Just inside City Hall, an Olympic display looks ahead to 2028 when Los Angeles will join London and Paris as the only cities to host the Games three times.

The LA Memorial Coliseum, which hosted in 1932 and 1984, will once again take center stage for the opening and closing ceremonies.

And from Expo Park, we explore the investments tied to the games and hear the Mayor's State of the City Address, highlighting how these global moments are meant to benefit Angelenos long after 2028.

Hello, everyone. Good afternoon.

Everybody's here to celebrate our city and to count down for the amazing events that are going to come to us.

So hearing from the mayor at this critical time is super important.

And at the same time, we're getting prepared for the World Cup.

We're getting prepared for the Olympics.

We've got a ton of infrastructure going all around the city.

And we've got an excited city.

It is so exciting to see and hear what she's going to share, the great accomplishments

that we've been able to do as a city, and the way that we're facing many of the upcoming

challenges.

This is a moment where the city comes together to learn how we can work together shoulder

to shoulder to lift a better Los Angeles, a Los Angeles that is truly for everyone.

And as we prepare for the U.S. Women's Open, the FIFA World Cup, and soon after the greatest

Olympic and Paralympic Games in history, we will continue to focus on the fundamentals.

So here is our path forward.

We will continue to resolve encampments and housed Angelenos through InsideSafe and other

programs.

We will intensify our efforts on focusing on housing veterans and making housing affordable.

We will accelerate beautification efforts along major city corridors from our new Clean

corridors initiative and we will continue installing solar lights in neighborhoods across the city

as these big events come in people they want to know you know what the city is doing right and

as the controller it's my job to provide that transparency so i'm happy to collaborate with

the mayor especially on the budget and the city's finances so that way everyone can get the

services that they need and deserve from the world cup to the nba all-star game to the super bowl and

and then the 34th Olympiad to be held here in Los Angeles,

with six events down at the Port of LA alone on the sailing side of our business.

It's going to help drive local businesses, local employment,

as well as for the world to see how important it is to continue their investment in global Los Angeles.

Angelenos, let's get to work. Let's keep building. Let's keep lifting people up.

As the world comes here once again, let's show the nation and the world.

Let's show the nation and the world we are the greatest city on earth.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, Los Angeles.

We're in the home of Los Angeles.

This is Exposition Park.

It's a 160-acre state property that has four museums, four stadiums, two schools.

We're here to celebrate that over $100 million has been invested into Exposition Park, and

we are excited that we are going to be ready to host the world, and we're going to deliver

projects that will create 300 jobs and prepare us for the Olympic Games.

We know the power of being able to lock arms with our local, state, and federal leaders,

and that's what we see today.

So we have some critical changes and repairs that need to be made.

That's a first, right?

And we have not had that kind of investment for that many years.

In 1984, that is a long time ago.

And so we recognize we have to do the work to ensure accessibility, ensure safety, ensure

security because we don't want to be an afterthought.

We want to be a part of that development process now.

This investment is exciting for the community because it will create 300 family-sustaining

jobs, jobs that CRCD, the city, and the community has been preparing for through our partnership

with the LAOC Building Construction Trades.

We look forward at connecting the community to these jobs,

continuing to provide training,

and ensuring that we have a lasting benefit beyond 2028.

The fact that we're here to talk about

a $100 million investment is a really big deal.

This park is a jewel.

It is a bridge.

It connects some of our most diverse communities

with our downtown area,

and it is a place where the state is on exhibition.

In California we've done a lot to make sure that there is an ADA compliance that everyone,

whether you're a senior, someone with disabilities or a world-class athlete, can be able to get to all

corners of this great park. And so the hundred million dollars today is a down payment on that.

It will allow us to do the necessary work and to start it now so that we're ready to buy those games.

It's a team effort here at Exposition Park.

We are always engaging in partnerships with our city, with our state, with our federal,

our community partners, our labor partners.

All of the work that we do here is to benefit the community for the long term.

Exposition Park has been here for over 100 years and it will be here for another 100

years.

So what we do today is going to impact and support generations to come.

We're at City Hall, the heart of local government and one of the city's most recognizable landmarks.

Inside, painted tiles honor the indigenous Tongva, Chumash, and Tatavian peoples who lived on this land long before Spanish settlement.

In 1781, just down the road, 44 settlers established the Pueblo de Los Angeles, the start of what would become the second largest city in the nation.

From these earliest reads to the young people shaping LA's future today, we turn to youth development across the city, beginning with a warm welcome back for Palisades Charter High School as students return to campus after last year's devastating fires.

We're here this morning at Palisades Charter High School, back in the Palisades.

We're really excited to be back on campus, back in my old classes, like on the field.

It's been such a long struggle to be back after such a hard year.

Gratitude and excitement.

I'm a freshman. This is like my real first time being on campus.

We are here in front of our school as we watch our parents and buses

and students roll in for the first day back at our campus here in the Palisades.

Going back to school.

I'm here to cheer on all the students who are returning back to campus today.

Our families have been through so much and for them to be able to come back to

a restored and refreshed campus on such a beautiful day is just I think really

moving and emotional to be able to see that so it's a bit of a delivery on a

promise that we've made if we were able to stick together through all of these

multiple phases that we would ultimately be back here on our campus and here we

are. And today is the day our students are finally returning to

their home campus just over a year after the devastation and destruction across

this community. This is an incredible moment in our recovery and frankly the

best day we've had so far. I understand things aren't going to be perfect on the

first day. It's been a quick move. We anticipated we'd have a little more time

to do this but we ended up making a full move from Santa Monica in three days. So

So things are coming and they will be in place, but initially just understand we're all re-acclimating

and let's support each other and have some grace as we recommit to our community,

but just know that things will be in order and running smoothly very soon.

The classrooms are all done and open.

They're still putting a couple of little finishing touches out on the football field,

but homecoming is going to be on campus in just another week or so.

Go Pally, go Dolphins!

Make a splash, Dolphins!

Woo!

Funding the Next Generation has brought together folks from Long Beach, from L.A., from Pomona, from Oakland,

to talk about how city government can work with nonprofits

and how we can do more around children and youth services and what that looks like.

I'm here to provide a youth perspective on what we hope to see in the future of the city

of Los Angeles.

I think what I want to take away from today's meeting is the perspectives from all of these

different leaders, what they're doing in their own cities and also what we may be in Los

Angeles lack and could improve on.

And it is such an important strategy to support young people to have an infrastructure, an

office inside city government that keeps the vision of what's good for kids in focus and

constantly raises issues, brings people together, comes up with creative ideas about what to

do for young people.

Seeing professionals in youth development from up and down the state of California is

such a great benefit because we get to hear the perspectives of not only the work that

is happening in their cities and learn from them, share our ideas, our work that we do

here in Los Angeles, but also find how we can align with the different strategies that

are serving young people.

And quite frankly, we're learning that young people up and down the state of California

are facing the same challenges that young people face here in Los Angeles.

Something that I would like to mention is how important having youth voices in these spaces

is because when we have all of these executive directors talking about

youth and the programs and funding that they put there, having the youth explain what this actually

looks like in practice and the constraints that we face and also the good things that we have with

these opportunities that they're providing us, it's very important to have these youth voices

because then they actually understand in practice what they're doing behind the scenes looks like.

We want to see young people engaged in every aspect of what a city does and to have their voices heard.

So I'm hoping that young people here will feel inspired and learn enough about what else is happening around the state

so they have the confidence and ideas to participate in city government.

So these are big problems that are not easily solved and by bringing folks from across the

state together to share how they're addressing these challenges, it's just so beneficial.

The youth development department is an amazing department.

I've worked with all of their staff and they continue to really elevate youth voices and

include youth.

I think this is a great example of a convening where you bring together youth leaders.

It's something that I don't think has been done before and I hope to see things just

like it and you know I'll be graduating this year but I'm sure that the work will continue

and we'll stay stay true to our cause.

Youth development is alive and strong in the city of Los Angeles.

We're looking forward to the consolidation of youth development which will now be the

new office of youth development under the new community investment department and we're

working on those transition plans and we're really excited for the future.

LA City Attorney Heidi Feldstein Soto and LA County District Attorney Nathan

Hawkman launched an anti-trafficking initiative on Western Avenue corridor.

This partnership with the nonprofit Journey Out combines law enforcement and

and social services.

The program aims to hold both traffickers

and the buyers of sex accountable.

The initiative's primary goal is to ensure

that those committing these crimes are brought to justice.

For more on this story, go to cityattorney.lacity.gov.

L.A. City Sanitation is calling for new

or gently used clothing to be donated.

Donations are a part of L.A. Sanitation's

annual clothing drive running through Friday, March 6th.

Clothing items go to city organizations and programs

helping those in need.

Donation drop-offs can be made at six public locations,

Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Learn more at sanitation.lacity.gov.

LA City Hall's cornerstone was laid in 1927 and when the 452-foot tower was completed a year later, it was the tallest building downtown.

Its foundation even includes sand from every county in California, a symbol of a growing state.

Today, that focus on the land continues in new ways, from tree planting efforts that

help cool our neighborhoods, to a major metro project now approved to connect the East San

Fernando Valley to the west side, offering a long-awaited alternative to sitting in traffic.

Metro board meeting, the first one of the year, and we have a lively meeting I expect

today and I'm so happy to see everybody here today.

Today we are at the Metro board meeting where board members have finally approved modified

alternative five which the community has been very excited to finally see come into fruition

after many years of research, we're finally moving forward

with a plan that's going to connect the west side

to the San Fernando Valley.

As a youth-based student from the San Fernando Valley,

I know the struggle personally of trying to get to school

from the Valley right now.

I mean, the only real way is the 405,

which is horrifically congested.

It's not accessible, it's not easy for students,

it's not affordable, and youth-based students deserve

other ways to get around.

