Immigrant as someone who came here having lost everything.

I saw my family work very hard to rebuild what we had lost.

Um savings became a very big part of my uh individual identity.

You know, there's so much sometimes you're gonna make.

And so uh the best thing to do is to save as much of it as you can so that you're investing towards yourself in the future.

Um I I early on started investing in 529 plans for my kids, um right as they were born, uh, because I wanted to them to make sure that they know that there's something for them to pursue college.

Uh I wanted them to know that there's they have a backup.

Something is there to tell them that we believe in you, we're invested in you, and you're gonna do this.

And I thought, well, why not do this for the entire state?

Uh we already have the 529 program in place.

What if government was to come in, state government at the time I was in the state legislature, come in and say, if you invest in your family and put in a minimum of $5 into this plan, the city will, the state will match it and give you another $50.

And through incentive-based through honey, try to invigorate savings.

Um, because there's many studies that also suggest that if a child knows there's $500, literally $500 to their name, believing in them to go to college, there's more than 30% chance that they will eventually end up in college.

I'll take those odds.

And when you see that there's such a strong correlation of support, why not make sure that we're investing in every child born in California so that they take advantage of the uh of having a college fund?

It's also a discipline of learning how to save and invest towards the future.

So it encapsulated several different ideas, and it also made 529 plans uh a lot more available to the public.

Up prior to putting this agenda forward, this program forward, only 4% of Californians were utilizing that program.

You know now we're getting into the, you know, uh the barely tweak passing the double digits.

It's like 11, 12%.

But we're now expanding and increasing.

And this is only in its infancy of the of the program still.

It's amazing.

And also, you know, there's nothing more important than getting outside, breathing fresh air and having a great time.

I know that you've put in a lot of investiture in upgrading parks here in council district too.

What are some of the fun things people can look forward to in their neighborhoods?

One of the things I wanted to do when I took office was to just create a very active and busy environment.

Um parks need to be busy, parks need to be full of life.

The whole idea of the Department of Recreation and Parks is to make sure that people are engaged in recreational activities.

And the denser you make parks, the busier you make parks, the more people are getting out and getting to meet their neighbors, and the safer the places become because there's more eyes in the parks on our children, on our kids.

So I believe in making sure that it's multi-generational and it's also a busy environment.

Uh so we're expanding soccer fields.

We're uh we've already opened two different parks in the area to make sure that there's a lot of activity going on uh inside the parks.

We're turning small patches into pocket parks so that it's a place for folks to be able to congregate uh and get engaged.

Uh, I want to make sure we have enough you know, chess tables so that some of our more aging, more or senior members uh can get together and congregate in parks and so that that way the park also becomes multi-generational.

You know, small things like this uh create a spin-off opportunity for more for things to grow.

And my goal is to make sure that we're making parks as utilized as possible and as available to as many people as possible.

I hear a lot of hope and promise in everything that you've been saying.

What do you love best about being a council member right now?

Being able to make an impact.

That's the goal of this.

You want to make an impact, you want to you want to make things obviously you want to make things better off than uh uh when you took the role.

Um, but I also want to make sure that this is a place that my kids are my children are able to succeed in the same way I was.

I came to Los Angeles with English being my fourth language.

Not knowing the culture, not knowing my surroundings.

I think every child, that's the bare standard.

If every child comes in with that circumstance to strive to make Los Angeles a place where everyone who is coming in for a second chance is able to find their success and able to be contributing members back to their society.

Well, your office is doing an immense amount of work.

I mean, just even going through when I was learning about you and what was happening out here in Council District 2.

There's a lot happening.

So if people want to keep up on it and people want to know what you're doing or ask you questions or just keep informed, what's the best way for them to follow up on our conversation in a more intimate way?

Multiple ways.

They can first of all call our office traditional way.

They can follow us on one of our handles.

Instagram handle is uh CD2 Los Angeles.

Uh, or they can go to our website at uh city.org and be able to follow us as well.

I also have to thank your office for being so gracious and so quiet.

Well, we've been chatting this morning.

They've all been very kind and very courteous.

We're really appreciated.

Thank you for saying that.

I have a wonderful team.

They make me look good.

Well, I'm sure they're attracted to that because you are such a good person.

So thank you so much.

It's been wonderful to talk to you, and I hope we get a chance to talk again.

Looking forward.

Thank you.

And that's a wrap on this LA Consiglius, welcome to the City of Los Angeles, where technology, sustainability, and innovation converge to enhance the lives of nearly four million Angelinos.

Beyond the city limits, the Greater LA region is home to nearly 13 million people, an interconnected, ever-evolving community.

In a world linked by technology, whether you're joining us in person or tuning in from afar, welcome to LA this week.

Across downtown Los Angeles, modern landmarks like the Department of Water and Power Headquarters echo the forms and forces of nature.

The skyline was further redefined in 2003 with Frank Gary's Walt Disney concert hall.

It's sweeping exterior said to capture the motion of a conductor's baton.

It's interior, meticulously crafted to elevate every note.

The city is investing in its future by expanding science and technology education, weaving innovation into young lives, and inspiring the next generation to lead in these essential fields.

Today, the Hidden Genius Project is here with a host of partners putting on an event called Tech Slam.

In partnership with Leaders App, we're creating an opportunity for young people to explore career pathways, skills, networks are related to sports and technology.

I've been participating in GS projects since last summer.

It's been a great experience.

I've learned a lot.

So many of our young people love sports, so many of our communities love sports.

Oftentimes we make a mistake and we say, well, it's not realistic to have a professional sports career.

And so we want to make sure our young people get to understand what's possible for them and that they can pursue their dreams, even if those rooms are related to sports.

They're very realistic, and technology is a great way to get there.

It's very important for youth to be exposed to technology and industries that aren't typically available for them.

And so our Tex Lamb is allowing them an opportunity to be exposed.

So today we have AI workshops, we have robotics and Legos and a lot of expo partners as well that are teaching them and exposing them to technology.

We're just really trying to expose them to the intersection between sports, tech, and business and help them understand that if you love basketball, there's so much opportunity for a career that maybe isn't just being on the basketball court.

If you love, you know, F1, there are so many things you can do other than maybe just drive the car.

Have these kids understand that you can have a pro sports career without maybe being a pro sports athlete.

The most exciting thing that I've done with the Hidden Genius Project will probably be today to be able to enjoy all the benefits, opportunities that come with the program.

Since I was little, I know I always wanted to do something I had to do with tech.

Joining the Hidden Genius Project really helps solidify like what I want to do.

They're teaching us new stuff that would just help me and better like my resumes for college, my better resumes for job applications, all that different type of stuff.

So it's been a really good help overall.

Even though it is a long program and it takes a lot of work, it's definitely worth it.

And it's been really fun.

So Leaders Up has launched the LA Economic Empowerment Alliance that is really ensuring that we sit our young people and designing a roadmap for their own economic empowerment.

We know that $18 billion will be spent in this region because of major sporting events.

We want to ensure that a billion of those dollars are spent on internships, mentorship, career pathways, skills development, and real jobs that will help young people be included in our regional economy.

I think it's critical.

Mission critical.

Listen, really, when you start talking about like upstream approaches to making sure people don't become impoverished, you have to build out youth development trainings and pipelines so people are not actually scrambling at the last minute to figure out what they want to do, how they want to succeed.

