to give money to you know for the police equipment, and it goes through the um the league, right, instead of directly, but you don't think that now um Chief Choi said this would never happen, but I want to see if smoke and scan agrees that this could happen, where they would say, hey Chief, you know, we we paid for we gave the money to the LAPPL for that, whatever it is that the little iron thingies that you need replacing.

And you know, um now we need a a favor in return.

Hint hint wink wink.

Chief Choi, a former Chief Choi said that um interim tree choice, whatever said that that would never happen.

But I don't know, I think that could happen.

Um, you know, so I you know I say no until no until like I said, I want other entities to pay for this stuff, but not until you are showing us who is donating the money.

So I'd like to see if smoke and scan agrees with me and whether or not smoke and scan agrees, whether or not Mr.

Lee still owes me an apology that the new year does not erase that.

Um everything else is like the other lighting districts, whatever, you know, the hell uh the helicopter pads, that's another one that's interesting.

Um who's gonna try to escape?

Is it you know, like that's what I always wonder.

But um, whatever.

So um I'm gonna just switch to public comment.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Okay.

Um I'm really disgusted by what Laura Fan was talking about with the shrine auditorium.

You guys through the um collusion with Mr.

Price's office and with LAPD and um the Bureau of Street Services, they absolutely stopped, like they they changed the law.

Okay, the city attorney's office made it very clear that street closure permits, they cannot prevent pedestrians except in case of an emergency.

There was no emergency here.

I mean, Scientology paid their 42,000 bucks to the city for their favor.

Um they wanted a closed sidewalk, so that is illegal, it's unconstitutional.

Um, you know, I'm contemplating suing over it, and all they wanted to do is to keep Laura from trying to get a glimpse of her father.

There is what three or four people there to observe and report what's going on, and they you know, and you guys are complicit in this nonsense.

They had Scientologists uh checking IDs of students and people who are wanted to go through the sidewalk to see if they actually belong there.

Please stop it.

Next speaker.

We will be calling three names.

Loretta Lorraine, Rose Kay, and Giovanna Escubar.

Good morning.

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

Go ahead.

Check the mic's not on.

I want to speak on one through the nine.

Hold on, just a second.

And 30 through.

Hold on.

Your time is not started.

Mr.

Mr.

Herman, hold on.

One through nine minutes.

Go.

It's okay.

Yeah.

Go, please speak to the items.

You have three minutes for the items.

Smoking scam.

Did you know that ABC does not tolerate alcohol abusers like we do in Los Angeles, according to Pumpkin Head up there, as he acknowledged the other day that he has a big head?

Because big head doesn't understand that this application is C D 14 asshole.

I'm on topic for the determination of a public convenience, you stupid big head asshole for necessity for the sale of alcohol beverages is a delinquent upon the city and a cost is the city liability.

The more alcohol we drink, the more accidents we create.

Right, smoking scam?

But these motherfuckers don't give a fuck.

They want people to die.

They want people to suffer.

They want you to be a black motherfucker incarcerated like me.

But it's not gonna happen, fucking hair.

This is not on the agenda.

This is your first and only warning.

Hey, stick to the agenda.

I'm on number one.

You said one through nine.

Can you repeat the numbers?

What?

And the subject matter in the agenda items are on the movie to general.

This is your last warning.

In Los Calles de CD Cartorse.

No, La Problema is la Número.

No tiene un uno.

It's numero quattro.

Quatro, senor.

Let me translate.

That's uh I'm on um one through nine, and it's talking about item four, okay?

And translation for you in English to Spanish, because I'm a dickhead like you.

Um, we have to take into consideration.

Now I'm gonna skip number four and actually do number number nine.

Is that okay?

Dickhead.

Thank you, smoking scan.

Um, yeah, uh, going back to this um hearing um comments on public convenience and alcohol, ladies and gentlemen.

We're here about a Costco wholesale.

And it's not like we need more alcohol, right?

One drink here, one drink.

Mr.

Herman, this is your opportunity to address the body.

I'm sorry, what's that?

I heard you fuck kid.

That's the reason, fuckhead.

