Find yourself having a little bit of difficulty in the middle of the hiking, you know it's gonna complicate your ability to get off of that trail and make it back to your vehicle safely.

There's an acronym that's called stop, right?

You want to stay put, you want to think, you want to observe, you want to plan.

So stay put, don't move because when you move, it makes it difficult for rescuers to be able to access where you're at.

You want to think about where you're at and how to articulate that information.

Observe your area before it starts to get dark on you.

So if you have any landmarks, you can communicate that to potential rescuers and then start coming up with the plan, right?

If you need to maybe come up a cliff or you need to assist yourself and helping get rescued, come up with the plan.

So that's an acronym we like people to try and memorize if they find themselves in a precurious situation.

You want to make sure if you're gonna be hiking in peak season, like in the spring or summertime, consider hiking in the morning when the weather's a lot cooler or in the afternoons when it's not as warm.

If you're gonna be hiking in the fall or winter, be assured that it's not gonna be raining on you at some point when you're on that trail because uh that brings a whole nother element uh to your ability to get on and off that trail, such as uh water, rock and debris flows, uh making the trails a lot slipperier, sometimes being washed out.

So those are the two things to consider depending on the climate and the weather you're gonna be experiencing.

I look at my weather app anytime gonna hike to make sure you know if it's gonna rain or if it's gonna be super hot.

That impacts when I go and what I bring with me.

Wearing a hat is really important, the shields from the sun and the sunscreen.

Doing a little bit of research what the weather's gonna be doing that day.

Are we gonna be in a red flag day?

Are we gonna be having a high heat advisory?

Is it gonna be raining?

All these things are gonna affect your ability to be able to stay safe and have a good time while you're hiking on the trails.

It's my passion.

I love being outdoors.

I love the fresh air.

I love the nature.

Um I love breaking the sweat and getting the exercise.

Getting away from the city and kind of in a quiet place.

I feel more centered.

It's a stress release.

Just gives you the space for yourself and for your brain to have a race from all the things that are going on in the world and to just look up and see, you know, the trees and the view.

So we're here at Pan Pacific Park in Council District 5, celebrating Earth Day with LA Sanitation and many of our city and community partners.

Earth Day is a time where we come together as a community, but also as a city, as a sanitation and the department of public work to help educate the public about the innovative approaches and the resources that are available to sustainability, composting, recycling, and so much more.

Today is the 10th anniversary of Earth Day LA.

We are big fans of protecting the environment, reducing plastic waste, and making it easier for people to live a sustainable life.

We're very excited here to invite the community to come and learn about all of the work that sanitation does.

Our wastewater treatment, our stormwater activities, our solid resources and recycling.

These are major programs that we do to help protect the environment.

We even have a bike repair clinic.

We even have a toy swamp booth as well.

We're giving away trees, we're teaching kids and families how to recycle and compost, and there's so much more that we're teaching the public and also promoting our application as well, SORT LA, where it teaches people how to throw away your garbage and your trash.

And then we're gonna flag you in our hand.

So today I'm looking forward to all the kid activities, the happy children out here learning about how to be zero waste and their households.

Because kids are so good at teaching their parents, and that is such an important factor for the future and for our city and how our neighborhoods look.

I think um Kings I am planning because uh you they helped us eat and and breathe better.

When you come to this event here at the City for Earth Day, we're gonna help you get free trees and learn how to use the mulch, and you can go home and this is a family environment.

It's a great day.

It feels good out here.

You're helping the environment to reduce for you as a recycle.

The theme of our event is planet versus plastics.

We're really trying to outreach to the community and let them know that things need to be done to reduce the plastics that are produced.

We need to recycle the plastics that are in the everyday commodities that we use.

This is an annual event.

So this means in addition to today, next year, and the following years after, for the subsequent Earth Days, we would love to have everybody continue to participate, to bring your friends, just to learn about individual work that they can do to make a contribution.

It's good to help the Earth.

Through its historic telescopes, including the iconic Zeiss refractor, visitors can peer into the night sky, tracing planets, star clusters, and distant galaxies.

LA remains dedicated to inclusivity, from supporting city interns taking their first steps to embracing the vibrant colors of the spring holy festival.

The city even offers specialized soccer clinics to ensure our blind and visually impaired residents are fully engaged in LA's vibrant rhythms.

Today, we just launched this blind soccer season.

Boy, boy.

And it's just amazing to see all like how happy and hyper the kids are to play and get that energy out.

And seeing how they can actually play alongside people who are older than them, younger than them, and basically collaborate and connect with other people whom they might not otherwise be able to connect with.

Now we're gonna do side shuffles, side shuffle.

Because it's not just for people who are blind, it's for anyone who wants to play soccer in an inclusive way.

Because if you hear this, the ball, this has Rottle in it, so you can hear where the ball is at all times.

And that makes it so that you can pass and dribble and shoot just like anyone else at any time.

All the programming that we do in my mind serves one purpose at the end of the day.

And that purpose is to empower everyone.

When I lost my sight, I thought that I wouldn't be able to play sports like anyone else, or I wouldn't be able to have fun with my friends or do any activities.

And so I'm out here showing everyone that it's 100% not the case.

When I lost my sight when I was 12, I uh mostly stayed home because I didn't really think that I could do much.

Like I was like, oh, I'm blind, I can't play sports like everyone else.

I can't do things like everyone else.

But when I started learning about adoptive sports, that's when I was like, wait a minute.

I can play the sports like my friends.

So when my friends talk about soccer or basketball or archery or all these other sports or golf, I can connect with my sighted peers and non-disabled peers as well and understand what they're talking about and build connections that I otherwise wouldn't.

Because without these sports, the kids just gonna be staying inside, not really doing much and not being able to be active.

But with these sports, it gives the youth a chance to be able to connect with fellow youth their age, whether they're disabled or non-disabled, and give them a chance to be active and participate in things that they otherwise might feel like they couldn't.

Today we're celebrating the Holy Earth Bloom music and dance celebration here in Lanark Park.

It's a vibrant celebration of the beginning of spring, and it celebrates Holy, which is an Indian American festival that welcomes the arrival of spring.

Los Angeles is a melting pot, and we know that the city is what it is because of the contributions of all the communities and cultures, and uh I think every future generation needs to know about the art and culture that makes the city so special.

It's our responsibility to pass on our culture, you know, and the best way to pass in our culture is through music and dance.

So, what's unique about us today, the Holy Earth Bloom Festival is it's not just music and dance, it's not just culture and community.

It's really about sustainability and regenerative practices.

And so the whole idea behind today is spending time with each other, but also spending time with the earth and remembering that we are part of nature.

We are nature.

It's not some place that we go to, it is some place that is inside of us.

I really really urge you to claim this is your day.

Don't leave here with anything like I wish I had said or I didn't feel comfortable saying.

Today is an opportunity for a number of the pathway interns to get exposure, work experience, and knowledge of how the city operates, how it operates, and also how to become a civil servant.

This is the group, and this is the day.

This is an opportunity to network, but also get to know the cohort of interns that are enacting change in LA and making an impact every day.

So it's an opportunity for me to also get to know how LA functions through the public sector.

Currently I am pursuing a graduate program at Cal State Northridge for urban planning.

I'm getting to know people that are in my field and we can help each other out in the sense of connecting each other to other job opportunities, even just having friends relating on where we are in our career journeys.

I think with the City Pathways event, it'll be great for you to use as a reference to explore different types of departments here and explore like where I would like to go career-wise, since I'm still very much in this phase of like exploring.

I recently graduated from college, so I'm definitely trying to engage what are my interests, what are my weaknesses and strengths, and how can I better use that to guide myself in my career.

My current major is rural planning.

There's a lot of policy that goes into it, a lot of engineering that goes into it.

Not only have I been able to talk to people, meet people in the industry, but I've also been able to learn more about what I want and like maybe what that job entails.

Now that they've had all these experiences, to go through and understand the personnel process.

It builds on an experience that they've had for the last several months, working in public offices and working in the mayor's office and working in various departments.

This is like a better culmination than a graduation, because it is an extension of your career path.

Treat this as the next day of your career.

The legacy of Griffith Observatory is deeply intertwined with world history.

During World War II, its planetarium became a vital training ground where pilots learned the art of celestial navigation using the stars to guide them across vast and uncertain skies.

That role continued into the space age.

In the 1960s, the observatory helped prepare astronauts from NASA for the Apollo program, equipping them with the knowledge needed for humanity's first journeys to the moon.

From the beginning, the observatory was built on a radical idea that access to the cosmos should not be limited to scientists on remote mountaintops, but instead shared with the public.

And today, it continues that mission, offering free access to lectures, exhibits, and planetarium shows that bring the science of the universe within reach for everyone in Los Angeles.

That connection between city and sky is still celebrated.

Marking more than a century of public astronomy, the Los Angeles Astronomical Society has hosted community star parties at the observatory, inviting Angelinos to look up and experience the universe for themselves.

The Los Angeles Astronomical Society attracts the nerdiest herd animals in the finest city on the face of the earth.

That's you.

That's you.

Live it.

The Los Angeles Astronomical Society is celebrating its 100th birthday.

We were founded in 1926, and it being 2026, we are it's time to throw a party.