This is my second time coming to a board meeting.

This is my first time, though, giving public comment.

It was 30 seconds, but I felt like it was very necessary to do it, share my story.

I am a low-income commuter student, so I think it's just very important to show how much

more accessible higher education would be if there is, like, a line, like a fast road

line.

Modified Alternative 5 emphasizes that this goes all the way into the Van Nuys community,

borders the community of Van Nuys and Panorama City and it also connects UCLA students and other

major regions of the west side. For a long time the San Fernando Valley especially the East San

Fernando Valley hasn't been getting its fair share of metro resources but now we're going to have the

community of Van Nuys and Pacoima finally be able to connect to the greater system.

I hope to see this built one day and know that you know I had a piece in it and for future

students to get to have more accessibility,

it makes me really happy.

Projects become so much better when you reach out

to your elected officials, when you come to board meetings,

when you come to council meetings,

and the community is willing to make that phone call

or write that email.

It only makes us better at serving and visualizing

what should come next.

Today, we're here with the partnership

to expand the tree canopy and increase the shade in this community, but also providing resources

through the 10th Street street closure.

This is a part of our city that doesn't have as much tree canopy as other parts of the city,

and so we were able to partner with Streets LA and KYCC and Urban Forestry. The community's out

today to celebrate that, and it's exciting to be able to see these trees go in, and in a couple of

years they're going to be big and then providing shade and make the neighborhood and the community

much more walkable and pedestrian friendly so it's exciting. The role for urban forestry

division streets LA is to provide tree planting permits for our non-profit planting partners so

that they can increase urban canopy in the city of Los Angeles so for this particular project

we worked very closely with KYCC and we were able to identify all the tree planting locations

and approved the tree stocks.

They selected California native trees,

coast live oak, and desert willows.

And because of that close coordination,

we were able to turn around 38 tree planting permits

within five to six days,

so that this project can move forward without delay.

Right now, we're in an early stage.

We call it tree establishment.

So we'll take a bit of two to three years

for them to be fully kind of teenage phase

and to produce more benefits for the community.

But yeah, so this is a long-term investment.

We're really excited though,

because these trees will grow strong, big,

and produce really large canopies for the community.

We should definitely keep planting,

especially in the city of Los Angeles.

We need to make sure that there's shade for everybody,

that there's cooling,

and that greenery is great for mental health,

and we need that more now, more than ever.

For me, being able to show what it means

to make our neighborhoods in Los Angeles

more climate-friendly, more livable,

is really important to me,

and so when I get to do events like this,

and community can come out and see tangibly

what that means to have a healthy urban forest.

It's really exciting.

Inside City Hall's main elevator lobby,

decorative panels tell the story of 20th century Los Angeles.

From aviation and oil to the film industry

depicted in a classical Greek style.

From the council chambers to the observation deck above,

City Hall remains a place where city services

connect communities across LA. That includes Culture LA previewing Lunar New Year celebrations

happening across the city, welcoming the year of the horse and the values of strength, perseverance,

and renewal. So one of the great aspects of what we do as a department is we provide opportunities

for learning about different cultures. So it is really a wonderful opportunity as you look at

at Lunar New Year, while Lunar New Year may not be the holiday that you celebrate, it's

a great opportunity for you to learn about some of those traditions.

So the Lunar New Year celebration has been celebrated for several thousand years in the

Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese cultures.

So we as the city of Los Angeles, we want to uplift that celebration.

The Chinese astrology pairs 12 animals with the five elements to celebrate each year.

So this year is the year of the horse, but it's actually the year of the fire horse.

And what that means, it's a year to celebrate energy and passion and new and innovative

projects and new and innovative thinking.

This year we have a lot of exciting events happening for Lunar New Year.

We have the Lancashire Boulevard Block Party in North Hollywood where we'll be welcoming

several thousand people to be able to celebrate.

We'll also have events in Northridge at a community park with Councilmember Lee.

We have the Koreatown Night Market with Councilmember Hutt.

We also have the annual Golden Dragon Parade happening in Chinatown.

The Port of LA hosts a celebration as well.

So there is no shortage of opportunity for you to be able to go celebrate the Lutheran

New Year.

Our events at DCA are free and open to the public.

I encourage you to come look at our website at culture.lacity.gov to learn more.

And there we have a listing of all of the events that both DCA hosts as well as our community

partners.

So you'll see several dozen Lunar New Year events, and we encourage you to come and learn and let us know about how you've enjoyed it and what you've learned.

So anybody that is interested or curious or wants to see, feel free to come on by.

We hope you can join us.

Hi, I'm Justin Cosurbati.

I'm the Public Relations Specialist with L.A. Animal Services.

We're here at our East Valley Animal Services Center, which is one of our six locations

in LA City, and we're here to talk about fostering, which is one of the services we provide.

So the fostering program is a great way to help animals in the shelter.

It gets dogs and cats out of the shelter environment and into home life.

The commitment is anywhere from a few weeks to a few months, so whatever you're comfortable

with.

What you can do through fostering is network these pets and help them get adopted.

We really support our fosters, whether it's providing supplies to make that transition

into the home easy for the pet or giving them opportunities to help network their pet at

on-site adoption events.

So all you really need to do is be a resident within L.A. City and have a valid government

ID and fill out some paperwork. It's available on our website at the fostering section. Become

an approved foster, then you can start fostering right away.

As long as you're willing to make space in your home for one of our pets, we have a pet for you.

So for additional information about fostering or just all the services we provide, you can visit

LAanimalservices.com.

You can find us on social media, Facebook and Instagram.

It's at LAanimalservices.

And X is at LA City Pets.

Celebrate the Lunar New Year with Passion of the Cut Sleeve

in partnership with the City of Los Angeles

Department of Cultural Affairs.

The show, Galloping Into the New Year,

takes place on February 13th

and will feature queer and trans Chinese folklore

told through music, theater, poetry, and performance art.

Experience the joy of the new year

in an 80-minute show with a live band

playing traditional Chinese instruments.

Head to Plaza de la Raza

for Galloping Into the New Year

on Friday, February 13th at 7 p.m.

Learn more by searching for Lunar New Year at culture.lacity.gov.

Join the Los Angeles Public Library at one of its events to mark African American History Month.

On Saturday, February 14th, enjoy a talk from author Glenda Armand as she tours food history to take you from awful to delicious on a short journey down an African American foodway.

For African-Americans, food has been more than nourishment.

It has been tradition, income, and a means of resistance.

Armand highlights the stories of George Washington's enslaved cook,

the ice cream entrepreneur Augustus Jackson,

and Georgia Gilmore, whose cooking sustained the Montgomery bus boycott.

Head to the Central Library for Glenda Armand,

From Awful to Delicious, on Saturday, February 14th at 10.30 a.m.

For more details, go to lapl.org slash events.

San Fernando Valley Audubon Society invites you to a guided tour of the reserve on the second Saturday of February.

The walk will take in the many birds and other wildlife at Hanson Dam and is for the beginner bird watchers, families, and anyone who wants to visit the wildlife reserve.

The emphasis of each tour will vary with participants' interests.

meet at the small amphitheater on the southeast of Woodley Park.

Hanson Dam Bird Walk takes place on Saturday, February 14th at 9 a.m.

Check out this and other bird watching events at sfvaudubon.org.

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

Our thanks to everyone at City Hall,

especially Project Restorer, whose work preserves the building's rich cultural and historic details

while sharing them with the world. As the mayor and the city prepare Los Angeles for this year's

World Cup and the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games, City Hall stands ready to welcome the world.

And the best part? This historic building is open to the public, inviting visitors to explore it

firsthand. Be sure to take in the breathtaking views from the observation deck on the 27th for

a chance to see the whole city from above like never before. From all of us at LA City,

thank you so much for joining us.

We'll be right back.

Did you know that the area of West Los Angeles used to be its own city known as the City

of Sawtelle?

I'm Chris Kiefer, the senior librarian here at the West Los Angeles Regional Branch Library,

and I have with me here the original seal from the City of Sawtelle.

Sawtelle was incorporated in 1906, and in 1922 the citizens voted to merge the City

of Sawtelle with the City of Los Angeles.

The last city clerk from the city of Sawtell was a man named Lyndon Burzell.

He went on to be a local businessman and involved in many community organizations.

This library was built in 1956 and upon its one year anniversary in 1957, Lyndon Burzell

gifted the city of Sawtell seal to the West LA Library so that we could have it here for

the future.

And it still works.

The city of Sawtell seal features the incorporation date, the motto progress, and in the middle

a sycamore tree, which used to be a local landmark here in the area, until unfortunately

it was burned down by some careless children and firecrackers.

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person in this council chamber madam let's begin our proceedings by calling

the roll yes sir Bloomingville Harris Dawson Hernandez hut hit auto Lee

McOsker Nazarian Padilla part price from and Rodriguez Soto Martinez

Yawaslavsky 10 members present and of core mr. president all right first order

of business approval the minutes of February 10 2026 councilmember price

moves councilmember Hernandez seconds what's next

commendatory resolutions for approval councilmember who don't move council

member Soto Martinez seconds can we run through our agenda yes sir items 1

through 4 items notice for public hearing items 5 through 7 are items

which public hearings have been held for item 7 the trade travel and tourism

Committee report has been submitted and is available online under Council file number two zero dash zero five zero eight s

two items eight through twenty seven are items which public hearings have not been held items

twenty eight through fifty three are closed session items twenty eight through fifty two are items

Considered by the budget and finance committee for which public hearings have not been held ten votes are required for consideration

Sir all right without objection those items are before us

Are there any specials members councilmember hurrado?

