Inserted in between the pages, sketches from famed costume designer Adrian, movie posters, lobby cards.

The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce donated its Hollywood Christmas Parade archive.

In 1983, when the original model for the library was unveiled, Goldwyn said that he and Gary were criticized for its design.

People said that it didn't look like what a library was supposed to look like, he said.

Have four rather solid walls, be dark, and have Shakespeare and Plato on the wall.

That's good too, but this is different.

I hope people will come and look at it and want to come in and read a book.

The Frank Gary designed Hollywood Library opened on June 12th, 1986, more than four years after the fire.

Kirk Douglas cut the ribbon while teary-eyed Hollywood staff members looked on.

Staff members from Central Library were also on hand because just two months earlier, the Central Library had also burned.

In fact, lessons learned in the aftermath of the Hollywood Library Fire about salvaging books and handling donations would prove to be invaluable in shaping the response to the Central Library fire.

This amazing collection is still accessible to the public by making an appointment at the Hollywood Library.

Challenge yourself to conserve.

Turning off the faucet when you brush saves up to 10 gallons of water.

Taking a five-minute or less shower saves up to 15 gallons of water.

Washing only full loads of laundry saves up to 30 gallons of water.

And fixing a running toilet can save up to 50 gallons of water.

Keep it in mind all day, every day.

It's water conservation the LA way.

Welcome to the Los Angeles Central Library, a cultural gem at the heart of downtown Los Angeles, and the flagship of the Los Angeles public library system.

For the last century, this remarkable institution has been a beacon of learning, creativity, and community for Angelinos and visitors alike.

Every day, the Central Library connects people, providing a vital space to engage in the present.

Learn from the past and dream of the future.

Whether you're visiting the city or viewing from home, welcome to LA this week.

Opened in 1926, the Los Angeles Central Library is an architectural landmark inspired by ancient civilizations and Spanish colonial revival styles.

By the mid-1960s, the building faced calls for demolition, but preservation efforts prevailed.

A major renovation saved the library, doubled its size, and introduced new landscaping.

Now in 2026, LA's public library invites everyone to celebrate 100 years of the Central Library and its lasting impact on the city.

We are in the magnificent Central Library here in downtown Los Angeles, and we are celebrating the 100th birthday of this incredible building.

Just as importantly, all of the incredible things that happened inside it and have happened over the last 100 years.

And we're going to be revealing what we found in that copper box.

Yeah, it was not a simple or straightforward process to figure out how we were going to get the actual time capsule out of the middle of our wall from a hundred years ago.

There were structural integrity concerns, there were historic resource concerns.

The actual cornerstone itself is beautifully inscribed with the name and the seal of the library, and we couldn't damage or destroy that.

So long story short, we were able to come through the inside of the building, which happens to be the men's restroom, bust through the inside layer of the outer wall and the cornerstone itself to finally reach the capsule and pull it out and uh be able to finally open it and share the contents today.

I would just encourage people to come down and see it.

The time capsule especially is kind of fun because as kids we used to do time capsules in our backyard.

No one probably ever dug them up, but in this case, you know, it was a very formal thing, and they even found a time capsule inside of Time Capsule, which was cool, so you can see all the contents of that.

It's neat.

There were some things that we knew had been placed in the time capsule through minutes of library board meetings.

But as with almost all time capsules, there are inevitably surprises.

Another really interesting thing to me was from the 1881 time capsule from the normal school that was on this site before the library, and that capsule was actually inside of ours.

We didn't have any idea what that was going to contain, but among the really interesting things was a sort of memento of uh black morning cloth and dried moss from the funeral of President Garfield who had been assassinated just a couple months prior, and somebody who was at that memorial celebration in uh Cleveland brought that and felt that it was important to represent that moment in American history and put it in the time capsule, and that's something we have here that we never would have expected.

I've walked around and looked at the artifacts, which is amazing how well they survived.

They don't look like they sat in the box for a hundred years.

But the building itself proved that LA does have a history.

We are not just this whole new city.

We do have a history here, and we like to celebrate our history.

A lot of great things to be proud of of this library.

I think it's the greatest place where any Angelino can come and feel at home, read, and just feel at peace, knowing that they can have access to any great knowledge as I have.

I don't know what anyone would be if we didn't learn from history, learn from the lessons of life.

Even though we're celebrating Central Library, we're going to be having programming at our branches throughout the entire year.

So people can go um and get all kinds of information.

If they go to the Los Angeles Public Library website, lapl.org, backslash central 100, and everything will be posted there, and we're gonna be adding information as the year goes on.

We're so excited to celebrate this incredible landmark building and to have the public celebrate with us.

So today's event is called plant day at the library.

I came in one day with my sister and saw that they had a sign for planting.

And I was like, oh, this is really interesting.

We should come and enjoy like the workshop that they have.

And she was like, okay, so we decided to come in.

It's just a way for people to get together and celebrate plants and the people who love them.

This one is called Donkey's Tale.

We've gathered number of different uh experts in horticulture, flower arrangements, sustainability, composting.

I love how you're adding just a little bit of propagation and repotting to teach the public how to work with plants, veggie trays in case they want to grow veggies at home.

Plants for drainage.

So people are walking away with knowledge of how to work with plants, some plants themselves, and then also connections to community agencies that are working to make LA greener and more sustainable.

They like design.

I do.

It's very creative.

I felt really proud of my idea and expressing who I am as a person, which I feel like I was able to do with the rainbow.

We're Chicas Verdes.

We're an output organization based in Los Angeles where we create green spaces for students in the community.

We've been invited by the Central Library for Plant day.

Today we're doing five bouquets where they'll be arranging flowers.

Yes, yes, yes.

I think that uh nature brings something out in us, right?

We live in a natural world.

At the end of the day, we come from nature, and it's important for us to be able to connect with and learn in that sort of way.

Uh, doing something with your hands is really important too, not only for kids, but also for everybody.

Thank you.

And that's what we're here to do today.

These stories up next on City Beat.

Mayor Karen Bass and the Los Angeles City Council have approved the 2028 cultural program for the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Led by the city's Department of Cultural Affairs, the program will bring the creative energy of Los Angeles to the world stage.

Starting this year, the city will engage artists and cultural organizations in all 15 city council districts.

The official launch will take place in 2027, with events taking place across Los Angeles in 2028.

Learn more at culture.lacity.gov.

Hey Angelinos want to check out some amazing museums and cool spots.

Your Los Angeles Public Library card is the key to it all.

From the zoo, Labrea Tarpits, and LA Galaxy to the Music Center and so much more.

Log into Discover and Go to reserve free or low-cost passes to tons of awesome attractions.

Learn more at LAPL.org slash explore LA.

We're at the Central Library, the largest public library in California, and one of the biggest in the nation.

This has long been home to millions of books, photographs, maps, films, and archival materials.

Some dating back to the city's earliest days, reflecting the shared history of Los Angeles.

That same sense of connection is being echoed in soccer.

The beautiful game.

As LA hosts this year's World Cup with fan festivals, watch parties, and community events unfolding across the city.

The excitement is building fast.

Whether you're new to the game, a casual fan, or a devoted player, there are countless ways to experience the World Cup spirit throughout Los Angeles together.

One, two, and we're right at the doorstep of the World Cup.

We're all coming together to bring together our communities and to celebrate the sport of soccer.

It gives me great joy that we get to share our city with the world.

Soccer is the most popular sport in the world, and to have eight matches hosted in Inglewood is bigger than a dream come true for the city.

It puts us on the map as an international city.

One of the things when we talk about the World Cups, there's always the question of what's the legacy going to be?

What are you going to leave behind?

And these clinics are going to be part of it.

You're 26 different clearinets around the county of Los Angeles, making sure that young kids can come out, experience the game, you know, the way it's supposed to be, and you know, and have a good time and learn about the sport.

The clinics are all about sharing that love of soccer with our community, but also uh just spending time with the young people and letting them know that they matter, and that this game can unite us in ways that not a lot of things can.

I think my legacy program is the coolest because I get the party bus.

It's called Kick It With Us Mobile Bus Tour.

It's a mobile pop-up tour that begins on March 3rd, and it will literally cruise around the county for 100 days.

They're gonna stop, they're gonna give out merch.

So the kick it with us mobile tour is a great way to inspire, which we care deeply about, grassroots participation, and we'll be able to unite all the passionate fans and the broader community.

We've been working on for months trying to create opportunities for more residents to participate and be able to enjoy uh the World Cup excitement.

And so we are very excited to have announced not just our fan festival, which will kick off the tournament here at the Coliseum, but nine additional official fan zones throughout the region that'll be open for people to participate and enjoy matches.

There'll be like many fan festivals, and it's a great opportunity to bring your family.

I want this to be a joyful celebration, right?

I want this to be um where we're able to show the world what America is like, and it's true for truistions that we're kind and we're compassionate and we're loving, and we're gonna bring the world together in a really great way, and no better way to do it than through the beautiful game of soccer.

The library's rare books room holds more than 22,000 rare monographs dating as far back as the 15th century with strengths in California and Mexican history, natural history, costume voyages, and travels.