That Judge David O'Carter, while I sat in court for the first time.

Stop.

Your time is not running yet.

Mr.

Herman, hold on until the time is running.

Go.

Hold on until the time is running.

I'm holding on, dickhead.

What do you want me to hold on to my nuts?

Go.

Okay.

I'm holding on to my nuts, dickhead, because you told me to.

So everybody, like I said, I saw it in David O'Carter's courtroom, and the whole problem with housing is Lhasa.

Lhasa is the main problem, people.

Get it right.

If you're gonna bitch about your fucking homeless housing rental shit, and it's too expensive, it's all Loss's fault.

And Los Angeles and the other dickhead county supervisors are just a little element of the fucking problem.

So when you do your search and research about Lhasa smoking scan, this is a problem.

Woolets versus Los Angeles.

Some fucking dumb bitches that were in wheelchairs, excuse me, audit, not you, got together with the city of Los Angeles and created this case, Woolets versus Los Angeles.

And to this fucking day, we don't have fucking sidewalk access or pedestrian sidewalks in the street.

Fuck you, grow!

Your time has expired.

Next speaker.

We will now be calling two additional names.

Good morning, speaker.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Uh, this is general public comment.

Okay, you have one minute.

Go ahead.

I am speaking to you today as a barista and strike captain at a Union Starbucks in Los Angeles to talk about the need to pass the fast food fair work ordinance.

Starbucks likes to tout that it pays its workers a living wage and benefits.

But though the siren may sing a song of compassion and care, the reality many of us face is an unstable workplace where having fewer than 20 hours a week risks losing your health insurance and other benefits that you depend on.

Employees desperately fight each other for hours that are later cut without notice.

As many of my co-workers learned in September, you can clock out on Wednesday with schedules for the next two weeks, only to clock in on Thursday to find your store is permanently closing on Saturday.

Like other fast food giants, Starbucks would rather cause disorder and destruction in workers' lives if it means the stock price is a few cents higher this quarter.

For these reasons and many more, I urge you to stand with over 50,000 fast food workers striving to feed and support our families and communities through our work.

Please support and ensure the fast food fair work ordinance passes without further delay.

Thank you.

Which items would you like to speak to?

My name is Evelia Montano.

Oh sorry.

I'm asking that you protect LA.

This is important because it provides lawyers that can protect renters and their courts, and it also provides accessible and affordable housing for renters.

But us, the working class, we have to pay taxes, and we are still somehow able to survive.

That's why council members I ask I protect ULA.

ULA was one through a democratic vote, and it was the wish of the people to protect the people.

Thank you.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Yeah, I'd like to speak to four twenty-three in public comment.

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

Please begin with the items.

Sure.

So four relates to street lighting problem.

If you guys haven't noticed this the city is dark as hell.

My whole neighborhood is dark.

You think it's bad in Hollywood, go to South Central, those streets are dark as hell.

You want to reduce crime, you guys want to sit there and flood the LAPD with money, even though they keep on reducing the number of cops.

You know, crime is crime is going down, we're doing with fewer cops, right?

So we obviously don't need more cops to reduce crime.

You want to reduce crime.

How about just putting on some lights in the neighborhoods?

All right.

It's outrageous that our city is this dark, but that's because of this mismanagement of city council.

You guys are giving 104 million dollars a year for the next 30 years for that convention center upgrade that we didn't need while at the same time cutting street lighting by 7.5 million dollars over the last couple of years.

And it's not just that.

You cut public works, you've cut everything.

The city, the public works is just broken while you guys are doing these vanity projects to reward developers and the union.

It's disgusting.

Now related to 23, talking about the license plate readers, right?

We get these donations from the police foundation.

What it is is you have these outside groups donate money to the police foundation to buy equipment, but the police foundation generally owns the equipment.

We're using it.

The LAPD will use it, but the police foundation ends up owning a lot of times the equipment or the data that's captured.

The data of which that could be sent to what?

ICE.

We we talk about how the LAPD doesn't work with ice, but yet you guys do the background, go do the back end around to sit there and get this information collecting to the license plate reader to give to ICE.

