We built an amazing transportation line here, and I'm excited to be part of it.

Um, what a way to kick off Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.

My parents were immigrants from Taiwan and um coming over here, they kind of vowed to give um my older brother and I opportunities that they never had.

They always loved sports.

My dad loved basketball.

Uh, my mom loved track and field, never had the opportunity to do that.

And so when we when we were here, my brother and I really were given the opportunity, chance to pursue sports, which was an absolute passion of mine, and to be able to take it um all the way to the Olympic stage.

Um it's just been a dream, dream life.

It's truly an honor to receive such a community leadership award.

Um, I'm here also with a very accomplished group of athletes, um, some familiar some familiar faces in uh Xiao and Scout who also sit on the LA 28 Athlete Commission with myself.

It's really important.

I think that oftentimes we are a group of people that have been somewhat forgotten in terms of just our contributions and how important it is the representation that we uh exhibit, uh what that means, and not only for the city, but just for the greater community.

Here in Los Angeles, we have an amazing, incredibly unique opportunity with the upcoming LA 28 Paralympic Games, the first Paralympic Games that the city will host to lead by exam.

I was born in Nanjing, China, where as an infant I was involved in a burn and lost my right leg.

And shortly after that, I was placed in an orphanage where I lived for the next seven years.

And I came to America through adoption, grew up in a really small town in northern Michigan, but it was uh what brought me to Los Angeles was I went to college at UCLA, the greatest university on earth, and it was at UCLA that I discovered the Paralympics and started competing in track and fuel and uh started my journey of the Paralympic Games competing in the 100 and 200 meters.

And now I have the honor of recognizing this year's cover artist, Gian Lee, for the city's official 2026 AA and HPI Heritage Month calendar and cultural guide.

Based here in the creative landscape of Los Angeles, Jian Lee is a distinguished artist and educator.

Her artistic journey began as a teenager discovering her passion for drawing comics to share amongst her peers.

For the painting that will uh that we'll unveil today, it's called Salton Sea, and it's inspired by my uh camping trip with my family to to Salton Sea.

Now our next honoree is Yun Xiao Gong, is one of the top Paralympic shooters in the world and a standout competitor for Team USA.

He is a world championship gold medalist, a parapin American games medalist, and a paralympic silver medalist, earning that podium finish in Paris in the P3 Mix 25 meter pistol event.

Now let's give it up for Yun Xiao Gong.

I thank you for this honor.

It's beyond my words for what this community can offer.

I carry both places with me in every World Cup and every Paralympics a medal.

I promise.

Mr.

Chanho Park is not simply one of the greatest Korean athletes of his generation.

He's a true pioneer whose legacy changed the face of professional sports.

Big round of applause for Dodger Legend, Chan Ho Park.

When I became the first Korean born player to reach Major League Baseball, I was the only Asian player at this time.

I often joked that I didn't just need a good basketball.

I also needed a good translator.

It's such a joy and such an honor to be here with you guys.

Um my grandfather was a white man from Oklahoma.

My father is a Korean man born in Seoul, South Korea.

My grandmother is a Tongan woman from Holongatongatafu.

In the South Pacific Islands, which is also where I grew up, uh meaning that I'm the perfect walking social experiment because I'm quite literally Asian American and Pacific Islanders.

I moved to LA five ish years ago, and when I got here, there weren't many Pacific Islanders around.

So just like to be recognized by the city is an amazing thing, but you know it's not.

It's not only a recognition that recognizes me, it's also just, you know, the people that they got me here, my village and where I come from as well.

Los Angeles Metro is now operating one of the largest rail systems in the country.

LA Metro approximates about one million boardings per weekday.

Riders can already travel from Long Beach to Pasadena, Santa Monica to East LA, and soon directly to LAX using Metro Rail Connections.

Metro continues to expand across Los Angeles, but this time it's not just about transportation, it's also about housing.

Across the region, Metro is showing that where you live and how you get around are directly connected.

In fact, Metro is one of the few major transit agencies in the country developing affordable housing on its own land near rail stations.

By using existing property near transit stops, Metro and the city of Los Angeles are building communities where affordable housing and affordable transportation exists side by side.

The goal is simple.

Reduce long commutes, lower transportation costs, and keep people closer to jobs, schools, and neighborhoods.

Welcome to the grand opening of Santa Monica and Vermont Apartments.

Today is the uh opening ceremony for the Little Tokyo Service Center's housing project of Vermont and Santa Monica.

This is a collaboration between the Metro Transit Agency and a local nonprofit, the Little Tokyo Service Center, to bring a hundred and eighty-seven units of affordable housing, deeply affordable housing to residents of East Hollywood.

