To the people of America, there's nothing to fear but fear itself, and this galvanized the people and brought the country up.

And then when the bombing of Peroga Harbor happened, everybody went crazy.

And we have to look like the people that bomb Pearl Harper.

And he saw us as the enemy.

And as great a man as Roosevelt was, Roosevelt was a human being.

He got swept up in the hysteria.

There are people on the West Coast that look exactly like the people that bomb our armor.

Who knows what could be a spy.

They might be planning to bomb San Pedro.

After a year of that unjust imprisonment, the government realizes there's a wartime manpower shortage.

And here are all these young people, men and women that they've categorized just arbitrarily as enemy aliens.

We're Americans.

Born, raised, and imprisoned by America, born here.

They just made up this enemy alien thing.

But now they need us.

So they come down with a loyalty questionnaire.

What's the matter with this government?

They should have asked that before they imprisoned us, before they took our homes, destroyed my father's business.

People hearing this story, I keep telling people the ideals of democracy are noble, a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.

That's us, the people.

And my father said, we have to be involved, all of us.

At that time, the civil rights movement was going on.

He said what the black people are doing is that they are out speaking up for themselves.

They have a history.

That's a part of American history.

And you said you when you get the vote, you are the part of the people that speak for this country.

I am so grateful to be sitting here with Hina Knowles to have a chance to hear a little bit more about your work and the creation of the Waco Theater Center.

The creation of the Waco Theater Center has been a dream of mine since I was a teenager because I had a mentor actually gave me exposure to the arts.

And it made me feel seen and heard.

So I know the effect of the arts on the community and especially on kids who don't have great opportunities.

And that is what Waco is all about.

We started this charity very small in a little tiny 100 seat theater.

So we spent all our money on busting them to North Hollywood.

And so this is a dream come true because we're in that community.

We can do community programs.

How cool is that?

I came out here to go to one of the shops on the main street here, which I thought was amazing because it was all these black-owned artistic businesses.

So that was exciting within itself.

And then my friend Mark Bradford brought me here.

And of course, it was before all the renovations, and I was like, oh my God, this is just sitting here, are you kidding me?

It looked completely different.

And so when I heard that it was being restored, it was music to my ears.

And when there was an opportunity for us to help manage this place, it was like a dream come true.

And for it to be a place where this community can easily access.

And so that's what we're hoping for this place.

We're praying that it is a cultural community center, which it was meant to be in the first place.

The history, the legacy that is in this building, if the walls could talk.

We are so lucky here in the city of Los Angeles to be able to celebrate and to be able to do that through our theaters, through our art center, through our grantee program, through public art.

It's all about helping people feel comfortable and confident with where they are and who they are.

I really have to commend the city of Los Angeles.

What you've done here is historical, it's selfless and it's inclusive, and it is really amazing.

So I really commend the city of Los Angeles for that.

I think that it will be a beacon of pride for many people to bring commerce here, to bring attention to this wonderful street with all these beautiful businesses.

I feel like it's gonna be contagious.

That touches my heart.

I just cannot wait.

I mean, we just gotta get started.

Founded in 1885, Little Tokyo became the center of Japanese American lives before World War II and remains one of only three surviving Japan towns in the United States.

It stands as a lasting testament to community resilience, heritage, and small business legacy.

Designated a national historic landmark, this two-block stretch connects historic science from Union Church to the Japanese American National Museum, reflecting one of the largest concentrations that Nisei for second-generation Japanese Americans in the country.

Across LA, historic neighborhoods like Little Tokyo, Filipino Town, Chinatown, and Koreatown are deeply woven into the city's identity, driving culture, connection, and renewal.

And nearby MacArthur Park, once known as the Ellis Island of the West, a new stormwater capture project is transforming the lake, reflecting how the city continues to reinvest in its public spaces for future generations.

Good morning.

This park, MacArthur Park, has been here for this community through a lot of history.

Good history.

And hard history.

Today, that changes.

We're so excited.

It's one of the first, it's going to be one of the iconic projects that we implement under the Safe Clean Water Program.

So the project is going to actually capture that stormwater, which is polluted from all of the area that it's running off from.

It's going to treat the water and we're going to use that in MacArthur Park Lake.

So what that means is we don't have to turn on the faucet for potable water.

That means we conserve water and we're actually beneficially reusing stormwater that would otherwise go out into the Bayona Creek and be lost to the ocean.

In the very neat future, we're going to have our pedal boat operations back here at this lake.

I really believe that that's an amenity that's going to really bring in community to use the space.

Not only to look at the space, but also be able to get on the water, even exercise because you know, pedal boat is a cardiovascular exercise.

So super excited about that as well, coming into uh into this park and into the space.

Projects like this are not only bringing a community benefit, they're also helping to improve the environment through saving that water, reusing water, through building trees and creating shade and bringing an overall aesthetic beauty to the neighborhood.

There's always been so much misconception around the lake in MacArthur Park, and we're trying to fix that.

I think that folks want to see clean water.

They want to see a beautiful project that accentuates the beauty of this area.

And that's why we're trying to bring an opportunity for folks to be proud of the community they live in, and this is just gonna help make an already beautiful park even more beautiful.

The Kabrium Aquarium is an extremely special place serving this community.

It's all about connecting people with nature.

When visitors come here, they get to see animals that live right off our coast here in Southern California.

It's an enjoyable place, and I'm really thrilled.

The team that works here at Kabrierman Aquarium is excellent.

Whether we're teaching about whales or grungy, it's just a very, very special place, and I'm glad to be a part of it.

This is the entry to the exhibit hall, and behind me is the story of the Kabrier Marine Aquarium, our 90 year history.

This wonderful exhibit has a map that explains what's happening inside the exhibit hall.

As you're walking around through the maze of the exhibit hall, there's different habitats.

This helps you guide along through the exhibits and see all the beautiful animals that are here in their habitats.

We've been here 90 years teaching about marine life of Southern California and we teach about the conservation.

How everyone can help do their part to conserve the beautiful animals and the life of Southern California.

Here we are at the Jelly Lab.

This is a very special lab, brand new.

We just finished completing it.

We have a culture area where we're growing baby jellies.

We're growing about three different species right now.

We grow jellies here for our education and also for our research and to share with our other institutions that we partner with.

Welcome to our Jelly Tunnel, the entrance to the Drifters of the Deep exhibit.

This is a great space to come and learn about the natural history of jellies and get up in close and personal, really up close and see the beauty of these jellies.

We have moon jellies, we have pot of gold jellies, and we have purple striped jellies here on exhibit.

All of the animals that you see here on exhibit in the Jelly Lab are part of the work that we do here.

We are growing these jellies in the jelly lab and we are sharing those jellies with our visitors every single day.

Welcome to the exhibit hall pump house.

In this room is the life support system that provides clean water to our exhibit hall and to our living collection.

We have an array of pumps, filters, chillers, UV sterilizers and other components that provide the animals that are living here with the highest quality of water.

It's all happening right here.

In the future, as we add more exhibits or as we change exhibits, the living habitats with animals in the exhibit hall are going to get the best care because of everything you see around you right here.

Growing up in this area and now working, Cabriero Marine Aquarium is a reminder of how special it is to live here in Southern California.

We live in a very vibrant and diverse community, and I'm thrilled to hear different languages and different people and different experiences and cultures, and it's all happening right here.

So please come be a part of it.

Communities like Little Tokyo, Chinatown, Koreatown, and historic Filipino town reflect over a century of migration, settlement, and cultural preservation in the city.

The 1970s marked a turning point for Little Tokyo as Japanese companies establish international headquarters in the heart of Los Angeles.

By the mid-1980s, the Little Tokyo Service Center helped guide that growth, balancing economic development with the preservation of the neighborhood's cultural legacy.

This era also aligned with the rise of nearby arts communities and repurposed downtown warehouses, now more connected than ever through expanded metro transit.

In Los Angeles, Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month is not just commemorative.

It's visible in everyday life through museums, temples, festivals, small businesses, and public art across many neighborhoods.

Places like Barnstall Art Park invite visitors to experience exhibitions from emerging artists and reflect on the evolving artistic identity that defines the city.

Heavy metal is comprised of 20 women artists.

One of the things about heavy metal is it's a play on words, it's a play on concept.

There are a lot of works that deal very literally with large-scale sculpture, heavy sculpture, however, heavy mist and heavy also references the psychological weight that comes with the female perspective.

Attending different galleries and exhibitions is relatively new to me.

So this one is really eye-popping because of the way that the different artists have conceptualized the idea of heavy metal.

It's not just rigid structures as you would normally think.

It's actually some of the ways that the artists interpret it are pretty amazing, right?

The heavy metal exhibition was beautiful, so many unique artworks, lots of different forms, so many rays of colors and textures, very engaging.

It was beautiful.

Really enjoyed our time here.

In addition to heavy metal, we have two exhibitions in the project room, Ivan Bridges and Rachel Bridges.

Those are exhibitions focused on painting and drawing and are a nice compliment but also a juxtaposition to the artworks in Heavy Metal.

I would definitely recommend people to come and check out this exhibition.

There's lots of three-day artwork installations.

There's wool artwork, different colors, the sounds, it's really interactive and a beautiful place to walk around.

The municipal art gallery is located at Barnstall Park.

The exhibition is on view through June 20th.

And the hours of operation are Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, 11 a.m.

to 4 p.m., with the exception of Juneteenth.

June 19th, we will be closed for the holiday.

This is my first time as a museum, and it has a diversity of thought, diversity of artists and expression of the art, which is amazing.

And I think it's important nowadays to be able to step away from digital and come and just be introspective.

And art galleries is one way to do that.

It celebrates the new season for all Asians of Equal, AAPI included.