How are we doing, Los Angeles Astronomical Society?

Cheer louder, it's raining.

This is a hundred years of public service to the people of Los Angeles with telescopes, talks, outreach in schools, fighting against light pollution, and generally sharing the wonders of the sky with the people of LA.

One of our primary missions is doing telescope outreach, and we do a star party here every month.

So we're doing the biggest version of what we normally do, and we're celebrating by having a hundred telescopes out here today for each of our 100 years.

I'm here with my college's science club.

We're really looking forward to seeing the different types of telescopes that are here because it seems like there's a bunch of really cool different things that are going on here, and I'm just really excited to learn more about space and the stars, especially with the Artemis mission that happened recently.

So yeah, it's very cool.

I think it's just a really cool place to come out, especially because it's free, so it's very accessible to people.

It's always best to learn more about the stars and the world around you.

Los Angeles is actually a really relevant site for astronomy.

Mount Wilson Observatory, they've housed the world's largest telescope twice with the 60 inch and the 100 inch.

Edwin Hubble notably discovered that our galaxy isn't all there is in the universe, and that the universe is indeed expanding.

That happened right up there on the hill.

There's a lot of astronomy happening right here.

Southern California is really important in the history of astronomy.

And now we're going back into space, we're going to the moon, and I think it's an even better time to be celebrating.

Happy birthday, happy 100th, and let's hear it for another hundred years more of looking up.

We're here at the Los Angeles Festival of Books, and it's a really awesome time to see just so many varieties of books.

We started over here at the children's section, but we're gonna move over to the adult fiction and just seeing so many cultures represented, so many amazing artworks, and just a great thing for LA to come together.

So we have two different activities going on.

We have the Lexicon activity, which is a large 16 by 20 book that is essentially a living and growing book.

People are gonna come and they add a collage, they add a word, they can add their name, and then we also have a bookbinding activity.

It's more so just creating a little mini-sized book that people can walk away with and they can decorate it, they can emboss it, so can just have fun and be creative and do whatever they want.

We've got three different booths going on.

Uh so we're signing people up for our commemorative Central 100 library card.

We're giving away our rotunda color by numbers coloring page with a custom 12-pack of colored pencils to complete the challenge.

We are giving away free books in English and in Spanish, and we're also celebrating the launch of our Papa book, Central Library Pops with Angel City Press.

So I can't wait to see Amy Tan and all sorts of other people.

First of all, it's a huge community gathering.

So people feel part of Los Angeles.

And the other is that we need to read books.

You know, there's so much on TV and all these other ways that are taking people's time.

And so to remind people that it's good to read books is a wonderful thing.

People love books, no matter what they tell you, people still read.

But I think they still want information.

They still need uh opportunities to find out new things, and books are a good avenue for those things.

There's so many authors here telling us about their work and how they do it and on various subjects that are of interest to everyone.

And what I know is in order to sell a book in order to inform people that you have books, you have to actually trust the people.

You have to get out and talk to them.

And so they've done an excellent job of setting up booths, sending up different tits, setting up different opportunities for authors to get their word out about their works.

It opens up the possibility of kids being introduced to new books, of anyone, any age, anybody is able to come in, kind of find what they're interested in.

That's how you find kind of books that you want to read.

We're hopefully gonna see approximately 160,000 people.

Last year we saw 2,000 that came through our booth alone.

And I just think it's really important for DCA to be out here because a lot of people still don't know what the Department of Cultural Affairs is, what we do, what we offer, and find ways to engage in the arts.

Reading is so important, especially if you have young kids.

I think it's something they should definitely be exposed to.

They have read alouds for all different ages over here.

They can do get a read aloud.

I just think there's something for everyone.

I think it's so beautiful that everyone's come together and really celebrate books and celebrate each other as a city.

It's free, it's easy to get to.

There's so many amazing things to see here.

Great talks, great artists.

So definitely recommend it for anybody next time.

Prom is just one of those events.

It's the really the culmination of your K-12 education, and it would be sad if if a child couldn't attend prom because they couldn't afford a suit or a fancy dress.

We find that many of our families in the LA area can afford the dresses and the jewelry and the suits that go along with this, so it gives us an opportunity to give back to our communities.

So giving them an opportunity to have that prom dream come true with a nice dress, it's always uh good feeling.

We can kind of launch them on their adulthood with this special gift.

We are giving away prom dresses and suits, shoes and handbags and makeup.

We're here to make sure they have an amazing prom.

Getting dresses for free, shoes for free, jewelry, makeup, this is like a huge opportunity.

So many dresses and so many options.

I absolutely loved it, and I think it was phenomenal.

I got my suit, nice formal uh suit.

Uh it's been nice.

There were a lot of options, and it was really hard for me.

I was picking through dresses, you know, going back and forth trying to find a color scheme for my palm based on the um theme.

I got my dress, I got my makeup, I got my jewelry for that day, and I also got shoes.

When you see a mom come in with her daughter and share in this pivotal moment that both of them are gonna remember for a lifetime, that takes the cake every time.

I mean, not only does it support, you know, those who may not be able to afford a suit, but also to break the stigma between the you know officers and community.

Law enforcement is here to support you.

We aren't just here to solve crimes.

We are here to build a relationship and a partnership with our community.

This is a chance to give back.

So we're here for it.

I love to be generous and donate the girls' faces when I see them in the fitting room and they're happy.

To me, that's the best thing.

Thank you so much for this event.

Um, the opportunity to come and shop for one of the important things of my life.

Thank you for the time you put into this, and just thank you for all of it.

I think what was so significant today is the commemoration and celebration of Arab American Heritage Month.

The contributions of so many city employees.

So this was really significant in recognizing it.

There are four honorees today from the Brue Engineering Street Lighting, Zelda Sanitation, as well as the Bureau of Contract Administration.

These are the hard-working, behind the scenes talented people, and they have been a significant part in ensuring that we have a city that functions.

Just a testament to their work ethics and who they are as Angelinos.

The citizenships of the people who are living here are contributing to the well-being and to the flourishing of this beautiful city.

We don't forget where did we come from, but we cherish this, our roots, and you continue our future.

Very honored to receive the Arab American Heritage Award.

It means a lot to me because of what's going on in the world, especially in Palestine and Lebanon.

I am an Arab, a Palestinian American.

It feels great to be honored by the city of Los Angeles.

It's both humbling and powerful at the same time.

So many people carry with them the heavy griefs and concern about their families in other parts in the Mideast.

Um, in fact, we realized that we share more in common.

And this is an act, if you will, almost of courage to come out and say no.

We live with dignity.

We came here, we're building this country, we're building the city, and we should celebrate and recognize that.

Check out these things to do.

Join LA City's Department of Recreation and Parks for its annual family festival.

Salute to recreation.

Head to the Northridge Recreation Center for three days of fun activities on Friday, May 15th, Saturday, May 16th, and Sunday, May 17th.

Activities include teen night, sports tournaments, senior dance, and battle of the bands.parks.lacity.gov.

Los Angeles Public Library is celebrating the diversity of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities in Los Angeles at AAPI Joy.

This free festival for all ages will explore AAPI voices then and now.

Celebrate the city's rich AAPI heritage and help forge a shared future of acceptance and inspiration with the greater Los Angeles community.

The day-long event includes performances, talks, crafts, and more with an opening line dance at 11 a.m.

Visit LA's Central Library for AAPI Joy on Saturday, May 16th, beginning at 11 a.m.

and continuing through 4 p.m.

Learn more at LAPL.org.

Westwood Recreation will host youth and adult clinics made possible by the LA Twenty Eight Olympic and Paralympic Games.

There will also be special guest appearances by Team USA Paralympians.

Pre-registration is required as space for the camp is limited.

The Play LA wheelchair basketball skills camp takes place on Saturday, May sixteenth and Sunday, May 17th.

For more info, go to Recreation.parks.la City.gov.

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

In many ways, Griffith Observatory is more than a landmark.

It's a bridge between Earth and sky, past and future.

It has appeared in countless films and television shows, embedding itself into the cultural identity of Los Angeles.

But beyond its cinematic allure, it continues to fulfill its original mission to inspire wonder.

In a city defined by dreams, this hilltop institution reminds us to look up and imagine what lies beyond.

Its location within Griffith Park provides the ultimate outdoor view of the Hollywood sign, complemented by immersive exhibits exploring the wonders of space and science.

The Griffith Observatory is dedicated to transforming visitors into active explorers of our universe.

And here above the city lights, Griffith Observatory reminds us that no matter how vast the universe may be, it's always within reach if we simply take the time to look up.

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Until next time, get out there and experience all the wonderful things that Los Angeles has to offer.

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

Well, this is not so Um, all right, good morning.

Good morning, and welcome to the regularly scheduled meeting of Los Angeles City Council.

Today is Tuesday, the 19th day of May in the year twenty twenty-six.

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

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

Bloomenfield, Harris Dawson, Hernandez, Hutt, Herado, Lee, McCosker, Nazarian, Padilla, Park, Price, Raman, Rodriguez, Sota Martinez, Yaroslavsky, 15 members present in a quorum, Mr.

President.

All right.

Uh first order of business.

Approval of the minutes of May fifteenth, twenty twenty-six.

Councilmember Judato moves.

Council Member Price seconds.