Yes, thank you council president. I'd like to call item 11 special for a separate vote

All right any other specialist councilmember McCosker, thank you very much, mr. President for item nine

I move to adopt the budget and Finance Committee report and on item 27

I'd like to call that special for comments got it is there a second to

mr. McCosker's motion for nine mr. Blumenfield and I'm sorry mr. McCosker

what was the second item you wanted to number 27 27 for comment for comments

yes thank you sir thank you councilmember Lee thank you mr.

I'd like to for item 11 just move that we move the budget and finance report for that item.

All right.

Is there a second to Mr. Lee's motion for number 11?

Thank you, Mr. Bloomfield.

All right.

Any other specials to my right?

Council Member Rahman?

during a presentation on item 8 what's the topic the street lighting the

street lighting is here so if you have a question you'll be able to ask when we

bring that one up if you want to call that one special sure yeah okay

councilmember price mr. it's really like to continue item two please continue

item 2 all right without objection to a date next week okay and just for the

record item 2 is continued to would that be next Tuesday sir the 17th thank you

sir 24 the 24th yes item 2 is continued to February 24 20 26 thank you sir

Council member Soto Martinez I think so much Council President I don't know if

we're taking item 53 into closed session but if we're not to request a

separate vote for that you request a 53 that's a separate vote okay all right

all right any other specials members all right madam clerk what items are

available for consideration at this time mr. president council may now vote on

on items five through seven, sir.

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

Close the roll, tabulate the vote.

10 ayes.

And for the record, the ordinance for item five

will be held over to Friday, February 20th, 2026

for second consideration unless reconsidered

with 12 members present.

All right, if we can make a note of that,

I don't think we're gonna get to 12 today,

but if we do, we can come back to it.

we're at 11 all right we might get to 12 today all right what's next next council

may now take on public comments all right mr. city attorney yes mr. president to

people providing public comment when it's your turn to speak please state

which of the agenda items you'd like to speak to you'll have one minute per item

up to three minutes total for the items open for public comment when speaking on

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 begin to 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 today are items 1, 3, and 4, and items 8 through

53.

So, again, the items that are open for public comment on the agenda are items 1, 3 through

4, and items 8 through 53.

Item number 2 has been continued.

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 than the city's subject matter jurisdiction.

A couple more announcements, if I could have the interpreters please make this first one

aloud to the room.

If you require a Spanish language interpreter, please make sure to pause every few sentences

so the interpreters can interpret.

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.

We will stop the time they have for their comment during the interpretation, so they will receive the same amount of time as the other commentators.

Thank you.

Additionally, if you've made an accommodation request with the clerk's office pursuant to the ADA, or if you would like to, in order to make use of the handheld wireless microphone during your public comment,

Please raise your hand once you hear the name that you signed up under called aloud and it is your turn to speak

So the sergeants can provide you with the wireless handheld microphone

Finally the order in which the names are called is at random that is to say it is randomly generated

So in order to help us run an efficient public comment period

We would ask that you please wait until you hear the name that you signed up under called aloud before lining up on your left-hand side of the council chambers

Thank you

Thank you so much, Mr. City Attorney.

Before we do that, we're at 12 members now, Madam Clerk.

So if you could tee up the reconsideration.

Reconsider item 5, sir.

All right, let's open the roll on reconsideration.

Close the roll.

Tabulate the vote.

12 aye.

All right, and now that item is before us.

Again, let's open the roll.

Close the roll.

Tabulate the vote.

12 aye.

All right.

Thank you so much, members.

We'll proceed with public comments at this time.

We'll begin calling the next few names.

Arnold F. B. Q. Franklin R. and P. E.

Okay, and as the speaker comes up, speaker, I was told by multiple witnesses that you

were entering multiple names while outside of this chamber, and we have called multiple

names and that you were the one who signed up under them.

So this is your first and only formal warning.

Please as we asked you yesterday, do not sign up under multiple names as it forces us to

read them out and then it takes away time from the meeting as well as other

speakers so this is your first and only formal warning do not disrupt this

meeting if you do so again you'll be subject to removal pursuant to council

rules 7 and rule 12 go ahead you have three minutes for the items and one

minute for general my name is Franklin Roosevelt and then that is my only name

in the City Council start with item number eight

当你看着我,我没有开口,已被你踩头,还是没把握,还是没有符合你的要求。

Is I too much for myself, or is it you're in the same way?

If I really choose to be me, I'll give up my勇気 to accept.

I'll let the eyes begin to shine.

Oh, the first time I say I love you,

Now let's move on to item number nine.

I want to cry, but I'm in trouble.

Oh, the first time you were in my mouth,

24 hours have not opened up.

That's the first time I was in the sky.

Now let's move on to item number 10.

I hope I can be with you.

General public comment.

So for the general public comment.

Hold on, hold on, please wait until the time starts.

Sorry, we're having some technical...

Go ahead.

So for the general public comment,

continue on item number eight,

for all of the smoking scam members,

item number eight, the city attorney,

without any surprise,

are continuing to try to increase the property taxes again.

So for anyone who voted for CD1,

for the council member Hernandez,

for anyone who voted for the city attorney,

anyone who voted for the council member president Blumandingo, now you are facing another challenge,

you are facing another increase of property taxes. But there is a solution for that. Why?

Because our future CD1 candidate, Wayne Spindler, will make sure we are no longer increased property

taxes anymore. We don't have to do those Hernandez increased property taxes, sales taxes, whatever

prostitution taxes on Figueroa.

The council member Spindler committed to lowering your taxes,

not increase your taxes.

Let's vote CD1.

Take Hernandez out, vote for Spindler CD1.

Next speaker.

Before the next speaker begins, I'll be calling the next two

names, Thomas J, Mary Dana, and the initial T.

Good morning.

Which items would you like to speak to?

34 to 53 to 34 through 53 yes okay so you have three minutes for the items go

ahead okay good morning City Council Byron Jose with the Trans Latina

Coalition I know your staffers are catching you up I know you have no other

time other than during public comment to do that so that is very helpful to know

we have pages upon pages adding up millions upon millions on settlements

one after the other. You're going to rush off to close session to discuss this.

But while you continue to talk about your budget that is broke, a city that has been

led broke by the leadership of this council and the leadership style that he inherited

and the chaos he inherited from them, continue to replicate. So anyways, going back to the

items, there's liability payout from your sidewalks, from the city council's inability

to prioritize, prioritize public services and care for our communities, repairing the streets,

repairing the lights. And this is not just an issue in MacArthur Park. This is an issue in all

of your districts. So all of you are really quick to turn the finger or ignore. This is an issue in

San Pedro. This is an issue in the Valley. This is an issue in the West Valley. It is reflected

in your agenda. So I don't understand

why time and time again

we continue to fund these services,

continue to not fund these services, continue

to increase the liability, not

claim the LAPD that will continue to

mess up your budget time and time

again.

I will move to public comment because

all of you are going to move on with your day, ignoring

the public, so I will move on with my

day. Thank you,

Chair, Council Member Ferrado

and Council Member Nazarian for

having us on Friday at the Civil Rights Committee.

It was helpful to be there and have a conversation with our city council as we look at this issue through an equity and a civil rights lens.

We miss council members Padilla and we miss council member Rodriguez.

We know she's very actively on the ground.

She's not running for mayor anymore.

She's not going to be council president at this rate.

So it was very unfortunate that her team nor herself could not be bothered to show up and listen to the needs of her constituents, both in City 7, throughout the San Fernando Valley, and throughout the city.

We look forward to the City Council to introduce a motion through the Civil Rights Committee or the Budget and Finance Committee towards the Transgender, Gender Expensive, and Intersex Communities Equity Initiative.

and getting one of those initiatives.

So we look forward to continue working with you.

I know your office is busy in the campaign season

and we're glad that Nathan Roman is on the race,

but not that you're gonna continue funding the LAPD.

Thank you.

Good morning, which items would you like to speak to?

Good morning, I would like to do a general public comment.

My name is Elsa Sanchez and I work at McDonald's in Los Angeles.

I'm here to talk about the Fair Workers' Wage Ordinance.

As workers, it is very important for us to know our rights.

En mi caso yo no conocía mis derechos. Yo me lastimé en el trabajo. No sabía que tenía derechos a presentar una queja y no dije nada para evitar que me quitaran de trabajar. Todo por no saber mis derechos.

So in my case, I didn't know my rights and I actually got hurt at work.

I didn't know that I could file a complaint and start a claim.

I chose to not say anything because I didn't want to be taken out of my job.

Pero gracias a la unión ahora sé que tengo derechos y quiero que todos mis compañeros de comida rápida conozcan sus derechos y sepan que hacer en situaciones similares con entrenamientos obligatorios.

fuera de nuestros lugares de trabajo.

And so, thanks to the union, I do know my rights now.

And I would like for all of my fellow fast food workers

to know their rights and not to have the same experience

that I had.

And I would like for them to be able to sit in on trainings

outside of the workplace.

Este es un ejemplo de que nuestros jefes no quieren

que conozcamos nuestros derechos,

because that way they keep us quiet.

We think that as workers, it's okay under the law.

Now I know that it's not so.

And so this serves as a really good example to our employers

because it shows that they don't want us to know our rights.

By us not knowing our rights, they're able to keep us quiet.

And so that is something that I would like to change

so that people can know their rights and defend themselves.

Next speaker.

I'll be calling the next few names.

Goddess D. Michael Digan, initials J. F.,

and Celcio Sanchez.

Good morning, speaker.

Can you make sure the mic's working?

Hello? Hello? Yes, we can hear you. So which items would you like to speak to?

Comment. Okay, so general public comment. You have one minute. Go ahead.