And it starts with a festival's family, introduces good health and wealth.

One of the reasons why we hold this event is because, you know, we really want to celebrate the diversity of Los Angeles, really bringing it showing our visitors Chinese American culture and our community.

We have arts and crowds, we have live entertainment, and it really is a space where we want to have people learn about our community, people learn about our culture, but also create a space of appreciation.

The LA City is the multicultural, you know, societies, and then their contribution to the society is not only economically and most importantly culturally.

And the Chinese American Museum is here to uh record us uh history as well as uh sharing you know the stories and uh further, encourage people to celebrate together, and they're looking forward to a better society, and I think that's our mission here.

I would like to be cooking.

Metro partnered with the Wiley Center.

They have a wonderful program where they take students in their autism program and they teach them life skills, and one of the life skills they teach them is how to make cookies.

So they wanted to do a station activation for autism awareness month, handout free cookies.

We think it's a great thing for our customers as well as the students of the Wiley Center.

I'm one of those students who are passing out cookies in honor of Autism Awareness Month.

Well, pretty good.

And a cookie to a bunch of people to brighten their day.

Basically just selling out cookies and metro cards to people in honor of Autism awareness Month.

It's Autism awareness Month, so we are spreading a little bit of awareness, acceptance, and celebration with transit writers.

Our students were actually sharing their own personal testimonies and giving information to people about autism.

When I was in school, people used to make fun of a lot of other people for having autism.

People think autism is like a negative thing, which is not true at all.

We're just trying to show that autism is not what they think it is.

We're human too.

It really came about when we were given an oven and a kitchen, a professional one.

And we wanted our kids to figure out what they could do with this.

And what they decided was we want to make cookies.

They have just become cookiepreneurs, and that was the name that we kind of called them cookiepreneurs.

You're able to learn real life skills, learn how to be independent, learn how to be productive citizens.

Thank you for this.

I appreciate you everything.

We've been here since 1979, serving families, changing lives.

And we have training centers, we have a CVS, a UPS, and an outback steakhouse training center.

We're preparing our kids for the next phase of their lives.

Me and my friend Kyle designed the logo right here.

He drew like the concept art.

I used a digital artwork software to make the logo.

The response is very exciting.

The kids are having a great time handing out the cookies, so I think it's positive experience for both parties.

Established in 1903, the Rafu Shimpo remains a critical cultural anchor for Japanese Americans in LA.

Despite the forced closure during the incarceration era, the publication reemerged to help reconstruct the neighborhood's legacy following World War II.

That same spirit of community continues across Los Angeles, where programs supported by the city's civil rights department empower neighborhoods to directly shape how help and resources are delivered, placing decision making in local hands.

You are the people who help the people and you're making history and you're making a difference, and it's a truly an honor to be here with you all.

Today we are in Boyle Heights at Proyecto Pastor, a community center making a difference with our repair dollars.

We have the repair program, which is providing resources for residents who may be a little short on their rent.

We wanted to make sure that if you are at risk of being unhoused, that you have a place where you can get real dollars from real people to make a real difference.

This last year with rental assistance.

Out of those families, 230 children also receive this assistance.

Project, principally, ayuda para toda classe de viles in the quality included la luz, el agua.

Lo principal is la renta and la qualestaria, muchos de nosotros in una economía muy baja for la qual Pidemos.

I mean families were having to choose between paying rent, buying groceries, paying bills, and a lot of times getting food for their children was a priority, and they weren't able to afford to pay the rent.

So today we're having a celebration because we ended our grant through LA Repair.

So we wanted to highlight all of the hard work, everything that we did throughout this year, like success stories and all the people the community that we were able to help through LA Repair grant.

We're celebrating World Autism Awareness Month.

We're just trying to get the word out so we can promote water safety.

Today at Lincoln Park 4, hosting the World Autism Awareness Day event.

This event is really important for all communities.

Water safety is such an important topic that I believe everyone should learn about because anything can go wrong at any time.

So the more people that we can invite to our facility and teach them how to swim, the safer that we can be.

We're offering free swim lessons to everyone.

We're also doing stand-up paddle boarding and kayaking.

I think it's important because a lot of our kids with autism um love water and they don't understand the safety yet.

So I love it.

I love it because now hopefully he'll learn not only the safety part but how to swim.

There you go, Mark.

To teach someone who has autism, I wouldn't say that it's more difficult, but it does take some extra training because sometimes we will need to accommodate and take a different approach to our lessons for this community.

So we offer adaptive swim classes so that we can really focus on the child depending on what special need they might have.

We try to make sure they're as comfortable as possible, and it's very important because at the end of the day, everyone should learn how to swim.

I know it's not just gonna be with kids with autism, so that's even more awesome because they'll be included with other children, and that's what we need, but that's what we want.

And I love that.

So I thank all Deacon Park for that, honestly.

It's pretty cool and the city.

Kick off America's 250th birthday in Los Angeles with LA Fleet Week 2026.

The annual multi-day celebration of our nation's sea services held on the LA waterfront over the Memorial Day weekend.

From touring active Navy vessels to competitions and band performances to honoring those who gave all to preserve our freedoms, LA Fleet Week offers something for everyone with festivities from May 22nd to May 25th.

Join the Port of Los Angeles to celebrate the nation's military with public ship tours, welcome parties, and the main Fleet Week Expo alongside the battleship Iowa.

For the full schedule, visit LAFleetweek.com.

Head to the Eden Dale branch for the ongoing celebration marking 100 years of LA's Central Library.

On Saturday, May 23rd, historian Mary Mallory presents a look at the first women of Los Angeles.

Women have often been the movers and shakers behind community improvements, and this talk will feature the primary women who shaped our city's history, including organizers, activists, journalists, Hollywood stars, and even librarians.

Join the Los Angeles Public Library at Edendale branch for first women of Los Angeles with historian Mary Mallory on Saturday, May 23rd, beginning at 1 p.m.

Find more at LAPL.org.

On Sunday, May 24th, enjoy a concert in the park for Memorial Day, honoring those who died in service.

The featured performance at Brand Park will be from the third Marine Aircraft Wing Band.

The concert event will also feature a veterans resource fair on site.

Pay tribute and enjoy a Memorial Day concert in the park, taking place on Sunday, May twenty fourth at 11 a.m.

For more information, visit cd seven.lacity.gov.

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

Contemporary LA continues to be shaped by Asian American voices in media, sports, politics, and the arts, reflecting a living, evolving cultural story rather than a historical one alone.

In Little Tokyo, that cultural legacy comes alive within one of the city's most visited districts.

As a national history landmark, it stands as a living connection to generations of Japanese American history, where food, art, and community reflect both heritage and evolution.gov forward slash TV and fall at LA City on Instagram, Facebook, X, and YouTube.

Until next time, get out there and experience everything Los Angeles has to offer.

What is it?

What is it?

Well, it is so Good morning and welcome to the budget meeting of your Los Angeles City Council.

We recessed on yesterday, May 20th, 2026.

Today is Thursday, the 21st day of May in the year 2026.

We can begin our proceedings by asking the clerk to call the roll.

Thank you.

Blumenfield, Harris Dawson, Hernandez, Herado, Lee, McCosker, Nazarian, Padilla, Park, Price, Rahman, Rodriguez, Sotomartine, Sieroslovski, 13 members present in a quorum, Mr.

President.

All right, first order of business.

Items one through five are items that had been noticed for public hearing.

Public comment was satisfied for items one and four on Wednesday, May 20th, 2026.

Items two through three have been continued to June 17, 2026.

Item four was adopted as amended.

Item five has been continued to June 23, 2026.

Item number one is now before the council, the budget and finance committee report relative to the mayor's proposed 2026-27 budget for the city of Los Angeles related motions and resolutions.

All right, uh colleagues, today we uh gather uh as we do on an annual basis with the hopes of approving a budget.

Uh this budget this year will not, uh thankfully, uh, carry the headlines of budgets in previous years, but it was by no means easy to achieve.

The mayor submitted a budget that reflects the priorities of Angelinos, and things and carries things that they have consistently asked us to address confronting homelessness head on, investing in street and sidewalk repairs, the cleaning and maintenance of public spaces, strengthening of public safety, and preparing Los Angeles for the opportunities and responsibilities that come with hosting the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Our street lighting assessment is already in the living rooms and mailboxes of uh Angelinos.

We have an LAFD tax on the ballot, we have a transit occupancy tax for short-term rentals, we have a gross receipts tax that is at least in conversation.

The physical health, the fiscal health of the city is indeed in the hands of our people.

That the gross receipts tax will be maintained.

The economic waters that we ride in are turbulent, and we must proceed with caution.

The impact of that reality is reflected in this budget as we work to safeguard the city's long-term stability while continuing to improve delivery of essential services.

Finally, our greatest strength has always been our people.

I want to thank every single resident, every community organization, every labor partner, every advocate, every stakeholder, every general manager and AGM and staff member who participated in this process to make sure our budget reflects the values, priorities, and needs of the city of Los Angeles.

So today we'll go through the recommendations contained in the budget and finance committee report page by page.

If you have any questions or amendments on a recommendation, please call that recommendation special.

We will then vote on the remaining recommendations on that page before moving on to the next page.

Once we have gone through all 159 recommendations and the recommendations in the exhibit H attachment, we will then go back to the items called special.

Once discussion has been held on a recommendation that is called special, we will vote on that item.

Following that process, we'll take up any amending motions one by one as well, page by page.

And with that, that is our tradition and our process.

And at this stage of the process, we get to hear from the leader of this process amongst us as council members, the leader of our budget committee, chairwoman Katie Yaroslowski.

Thank you, Council President.

Council President, colleagues.

The revised budget before us today reflects weeks of hearings, hours of public comment, department by department review, and careful work by this council through the budget committee.