What's next?

Commendatory resolutions for approval.

Council Member Park moves, Councilmember Hernandez, seconds.

What is next?

Uh, Mr.

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

All right, we'll ask everyone in the chambers to rise, face the flag and follow along with Council Member Price of the Ninth Council District.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Place your right hand over your heart and ready begin.

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

Thank you, sir.

Items one through eight are items noticed for public hearing.

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

Items thirteen through twenty-six are items for which public hearings have not been held.

Ten votes are required for consideration.

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

Uh, specialist members, I see Council Member Hutt on the queue.

Good morning, and thank you, Mr.

President.

Which I rise to call item six for sp for a special amendment.

All right.

Councilmember Jurado.

Thank you, Council President.

I'd like to call item sixteen for a separate vote.

All right.

Council, anybody else on this side?

Councilmember Bloomfield.

Yeah, item two, please uh note and file the lien's been paid.

Alright, without objection.

Um, is there a second to the motion to note and file?

Mr.

McConsky seconds.

Alright.

Any others on my left?

All right.

Uh on this side, I have Councilmember Rodriguez.

Thank you.

I'd like to continue items three, four, and five to Tuesday, June 30th.

Item nine for comments, item 11 for a separate vote, and item 12 for comments and a separate vote.

All right, Councilmember Hernandez.

Thank you, Council President.

I'd like to call item 24 for comments, please.

And questions.

All right.

Councilmember Soto Martinez.

Yes, thank you so much, Mr.

Chair.

I'd like to call item number eight special for amendment.

Should be coming soon on behalf of.

Sorry, item number eight.

Councilman Yaroslavski should be circulating in soon.

All right, sec it's seconded by Councilmember Soto.

Uh by Council Member Yarosovsky.

You council, that your second is CD5 for the amendment.

Okay, second.

All right.

Uh any other special members?

All right.

Seeing no other specials, uh, Madam Clerk, what items are available for votes at this time.

And I'm sorry, Miss R Council Member Rodriguez, if I could just confirm that's item nine for comments and item twelve for separate vote and comments.

Thank you.

The council may now vote on items 10 through 11.

All right.

So the council may now vote on item 10.

Alright, let's open the roll on item 10.

Close the roll.

Tabulate to vote.

15 ayes.

All right.

Like would the council like to take item 11 now?

Yes.

Uh let's open the roll on item number 11.

Close the roll, tabulate to vote.

13 ayes, two no's.

All right.

What's next?

Would the council like to move on to public comment?

Before we do public comment, we want to hear a special introduction from Councilmember Park.

I'd say that.

Thank you.

Council President.

Before we do that, can you uh record my vote as a no on item 11, please?

Sorry, couldn't get to my button fast enough.

Got it.

Thank you.

And uh with that, I wanted to take a moment to welcome to our changers today the student athletes from Another Bounce.

Um Another Bounce is a community student-run organization that was founded by 13 high school students who saw excessive waste in racket sports and wanted to make a change.

So they created this organization to focus on a more sustainable future in sports by collecting and recycling tennis and pickleballs.

These student athletes come from Crossroads School, Windward School, Loyola High School, Brentwood School, and Harvard Westlake School.

Several of these young student advocates also lost their homes in the Palisades fire, and have since turned their time and focus on combating climate change through waste reduction.

I would like to bring forward the number one junior singles pickleball player in the United States, student athlete Ford Cassidy, Ford and his twin brother Boone from the Palisades make up the top doubles team in the 18 and under junior professional category.

So Ford, come on up and say a few words about the work that you're doing.

Good morning, Council President and Council members, and thank you, Councilmember Park, for this acknowledgement.

My name is Ford Cassidy.

I'm 16 years old, and I'm a junior board member of Another Bounce, a program of the environmental nonprofit habits of waste.

I've grown up playing tennis my whole life and now compete nationally in pickleball.

I'm currently the number one 18 and under player on the professional pickleball association junior tour, and my twin brother Boone and I are the reigning doubles team.

One issue we repeatedly witness as we travel to tournaments is the massive amount of waste created by tennis and pickleballs.

My generation has inherited the enormous responsibility of confronting climate change and protecting our planet.

We know that 500 million tennis and pickleballs are produced per year, and watching something we use for just a few hours last in our environment for centuries is frustrating.

And closer to home.

So today, Council members, we are asking for your leadership by placing tennis and pick-ball recycling on the future agenda so Los Angeles can help spark a broader ripple effect of change.

This is a small change, but it represents something bigger.

Shifting habits and taking responsibility for the future, our future.

Thank you so much for let's give them a round of applause for all of their advocacy and work on sustainability.

Thank you so much for being here today.

Thank you, Council President.

Thank you so much.

Uh Councilmember Park.

For public comment into the record at this time.

Yes, Mr.

President.

To people providing public comment, when it's your turn to speak, please state which of the agenda items you'd like to speak to.

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

When speaking on 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 were 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 speakers.

The items open for public comment on the agenda today are items one and two, items six through eight, and items thirteen through twenty-six.

Again, the items that are open for public comment on the agenda today are items one and two, items six through eight, and items thirteen through twenty-six.

Items number three, four, and five have been continued to June 30th and are 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.

We will tell you when your time is up.

I have a few more announcements.

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

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.

Additionally, as one reminder, uh, if when you get to the podium, if you would like to speak to the items and general public comment, please let us know that you would like both.

Thank you.

Gracias.

So, also if you've made an accommodation request pursuant to the ADA, in order to make use of the wireless handheld microphone, or if you would like to make a request when it's your turn to speak after you hear the name that you signed up under called aloud, please raise your hand so the sergeants know to provide you with that wireless handheld microphone.

Finally, in order to help us accommodate up as many people as possible and to run an efficient public comment period, as you can see, we have a lot of people here today.

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

Thank you.

I'd like to begin public comment by calling a few names.

Carla Orendorf, Nicolai Dressbach, Laura Escavelle, Johanna Villamille, and Andre Perry.

Okay, so as soon as you hear the name that you sign up under called aloud, please feel free to line up on your left-hand side and then come to the podium.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

My name is Nicolai Dressbach.

I wanted to speak on uh 26 today.

Um, good morning, council members.

So you have one minute, go ahead.

Okay, thank you.

Good morning, Council members.

My name is Nicolai Dressbach, and I've worked as a bartender for areas at LAX for the past 13 years.

Um I am here today, not just as an airport worker, but as a husband and a father to my 16-year-old stepson.

My family depends on the wages I earn at LAX because my pay is directly tied to the minimum wage.

Any rollback or reduction would mean a direct pay cut to hardworking families like mine.

Over the next several years, that decision could cost my family tens of thousands of dollars.

Money that goes towards rent, groceries, gas, utilities, and simply trying to survive in Los Angeles.

Like so many working families, we feel inflation every single week.

Food costs more, rent costs more, everything costs more.

Uh we are asking for stability and the chance to keep with the rising cost of living.

Last year, airport workers were already asked to wait through delays.

We were told this wage increase was coming, and we planned our lives around that promise.

Families made financial decisions, believing the city would honor its commitment.

So I ask you respectfully, why should hard working airport employees be asked to sacrifice while large corporations continue to profit?

Please do not balance this decision on the backs of workers and their families.

Stand with the people who keep LAX running every day, keep your word, and protect the Olympic wage.

Thank you.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Item 16.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Members of the Los Angeles City Council.

If you vote yes on agenda item 16 at today's meeting, which bans sitting lying sleeping and criminalizes unhoused people in the San Fernando Valley, you might as well just report to LAPD headquarters for work.

And while you are there, pick up your paychecks.

They have the funding, and it's where you belong, anyways.

If you vote yes to criminalizing unhoused communities in Los Angeles.

It's fucking whack that y'all are criminalizing people in a time where people behind me are begging for beggar better wages, and you have the power to do more, and instead you're banning people living in tents from public space.

So I urge every other member who has any sense in their fucking heads to vote no on council file 26 4118 S5 and reject Councilmember Melda Padilla's proposal to create 26.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Article 26, Commentario General.

Article 26, uh public comment.

Okay, you'll have one minute for each.

But then one minuto para cada uno.

Hi, um, um disculpeme.

Joanna Villamil.

Johanna Villamin.

My name is Johanna Villamin, and I work for United Here Local Eleven.

So member of United Hill Calonsi travel in Western Bonaventura.

And I I work in Winston Bonaventura.

When they tried to take away our salary, the voters said no.

I helped because my family and my friends needed this.

So the $30 wage should be effective for the Olympic Games, but now it's not going to be until 2030.

The rent that I can barely pay and the um the food that I can barely afford.

I'm here to let the council know exactly what the industry has taken away from us.

Thank you.

Before the next speaker begins, I'll call up a few more names.

Maria Romero, Tommaso Martinez, Joey Lamb, Britney Williams, David Huerta, Ponce Jorado.

Which items would you like to speak to?

Uh community comment.

I'm sorry, public comment.

Okay, you'll have one minute.

Uh Harry Elliott.

Uh Pagina uh Siento Pince.

Armas A L F de Frequencia Extremady.

Son casi tan effectivo como Armas Cuarta Cuantas.

Thank you.

Do you speak English or Spanish?

I'm not hearing very well, but uh okay, uh moving on.