So you guys are full of shit.

Now it's going moving on to public comment, talking about you, Mr.

President.

One minute, go ahead.

You know, what you try to do to the controller's office with our constitution with the with a charter was disgusting.

You tried to remove 90% of his functions to protect yourself, to protect yourself and your cronies from all the contracts, the scandalous contract you're giving it.

You're trying to make it so the people could not see where the money is going to protect your people and the mayor.

And you put your guy Schlagater in place specifically to do that.

Well, I'll tell you, I told Slagger I bought his name, Martinslager.com.

I'm gonna make sure he's a pet project of mine for the rest of his fucking life.

But you, Mr.

President, you are a scoundrel just as much.

The way you have handled this whole charter process is disgusting.

Monica, keep calling him out.

Because you know, and we all know that he's a scandal, and a lot of you guys up here.

Enjoy your day.

All right, it looks like that concludes public comment for this morning's meeting.

Thank everybody for coming and sharing with us today.

Uh Madam Clerk, can you tell us where we are?

Would the council like to go to item number 26 called special by Councilmember Raman for a separate vote?

And uh two amendments by Councilmember Soto Martinez and Councilmember Lee.

All right, those amendments have been received second received and seconded.

Uh any comments on this item?

If not, uh we'll open the roll on item 26, call special for by council member Raman for a separate vote and amendments.

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

14 ayes.

Councilmember Raman.

With the minute okay, you're good.

Okay.

All right, what's next?

Thank you.

If the council would like to go to a block vote of items one through eight, twenty four, twenty eight, and thirty through thirty-eight.

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

Thank you.

That's items one through eight, twenty-four, twenty-eight, thirty through thirty-eight.

All right, what's next?

Open the roll, close the roll, tabulate the vote.

14 ayes.

All right, what's next?

Thank you.

Item number nine is on hold.

We're waiting a motion.

Uh sorry.

So if a council would like to go to item number 10.

All right, item number 10, call special by Councilmember Rodriguez for comments.

Councilmember Rodriguez.

Thank you.

Colleagues, uh, given obviously the increased activity and ICE activity, one of my concerns from the outset of the announcement that there was going to be a federal task force tied to LA 28.

I know we all have increasing concerns about their involvement and their influence around what policing will look like, uh, but frankly, even far in advance of the games coming, what their influence is in our preparation for the LA 28 games.

It's for that reason that I introduced this motion seeking to get greater insight as to what their planning and role of activities are uh with respect to the planning of uh the LA 28 games, and um, you know, we're we're in a very tragic moment uh where we're continuing to find ourselves in a reactive mode to the activities that are being brought on to citizens in this country, and I say citizens intentionally, because it's no longer this idea that there is lawful uh processes that are in place uh with respect to how people in this country are being treated, and we've seen that happen here uh in our city and cities across the country.

And so, given that we are going to be hosting uh the world to come to Los Angeles, I think it's increasingly more important for us to get greater insight and transparency from LA 28 around the role of the federal uh task force that has now been tied to the planning of these games, but more importantly, because everything preceding this moment, we were assured, particularly from the chief of police previously when we were engaged with and and through our CLA when we've had conversations around the role of the planning and preparation for LA 28, that our local law enforcement would be the leader in helping to inform the engagement and activities of uh law enforcement with these games.

And so I want to make sure that we have every assurance and contractual protection that that in fact remains the case.

So I look forward to the report back that will come from this.

Uh, but I also want to uh make sure that we all retain the authority and prepare to respond as we get greater information and insight as to what's occurring.

And uh make no mistake, we should be prepared for ever to pull every single lever that we have available to us to prevent their overreach when it comes to how they police here in the city of Los Angeles.

And I ask for your eye vote.

Thank you.

Thank you so much, Councilmember Rodriguez.

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

14 ayes.

All right, what's next?

The council may go to item 21, called special by council member Soto Martinez for comments.

All right, Councilmember Soto Martinez.

Thank you so much, Council President.

And first of all, I'd like to thank uh Councilmember Blumenfield and Councilmember Price for putting this through their committee.