My name is Michael Diggin. I am a shop steward for the International Brotherhood of Electrical

Workers, Local 18. I am a proud civil servant of the city of Los Angeles, and it pains me

deeply to see all of the massive chaos and abuse of the citizens of Los Angeles perpetrated by the

LAPD. I cannot believe that Chief Jim McDonald could literally say that he would not even enforce

a state law when it was still currently being contested, wasn't even rejected yet. That was

absolutely beyond the pale. And I demand that the city council do something to rein in Los Angeles

Police Department from what they're doing. I personally have been shot by a 40-millimeter

foam round and have seen massive use of tear gas, pepper spray, bear mace, offensively by LAPD,

It must stop.

I'll be calling the last two names,

Donald Harlan and Jose Trejo.

So again, if your name has been called,

could we read multiple names?

Please line up on your left-hand side of the council chambers,

and we have one person with the wireless microphone

Okay, good morning, sir.

Which items would you like to speak to?

If you want, you can sit and provide your public comment.

Yes, we can hear you.

I was here on Friday. I didn't get a chance to come yesterday.

Just a reminder that as far as the housing in the Skid Row area,

the guy bought 20 buildings and nobody's being housed in him,

and he's not keeping them up.

I did talk to the city inspector and I also came to leave something for the councilman

for District 14.

That's pretty much it.

And I also got shot by a rubber bullet, but that has nothing to do with anything.

But I'll be here every time there's a meeting.

Or I'll, yeah.

But thank you.

Okay, thank you.

and have we read all the names yes we did if anyone else would like to speak

please come up in line all right that concludes public comment for today's

meeting madam clerk what's before us mr. president council may now vote on items

1, 3, 4, 9, and 12 through 26, sir.

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

Close the roll.

Tabulate the vote.

11 eyes.

All right, what's next?

Next would be the closed session items considered by budget and finance,

and those would be items 28 through 52, sir.

All right.

Let's open the roll.

Council Member Blumenfield?

Nothing on this?

All right.

All right, let's open the roll.

That's fine, sir.

Is it okay if I read the settlements and amounts prior to council voting on those, sir?

It looks like there's 24 settlements.

You're going to read all 24?

For the record, technically, yes.

Sorry.

So let me just start and get this over with real quick.

Item 28 is Crystal Shin et al.

versus City of Los Angeles et al.

And there is a recommendation to expend up to $135,000

in settlement.

Item 29 in the case entitled Patty Nam Kung et al.

versus City of Los Angeles et al.

There is a recommendation to expend up to $150,000

in settlement.

Item 30, in the case of Dijon Row

versus Los Angeles Fire Department,

there is a recommendation to expend up to 368,795,000

in settlement.

Item 31, in the case of Dina Demas

versus City of Los Angeles Atoll,

there is a recommendation to expend up to 125,000

in settlement.

Item 32 in the case entitled Nasser Palladian

versus City of Los Angeles et al.

There is a recommendation to expend up to 135,000

in settlement.

Item 33 in the case entitled Jorge Eduardo Ramirez Delgado

versus City of Los Angeles et al.

There is a recommendation to expend up to 150,000

in settlement.

Item 34 in the case entitled Antonio D'Souza Philho

versus City of Los Angeles et al,

there is a recommendation to expand up to 150,000

in settlement.

Item 35 in the case entitled Hector Gammes

versus City of Los Angeles et al,

there's a recommendation to expand up to 150,000

in settlement.

Item 36 in the case entitled Sandra Gale Truitt

versus City of Los Angeles et al,

there's a recommendation to expend

up to 150,000 in settlement.

Item 37, in the case entitled Jurg Mako

versus City of Los Angeles et al,

there is a recommendation to expend

up to 200,000 in settlement.

Item 38, in the case entitled Martha Hermosillo

versus City of Los Angeles et al,

there is a recommendation to expend

up to 295,000 in settlement.

Item 39 in the case entitled

Arian Ortiz versus City of Los Angeles et al.

There's a recommendation to expend

up to 340,000 in settlement.

Item 40 in the case entitled

Marsha McAdoo versus City of Los Angeles et al.

There is a recommendation to expend

up to 425,000 in settlement.

Item 41 in the case entitled Alice Kakzor et al

versus City of Los Angeles et al,

there's a recommendation to expend up to 500,000

in settlement.

Item 42 in the case entitled Jose Gonzalez

versus City of Los Angeles et al,

there's a recommendation to expend up to 565,000

in settlement.

Item 43 in the case entitled Victor Estardo

Hovel versus City of Los Angeles et al.

There is a recommendation to expend up to 690,000

in settlement.

Item 44 in the case entitled Kathy Feindell

versus City of Los Angeles et al.

There's a recommendation to expend up to 760,000

in settlement.

Item 45 in the case entitled George Stephan Simonian

versus City of Los Angeles.

there is a recommendation expend up to $850,000 in settlement.

Item 46 in the case entitled Jose Verdeen

versus City of Los Angeles et al.

There is a recommendation expend up to $135,000

in settlement.

Item 47 in the case entitled Jacqueline Rivera

versus City of Los Angeles et al.

There is a recommendation expend up to $150,000

in settlement.

Item 48, in the case entitled Cecilia Cazares Hernandez et al

versus City of Los Angeles et al,

there is a recommendation to expend up to 250,000

in settlement.

Item 49, in the case entitled Luis Zambrano et al

versus City of Los Angeles, there is a recommendation

to expend up to 275,000 in settlement.

Item 50, in the case entitled Joseph La Roca versus City of Los Angeles et al, there is a recommendation to expend up to $800,000 in settlement.

Item 51, in the case of Lillian Carranza versus City of Los Angeles et al, there is a recommendation to expend up to $5,040,417,046 plus all accrued interest in settlement.

And finally, item 52 in the case entitled Los Angeles Times Communications v. City of Los Angeles,

there is a recommendation to expend up to $1,551.42 in settlement.

And that's all, sir.

All right, thank you so much.

Let's open the roll on those items.

Close the roll.

Tabulate the vote.

11 ayes.

All right, what's next?

Item 8 was called special by Councilmember Rahman.

All right.

We'll begin.

This is on Lighting District, which a lot of members care about.

We'll begin with our committee chair,

who's teed up this item to bring it to the council.

President.

Thank you, Council President.

Can we have BSL please join us at the table?

Thank you so much for joining us.

Please take a moment to introduce yourselves.

Good morning.

Miguel Songlong, Director of Viewer Sheet Lighting.

I'm joined by Megan Hackney and Fabian Cheng, our Assistant Directors.

Great.

Thank you.

So, Miguel, thank you for joining us.

And please correct me if I'm wrong, but for today, for item number eight, we're looking

to extend a contract that we already have with NBS to do three things.

One is to update the engineer report and get us the data that we need there so that we

make sure that the appropriate rates are being tied to the properties, that we assess and

upload that data for that assessment.

And then the next thing that they're going to do is finalize ballot design and notice

and also do a 60-day education and outreach program around the ballot initiative.

And what happens...

Well, let me take a step back.

What is our timeline to generating the revenue under this initiative that we're proposing?

And why do we need to make sure that we approve the contract today to meet that timeline?

In short answer, just to address the ones that you had listed out, the short answer

is yes.

It is a contract amendment to address those points very specifically in engineer's report,

the ballot, ballot design, the outreach, and then the mailing of the actual ballots and

receipt of as well it's important to know that this is basically getting us

to the gate we this is not the proposal for the assessment itself this is a

supporting contract in order for us to get to the gate where we can actually

present what we're hoping to do is the the ballot package sometime in March to

council so the contractor will work with us for the next four weeks so that we

have the finalized report that will also then include every single property it's going to be

a little over half a million properties that will be affected we will have all the totals then to

present to council at that point wonderful thank you and let's say that we are deterred today or

deterred from moving this step forward what would be the consequences there likely if we were to

to continue this item, it would be very difficult for us

to meet next fiscal year, fiscal year 26, 27,

in order for us to have the assessment essentially

part of that budget.

With the timeline that we expect to go before council,

so again, with the March timeframe in mind,

where we would be presenting the actual ballot package

to council, we're hoping to go out for vote sometime

in April, there's a 45 day required period

for the voting period.

That puts us sometime in June.

And we would have to have everything buttoned up

before the end of the fiscal year in order for us

to be able to apply that to 26-27.

Great.

And when was the last time that this assessment was done?

We technically have never done it at this scale.

This is the first time we're going to be going

to a citywide ballot.

1996 was when all of our rates were essentially frozen

by Prop 218.

So 1996 was essentially the last thing about 30 years ago.

Great.

So you've been running on a 1996 assessment that was done for that number of properties,

but also less than 1% from our general fund, correct?

That's correct.

Great.

Thank you.

So this assessment is desperately needed to meet 2026, where we are today.

Just two more questions.

Can you walk us through the information that we will receive in the engineer's report?

The engineer's report is essentially the report that determines how the assessment is valued for the properties.

It will essentially have a point system that will then assign points based on some characteristics.

there will be a matrix that shows all of this, but for instance, it will be based off of land use,

the size of that, the type of system that we have, and challenges that we might be facing

with either unimproved or improved sidewalks, for instance.

So there's different points that are assigned.

That point system is then used to divvy up the total budget,

And I expect we did a needs assessment of the Bureau back in 2022 where we came up to the conclusion that we need about $125 million a year in order to actually run in terms of the assessment.

So the point system will essentially divvy up that budget amongst all of the parcels within the city to come up with their individual assessments per property.

Great. Thank you.

And can you provide us a breakdown on how the protest vote differs from a regular election?