Um, they penetrate and plomo or cero como no son solida.

Uh a gun can penetrate with um with a bullet.

Uh son solida uh and so they're not solid.

Okay.

Um, affect the uh but it affects everything in your path.

Armas A L A F Normante say support and coach.

Guns LAF usually support themselves inside a car.

It functiona como torpedos.

Speaker, which items would you like to speak to?

Yeah, good morning.

What?

Good morning, Kashmir.

Um, my name is Joe E.

Lam, and I've been working as a which items would you like to speak to?

Joe Ilam.

What's that?

Uh 26.

Okay, you have one minute.

Yeah, good morning.

Casman, my name is Joy and I work as a beauty advisor at DFS at LEX for almost 10 years.

And I am here because the worker like me were counting on the race this summer and reaching $30 before Olympic.

We make press around that.

Our family make press around that.

After years of rising rent, rising grocery, and rising costs and the wages increase, give us some hope that we could finally catch up a little bit.

Now, because of the airline and big cooperation, not complaining of that is in question, and that's just not right.

LAX worker are the people who welcome traveler at Los Angeles every day.

We are also workers who will help welcome the world during the Olympic with the stuff that stability, respect, and weight we can live on.

So please do not know what I'll wait and testing, test.

All items and non-agenda public comment.

Once again, item 13, my civil rights under 26 EMCM 01210-01 for the record.

So we're talking about assistant program living, known as EBT Calfresh.

Well, the racist city here, the Zionist Bob Bloomfield, doesn't want to allow me to use my EBT to buy homeboy industry food.

Why is that?

Why, Bob?

You're sitting there with your hand on your mouth, Bob, take it off and listen.

I have a right to these advocacy programs under the EBT, Bob, and I want my disability report, Bob, regarding my mental health status based on that big fat pumpkin standing next to you, while he alleges that by using multiple names and aliases that I am in violation of any civil rights.

I believe I have a right to use as many names as my mental health allows me, Bob.

So as long as I have mental health like the rest of you 15 assholes, I think I have a right to say what I believe.

Now that was item number 16, Pumpkin Head.

Are you listening?

Should I go to the next one?

Well, let's go to the airport.

Fucking airport people work so fucking hard, Uncle Tom.

And the reason why, Uncle Tom, that's because I'm here in protest on their behalf that the $30 an hour should start now.

Right now, do I have an Amen?

Yeah!

Yeah!

$30 starts now.

However, however, Mr.

Price, if you would sit down with your 14 indictments and listen, is this?

Why do we have to wait to 3030 for this pay raise when they need the raise now?

Why, Bob?

LeBron James has the answer.

He takes the Jewish money tree to the extreme.

But Bob, what about us, the Zionists?

What do we get for it, Bob?

Right.

No answer, right, Bob?

And what about the hotel workers here?

Don't they want their 40 dollars an hour now instead of having to bust your fucking room, Bob, so you could take your little prostitutes?

Yeah!

Yeah, that's right.

Clap, people, because that's what Bob Blumenville did, who's married to a black woman.

And I won't use the C word, Bob or the N-word, Bob, but you know what I'm talking about.

Because that was something of interest on Friday's meeting on May 15, 2026, for the record, Bob.

Now into my general public comment.

Is it true, Bob, that you're married to a black Zionist woman?

I want to know.

That is not within the subject matter jurisdiction.

This is political criticism to speak to something that was against the subject matter jurisdiction of his body.

This is goddamn free speech at its best.

And I'm saying it on the record because I know for a fact, and tell me if I'm wrong.

Isn't Bob married to a black woman?

So what?

So why can't I use the N and C word in a public meeting while you ban the word N and C, and I won't reiterate it for the record, but you know what it means, Bob?

You continue to take my First Amendment privileges of using an N and a C word when you know that NWA stands for a reason.

So constitutionally, Bob and the city of Los Angeles, you are violating our civil rights of restricting and banning the word N and C.

So I'm glad to hear that.

Speaker, your time is up.

Speaker, which items would you like to speak to?

Um item 26.

Okay, you'll have one minute.

My name is Brittany Williams, and I am a member of Unite Here Local Eleven.

I work at the Shea Hotel for three years, and I'm a constituent of uh council member Tim McOscar.

I've showed up through the pandemic, through the wildfire, and even through every hardship this city has faced.

And when this industry tried to repeal this wage, I showed up for that too.

Los Angeles voters rejected them, and we won rightfully so.

But we are here yet again because you all want to backtrack, want to take away a victory that we have won and fought so hard for, you want to take it away.

What happens next was not negotiation?

Corporates threatened the city until the policy cracked.

The $30 wage that was supposed to be in the place for the Olympic games won't arrive from 2030.

And we do not accept that.

That wage, we deserve that right now, 2026 right now.

Before the next speaker begins, I like to call up a few more names.

Lorena Barrera, Matt Maldonado, Pocky Matt, Melissa Tolgodol, Jesse Cuevas, and Eleanor Ramos.

Speaker, which items would you like to speak to?

Okay, you'll have one minute for each, please start with item two.

I'm here because we've worked with the work alongside the workers for three years so that they would not reduce have their wages reduced.

So ACE has been fighting for uh just living conditions for unsueld uh for a just salary.

We're here because um again, uh last week uh council members Rodriguez, Padilla, Park, and Lee went back on their word.

They are not on the side of the people.

I want to say uh that this is ridiculous.

I want to ask you how much is your salary?

And why don't you reduce your salary?

Salem.

Yes, sir.

And I want to ask you, I want to ask you, do you know how much is a basket of food?

How much is cilantro?

How much is one onion?

How much chiles cost?

Speaker, peppers.

Is she gonna get her general comment?

One minute.

So the basic basket costs, but it serves an entire family, and it's it's something that we need that all of you don't need to worry about.

It's ridiculous.

80% of our salary goes to rent.

So how can we afford to eat?

How can we afford to supplement for our families?

And also the insurance that we have to pay for our kids and the cost of education for our kids, because most of the higher institutions you have to pay for.

I want to say to the council members, that's enough.

Those workers are also facing the loss of their homes.

Many families are being arrested by ice.

Speaker, which items would you like to speak to?

Commentary public.

Public comment and item number 26.

You'll have one minute for each.

Surely those of you that do have money, you did have breakfast.

You didn't have to bring a lunch with you.

And I'm here not just with my family, but with my people and for all of the workers across California.

Stop stop being clowns.

Don't lower your heads.

Face us.

Have the courage to face the people.

Stop making the rich richer.

Speaker, which items would you like to speak to?

Um Article 26, or item 26.

Okay, you'll have one minute.

My name is David Werta, president of SCIU USWW.

What we won in the spring of 2000.

Thank you.

What we won in the spring of 2025 is what we should be celebrating today.

Workers fought to lift themselves out of poverty and to get the health care needs that they need for themselves and their families.

But business decided to hold the city hostage so they can get their way in this in this uh in this negotiation.

We recognize that the living wage does set a standard of $30 in health care for many workers across the city.

But unfortunately, those workers also have to wait now till 2030 for that 30 dollars.

But I will say this.

We will continue to fight forward.

We will continue to fight for workers across the city, because we know that when workers stand together, right?

It's our strength and our power that will persevere.

And at this moment in time, this I want to say this.

I want to point out all these workers from United CRE who are behind me right now.

I want to thank all the USWW workers and both of them standing together.

I want to thank SCIU 721.

I want to thank AFSME and all the labor that stood together in this moment.

Thank you.

Speaker, which items would you like to speak to?

Commentario publico article 26.

Public comment and item number 26.

You'll have one minute for each.

I want to say that when you accepted the Olympic salary, many workers were very happy.

They were able to pay their bills, put food on the table and pay their rent.

And we're sick and tired of being exploited, while some of you, some of you here on the council, and you know who you are.

Supposedly, supposedly, Miss Rodriguez who voted for us.

She can't even face us, the rest of you face us.

But how could we know this?

How can we do so when every day you bring us down?

Like my colleagues said, you all are seated, it's like you're at home, but we're thinking every single day how we're gonna survive.

We know what is being presented today, and we are not satisfied.

I want to say that we are not giving up.

We will continue to fight.

And we'll be back here in 2028.

I hope you do what's just and right and think about what is right and not in your pockets.

I hope that when you put food in your mouth, you think about each and every one of us that you're taking our wages from.

And think about what will you tell your children tomorrow?

Please have some common sense.

And just like you said no.

Have the courage to face us and to respond to your acts.

Madam Clerk, I want uh to make sure for the record that uh we note that an amendment has been circulated and seconded regarding item number 26.

Um that's on the board and in the uh and on the council file.

Thank you, sir.

That will be held on the desk.

Which uh would you like to speak to?

Public comment.

Okay, you'll have one minute.

Good morning, members of the council.

My name is Lorena Barrera.

I work at Frying Food in the Cold Food Department.

In the 2023, you salia Welga for 26 years con mis companions for luchar for a renta is de 2020, it's in 2023.

I went on strike for 26 days to fight for better wages.

My rent right now is 2,200, but each day it is going up.

Each year it has gone up by 200 dollars.

The company prepares food for international flights.

They're making more money than ever.

They are receiving help.

Well, here we are asking for help.