Both the Central Library and the LAPD serve as pillars of the community, one inspiring through knowledge and culture, the other safeguarding the city.

The LAPD's focus on community policing and collaborative partnerships has helped reduce crime and build trust, as reflected in 2025 data.

Like the library, its success depends on engaging the community, highlighted by initiatives such as the inaugural Native American Community Police Advisory Board.

Today is a very exciting day for Los Angeles Police Department.

For one, you're here at the Los Angeles Police Academy where we have a lot of tradition and a lot of first.

And today we're having our first Native American Community Police Advisory Board meeting.

We're going to be able to hand out their IDs after they completed the academy and talk about issues and the direction that they're going to be going.

Today is our badge ceremony.

So we are building a board which is helping our Native American and Indigenous community of Los Angeles.

We'll be able to go out into the community and talk about what they've learned through the police.

We all have a voice under this new umbrella with LAPD.

We didn't have it before, but now we do, and uh we're here to support the community and overall everyone in LA County.

Oh, they're gonna come into our communities, come to our officers, be throughout the city, educating us on Native American and the importance of their traditions of their cultures and what their community needs.

So this is a wonderful day of births.

Today we're releasing the LAPD's end-of-year crime data, as detailed in our 2025 annual review of crime and initiatives.

This report reflects our commitment to transparency, accountability, and providing the public with a clear understanding of where crime stands in Los Angeles today.

The data in this year's report shows that homicides in Los Angeles are down, both in total number and as a percentage compared to last year.

We believe one of the factors impacting that reduction is taking more guns off the street.

I want to be clear that progress in one area does not mean that our work is done.

Other violent crime categories show mixed results, and property crime and quality of life issues remain real concerns for many Angelinos.

We're not minimizing those challenges, and we're certainly not ignoring them.

The stats being shared today are so incredibly important because to me they show something that I have known for a long time.

That when we invest in our law enforcement, we see safer neighborhoods and real results.

In my district, the work coming out of LAPD's Devonshire and Topenga Division shows exactly why focused policing and strong investigative work matter.

As chair of the city's committee on public safety, my responsibility is to make sure that this progress lasts.

So the success we are seeing in my community can be experienced across the city of Los Angeles.

As part of its 100 year celebration, a time capsule buried in the library's cornerstone in 1925 was recently opened, revealing early staff records, a scrapbook of library buildings, and newspaper in multiple languages that reflect Los Angeles' rich diversity.

These artifacts remind us that preserving history means honoring all communities that shared the city.

That same spirit is reflected in this year's centennial African American Heritage Month, which celebrates the contributions and achievements of African Americans through civic and cultural events, including the official kickoff at LA City Hall.

We are excited and thrilled to see black women leaders take over City Hall from the bridge to council chambers.

We have so many powerhouses in a number of industries.

Being part of this cadre of black women leaders during Black History Month is like super exciting.

That's a lot of star power right there in that rotunda.

Today we have the first of many presentations for Black History Month.

Here in the city of Los Angeles, it's always such a moving and vibrant celebration of the African American community in this city.

And this year we especially focus on the story of resistance and the role women have played in leading that story.

I think it's a game changer when you're recognized by the city of Los Angeles with your peers, other black women who lead throughout the city.

You just feel grateful.

It says everything that people are paying attention to the work that we're doing in the community.

So to be part of that group and to be recognized for that is super exciting.

This is important because it is the celebration of 100 years of black history commemorations from 1926 to 2026, started by the father of black history, Carter G.

Woodson.

And we have to keep it going at a time that they're trying to erase it.

Not just for black people, but for everyone else that they're trying to take it away.

Black history is American history.

They say once the black community is free, then everybody will be free.

And that's something that we just always have to continue.

Remember because they try to erase that.

They try to erase the decades of struggle and sacrifice and success.

The black and African American community has undertaken in this country.

When there are other forces, other people who say that we shouldn't be celebrating our diversity.

We celebrate our diversity.

We honor black Americans for what black Angelinos have brought to our city.

But today we are specifically focused on the great women leaders in our black community.

So the Department of Cultural Affairs manages the bridge gallery.

This month's exhibition is entitled Black Women Lead.

There is some spectacular women there.

Every single woman on that wall from sweet Alice who is 92 to the youngest person, which is not me, are still active.

They are still laying it down.

They are still giving up every day doing something.

It means to me that we get to celebrate those trailblazers.

I'm a civil rights lawyer by training.

Hey, those trailblazing lawyers who open doors so that little black girls like me could go to schools like Harvard Law School, can practice civil law.

This month means everything.

It means that we are moving forward to make certain that our grandchildren and our children's children have something to stand on.

And we won't turn around.

So 100 years and for a hundred more, we've got to continue to make a difference.

Black women were here when the city started.

Black women have been here through every struggle and every triumph, every setback, every tragedy, and continue to be here tin toes down, building the kind of city that we all deserve to live in.

Here in Council District 12, we're having a wildfire safety and resource fair today.

So where we invite the community out to learn a little bit more about not only how to harden their own homes, but also to harden our community.

We've all heard the, I guess it's a cliche, but fail to plan is plan to fail.

And not having a plan for dealing with a wildfire emergency is giving uh the you know the universe the chance to decide our fate.

If you come into my booth right over there and sign up your home, my safe LA will actually come and do an assessment to make sure that your house is prepared as possible.

This is Southern California.

We we are open to a lot of a lot of potential for emergencies.

So as a community, attending events like this and the city participating in events like this is key to educate members of the public to increase their resiliency.

So many different people that I've spoken to that were affected by the fires in the palisades have told me the same thing.

I wish I would have grabbed this, or it would have been important if I grabbed this piece of paper to help me through my insurance process.

They wish they were a little bit more prepared and like what exactly, if you have five minutes, you have 10 minutes, you have 20 minutes.

What is it that you need to gather within your home that's so important to you?

I would highly recommend, as John had mentioned, maybe to photograph a lot of the items in your house.

So if you can for insurance purposes, do take photographs, put that in a safe place somewhere so that you have that available.

Public safety, resiliency.

It's not something that the LAPD or the fire department can do on their own, or you as a community can do on your own.

It's a group effort, it's a team.

We have from the department of aging to the city clerk's office to the council district office, many, many different services here today.

It's a day set aside for seniors providing services, resources, knowledge, and information for them, their caregivers, and the community at large.

I'll have an outreach table and you can actually get grab materials and all that.

Yeah, it's important that we go out in the community and go meet the seniors where they are and provide the resources what they need, and they are able to ask questions in real time and get answers.

Our senior population is a vulnerable population when it comes to scams and frauds.

Lots of people engage seniors via cell phone, email.

It's important that we provide them with information and support.

They're able to report this financial abuse to adult protective services, and we're there to guide them along the way.

It's important to remind individuals of what they have available to them, whether that is food resources, whether that is mental health resources, whether that is public safety information.

Today we're also gonna have um personnel from our LAPD department presenting on traffic safety.

It's very important to stay connected and to stay informed.

We know it's really hard to navigate for seniors, and we want to make sure that we are available resource to them to try to see if we can help them.

And now, coming up on things to do.

Every year, LA's Chinatown hosts the annual Golden Dragon Parade to mark the Lunar New Year.

In 2026, the 127th parade will celebrate strength, energy, and freedom for the year of the fire horse with live performances featuring lion and dragon dancers, floats, movies, and television personalities.

Head to Chinatown for the parade from Hill Street of Temple onto Bernard, then Broadway, and back around towards Temple.

Join the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in LA's Chinatown for the 127th Golden Dragon Parade.

On Saturday, February 21st, beginning at 1 p.m.

Learn more at LA Chinese Chamber.org.

On Saturday, February 21st, join El Pueblo de Los Angeles for an event to honor African American Heritage Month.

This music celebration afternoon will include exhibits, cultural conversation, and food trucks.

Head to El Pueblo, the birthplace of Los Angeles for the Black History Month celebration on Saturday, February 21st, beginning at 12 p.m.

Get more details on this and other cultural events by following El Pueblo LA on Instagram.

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

For nearly a century, the Los Angeles Central Library has been a cultural treasure and research hub.

It's nine subject departments cover everything, from science to international languages, while special collections feature rare books, historic travel posters, menus, fashion plates, and over 116,000 photographs documenting the city's past.

Visitors can enjoy docent tours or take part in programs ranging from citizenship classes to borrowing hiking gear or musical instruments to podcasting.

Truly a multitude of ways for Angelinos to explore and learn.

From all of us at LA City, you can watch these stories and more on Channel 35, or anytime at LACity.gov slash TV.

And follow us at LA City on Instagram, Facebook, X, and YouTube.

Until next time, explore and enjoy all that Los Angeles has to offer this.

She was an artist, designer, topographer, printer, and an avid book plate collector.

In this small book, that she published at her own studio.

It is a collection of her own book plates that she designed for other people living in the Los Angeles area.

She studied first in Paris with Fernand Leger in the 1920s, and then returned to Claremont, California to open her print shop.