Uh this motion is about creating a formal definition for what are commonly called ghost kitchens.

Uh, a centralized kitchen where uh space where multiple restaurants prepare food for delivery and takeout only.

I think all of us have ghost kitchens in our district, and we love supporting our small entrepreneurs.

Uh we also have to balance that with some of the complaints that may come from the because of the influx of cars coming in and out.

Now, currently the zoning code considers these uses to fall under the existing use of catering kitchens.

However, there are serious differences between these two uses.

Traditional catering kitchens prepare food in large batches for a few scheduled deliveries.

Ghost kitchens prepare individual orders on demand, usually through third-party apps and services, resulting in a constant high volume of individual vehicle pickups throughout day and night.

I think we can all agree those two uses are very different.

The result is that in some areas we have ghost kitchens on busy corridors, leading to illegal parking at red curves, backed up traffic, and an uptick of unsafe driving uh issues that wouldn't come if the same area was used as a traditional catering kitchen.

Now we are using short-term tools to manage some of this parking enforcement, signage.

We use that we did a motion for LA DOT to look into exclusion zones, but community members are asking for a more long-term fix.

This motion will start that process so we can both support the entrepreneurs using these spaces and ensure safe and livable conditions for our residents.

I'd like to thank all the residents in my district who have been speaking out about this, and specifically I want to recognize the residents of Douglas Street in Echo Park who brought this issue to our office, and now we're bringing a legislative fix, something that's come from the community is bringing being brought into City Hall so we can try to have a win-win.

So I respectfully ask for your I vote.

Thank you.

Thank you so much, uh, Mr.

Masoto Martinez, and thank you uh on behalf of the residents of Hyde Park in South LA where we have a ghost kitchen, and I we have one bordering between one district one and district eight on Washington, which is big big challenges.

Uh so uh with that, let's open the roll on this item, close the roll, tabulate the vote.

14 ayes.

All right, what's next?

Council may go to item number 23, called special for a separate vote by CD 14.

All right.

Uh, if there are no comments on this item, let's open the roll, close the roll, tabulate the vote.

10 ayes, four no's.

All right, what's next?

Thank you.

The council may go to item 25, called special by councilmember Lee for comments.

All right, that item is now before us, Councilmember Lee.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

And colleagues, this uh motion that I'm introducing, ask the Los Angeles Fire Department to return with recommendations for zone zero uh regulations based on their local expertise and real world experience in our communities.

As guidance from the state remains unclear, it is essential that the perspective of Los Angeles fire professionals are meaningfully considered.

They understand our terrain, our neighborhoods, and the UNIS unique uh risks that we face.

I want to thank members of the community forest advisory committee and the Los Angeles Fire Department for their tireless advocacy uh to the state on this issue.

So until statewide guidance is finalized, this motion ensures our approach is grounded in local reality, not a one-size-fits-all solution.

I respectfully ask for your support.

Thank you so much.

Uh Mr.

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

13 ayes.

All right, what's next?

The council may go to item 27, called special for a separate vote by Councilmember Herado.

All right.

We're on item number 27, call special by Councilmember Jurado for a separate vote.

Let's open the roll.

Close the roll, tabulate the vote.

10 ayes, three nulls.

All right, what's next?

Thank you.

The council may now go to item 29, called special by Councilmember Padilla for comments.

All right, item number 29 is now before us, Councilmember Padilla.

Hello, members of the council.

As many of you know, ReCla 2.0 has introduced major new requirements, including mandatory organic collection under SB 1383.

But we as a city um do not currently have a clear inventory of the infrastructure needed to support this shift.

Before these changes are implemented, we need to know which landfills and organic processing facilities will be used and how much capacity they actually have.

Many of us are seeing a lot of illegal dumping happening all over Los Angeles.

This has directly and sometimes indirectly, part of those consequences.

The ongoing disruption at Chiquita Canyon Landfill highlights how vulnerable our waste system is when capacity is constrained.

Without a clear up-to-date inventory, the city risks higher costs, longer hauling distances, as I mentioned, illegal dumping that everyone is talking about, and public health impacts.