We're waiting still for your support.

Where is the help and support for the workers?

Every day the rich become richer and the poor become poorer.

Next speaker.

Before the next speaker begins, I'd like to call up a few more names.

Julia Pong, Tom Sawyer Huckleberry, Dr.

Musafa, Nina Arro, and Steven Gonzalez.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Um Jesse Cuevas, public comment on 26.

Okay, so you'll have one minute for the item and one minute for general public comment.

Go ahead.

Um, good morning, members of city council.

My name is Jesse Guevos, and I work at Flying Foods.

I'm a cook and I make the food that goes into the international flights that depart from LAX.

My co-workers and I see how much money the company's making.

I live in Pasadena and I and I it take I have two kids.

I'm a single dad and it's hard.

Um my commute sometimes takes over an hour.

It is shameful that you are giving a relief and bending the knee to these corporations.

Where's the relief for the workers like me that are barely making ends meet?

Thank you, guys.

Thank you.

Next speaker.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Good morning, number 26.

Okay, so and this is just a reminder for everyone.

If you just want to speak to the item 26, that's fine.

You'll have one minute.

If you'd also like general public comment, please let us know that you'd like general.

So do you is it item 26 plus general or just the item?

Both.

Okay, so you have one minute for each.

Go ahead.

Thank you.

Good morning, Council members.

My name is Matthew Maldonado, the executive director of Assembly District Council 36.

We represent about 10,000 employees here in the city.

We're glad to hear the GRT will be considered to be removed from the ballot in November.

As we know, the city was gearing up for serious changes in services delivered to Angelinos.

We're also gearing up for massive layoffs.

We're preparing, we hope to never see this day again.

But we know these attacks will continue.

However, as witness on May 1st, Labor showed a United Front marching through the streets of this city.

Thousands of union members showed up and marched in solidarity.

We will continue to fight and stand together during these pressing times.

I also want to recognize the union members behind me from Unite HRE, SCIU, USWW, who are here today advocating on these tough issues.

They deserve so much more, and we'll continue to fight for these workers for better wages and benefits in both private and public sector.

Thank you.

General.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Item 26.

Okay, so you have one minute for the item.

Go ahead.

Good morning.

My name is Melissa Dawodogle, and I am a unite here member.

I live in City District 13, and I have worked in hospitality for 12 years.

The hotels and airlines that fought to gut our wages are official partners of the 2028 Olympics.

They will profit enormously from the work of people like me.

When the industry tries to repeal this wage, Los Angeles voters rejected them.

So they threatened the city budget until the policies cracked.

The $30 wage that was supposed to be in place by the Olympic Games won't arrive until 2030.

After the tourists go home, after the industry collects every dollar of the Olympic profit.

Always remember that it is workers like me and those behind me that welcome the world to this city.

Not the lobbyists and suits.

Reflect on the voices you listen to.

I yield the rest of my time.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Uh item number 26.

Okay, so you have one minute, and if you'd like, feel free to adjust the microphone.

Go ahead.

Okay, thanks.

Good morning, Council members.

My name is Eleanor Ramos.

And I have been a bartender at LAX for 30 years.

Like many LAX workers, I live in Hawthorne.

We do not have rent control.

I have seen rents double for me and for my neighbors.

I have seen people get pushed out and evicted because they simply cannot keep up anymore.

That is a reality workers are facing.

Rent is up, food is up, gas is out.

Everything is more expensive.

We are not asking for anything extra.

We're asking to be able to survive in the communities where we live and work.

When the wage law went into effect in September, it made life a little more affordable.

It gave me and my co-workers some breathing room.

Now hearing that the city may take that away is very disturbing.

After more than 30 years working at LAX, I should not have to keep fighting just to afford rent.

Thank you.

Please do not lower.

Thank you, next speaker.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Uh item 26 and general public comment.

Okay, so you have one minute for each.

Go ahead.

Hi.

Hi, my name is Jovon Houston.

I'm an airport worker at LEX, and a member of SCIU USW.

I just want to take the time out to have a special thanks to Hugo Soros Martinez, Eunicis, Kern Price, Katie Ursaski, and Nitya Raman and Isabel.

Thank you for supporting us from day one.

Thank you.

We do appreciate this, even though the outcome is horrible.

This is a hard one for us to swallow.

Like I said, I've been down here over a hundred weeks of fighting.

And yeah, it hurts.

It hurts that you take back the years of hard work we did, the fast, the hunger strikes, the marches.

You took it all away from us.

These wages are important to us.

And it really hurts.

But yeah.

General.

These airlines are crooked.

They're greedy.

They don't see us as humans.

They see us as slaves.

And they fight us to the minute.

They have billions of dollars to stop our wages, but yet think about feeding us.

Think about giving us health care that we so deserve because we believe in toxic fumes on a daily basis.

So yeah, they may have won this fight.

But guess what?

We're gonna win the war.

We will see you in 2028.

We will see you in the streets of LAX.

We will see you.

Because when we fight, we will thank you.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Item 26.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Good morning.

My name is Steven Gonzalez.

I have worked at different jobs at LAX for seven years.

Right now I am working at the Emirates Lounge.

I am an attendant there.

Workers like me are struggling with the cost of living.

Everything has gone up, especially gas, food, and rent.

Just those three alone are heavy.

Every paycheck gets stretched thinner and thinner.

Uh, all I want to do is be able to afford my own apartment.

I do not think that's too much to ask for.

I work hard at one of the busiest airports in the world, but I still have to live with my roommates because I cannot afford to uh, you know, rent a place of my own.

Uh, when the wage law went into effect in September, I felt, well, you know, we felt like we were getting a little closer to, you know, being able to live here in LA and not have to struggle all the time.

Uh it gave workers like me hope that we could actually move forward.

Uh, now that we're hearing that it uh, you know, it could be taken away.

You know, it's just wrong.

Don't take us backwards.

Do not lower our wages because the airlines and hotels are complaining.

Please protect the Olympic wage and stand with LAX workers.

Next speaker.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

It's uh public comment.

So you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Thank you.

Heinina Oro, a citizen of Finland and United States, declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of both countries that the following is true and correct.

My mind is clear and sharp.

This is not an illusion, delusion, or a psychosis.

I'm a victim of international child trafficking and a high-risk whistleblower.

And it's a miracle I'm still alive.

My entire life for 39 years, I've been treated as a profit-generating asset by my traffickers, the international organization, Freemasons, and Hollywood Dynasty, Bell family.

I've been sexually exploited by severely abused, both mentally and psychological.

They have taken away my right to have children, my basic human rights, and isolated me from my whole family and everybody I ever knew.

I can no longer accept a reality where Hollywood sacrifices the lives of innocent children for blockbusters, where our government acts as a pimp and drug lord while operating.

Okay.

I'm sorry, your time has expired, but can you just wait over there on the left hand, your right hand side of the council chambers?

Please, thank you.

Before the next speaker begins, I'd like to call up a few more names.

Jen Rodzianko, Nellum Cosker, and Eleanor Ramos.

Good morning.

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

Go ahead.

That's right.

So let's get to number 16.

Finally, Emil DePadilla doing something good.

Let's give her a hand.

Oh my God.

A laundry list of homeless criminal activity.

Stopping drug sales.

Stopping pimps.

Shout out, by the way, to all the pimps on Figaro.

No offense.

This is the valley.

And you know, it's hard to live in this city without drugs.

Everybody gotta have drugs for your back and your knees.

Drugs for sex, drugs for activities of an active nature.

So, but again, Amelda has decided to go on a path of sobriety in C D6.

And we support that.

See, when they do a good job, I'm gonna tell you when they do a good job.

You've exhausted your own item.

Yes, dumbass, I know.

Now we get over here to the FIFA.

What the fuck is FIFA?

Can't you spell it on the agenda?

It stands for fraud international football assholes.

FIFA!

Nobody can afford a goddamn ticket.

Nobody can afford a goddamn parking space.

Nobody can afford a goddamn beer.

Oh, why the fuck in this city?

Are we hosting this shit?

The people aren't gonna be involved.

What am I gonna do?

Stand there and go, go!

Like the old days.

When I went down to Buenos Aires and saw it in person.

What am I gonna do?

Go!

What do you think?

This is Maradona?

No, this is bullshit.

Get rid of it.

Now, let's get to the wage.

Back there, posted is the lie, the truth.

These criminals on this city council are gonna give you a little bitty 50 cent increase, and then another dollar, and they're gonna stretch it out over four years.

So their criminal buddies after the election can pull it back completely.

We need the 30 fucking dollars today, starting on July 1st.

Pass the fucking belt.

30 dollars now.

You see the price of diesel fuck, man.

We're running out of goddamn jet fuel because Donald Trump's got the straight of hormue shut down.

These people need the money now.

Come on, Price.

You're gonna go to prison probably for 14 years.

Give these people their pay increase now, before you go up the river.

Now we get to the general.

Finally, Hugo does something right.

Finally, Hugo, you realize that the demon Nithya Rama noodle is a bad choice for mayor.

Let's give them a hand.

Yeah.

Hamburger Hernandez, my mortal enemy agrees with me.

Everybody on this council has one thing in common with me.

We all hate Nithia Rama Noodle.

Raise your hand if you hate Nithya Rama noodle.