I want to thank our outstanding CLA Sharon Sow and her incredible team, CAO Zabo, my colleagues on the committee and our respective staffs, the council president, department heads, and staff across the city family who helped us work through a difficult budget year with seriousness and discipline.

And I want to give a huge and special shout out and thank you to Councilmember Blumenfield on his final budget.

Thank you for your steady hand, your thoughtful, careful advice and counsel and mentorship over this the last couple budgets.

I'm really grateful for it.

The committee preserved much of that framework while making targeted changes to strengthen the city's fiscal position and reflect priorities raised by this council and the public.

And I want to thank the public for showing up and advocating for the things that they care about.

Thankfully, we're in a stronger position than last year, but even so, it wasn't an easy process, and we're facing real fiscal uncertainty as a city, as the council president mentioned earlier.

We know inflationary pressures remain, for example.

We know there are serious threats to future city revenues.

We've been talking about some of them all week.

The decisions we make in this budget year will have consequences far beyond this moment.

Despite that, I believe the budget committee produced a responsible and balanced budget that preserves core city services and priorities while strengthening the city's financial position.

The committee left the mayor's proposed budget and programs largely intact.

We maintained or increased investments in homelessness services, public safety and neighborhood infrastructure and cleanliness.

We protected the shared goal of keeping sworn hiring at attrition levels, maintained funding for interim housing and homelessness solutions and interventions, and invested in clean corridors, tree trimming, graffiti abatement, and deferred maintenance.

At the same time, the committee worked to right size a number of council programs and discretionary dollars that have been reduced in the mayor's proposed budget because I heard clearly and my team heard clearly from all of you about the need to maintain flexibility to address issues directly in our own districts.

But I want to emphasize something that I think is important.

This budget is very carefully balanced.

The committee worked to incorporate as many priorities as possible while still maintaining fiscal discipline.

Every change had ripple effects.

Every adjustment required trade-offs.

So colleagues, I would urge all of us to avoid reopening the budget today, because changes with fiscal impacts at this stage will throw off a very carefully constructed framework.

Most importantly, I believe the single most significant thing this committee did was strengthen the city's compliance with our fiscal policies.

I want to speak to that briefly.

Over the past week, we've had a lot of discussion about the potential repeal of the gross receipts tax, the documentary transfer tax repeal, and the broader uncertainty of the local, state, and national economies.

When this committee built this budget, we had to take all of those factors into account.

We had to prepare for a scenario where the city could lose hundreds of millions, potentially over a billion dollars in future revenues tied to pending ballot measures and economic volatility.

And that reality shapes the choices we made.

Colleagues, those threats still remain.

GRT is on the ballot as of this morning.

Donald Trump is still president.

I hope we can get to the first or second FSR and be in the position to invest further, but that only happens if we're disciplined right now.

It's one of the reasons why the committee increased reserves, strengthened the budget stabilization fund, funded many new positions at six months instead of nine months, and built in additional flexibility should conditions worsen.

This work has the dual effect of helping prepare for uncertainty while strengthening our credibility, which is really important because right now we're preparing to go to market to finance roughly two billion dollars for the convention center expansion.

Rating agencies and lenders are watching our decisions very closely today.

Our compliance with fiscal policies directly impacts borrowing costs, and even small differences in interest rates translate into tens of millions of dollars over the life of that financing.

This budget sends a signal that the city of Los Angeles is taking our fiscal responsibilities and our future seriously.

So again, I want to thank the CLA, the CAO, my colleagues on the committee, and everyone who participated in this process.

I believe this budget reflects difficult but responsible choices made with a goal of continuing to deliver for the people of Los Angeles while putting the city on stronger financial footing moving forward, and so I'm asking for your I vote on the budget today.

Thank you.

All right, thank you so much.

Uh Chairwoman Yaroslavski now we'll hear from and turn the floor over to our uh CLA as she'll walk by, walk through our budget report page by page, and we will discuss as previously mentioned, good morning.

I'm gonna turn the mic over to Andrea Galvin who will walk us through the report.

There are I think about 159 recommendations, and as the council president indicated, we will be going page by page.

Members, please call those that you wish to discuss special.

We will vote on the page and then complete the entire document and then go back to specials.

And then depending upon what happens with how long it takes, there will maybe a break for motions.

There are a number of motions that members have requested us to prepare.

Those are being signed as we speak, and it will depend upon how many actually get signed before we decide before we start putting packets together for you to review.

So I will turn it over to Andrea.

Good morning.

There are two sections to this budget and finance committee report.

The first section, pages one through 20 are a summary of our budget hearings.

If you go through the first section, we then get to the second section, which comes to recommendations.

Page one for recommendations are recommendations one through eight.

We're voting page by page, right?

Oh, did you want to vote page by page on those?

Yes.

So page one, recommendations one through eight.

All right.

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

All right.

Page two, recommendations nine through 19.

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

Fourteen eyes.

Alright, what's next?

Next, page three, recommendations 20 through 26.

Alright, let's open the roll, close the roll, tabulate the vote.

Oh, we have a we're just no.

I just want to do that.

Okay.

Ready?

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

14 ayes.

Alright, what's next?

Page four, recommendations 27 through 31.

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

14 ayes.

Alright, what's next?

Page five, recommendations 32 through 36.

All right, let's open the roll.

Close the roll, tabulate to vote.

14 ayes.

Page six, recommendations 37 through 39.

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

14 ayes.

Page seven, recommendations 40 through 45.

I do have a technical correction on recommendation 45.

The first part of the entry should read add resolution authority and six months funding for one internal auditor two rather than four.

So it should be changed to two with no change to the dollar amount.

All right.

Councilmember Sotomartinez.

I have to call item number 43 special.

All right, item 43 special.

Councilmember Rodriguez.

Uh yes, also have 43 special.

And I just wanted to clarify in terms of our procedure.

Um with the motions that we are introducing that are applicable to some of these items.

Is that prompt?

Is that where you want us to prompt the holding of these items?

Yes, that's got it.

That's my understanding, correct?

I just wanted to double check whether or not so if you are amending an item in the committee report, you should hold that on the desk.

Okay, perfect.

All right.

Only if you are actually amending the item.

If you have a separate motion that is over and above an additional, then you could approve the item, and then the motion that would be over and above could be handled when we discussed motions.

Okay.

All right, good.

All right.

Okay, page eight is um, I'll take it off.

We need a vote on this one where we just accept it.

All right, so let's be 45.

I mean, but we need to vote on the rest of them on this page, correct?

Yes, all right.

So all of them except for 43.

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

14 ayes, all right.

Okay, page eight.

We have recommendations 46 through 49.

I have a technical correction on recommendation 49.

Um, it should read add resolution authority and 12 months funding for one senior administrative clerk and delete regular authority and 12 months funding for one administrative clerk.

So resolution should be regular in terms of the admin clerk, no change to the dollar amount.

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

14 ayes.

Alright, next.

Page nine, recommendations 50 through 55.

I have a technical correction on recommendation 51.

It should read add funding to the police department contractual service account for security services at El Pueblo.

Alright, let's open the roll.

Close the roll, tabulate to vote.

14 ayes.

All right, next.

Page 10.

We have the remainder of recommendation 55 through 57.

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

14 ayes.

Page 11.

We have recommendations 58 through 61.

On recommendation 60, I have a technical correction.

The amount should be changed to negative 2 million eight hundred and nineteen thousand eight hundred and twenty eight dollars.

Can you read that number one more time?

Sure, 2 million eight hundred and nineteen thousand eight hundred and twenty eight dollars all right let's open the roll close the roll tabulate the vote fourteen eyes all right next page twelve recommendations sixty two through sixty five to open the roll close the roll tabulate the vote fourteen eyes page thirteen recommendations sixty six through sixty nine open the roll close the roll tabulate the vote fourteen eyes page next page 14 recommendations 70 through 74 all right let's open the roll close the roll tabulate the vote 14 eyes page 15 recommendations 75 through 82 all right let's open the roll oh councilmember padia i want to hold 76 for an amendment all right we're holding 76 all right let's open the roll close the roll tabulate the vote 14 eyes page 16 recommendations 83 through 87 all right let's open the roll close the roll tabulate council member judato I think our buttons work so if you yeah but council member my request to speak is grayed out but um I'd like to call item 86 special for questions all right let's open the roll and the remaining close the roll tabulate the vote 14 eyes page 17 recommendations 88 through 91 and 91 also continues to page 18 all right let's open the roll close the roll tabulate to vote council member park thank you council president my apologies if we are voting on both pages 17 and 18 on page 18 which is item 91e i have a friendly amendment asking for the report back in 30 days please all right that amendment is accepted as friendly for 30 day uh report back we'll include that and open the roll close the roll tabulate the vote 14 eyes that was for page 70 did we do 18 also or are we doing there we go 18 now this is page 18 um 91 continues here with the amendment from councilwoman park and then we and that's the end of it it's just 91 so I think we voted let's just vote again to be belt and suspenders open the roll close the roll tabulate the vote 14 eyes all right now I have you your button pushed council member judato yes this is for page 19 I'm calling um item 92 special 92 special yes 92 all right so this is page 19 recommendations 92 through 96 all right so let's open the roll on 93 through 96 close the roll tabulate the vote 14 eyes all right next to page 20 we have recommendations 97 through 100.

I have a technical correction on 99 and 100.

For 99, the list of positions should read 36 positions to support waste hauling operations consisting of one senior management analyst one, one refuse collection supervisor, 31 refuse collection truck operators, two senior administrative clerks, and one senior administrative clerk.

So we're adding and one senior administrative clerk with no change to the dollar amount.

And is there a reason why you don't just say three senior administrative clerks?