What are we putting in front of people?

Who are we connecting the young folks with?

What kind of mentorship programs are we putting together?

I think you can only know what you're exposed to, and so many of our youth will see, you know, just the game on TV, but it's never demystified for them exactly how it works, what's going on behind the scenes, how many people have put this moment together.

We really just want to connect these kids to their dreams and help them reveal the genius that's already within them by making sure that they have the resources they need to do so.

Today we have over 100 young minds taking over City Hall.

Everybody stand up and wave.

Yeah.

We put this event on every year.

We've been doing it for 13 years.

We collaborate with a lot of different sponsors, and the kids are able to do all these wonderful K-12 STEM activities.

It's a really great opportunity to expose the youth to STEM, especially in areas where there isn't a lot of representation.

It's important that we continue to create pathways for young people to come into City Hall.

They have to know that this is their house and to get them politically engaged early on so that they understand that the quality of their life is based off of political decisions, political decisions that they have an influence on if they are politically engaged.

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

If your bootprint looks tough, brainstorm with your group.

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

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

And then in the second activity, they'll be using their blueprint to build that tower as high as they can possibly build it.

Even though with our paper, oh, we didn't make it exactly look alike because when we first tried, it didn't go exactly planned.

So then we added more structure and we paid more attention to it.

As engineers, we do our design, but then we get into construction, we learn that things don't always work the way that we design them.

There's external factors.

So they're gonna learn maybe we need more material.

Maybe we need to double up, maybe our drawing, we need to go completely different.

We all have working in a team.

We didn't leave anybody out.

It's really important for us to make sure that the kids have representation, that they know that people look like them are building the city and keeping things going.

So many of us here are Latino, and we really need to bridge that gap and show that it's possible because there's not many of us in civil engineering.

It was fun working as a team and collaborating, and um that out was my favorite part.

We want to inspire the children.

And these are the ingredients of any successful profession, not just engineering as a matter of fact.

In Los Angeles, collaboration drives the projects, programs, and policies designed to deliver sustainable results for residents and businesses.

The city remains a national leader in sustainability, generating more than a hundred thousand green jobs and installing the highest number of EV chargers in the country.

Working in hand with communities, LA also advances neighborhood infrastructure projects from supportive housing to solar powered street lighting, building a cleaner, more resilient future for all.

Lighting is important to community because it equals public safety.

It equals access.

One of the main calls that I get in my council office is hey, when is my she light gonna get fixed?

And so today with the solarization of these 91 lights in Lincoln Heights and Cypress Park, we're moving our city and our neighborhood to the 21st century.

We are deploying around 91 solar lights.

These lights will be able to provide lighting without the traditional electrical system that we have below.

The city of Los Angeles as a whole, actually, many other uh major metropolitan areas have been hit by theft and vandalism.

This actually takes away the incentive of theft.

Removing the copper wire removes that incentive.

Lighting has always been an issue.

The council member is correct about the time it takes.

The light pole outside my house was out.

I put in a service request, and it literally took a year and a week before they came and serviced it, right?

So having um reliable lighting in this neighborhood.

This is a working class area.

People walk their dogs before they go to work, it's still dark.

When they come home at night, it's already dark.

So having lights out there makes it safer for everybody.

We all know sometimes lights go out and there's not enough money in the budget.

But the solar lighting, it's economical, it's clean.

I mean, I think it's a brilliant idea.

I'm happy that we have lights and we're gonna have lights that makes me more confident in going out, walking around my neighborhood.

I feel safer.

There's been studies that prove what people feel intrinsically, right?

There's University of Chicago study that shows that adequate lighting can actually drive crime down by 30%.

So massive savings and a environmental change to what would have been, you know, a policing challenge.

This is 91 lights in two neighborhoods.

But my goal is a share of public works to get this into the entire city of Los Angeles.

Because when an emergency happens and our grid goes out, these solarized lights will stay on and they'll keep our communities lit while we're having to deal with the different issues that come up.

As a resident here for over 30 years, uh I have used uh applications that the city provides as a 311.

As I walk around the neighborhood, I put up graffiti requests, street lighting, any other thing, things that are a problem, and they respond, right?

So part of the reason why this area was chosen was because of the amount of calls that we had and stuff, right?

So it's very important for people to get involved and not just complain about oh, it's not working and they're not taking care of it, right?

There's applications, there's ways for us to be proactive.

I'm glad that the council office is listening to us and it's paying attention to our requests, and the community is here and they voice their opinions, and I think it's important for the community to continue to voice their opinions and requests and be allies with the council office so we can better our neighborhood.

It's gonna benefit us all.

Welcome to the Cielo, our newest supportive housing community for 99 individuals who now have a permanent home.

Affordable housing development is a challenging process only because there are so many partners to make this work.

Funding from the city, the county, the state, and the federal government, coupled with service dollars so that we can wrap all of our residents who live here in the care and support they need to remain stable and successful in their housing.

This is a particularly interesting project because this was a marginal project.

So this is a project that kind of showed that it could be built quicker and for less money.

If you see the outside, you'll see how beautiful project it is, and just really excited about it.

After six years on the street, my mental health started to take control of me.

I had accepted the streets to be my home for the rest of my life.

To be honest with you, it was my first time doing any kind of speech like that in front of that many people.

So there was a little bit of nervousness.

But everybody that was here, I know why they were here and appreciate every single one of them.

So it made it a lot easier.

In permanent supportive housing, you're providing housing with supportive services for folks who have experienced chronic homelessness, many of whom live with coexisting disorders, whether it's mental illness and substance abuse, whether it's physical disabilities.

And so their journey out of homelessness is aided with the support at every step of that journey.

Mental health for me was the big resource and a big like help here.

You know, NCLO offering that was tremendous.

We won't build anything in my district without wraparound services, without having that mental health, the drug addiction of components to it.

And to try to take a chance to come into housing because we can help you get off the streets.

There are people who are dealing with tough situations and things that people don't like to talk about.

But by us being here to provide the information, we can change and save lives.

When asked about public safety deeply and in dialogue with people, the conversation is not about cops and robbers and victims.

What we heard today about public safety is that what makes people feel safe is economic security, is strong community, self-empowerment.

At Calcutta LA, our mission is to educate the next generation, and that includes civic engagement.

So beyond their major or their specific programs, they have a role to play in the civic community that they choose to be in.

And so today is all about giving them those resources to do that work safely.

This is where young people are with bright minds and they're open-minded still.

They're here to where people are open to learn and can be contributors.

Well, I want them to not just live in fear.

These are the doers.

The motto here at Calcity LA is that we are LA.

So if we help the people who help the people, we will build a better Los Angeles.

And Los Angeles is truly for everyone.

Los Angeles was named one of the top digital cities in the nation for its use of technology to streamline services and to boost security.

Counted among the safer large cities in the nation, LA has built its progress on collaboration.

City leaders, community members, and the police department work side by side, strengthening neighborhoods, protecting immigrant angelinos, and partnering with residents to address crime where it happens most.

So it's important that we bring this into visibility in the most powerful ways.

Support groups and service groups can't do it alone.

We all have to work together.

And also the prosecutorial part of that with the city attorney and district attorney, the U.S.