In addition to book arts, Saunders designed book plates for artists and musicians and libraries in the Los Angeles area.

She was vice president of the Book Plate Association International, and she also published a book of book plates from fourteen countries around the world.

Saunders' criteria for book plates was quite simple.

She wanted a clear presentation of the name integrated with the design so that the topography and the image were worthy of placement in a book.

In the art department, with its collection of about three hundred thousand books on graphic and performing arts, as well as recreation.

A study of book plates, especially those that are online in the Tessa, our platform for digital collections, can serve as a starting point for an adventure into the world of prints and printmaking.

You may even discover an original book plate created by a local artist in our relief printmaking class.

The design integrates the Los Angeles Public Library's own book plate with additional images that reflect the book worthy of the plate.

Also, man, it is so good.

The regularly scheduled meeting of your Los Angeles City Council.

Today is Tuesday, the seventeenth day of February in the year twenty twenty six.

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

Madam Clerk, let's begin our proceedings for this week by calling the role.

Bloomenfield, Harris Dawson, Hernandez, Hutt, Harado, Lee, McCosker, Nazarene, Patilla, Park, Price, Raman, Rodriguez, Sotomartinez Yaroslavsky, ten members present, and a quorum, Mr.

President.

All right, first order of business.

Approval of the minutes of Friday, February 13th.

Councilmember Rodriguez moves, Councilmember Park, seconds.

What's next?

Commendatory resolutions for approval.

Councilmember who auto moves, Council Member Blumenfield, seconds.

What's next?

Mr.

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

Alright, I'll ask everyone in the chambers to rise, face the flag and follow along with Councilmember Lee.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

We can all face our nation's flag, put your right hand over your heart.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.

And to the Republic for which it stands.

Mr.

President, would the council like all items to go forth with today?

Yes, please.

Thank you.

Items one through three are items noticed for public hearing.

Items four through twelve are items for which public hearings have been held.

Items thirteen through seventy one are items for which public hearings have not been held.

Please note a community impact statement has been submitted for item thirty-five and posted to council file twenty-six-016 six.

Ten votes are required for a separate vote.

All right, without objection, those item 40 for comments are now before us.

I see a number of specials on the queue.

I'll begin with council member Rodriguez.

46 for an amendment, which will be circulated.

And item 62 to move the arts parks, libraries, and community enrichment committee report.

All right.

Is there a second to that motion?

Seconded by Mr.

Blumenfield.

All right.

Council Member Park.

Thank you, Council President.

I'd like to call 38 for an amendment, which will be circulated.

Alright.

Number 38.

All right.

I see no others on this side.

Councilmember Blumenfield.

I'd like to ask for item 12 to be special for uh comments and an amendment and a couple amendments that are being circulated.

Alright, Councilmember Hutt.

Good morning, and thank you, Mr.

President.

I rise to call item eight special and ask for a continuance to March 24th.

Our office has some concerns and questions regarding the services being provided to the bid and would like to hold until then.

Okay.

Without objection.

All right.

Uh Councilmember Jurado.

Thank you, Council President.

I'd like to continue item two to March 10th and call item 58 special for a separate vote.

Alright, Councilmember Lee.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

I believe that Councilmember Blue Winfield called item number 12 for an amendment.

I also have another amendment that is being circulated.

All right.

Any other specials members?

We've all gone through the list here.

All right.

Madam Clerk, what items are available for our consideration at this time.

The council may now vote on items four through seven and nine through eleven.

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

Four and five are more special, yeah.

Yes, excuse me, six through seven and nine through eleven.

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

Close the roll, tabulate the vote.

All right, what's next?

Would the council like to take up items four through five?

All right.

Um, let's take up four through five call special by council member Rodriguez.

Just for a separate vote.

All right.

Let's open the roll.

Close the roll, tabulate the vote.

Nice, two no.

Mr.

Lee.

No.

Okay.

You want to be recorded as a yes vote?

Yes.

Okay.

All right.

Um, Madam Clerk, what's next?

The council may now move on to public comment.

All right, before we do public comment, we've got a couple uh announcements.

Uh, first, beginning with council district one, council member Hernandez has an announcement.

I know.

Thank you.

Thank you, Council President.

And this is um the announcement you said?

Yes.

Great, thank you.

Uh colleagues, today marks the 13th annual engineers week, and it's my pleasure to host elementary school day at City Hall.

Engineers, engineers week here at City Hall as well.

We have a lot of students here.

Um, this is my second year hosting this event as chair of the public works committee, and I'm proud to share that we've increased our capacity to bring more of our future leaders here today.

We have over 100 young minds taking over City Hall from Highland Park Monet Issa Elementary from Pico Union, the Opoleti Elementary and Magnolia Avenue Elementary, and from Council District 12, we have Chatsworth Elementary, the American Society of Civil Engineers launched this week because it believes every student in LA should see themselves as a future of STEM.

Everybody stand up and wave because you'll be on YouTube.

Yeah, a shout out to everyone who made today possible.

Isabella Salgado of the Bureau of Engineering and your elementary school day lead, ASCE Los Angeles Younger Member Forum, and all the volunteers and chaperones who are here today.

I also want to thank the city controllers team for helping us move your activities to the conference room 351 in City Hall East.

Uh in some jobs, rain means you cancel plans, but an engineering is just another variable in a math problem.

Engineers account for everything, wind and earthquakes.

And you know, um my brother, he's an engineer right now, and he had a really tough time in school, but now he works and builds rocket ships.

So you could do anything, especially with engineering.

So I'm so happy that y'all are here today.

And as you take on your activities, lean on your classmates.

If your tower falls, ask your peers why, ask them for help.

If your blueprint looks tough, brainstorm with your group.

That teamwork is how you can build uh and how you will build a future that works for everyone.

Welcome to City Hall.

This is your house.

Stay curious and enjoy elementary school day at City Hall.

And again, welcome to all our future engineers.

Thank you.

Thank you, Council President.

Thank you, Councilmember Hernandez, and thank you so much to the students.

We're so happy to see you and the joy and the hope that you bring into this uh building, and there's plenty of work for you when you get done uh going to school.

We're gonna save traffic and how bad traffic is, we're saving that for you.

So when you get it to be adults, you can solve it uh for the rest of our city.

So thank you so much for being here.

All right.

Uh, we've got another special presentation from Councilmember Lee.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Good morning, everyone.

I just wanted to bring attention to the fact that today marks the start of the lunar new year.

It is the year we welcome the year of the fire horse.

Lunar New Year is celebrated by millions of people around the world, and it is time that marks renewal, reflection, and new beginnings.

It is traditionally a time to spend with your family on our cultural traditions and welcome good fortune for the year ahead.

In many traditions traditions, the horse symbolizes strength, energy, forward movement, and perseverance, reminding us to keep pushing ahead towards our goals.

The fire horse in particular is associated with passion, drive, and boldness, encouraging us to approach the new year with confidence and purpose.

Many lunar new year traditions from festive decorations to shared meals and celebrations, reflects hope for prosperity, health, and happiness in the year to come.

As we begin this lunar new year, I hope that it brings everyone good health, happiness, and success.

On your desk is a little gift to help you celebrate the lunar year.

Uh happy lunar near everyone.

Thank you so much, Mr.

Lee, and happy lunar new year to everyone.

Um Madam Clerk, what's next?

The council may now move on to public comment.

All right, I'll ask the city attorney to prepare us for public comment for this morning's meeting.

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

We will tell you when your time is up.

When speaking on the agenda items, you must be on topic.

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

If you are not on topic, or if we cannot tell whether you're on topic, you will get one brief warning from me or the council president.

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

If you do not do so, or if you again stray off topic, you will forfeit the rest of your speaking time, and we will move on to the next speaker.

The items open for public comment on the agenda are items number one and three, and items 13 through 71.

So again, the items open for public comment on the agenda are items one and three and items 13 through 71.

Item number two has been continued and is thus not open for public comment.

Members of the public may also speak for up to one minute for general public comment.

During general public comment, members of the public may speak to any of the items or anything else in the city's subject matter jurisdiction.

A couple more announcements.

If I could have the interpreters make this first one aloud to the room, please.

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

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

Thank you.

Additionally, if you've made an accommodation request under the ADA with the clerk's office, or if you would like to, in order to make use of the wireless handheld microphone, once you hear your name called out to speak, please let the sergeants know by raising your hand so they can provide you with the wireless handheld mic.

One final announcement: 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 accommodate as many people as possible, we'd 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 room to speak.

Thank you.

I'll be calling the next few names.

Alejandro Campillo, Andrew G.

Chen Kay, and Cindy W.

Okay, can we let the next speaker go?

Mr.

Herman, if you would like to use the wireless handle microphone, because you have a standing accommodation request.

This is the last time I'm going to ask you, and then I'm going to issue warnings.

So we're not going to play games and guess whether you want to come to the podium or whether you want us to honor your accommodation request.

So, like everybody else who files one, please wait and raise your hand so the sergeants can provide you with the wireless handheld microphone.