I'm sorry, I meant two administrative clerks and one senior administrative clerk.

Thank you.

Got it.

Okay.

Uh all right.

Let's see.

And then sorry, for one number 100.

I have a change in the amount of um direct and indirect costs as well as the total.

The um direct cost of the position after it says six months funding should read 125,023 direct cost, 62,337 indirect cost.

The total should read 187,360.

All right.

Let's uh open the roll on the these items, close the roll, tabulate the vote.

149s, page 2021 is a continuation of recommendation 100, which I also corresponds to the amendment that I had for 100A.

This should read reduce funding in the sewer construction and maintenance overtime account, and the amount should be negative 187,360.

All right, let's open the roll, close the roll, tabulate the vote, 149s, all right.

Page 22, recommendations 103 to 109.

All right, let's council member Rodriguez.

Uh yes, 105 for an amendment.

105, all right.

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

14 eyes.

All right, what's next?

Page 23, recommendations 110 through 119.

All right.

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

14 ayes.

Page 24.

Recommendations 120 through 129.

Open the roll.

Councilmember Padilla.

I also have an amendment for item 125.

125.

All right.

So we will open the roll on 120 to 124 and 126 to 129.

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

149s.

All right.

Page 25.

Recommendations 130 through 138.

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

149.

Page 26.

Recommendations 139 through 148.

All right.

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

Do we have one?

Which one?

I'm sorry.

We're on page 27.

139 to 148.

Right.

Yes, I need to hold 139.

139.

Okay.

All right.

So let's uh open the roll on 140 to 148.

Close the roll, tabulate the vote.

149.

All right.

Page 27 recommendations 149 through 158.

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

149s.

All right.

And page 159.

Just recommend.

Oh, sorry, page 2028.

Recommendation 159.

All right, let's uh open the roll on page 28.

Close the roll, tabulate the vote.

149s.

The following page is an attachment that relates to recommendations within the report.

This has no recommendations on this page.

And then the following pages, attachment B are exhibit H instructions, which we could vote on as a whole unless anybody has any amendments.

Alright, I'll recommend that we vote on it as a whole, seeing no amendments.

She did.

Councilmember Rodriguez.

Yes, we call uh call it special, please for amendments.

We've which one?

Well, exhibit H.

So the whole exhibit, okay.

We've got so there's H1 through H26.

Is there a specific one?

So there's sixteen.

One six.

All right.

So let's open.

Hold on, let me double check.

I think one more time.

Alright, yeah, let's give it a minute for everyone.

Mm-hmm.

Okay.

16.

All right, one six.

So let's open the roll on the remainder of exhibit H.

Close the roll, tabulate the vote.

Fourteen ayes.

Alright.

That's I think.

Now we can go back to what members um called special.

Yes.

So we have item 43 called special.

I see these 13 and 7.

All right.

Uh council member.

Soto Martinez.

Yes.

I wanted to call this special because I want us to look into increasing that amount to an additional $2.5 million.

We on all that represent LA is about folks experiencing raids and detentions and families being ripped apart.

And we know the folks that are being affected by this pay their taxes and don't get as much as I think they should, and so we want to I want to look into that.

Alright, so this is a your amendment is a report back.

Yes.

Okay.

All right.

So I just want to make sure with the CLA, our intention is to uh we can vote on items with no fiscal impact.

If there's a fiscal impact, we'll send it to the budget and finance committee.

This appears to have no fiscal impact.

If this is an instruction to report, I believe council member, you may have asked for a written motion, but you of course can amend this item to include the instruction as long as there is no fiscal impact, then yes, it could be moved forward and adopted here with an additional instruction to report on additional funding.

Yeah, that's fine.

Is that what you would like to do?

Okay.

And is there a second to the motion?

Just got a bunch of seconds.

All right, uh Rodriguez.

Thank you.

Um I also had an amending motion that was introduced related to this represent LA, and uh my motion is to apply 250,000 of the allocation to support the work in helping our veterans that have been denied their rightful immigration status to be able to stay in this country.

We've had multiple examples.

In fact, I was down in uh Tijuana about a year and a half ago meeting with several veterans that had been deported from East Los Angeles.

Many of them have served in our own forces, served this country, and thankfully, with the previous allocations of dedicated resources that we had from the allocation of Represent LA, we've actually been successful in helping to uh helping veterans be able to stay in this country after their service.

And so uh I know for me this is deeply personal, but having met with so many veterans that served this country honorably that have not been afforded their rightful path to citizenship, uh I wanted to ensure that we show up as a city when the federal government clearly has failed to honor their obligations to make sure that we are uh respecting these veterans and giving them uh some representation that they are rightfully deserving of.

And so I ask for your I vote.

All right, uh Madam CLA, can you advise us with regard to the fiscal impact of this amendment?

Yes, again, I think councilwoman Rodriguez would like to designate a certain portion of the existing funding.

Again, there are separate motions that we have prepared for you.

Um I would actually urge you that this item actually can be approved as is, um, and then when uh councilwoman Rodriguez's motion is brought in, it could be voted because it it is an additional item to this item.

So it's not amending this items per se, but council members, whatever you wish to do, we will we will go with it.

So if you want to amend the item, because there's no fiscal impact, there's no fiscal impact.

Right.

Um, as Sue stated, there is no fiscal impact as Mr.

Soto Martinez on his motion also stated no fiscal impact.

So, to that extent, if you wish to amend the item with no fiscal impact, we could do that, but there are also motions that we have prepared for you.

So I leave it up to however you procedurally, however, procedurally, it can go either way, procedurally.

It sounds like it makes the most sense to make this a budget instruction that we can vote on as an amendment at this moment.

Yes, you can.

All right, so if that's good with you, uh we'll we'll take a vote on that.

Or do we even need to take a vote on it?

We can accept this as a budget instruction, right?

It would be a budget instruction, and the members would take a vote on it.

And again, Miss Rodriguez's motion would be to basically add a footnote to this item to set aside a portion of this funding to assist veterans.

All right, Councilmember Soto Martinez.

Yeah, can I I I I'm I'm very much in support of what council member Rodriguez wants to do.

Uh, we know there's a lot of veterans that are have been deported or live in Tijuana trying to find their way back to to the states.

Uh, the one concern I have is that um I I've as a chair of the Civil Rights Immigration Committee, I don't know if if putting 250,000 there, I don't know if there's enough cases to for that money to be spent, so uh, but it maybe a way forward is is we could send it to committee, we can look at it, we can bring the advocates in, we can bring in folks that are working on this fund.

Maybe it's 250, maybe it's maybe it's 100, maybe it's 150.

Um, I think we can look into that.

But I think it's a good idea.

Well, I know that they've maximize the resources that have been allocated specifically from the previous two fifty.

So that's why I want to make sure that we fulfill that obligation for because we have tremendous needs.

We're continuing to see veterans getting deported.

Uh, frankly, even I mean, they're they're being even sent to Africa.

So there's uh a variety of uh veterans that are in the process that we're trying to make sure that they get their needs tended to, and and that's you know, the 250 was a drop in the bucket last time, uh, last goal around, and so that's why uh we're seeking that amount.

We could say up to 250,000 if that helps.

Okay, we'll go with that.

Yeah, all right.

So we'll do a budget instruction of uh and we'll change the language to up to 250,000 dollars, and uh, I believe uh Madam CLA, you said we need the council needs to vote on that.

Yes.

And just to confirm, is there a second to Miss Rodriguez's motion?

Thank you.

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

14.

Okay, next called special was item 76 for council member Padilla.

Councilmember Padia.

Yes, colleagues, I'm asking to secure uh my districts.

Um, what I'm doing is uh I move that recommendation 76 where we have set aside 11 million in the unappropriated balance for deferred maintenance and capital repair projects be amended to designate 733,000 of this funding for pre-designed work for sidewalk repair and street improvements in my district.

Um this is an area known as Terrabella and Wakefield where constituents have experienced consistent flooding and contribute to many issues of quality of life in the surrounding neighborhoods.

Um several other intersections alike are not ADA compliance that have been neglected for several years now.

Um it's time for me and hopefully this entire council to make an investment in a place that really needs it to deliver solutions.

I support your uh your I urge for your support, and for the record, that number of 733,000 is one fifteenth of that.

So to me, it's being equitable, right?

115th for myself.

Uh 700 at 733,000, and also number two for the record.

My overlapping Congressperson brought in 250,000 for this project.

So I see this as an opportunity where I did the homework and brought in some federal funds.

Now I hope the city can match it as well.

Thank you very much.

Alright, uh, madam chair.

Council.

Thank you, Council President.

My recommendation is that we um don't make project-specific decisions with this pot of money right now.

Um, that this goes to committee and we can have uh bigger conversation about what the priorities are.

I totally appreciate Councilwoman Padilla's um desire to have a fair share of this money, but we're not ready to program it yet, and this is where we're building in some um fiscal reserves and and just don't want to program it right now.

Um thank you, uh council member uh Padilla for a well thought out and articulated uh motion, but this does have a fiscal impact.

So I want to send everybody uh all the uh motions that have a fiscal impact uh to committee for considerations, but thank you for laying down uh laying down that marker.

All right, next.

And so just to confirm, was there a second to Ms.

Padilla's motion?

Second, and so that motion will be referred to the budget and finance committee.

Yes, okay.

Next, next we have item 80.

And can we take the vote on item number 76?

All right, let's open the roll on 76, close the roll, tabulate the vote.

14.

Okay, next we have recommendation 86 called special by council member Herado.

I have no other questions for that one.

All right, so we prepare to open the roll on this item, close the roll, tabulate the vote.

All right, next recommendation would be 92, also called special by council member Herado.

Uh my questions have been resolved.