Attorney's Office of going forward with the prosecution of those who are offending and of those who are trafficking these, especially minors here in the city of Los Angeles.

We can't walk by situations where somebody is being held against their will.

Somebody is being put in an extremely dangerous circumstance over and over again.

So we all have an ability to be able to do something about it in our communities.

All of you are doing that every single day.

And the courage it takes to do what you're doing is amazing.

Los Angeles is also advancing smart city initiatives, upgrading infrastructure like connecting street lighting that responds to real-time conditions, expanding public Wi-Fi, and exploring new mobility solutions to reduce congestion and emissions as part of long-term plans through 2028.

Strong relationships lay the groundwork for lasting success while working together toward a common goal.

Sports, especially team competition, build discipline, perseverance, and resilience.

A truth often echoed by basketball greats reflecting on the journey behind their achievements.

I'm about to take you to the home, ready.

Excited about being in LA as the CEO of the Legends of Basketball.

Wanted to make sure that we got into the community and do the same thing for the community it did for us, which was to raise us, give these kids an opportunity to hear from us, learn from us.

One, two, three, legends!

And feel the energy that we bring into any gym that we walk into.

Come on, big shelf, big shop.

We're here in the 10th district at Michelle and Barack Obama Sports Complex.

And what we have is an amazing thing: a free clinic from kids from the second grade to the ninth grade.

We got so many great legends from WNBA legends, Paul and Globe Trotter Legends, AVA legends, and NBA legends.

Just given the fullness to the game.

Just showing the kids life through basketball.

And we're just excited to be here.

Sports teaches us so much.

And I was lucky to have a safe environment to experiment with different sports.

And I quickly learned that it taught me discipline.

It taught me perseverance, how to fall down and get up, how to believe in myself, how to be confident in who I am.

And so I'm hoping that we can come here and give our kids that same message because I know when we do, they end up being something far greater than they thought that they could ever be.

It is important for us to be here and put on these clinics because we again we want this, we want to show the kids the opportunities.

We want to instill in them what someone instilled in us, and that's the morals, the values, the hard work, the dedication.

Just being here is step one.

And so once they're here, now we're going to teach them some of the life skills as well as basketball skills.

Today's world of all the technology that we have with social media, the internet.

We're seeking to always empower our brains and our minds.

But if they don't learn how to move their bodies in a way that keeps them healthy and not just healthy, but keeps them connected to others and having fun.

Uh, then we're giving them something that is really going to be detrimental as they get older because we need to learn how to take our robots.

I really just want to tell the parents continue to put your kids in sport.

They may not be NBA player, WNBA player, next, you know, major soccer player, but there's something important about being on a team sport that they can carry over into the workforce.

They can just carry on through life about being a teammate, about dedication, about sometimes working together for a common goal.

So there's bigger opportunities, there's bigger reasons why sport is good for young kids.

If you can't stop, won't stop, shoot the rock till you get enough to reach the top.

Welcome to McCarthy Park.

Welcome to Council District One.

My comments might be a little bit longer, but there's a lot to share around the budget.

The budget is so incredibly important to the city, but also to the quality of your life.

For next year, we are looking uh at a 91 million dollar gap that is uh in our outlook based on continuing levels of service.

The budget process is extremely important because it reflects how the city prioritizes the money that comes from us as taxpayers and residents.

So what the city allocates to different departments for different programs really shows what the city's prioritizing at that given moment.

We need to invest more in alternatives to just police.

Well, for decades, we've wanted unarmed alternatives to armed policing.

We know that people are having mental health crises, and we don't need armed police officers going through those doors.

We need actual clinicians.

For the people of Los Angeles.

So that's why it's important.

Let people pay attention right now before the budget gets dropped in April.

Oftentimes people tell me, yes, my tax dollars pay for the government.

But most times people don't know where their taxes are going to.

And so if they want to learn more, they can go onto my website.

You have a choice.

Or do you want to engage and get activated and tell the city I want you to invest my tax dollars and fixing my street lights?

Join an organization.

This is where the action is happening, and you are more powerful than you think.

Cam was founded in 1977.

So we're coming up on our 50th anniversary next year.

For over 40 years, Cam has been collecting African American artists, and we've been at the vanguard of that work.

So we have an incredible collection of works that range from Betty Saar to David Hammond to Noah Purapoy to John Outerbridge.

And we try to show them as often as we can.

At CAM, we rotate our exhibitions regularly.

So there's always an opportunity to come back and see something new.

We also have a slate of programs that range from talks to performances to workshops to art activities to yoga to dance parties.

So there's something for everyone here at Camp.

When visitors come to the museum, I hope that they leave with an understanding of the contributions of African Americans, but also to understand that that experience is multifaceted, diverse, and extraordinary.

Across transportation, the city is expanding EV charging networks, modernizing traffic management with real time data, and investing in cleaner public transit to create a more connected low emission future.gov forward slash TV and follow us at LA City on Instagram, Facebook, X, and YouTube.

Until next time, get out there and explore all that Los Angeles has to offer it.

There is a little thing.

All right, good morning, and welcome to the regularly scheduled meeting of Los Angeles City Council.

Today is Tuesday, the third day of March in the year 2026.

Public comment for this morning's meeting will be taken in person in this John Ferraro City Council Chambers.

Madam Clerk, let's begin our proceedings by calling the roll.

Thank you.

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

13 members present and a quorum, Mr.

President.

All right, first order of business.

Approval of the minutes of February 27, 2026.

Councilmember Hutt moves.

Councilmember Padilla seconds.

What's next?

Commendatory resolutions for approval.

Councilmember McCosker moves.

Councilmember Price seconds.

Mr.

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

All right.

I'll ask everybody in the chambers to rise, face the flag, and follow along with Councilmember Rodriguez.

Put your right hand over your heart, ready to begin.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands.

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

All right, madam clerk, let's run through our agenda.

Thank you.

Items one through four are items noticed for public hearing.

Items five through 15 are items for which public hearings have been held.

Item 16 through 25 are items for which public hearings have not been held.

10 votes are required for consideration.

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

Anything next?

Anything else?

Thank you.

I believe uh Councilmember Hutt has uh item two.

Councilmember Hutt.

Yes, I do.

Thank you so much.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

I'd like to request that we continue item 15 to March 24th to satisfy satisfy the item's public comment period.

Okay.

Thank you.

Seconded by Councilmember Hernandez.

I got Councilmember Lee.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

I'd like to request that we push item number six, continue that for one week.

All right, till next week, Tuesday.

Thank you.

That would be to Tuesday, March 10th.

Okay.

You can you can raise less than If we hold on that for a bit.

I kind of understand the I the issue a little bit more.

You want to understand the reasons to continue more?

Okay.

Uh in light of receiving a report that I believe all of our offices received last night.

We've haven't had a chance to go through the report, and so I'm just asking for a week so we can truly understand what what's put in front of us here.

Okay.

All right.

All right.

Well, I'll I'll object for that uh right now.

We can come back there at the meeting, but I'm objecting.

All right, so there's a there's a motion to continue to next week.

There's an agenda.

Let me get through the rest of the schedules, the specials, and then we'll go to a vote on that.

Uh councilmember.

Any more on this side?

Mr.

Nomar on this side.

I thought someone's name was on there.

Okay, Councilmember Rodriguez.