Go ahead, you have three minutes for the items and one minute for general.

Harado Il Juju Blue Fee.

Oh, you promise Casas of 90 Saban Una.

Multi.

For 30 million dollars, I find that a lie, Bob.

Look at you.

You know what I mean?

The cost of the acquisition, construction, improvement, and equipment for this North Main Street bullshit on 36 North Main Street in Council District 14, where Horardo, the liar, promises housing for all us people.

Uh Mr.

Groat, I want to put on record my constitutional right and belief on item three, please.

It has nothing to do with item number three.

Stick to the items or we're gonna move you to general.

Now, so into item public safety.

Year of a horse budget.

Yeah.

Which item are you speaking to?

I'm talking about the response of public safety.

There's a bunch of them.

Uh 22-0057, dumbass.

It's item 58, moron.

Yeah, shake your head.

This is in regard to the chief of police, that we know under the terms and conditions, that the collaborative crisis response and training is inadequate, right?

You always arrest black people, Mr.

Chief of Police.

Always.

Then comes the poor Latinos, or as you call them, grow, wetbacks.

Then in my last few seconds on another item, so I don't run on like a dick.

Dickhead.

Mayor's Office of Public Safety to expand the grant and submit a grantor on behalf of city requests and cities funds.

Can you believe that shit, smoking scam?

This is a smoking scan scam, right, smoking scan?

Thank you.

So to establish this, the local cyber criminals of Los Angeles have used Proton as their weaponization when it comes to dealing with the problem.

I don't know what you're speaking to, which is why we need you to do that.

General public comment of one minute.

You fucking asshole.

Eric Prevan, petitioner versus the city of Los Angeles, filed in the courts of appeal February 22nd, 2019.

Supreme Court number BS 166039.

You, Mr.

Attorney, and all your attorneys have violated the Brown Act.

You continue to violate the Brown Act because, like a dumb son of a bitch, you rather have us not participate in regular versus special meetings.

Because you claim that the specials go behind closed doors while you have a dickhead or two attorneys that sit back there participating.

And then when you allow the public to participate either before or after, you count us out.

So that makes you a jackass, Mr.

Attorney Grote.

And I'm glad David O'Carter is gonna bring that out in the Obama federal court tomorrow, Wednesday, on division one first.

And your time is expired.

And just as a to clarify sort of what Mr.

Herman is saying, I believe he's referring to the Eric Prevan case.

I couldn't understand exactly what it's saying, but obviously, if you would like to provide public comment when there is a special meeting, we do open up public comment for special meetings, although there is not one today.

Thank you.

Good morning, speaker.

What would you like to speak to?

A general comment.

Okay, you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Good morning.

My name is Andrew Gillespie, and I work at Starbucks here in Los Angeles.

I'm here to talk about the need to pass the fast food fair work ordinance, specifically the implementation of know your rights training for all new hires.

Corporations like Starbucks rely on workers like me not knowing the rights the state of California affords me and exploits that lack of knowledge in order to drive profits at the expense of our well-being, the likes of which have led to hundreds of unfair labor practices, court recognized, which we are currently striking against.

It's no secret that they target underserved, undereducated, and impoverished communities to make their money for them, knowing there is a critical lack of information available to those communities, which they reap the benefits from.

Multibillion dollar corporations like Starbucks should not have to rely on workers not knowing their rights in order to make their money.

And if they do, they clearly have bigger problems to address.

This is why it is imperative that the fast food fair work ordinance passes, which will ensure that all fast food workers in this city are fully aware of their rights and are then able to recognize when those rights are being denied or abused.

Thank you.

Thank you, next speaker.

Before the next speaker begins, I'll be calling the next few names.

Daniel Sosa, Delvin H.

Dennis O, Ernest Martinez, and Hallie Muro.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Uh, general public comment.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Hello, my name is Alecampio.

I'm with Sage.

I'm a resident of CD1, and I'm born and raised in CD3.

And it's with great honor that we got to work with these two offices to push forward something that's gonna actually push the city to be more flexible in its ways of supporting tenants.

I talk to tenants every day.

I've door knocked over 10,000 doors in the last year, and the reoccurring story I keep hearing is that tenants are not allowed to install ACs when their landlords are trying to use that as a form of harassment to try to suppress them, suppress their voice.

And this piece of legislation allows for tenants to be empowered while also keeping it flexible so that the grid is not impacted.

This is a question of people's lives.

This is a question of people's health.

This is a question of it affecting so many other things that affect our health, like mold and other issues that affect housing and health.

And so at the end of the day, this piece of legislation will be very important to move forward.

And so I hope that you vote yes on the item 12.

Thank you.

Next speaker.

Mr.

Herman, this is your first and only formal warning.

Do not disrupt this meeting.

I can see that he has now exited the room, thankfully.

Good morning, speaker.

What would you like to speak to?

I would like to speak to general public comment, please.

Okay, you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Uh council, my name is Daniel Sosa.

I operate uh four licensed cannabis dispensaries in the city.

Without immediate action to adjust the city's cannabis policies, particularly those related to taxation and illegal enforcement, the licensed cannabis market will collapse.

The licensed cannabis market will collapse.

Once again, counsel, these are not my words.

These are words directly from the urgent cannabis commission policy recommendations to you back in July.

Our industry needs tax reform yesterday.

You, City council, have the explicit authority to lower the cannabis taxes under Measure M.

A 10% tax rate is perpetuating the harms of cannabis prohibition.

A 10% tax rate is 100 times the tax rate the city collects from big big box retail corporations from alcohol sales, from tobacco sales, from gun sales.

Please act to save our industry.

Your time has expired.

So you have one minute for general.

Go ahead.

Good morning.

My name is Dennis, and I'm here to give a public comment.

I work at Starbucks here in Los Angeles.

I'm here to talk about the need to pass the fast food fare work ordinance.

Stable scheduling is essential for fast food workers.

Working at Starbucks showed me that I need stable scheduling because closing my store and then having to open five hours later does not give me time to rest and prepare for the next day.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Good morning.

This is a public comment, a general comment.

It was in regards to the human trafficking that was going on in the Miss Herodos District, Boyle Heights on Cedar Chavez and Mission Road, with all this Epstein list stuff coming out.

What I can't tell you is that it's going to be judgment day.

Fear God, not these Jews.

Before the next speaker begins, I'll be calling next few names.

John P.

Dole, Juanita Jabez, Julie C.

And Cash P.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Oh, can we try it again?

General public comment.

Okay, perfect.

We can hear you now.

You have one minute.

Go ahead.

Good afternoon.

My name is Haley Murrow.

I work here at Starbucks in Los Angeles, specifically District 5.

I'm here to talk about the need to pass the fast food fair work ordinance.

Because it helped me when I was trying to organize a union at my store.

My co-workers and I didn't know our rights, and Starbucks took that as an opportunity to aggressively union bust our store and made us fearful losing our jobs.

Thankfully, we had union organizers to train us on our rights, and we use them to continue organizing and win our election.

Every fast food worker should have the right to be educated and empowered.

Now we know firsthand employers don't want us to know our rights.

This is why we need to make sure that all fast food workers get the training that we need to defend ourselves and stand up for ourselves.

Employers like Starbucks shouldn't have to rely on us not knowing our rights to do their business.

We urge you, members of the committee, to ensure and support the fast food fair work ordinance.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Good morning, my name is Delvin Enriquez.

I'm a member of Sage.

I live in LA.

We asked please what was signed off by the council in regards to extreme heat to please be applied to Los Angeles.

Because my friend was found dead in her room and when they did the autopsy.

Because she had a attack from a heat stroke from extreme heat.

Because of the structure of the apartment, there is too much, there was too much heat getting in.

Vote yes on number 12 because our lives depend on you guys.

Here in the city of Los Angeles.

Thank you so much.

Um Lamb W.

Laura C, Luciel C, and Mira A.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

A public um comment.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Good morning.

My name is Ja Harris, and I am here to give a public comment.

I work at Starbucks here in Los Angeles.

I'm here to talk about the need to pass the fast food work ordinance.

Stable scheduling is essential for fast food workers.

Working at Christmas Green showed me I needed stable scheduling because I was able to have a fruit a fair work life balance.

I was able to work up, show up for my employees when they needed me the most.

Employees like the Supreme shouldn't have to rely on us not knowing what the future looks like.

We are some members of the committee to support and ensure the fast food fair work ordinance is passed without any delay.

Thank you.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Buenos días.

I live in South Central Los Angeles, district nine.

And low income people due to their lack of ability to have air conditioning.

Because of uh health issues that I have, my vital and internal organs are affected and intestines.

And for this reason and many other reasons, a lot of other people who cannot be here.

Thank you.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Thank you for your time.

I was looking for your help on something, okay?

And it has to do with the Clean Air Act, but also the American Cancer Society, Lung Association, Residentially Challenged, and a standard of care.

And I know I only have one minute and I'm running close.

I feel there's a gap somewhere regarding cancer that I diagnosed with because everybody I go to, they all say, I don't know.

Oh, it is with this, I don't know.