We all despise her.

She lives in a $3 million mansion.

She tells us we have to have tents and Encino.

We have no street lights.

This failure runs for merit the last minute.

Why?

I heard a rumor.

They said that Karen Bass was gonna get indicted.

So that's why she stepped in.

Am I right, Noodle?

Noodle noodle noodle.

Vote no, I need the Robin Noodle, the Antichrist.

And your time has expired.

Next speaker.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Let me tell you.

One minute for General.

Mexican people in the Spanish.

Just where Abraham come from.

The second son of Noah.

Just a descendant of the Noah.

So Iranian Melchizedek is a chantile.

And the Roman was a chantile in Hebrew.

Look at this map.

Yes, America.

You see that two big red here?

Polynesian, Hongman in Samoan.

Someone called their God Taka Law.

Shinala is a Samoan area.

You have to champion.

Someone champion.

That also belongs to the Sinal Law.

And that's Tongan.

And that is Tonga.

Yeah.

Thank you, Speaker.

Your time has expired.

Next speaker.

So, speaker, thank you.

Your time has expired.

We have to give, we have to apply the rules equally.

So I'm gonna ask that you please vacate the podium.

At this point, you are disrupting the meeting.

So please vacate the podium so that we can continue with public comment.

This is your first and only formal warning.

Next speaker.

All right, Mr.

Spindler, please do not disrupt this meeting.

This is your first and only formal warning.

Again, there's no need to shout out.

Uh if you do so again, if you disrupt this meeting again, you'll be subject to removal pursuant to rule Council Rule 7 and Rule 12.

Next speaker.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

16 in public comment.

Okay, so you have one minute for each.

Go ahead.

Hello, my name is Jennifer Redzianko, and I've had the privilege of calling the valley home for all of my life.

I also organize with and for many of our unhoused residents.

I'm providing public comment to oppose Amelda Padilla's resolution to add 26 new 4118 zones to the valley.

4118 is a violent, cruel, and inhumane law that does absolutely nothing to solve LA's homeless crisis.

As I'm sure you're all aware of, it actually exacerbates the crisis as displacements destroy people's important documents like identification, their medications, it disrupts access to services and medical care, and it makes it harder for those to obtain housing, forcing people to scramble to rebuild the rebuild their lives in perpetuity.

4118 increases policing and displacement while wasting public resources and merely pushes people out of public sight, appeasing only your landowning, renting constituents.

Again, this law is an attempt at aesthetics and does nothing to address LA's homeless crisis.

This law only furthers the dehumanization and violence towards our unhoused residents.

Public spaces are meant for all of our LA residents, not just housed or those with private property.

All this leaves me asking, where do people go?

When we don't have adequate shelter or permanent housing options, where do you expect people to go?

When I'm sitting here in a room full of people begging you to provide the bare necessity of a living wage, I urge you to choose your humanity and vote no to Councilmember Padilla's proposal to expand 4118 zones throughout CD6.

Next speaker.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Item 26 and general public comment.

Okay, so you have one minute for each.

Go ahead.

My name is Nella McCosker.

I represent Central City Association or CCA.

I'm gonna repeat something that I said last week on this item because I think it bears repeating.

The success and vitality of business owners and workers are an extrably linked.

And it is possible to ensure that we expand wage and benefits for workers while meeting the moment and realizing the economic realities of hotels empty, closing, laying off people.

At CCA, what we've tried to model is that it is very possible for business and labor to partner together on projects and initiatives that increase economic success and opportunity, create thousands of new jobs, and I have seen that make people in this body very uncomfortable.

I think it also is very uncomfortable to deal with the reality that legislatively imposing wages and benefits without bringing business to the table is not reasonable.

It is reasonable to ask us to partner together to be on the other side of a table and negotiate, but it is not okay to do so without that process.

There are a lot of people to thank leaders of this council in getting us to this moment, and I do want to recognize them.

I also think we need to recognize labor leaders for doing so.

There are many of them to think, but one of them that I know is here is David Huerta.

CCA and other business leaders stood up, stood with him as immigration enforcement actions really impacted workers and businesses and their ability to operate.

That is how we should be moving forward together with discomfort, yes, but balance.

Thank you for bringing us to this moment, those of you who have done so, and let's move forward in that mindset with an economic situation and workers who deserve that.

Thank you.

Next speaker, next speaker.

Council President, those are all the names registered for public comment.

All right, we want to thank everybody who came to share with us this morning for public uh comment.

Madam Clerk.

What items are before us at this time?

The council may now vote on items one, seven, thirteen fifteen, seventeen through twenty-three, and twenty-five.

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

Close the roll, tabulate to vote.

59.

That was 15 eyes.

Alright, what's next?

The council may move on to item number two.

Motion, Blumenfield McCosker to note and file.

I have receive and file in my note.

Is there a distinction between those two things?

I'm sorry.

Is there a distinction between receive and file and note and file?

There is a distinction.

This item should be received and filed.

All right.

So let's open the roll and receive and file.

Close the roll, tabulate to vote.

59.

All right, what's next?

The council may not consider motion 6A Hut Herado to waive the amount owed on this lien.

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

59.

All right, what's next?

Council may not vote on item number eight a motion Yaroslavsky Rodriguez to grant the PCN.

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

59.

All right, what's next?

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

Councilmember Rodriguez.

Thank you.

Colleagues, I introduced this motion to formalize the process for our city to recoup the expenses related to the response in the aftermath from a plane crashing associated with Whiteman Airport in Pacoima.

On April 20th, at approximately 11 a.m.

near the intersection of San Fernando Road and Van Ise Boulevard, a small plane crashed causing major disruption to the surrounding community.

There was power lines that were downed, restaurants and businesses that were impacted, and several residents.

Thankfully, it was a near-miss incident of what could have inevitably been just another tragedy.

93 businesses and residents were left without power for over 24 hours, and traffic severely impacted, and substantial emergency response resources were utilized.

Whiteman Airport is a county-owned facility, and for too long has continued to negatively impact our Pocoima community.

Unfortunately, this crash is not an isolated incident, but rather part of a troubling pattern of aviation related incidents associated with this airport.

According to NTSB records, at least 16 aviation accidents have been linked to Whiteman Airport since 2009.

The pilot who had the accident was renting a plane from Vista Aviation, and they are fully insured.

My office has been in contact with the Department of Water and Power and provided them with this information.

With the adoption of this motion today, I look forward to the CAO working with the Department of Water and Power and LAPD and the fire department to report on the total costs associated with addressing this plane crash.

We must make sure that scarce public resources are not further compromised by Whiteman Airport and its mismanagement.

The county and the insurance companies must be held responsible and bear the burden of these costs.

And I ask for your I vote.

Thank you, Councilmember Rodriguez.

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

Time to late to vote.

15 ayes.

Mr.

City Attorney.

Yes, so if council would like, I believe we can move on to item 26.

Just for the record, because there wasn't an amendment that was introduced to item 26.

The only thing that will be before this body is that amendment.

If approved, the city attorney will then start working on the amended language.

So the actual final vote on the ordinance will not take place until later during this meeting.

Uh but in order to give us more time, it would be ideal to vote on the amendment now, if we can.

All right, the request from the city attorney is that we vote to amend the item now with a vote on the full item later in the meeting or towards the end of the meeting.

Uh, Councilmember Soda Martinez.

Sorry, Council Chair.

Sorry, was uh to you just explain procedurally what we're doing right now?

We're voting.

So the only thing, and I'll defer the clerk if the clerk's office disagrees, that the council will take up now is item 26A.

That is the motion that was introduced.

It is uh Harris Dasman, I believe the second was Lee.

And this is a motion to amend once the amendment, once that happens, uh, there is an ordinance that will come back towards the end of the meeting at the end of the meeting.

Okay.

Well, I'll I'll make my comments on 26A now.

At that time, or I'll make them now.

Make them now.

Okay, Councilmember Soda Martinez.

Yeah, thank you so much, Mr.

Chair.

Uh, first of all, I want to thank all the members of Unite here, Local 11 and ACIU USW who are be the most affected by this amendment for being here today.

And thank you to SAU 721 and ASME and other unions that are standing in solidarity with these two workers with these two unions.

Um, I want to let my colleagues know that I will be voting no against 26A, and I will also be voting no on the full item.

And I'll say this I'll be voting no because I cannot support anything that is going to take away money from workers.

Uh, we passed this law many years ago.

Sorry, a few months ago.

After after almost two years, it took us almost two years after introducing this motion to take a final vote.

People struggled, they did hunger fast, they came to get public comment.

There were compromises.

I guess there weren't enough.

Enough compromise for some folks, but it was a process that included so many different people.

And to be in this place is is it is sad.

Uh it is, it is enraging.

It's many emotions that people feel.

And you know, there has to be a voice on this council that speaks for the people that struggle to pay their rent, that struggle to save money for college for their kids, that work two or three jobs that come home and are too tired to play with their kids.

I spent 16 years with Unite Here Local 11.

I visited workers in their homes, they share with you their dreams, they tell you the city that they want to live in, and that was represented in the original law that we passed, not this what's being presented today.

And so I will be voting no.

Um I understand the will of the body is not there today.

But as Jovon said, right, this is a bitter pill to swallow, but this is not the end.