This request simply asks LASAD to provide the basic information the council needs to ensure Recycla 2.0 is realistic and resilient and in compliance with everything that is being pushed on us from the state.

I hope that I can count on all of your eye votes.

Thank you so much, Councilmember Padilla.

Seeing no other speakers on this item, let's open the roll, close the roll, tabulate the vote.

13 ayes.

All right, what's next?

Thank you.

The council may take a vote on item number nine, which is a motion Hut Lee.

All right.

Let's open the roll on this item as amended.

Close the roll, tabulate the vote.

13 ayes.

All right, what's next?

The council has motions for posting and referral.

They are posted and referred.

The desk is clear.

All right.

Announcements members.

Announcements going once, twice.

All right, I'll ask everyone in the chamber to rise for adjourning motions.

And I see Mr.

McCosker.

Are there any other adjourning motions today?

All right.

Councilmember McCosker.

Uh thank you, Mr.

President.

I uh rise to adjourn in honor of Anthony Jack Mizetich.

Anthony J.

Mizetic passed away peacefully at his home in Palm Springs on December 13th, 2025.

Anthony was born April 6, 1937 in San Pedro to his parents Anton and Francis Mizetich.

Anthony attended Leland Street Elementary School, Dana Junior High, where he was a Commodore in San Pedro High, where he was a knight, and he was the student body president of San Pedro High in 1955.

Right about the time my dad was there.

Having musical talent while growing up, he played a duet and then in a band with his cousin John Sestich at high school dances and numerous weddings.

Anthony attended Harbor College, where he earned his AA degree while also being the vice president in the Vedettas Club.

And after Harbor College, he attended USC and Long Beach State.

After college, Anthony became a commercial fisherman, working with his father, Captain Anton Mizetic on the fishing vessels, the Anthony M and on the Paramount.

In 1959, he married Tilly Bogdanovich, the love of his life, and he settled in San Pedro after the birth of his first son.

He bought Sea Home Market on 15th Street in San Pedro, which served the entire fishing fleet.

He also owned the Chucker Flag Raceway in Torrance.

He later sold the market and he bought Chapman Car Wash, which he owned with his partner for 15 years.

Afterwards, Anthony joined Yankovich and Sons as the primary fuel terminal in the port of Los Angeles, where he was the fuel manager for the entire fleet.

There he worked until his retirement.

Anthony and Tilly lived in San Pedro, then in Rancho PV, uh before settling in Palm Springs in a retirement well deserved.

He was completely devoted to his wife of 66 years.

Anthony was active at the Dalmatian American Club, as is his son Anthony in San Pedro, where he served as a member of the board of directors and a member of the San Pedro DBs.

He is survived by his loving wife Tilly.

Their four children, Anthony, Christine, Michael, Angelique, his brother Ron Mizetic, and 13 grandchildren.

This would be the most important part of the presentation if he were here with us.

13 grandchildren, Kelly, Matthew, Jonathan, Danielle, Isabel, Michael, Cole, Bonnie, William, Olivia, Chase, Alexis, Ethan, and two great grandchildren, Dominic and Leon.

The entire San Pedro community and the harbor area and the one five.

Um pray for the family and wish that he may rest in peace.

Thank you so much, Mr.

McCosker.

Any other adjourning motions members?

Mr.

Price.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Colleagues.

Today I ask that we adjourn in recognition of an extraordinary legacy to the lifelong service of the Reverend Dr.

William Sachs Epps, whose impact on Los Angeles spans faith, community leadership, and civic service.

On January the 12th, Reverend Epps was called home, surrounded by his loving family at a devoted community.

For nearly four decades, Pastor Epps faithfully served as pastor of the historic Baptist Church in Los Angeles.

For generations, he nurtured our community through spiritual leadership, outreach, and unwavering commitment to justice and service.

Under his leadership, Second Baptist has remained a vital institution in South LA, serving not only as a house of worship, but as a cornerstone for community stability, compassion, and civic engagement.

Beyond the pulpit, Pastor Epps demonstrated exceptional public service as the longest tenured commissioner of the LA City Affordable Housing Commission, serving continuously under five mayors.