I need to know my steps.

And uh they I you know what this needs to be tabled in all bigger discussion because it's very important, and I don't know how to do that.

I thank you for your time.

Okay, if uh thank you.

If you could just wait over there on the right-hand side of the council chambers, please for a couple minutes.

Feel free to take a seat too if you'd like.

Next speaker.

Before the next speaker begins, I'll be calling the next few names.

Mona I, Natasha G, Patricia Barrett, and Paul Nicholas Bolan.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Uh general comment.

Okay, you have one minute, go ahead.

Okay, my name is Michael Diggan.

I'm an employee of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, a civil servant for the city of Los Angeles, and a shop steward for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, local 18 who serve the city of Los Angeles.

Los Angeles means a great amount to me.

And I make the electricity that keeps these lights on.

And I'm here once again to demand that you do every single thing you can possible to rein in the completely lawless LAPD.

I was just a press conference yesterday where Sasha and A.

Perez was uh sponsoring SB 1105 to try to do something to keep these LAPD agents from supporting ICE and constantly racially profiling our own citizens like they are not supposed to do by their own internal policies when they go out and assist ICE in these roundups and these abductions and kidnappings of American citizens off the streets of Los Angeles.

This has to stop.

Every single person here.

Speaker, your time has expired.

Next speaker.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Um I would like to speak general comments 70 and 46.

My name is Patricia Barrett.

I am two minutes for the items and one minute for general.

I am from CD 14.

Isabelle Girardo is not here.

I'm disappointed in that.

She should be sitting here, and this is where the city is playing defense of Brown Act 70.

The city was recently caught talking illegal secret votes on homelessness instead of apologizing.

They are trying to get the state to change the law, SB 239, so that they can keep the meeting on video secretly.

Smart point, they're trying to legalize their own bad behavior.

Item number 46.

Item number 46, they are trying to clear camps and fire zones without the usual 24-hour notice.

Smart notice.

The city is using public safety as a buzzword to bypass the court rulings that say they can't just throw away people's belongings without warning.

The lawyer fees, they are funneling millions now, 7.5 million to the law firm Gibson Dunn for the lawsuit against Mayor Bass.

Smart point.

We're spending enough to elite lawyers to house hundreds of people just so the city can fight a judge who's asking for honest data.

Tomorrow they're going to be talking about the Brown Act.

Just let you know that the mayor of LA, Mayor Bass is being sued for the fire, the homelessness, and the Brown Act on another point.

They have to stop here, the council people from funneling more fees to them.

The other thing is in Isabel Girardo's place.

There are more women on Skid Row and the last time.

So, Speaker, this sounds like it's more moving to general public comma.

Would you like to move about it?

Give one minute, go ahead.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

The other point is Isabelle Girardo, all she does is care about public parts and what she can do.

She does not do anything for public safety.

Homelessness.

There's more women out there on the streets than ever before.

I do work with LAPD once a week, volunteer work.

Over the last two months, we have had to clothe three women without clothes, and nowhere to put them because there's nowhere to put them at night.

That's number one.

Men are coming out there to rape women at night, and in CD 14, whether you like it or not, there are 70 to 120 kids being housed on Skid Row.

I don't want to say where they're at, and that's a fact, because I have worked with them.

This is an embarrassment for a public figure, and Isabel Girardo does not care about diversity, inclusion, or equity.

We need more of that.

Thank you very much.

Have a nice day.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Item 12.

So item 12 isn't open for public comment, but you can speak to it during general.

So you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Thank you so much.

Good morning, uh members of the city council.

My name is Juanita Chavez.

I'm the director of the Angeles chapter of the Sierra Club and a resident of District 10.

On behalf of our tens and thousands, tens of thousands of members in Los Angeles and Orange County, I urge you to support agenda item number 12, the resolution regarding the proposed maximum indoor temperature requirements.

As the climate crisis worsens, life-threatening extreme heat will only become more common and will disproportionately impact renters and others without the option or means to install mechanical cooling.

Adequate cooling should be a habitability requirement in all homes, just like heating is.

This is not just a matter of comfort.

This is a matter of health and safety and climate resilience.

This policy also provides an opportunity to support emissions reductions.com.

Again, that's lacouncilcomment.com, but we do need to move on to the other speakers at this time.

Thank you.

I can't make any exceptions, I'm sorry.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Item one.

All items.

And you said item two is not non-existent.

So item two has been continued.

So the items that are open for public comment are items one and three, and items 13 through 71.

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

Go ahead.

Okay.

Item one.

In my opinion, she should receive a no vote if Sleazy Dawson, current price indicted so many times, and poverty pimp hut are allowed to vote.

Item number 13 through 27 are items to remove properties from REAP.

All funds collected from these REAP accounts should be used to investigate why Dawson indicted current price and poverty pin hut are personally profiting from using their developers to kick back reap abatement funds to themselves.

Item 30 by Bob Genocide Bloomfield and Dimwitt Raman have come up with the ultimate and reducing the 80,000 homeless population.

This motion is to provide 25,000 in security services at a park.

Genocide Bob and Raman can't come up with anything better than wasting public funds.

So I demand that 99% of this 25,000 in this item be used to fund special election laws that remove each and every one of these incompetent clowns from office if they do not reduce homelessness in each of their areas by 25% per year.

In my opinion, Sleazy Dawson, embezzling current price and Poverty Pimp Hub should not be allowed to vote on this item.

Item 31 by finally indicted racist Asian John Lee is another example of how they are tackling the homeless epidemic.

Item 31 by item racist Asian John LAPD Lee is tackling the 80,000 homeless epidemic with $15,000 for brush clearance.

Great going, indicted racist, Asian John Lee.

General public comment.

Okay.

So you have one minute.

Public listening to Dawson and Hutt talk about black history made me want to vomit.

These corrupt poverty pimping clowns are actually put in place to suppress us.

Sleazy Marquisi Dawson evicted the Apostenter, the black community's 20-year-old community and cultural center, and turned it into a COVID testing site with votes of Dimwit Nithya Raman, Bob Gaza Genocide Bloomfield.

I heard a very bad joke last week.

The joke said that Dimwitt Nithya Raman was running for mayor.

On second thought, that is more of a nightmare.

Dimwit Nithya Raman as mayor is almost as disastrous as burning down the city while Karen Bass was at a party or criminally insane Marquise Dawson.

Black history is world history, not these clowns, shows of entertainment put on by corrupt career Uncle Tom.

Next speaker.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Hi, I am doing general public comment today.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Go ahead.

My name is Dessa Basiska.

I grew up in this town.

I've been here almost 50 years, and it is the town that I love.

However, for nearly a year, you have allowed the federal government to run rampant in this town.

I have just a short list of the abuses, but I've, as far as I can see, Mayor Bass, Chief McDonald, and this city council have drawn no clear enforceable line protecting Angelina's.

Instead, you have offered controlled town halls, press statements, and optics while families live in fear.

Under your watch, students participating in walkouts have been tear gassed and shot with less lethal.

Residents demanding transparency have been shot, beaten, and arrested by federal agents with no accountability.

Mr.

Keith Porter was shot and killed by an ICE officer in Northridge.

And again, a citizen journalist was shot in front of a high school this summer during an ICE operation.

Next speaker.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Good morning, Council.

Um I would like to speak about this issue, and I'm a constituent and council district 10, and I've been trying to get.

So one minute for general.

Okay, general.

It's a general comment.

I have been trying to get hold of Miss Heather Hutt for some time.

There's no response.

So I've had to get a hold of half of Los Angeles at this point.

Now I receive a letter from HACLA stating, which does not make sense.

EHV vouchers are given out by homeless service providers and only have a life of about six months with an extension one year when you're looking for an apartment.

This is stating that there might not be any funding for only 27 to 2800 people that are on this program, which is not a program.

It's a voucher.

I'm on section eight, unfortunately, and I really wish I wouldn't be in the day I can rip up my Section 8 contract is the day I'll be very happy, but besides the fact is at the moment, it's necessary to establish a very um a safety net, let's say.

Let's say that's about it.

But um I would like to get a hold of Mrs.

Hutt's office.

I've gotten some information with her policy and policy person, so I will email them.

It's very hard to get a hold of her office, by the way.

I have no idea.

Understood.

So your time has expired.

We have to move on to the next speaker.

I'll be calling the next few names.

Chelsea K.

Dasanka F.

Gisela Friedman, Mike, and Mike Diggan.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Good morning.

Um, uh item number 12.

Okay.

So you have one minute for general public comment.

Go ahead.

Yes, sir.

Uh, I'm Hisela Friedman, and I'm testifying on behalf of my daughter, Isabel Friedman, who's an environmental health advocate for the Natural Resources Defense Council, NRDC.

NRDC is in strong support of the original motion to establish to establish a maximum indoor temperature for rental housing and is in opposition to the amendment that would require a comprehensive grade analysis.

Extreme heat is the deadliest climate-related disaster, killing more Americans than any all than all the other natural disasters combined.