Thank you.

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

Fourteen eyes.

Next recommendation called special was recommendation 105 called by council member Rodriguez.

Council Member Sovsky.

Thank you.

Um Councilman Park called 91E, or do we already vote on that as a friendly?

Just want to make sure.

I think we already voted at the end.

Great, thank you.

Okay.

All right, can you just reorg us reorient as to where we are?

Which item we're on.

Can you repeat that?

Which can you just reorient us to what item we're on?

Sure, we're on um recommendation 105 called special by Councilmember Rodriguez.

Councilmember Rodriguez.

And uh 105 was related to the fire item in exhibit H, correct?

Yes.

Okay.

So colleagues, as electric vehicles have become more common on our streets, the city must prepare uh our fire department to be able to respond in kind and to receive the necessary equipment and training uh to safely respond to these RV fires.

Uh I know that uh through my work and collaboration with the fire department, we actually have been successful in securing resources like fire blankets for EV cars for the fire department from the fire foundation, which have been separately funded and not uh impacting this budget.

These fires are fundamentally different from the traditional vehicle fires that most people are accustomed to.

Lithium ion batteries burn hotter, can reignite and release toxic gases and often require significantly more resources and specialized response tactics to contain.

I know Ms.

Park can attest to some of the impacts of the EV cars that burned, especially in the Palisades area as well, and what the impacts have the lingering impacts have been as a result of that.

As local state governments continue to push forward towards increased EV adoption, we have a responsibility to ensure that our public safety departments are prepared for the realities that come with that.

And so I'm asking to place a direction in Exhibit H that would make these positions contingent upon voter approval of the proposed fire department funding measure this fall, ensuring that any expansion of resources is tied directly to sustainable funding approved by the budget.

This is about the preparation and fire safety and firefighter safety and making sure that our city keeps pace with the evolving technology and the public safety needs, and so I ask for your I vote.

Is there a second to that motion?

Councilwoman Park seconds.

Just to clarify, um, this is uh does not have a fiscal impact.

It's a recommendation in exhibit age.

Should the fire measure pass?

Uh, and I'm assuming you work with fire department on this, and this is how they would want to spend some of their new money.

Okay, yes, no impact.

All right, all right.

Uh so uh do we need a vote on this or can we accept it as friendly?

We need a vote, all right.

Let's open the roll on that recommendation, close the roll, tabulate the vote.

14 eyes, all right.

The next item called special is recommendation 125 called special by council member Padilla.

Councilmember Padilla.

Um this is just a simple one where I'm hoping to amend um adding CLA to work with the CAO on this report, please.

All right, there are second to the motion, seconded by the Council Member Yurosovsky.

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

All right, what's next?

Next item called special was recommendation one thirty-nine called special by council member Rodriguez.

Councilmember Rodriguez.

Thank you.

With uh the growing demand for data centers uh that's impacting cities across the country at an incredible pace.

Uh I want to make sure that we are not going to be caught off guard with some of the projects that come before us.

At this point, the city has managed reviewing these on a case-by-case manner.

LA must be proactively establishing standards around land use and connected policies around energy and water consumption to protect the adverse impacts on neighborhoods and ratepayers.

I introduced a motion instructing the city planning and LADWP to work together on an ordinance to address this.

Uh, the city must the city and our utility partners at DWP should be acting now before it grows beyond our ability to regulate.

And so that requires uh resources to do this work.

My motion is seeking DWP contribute financially towards the contractual services necessary to environmentally clear the ordinance uh upon completion, and I ask for your I vote.

All right, uh, this appears to have no fiscal impact.

Councilwoman all right.

So let's see.

So is there a second to the role?

Councilmember Hutt?

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

14 eyes, all right.

And then the last um item that was called special had to do with exhibit H, but I believe we addressed that with your uh with Councilwoman Rodriguez's um amendment to recommendation 105, the fire department.

Okay, all right, good vote.

Okay, what's next?

Just to clarify, Councilman Rodriguez, that was the only thing in exhibit H that you had a change to.

So we have an amendment on insight safe.

But that's separate.

That's that's an amendment.

Okay.

Okay.

Okay, all right, Madam C.

If the council would like to take the vote on exhibit H number 16.

All right, let's open the roll.

Close the roll, tabulate the vote.

14 eyes.

Alright, what's next?

So, Mr.

President, that concludes the committee report, and now we will go in the back and check on the status of motions if you can give us a few moments to package those together, and um we will be back in just a moment.

All right, is it 25 minute recess uh appropriate?

That should be and sufficient, yes.

All right, we'll reset this council standard recess for 25 minutes.

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I want to call the meeting uh back to order from recess.

Madam Clerk, can you please call the roll?

Blumenfield, Harris Dawson, Hernandez, Hut, Harado, Lee, McCosker, Nazarian, Padilla, Park, Price, Roman, Rodriguez, Soto Martinez, Yaroslavsky, 14 members present in a quorum, Mr.

President.

All right, thank you, members, and thank you to our uh CLA and other city staff and council staff who've helped bring us to the point where we can we're prepared to consider uh motions.

Uh and with that, I will uh yield the floor to our chairwoman, councilwoman Yaroslavski to walk us through uh the 28 motions that we have before us, okay.

Can you hear me?

Um thank you, Council President.

So, colleagues, uh, before us are 28 motions.

As the clerk calls each motion, I'm gonna give a recommendation on if it should be referred to committee or considered for adoption today.

As a reminder, I'm gonna recommend that any motion that has a budgetary impact will be referred uh to the budget and finance committee for consideration of its fiscal impact and potential ramifications on spending in the next fiscal year.

Um I also want to recognize that a lot of these motions note no fiscal impacts because they ask CEO CAO to identify funding.

However, we um need to decide as a body if the funding request is a council priority.

We have a lot of things that we have a body as a body have voted that we want to fund already.

Um we keep a running list of unfunded things that we as a council wanted to fund this year that we didn't.

Um, so these would be added to that.

Uh so therefore I'm gonna recommend that those types of motions be sent to the substantive policy committee to discuss its uh merits relative to other council priorities and then to budget and finance to identify funds.

Does that make sense?

Okay.

All right.

So we can start with um budget motion one.

This is an instruction for the CAA CAO and CLA to identify 1,690,799 in funding to restore the demolition and repair fund and instruct the Department of Building and Safety to use these funds only for the demolition and repair of vacant buildings and lot abatement.

This is just an instruction with no uh immediate impact.

Yes, but it asks to identify funding.

So my request for what I just said, I'd like to go to BNF.

Without objection.

Sorry, yeah, budget motion two.

This is an instruction to the CAO with the community investment department to report to the economic development and jobs committee to identify $800,000 for the creation of a Van I's jobs and economic development incentive Jedi zone located on Van Ice Boulevard between Calvert Street and Sherman Way and to cover staffing costs for overall coordination management administration.

This is also an instruction, no immediate fiscal impact, but it does identify.

But it does ask that funding be identified.

So again, colleagues, I'm gonna ask that this go to BNF, given that there are so many priorities that each of us has.

Without objection.

Okay, thank you.

Motion three, this is instructing the CAO with street services and the police department to report on the feasibility of authorizing street services investigators to respond to certain non-emergency police department calls, including a list of the type of calls that police department currently respond to, which may be appropriate for street services investigators and potential savings that could be realized.

This is reporting on the feasibility, there's no fiscal impact.

Okay, um, recommendation is that we can we can vote on this one.

All right, uh, let's open the roll on motion number three.

Close the roll.

Tab you like to vote.

Okay, 14 ayes.

All right, motion four.

This is a motion to amend exhibit H and add 12 firefighters for the operation of an additional engine at fire station 100 in Lake Balboa to the list of proposed fire resources to be funded with tax proceeds should the measure be passed by voters in November.

Yeah, so colleagues, I think there's several of these, um, for requesting that specific line items be added to item 16 in exhibit H, which is fine.

We can we can um vote today to move that there.

There's a specific instruction in item 16 that requires basically before any money is spent that it comes back and we prioritize with the department on what those priorities are.

So I think all of these that are asking for things to be added to exhibit age number item 16 are fine.

So this is okay.

Fine to vote.

All right.

Let's open the roll.

Close the roll, tabulate to vote.

14 ayes.

Motion number five.

This is a motion to instruct the CAO with street services and department of transportation to report on staffing and resources necessary for the city's active transportation program grant-funded projects, including but not limited to Broadway Manchester and Western Arrowway with specifics that the report should include.

This is just an instruction with no fiscal impact.

This is okay to vote on today, colleagues.

It's just a report.

Alright, let's open the roll.

Close the roll.

Tabulate to vote.

149s.

Motion number six is uh a park Padilla motion to add funding for environmental and design work related to the lighthouse bridge in council district eleven.

This would have a 2.5 million dollar impact to the general fund.

The recommendation is to send it to BNF.

Without objection.

Number seven.

Item number seven is a park hut motion to restore resolution authority to the Bureau of Sanitation for the coastal care uh plus team.

Uh this would provide 12 months funding and would have a fiscal impact of 1.98 million dollars.

Uh so if there's a fiscal impact, so the recommendation is to go to BNF.

Without objection.

Number eight.

Item number eight is a Raman Soto Martinez motion to add funds for daily security at Runyon Canyon.

Uh this would have an impact of 150,000.

So uh BNF recommendation to go.

Without objection.

Objection by Raman.

This motion came out of a request that we made earlier this year about identifying a long-term funding source for park closures at uh park that has millions of visitors annually and has had wildfires recently that have led to the evacuation of 30,000 residents in that area.

That report recommended that the council evaluate ongoing funding during the consideration of the 26-27 budget.

In the budget, no funding was allocated for this.