So this is an op cycle. It's not electorate vote. This is a ballot that goes directly to those that are affected. It's based off of 218. So in that case, we're very similar to sanitation and their rates. We fall on the special benefit side.

this is then mailed only to those specifically involved it would be the essentially half a

million parcels of property that are within the city of Los Angeles it requires a 45-day voting

period and to which then we would have to present the results to city council great thank you and

so we remember how that protest well went with sanitation so thank you for that example last

thing is the outreach piece y'all are going to be doing education and outreach and we have other

partners that we're going to be working with such as LAUSD and others to move these conversations

forward. Can you talk to us a little bit about that outreach? And last question is, can you also

tell us how getting this assessment forward and changed will make BSL be able to deliver its work

differently or more efficiently? Thank you. Great. If I can answer in reverse, the assessment

essentially with the long-term operational plan that we had come up in 2022 will essentially bring

down we expect to bring down our repair rates which right now for everyone to know is about a

year we expect that most of our issues fully fully operational with this assessment most of our

issues will actually be solved if they were minor within a week within a month for most major issues

And when I talk about major issues, I'm talking about outages that involve theft and vandalism.

So places where we might have the entire electrical system stripped out, we would be able to actually repair it within a month.

So that would be the largest change.

Those are service levels, essentially, that we are saying that we are going to be adhering to.

Great. So I just want to make sure that I heard that correctly, is that our service levels currently takes a year plus to fix a street light.

with this assessment, it would take us a week to fix, to do those repairs and maintenance.

And if it's a major issue, it could take us a month, but it's definitely much different than a year plus.

So it's wonderful.

And outreach, can you talk a little bit about that?

With regards to outreach, the contract itself contemplates an outreach program.

There are three components of it.

There's around 300,000 or so that we're going to look for social media by essentially just to make sure

that we get the word out there again this is one of the few times that we've

ever gone out this is this is trying to reach as many as we can there's also an

informational mailing that will go ahead of the ballot itself to the affected

parties as well as the ballot mailings that are involved in there great thank

you thank you Council President I or dry vote on this thank you so much

madam chairwoman I have a councilmember pity and then councilmember Roman well

Thank you so much for being here.

I'm really excited about this item.

I think we already heard how unacceptable it is

that you guys have been operating with such a small amount

and such an assessment that is ancient, so to speak,

at this point.

But I do have a few questions, and I got to admit,

some of them are very much assuming that this happens.

So I'm already operating from a positive perspective

because I think our city really needs this.

My understanding is that various members of your staff,

in order to save them during this last fiscal budget,

were sent over to DWP in order to save their jobs.

How are you working together,

knowing that your expertise moved over there?

During the budget process, actually,

most of that was eliminated as part of the council action.

So we actually did not have to send staff directly to DWP.

We have unfortunately lost many of ours due to hiring

and attrition, naturally.

But the work continues as normal.

OK.

And will you be able to hire, assuming that this passes?

We hope with our long-term plan, we're actually

hoping to double the size of the field office.

So we will be able to actually repair much faster as well.

Thank you.

By any chance, also assuming that we get this, my understanding is that we, a big part of

why we're dealing with a lot of our street lights no longer working is due to the copper

wire theft.

So I wanted to ask, that's a combination, a combo question.

What does the partnership with LAPD look like in order to stop the crime, building and safety

to address the businesses where they're selling the copper wire?

And what is the plan to incorporate more solar to stop that as well?

Speaking in the context of what the contract, this contract and what the assessment will,

this contract obviously going towards the hopeful presentation of the assessment itself.

The assessment, when presented hopefully within the March timeframe,

will actually add components of greater kind of technology use.

So things like cameras and sensors for greater enforcement

to be able to give information to our law enforcement partners

in order to enforce against it.

In addition, there is a solar program that's contemplated

in there as well.

So you'll actually see much more in terms of solar deployments

from the Bureau of Sheet Lighting in the future as well.

Sounds exciting.

Can you also talk to us about your plans of potentially

incorporating fiber optics to the technology,

assuming we get this as well?

That, I would say, is separate from the assessment itself.

So the assessment is purely for the operations and maintenance of the street lighting network.

Many of the things that we've done around pyroptics, that was part of the American Recovery Act.

Some things that we've done is joint build, so separate kind of issues on our end.

We continue to support, including the state, on our middle mile build initiative.

which is the 110 freeway going down from downtown

all the way to the 91 freeway.

And we're also looking for other opportunities

for us to expand.

This assessment will be focused purely

on just the operations and maintenance

of the street lighting network.

Okay, thank you, very good.

I think Council Member Hernandez did a good job

already asking the questions that I had related

to marketing and outreach, so thank you.

But I did want to, you know, in my neighborhood,

I talked to some of my neighbors about

whether we were ready to start a petition

in order to get more street lights.

And I actually had some community members say,

I don't want more lights because then I can't look

at the stars.

So not everyone in Los Angeles necessarily

wants to bring in lights.

So would you be able to kind of tell us a little bit about

if we get to the point where we're fully funded

to light up our city, what is the process for a precinct,

so to speak, or community to work with the council office

in your office to add more in addition

to fixing what's existing.

I believe you're asking how to actually expand

the street lighting network.

We, this assessment that we will be proposing will essentially

just be focused on the operations of maintenance

of what's existing.

For the additional builds, we'll work closely with your office

and others to identify other sources of funding in order for us to do the capital project

and go through the 218 process in order for us to add it to the larger street lighting network.

Correct. I just had a very successful one.

So I know there's already systems in place to make it happen,

but I look forward to being able to pass this so that for communities who do want to expand,

we don't have to tell them that we're going to wait,

but also for the unexpected, you know, theft that happened

that has now caused the delay of fixing can finally be taken on.

So thank you.

Thank you, Council Member Padilla.

Council Member Rahman.

Thank you.

And many of my questions have already been answered

by Council Members Hernandez and Padilla, so thank you so much.

I just had one clarifying question about the outreach process.

You said it's a 60-day process,

and what exactly does that consist of and the initial phase?

And is it concurrent with this before you come back to us about the decision?

It would be concurrent with the decision on the larger assessment itself.

So March is what we're looking at.

It involves a social media kind of purchase in order to get the information out there.

That's probably the most effective way for us as a small bureau to actually reach out there.

There's a couple other components where there's direct mailings to the households that are,

I'm sorry, the property owners that are affected in addition to the ballot itself.

Separately, as a bureau, we're working very closely with many of your offices,

with neighborhood councils to work on making sure that they understand the information that's going before them as well.

So as much as we can, trying to get out to those more localized places to get the information out there as well.

Okay. And there were two different numbers cited in some of the earlier conversations around the assessment increase,

one from the CAO, which was lower, and one from your department, which is higher.

Yes, ma'am.

That decision around how much money we're going to be asking for to be covered by the full assessment increase is yet to come.

Is that correct, or has that already been determined?

That's correct.

From Bureau of Street Lighting perspective, what I intend to do is present what the Bureau recommends.

Okay.

I will likely present in March the same recommendation that we did in 2022, which is the $125 million.

It would be then up to council consideration whether to follow that or adjust the numbers to see fit.

And that number, does that account for future pressures on the street lighting system, or

is that really based around our current efforts?

It accounts-

Current needs.

Right.

It accounts for current needs and where we think the Bureau is also going.

It also accounts for the fact that much of the reason why we're stuck here is because

we haven't had something like a cost-adjustment factor that builds in then some of the changes

over time from inflation and our materials cost.

So some of those will be built in.

We had built in, again, in the previous iteration

of the assessment itself,

theft and vandalism was not contemplated at all.

So there's a segment that actually takes that into account.

There's a new technology component

to make sure that we do not just stop at solar.

And just another piece that I would like to add,

very specifically, we're adding a three-year auditing mechanism

inside the assessment itself.

to make sure that one, we are transparent,

two, we are using every single dollar as wisely as possible,

and then three, making sure that we get the information

out there in terms of what we actually need and what we use

and what we're achieving for the general public.

Okay, great.

Thank you.

Those are all my questions.

Thank you so much, Councilmember Ramanan.

Thank you all for being with us today.

I have a couple questions to cap off.

I think the members who spoke asked most of what I wanted,

but you talked about the month timeline

and then the week timeline to get fixed.

My question is about the current state of affairs

as you know them.

This passes, how long does it take you to catch up?

Because you're behind, so no amount of money

is gonna make it so you can fix everything in a month.

There's too many things broken.

So how long do you expect before we get to a normal stage

and then I assume this clock starts?

The clock starts next fiscal year, hopefully,

with a successful assessment.

But we do have a few different strategies

that we are looking internally.

Obviously, the assessment itself assumes the long-term plan,

and we are going to adhere to that.

There is, however, as you're saying, a gap where we're going to have,

there's going to be time that will be necessary

in order for us to hire all of the staff.

So what we have put into place or what we're considering,

and once the assessment is passed, I plan to actually show a whole plan about it.

But we actually intend to use solar and the purchase of solar

to address many of the issues that we have initially.

So a strategy of using procurement in order for us to fix the lights

that can theoretically take care of a third of all the issues

while we then augment our field forces with hiring hall and contractors

while we start the hiring process

so that we can have the longer-term plan in place.

So three different ways that we're looking at

with a major kind of solar purchase

in order for us to effectuate essentially immediate repairs

in places that we know it would take much larger field forces

for us to get to.

So how long do you think it will take you to catch up?

Six months.

In time, six months?

Six months.

Six months from March or June or November?

From June.

So whenever the, I would say whenever the money is in place, our intent is to actually then start purchasing as much solar as we can.

Okay.

And that usually has about a two to three month lead time and then starting the installation of it.

So within six months, you would see significant change.

So at the top of 2027, we should have the expectation that things will be relatively normal.

It doesn't mean 100% of the lights, but nothing like we see now.

That's correct.

Got it.

You said now twice you plan to double the size of the force.

How long do you think that takes, and do you have a special plan?

Because we're notorious for taking a really long time to hire people.

Yes.

So the current field office as it stands, currently today, it's about 185 people in total.

They cover the entirety of the city.