A testament to his integrity, expertise, and dedication, dedication to housing justice.

His influence extends far beyond our city, with leadership roles in national and global faith institutions, including the Baptist World Alliance and multiple national Baptist conventions, reflecting a ministry rooted in both local impact and global responsibility.

Pastor Epp's life work exemplifies what it means to serve with humility, consistency, and purpose.

May he rest in peace.

Councilmember Hutt.

Okay.

Thank you, Mr.

President, and thank you, Councilmember Price, for really bringing recognition to uh individual who really dedicated his life to South Los Angeles.

It is very difficult to stand in the shoes of Kilgore and others there at Second Baptist Church.

Second Baptist Church is the church that as a young child I was able to meet Dr.

Martin Luther King.

They really follow his doctrine.

And just this summer, we um retired at Pastor Epps in a big celebration for all his time he dedicated to Los Angeles.

So it really is hard to understand how he lost such a champion.

So thank you for uh uplifting his work and his service to the city.

Please add my name to the adjournment.

Thank you so much, Councilmember Hutt and Mr.

Price.

With your permission, I'd like to be added as well.

Second Baptist is the one of the leading institutions from the very early years of this city.

And uh Pastor Epps is the eighth pastor of that uh church in over 150 years.

And so we're very grateful for his service and the gift that he's been to the city of Los Angeles.

So thank you so much.

With that, any other adjourney motion members?

All right, we're adjourned.

We'll see you in the morning, and the city of the lunch, warp.

You give me another two weeks out here.

The old identity is gone.

How long have we got?

Two minutes.

Okay, we're we're moving.

Right.

Some kids.

I thought they'd have some fun last night and threw oranges at us.

Last night was it was really rough.

I don't like sleeping in the park.

We had some things thrown at us.

Oranges and bottles.

Plastic.

This person said, hey, and I looked up and I see this person standing there, and I mean I screamed at the top of my lungs.

It was just involuntary.

I was I was so afraid.

You know, and I grab her all and he goes, this guy goes, no, no, no, no, I'm just just bringing you a blanket, I'm just bringing you a blanket.

You know, and I'm like, okay, okay, okay, okay, thank you, thank you, thank you.

I mean, but it it man, it for the next hour I was just trying to get my heart rate back down again.

I think our mental capacity is really slipping.

Ken's never gone six hours without checking the weather forecast when he's inside.

The fact I've got zero charisma anymore, that I've got very little compassion and heart and soul anymore is part of what this does to you.

The hardest thing that I'm facing right now is getting through one more night.

We're making a mad dash to get down to the McDonald's where we know we'll have access to bathrooms and it'll be dry.

My daughter's school's about two or three blocks just up that street.

I think I'd break down if I saw my daughter.

I don't want her to see me like this.

I don't want her to see me struggling, smelly, just feeling incredibly not worthy.

And I I don't really know why.

I don't know what why I feel like I've done something wrong or I'm not I'm not enough.

But I just feel so ashamed of how I am right now.

Uh I'm like so fed up with trying to find some place to sleep.

Everywhere you go, every turn you make, there's obstacles, barriers.

Staring at me.

Life church.

That would work.

Now on the way, we see something better, we see something better.

Uh-huh.

I think we just gotta realize it's raining and we got no tent.

Right there, smashed at the front.

Right where?

Smashed at the back.

But look, have a look.

You can't see if there's anyone in there.

And if me and you're in there breathing, that whole thing's gonna go foggy.

We could lay down now and sleep.

We're not gonna go there when it's suspicious.

We go there now.

We get in, we lock in, we're good.

It is amazing.

You're in the car.

One of the doors just opened.

Oh god, it's so good.

I keep thinking like, what do they care if I'm trying to find a place to stay?

I'm homeless right now.

I gotta do whatever I gotta do.

I don't think I gotta play by the rules.

People don't want me here, that's okay.

I don't want to be here.

We're in a car that's been totaled.

Um it's sitting abandoned in a parking lot.

So I mean, given the fact that this car will never run again, but this is our last night.