So I'm bringing it up again because we've been hitting up against this issue over and over again.

We're funding this much needed resource from our discretionary funds.

I'm just underlining it here.

Um, and I'm fine to have it sent to budget and finance, but security at our parks is something that is not just an issue for our council district.

I know Councilmember McCosker has brought this up.

I know that there is a study for it.

I would just underscore to this whole body that this is an issue that requires serious consideration and ongoing um resources that are allocated to it, without which we are just spending discretionary funds to address this issue, which is frustrating.

Thank you.

All right.

This will go to committee item number nine.

Motion number nine is a Soto Martinez Rama motion to instruct the CAO to identify 1.2 million dollars uh in the CIEP project for the North At Water East Bank Riverway project.

So this is a specific project with um a fiscal impact, so the recommendation is to send it to committee.

All right, without objection, number 10.

Motion number 10 is a Soto Martinez Padilla motion requesting the conversion of two positions within the Department of Disability from a resolution authority uh to regular position authority.

Um, just to note, um, I believe one of the positions has already been approved in the committee report.

That would be for the principal project coordinator.

I believe that is the same position, and the second position is the new one, and that would be for the administrative clerk.

Um, it does not have a fiscal impact, although just note that this provides an ongoing obligation of the general fund in the future.

Uh, there's no impact now, but resolution authorities typically are evaluated each year for renewal.

Um, this does just change the look of the position, and so it would create an ongoing obligation, but it's already part of the proposed budget.

So what's your recommendation?

We were going to send it to committee, but it would be your discretion because each year the motion would be looked.

I mean, the position would be reviewed.

Uh, whether it should be continued on a resolution authority, you have the option to uh convert it to a regular authority even next year as you continue to evaluate it.

Okay, so yes, you could refer to committee.

One of these positions has already been uh approved as a regular.

If it's okay with the the maker of the motion, I'd prefer to send the the part that we haven't funded to committee just for now so that we could continue to evaluate it relative to other priorities.

If the maker of the motion is amenable to that, yes.

Thank you.

All right, without objection, go to number 11.

Uh motion number 11 is a horado price motion instructing the CAO and other staff to report on the physical feasibility of adding a position for the uh the garment and fashion industry um to oversee the work related to that.

Um there's a number of instructions related here.

It is an instruction to add a position.

Um, so while it has no impact now, it could have ongoing impact later unless special funds are identified, but this is an instruction to report.

Yeah, so uh if there is a fiscal impact, which it sounds like there might be, um, or is I'd like to send it to BNF and also to um EDJC, all right to budget and finance and economic development.

Uh without objection, let's go to number 12.

Uh motion number 12 is a horato lee motion uh making an adjustment within the cultural affairs special one appropriations, uh decreasing two line items uh by twenty thousand dollars and adding two additional line items for twenty thousand dollars.

This is a net zero impact.

So I have a uh our only thought was we didn't have a chance to confirm these offsets and their impact.

Um the fund to match incoming grants that it's coming out of.

Um, it's not clear if we match grants from this.

And these are we misreading it or does that sound right?

So I want to make sure it's truly cost neutral.

It would it would appear so because um they're reducing the special one appropriation for the first two line items, so they're substituting out.

I guess cultural affairs couldn't uh opine if this is a technical adjustment because there was a change in the grantees, uh, and perhaps the maker of the motion may have additional information on that, okay.

I do know that at least one of my colleagues has some issues with this.

Um course he's not here today, but council council member Hodado.

Yes, um, there was an error in how it was written in the budget, and so this is a technical amendment to make sure that these are in alignment.

Okay, then I have no concerns.

We double check with the department as well.

Okay, maybe we can hold this and vote on it at the end while while you check.

Okay, all right.

Let's go to we'll hold 12 on the desk and go to 13.

Very well.

Um, motion number 13 is a horado padilla motion um authorizing the city clerk to use the hybrid voting model for the neighborhood council elections.

Um, this was discussed during the budget hearings, and this was just an oversight on our part, uh, not adding the recommendation to allow this to happen as requested by the city.

And there's no fiscal impact, no fiscal impact, okay.

Then I'm recommend approval.

All right, let's open the role on this item.

Close the roll, tabulate to vote.

14 ayes.

All right, number 14.

Item number 14 is a horado Harris Stassen motion instructing the CAO with the assistance of uh various departments to identify funding and recommendations to add position authorities to deliver the active transportation program cycle six projects.

Uh, this could have some impact, especially as it relates to front funding for these positions.

Right.

So, recommendation is to go to BNF.

All right, without objection.

And DOT.

So go to budget and finance and uh transportation committee.

Um item number 15.

Item number 15 is a horado HUT motion instructing the CAO to identify $325,000 dollars and gap funding for the public bank study.

This would have a fiscal impact.

Without objection, let's go to number 16.

Motion number 16 is a Nazarian Harado motion instructing the CAO and engineering to identify 150,000 potentially in MICLA funding for the North Hollywood Park Master Plan.

This also potentially could have a fiscal impact to the general fund.

Recommend we refer it to BNF.

Without objection, and motion number 17 is a Nazarian Rahman motion instructing CAO with CLA to identify 178,000 for uh two controller positions to conduct an audit of film LA.

This would uh have a fiscal impact.

I recommend we refer it to BNF.

Without objection, got a number 18.

Uh item number 18 is uh as the chair indicated, this would be in addition to the exhibit H instructions related to the fire department uh bond measure adding a first response vehicle and positions uh for fire station 60, a little technical amendment on item number 18.

Uh there should be an exhibit H in the body of the motion.

Yeah, as long as this is what we talked about earlier, exhibit H, I think this is fine to vote on.

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

14 eyes.

All right, number 19.

Item 19 is a park Rodriguez motion providing funding for citywide alley paving.

This would add four million dollar line item to the capital and technical improvement expenditure program.

This would have a fiscal impact.

Uh recommend we refer it to BNF, though.

I love it.

Without objection, it's a uh council member Hernandez.

I'd like to also request that I go to public works, please.

All right, public works.

Uh Councilmember Hutt Transportation Allies?

Sure.

Why not?

Transportation.

All right, without objection, let's go to number 20.

Motion number 20 is a Padilla Rodriguez motion instructing the CAO to report on capital projects that were swept and or delayed as a result of the 2025 wildfire emergency and to identify a plan to restore funding for these projects.

This is an instruction to report there is no fiscal impact.

So you I think the report back is fine, but you don't see the plan to restore funding as anything more than a report back.

It at this time it to me it's only a plan.

I actually don't know what was swept.

So I actually the CAO is here.

Maybe he can speak to it.

We're we're fine with the report back.

We'll address it in the report.

Okay, then it's fine to vote on.

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

Close the roll, tabulate to vote.

All right, 21.

Uh 21 is a motion from Rodriguez Park relative to the joint hazard assessment team and alternative fuel staffing.

We actually uh approved this motion as part of the exhibit H discussion.

Uh we could approve it here again, belts and suspenders.

Uh this would just actually provide some additional detail.

Uh, but it already has been approved.

Councilmember Rodriguez.

We already approved it.

So we can vote on it, do it twice.

Okay, vote on it twice.

It's all good.

So what's your pleasure, madam?

Chair.

Uh let's vote on it again.

Vote on it again.

All right.

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

All right, 22.

Uh motion number 22 is a Rigas HUT motion uh amending the committee report requesting the Department of Water and Power to provide $500,000 in funding to the Department of City Planning for data centers and related environmental review.

Uh this was an action that was already taken in the committee report.

The only difference in this particular motion is uh having a dollar amount and requesting uh DWP assistance uh in the environmental review.

It's fine.

I think it's fine to vote on.

Alright, let's open the roll.

Close the roll.

Tabulate to vote, 14 eyes.

Alright, 23.

Item number 23 is a Rodriguez Yaroslavski motion uh requesting that an instruction be added to the budget uh related to Insight Safe.

It provides a variety of instructions to the CAO to report by December 1 of 2026 related to the Insight Safe operations and to the extent that the report is not provided, or if it is determined that the funding is not equitable in terms of distribution, that the CAO would come back to the City Council report with recommendations to identify up to the 25% of the funding within Inside Safe to be transferred to the unappropriated balance.

Thank you.

So councilwoman Rodriguez worked with the mayor on this language, and the mayor's office is good with it, and I think it provides an extra layer of oversight and accountability on uh the Inside Safe program.

So I don't know if you want to speak to it.

Councilman Rodriguez, but I think this is fine.

Thank you, Councilmember Yarsovsky, and I want to thank the mayor's office for uh their cooperation.

You know, at a time when we're watching the county pull out of Lhasa and standing up its own alternatives.

Inside Safe is really the option that we have right now in the city.

However, we need to make sure that the distribution of the encampment resolutions are equitably distributed across the city with each of our respective areas.

And so this ensures the guardrails and the transparency until such time that perhaps we can actually get some kind of policy direction on how we're gonna move forward on homelessness, which would be delightful to have happen.

I think right now this is an opportunity for us to make sure that we have those protections in place with these dollars, and if there is not fulfillment, that 25% would be remanded back to the UB.

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

14 eyes.

Alright, 24.

24 is a Padilla price motion to uh change a regular position authority within general services, uh, deleting a senior store keep.

I'm sorry, to add a regular authority for a principal clerk, and deleting a regular position authority for a senior storekeeper.

Um has a zero impact, it's swapping two positions and actually it may actually generate a little bit of savings.

I believe that the uh senior storekeeper is paid more than a principal clerk, yes.

This is fine to vote on.

Okay.

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

14 ayes.

Alright, 25.

Yes, item 25 is a Celto Martinez ramen motion uh requesting a transfer of $50 million in non-reimbursable police overtime to the police to the unappropriated balance, uh, pending further reports from the police department on a quarterly basis in order to uh have these funds be able to be transferred back into the department.