We have seen great success in using the programs the city has in place,

including Target a Local Hire and Bridge to Jobs

and hopefully an apprentice program for us,

where before, a couple years ago,

when we had all the belt tightening measures

and kind of like toned-down hiring,

we were able to get 45 people through our doors

and in place within the Bureau in a matter of two months.

So we see ourselves being able to catch up very quickly

because of these hiring ladders that have been created throughout the city.

Got it.

Okay.

Thank you so much for being there.

Seeing no other comments, members, let's open the roll on this item.

Close the roll.

Tabulate the votes.

Club eyes.

All right.

Thank you so much.

Next, Madam Clerk.

Mr. President, that would be item 11, and that was called special by Council Member

Gerardo for a separate vote, sir.

All right.

All right. We now are considering item 11, call special by Councilmember Jurado for a separate vote.

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

Nine ayes, three no's.

All right. What's next?

Next would be item 27, and that was called special by Councilmember McCosker for comments.

Councilmember McCosker.

Thank you very much, Mr. President. Members, item 27 is actually a very simple matter that has profound consequences depending upon how we treat the file.

It is simply to reactivate file 19.742.

That was a file, a matter that was introduced in 2019 by Herb Wesson,

and in 2019 it was introduced for the purpose of prohibiting private detention centers

for federal enforcement in the city of Los Angeles.

That file was worked up as a land use matter.

It went through all of the processes, CEQA review.

CEQA was considered.

It was decided not to be a project.

It went through the planning recommendations.

It made it to the city council as a proposed ordinance

to prohibit private detention centers in any zone across the city.

Now, the file expired because the concern expired in 2021.

And the concern, of course, was the worry that profiteers, private entities working with the federal government,

were creating detention centers across the country, and those were creating human rights violations,

and poor living conditions, and disease, and death, and harms that were unconstitutional to residents of the United States.

those are concerns that can that have arisen again today and so what i'm asking is that we

renew the file and we update its research and we update its applicability because we have a couple

of things that have that are different in front of us today we have different code provisions for

starters that's just a ministerial issue we also have an intervening federal case the state of

California, Bonta introduced

AB 32,

which prohibited private

detention centers throughout the state of California.

That was challenged by profiteers

and it was deemed

unconstitutional

as violative of the supremacy

clause. The state couldn't tell the federal

government how to conduct its business.

We have something different at the local

level. We have a, the most significant

police power we have is not the police.

The most significant police power we have is

land use.

and so we have local land use authority

where we can say that as a matter of public policy

there are certain uses that are acceptable

that are conditional and that are prohibited

and what we can do with this opportunity

is update our research

go back to the planning and to the city attorney's offices

and have this file and its information updated

to put us in a position

so that we can consider the question

do we want to prohibit private detention centers

in every zone in the city of Los Angeles.

And we know this is a real issue,

not because anyone in Los Angeles

is proposing a private detention center.

I want to be really clear.

I don't want to be alarmist.

I don't want to pretend that I have any information

that anyone's proposing a private detention center,

but we know that publications and news agencies

across the country are reporting,

as the Washington Post just reported recently in a story

that there are private detention centers proposed in at least eight states.

And those states are blue and those states are red.

And what is uniform across is that local residents

do not want to have private detention centers in their communities.

They do not want to be part of unconstitutional actions.

They don't want to be part of human rights violations.

They don't want to be a part of it.

I assume the same will be true for all of our communities.

So, I personally am very concerned about the 1-5,

because in the 1-5 we have a number of warehouses, as you have in your districts.

I have a harbor area with a lot of available land,

and I have a federal penitentiary that is closing.

And I have every expectation that this administration plans this aggressive,

of unsustainable growth by using private entities to profit off of the harms caused

to our residents.

And so I think it's going to be very important for us to put ourselves in a position where

we have an active file and very quickly are hearing from city attorney and the planning

department and any other agency, any other departments that want to weigh in on how we

can regulate private detention centers.

and again, because we will hear about the AB 32 case,

and again, use the most significant power we have,

and that's the land use authority, to prevent this use.

So members, I would just urge an aye vote,

and I look forward to working with you cooperatively on this

as we move forward, and we are not,

we want to put ourselves in a position

where we're not being reactive when one is proposed,

that we have done the work,

and we know how to respond to our constituents

when and if any such proposal comes forward.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. McCosker.

I deeply appreciate you bringing this file forward.

You are right on a few counts.

One, that land use is our greatest authority.

At the time I was elected, there were two facilities in my district

that were proposed for detention centers by an organization called Geo Group.

That organization's capitalization has increased by a factor of 10

since that time. So they have way more money than they did before. The two places that they went

after in my district are now homeless shelters, but they're private property owners.

So I'll just put it this way. The bed rate that we pay for a shelter is significantly less than

the bed rate for a federal detention center, significantly less. And the requirements

on that building that we impose as a city and the county and other funders and HUD and all the rest

on that building as a shelter are much greater than they would be if these places were to become

federal detention centers. And so the reality is there, the locations are there, and so I thank

you for bringing this forward. Those are the two cases that gave rise to this motion, in fact. And

so with that, I'll join you and ask, thank you, and join you in asking for an aye vote. Let's open

the roll on these this item close the roll tabulate to vote 12 eyes forthwith

councilmember Park all right without objection that'll be the order all

right what's next next mr. president our items 10 and 53 and those are closed

All right, we've been joined by the city attorney for items 10 and 53.

We'll ask the sergeant to prepare the room for closed session.

Council Member Hernandez, you don't have...

I was going to see if we can move item 8 forthwith.

All right, item 8 forthwith without objection.

All right, but if we can prepare the room for closed session,

so that means city attorney, selected staff from council offices.

Council offices and the impacted departments.

That's here to welcome and nurture those sparks of inspiration and vision.

There's a few ways to find us. We are always on social media. So we are on Instagram.

We have a Facebook page.

You can go to the Department of Cultural Affairs, their website.

You'll find the Tosco Theater.

It may take a few clicks here and there, but we try to stay present in any way that we can.

311 app from the App Store or Google Play.

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Celebrate the Lunar New Year with Passion of the Cut Sleeve in partnership with the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.

The show Galloping into the New Year takes place on February 13th and will feature queer and trans Chinese folklore told through music, theater, poetry and performance art.

Experience the joy of the new year in an 80-minute show with a live band playing traditional Chinese instruments.

Head to Plaza de la Raza for Galloping into the New Year on Friday, February 13th at 7 p.m.

Learn more by searching for Lunar New Year at culture.lacity.gov.

Join the Los Angeles Public Library at one of its events to mark African American History Month.

On Saturday, February 14th, enjoy a talk from author Glenda Armand as she tours food history to take you from awful to delicious on a short journey down an African-American foodway.

For African-Americans, food has been more than nourishment.

It has been tradition, income, and a means of resistance.

Armand highlights the stories of George Washington's enslaved cook, the ice cream entrepreneur Augustus Jackson, and Georgia Gilmore, whose cooking sustained the Montgomery bus boycott.

Head to the Central Library for Glenda Armand from Awful to Delicious on Saturday, February 14th at 1030 a.m.

For more details, go to lapl.org slash events.

San Fernando Valley Audubon Society invites you to a guided tour of the reserve on the second Saturday of February.

The walk will take in the many birds and other wildlife at Hanson Dam and is for the beginner bird watchers, families, and anyone who wants to visit the wildlife reserve.

The emphasis of each tour will vary with participants' interests.

Meet at the small amphitheater on the southeast of Woodley Park.

Hanson Dam Bird Walk takes place on Saturday, February 14th at 9 a.m.

Check out this and other bird watching events at sfvauduban.org.

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

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Every day, over 100 Americans die from secondhand smoke.

Secondhand smoke in children can cause asthma, ear infections, and increased risk of sudden infant death syndrome.

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Here's what's happening in L.A. this week.

This is L.A. Currents.

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It's about choosing to believe in our city again and proving it with action.

And no matter what our city faces, LA never, ever gives up.

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LA City Attorney Heidi Feldstein Soto and LA County District Attorney Nathan Hockman

launched an anti-trafficking initiative on Western Avenue Corridor.

This partnership with the nonprofit Journey Out combines law enforcement and social services.

The program aims to hold both traffickers and the buyers of sex accountable.

The initiative's primary goal is to ensure that those committing these crimes are brought

to justice.

For more on this story, go to cityattorney.lacity.gov.

LA City Sanitation is calling for new or gently used clothing to be donated.

Donations are a part of LA Sanitation's annual clothing drive running through Friday, March

6.

Loading items go to city organizations and programs helping those in need.

Donation drop-offs can be made at six public locations Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to

4 p.m.

Learn more at sanitation.lacity.gov.

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death after injury is bleeding. Someone who is severely bleeding can bleed to death in as little

as five minutes. Minutes count and your LAFD thanks you for learning how to stop the bleed

by following the ABCs. If someone has an injury with blood spurting out of the wound, clothing

soaked in blood, bleeding that won't stop, or loss of any part of an arm or leg, you need to act

quickly. The first step is A for alert. Have someone called 911. The next step is B for bleeding.

Locate the bleeding injury and remove any clothing covering the area so you can see the injury.

The final step is C, compress. If the injury is to the leg or arm, prepare to use the tourniquet.

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The Lancashire Arts Center was constructed in 1939.

it was opened in 1939. It was originally a LA Department of Water and Power building.

The city of LA became the owner of the Lancashire Arts Center when it was declared as a historical

cultural monument. On the plaque, its purpose was that it is an example of adaptive reuse.

The front building is actually an example of streamlined modern design.