In Los Angeles, the average extreme heat day can lead to upwards of 1,500 excess heat-related emergency room visits, mostly in low-income areas where residents are more likely to be renters.

Numerous analyses demonstrate that the greatest risk factor in heat-related fatalities is the lack of access to air conditioning.

At home cooling is a necessary part of a comprehensive extreme heat strategy.

It has been shown that increased load on the greed from air conditioning units would be minimal.

Speaker, your time has expired.

Next speaker, thank you.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Good morning, general comment, please.

So you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Good morning, Council members.

My name is Grace Hutt.

I'm with Strategic Actions for a Just Economy and here in strong support of the maximum indoor temperature ordinance.

Every year that the city waits to address the issue of extreme indoor heat is another year of heat-related illness, more trips to the emergency room, more preventable deaths.

This is why our coalition of public health, climate, and housing groups is also concerned by the directive to LADWP to conduct a thorough grid analysis, which could delay this effort greatly.

It's not an option to say we aren't going to protect the lives of tenants because it's too taxing on the electrical grid.

Additionally, LADWP has already planned for low growth scenarios through LA 100 planning.

This is thanks to the City Council, which asked for and approved this planning effort years ago.

So let's continue to make progress on electrification and climate resilience rather than moving backwards and asking for duplicative reports.

Please vote yes on agenda item 12 and put a time limit on these report backs so we can deliver people with life-saving cooling.

Thank you.

Next speaker.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Hello, my name is Shane Henson.

I'm with Inner City Law Center.

I'd like to speak on uh just general public comment.

Okay.

So we have one minute.

Go ahead.

Uh inner city law center uh represents low-income tenants for free throughout Los Angeles County.

Our office supports item 12, the safe indoor temperature ordinance without amendments.

As temperature rises throughout the globe, the threat of extreme heat to our community gets worse with each passing year.

Extreme heat threatens the most vulnerable in our society who cannot properly regulate their temperature.

Seniors and children, causing heat stroke, brain damage, and worsening pre-existing heart conditions.

The results are deadly.

As a legal aid attorney, I have used habitability laws to ensure negligent landlords provided their tenants adequate heating, proper locks, plumbing, and safe electrical wiring.

However, under current law, if a tenant asked me for help because they suffered from extreme heat in their home, I would not have the ability to keep them safe.

That is unacceptable.

Adequate cooling should be a habitability requirement in all homes, just like heating is.

Please vote yes on agenda item 12.

Thank you.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

A general comment.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Good morning.

My name is Garendromero Estrada.

I'm here on behalf of Physicians for Social Responsibility Los Angeles.

I affirm our support for the maximum indoor temperature ordinance.

Our goal is to make LA healthier and more resilient.

So we must support policies that promote whole home habitability.

We cannot risk another summer of extreme heat without relief in our homes.

Extreme heat is life-threatening, and summer is right around the corner.

We urge the council to encourage all reportbacks to move as quickly as possible to ensure people are protected by or before the summer.

Adequate cooling should be a requirement, all homes, just like heating is.

Please vote yes on item number 12.

Thank you.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

A general public comment, please.

Okay.

So you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Good morning.

My name is Catherine Baltasar, and I'm the associate director of advocacy and organizing at Climate Resolve in Los Angeles-based nonprofit working to protect communities from extreme heat.

I'm here to support the um and LA City's adoption of the LA County safe indoor heat temperature policy.

Extreme heat is the deadliest climate-related health hazard that we face.

Every year, more angelinos are exposed to dangerous indoor temperatures during heat waves, and for tenants without acquitted cooling, homes can be a health risk.

It's important that we recognize that the amendments that are being added today will direct stakeholder engagement and expand energy efficiency programs, which are great, but we want to make sure that we remain concerned about the open-ended grid analysis that could delay urgently needed protections.

We already have modeled future load growth and cooling demands through various long-term planning and studies.

Thank you.

Next speaker.

General public comment, please.

Good morning.

You have one minute.

I'm a policy director at Sage.

I'm urging you all to support agenda item 12 to establish an indoor air temperature threshold for rentals in LA.

What the science has shown us is that our summers are getting hotter and they're lasting longer, and the only effective intervention to protect people from the numerous health risks associated with extreme heat is air conditioning.

Right now, tenants have no reprieve from the heat.

Many of our members have shared that not only can they not afford to cool their homes, but their landlords prohibit them from doing so.

So without policy intervention, I do fear what will happen when the temperature exceeds 100 degrees and renters have to do endure it without adequate cooling.

And I imagine what will happen is that people will die, especially the young and especially the elderly.

Action must be taken to prevent this outcome.

Please support agenda item 12.

No more delays, no more reportbacks.

Summer is only four months away, and it's gonna bring record-breaking temperatures as it always does.

Thank you.

I'll be calling the last few names.

Okay, so if your name has been called, you can line up in any order right now.

But I'm not seeing anybody stand up, so there must be duplicate names.

And there are no more names to call?

Correct.

Yes, president.

I believe that we've exhausted public comment if you'd like to close it.

All right, public comment is closed.

Uh, Madam Clerk, what's before us?

Thank you.

The council may now vote on items one, three, thirteen seven, thirty-nine, forty-one through forty-five, forty-seven through fifty-seven, fifty-nine through sixty-one, sixty-three through seventy-one.

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

Close the roll, tabulate the vote.

149.

All right, what's next?

Next, the council may move on to item 12, called special by council member Blumenfield for comments and amendments by council members Lee and Councilmember Blumenfield.

All right, Mr.

Blumenfield.

Great, thank you.

Colleagues, uh, called this item special in order to ask a few basic questions to staff to clarify my own intent and to make sure we adopt the right policy today.

For starters, uh, I really want to thank LADWP housing and the planning staff for working with my team in getting this policy out here today.

It's been a lot of work behind the scenes.

I also want to thank the county and its agencies for passing the landmark health policy, which, via this initiative, we are finally making applicable to the city of Los Angeles.

And I agree with the county, and while its processes may not have been perfect, I want to make sure we do everything needed to get this done.

So, in adopting the county health code, this council can solidify our own intent on ensuring a minimum temperature citywide while ensuring that we have our own ability to enforce in collaboration with the county.

We have to work with landlords and renters to make sure that this policy is actually done right, with incentives and the ability to offset costs while making sure Angelinos aren't suffering under sweltering temperatures.

No one should have to live in a sweat box.

You know, in in my district, last year we hit 121 degrees in the West San Fernando Valley, the hottest part of the city of Los Angeles.

Imagine being in an apartment with no air conditioning and windows just heating that up.

It's like an oven.

We have long mandated minimum temperatures.

Nobody thinks twice about requiring heating in an apartment.

For years, we prevent people from being frozen out.

It's high time we had a legal requirement on the high end of the thermostat as well.

Thankfully, in collaboration with LADWP, we can meet these needs and face our climate reality.

Colleagues, climate pollution is as true today as it was yesterday for this nation and for our city.

Now, we in Los Angeles, thanks to LA 100 and the LA 100 equity strategies already know that human-made emissions coming from buildings and vehicles are some of the largest contributors to contributors to GHG emissions.

And thanks again to LA 100, we have been mapping and forecasting power grid load growth to achieve citywide electrification and 100% renewable energy.

We've been doing this for years.

And we in the city are unique across the nation in being able to work with our utility department on this policy.

So in partnership with LADWP and in and our partners in labor and stakeholders, we can and we will continue to build on the leadership that this city for this city that we've exhibited on meeting ratepayers' needs and meeting our environmental stewardship goals.

These things are not mutually contradictory.

In fact, they can work well together.

Which is why, when it comes to this motion, I've asked DWP to join us at the table.

They can make their way up.

I have a couple of questions.

So let's let's not forget when it comes to power hogs, you know, we're gonna and DWP folks can come to the table.

But when it comes to power hogs, there are much bigger fish to fry than this issue.

Energy needed to keep apartments cooler than 82 degrees is a pimple on the backside of the energy needed for data centers or AI centers by comparison.

A recent report from the International Energy Agency mentioned that between 2019 and 2023, there was a 95% increase in power usage for data and AI centers, with projects seeing five times that amount by 2028.

That's where the power is going.

Why does this matter?

The data centers I just spoke about are the equivalent of a hundred thousand or so households when it comes to power.

And when I use that number, that I'm talking about their overall power, not the minuscule amount of power that it needs on those extra hot days to get below 82 degrees.

And by the way, those numbers on data centers, those were for the smaller ones.

The newer AI centers and data centers are projected to draw 20 times that power.

So again, we need to we need to keep focused on what's where the power draw is and and what the real issues are.

So that means, again, millions of homes.

And while I agree with colleagues that we need to focus on the grid and our capacity, that is extremely important.

I also believe we need to focus our commitment to renewable energy, smart incentives that help landlords and renters as this policy is implemented.

Okay, which brings me to my amendments today, which seeks in to update our direction for an LAPD power grid study.

In committee, an amendment was adopted that required the DWP to first perform a grid study.

So I've asked LADWP to come into the table and answer a few questions on that issue.