This is providing additional oversight on the funding.

It does transfer $50 million from the police department to the unappropriated balance.

Council Member Soto Martinez.

Yes, thank you so much, Mr.

Chair.

I just want to speak a little bit about this motion.

Uh my motion before you is about fiscal oversight, accountability, and transparency.

For almost all of our departments, we expect robust accounting of how our dollars are being spent, what outcomes have been achieved, and what anticipated expenses we are likely likely have been occurred.

Three years ago, this council instructed our police department to report back quarterly with information about how overtime has been spent.

In fact, the CAO budget memo from last year said that those quarterly reports were supposed to continue indefinitely.

We have received three quarterly reports in the last three years.

The last report was from 2024, and I frankly find that pretty unacceptable.

We're talking about hundreds of millions of dollars of overtime spending every year with little to no accountability, transparency, or oversight.

The idea that I'm trying to bring forward today is to move a portion of the LAPD upcoming 200 million 200 million dollars in overtime into the UB and direct our department once again to produce the counting that this body and frankly the public deserves in order to transfer the remainder.

Because this is only a fraction of the overall non-reimbursable overtime allocation.

This will not result in operational challenges.

Moreover, LAPD will very likely spend that money.

It's very likely that's gonna get passed out of committee.

I don't see an issue with this.

I think it's more about having an ability to ask for this information so that we can have more transparency.

We need to know which districts and neighborhoods the overtime was spent in, how it was spent, what outcomes were achieved.

I think these are basic questions we ask of every department, even when it's $1 million, let alone over $200 million.

I think once PD and produces these answers in their in their uh monthly reports, uh, we can transfer those to the department.

So that's this is what this motion is trying to get to.

Councilmember Lee.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Uh, you know, I think transparency is very important to this body and to the department.

But seeing as this has huge implications to LP LAPD's ability to respond to emergency situations, I ask that this be dual referred to public safety committee.

All right, Mr.

Bilmanfield.

Thank you.

Um, I support your idea of getting this information, it's good information to get using the UB as a hammer, I think has all sorts of problems with it.

And in terms of police overtime, and in particular, what happens is if they don't have access to the money, they put it on the credit card.

And so this may inadvertently just cause us to borrow more money for police overtime, uh, which doesn't make sense.

So while I support, you know, I can certainly support having a report and and asking for a report for all this information.

I think it's good information.

I can't support uh the UV thing because I think it ends up making us do something potentially that's costly.

So I would maybe offer as a friendly amendment to remove the UB portion of this and just have it as uh requesting report backs on a report for the information.

If you could support that, I could support it.

I'm open to that.

I uh in the spirit of compromise, I think that's a good idea.

Um I would offer as a return to that, uh, that it also go to uh personnel.

I think those are other conversations that I think can happen.

I support going to Mr.

Lee's as well.

But we can strike any language that refers to holding back from the UV.

All right.

So it looks like Councilmember Yarsowski.

Just add to Councilmember Bloomin feels friendly that it also come to budget and finance.

I would love to get that information on a regular basis.

So we got so it's an amending motion to strip out the UV.

You know, I understand so.

We got stripping out the UB portion, and we have it going to public safety personnel and budget and finance.

I'm I would be okay with that.

All right.

With quarterly reports.

All right.

So let's um vote on Mr.

Sotomartine's uh amendment as amended.

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

Fourteen eyes.

All right, number 26.

Motion number 26 is uh Rodriguez Padilla motion um instructing CA uh city departments to report on their performance measurements, uh measures uh to the governmental efficiency innovation and audits committee.

Uh these measures are actually part of the proposed budget.

They're in the beginning of the document.

You can actually see them, and this is asking a report with a breakdown of the population served, including geographic regions.

No fiscal impact.

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

14 ayes.

Motion number 27 is a Rodriguez Padilla motion.

We've actually voted on this one as well.

This was adding a budgetary footnote to designate 250,000 dollars of represent LA program funding to assist uh deported veterans, and this should be amended to say up to 250,000.

Alright, we voting councilwoman.

Yes.

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

149s.

All right, number 28.

Motion number 28 is a Rodriguez Padilla motion uh requesting that the proposed budget be amended to provide funding for the project therapeutic unarmed response for neighborhoods to be administered by the CAO's office.

This would be accomplished by reducing the line item in the general city purposes designated for the GAN reduction and youth development department.

This would transfer uh 1.919 million from the gang reduction and youth development office funding to a new line item line item within the general city purposes.

Well, while it has no fiscal impact, it does uh ends up being a zero fiscal impact because it's taking as existing funding, but it could have an impact to operation.

So, yeah, so I'd let uh councilwoman Rodriguez speak to it.

My recommendation is that it goes to um public safety uh before we vote on it because councilwin rodriguez.

Thank you.

Um so colleagues, this motion would allocate it recommends five percent of grid funding to the initiative project turn, which stands for therapeutic unarmed response for neighborhoods to ensure the proper training and support services for the intervention workers.

This is something that had actually been funded before, and we've seen uh frankly a shrinking of the investments in the training for these intervention workers.

This is about making sure that we can properly professionally provide professional training for these intervention workers, and it was developed alongside leaders like Dr.

Kiel Bashir and Akil Akilah Sheryls, uh demonstrating the value to a number of the interventionists and frankly standardizing the work uh that their associate they're doing across this city, and so just wanted to continue to advance this as a tremendous need when we spend upwards of uh tens of millions of dollars, 38 million dollars for grid.

It would be it's frankly shameful that we aren't requiring a minimum expense line item for the proper training of these intervention workers, and so that's what this recommendation is.

Thank you.

All right, we got uh budget and finance, public safety and unarmed crisis response referrals.

All right, without objection.

That takes us to motion A.

Yes, Council President.

We can actually, if okay with the city clerk, if we could take motions uh A and B.

These are the closing recommendations.

Uh I'm sorry, before we do that, yes.

Can we go back to 12?

Yes, let's go back to 12 and then for the record.

Uh council member Price is going to recuse on A and B.

Uh, but but hold on just B B only, so we need to do A and B separately because we have a recusal, but let's go back to the outstanding item in the numerical.

Yeah, and this is just moving money around.

This is the um uh DCA.

Um, I think it's fine to vote on.

Because I apologize, that one was held on the desk.

So should we vote on that one?

All right.

So you you were able to come confirm.

Yes.

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

14 ayes.

All right, now we're on A.

Yes, motion number A is one of the closing recommendations.

This is instructing uh the city attorney with the assistance of CLA to uh prepare the budget resolution.

Just a reminder, members that the these actions today will trigger uh report another report to be submitted to the council next week, which actually signals the actual adoption uh of the budget.

Uh this will return to you next week, and then it will be submitted to the mayor's office for their uh review and approval, hopefully their concurrence, and then we will be done with the 2627 budget adoption process.

It will not be done with the 2627 budget.

All right, let's uh open the role on that item.

Close the roll, tabulate the vote.

14 ayes, all right.

We'll move to B as in boy, which Mr.

Price will recuse for.

Hold on, hold on, his mic is not working.

We got to get this on recording.

Hello, thank you.

There you go.

Thank you, Ms.

President.

I'm accusing myself from motion B regarding the overall budget because I am a struggling landlord and because my wife's uh previous employers have worked with various organizations on these projects.

So item B.

All right.

All right, let's open the roll on this item.

Close the roll, tabulate the vote.

Robbie, one null.

All right, Madam Clerk, what's next?

Mr.

President, there has been a request to send this item forthwith.

Without object without objection, that'll be the order.

The council has motions for posting and referral.

They are posting a referred to Councilmember Park on the queue.

Council President, thank you.

I was hoping that we would have an opportunity to speak and um deliberate some before we took the final vote there.

Um, and I appreciate the opportunity to have a few moments to address my colleagues and my constituents now.

I know a lot of thoughtful consideration went into the budget, and I do see the areas where efforts were made to restore prior cuts.

But even a year and a half after the Palisades fire, we are still making minimal investment in the LAFD.

Just yesterday we heard directly from our firefighters that they desperately need an additional drill tower.

I think you all know that many of our emergency response times still double national standards.

Remember, on January 7th, it took 20 minutes for the first engine to arrive, and then hours for the response to a mass, but by then it was already too late.

The department is already mandating holdovers because we don't have enough staffing and we aren't even hiring to cover the attrition and retirements.

Even after the fire, this council cut 42 EIT positions and barely maintained the LAFD operational budget.

At the same time, resources for encampment cleanups were cut, even though the LAFD responds to nearly 50 homeless fires every day.

So our firefighters took matters into their own hands and spent the last six months pushing to get a ballot measure together just to start making up for the decades of neglect and underinvestment.

And now we're burying their current budget requests in exhibit H, hoping to pay for it someday down the line after they do all the work, and if voters approve it.

Exhibit H is a list of things that need to be funded now.

The ballot measure is there to hopefully expand LAFD capacity and supplement their current budget allocations and staffing.

Not to serve as a substitute for it, and not to hedge our current safety risks against it.

To see positions denied to our emergency management department, both in the aftermath of the Palisades fire when we need them more than ever, and while new fires currently today rage in Simi Valley and the Channel Islands, while the eastern Sierras sit bone dry and we face down yet another long fire and drought season.

Just as the devastating effects on the fire and the ocean were beginning to diminish, just as the wildlife was starting to recover.

And speaking of our ocean, as you know, the Santa Monica Bay is the repository for all the trash, the pollution, the plastic, and the chemicals that move through our gutters and our waterways and our storm drains all over the city and out to the beach.

Never mind the Trump administration starting to reopen oil drilling and development in our coastal wetlands.