I think I'm gonna do translator to translate into English, because I'm gonna say my whole thing in Spanish.

I'm sorry that we have to be here today.

Since the beginning.

But we weren't allowed to, you know, negotiate, thank you.

Or allowed to negotiate, and it felt like a push.

And you know, many of you have said it, and the observation was correct.

The um business community, the business community has inspired necks.

And that could have been avoided.

If some members of this group were allowed would have been allowed to ask questions.

They were treating us like the witches of the group.

Yeah.

So for so, because of that, I want to say, was passed, and that was not fair.

And that's why I'm saying that they have aspire next, these business community.

We don't have a city.

Now, I can wait.

So members of the public.

Hold on.

Members of the public.

We need we have taken public comment both last week and this week.

I understand or we understand that people feel very strongly about this on both sides, but we need to allow, hold on.

We need to allow the members to be able to speak to this item, and we have to be able to conduct the business in this meeting.

If we cannot do so, then we will have to start either one identifying people who are disrupting this meeting and having them removed, or if it is impossible to identify individuals like it is now, potentially clear the room so that we can conduct city business.

So please, we appreciate your patience through this entire process, but please do not disrupt the members while they're speaking to this item.

Thank you.

So I have a reputation of being known for being hyper focused in my area in the things that I work for.

I don't know if you know, but in my area, a hotel closed.

Uh I didn't get the name.

Because they didn't want to negotiate over the employees of the restaurant.

So no studio me dijo que los restaurantes necesitan un poquito más de flexibilidad con los restaurantes.

So yo lo vi.

It's not that a studio told me that the workers need more flexibility in the restaurants.

I saw it myself.

So I want to say is that my area is not gonna go.

So that's what I want you to know that because of the lack of negotiating, we lost the uh hotel, the restaurant, and now the only uh industry that's gonna be is airplanes.

You know, my mama nunca minico minimo, nunca.

Siempre puro minimo.

Never earned a higher wage than minimum.

It was always minimum.

With clothing from the second hand store, used shoes.

She put us through the university for then went to then went to you to college, and unfortunately went for went to jail.

Yeah.

Yeah, city council for negotiation salarios, what a privilege would it have been had my mother had the ability to negotiate with the business owners to have a syndicate to have a union to have a union.

So no que es una cosa inextraordinaria.

So uh I'm just saying that what a you know what a gift to be able to negotiate with the business owners uh to come here and discuss it with the council.

What I said is you're lucky you have a union who negotiates your salary with a city council instead of your uh managers.

Thank you for that.

I it was quite a bit.

So it's not a silver privilege.

It's a good thing, but one thing I am gonna say.

No, I'm not done.

I'm not done talking.

I need to tell, and I need to say it in Spanish.

So again, this is the last warning in the group.

We're gonna have to start identifying people individually.

Again, please do not disrupt this meeting, okay?

This would have been avoided if we would have had the opportunity to ask the questions with the dignity of about uh the last time.

So we're gonna clear the room.

Okay, don't take them out.

Don't take them out, ladies and gentlemen.

I can't hear what the council president is saying, and he's sitting right behind me.

So we are currently unable to conduct city business, and you've been warned multiple times.

So please do not disrupt this proceedings.

So you are sure.

So I'm gonna vote.

The salaries are well deserved.

Next time, and let's negotiate well.

Um I achieved being able to have this microphone in this time.

So let's repito, I repeat.

So she will get your salary because it's well deserved.

All right, uh, thank you for that, members.

Uh let's open the roll on 26a.

Okay, close the roll, tabulate the vote.

Eleven eyes, four no's on this.

Alright, what's next?

Thank you.

If the council would like to return to item nine, if council member Rodriguez is done with her comments, they may take the vote.

We took a vote on that.

It was fifteen to zero.

But if you want to do it again, we can do it again.

Let's open the roll.

Close the roll, tabulate the vote.

All right, what's next?

And now the council may move on to item twelve called special by council member Rodriguez for comments.

Councilmember Rodriguez.

Thank you.

It's no secret that I've shared the series' concerns regarding the proposed consolidation that truncates the work of our economic workforce development department as a standalone department and folded into a larger bureaucratic department.

At a moment when cities across the country are aggressively competing for investment, employers, tourism, and economic opportunity, LA should not be weakening the very department responsible for advocating on behalf of economic development.

We should be strengthening it.

Businesses are already making difficult decisions about whether or not they can continue to operate in Los Angeles.

We have seen companies relocate their headquarters to neighboring cities, if not other states.

Okay.

So again, you're disrupting the meeting.

I see that everybody seems to be exiting at this time, so I'd ask if you are going to leave the meeting.

Please do so quietly and quickly so we can continue with the meeting.

So I'm going to ask the people in the back of the room, please exit as you are disrupting this meeting, and we need to continue.

Mr.

Spinner, if you could take your seat, we'll go back to Councilmember Rodriguez.

Thank you.

So as I was saying, we're watching many businesses across this city making difficult decisions about whether they can continue operating in Los Angeles.

Many have relocated into neighboring cities or left the city of Los Angeles and the state of California altogether.

We have watched the continued struggle of businesses constrained under rising costs, inflation, permitting delays, public safety concerns, and increasing uncertainty about whether or not City Hall truly understands the challenges that they are facing.

And the business community has spoken loud and clear.

Businesses are asking whether Los Angeles is still a place where they can grow, hire, invest, and succeed.

A standalone economic workforce development department serves as a very specific purpose to wake up every single day focused on job creation, business retention, workforce opportunities, and attracting investment, supporting entrepreneurs and helping industries grow here in Los Angeles.

That mission deserves its own voice and its own leadership.

And I've said this as someone who has consistently supported meaningful economic development efforts, even when those conversations were not always politically popular.

My office has continued to ensure small local and underrepresented businesses have opportunities to grow and compete here in Los Angeles by supporting initiatives that focus on job creation, business retention, public safety improvements, and long-term investment in our local economy.

If we eliminate a standalone development, economic development department, who will become the voice solely focused on growing our economy here in City Hall?

Who is responsible for attracting the industries and the employers?

Who is advocating for small businesses navigating the city bureaucracy?

And who is accountable for business retention and job creation in the city?

Because if economic development simply becomes one division among many interests, it will sadly become reactive instead of proactive.

And LA cannot afford to be reactive any longer.

And we certainly cannot count on money giveaways to small businesses to help close the gap in the financial strains that they're experiencing.

In addition, you know, I've I've repeated this many times.

The consolidation and the manner with which this has occurred, which is also housed under this idea that we're eliminating youth development department as a standalone.

You know, you can't ignore, and I certainly won't ignore the disparities between people's words and their actions in this consolidation.

And so I will again be registering my no vote on this consolidation.

Thank you so much, Councilmember Rodriguez.

Uh before we open the role on this item, I just want to acknowledge our general manager from the department, Miss Marquez.

I don't I thought I saw you.

Um, there you are.

I thought maybe you left with the protesters.

Um, thank you for your uh work on this and uh congratulations to you.

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

Twelve eyes, three no's.

All right, what's next?

Thank you for item twelve.

The item is adopted, but the ordinance will be held over one week for second consideration.

Next before council is item sixteen called special by Council Member Herado for a separate vote.

All right, let's open the roll on item sixteen, called special by council member Jurado for a separate vote.

Let's close the roll, tabulate to vote.

Eleven ayes, four no's.

All right, what's next?

Next is item twenty-four, called special by council member Hernandez for comments and questions.

Council Member Hernandez.

Yes, thank you, Council President.

Is uh personnel here or a representative from the mayor's office who can join us at the table?

Spill the tendency.

Can we give them a minute to get here?

Because I have questions.

Uh we can give them a minute to get here.

Do we have a call to someone specific?

Um Steve Rivera.

Steve Rivera.

Steve Rivera, if you hear us on the squawk box, please make your way to chambers.

Can we resource for the ordinance?

Maybe you can cut the comments.

Okay, good.

Come on, we might be from personality.

All right, members, we're gonna give a few minutes to determine the whereabouts and availability of one Mr.

Rivera.

I think there's the end of the screen.

So we have to do that.

Perhaps if Anna, uh Anna from the mayor's office is down here, she can join us.

I can be doing that now.

Councilmember Hernandez.

I would like to continue this item to Friday.

And the reason I brought it up was because in January I didn't get answers to that answers to questions I had posed about this item.

And if I could just go into my comments briefly.

Because I think it impacts.

Yes.

All right.

If we can get that confirmed while you're speaking, we'll move on.

Council member Hernandez.

So colleagues, in our past public works meeting in January, I continued this item since we wanted to gather more information about the process to hire a city engineer.

Review qualifications for prospective candidates and discuss whether or not the ideal candidate should come from within the city.

You know, we hired a police chief and a fire chief each in less than a year.

An interim city engineer was appointed in June twenty twenty-five, and this extension will mean that the interim city engineer has served in this position for a total of eighteen months.

Alfred is great, he's phenomenal.

He has stepped in and led BOE.

This is about the process each of us upholds as a chair of a committee to obtain information for public transparency.

And so that's why I called I didn't get the answers in January.

That's why I called for it today, but if no one's gonna come, then we can continue to Friday and hopefully folks people can answer the questions.