And for me, it's important to remind ourselves again that this council a few years ago directed DWP to get to the 100% renewable energy.

That initiative was a collaboration with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, DWP and other and others, including LA-based stakeholders.

A lot of us around this horseshoe spent a lot of blood, sweat, and tears on getting us to that place.

So with that, I have a few questions on our grid about this policy.

So for DWP, let me ask can DWP please speak to the findings of the LA 100, LA 100 equity studies, which was instructed by this council that forecasts electrification required growth.

Basically, can you explain to us how we've been modeling and preparing for increased power load growth and how we're planning to become more efficient and meet demand?

Good morning, council.

Good morning, Councilmember.

My name is Heike Molfses.

I'm a manager with LA Water and Power.

We have finished the LA 100 study and the LA 100 equity study.

Both were major undertakings.

The studies modeled both renewable ways to increase and meet our demands, and also many, many scenarios, including electrification and taking into account equity.

As part of our annual electricity assessment, we look at load growth.

We also look at temperature densification of the communities.

We look at energy efficiency, distributed energy resources, and also electric vehicle adoption to assess the impacts of that on our electric grid.

Then, based on those impacts, we begin to model the system and create plans for upgrades to meet that need.

And with the LA 100 plan and with our annual assessments, we are doing that.

In addition to that, as part of LA LA DWP's top 10 priorities, we have identified grid upgrades that are taking place, and we are working on those now.

With regards to this request, specific requests, we will need to identify areas of the city where the uh electric will where the AC unit load will be growing and working with our partners in LA building and safety who will identify which upgrades are necessary to undertake.

Great.

No, I appreciate that and appreciate the confidence that we've got the we've got the LA 100 report and that we can just we can move forward and you guys will be able to report on this, given you know just a little bit of additional information.

So I I very much appreciate that.

One other issue I wanted to to raise because some there's been some questions about the impact of AB 130.

And uh I don't know if the city attorney and planning are here to answer the question, but if someone from staff who can answer this question come to the table to tell us about amending the building codes, because there is a state law, AB 130, which prevents us from amending our building codes for six years.

However, it's my understanding uh that this would not be a problem with the current legislation.

I just wanted to get it out on the record to have you uh explain that.

Uh uh Chuck Sewell, uh City Attorney's Office Land Use Division.

I I don't think this is the appropriate forum for our office to speak on the AB 130 issue.

I think there's a motion that's calling for a report back that's pending where we can consult with the appropriate departments and we can communicate directly via other means.

Okay, and you want to add anything to that?

I mean, I I have been told that this that this is not a problem in terms of AB 130 because we are adopting the county and we are uh for a number of different reasons.

But uh, if you wanted to add to that, thank you, Haga Solomon Carey for the record.

I think there are some avenues worth exploring under AB 130, and certainly I think um building and safety will be a key consideration in that, um, given that the freeze on the residential um building code uh, you know, fall squarely within their purview.

So happy to report back on that.

We certainly explore all options under AB 130 related to this topic.

Okay.

Well, let me we'll cross that bridge as we get to it as well.

So thank you.

Councilmember Hernandez.

Thank you, Council President.

I don't have any more questions.

Um, uh, but I just want to urge your support for the motion that I co-introduced with Council Member Blumenfield.

Uh, colleagues, extreme heat, as it has been said multiple times, is the deadliest climate threat we face, and our renters are bearing the brunt of it.

In council District 1 and across the city of LA.

Working families are living in older apartments with no cooling infrastructure.

Um, I've walked into apartments in CD1 where the indoor air is sitting at 90 or 95 degrees.

You can't sleep in that.

You can't study in that.

And if you're a senior or medically vulnerable, that level of heat can be life-threatening.

Right now, our laws reflect a cure a clear policy gap.

We require landlords to provide heat in the winter, but we have no comparable public health standard to protect tenants from dangerous indoor heat in the summer.

In a city increasingly defined by triple-digit heat waves, that gap has real and measurable consequences.

Inaction is not neutral, it is dangerous.

During major heat waves, LA County hospitals see more than 1,500 excess ER visits, and our seniors are 2.5 times more likely to die from heat than the general population.

Low-income communities, particularly in the valley and inland areas, are bearing the brunt of this burden.

82 degrees, that is the line between life and death.

The item before you is our opportunity for the city council to make a decisive decision to adopt a maximum indoor temperature standard of 82 degrees for rental housing.

It would be consistent with the recent county action and state level recommendations.

There have been questions about grid reliability and system capacity, and that analysis has already been incorporated into existing planning efforts.

LADWP has conducted extensive long-term load growth and electrification modeling through the LA 100 study and the LA 100 equity strategy study.

The proposed standard allows flexibility, including passive cooling strategies and high efficiency equipment, which helps limit peak demand impacts.

Evaluating this policy's effect on the system aligns with the work that is already underway.

It makes this moment powerful.

Um, what makes this moment powerful is the coalition standing behind it.

We have labor, tenant advocates, environmental groups, public health leaders, and building electrification experts who have all come together to say that protecting renters from extreme indoor heat is urgent and achievable.

These groups do not always align on every issue, but on this, they are united.

Labor's union run HVAC rebate programs support high road installation service and maintenance jobs.

Tenant advocates see the health consequences of inaction.

Environmental and electrification leaders understand that protecting tenant health while advancing smart energy conscious cooling solutions are not competing priorities.

Thank you to Councilmember Blumenfield, Councilmember Nazerian, uh Supervisor Lindsay Horbath for championing this at the county, Sage, our sheet metal workers, local union 105, and our coalition of partners.

We cannot wait for the next record-breaking heat wave to act.

Renters deserve the right to safe and healthy homes.

And by setting this standard, LA will join the county in treatment and treating extreme heat as their emergency that it is.

Let's move forward with urgency and equity and with care.

And colleagues, I urge your support, I urge your support for this motion.

Thank you.

Councilmember Blumenfield.

Uh just I have a perfecting amendment to our amendment 12B.

It's a very technical thing, but on uh on the third bullet, which says which currently says request the city attorney with the assistance of the department.

Uh we need to change that to increst request or instruct the department, DBS, with the assistance of the city attorney.

So thank you.

So it's a technical amendment or perfecting amendment.

All right, thank you, Mr.

Bloom and Phil.

That concludes our speakers on this item.

Madam Clerk, what's before us at this time?

Thank you.

If the council is ready to take a vote, we would start with motion 12B.

All right, which is the amending motion.

Bloomenfield Hernandez Yaroslavski, as further amended by Councilmember Blumenfield.

And this is to amend instructions three, four, five, and to also request the uh Department of Building and Safety with the assistance of city attorney, um city planning and LADWP to report on the city's jurisdiction and ability to update building codes in accordance to policy recently adopted in Assembly Bill 130.

Alright, let's open the roll.

Close the roll.

Tabulate the vote.

14.

All right, what's next?

Okay, the council move may move on to amending motion for 12A, which is amending motion Lee Rodriguez to add the following in uh recommendation.

Recommendation number six to instruct the LAHD to report on the feasibility and potential cost impacts of including a cooling apparatus on the list of items eligible for the city's RSO capital improvement program.

Alright, let's open the roll on that item.

Close the roll, tabulate the vote.

You have a nice three no.

All right, what's next?

The council may vote on item 12 as amended by amending motions 12A and 12B.

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

14 ayes.

All right, what's next?

The council may now move on to item 38.

Council called special by council member park for an amendment.

All right, that uh amendment has been um moved, seconded, and circulated.

So let's open the roll on the amendment amendment.

Close the roll, tabulate the vote.

14 eyes.

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

14 eyes.

All right, what's next?

Thank you.

The council may now move on to item 40, called special by council member Rodriguez for comments.

Councilmember Rodriguez.

Thank you, colleagues.

Transparency is not a criticism, and oversight is not an attack.

I introduced this motion because we've seen a lot of footage and a lot of commentary that has come to this council with respect to interactions with LAPD and protesters.

And I thought it was important for us to engage in a very constructive conversation with our chief around the rules of engagement.

As we have seen, this is not new.

This council and this body has engaged in these conversations after May Day, after the protests related to George Floyd, and it's an opportunity given what we're seeing on the streets and given the increased interactions that law enforcement has had with multiple demonstrations that have occurred, particularly most recently with young people in some of the most recent uh protest activities that have been occurring.

We're in a dynamic moment in this country where we are seeing an overreach with our federal government coming here on the streets of Los Angeles, engaging in clearly unconstitutional activities.

But for those of us that are sworn and took an oath of office, our sworn officers have equally taken an oath, and it we have all sworn to uphold the constitution of the United States.

Well, it's important for us to engage in conversations with respect to the oversight and actions of at every level, doesn't matter, whether whether we have direct oversight or not, we are required to engage in that conversation.

And so this motion is about inviting Chief McDonald to come and engage in a conference conversation with this council on the level of interaction and what is transpired with respect to our response with law enforcement with our protesters, and this is no different than any other moment in time where we have seen certain engagements and we deserve and demand should demand that conversation.