I was also going to request a continuance for six.

Okay.

All right.

Um council member Padilla.

Yes, I want to call five special for comments as well as well.

I wanted to combine 12 and 15 for comments, so just 12.

12.

All right.

Uh Councilmember Raman.

Um I had a question on uh items, the continuance on item six, and just wanted to make sure that given that the report from the city attorney came in very late yesterday, and that these contracts are already um potentially gonna leave a gap in services for when we move it forward.

I would just request that if there is a continuance that we do it in such a way that we try and limit the gap in services.

So I I understand people need to absorb yesterday's report, and I appreciate that.

I also wish we'd gotten it when the item was going through our committee, when it was being discussed over the last few months, or working with the housing department to resolve these issues before it came here.

It came in yesterday, and I just want to make sure we're not uh that we can have the time to absorb it, but but but delayed the other.

I just had one other procedural question here, which is so uh so I would ask the housing department on what date would be um would enable them to still make sure that the contract moves forward in a timely fashion.

Uh and then for item 15.

I know council member hutt, you have um uh continued that item.

I I have an amendment.

Should I wait until it comes back to submit that amendment?

Yeah, I think we would submit the amendment when it comes back.

Uh because it's not going back to committee, right?

Councilmember Hutt.

Right, so we can do it.

We can do it on the floor.

Okay.

We just need comment.

Okay, thank you very much.

Okay.

Uh I got Councilmember Blumenfield.

Yeah, just on the sixth question.

If we are going to continue, can we have a closed session so that we can discuss the confidential report that came out late in the afternoon?

Because that would uh I'd hate to just have a session in a week from now and still be uh hamstrung and not be able to talk about this.

I'd rather the council talk to bring the city attorney here and have a closed session, if that's possible.

You know how much I love closed session, Mr.

City Attorney.

So under the request is understood.

Um if we can go into closed session, we can work with the council president's office uh to prepare that language, but I don't know if we can go into closed session at this time on this item.

So we'll we will uh get an opinion from the city attorney if we can we'll go forward with that.

If we can do that, I'd rather do that before the before next Tuesday.

Before Tuesday, yes.

Okay, got it.

Councilmember Jorato.

Yes, thank you, Council President.

And I'd like to call items 13 and 14 special for a separate vote.

13 and 14 for separate vote.

Uh got council member Yaroslovski.

President, I'd like to move the budget and finance report for item five.

Thank you.

Is there a second to that motion?

All right, and on item six, uh Council District 8 has two amendments which are being circulated.

Mr.

Price.

Thank you.

I'm clear how the discussion was going, but if we do hear six, I need to accuse myself because my wife, because I am a landlord, so I'll be recusing myself if that comes up to the case.

On item number six.

If it comes up today.

All right.

Uh so madam clerk, uh, we've got uh move to continue item six.

Um and we've got an objection to that.

Uh so how should we proceed?

Thank you.

We can take a vote on the continuance, which I understand is Councilmember Lee seconded by Councilmember Rodriguez.

All right.

So let's open the roll on continuation for one week.

With price confused.

Yes.

I just wondered if we could just for the continuance, if we could just make sure that we're not continuing it to a point when could could we just consult with the housing department for when it's being continued too?

I I think I got we got to take a vote on this now.

I don't think we can wait.

I don't think we're allowed to wait, madam clerk.

The motion is to continue to Tuesday, March 10.

Yeah.

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

Nine eyes for no's.

All right.

Thank you.

This item is continued.

And and uh we need to uh the housing department, if you're listening, uh we need to have urgency on this matter because we need to vote on it next week.

Uh because after that we go on recess, so I don't we cannot be in a situation where we wait again.

Uh and hopefully this is the last time we get a report the night before a vote.

Councilmember Hernandez.

Thank you, Council President.

I just wanted to name that the timeline is tight by March 31st.

If the resources are not there, the services will lapse.

So we're this is the timeline that we're working on.

The services will lapse starting March 31st.

Right on.

Thank you so much, Councilmember Hernandez.

All right, uh Madam Clerk, what's next?

The council may take a vote on items seven through eleven.

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

All right, what's next?

If the council would like to take the vote on motion, Yaroslavsky McCosker to move the budget and finance report for item five.

All right, let's open the roll.

Close the roll, tabulate the vote.

14 ayes.

All right, what's next?

Thank you.

Would the council like to move on to public comment?

Yes, city attorney, if you can prepare us for public comment.

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 one, three and four, and items sixteen through twenty-five.

So again, the items that are open for public comment on the agenda are items number one, three and four, and sixteen through twenty-five.

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.

I have a couple more announcements.

If I can have the interpreters please make the first one allowed to the room.

Thank you.

Thank you, next speaker.

Before the next speaker goes, I'd like to call up Elena Pop, Jumbo, Harriet Elliott, Joe Donlin, and Audit LA.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Necessito traduction, por favor.

Item number six.

Okay.

So you have one minute for general public comment.

Go ahead.

And it is to think about your community and my community.

Or if you want to see them on the street or in their own house or in an apartment.

And it is not me who needs to tell you what to do, and sorry.

I don't think any of us like to see families like this.

I asked you please before voting, think about it, please.

I just got an idea next time I'll bring it here.

So you a la siguiente vez a la mejor traigo una chancla y a la antigua educarlos.

I'm I'm a grandma, and next time I might bring a slipper to educate you and teach you a lesson.

And thank you for the annoyance.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Was that just a general comment?

Okay, so you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Good morning.

Um, for those of you city council members listening.

Um I didn't write a cute speech to lay out what's going on in animal welfare because every single one of you here know it, especially the ones that oversee District 14.

This weekend dogs were suffering and dying on Skid Row because they did not have adequate food, water, and shelter.

The slaughtering of animals in city shelters is out of control, as is the treatment of volunteers, and you all know that too, even the ones chit-chatting and pretending to not hear.

But I wanted to just ask you all this.

How do you get up every single day and come to work and choose to do nothing for the animals?

How do you do that?

You have more power than bass.

You can make a change.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Thank you.

Good morning, Joe Donlin, director of the United to House of Lay Coalition.

Voters passed funding for tenant services, eviction defense, tenant outreach and education, because they know they are feeling everyone is feeling the housing crisis, especially low-income tenants of color.

We urge you to allow no further delays around the state house delay contracts so that tenant services that are essential to keeping Angelinos housed from becoming unhoused are not interrupted.

The voters of Los Angeles expect this, and our communities desperately need the services provided by State House LA.

By not putting this forward today, the council is putting tenants at risk.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Synthetic telopee telepathy.

In 2008, the army gave a gift to the university of $4,000 to study synthetic telepathy.

Look at Transferidos a cerebro.

Which is equivalent to thoughts being transferred to other brains.

Thank you.

Before the next speaker begins, I'd like to call up Griselda Lopez, Victoria Enriquez, Diana Alvarado, Vilma Vasquez, and Carol Kiss.

Good morning.

Okay, you have one minute.

Go ahead.

I want to apologize because what I'm saying isn't funny or even especially interesting, but that's what happens when officials refuse to fulfill the most basic public functions.

You've heard a lot about destructive cult mentality, and that may be what's happening.

Somebody has been giving you bad legal advice, and you are not even willing to consider the possibility that the district attorney isn't addressing it.