And then if you come here after, I think it's like 5 or 6 o'clock, there's lighting panels that will turn on and then you get to see the full marquee of the Lancashire Arts Centre.

center. We host a bevy of productions, be it dance productions, music productions, sometimes

we'll have a film screening, art. I think that sort of flexibility is something that

brings me back every time. The theater is very intimate here. It really feels like you're

just right up in front of the talent when you come watch a show here. We also do youth

programming here. We work with different local artists to be able to provide free programming

for children to learn how to sew. We have a fashion class. We have music classes specifically for

percussion and drums. We also have another music class for piano. And then we also have a dance

studio. It's in our mezzanine. That is for our dance class that we have here.

Our mission here is just to grow the performing arts really.

So whether it be someone trying to bring out their own original productions or like sometimes

we even have different groups come in to teach after school classes.

Being able to grow the performing arts in a community is what makes Lancashire Arts Center

stand out.

The city investing into places like this is because it gives a place for people that were

not as confident the ability to express themselves and give a space for people that are a little

bit different another space to play because being able to play is so important just for

our mental health as well as for like the health of the community and it just makes

the world a better place.

We look forward to having you here at Lancashire Arts Center, whether it be taking part in our free

programming as well as being able to come and just watch a movie or watch a show. We look forward to

having you over here. On Instagram, our Instagram handle is dca underscore lnk. You can also find

out more about us on culture.lacity.gov that's our website.

Thank you.

The Tosco Theatre is located in Canoga Park.

There is so much already here to offer.

Cultural events, performances, folks do annual

Beatles, Morthos festivals.

There is art walks, there is musical events, there's jazz.

And I feel like we have the privilege to be added

in that offering.

The space had been left a little bit weary.

And so when the city came in to renovate the space,

it was offered another chance to breathe new life into the arts here.

The Tosco Theatre is here for everyone.

It is here for young artists who are just starting out,

to the professional artists who are here to dream up their new vision,

and we're here for the community at large at all of our community events.

One of our signature events is called Walking in Our Light.

this idea of how we help people to encourage them to think about the light that they bring

and to show appreciation for those who help to nurture that light.

So from that idea, we thought, well, let's walk in our light.

Let us have stories along the way where people can stop and hear performances

and storytelling of other people saying, this is my light, this is how I shine it,

and these are the people I want to show appreciation to.

So we do this walk around the block and then we end up with a little gathering,

performances inside, and lots of time to just reflect on, yeah, this is my life,

you know, and these are the people who've helped me get there.

Our communities don't always see what the City of Los Angeles provides them,

providing access to the arts. It says to me that's a city that's proud of the

stories it wants to tell, the people who want to tell them, and the ways that they want to tell them.

A space like this gives opportunity for folks of all ages, cultures, experience, to say,

I can be seen, I can be heard. And I'm walking in these doors and it feels welcoming, it feels

nurturing and people are excited to listen to me and to hear me. We don't have that all the time.

So it's a live space that's here to welcome and nurture those sparks of inspiration and vision.

There's a few ways to find us. We are always on social media. So we are on Instagram. We have a

Facebook page. You can go to the Department of Cultural Affairs, their website. You'll find the

Tosco Theater. It may take a few clicks here and there, but we try to stay present in any way that we can.

Thank you.

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Celebrate the Lunar New Year with Passion of the Cut Sleeve in partnership with the

City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.

The show Galloping into the New Year takes place on February 13th and will feature queer and trans Chinese folklore told through music, theater, poetry and performance art.

Experience the joy of the new year in an 80 minute show with a live band playing traditional Chinese instruments.

Head to Plaza de la Raza for Galloping into the New Year on Friday, February 13th at 7 p.m.

Learn more by searching for Lunar New Year at culture.lacity.gov.

Join the Los Angeles Public Library at one of its events to mark African American History Month.

On Saturday, February 14th, enjoy a talk from author Glenda Armand as she tours food history

to take you from awful to delicious on a short journey down an African American foodway.

For African Americans, food has been more than nourishment.

It has been tradition, income, and a means of resistance.

Armand highlights the stories of George Washington's enslaved cook,

the ice cream entrepreneur Augustus Jackson,

and Georgia Gilmore, whose cooking sustained the Montgomery bus boycott.

Head to the Central Library for Glenda Armand,

From Awful to Delicious, on Saturday, February 14th at 10.30 a.m.

For more details, go to lapl.org slash events.

San Fernando Valley Audubon Society invites you to a guided tour of the reserve on the second Saturday of February.

The walk will take in the many birds and other wildlife at Hanson Dam and is for the beginner bird watchers, families, and anyone who wants to visit the wildlife reserve.

The emphasis of each tour will vary with participants' interests.

meet at the small amphitheater on the southeast of Woodley Park.

Hanson Dam Bird Walk takes place on Saturday, February 14th at 9 a.m.

Check out this and other bird watching events at sfvaudubon.org.

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

Thank you.

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Thank you.

Every day over 100 Americans die from secondhand smoke.

Secondhand smoke in children can cause asthma, ear infections and increased risk of sudden

infant death syndrome.

Go to smokefreehomesla.com.

Learn how you can protect your home from secondhand smoke.

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Your regularly scheduled meeting of the Los Angeles City Council.

Here's what's happening in L.A. this week.

This is L.A. Currents.

This is about all of us.

It's about choosing to believe in our city again and proving it with action.

And no matter what our city faces, LA never, ever gives up.

Thank you.

Thank you.

LA City Attorney Heidi Feldstein Soto and LA County District Attorney Nathan Hockman

launched an anti-trafficking initiative on Western Avenue Corridor. This partnership with

the nonprofit Journey Out combines law enforcement and social services. The program aims to hold both

traffickers and the buyers of sex accountable.

The initiative's primary goal is to ensure

that those committing these crimes are brought to justice.

For more on this story, go to cityattorney.lacity.gov.

LA City Sanitation is calling for new

or gently used clothing to be donated.

Donations are a part of LA Sanitation's annual clothing drive

running through Friday, March 6th.

Clothing items go to city organizations and programs helping those in need.

Donation drop-offs can be made at six public locations Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to

4 p.m.

Learn more at sanitation.lacity.gov.

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The number one cause of preventable death after injury is bleeding.

Someone who is severely bleeding can bleed to death in as little as five minutes.

and your LAFD thanks you for learning how to stop the bleed by following the ABCs.

If someone has an injury with blood spurting out of the wound, clothing soaked in blood,

bleeding that won't stop, or loss of any part of an arm or leg, you need to act quickly.

The first step is A for alert. Have someone call 911.

The next step is B for bleeding.

Locate the bleeding injury and remove any clothing covering the area so you can see the injury.

The final step is C, compress.

If the injury is to the leg or arm, prepare to use the tourniquet.

Unwrap the tourniquet and apply it 2 to 3 inches above the wound.

Do not place the tourniquet onto a joint. Go above the joint if necessary.

Pull the free end of the tourniquet and wrap it until it is tight.

Wind the windlass until the bleeding stops.

Secure the windlass in place.

Note the time the tourniquet was applied and write it down,

if you can or tell first responders when they arrive.

Thank you.

The Lancashire Arts Center was constructed in 1939.

When it was opened in 1939, it was originally a LA Department of Water and Power building.

The city of LA became the owner of the Lancashire Arts Center when it was declared as a historical

cultural monument. On the plaque its purpose was that it is an example of adaptive reuse.

The front building is actually an example of streamlined modern design.

And then if you come here after I think it's like five or six o'clock there's like lighting panels

that will turn on and then you get to see the full kind of marquee of the

Lancashire Arts Center. We host a bevy of productions, be it dance productions,

music productions, sometimes we'll have a film screening. Art, I think that sort of

flexibility is something that brings me back every time. The theater is very

intimate here. It really feels like you're just right up in front of the

talent when you come watch a show here.

We also do youth programming here. We work with different local artists to be

able to provide free programming for children to learn how to sew. We have a

fashion class, we have music classes specifically for percussion and drums. We

We also have another music class for piano.

And then we also have a dance studio.

It's in our mezzanine.

That is for our dance class that we have here.

Our mission here is just to grow the performing arts, really.

So whether it be someone trying to bring out their own original productions or like sometimes

we even have different groups come in to teach after school classes.

Being able to grow the performing arts in a community is what makes Lancashire Arts Center stand out.

The city investing into places like this is because it gives a place for people that were not as confident

the ability to express themselves and give a space for people that are a little bit different,

another space to play because being able to play is so important just for our mental health as well as

for the like the health of the community and it just makes the world a better place.

We look forward to having you here at Lancashire Marts Center whether it be taking part in our

free programming as well as being able to come and just watch a movie or watch a show we look

forward to having you over here. On Instagram, our Instagram handle is dca

underscore lnk. You can also find out more about us on culture.lacity.gov.

That's our website.

Thank you.

music plays

The Tosco Theater is located in Canoga Park.

There is so much already here to offer,

cultural events, performances,

folks do annual Dia de los Muertos festivals,

there is art walks, there is musical events, there's jazz.

And I feel like we have the privilege

to be added in that offering.

The space had been left a little bit weary, and so when the city came in to renovate the

space it was offered another chance to breathe new life into the arts here.

The Tosco Theatre is here for everyone.

It is here for young artists who are just starting out, to the professional artists

who are here to dream up their new vision.

And we're here for the community at large

at all of our community events.

One of our signature events is called Walking in Our Light.

This idea of how we help people to encourage them

to think about the light that they bring

and to show appreciation for those

who help to nurture that light.

So from that idea, we thought, well, let's walk in our light.

Let us have stories along the way where people can stop and hear performances and storytelling of other people saying, this is my light.

This is how I shine it. And these are the people I want to show appreciation to.

So we do this walk around the block and then we end up with a little gathering and performances inside and lots of time to just reflect on.

Yeah, this is my life, you know, and these are the people who've helped me get there.

Our communities don't always see what the city of Los Angeles provides them, providing

access to the arts.