All right, Madam Clerk, we'll continue this item till Friday and uh put uh personnel department on notice to be present and prepared to answer questions from Councilmember Hernandez.

Council Member Hernandez is this gone before your committee, or are we just hearing it here?

Well, I had I had continued the item in committee because I had questions.

I never got responses.

And so you were trying to get it here.

Got it.

Okay.

So Friday, everybody on the squawk box.

Personnel.

Mr.

Mata City Engineer extension.

Uh all right, uh, Madam Clerk, what's next?

Would the council like to come back to item 26 or Yes.

Are we ready for twenty-six?

We're not ready for twenty six.

All right.

Uh, members, uh, this council will stand in recess for ten minutes.

Uh, and we will reconvene at ten minutes after twelve.

Okay.

All right, uh, members of the public members of the council, we want to reconvene our meeting in 90 seconds.

I'll give time for folks to come back from the hallway.

Uh, Madam General Manager of uh personnel.

Make sure you we need you to talk to Council District One.

Oh, you're it's already happening.

Great.

All right.

All right.

Uh we'll reconvene, Madam uh clerk.

Let's call the roll.

Blumenfield, her name Harris Dawson, Hernandez, Harado, Lee, McCosker, Nazarian Padilla, Park, Bryce, Rahman Rodriguez, Soto Martinez Yaroslavsky.

15 members present in a quorum, Mr.

President.

All right.

Um Madam Clerk, what's before us?

Before the council is item number 26.

All right, item 26.

Uh, members, uh, as amended is uh before us now.

We took our first vote on this uh last week, and I said from this desk that that the item that was before you was a placeholder and that we would continue negotiations.

I want to uh thank uh the labor leaders, uh business leaders and uh select members members of this council for um literally staying in the room for hours and hours and hours and hours to see how close we could get to bringing the city together uh over what is of extremely uh divisive uh issue.

Uh we made uh tremendous progress.

I think we walked away from negotiating tables like many negotiating tables where uh no one was happy uh about the outcome, but everybody uh came away better than we started off.

And so this has uh again been a painful process that we're almost to the end of it.

We have uh we'll have a second reading of this item next week.

Uh I expect uh unrelated to this.

There will be uh item before this council to accept a letter withdrawing the gross receipts tax uh ballot initiative from the ballot uh permanently, uh and that will conclude our our work on this uh this period.

Uh but again I want to thank uh I know these are these are tough moments and tough votes, and uh all of us uh get called on in these roles to do things that are not necessarily what we would choose to do uh in any given moment, but it's what our roles call on uh given the circumstances that we're in.

And so uh with that, I don't see any members on the queue.

So if there are no members on the queue, I'm gonna ask the clerk to open the roll.

Mr.

City Attorney.

Yes, so Mr.

President, before we do that, because there the pre-existing ordinance is still on the file.

Uh, I recommend that there's a motion to adopt the updated uh ordinance that was brought in today and transmitted May 19th.

All right, so I move that we do what, Mr.

City Attorney?

Adopt the ordinance, date it May 19th.

Revised ordinance, date it May 19th.

Yes, and we'll need a second for that as well.

Seconded by Mr.

Lee.

Thank you.

All right.

Can we open the roll on the item now?

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

Eleven ayes, four no's.

All right, thank you.

The ordinance will be held over to May 26, 2026 for a second reading.

All right, thank you, madam clerk.

What's next?

There is a request to send member item number one forthwith.

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

The council has motions for posting and referral.

They are posted and referred announcements members.

Announcements, all right.

Seeing no announcements, I'll ask everyone in the chamber to reverently rise for adjourning motions.

Now look to my left.

See no adjourney motions there.

Look to my right, council member Raman.

Council President, thank you so much.

I ask uh that today's meeting be adjourned uh in honor of the victims of yesterday's deadly attack at the Islamic Center of San Diego.

The three men who were killed, community members, Nader Awad, and Manzor Kazija, and security guard Amin Abdullah, who has been hailed for his heroic actions, have all been credited with protecting the children inside the center and the school from the attack.

We remember their names today and we honor their lives.

And I send my wishes for peace to their families at this time.

That this act of violence targeted worshipers and elementary age school children near a holy place on the first day of Dul Hijah, one of the most sacred times of year in the Islamic calendar, makes this attack especially horrifying.

It's an assault on the fundamental right to practice one's faith in peace.

No child should ever have to experience fear in a place meant for faith learning and community.

No parent should ever have to wonder whether a sacred space is safe.

No faith leader, teacher, or community leader should be forced to turn a place of worship into a place of emergency.

Anti-Muslim hate is rising at an alarming rate both nationally and globally, and such violence must not be normalized.

And today I stand with the Muslim community and unequivocally condemn this hateful violence, and I ask that today's meeting be adjourned in the honor of the three men who died.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilmember Roman, and I'd like to be added to that uh adjourning motion as well.

I think that's the all council.

Uh, thank you for uh leading us in uh recognizing this uh tragedy just down the highway uh from us and uh may we all continue to do the work to make sure people can worship in peace, and um that we eventually do something about teenage boys with guns.

And with that, we're adjourned.

Thank you so much.

The municipal art gallery can be a place where dialogue can occur between different groups and learning about diverse issues that are happening in our society today.

It is so inspiring to see the visitors coming into the gallery and engaging with the art.

That is really what our institution is all about.

How do the visitors get to learn about something new, be challenged by ideas that different artworks promote and also see beauty?

It brings me much joy and satisfaction to know that I am I'm just overjoyed.

To really honor and promote the arts and local artists.

You can find out about what's happening by visiting our website, Lamag.org, or following us on Instagram at Lamag Barnesdall.

We are very prominent on uh social media.

Hi, I'm Christina Rice.

I am the senior librarian at the Los Angeles Public Libraries Photo Collection.

Our collection has over three million photos documenting life in Los Angeles from the 1850s to the present, which means there are a lot of photographers represented in our collection who produce these images.

So today I wanted to focus on one of them, and that's Carol Westwood.

So Carol Westwood was a local photographer.

She primarily did a lot of film work, so she would be on the sets of movies.

But she also, you know, was a street photographer and loved the city she lived in and captured it, you know, from downtown to the ocean.

All of the photos she donated are digitized, so you can go to Tessa.lapl.org to view the archive.

And her photos kind of like run the gamut in terms of subject matter and style.

So sometimes, you know, she would take very kind of gorgeous um scenic photos of Los Angeles, be it the um the skyline or the ocean.

She would sometimes go to the airport and shoot the planes taking off and landing.

Um but she'd also, you know, just get into her car and just shoot the city from her car.

And so here's one example of that.

So it's Main Street, it's the Skid Row area, where you can actually see her car, and you can also see the side mirror.

So that's how you can kind of identify and get a sense of where she was.

So there are a lot of interesting photos like that.

Um, you know, she would also sometimes go into buildings, and this is I think a really fascinating photo.

It's the Taft building in Hollywood, where she had the vantage point to look into the building, and so we can kind of see um people working.

So it's it's very rear window, this photo.

You know, and then there are their iconic photos of the Hollywood sign.

Here's just a really interesting rear view of the Broadway Hollywood sign.

And I mentioned she shot on a number of different mediums.

So we also have color photos, and so we have some slides, and sometimes she'll just do just kind of whimsical things.

So we have the Smith Brothers Fish Shanty Restaurant on La Sianica, the entrance of which is just a giant whale mouth.

So this is something that no longer exists.

Sadly, I never got to visit, but it's wonderful that we have this color, you know, visual documentation of it.

Um, she shot on Melrose a lot.

One of the images that really resonates with me is this image of Ard Bark's odd arc um secondhand clothing store, vintage clothing store on Melrose.

And this was a shop I would go to quite a bit in the late 80s and early 90s.

My mom, when I was in high school, she would take me there to do back to school shopping.

And so this is an image that you know just brings back a lot of memories.

So I think Carol's is a collection that you know, if you want to see the city kind of as it was in the 80s and 90s, it's there.

Um, if you lived through it, I think you can go and it can generate a great deal of nostalgia.

And I think it's just also interesting to kind of see a photographer's perspective.

So, you know, we have all of these photos in our collection, and I think a lot of times people will search for specific things, which is great, but sometimes it's also I think nice to look like at a photographer's body of work to kind of get a sense of what resonated with them and how they were viewing the city.

And I think it also um points out how important it is when you know photos are posted online that the photographers need to be credited, um, because you know, it was their vision.

They produced this, and in Carol's case, you know, she very consciously wanted to make sure that the world had access to her photos.

So, you know, the least we can do is honor her by crediting her.

So again, if you want to visit um Carol's archive, you can go to Tessa.lapl.org, where there's also over 135,000 photos in counting from our entire photo collection.

Los Angeles has long been shaped by the cultures, traditions, and stories brought here from across the Pacific.

Today, Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities remain woven into the fabric of the city from Chinatown and historic Filipino town to Koreatown, Little Tokyo, and neighborhoods far beyond.

During Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we recognize the generations who helped build Los Angeles through business, art, food, public service, and community while continuing to share the spirit of Ohana or family with everyone around them.

So whether you're discovering Little Tokyo for the first time or call this neighborhood home, welcome to Los Angeles.