Common sense says you and other officials have engaged in serial meeting violations and improper confidential communications, and these have caused massive actual harm.

The only reason it's not apparent is because people are being threatened.

You can solve this by issuing public statements asking the governor to do a military level investigation of public misconduct.

Private requests are meaningless.

This should be a no-cost way to assure your constituents that you're not saying let the meat cake.

A five dollar clipboard, a badge that you can print at home, and a copy of someone's complaint from an unsealed record gets a ripoff artist into a tenant's home and they charge them 250, 500, another 250 to seek illegitimate continuances until they ruin their records, ruin their cases.

Next speaker.

I belong to SAGE.

And on behalf of SAGE and of all the other organizations that fight for the right for uh housing sustaining.

Honestly, the right to housing is something that we all human beings are born with.

It's something that is just fair that it corresponds to us, but unfortunately it's not like that.

That's why we are here to ask you to respect this to guarantee this right on behalf of SAHE and all these organizations to have the right to housing.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Good morning, General Public Comment.

My name is Diana Alvarado and I am the director of operations for Basta Universal.

Basta Universal is one of the legal service providers for State House Delay.

Everyone knows that tenants who go to court unrepresented usually either lose their case or end up with horrible settlement agreements.

The system is skewed against them because there is an assumption that if the tenant is an eviction, it was due to their own fault.

Tenants who are represented by State House LA have over a 90% success rate for remaining housed.

This means children get to stay in their schools, seniors remain in their communities, individuals get to keep their affordable housing benefits, and tenants do not enter the homelessness system.

State House LA is a needed resource because it gives tenants a lifeline in navigating the court's legal system and a real fighting chance in staying housed.

Before the next speaker begins, we'll call up Sylvia Argeta, Anne Trong, William Good, Beth, Michael Ackerman, and Mentor.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Good morning, my name is Griselda Lopez.

Yes, boy dar commentary public.

I'm going to make a public comment.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Go ahead.

I ask you to support Isle Housing because they have helped us pay our debts to rent debts.

Because otherwise, where are we where's all these people going to go with their kids?

Adelante.

I gente de la tercera edad que van a ir a Pararalacalle.

Their seniors are going to be out on the street.

And given all the situation that we're going through that there's not enough food.

There's people bringing food and all the rates.

We're scared to go out.

And I ask you to please think a little bit about this, and may God bless you.

And I hope you can help us because we do need that help.

Thank you.

Good morning, my name is Dominguez Solorsino.

And I'm going to need interpretation, please.

Thank you.

My name is Dominguez Solorsino.

I'm a member of ASE.

I belong to District 9.

I'm here to say that the program is very important.

Sino appoyant este program.

This is what worries me the most because I also have a family.

If you don't get these programs approved, many will be out in the street.

And we're very uh low income people, so I ask for your support, and I hope you have a good day.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Good morning.

I'm Sylvia Argueta, general public comment.

Good morning.

Sorry, you said what would you like to speak to?

Sylvia Argueta.

I'm commenting on general public comment.

General, sorry, I couldn't hear you for a second.

So you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Good morning.

I am the executive director of the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles.

LAFLA is the lead agency in administering Stay Housed LA.

We are one of the oldest of the legal aid programs in the state of California and the largest.

We have been audited by state, federal, local entities.

We have clean audits.

We are law firm of excellence.

We are non-profit law firm that for over 97 years has been providing legal services to people living in poverty in the state of Cal in the in the county of Los Angeles.

We know how to do rants.

Before the next speaker begins.

Mr.

City Attorney, I think uh has a comment.

Yes.

So before we read more names and before the next speaker.

So item number five, which was already voted on, was erroneously included in the public hearings already held section.

So members, I do recommend that there is a motion to reconsider it, which will require a second uh so that we can be compliant with SB 707.

Uh we'll reopen public comment on that for item number five as well, and then they can we can vote on it afterwards.

All right, uh let's open the roll and reconsideration, close the roll, tabulate to vote.

149.

All right, we'll proceed with public comment.

Thank you.

I'll call up Frederick Silic, Sophia Mendoza, Fazai Malik, and Cynthia G.

And so for everybody in the room, the items that are open for public comment as stated earlier were one items three and four.

Additionally now, item number five and item 16 through 25.

So uh good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Hi, uh, my name is Anne.

I like to do general public comments.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Thank you.

Um I'd like to ask you to continue investing in the State House LA program.

One thing my work with ACE as a student worker has taught me is how frequent and bad eviction is a problem in LA, especially in South Central.

We get around five to ten new referrals from State House LA every week.

People who are confused, nervous, lost, stressed out, reaching for any available help.

Nine out of tens, I get a response from them to show up to our office.

And you know, I think as a student with a legal minor um studies, minor, I think the eviction process is very confusing.

And State House LA offer essential services to support tenants um through legal assistance and rental assistance.

And if a tenant is affected, we should ensure that it is lawful and not because a landlord wants to kick out the tenant um due to discrimination or bias, which I've seen cases of people um being evicted for their disability.

Um I ask that you support um State House LA and the work that they do to continue support families in stable housing and thank you.

Next speaker.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Yeah, 1720 in public comment.

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

Please begin with the items.

Go ahead.

Yeah, so 17 relates to some revenue bonds to finance the mental health facility in or facilities in CD 13 and CD 14.

It's rare that I actually have anything good to say about you guys, but good job, Hugo and Nithya on that.

We need more of this.

Let's go ahead and take care of these things beforehand.

Um item 20 relates to funding of an adult and caregiver services.

Um I tell you, good.

This is what we want to see.

We want to see programs for the elderly get funded.

Now the public comment.

I'm here to talk about an exp LEPD officer named Gabriel Spotus.

Monica, you was in the mission division in your district.

This guy put a woman on a 5150 hold immediately when she got out of the hospital, contacted her, had told her that I kept you out of jail.

Two days later he was having anal sex with her.

He was fisting her and trying to have her have sex with dogs.

This is a police officer who abused his power.

Okay.

He was forced to resign, he should be in jail.

What he did was consider rape.

You can't do that to a mental health patient.

Somebody who's in mental health crisis, you wouldn't let a family member walk out of a mental health facility and sign a financial contract.

Why are we allowing this officer to walk out of a mental health facility?

Try to have this woman have sex with dogs and just walk away like it's nothing.

Now I gotta tell you, you guys are paying for his defense.

You've allocated hundreds of thousands of dollars to private attorneys to cover his defense.

Stop it.

The victim needs to be settled with now, and this guy needs to be prosecuted.

Next speaker.

What would you like to speak to?

Uh commentary public.

Okay.

So you have one minute.

Hi, my name is Sophia Mendoza.

I am a member of ACE.

I am here because the Stay House LA program is essential for us, the renters, the tenants.

That's because that's because it promotes a lot of uh orientation.

And the clinics or the workshops are very important for us, the tenants, because it informs us of our rights.

Because many landlords take advantage of us due to the fact that we are vulnerable.

And you as as council members should uh support this, and you need to push the housing department to move this forward because the housing department always comes up with the excuse that oh, it's not ready yet, it's not ready yet.

Um departamento de vivienda.

Gracias.

So this program is is gonna end, and when it does, and we're not gonna have this program anymore, so it's important that you mention this to the Department of Housing.