And it's on top of a train station.

Housing and transportation are the most important thing to families, to communities, the most expensive thing for people.

And bringing them closer together helps in so many ways.

It helps make housing and transportation more affordable because here we also have affordable housing units right above high-quality, reliable public transit.

To many people, I'm sure it's surprising that Metro is part of housing.

We are a transit agency.

But what we do through our joint development program is we partner with developers and we maximize the use of the land that we own, or in this case, our partners on to make sure that as many people can live adjacent to transit as possible.

Metro is proving that it is a part of a larger fabric of building out a sustainable community and a wonderful community that people can realize their dreams and visions.

In here in East Hollywood in the city of Los Angeles, where people talk about affordability.

This is the model of affordability.

It's a very important model for Southern California.

We want to get people out of their cars.

We have all this land around the transit stations.

Metro owns a lot of land.

Partners next to it own a lot of land, and it's an opportunity to put people in housing.

There are multiple bus lines up and down Vermont and on Santa Monica and also the train station, and that will get you to most of the city.

Our partnership with Metro, the city of LA, the county, the state, federal level is really critical to making this happen.

From the bottom of my heart, thank you for helping my family and family across the city.

Dream again.

Thank you.

Working families get a chance to have a vision or dream, as we heard from the residents who spoke today.

They could actually think about the possibility of their kids going to college, saving for that.

Perhaps even buying a home.

So they can look at this as a station and life as many of us do with a future.

You know, we do see this as a victory, and it's important to celebrate these moments.

It brings them a lot of joy uh to see this happen.

What better place to celebrate Cinco de Mayo than the birthplace of our city?

El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historic Monument.

I'm born and raised Los Angeles, so this is my territory, this is my home.

But I wanted to bring the seniors from Inland Empire here for Cinco de Mayo and see all the festivities and what we do in Los Angeles.

To me, music is good for the soul.

So when you dance and you feel the music, you're just enjoying life.

No problems, no setbacks, just let it go.

Every single mayo we celebrate La Bataya de Puebla, the Bablo Puebla in 1862.

The Army of Mexico defeated the French army.

They celebrate it 1863, one year after the battle here in this kiosco.

That's the importance of the kiosco and the pueblo.

That's why we are so proud of being here, bringing programs, bringing community, bringing tourism, makes me really happy to belong to this ecosystem of like Pueblo for so many years.

COFEM is an important partner for the city, helping to support Mexican and Mexican American populations throughout the city, providing events, providing services, providing scholarships for students, providing assistance in times of difficulty.

It's a really important partnership.

One of the main programs is immigration, integration.

We try to help our community to become US citizen.

Feel the music and come on down.

That's all you have to do.

Feel the music and come on down.

Los Angeles is a city of immigrants, and it's really important that we recognize all of the many different cultures that make up the wonderful tapestry that is the city of Los Angeles.

Metro is also investing heavily in convenience and writer experience.

New stations now feature upgraded lighting, digital arrival boards, larger platforms, elevators, public artwork, and improved accessibility.

And across Los Angeles, Metro and other major city agencies are also seeing a growing push to bring more women into technology, engineering, and infrastructure holes, helping shape the future of how the city moves and operates.

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has been keeping the city running for decades.

While it's traditionally been a male-dominated field, the department is actively working to change that culture.

Events like the LA DWQ Women's Expo are helping lead that change, giving young women hands-on exposure to careers in energy and water services and showing them the range of opportunities available in shaping the city's future.

Come work for us.

It's all about family here at DWP.

Thank you.

Today is the fourth annual women's wellness expo.

We're very excited to have members from the community and our own employees out here to our Truesdale Rodeo Grounds.

This is an excellent opportunity to connect with a lot of the vendors that help us get the uh all the work done at the department as well as our recruiting and outreach department.

If you're interested in getting a job here with us at LADWP.

I have a really really good resource for you right now.

The LADWP Career and Wellness Expo is very important for the community because it gives an opportunity for women to come see that other women are actually doing these jobs.

And I started as electric station operator.

Prior to that, I was a stay-at-home mom.

And I was able to, you know, learn this job and be able to do it well.

And I want other women to see that and know that they can do that as well.

Thank you, Don.

Yeah.

People ignore the things that are so important to women in the workplace.

And LEWP has been a real leader in what happens with women's work, with women's health, and progression for women into higher levels.

I was able to come into this with a minimum qualification.

I think that recruitment and outreach is a very important part of any human resources department.

We've got to let people know what's available.

Yeah, I'm pressing right now.