It says to me that's a city that's proud of the stories it wants to tell, the people

who want to tell them, and the ways that they want to tell them.

A space like this gives opportunity for folks of all ages, cultures, experience to say,

I can be seen, I can be heard.

And I'm walking in these doors and it feels welcoming, it feels nurturing, and people are

excited to listen to me and to hear me.

We don't have that all the time.

So it's a live space that's here to welcome and nurture those sparks of inspiration and

vision.

There's a few ways to find us.

We are always on social media.

So we are on Instagram.

We have a Facebook page.

You can go to the Department of Cultural Affairs, their website.

You'll find the Tosco Theater.

It may take a few clicks here and there, but we try to stay present in any way that we

can.

Thank you.

or select from the most popular service requests,

like street pavement issues or potholes.

Answer a few questions.

You can add a comment or even upload a picture.

Keep track of your request via email, text,

or create an Angeleno account to become a registered user.

Using MyLA 311 keeps our city safe and clean.

Thank you.

Thank you.

We'll be right back.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Celebrate the Lunar New Year with Passion of the Cut Sleeve in partnership with the

City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. The show Galloping into the New Year

takes place on February 13th

and will feature queer and trans Chinese folklore

told through music, theater, poetry, and performance art.

Experience the joy of the new year

in an 80-minute show with a live band

playing traditional Chinese instruments.

Head to Plaza de la Raza

for Galloping into the New Year

on Friday, February 13th at 7 p.m.

Learn more by searching for Lunar New Year

at culture.lacity.gov.

Join the Los Angeles Public Library at one of its events to mark African American History Month.

On Saturday, February 14th, enjoy a talk from author Glenda Armand as she tours food history

to take you from awful to delicious on a short journey down an African American foodway.

For African Americans, food has been more than nourishment. It has been tradition,

income, and a means of resistance. Armand highlights the stories of George Washington's

enslaved cook, the ice cream entrepreneur Augustus Jackson, and Georgia Gilmore, whose cooking

sustained the Montgomery bus boycott. Head to the Central Library for Glenda Armand,

From Awful to Delicious, on Saturday, February 14th at 10.30 a.m. For more details, go to

lapl.org slash events. San Fernando Valley Audubon Society invites you to a guided tour of the

reserve on the second Saturday of February. The walk will take in the many birds and other wildlife

at Hanson Dam and is for the beginner bird watchers, families, and anyone who wants to visit the

wildlife reserve. The emphasis of each tour will vary with participants' interests. Meet at the

small amphitheater on the southeast of Woodley Park. Hanson Dam Bird Walk takes place on Saturday,

February 14th at 9 a.m. Check out this and other bird watching events at sfvauduban.org.

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

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Every day, over 100 Americans die from secondhand smoke.

Secondhand smoke in children can cause asthma, ear infections, and increased risk of sudden infant death syndrome.

Go to smokefreehomesla.com.

Learn how you can protect your home from secondhand smoke.

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All right.

Your regularly scheduled meeting of the Los Angeles City Council.

Here's what's happening in L.A. this week.

This is L.A. Currents.

This is about all of us.

It's about choosing to believe in our city again and proving it with action.

And no matter what our city faces, LA never, ever gives up.

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LA City Attorney Heidi Feldstein Soto and LA County District Attorney

Nathan Hockman, launched an anti-trafficking initiative on Western Avenue Corridor.

This partnership with the nonprofit Journey Out combines law enforcement and social services.

The program aims to hold both traffickers and the buyers of sex accountable. The initiative's

primary goal is to ensure that those committing these crimes are brought to justice. For more

on this story go to cityattorney.lacity.gov. LA City Sanitation is calling for new or gently

used clothing to be donated. Donations are a part of LA Sanitation's annual clothing drive

running through Friday, March 6. Clothing items go to city organizations and programs helping

those in need. Donation drop-offs can be made at six public locations Monday to Friday from

9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Learn more at sanitation.lacity.gov.

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The number one cause of preventable death after injury is bleeding.

Someone who is severely bleeding can bleed to death in as little as five minutes.

Minutes count and your LAFD thanks you for learning how to stop the bleed by following

the ABCs.

If someone has an injury with blood spurting out of the wound, clothing soaked in blood,

bleeding that won't stop, or loss of any part of an arm or leg, you need to act quickly.

The first step is A for alert.

Have someone call 911.

The next step is B for bleeding.

Locate the bleeding injury and remove any clothing covering the area so you can see

the injury.

The final step is C, compress.

If the injury is to the leg or arm, prepare to use the tourniquet.

Unwrap the tourniquet and apply it two to three inches above the wound.

Do not place the tourniquet onto a joint.

Go above the joint if necessary.

Pull the free end of the tourniquet and wrap it until it is tight.

Wind the windlass until the bleeding stops.

Secure the windlass in place.

Note the time the tourniquet was applied and write it down.

you can or tell first responders when they arrive.

The Lancashire Arts Center was constructed in 1939.

When it was opened in 1939, it was originally a LA Department of Water and Power building.

The city of LA became the owner of the Lancashire Arts Center when it was declared as a historical cultural monument.

On the plaque, its purpose was that it is an example of adaptive reuse.

The front building is actually an example of streamlined modern design.

And then if you come here after, I think it's like 5 or 6 o'clock, there's like lighting

panels that will turn on and then you get to see the full kind of marquee of the Lancashire

Arts Centre.

We host a bevy of productions, be it dance productions, music productions, sometimes we'll

have a film screening.

Art, I think that sort of flexibility is something that brings me back every time.

The theater is very intimate here.

It really feels like you're just right up in front of the talent when you come watch

a show here.

We also do youth programming here.

We work with different local artists to be able to provide free programming for children

to learn how to sew.

We have a fashion class.

We have music classes specifically for percussion and drums.

We also have another music class for piano.

And then we also have a dance studio.

It's in our mezzanine.

That is for our dance class that we have here.

Our mission here is just to grow the performing arts really.

So whether it be someone trying to bring out their own original productions or like sometimes

we even have different groups come in to teach after school classes.

Being able to grow the performing arts in a community is what makes Lancashire Arts Center

stand out.

The city investing into places like this is because it gives a place for people that were

not as confident the ability to express themselves and give a space for people that are a little

bit different another space to play because being able to play is so important just for

our mental health as well as for like the health of the community and it just makes

the world a better place.

We look forward to having you here at Lancashire Arts Center, whether it be taking part in

our free programming as well as being able to come and just watch a movie or watch a

show, we look forward to having you over here.

On Instagram, our Instagram handle is dca underscore lnk.

You can also find out more about us on culture.lacity.gov, that's our website.

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The Tosco Theater is located in Canoga Park.

There is so much already here to offer.

Cultural events, performances, folks do annual Villados Morteos festivals, there is art walks,

There's musical events, there's jazz, and I feel like we have the privilege to be added

in that offering.

The space had been left a little bit weary, and so when the city came in to renovate the

space, it was offered another chance to breathe new life into the arts here.

The Tosco Theatre is here for everyone.

It is here for young artists who are just starting out, to the professional artists

who are here to dream up their new vision, and we're here for the community at large

at all of our community events.

One of our signature events is called Walking in Our Light.

This idea of how we help people to encourage them to think about the light that they bring

and to show appreciation for those who helped to nurture that light.

So from that idea we thought well let's walk in our light, let us have stories along the way

where people can stop and hear performances and storytelling of other people saying this is my

light, this is how I shine it, and these are the people I want to show appreciation to. So we do

this walk around the block and then we end up with a little gathering, performances inside,

and lots of time to just reflect on, yeah, this is my life, you know,

and these are the people who've helped me get there.

Our communities don't always see what the city of Los Angeles provides them,

providing access to the arts.

Says to me, that's a city that's proud of the stories it wants to tell,

the people who want to tell them, and the ways that they want to tell them.

A space like this gives opportunity for folks of all ages, cultures, experience to say,

I can be seen, I can be heard.

And I'm walking in these doors and it feels welcoming, it feels nurturing, and people are

excited to listen to me and to hear me.

We don't have that all the time.

So it's a live space that's here to welcome and nurture those sparks of inspiration and vision.

There's a few ways to find us. We are always on social media, so we are on Instagram. We have a

Facebook page. You can go to the Department of Cultural Affairs, their website. You'll find the

Tosco Theater. It may take a few clicks here and there, but we try to stay present in any way that

we can.

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safe and clean

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with Passion of the Cut Sleeve in partnership with the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.

The show Galloping into the New Year takes place on February 13th and will feature queer and trans Chinese folklore told through music, theater, poetry and performance art.

Experience the joy of the New Year in an 80 minute show with a live band playing traditional Chinese instruments.

Head to Plaza de la Raza for Galloping into the New Year on Friday, February 13th at 7 p.m.

Learn more by searching for Lunar New Year at culture.lacity.gov.

Join the Los Angeles Public Library at one of its events to mark African American History Month.

On Saturday, February 14th, enjoy a talk from author Glenda Armand as she tours food history to take you from awful to delicious on a short journey down an African-American foodway.

For African-Americans, food has been more than nourishment.

It has been tradition, income, and a means of resistance.

Armand highlights the stories of George Washington's enslaved cook, the ice cream entrepreneur Augustus Jackson, and Georgia Gilmore, whose cooking sustained the Montgomery bus boycott.

Head to the Central Library for Glenda Armand from Awful to Delicious on Saturday, February 14th at 10.30 a.m.

For more details, go to lapl.org slash events.

San Fernando Valley Audubon Society invites you to a guided tour of the reserve on the second Saturday of February.

The walk will take in the many birds and other wildlife at Hanson Dam and is for the beginner bird watchers, families, and anyone who wants to visit the wildlife reserve.

The emphasis of each tour will vary with participants' interests.