Before the next speaker goes, we're gonna call up a few more names.

Lena Sullivan, Delvin Henriquez, David Carter, Seb Q, and D Council.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Uh general comment, general public comment.

So you have one minute, go ahead.

Good morning on this Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026.

My name is Frederick Silic.

I'm addressing the topic of a local and national economic revolutionary advance.

There is a social and economic psychological phenomenon we must respond to.

Dialectal dialectical materialism where languages emerge cluttered as typically typical conveyances are characterized.

Release from the dialectical requires you to be employed at a max wage.

A max wage of 425, $4.25 was established by me on a request in 1995, and you foolish foolishly tried to bypass me.

But the wage remained max because I count.

You must reduce the minimum wage down to $4.25.

And all of you must put this financial feature on of $425 for as little as one hour on your computerized historical pay records.

This will release you from the dialectical and thank you, next speaker.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

General public comment.

Okay.

So we have one minute.

Go ahead.

Hi, good morning, everyone.

My name is Cynthia Gonzalez.

I'm a program manager at Statehouse.

And this morning I'm really tired.

I'm really tired of being here.

I'm really tired of having to come up here every single week to talk to you all about why this program of Statehouse Del A works and why we need to ensure that we're moving this process forward.

It's been months now.

Months of constituents worrying whether they're gonna get services or not, whether attorneys are going to be working for a little bit longer and help support constituents from your districts from being evicted.

CBOs, organizers that are having to explain the multiple process of what's happening for both the city contract.

So I am tired, and I'm tired of having to continue to wait.

I would really recommend that you all take a look at all the amazing people here today that are talking about this program, why it works, and why it needs to move forward.

Next speaker.

Before the next speaker begins, I'll call up Lauren Harper, Ian Jameson, Mari B, Margarita Copato, and Shane Henson.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Item five and general comment, please.

Okay, so you have one minute for the item and one minute for general.

Please begin with the item.

Go ahead.

My name is Daniel Sosa.

I operate for licensed dispensaries here in the city.

Um DCR presented a report today at the Government Affairs Committee that says there are 48 cannabis taxpayers, accounting for a hundred and twenty-four million dollars in taxes that are open and licensed today as we speak.

That's an average of 2.5 million dollars in back taxes per business.

These are businesses with an open licensing record that the city is allowing to stay open and keep ringing up tax debt right now as we speak.

Let's be real.

These businesses are not paying back 2.5 million dollars in taxes.

They are not paying tax as a business model, and you are allowing them to stay open.

So not only are we competing against the illicit market, we're competing against licensed dispensaries that the city is allowing to stay open, who have made it their business model to not pay tax.

So if you move forward, so if you move forward with the tax amnesty program, you have to have a clear pathway to shutting down delinquent dispensaries that do not enter the program, and you have to have a clear pathway to shutting down dispensaries that enter the program and default on their payments.

Please lower our taxes to 0.1%, just like every other business pays in the city.

Guns, tobacco, alcohol, major corporate major billion dollar corporations, pay 0.1%.

We pay a hundred times that rate.

Bring us back to 0.1% so that we have an even playing field.

Thank you.

Next speaker.

Good morning, everyone.

My name is Maria Briones.

I'm a member of ACE.

And I'm here uh just to remind you that Kipele House is one of the essential programs for our communities.

If it wasn't for uh this program, a lot of people would have been on the street.

And I don't think any one of you enjoy the view of a lot of people on the street.

With these uh fan cuts that we're gonna have on uh housing, we're gonna have a lot more people on the street, and I don't think that's fair and it's adjust.

So please do not take this program away from us unless you already have another program that is going to benefit the the tenants.

If you do, well, I thank you for that.

But for us is essential.

It's a livelihood and is very important.

If it is not for you, it is for us.

So please keep that in mind.

You do not want any more people on the street.

We already have enough.

And if you enjoyed the view, well, just sorry for that, but we don't.

We don't want to be on the street.

We'll want to stay house.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Good morning.

Oh, oh, okay.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Monty, I would love you.

Oh, Friday, the children are coming.

They're uh from nine to four to uh to three forty five.

They're here to get support.

The angels of change want to make changes.

They're young kids to make hope to come true in dreams.

I already know her nodes supported Ms.

Heather Hunt and Ugo Martini.

I need the rest of y'all to get aboard and give those children a chance and to be there and to support them.

Y'all are as council office people, you're here for the people and to make humanity safe for children of of color and also Hispanics and transgender or whatever they are, they're children of God, for you to be there and make the support, especially Mr.

Marty.

I will appreciate you to be there because you are what I I support all of y'all.

And I know you have seen me in the everything in all your events, and I will be there to support you.

You support me, I support you, and I respect that.

And I like to see you at the WAW.

Next speaker.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Agenda item six in general public comment, please.

So agenda item six is not open for public comment, but you can speak to it during general, so you'll have one minute for general public comment.

Go ahead.

Okay, great.

I'm here to ask the city of Los Angeles and the city attorney to protect the citizens of Los Angeles from County of LA illegal evictions.

I have a woman who is claiming to own a house that has been in my pro and my family for over 115 years, Irene Vasquez, AK, Irene Elizabeth Morris, and her daughter Yvonne, who have committed postal fraud and filed eviction papers without ownership.

LA County, the clerks there, actually not the clerks, they're allowing legal assistants to stamp evictions without proof of title or deed.

I'm asking the city attorney and the city of Los Angeles to put a stay on evictions in the city of LA until we can get a hold on the criminality.

Judge Mike in Department 61 doesn't care that it's an illegal act.

It doesn't care that it's an illegal proof of service.

Next speaker.

Good morning.

Okay.

You have one minute.

Go ahead.

Thank you.

Uh good morning all.

My name is Lena Sullivan.

I'm here today with the Right to Council Coalition.

Um, you've heard from many people, not just today, but also the many other times that we've been here to talk about this contract about the importance of State House Delay.

I just want to take the opportunity to share a little bit about the support that community-based organizations provide through State House Del A.

Um First, community-based organizations provide workshops for residents across the city virtually and in person, teaching tenants about their rights and helping connect them with resources when they would otherwise be alone in this process.

Community-based organizations through State House Del A also provide tenant navigation, giving tenants in any zip code one-on-one referrals to risk resources, personalized education on their rights and support through their eviction case.

And finally, community-based organizations conduct outreach and showing that tenants across the city who would otherwise be alone and confused in their eviction, know about their rights and have support.

State House Delay, as you've heard, is an essential program providing a wide variety of sit uh services across the city.

Please prioritize passing this contract without a gap in services.

Thank you.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Speaker, good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

General comment.

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

Go ahead.

Good morning, my name is Delvian Enriquez.

Soy member of the SAGE.

Member of Sage.

Here asking you guys and to the city attorney to please.

To vote for the ULA measure and Stay House LA.

Stay House me ayudo apparel 725 con 28.

It helped me pay 7,725 dollars with 28 cents my debt.

And provided me with free legal representation.

Because the judge obliged me to have a lawyer in the court.

And just like this is happening to all of us, there are so many more other people in this situation.

So please put your hands over your heart, please.

And put yourselves in our put yourselves in our shoes, if only for an instance.

I want to also talk about the priority zip codes.

They are a guide, not a limitation.