Previously, I've introduced a motion asking for an after-action report, given some of the initial responses we've saw we've seen with LAPD.

And while that motion has not been scheduled, what this motion provides an opportunity for is for us to engage in that conversation here in council directly with the chief.

And so I look forward, I asked for your I vote, and I ask that we continue to engage in a conversation that opens up what the public has a right to know in terms of what is our response and oversight.

I recognize that we have a police commission whose primary obligation serves as that oversight body, but this council with its role as a fiduciary, deserves to have that conversation, particularly as it impacts liability, liability risk in this city.

So I ask you for your eye vote.

Thank you so much, Councilmember Rodriguez.

Councilmember Lee.

Uh thank you, Mr.

President.

Uh Councilmember Rodriguez, I just want to make sure because this is something that you brought up over and over again about us uh not scheduling this item.

We've been told by the Board of Police Commissioners that once the uh report is finalized that it will be sent directly to council, won't even be heard in our committee, it'll be sent directly to council.

So it's not that we are not scheduling this, it has not been transmitted by the Board of Police Commissioners, and I just want to make that very clear.

Thank you, Councilmember Lee.

All right, uh let's see no other speakers.

Let's open the roll on this item.

Close the roll, tabulate to vote.

149.

All right, what's next?

The council may move on to item number 46, called special by council member Rodriguez for an amendment.

All right.

Uh that amendment has been uh submitted.

I've got a I had speakers on the queue.

Now I don't have speakers on the queue.

Do I?

Councilmember Hodado.

Yes.

Uh thank you, Council President.

I see the amendment, uh, Councilmember Rodriguez from a report back, and I take a little bit, I'm hoping you'll accept a friendly amendment to allow for 72-hour notification and advance of clearing of that space to be in compliance with analogous um you know, encampment clearing processes that the city has.

Um, you know, I'm in favor of this motion protecting all Angelinos unhoused and housed from you know fires that are uh endangering all of us, but I think the amendment doesn't give the proper notification that is in line with the current city practices for different standards.

So I'm hoping you'll accept the friendly amendment to add a 72-hour posting.

Councilmember Sodomart, thank you, Councilmember Rodado.

Councilmember Soto Martinez.

Thank you so much, Council President.

Um I just want to want to back up just a little bit.

Um, you know, this item was heard in public safety, which I offered an amendment to to get me to a yes vote.

And I the the intent is good.

I'm not gonna dismiss that.

Uh that the intent is good.

What I don't want to see is this being used as a tool to push homeless folks from one side of the street to the other side of the street to another hill to another hill.

That's that's the issue I have.

Now, in my district, we try to work as much as we can with the folks living on the street, and yes, fire hazard is a very serious issue we take.

When there's accumulation of trash, when there's uh, you know, open flames, things like that.

We can all agree that there are certain when we think about is this a threat, uh, fire hazard threat.

There's things we can look at that will define that.

What I asked for the report back was to define what that is.

We need to have a definition of what that is before we move forward and saying this is what we're gonna do what we're gonna be doing.

So uh I am not in favor of the amendment.

I think uh what came out of public safety is a good thoughtful way of approaching this, and once we have the definitions of what is a fire hazard, then we can move forward with the ordinance.

So uh I'm not in favor of 46A.

Uh, I think what came out of public safety is the correct approach, is the right thoughtful approach.

And so I hope folks uh stick with the public safety recommendation that came out.

Thank you.

Councilmember Rodriguez.

Thank you.

Thank you, colleagues.

And I I hear your concerns, and many of us represent high fire hazard severity zones and hillsides with very limited ingress egress.

Now, we had a situation.

This is this isn't born out of nowhere or just trying to uh introduce something that uh eliminates encampments.

Prevention is the most cost-effective tool we have, and we have a dynamic right now where sadly the length of time on private properties that are exposing tremendous hazard to our city and other hillside residents, is very real, very palpable.

When property owners are non-responsive to calls for the city to clear and remove the debris, just like just like with brush clearance standards.

When we are in eminent threat of wildfires, especially as it relates or exacerbated by these types of encampments, we have a duty to act.

We have a duty to respond to the public safety concerns that it presents to these hillside communities.

This is not a reckless tool.

This is actually helping to protect residents in hillside communities that are under threat, particularly on red flag days.

These are what Mr.

Bloomingfield, you might recall that you and I introduced something similar when we were dealing with uh in our park spaces and other areas.

I know I had that circumstance in Hansen Dam.

We have actually engaged constructively with outreach with intervention services, trying to help get and garner the kind of participation and outcome that will ensure that these individuals are offered housing.

But we have an obligation here to also protect our hillsides, and we know what the devastation and the potential impacts are to these hillside areas.

It's why we have tools like brush clearance requirements.

So this is about instituting thoughtful common sense approaches that don't obstruct our ability to help resolve an eminent public safety threat.

We're actually just trying to give our city family the tools that they need to address these very concerning encampment locations on private property.

And so this is not something to be taken lightly, I get it, but this is actually about protecting high fire hazard severity zones in hillside communities that are under threat in circumstances where we have non-responsive property owners, and that's what this is really.

This is what it was uh born out of in terms of making sure that we can protect our communities because we also know that we live in very under-resourced fire department times, and we have every opportunity to be thoughtful with our responsiveness as it relates to addressing these types of public safety concerns, and so for that I ask for your I vote.

Thank you, Councilmember Rodriguez, Councilmember Hernandez.

Councilmember Judano.

Thank you, Council President.

I don't dispute what the ambitions of this motion is, uh, Councilmember Rodriguez.

I think it's just I I'm gonna be a no vote for 46A because the original motion, which is a report back on what the municipal or other regulatory changes are needed.

I want to do that research and figure out what it is that we're gonna do before we actually amend our municipal code.

And so with that, I'm going to be a no vote for 46A.

All right, uh, Madam Clerk, can you outline what's before us at this time?

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Uh Councilmember Herado, is there still an amendment to 46A that you would like to introduce?

No.

Thank you.

Thank you.

In that case, before the council now is 46A, Amendment Rodriguez Lee Blumenfield Park.

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

You have the nice three no's, and now the council may vote on item 46 as amended.

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

All right, what's next?

The council may now move on to item 58, called special for a separate vote by council member Herado.

All right, let's open the roll on item 58, close the roll, tabulate the vote.

All right, what's next?

The council may now vote on item 62, uh, which is motion Rodriguez Bloomingfield to adopt the arts committee report.

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

14 ayes.

All right, what's next?

The council has motions for posting and referral.

They are posted and referred.

Announcements members, the announcements on my left, Mr.

McCosker.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Um, I have an announcement that relates to uh the ice surges that we've seen in Los Angeles, and I have a guardedly optimistic report.

Many of you know that on Terminal Island, we have a Coast Guard base, and because that is federal property, I presume.

Back in June, we had a surge of 200 to 250 border patrol and ice agents who began mobilizing and patrolling off of Terminal Island.

We also had back in June immediately following the mayor's actions to call attention to this issue.

We had a group formed in our community, the Harbor Area Peace Patrol, which is part of the network of safety watchers in our community, who formed, and the Harbor Area Peace Patrol, who are pictured here, some of whom are pictured here because there's many, many peace patrollers, actually also deployed every day on Terminal Island outside of the base to record license plates and observe and to report out uh the directions as best they could as to where ICE officers and border patrol officers or agents of some kind were going out into the community.

They also patrolled our surrounding harbor area communities and did a masterful job in being part of the network of rapid responders.

I'm happy to say that last week we began to observe fewer and fewer officers, and we had unconfirmed reports that ICE had actually and Border Patrol had demobilized the surge off of Termal Island.

Yes, that does deserve a reply.

Make sure that we are exercising our First Amendment constitutional rights, make sure that we are looking out for our friends and neighbors.

But I wanted to share that information because it does seem to emanate from folks being engaged and saying this is our community.

We were here before you got here, we'll be here when you're gone, and if you dare to come back, we will be here again.

Thank you.

Thank you so much, uh, Mr.

McCosker.

Yes, that deserves another big round of applause.

It's uh one of the hallmarks of our our city that from one end of the city to the other, uh, people have come together.

Uh, every day people have come together to confront the challenge that faces us and all of our neighbors, and so uh thank you again to the Peace Patrol, and we're happy uh they're gone from Terminal Island, and uh anything we can do to encourage them to stay gone, uh we're up to do.

Any other announcements, members?

All right.

Uh with that, we'll ask everyone in the chambers to rise for adjourning motions.

I'll ask if there are any adjourning motions to my left.

Any adjourning motions to my right?

All right.

With that, we're adjourned.

We'll see you on Friday.

Um, I think that's what I'm doing.

Together to protect our people.

I just want to make some remarks in Spanish.

I want to recognize and agree to our Alcaldesa, Karen Bass, for emitted this new directive about the aim of the transparency and the conduct federal and the identification of the agents federal of immigration.

This directive is an opportunity and is very necessary to enjoy a message very clear to our city that we will permit the silence, not to stay in silence because our community are submitted to the money and the confusion or the intimidation by actors federal who don't want to run.