Cutting the Coastal Care Plus team that spent two days a week clearing cleaning nearly 20 miles of coastline, our creeks, streams, flood channels, wetlands, canals, and lagoons, clearing out the garbage from an entire city is going to have catastrophic effects on our sensitive marine habitat and our wildlife.

A team that just yesterday has removed, as of just yesterday, has removed over 9,000 pounds.

That's four and a half tons of hazardous waste, and 233 pounds, that's 116 tons of trash and garbage out of our waterways and off the beach.

And all of this is just as we're filming Baywatch, getting ready for the World Cup, and preparing to host the world in 2028.

I heard the concerns from the budget chair that it wasn't fair to have a specialized team, and yet there are plenty of specialized teams and specialized carve outs for LAPD patrols in downtown and MacArthur Park, for park rangers at Griffith Park, but not Venice Beach.

Traffic safety improvements for some areas, but not others, like the West Side.

There's money to hand out crack pipes and needles, but not to collect them off the beaches that millions of people visit every year.

Really wanna thank Councilmember McCosker and Councilwoman Hutt for seeing the need and advocating to keep the Coastal Care Plus team during the committee deliberations.

The ABH Care Plus teams were all cut too, even though providing those services was a promise that this city made to all of the host neighborhoods when it rolled out the ABH program.

It's no wonder citizens don't trust City Hall and why they don't want new solutions in their neighborhood to address the homeless crisis.

And that takes us back to homelessness, the citywide money suck that continues to fester, despite headline after headline and failed audit after audit, hearing after hearing, where our own city departments can't tell us how many beds we have, where they are, or whether they're occupied.

Here we are investing in the same failed programs and services to keep the city stuck.

Motions seeking alternatives to Lhasa have languished for years, and meanwhile, as you all know, the county pulled out of Lhasa, took the money and the staff, and here we are again holding the bag with no plan, while the problem continues to strain and deplete resources across every department in the city.

Again, this budget does reflect good work by the committee, and I'm grateful for the improvements, but I remain terribly disappointed and concerned about the necessary investments in public safety and infrastructure.

Thank you, Council President.

Councilmember Hernandez.

Thank you, Council President.

Last year, my first year on the Budget and Finance Committee, we were staring down a billion dollar deficit.

We had to stabilize the city financially while protecting core services and preventing layoffs that would have devastated working people and city operations, and we did.

This year we pushed further and we did it in a fraught political moment.

We're living through a federal administration that is openly, openly targeting immigrants, demonizing trans people, attacking poor and working class communities, slashing social services, criminalizing homelessness, and investing billions into punishment and war and detention while we tell or while we're telling ordinary people, while they tell ordinary people that there's no money for care.

So this budget also draws a clear line and says Los Angeles will not mirror those politics of cruelty and waste because if the federal government is abandoning our most vulnerable, then we have a responsibility to protect them.

And my big takeaway from this budget season is that even in this political moment where so many of us feel exhausted, cynical, and hopeless about whether collective action can still change anything.

The budget presented today shows us that organizing works.

Because some things happened in this budget that have been unimaginable just a few years ago.

For the first time in Los Angeles history, we have a permanent unarmed crisis response system that currently covers nine out of 21 divisions in this city.

With today's budget, we will have 15 out of 21 divisions covered by unarmed crisis response teams, saving us millions of dollars, reprioritizing LAPD and LAFD time and resources to more serious calls and saving countless lives.

That happened because organizers from groups like LA Forward fought for it.

We invested 1.5 million dollars into our labor, our day labor centers, our day labor centers that have been hit repeatedly.

The one in Westlake in my district, the one in Highland and Cypress Park have hit have been hit by the federal immigration rates at least four times.

They need resources, and so we gave 1.5 million.

And we added 1.5 million into represent LA at a time when immigrant communities remain under attack from the federal government.

That happened because organizers from groups like Idebska, Caresa, and Represental A coalition fought for it.

And for the first time in LA history, this city funded a TGI wellness equity initiative to the tune of half a million dollars in a moment where trans people are being demonized across this country.

That happened because organizers from groups like Translatina Coalition fought for it.

We added an additional one million, one million dollars into our spay and neuter voucher account.

This makes an addition 8,000 additional vouchers available for the city of Los Angeles this next fiscal year.

And we returned money thanks to the leadership of Councilmember Blumenfield back into medical supplies, food support, and enrichment programs.

And that happened again because animal advocates from organizations like Michelson Foundation and Dog Coalition refused to accept overcrowded shelters and under resource care as the status quo.

And on a more personal note, I'm so proud that we restored funding for safe parking.

Thank you to our chair and Councilmember Blumenfield's leadership as well on this.

Just last weekend, I met a family of eight people living in a small SUV.

Six kids, a mom, and a grandma.

They were living in their car at Sycamore Grove Park, and they have been seeking refuge and fleeing violence.

And I'm so grateful that we could get that family into our CD1 safe parking site where they had access to rooms, uh, restrooms, mobile showers, and our laundry truck.

The restored funding happened because organizers from group groups like Safe LA Coalition fought for it.

This year we are finally reinvesting in public works and the actual day-to-day services our communities have been demanding for years.

We're investing in sidewalk repair, tree trimming, graffiti abatement, crossing guards, brush clearance, and street light infrastructure.

We're investing in the first proactive sidewalks, sidewalk maintenance program since the recession.

We're investing in solarizing streetlights so entire neighborhoods are not left in the dark.

We're investing in many profilers.

So our hillsides communities uh like Mount Washington and other places uh can have their streets finally repaved and resurfaced.

And even more importantly, this budget is pushing back on some of the worst most fiscally irresponsible impulses of the status quo.

We removed 29 million for hundreds of new LAPD patrol vehicles that they wanted just for the Olympics.

We added hiring controls and accountability measures around LAPD spending.

We prioritize civilian positions like 911 operators instead of pretending every public safety problem can be solved through more enforcement, and that matters too.

Because for years the conversation in this building has been that there is never enough money for prevention or care, but somehow there's always money for the expansion of carsoil responses.

This budget doesn't fully break the break from that framework.

And I'm not pretending we won the war of our collective liberation with this budget.

That's our North Star.

Uh and I believe that we will get there because the organized people always save the people and they always make the government do the right thing.

Tenants, labor unions, immigrant rights advocates, violence intervention workers, trans leaders, young people, public health workers, budget advocates, LA Forward, BLM, People's Budget LA, DSA, Translatina Coalition, Sage, Safe Parking LA, Carece and Chila, Ace, Edebska, and so many more.

So today I'm celebrating that organized communities are forcing this institution to slowly and perfectly and sometimes reluctantly change.

And if organized people can force change here, then I still believe organized communities can change this nation too.

And so I'm grateful for the leadership of our chair.

I'm grateful to the leadership of our council president, to the members of the budget and finance committee, to all the city staff who have contributed to this process.

Thank you.

I'm grateful for our collaboration, our leadership, our our team leadership and La Lucha Sigue, and we will keep going.

So thank you, everybody.

Thank you so much.

Uh Madam Clerk, uh, what's next?

Councilmember Yaroslavsky to close.

Okay.

Um thank you, Council President and colleagues.

I just want to thank you all for your thoughtfulness and partnership uh throughout this process.

Um, what a difference a year makes.

Uh, what a difference um collaboration and working together and and really being collaborative and thoughtful mix.

I know we get a lot of heat as a body, but today I saw a council that was serious, thoughtful, and genuinely collaborative, and I'm really grateful to each of you and your teams for that.

And I don't take it for granted.

It's an honor to serve alongside each of you.

Um, thank you, Council President, for guiding us through today so smoothly and for your partnership throughout this budget process.

I really appreciate it, you and your team.

And I also mentioned this already at the top, but I just want to one more time give another deep thank you to Councilmember Loonfield.

Um, this is his last budget year, last budget.

Um I'm gonna just go ahead and speak for the rest of the budget and finance committee and say that we are so grateful to you for your deep well of knowledge, your mentorship, your patience, uh, particularly these last couple of years.

Um the process is not going to be the same without you, and we will um be worse off for uh for your departure.

I also want to take a moment to recognize two people from the CAO budget team who are retiring.

Uh Yolanda Chavez and Sylvia Romero.

I'd like to recognize them for their many years of dedication and city service.

Sylvia spent her entire city career with the CAO.

Uh her contributions have helped keep things running smoothly, often behind the scenes, and her impact will certainly be felt.

Uh, Yolanda has vast institutional knowledge of the city.

Her steady leadership has been invaluable to the CAO's team and to this council.

Um, so on behalf of all of us in the city council and the city family, thank you both for everything you've done for the city.

Uh, we wish you nothing but happiness, health, and a well-deserved retirement.

So thank you, Council President.

Thank you so much.

Madam Chair, and thank you for your leadership uh of this committee and through this uh process, and uh another big shout out to the one and only Council President Pro Tim, Mr.

Bob Blumenfield, who has uh seen it all in budgets from the state of California to the city of Los Angeles uh and beyond.

So again, thank you so much uh for your service.

All right, seeing no other speakers on the queue.

Uh, Madam Clerk, what's next?

The council may now vote on the entire matter as amended by budget motions one through 28 and A and B.

All right, and for the record, uh, Councilmember Price is recusing on this vote, in as much as the budget contains items regarding landlords and people, his wife may have worked for at some point in history.

Um let's open the roll, close the roll.

Tab you like to vote.

Rap by one null.

All right, what's next?

And there is a request to send this item forth with.

Without objection, that'll be the order.

The council now has motions for posting and referral.

They are posted and referred.

Any announcements, members?

I have an announcement, and that is that uh rules committee starts at one to discuss charter reform.

Uh and with that, uh we're adjourned.

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