And our program serves all tenants in the council districts who meet the ULA eligibility requirements.

Since the start of 2020 in the city of LA alone, State House Del A has conducted outreach to over 870,000 tenants, hosted a thousand workshops, over a thousand, and provided tenant navigation support to over 62,000 tenants.

Thank you.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Uh Ian Jameson, general public comment.

Okay, you have one minute.

Go ahead.

As the United States Empire prepares to slaughter hundreds of thousands, probably by war's end over a million Iranians, partly for oil and resources, but overwhelmingly because it is the wish of the insane Jewish supremacist exterminationist state of Israel.

Let's remember that two and a half years into Israel's genocide in Gaza.

No one on this city council, including Raman, Soda Martinez, or Hernandez has called this event a genocide.

This Vietnam Iraq redux war is an act of imperialist mass murder dictated by the billionaire class, the multinational corporations, and the state of Israel, and executed enthusiastically by Democrats and Republicans who represent two barely distinguishable halves of the war party.

If you, the people of Los Angeles, want this apocalyptic madness to end, then you need to quit watching MSNBC, CNN and Fox, quit believing the garbage printed in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, and destroy the Democratic and Republican parties by voting for just about anyone else and nonviolently shutting shit down.

To all 15 of you sitting around this horseshoe, you murderers can fuck off and die.

Next speaker.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

It was just general comment.

Okay.

So you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Hi, thank you.

My name is Branna Telano.

Um I'm here just to say thank you, guys.

Uh, I understand there's a lot of issues going on in the city of Los Angeles.

There's a lot of issues going on everywhere, even in our pockets.

But I just want to use these last 40 seconds to say uh thank you.

And the Olympics are gonna be fun, so let's focus on the Olympics.

Let's focus on um the cleanliness of these roads.

Because we are gonna have a lot of uh a lot of VIPs coming to buy real estate from around the world.

So let's be ready, guys.

And if you guys need help, just send the emails.

Let's forget about the hate, the stress, the bills for a little bit.

But yeah, I just want to say thank you guys.

Just take care of the what do they call it?

Snowball effect.

Thank you.

Thank you, next speaker.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Hello, Shane Henson, speaking in uh general public comment.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Go ahead.

My name is Shane Henson.

I'm a legal aid attorney and public policy advocate with Intercity Law Center.

Our office provides eviction defense services to low-income Angelinos free of charge as a subcontractor through the State House LA program.

In 2025 alone, the State House LA program defended more than 2,000 low-income Angelinos in eviction court and assisted thousands more.

Our program boasts over a 90% success rate in Los Angeles.

What does that mean?

Well, roughly 55% of tenants are represented stayed safely in their homes.

While another 40% secured what is called a soft landing, which includes extra time to move out, rent waivers, and relocation assistance to help them safely transition to new housing without falling into homelessness.

We want to thank LHD for recommending State House LA continue to provide eviction defense and prevention services.

This step is very encouraging in the in uh the broader mission to implement the right to council ordinance.

We look forward to providing eviction offense services to the Stay House LA program for years to come.

Thank you.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

General public comment.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Go ahead.

My name is Lauren Harper, and I work at the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles as data manager for State House LA.

I want to speak today about Stay House LA's extensive data collection and reporting practices.

Every month we submit to LAHD anonymized case level data for every legal case, including client demographics, geography, and case outcomes.

This data is displayed in an internal dashboard for LAHD.

All ULA funded cases are also displayed in a public-facing dashboard on LAHD's website.

We also submit monthly narrative summaries detailing outreach, education, and tenant navigation activities, including information on where those services were performed.

State House LA values reporting accurate, detailed, and timely data about our legal services while also protecting our clients' privacy under attorney client privilege.

We work closely with LAHD to provide all information required to ensure transparent and efficient use of city resources.

Thank you.

Good morning.

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

Go ahead.

Um regarding uh 25-1199 and CD3, blooming dingo, and fat burger with cheese in your mouth.

Affordable housing, as we know as criminal corruption housing, is not about the aging.

It's about Armando Herman.

So in order to fill this Department of Aging title three, decade attorney, you have to attach my public record in my hand right here on that item 20, dickhead.

Thank you, smoking scan.

Blah mundo doesn't want to listen to the Department of Aging anymore because of all my corrections.

Thank you to David O'Carter.

Thank you to Allied and all the other attorneys who represent aging and homelessness and so.

Ustedes cabrones putos the casas de todos rental housing.

See no gusta a beer in la casa de rentar.

Some puro puto madres hijos de pinche madres aquí.

Gracias.

Repeat, please.

Excuse me, I asked for translation.

Hold on.

They can't translate if you disrupt them.

You son of bitches.

We can get a house to rent if you don't listen to us.

Uh damn damn you.

So ladies and gentlemen of the jury.

On item 22, the two Juju's as brought out about street lightings.

Well, it's gonna cost money, Bob and Juju Katie, Juju.

And you have to understand that the Gur ah, G-E-R-A-H was the smallest weight known to the Hebrews.

And there's no possible way that this street lighting finance budget will fill this issue of street lighting, Bob.

Where do the Jew go?

All right, fuck that item.

Let's go to another item.

Now it's 22.

Fuck you, Bob Bloomfield.

Um item 24 regarding smoking scan at 17820 West, smoking scan Irwin Street, Easterly of Zela.

That must be Jewish smoke and scan, I don't know, but hey, I keep saying smoke and scan, but those are my promoters.

Stick to the agenda item or move you to general.

Motherfucker, now into my non-agenda.

You have one minute.

To the fucking Jews, the haters of Zinai, those of war, the Jews.

What is a shekel?

A G E R A H?

This is uh not in the jurisdiction.

This is non-public general.

I'm talking about money, dude.

I'm talking about money, weights and scales and the budget.

Why is it that we always have this conflict?

Are you gonna forfeit your speaking time?

Why do we always have this conflict and non-agenda public comment?

Okay, let me go into Van Brandenburg versus the United States.

Hey.

And you're the only black motherfuckers that they're not allowing to be heard about rental budgets, money for black people, white people, Asian people, and all other motherfucking people.

So the bottom line is for the record in my hand, 42 SC 1983.

Fuck you, Groat.

You're a stupid fat fucking dog eating roof, roof, roo, smoke.

And your time is expired.

Council President, those are all the speakers for public comment.

All right, thank you so much for coming and sharing with us this morning to everybody who came.

Madam Clerk, what's before us?

The council may now take a vote on items one, three through four, and sixteen twenty-five.

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

All right, what's next?

The council may take up item 12, called special by councilmember Padilla for comments.

All right, Councilmember Padilla.

Item five?

Yes.

Item traffic study, traffic study for Woodman.

So 12.

12.

Okay.

Colleagues, this motion is about one thing, preventing the next strategy before it happens.

On September 28, 2025, a 35-year-old man named Gary Enrique Schombert was killed riding an electrical scooter at Strathern and Woodman.

On December 12, 2025, a 26-year-old U.S.

Marine and his girlfriend, um, Heidi Barrera Baltisma were among three people killed in a violent crash on Terabella and Woodman.

Furthermore, according to LAPD Valley Traffic Division, within the last three years, the data reveals deeply troubling statistics.

67 traffic collisions, seven severe injuries, 31 hit and run incidents, and over 825 citations issued along Woodman Corridor during the same period.

The Woodman Corridor is clearly a high-risk roadway for pedestrian, bicyclists, scooter riders, and drivers alike.

If we know that there is a pattern of danger, we have to take responsibility to act.

This motion calls for something foundational and responsible, a comprehensive study, an evaluation of targeted data-driven safety improvements, and a clear report back with next steps and concrete ideas.

That could include dedicated or protected bike routes, safer crosswalks, brighter streetlight improvements, and/or enhanced enforcement strategies, but we need the data and an analysis to guide those decisions and prioritize funding where it's needed.

This is a reasonable, measured, and responsible first step towards making Woodman Avenue safer.

I respectfully ask for your A vote so we can begin this work immediately.

And I was also going to mention that it's part of why I support today's item 15 that was continued, because I plan to put nine speed safety cameras in Council District 6 and two specifically on Woodman.

Thank you.

Thank you so much, Councilmember Padilla.

Let's open the roll on this item.

Close the roll, tabulate the vote.

All right, what's next?

Council may now move on to item 13, called special by Councilmember Herado for a separate vote.

All right, this is item 13.

Call special by Councilmember Jurado for comments.

Councilmember Jurado.

Just a separate vote.

Separate vote.

All right, let's open the roll.

Close the roll, tabulate the vote.

11 eyes, two noes.

All right, what's next?

Council may now move on to item 14, called special by Councilmember Herado for a separate vote.

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

12 ayes, one no.

All right, what's next?

Can I require the thank you?

That will be 11 eyes.

Oh, excuse me, 10 eyes and two no's.

All right.

And what's next?

Council may now move on to item five.

Motion Yarislavsky McCosker to move the budget and finance committee report.

All right.

Uh I got uh do you have comments on this, Councilmember Badia?

Item five, cannabis.

I thought we already voted on it.

We did not.

Okay.

I do support the budget and finance committee's recommendations to have finance come back with answers to their pending questions.

The topic of properly addressing the tax delinquency of our licensed cannabis stakeholders is a priority of mine, and ensuring the full support of my colleagues is imperative.

So I know there's still work to do.

With the tax amnesty program, the city finds itself with a unique opportunity to bring businesses into compliance and at the same time properly fund cannabis industry-centric programming that directs impacts and economic success of those who are already here operating in our city and want to stay in our city.

Thank you so much, Councilmember Padilla.

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

13 eyes.

All right, what's next?

The council has motions for posting and referral.

They are posted and referred.

There is a request to send item 21 forthwith.

All right, without objection, that'll be the order.

The desk is clear.

All right.

Uh any announcements, members, announcements?

All right, uh, Mr.

Price.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

The colleagues, neighbors, friends, I'm happy to announce that this Thursday, the Los Angeles Convention Center is hosting a workshop hiring bear.

This fair will be a premier event where Angelinos can apply and help the city make our convention center expansion a reality.

Beginning at the convention center at 9 a.m., this inclusive to all levels of construction expertise.

Whether you have no expertise, some background, or even a graduate of a pre-apprentip program, you are welcome.

Craft, union craft workers, construction site managers, construction workers are all encouraged to attend.

To register, please visit WWW tenure.com slash LACC workforce one.

Hope to see you there.

Thank you so much, Mr.

Price.

Good deal.

Everybody get out there.

There's lots of jobs.

And we hope as many of those jobs stay here in the city of LA as possible.

So we ask folks to get out there and pursue them and do so aggressively.

Any other any other announcements, members?

All right, seeing none, I'll ask everybody in the chamber to rise for adjourney motions.

See if there are any adjourning motions to my left.

Councilmember Lee.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Um I'm going to be adjourning in the memory of Rajinder Kumar Jawa.

Kumarjawa's story is a powerful example of the American dream and action.

An immigrant from Punjab, India, Kumar came to the United States with very little, but carried with him a deep belief in opportunity in this country.

Through hard work and vision, he built not only a successful business, but a lasting legacy that strengthened the Indian community across Southern California.

In 1984, he founded India Sweets and Spices, which grew into one of the largest Indian grocery and vegetarian restaurant chains in Southern California.

What began as a small venture became a cornerstone for families seeking authentic food, culture, and connection to their heritage.

His stores were more than places to shop or dine.

They became gathering spaces that brought people together.

His impact extended far beyond his business.

As a co-founder of the Indian Association of Los Angeles, he played an important role in building one of the largest Indian associations in the region.

He was known not only as an entrepreneur, but a generous and compassionate leader who quietly helped countless individuals, whether through financial support, mentorship, or simply lending a helping hand.

Kumarkawa's life reminds us that success is measured not by what we built for ourselves, but by how we lift uh uplift others.

His perseverance, leadership, and commitment to giving back continue to inspire generations within the Indian American community and throughout Southern California.

He will be deeply missed and forever remembered.

Thank you so much, Mr.

Lee.

Councilmember Raman.

If I could be added to that adjournment.

Thank you so much.

Neither adjourning motions to my left and on my right.

Seeing none, we're adjourned.

Thank you so much, everybody.

And there'll be many people that will probably judge me for that and say, how could you do that?

I get it.

I probably would have been one of those people.

But given those circumstances, I felt like I did what I had to do.

I've done this work for 20 years, and I've cried to the point that sometimes I'm worried I can't cry anymore.

This took me back to hot break.

Hey guys.

Hey Oscar, how are you?

I'm glad to see you guys among peace.

Homeless people are people too.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And I would just say the struggle is real.

Every day was a grind.

It was how are we going to get through this day?

Every day is about survival.

And uh, that's not living.

Humans are not made to live like that.

I don't truly understand how people survive.

I did a lot of things this week that I never thought I would have done.

That's all I got to say.

I think I need to go say hi to my wife.

Thank you.

Let me do it.

Nothing in my life would have prepared me for this, and yet it gave me that opportunity to experience humility and gratitude and generosity.

And I think if I can maintain those three key elements and encourage others to do the same, I think we'll we're gonna make some progress.

And that's my hope and my prayer at the conclusion of this journey.

With its renowned freeways and its ever-expanding public transportation system, the choices for navigating this sprawling metropolis have never been greater.

While the future of transportation in LA is still being written, its past shed some light on what challenges may lie ahead.

It could be said that the history of LA transportation is a tale of two cities, one driven by commerce, innovation, and the public good, the other, filled with conspiracy theories, legal battles, missteps, and in twenty twenty, a global pandemic.

But in spite of roadblocks, Los Angeles has always had an uncanny ability to reverse course, get back on track, and move full speed ahead.

Travel was primarily on foot over unpaved roads until the late 1700s.

And sometimes those are used as transportation devices, of course, and the indigenous people fairly quickly take those up themselves.

By the eighteen twenties, El Pueblo de los Ancales was part of the Mexican Empire.

The new Mexican government, eager for international commerce, immediately increased trading at LAC ports.

Paved roads became more commonplace.

That was when you started to see roads being established from the port to the downtown area, which was basically the plaza area.

It had not extended very far beyond that at that point in time.

The westward expansion brought thousands of entrepreneurs to Los Angeles.

Among them was a man named Phineas Banning, also known as the father of the port of Los Angeles.

Banning's main contribution to the transportation of