I will apply my sophomore year to the LADWP internship, and I'm so excited for that.

I'm so excited to learn like industrial and how like Los Angeles works its water.

And I hope it opens new opportunities for me and my career in the future.

We have many opportunities, many programs where we'll hire you directly in with very little experience.

We'll give you all the tools and skills that you need to be able to graduate and perform one of our very well-paid jobs in the Los Angeles area.

The amount of change that I've seen, the amount of women that has increased.

Um, we've built a community of women.

It is so great to have these types of events because then I get to see all of the women that I've met throughout my career, and we we bond.

And so then we start building, and how are we gonna add more women?

How are we going to make it more available to everybody to come see these events and be a part of it?

Today, the Los Angeles City Council voted to address racial profiling by banning pretextual traffic stops by the LAPD.

I hope that what this will accomplish is that in the city of Los Angeles, people who are black or people who are brown can drive with as much safety and as much freedom as people who are white.

That's not the city we live in now.

When you see red and blue lights, your heart skips a beat.

My father is in leadership for the Los Angeles Police Department, he's in uniform still.

I've been stopped over 40 times.

I've had to call my dad and Lenin Algetting pulled over again, and you can hear it in his voice.

Uh, son, I don't want this for you, but I don't know what I can do.

You want to feel safe, which means you need police working on things that actually make us safe.

And to stop using their things on times that don't make us safe.

Traffic stops are an example of something that don't make us safer.

The LA Times broke a story about LAPD's metro division and how they were stopping or pulling over black drivers at a rate more than five times their share of the city's population.

That sounds like racial profiling to me.

First of all, what has to happen is the police commission needs to now approve this, and it would really narrow the scope of when a police officer can make a traffic stop.

Uh there's no reason in the world somebody with the power to use deadly force needs to be enforcing a broken tail.

Uh somebody who has like an air freshener hanging from their mirror, that should not be a reason to pull somebody over.

Next up, police commissioners, and godwilling, uh, it's a victory there as well.

You know, I I actually think the police commission has to be absolutely clear about the level of injustice that's involved in these police stops.

And this is that moment for us to keep pushing to make sure that there's real change and real accountability.

We can never stop fighting when it comes to issues of racial justice.

So this is a significant step in the right direction, but we still have a little bit more to go.

We can bend the arc in the favor of everyday people in the favor of our people and towards justice.

Thank you.

Today we move the needle and we move the battle across the street.

For decades, Los Angeles was built around the automobile.

But with billions being invested into rail and public transit, city leaders are betting that the future of transportation in LA could look very different.

And LA is a city shaped not only by its transit lines and skylines, but by the stories told on screen.

And few filmmakers have captured the spirit of its communities more powerfully than legendary director Charles Burnett.

At the Los Angeles Public Libraries Historic Central Library, the 2026 Origin Award Ceremony honored Burnett for his groundbreaking career and lasting impact on film and culture.

Presented by the Authors Study Club as part of its century-long black history tradition, the event celebrated Burnett's legacy of breaking barriers, reclaiming untold stories, and inspiring a new generation of storytellers across Los Angeles.

It was the poet Alexander Pope who once said, let those teach others who themselves exhaled and censure freely that have written well.

Well, today we come to honor such a man who has both written well and taught us a lot by holding up the mirror to ourselves.

We're here today celebrating the origin award.

And our honoree this year is Charles Burnett, the iconic and legendary filmmaker.

He has really established movies that talk about African American and black life globally and in America, but in particular in Los Angeles.

You know, the ups and downs, the beauty of black families, the tragedies of black families, black love.

His work is just really incredible.

I'm very happy to get these kinds of celebratory things.

You get so much rejection in this business.

All this negativity you get for people.

Because our job is to make these things correct.

What's wrong with history and who controls our narrative?

It's reason to get into film like an idea.

There's so much celebration in these award ceremonies, but there's also the remembrance of how much hard work goes into a lot of these careers.

And his career especially just had so much that went into overcoming all sorts of obstacles.

And so to have him here and celebrating his legacy of work, I think it's just really inspirational to a lot of the other artists that come to the library and they see this happening and they see all the resources that we provide them to make films and to tell stories here in the city.

And that's what the library is all about reading stories, sharing stories, and telling stories.

If we don't see ourselves, we can't be ourselves.

Representation reinvests the joy and reinvests the ability to find our purpose because when you see somebody doing and rising, then it becomes a roadmap to finding your own purpose and finding the thing that will make you different and finding the things that you can do because you can see yourself in those other people.

And you say, you know, they can do that.

What can I do?

This is our project called In My Neighborhood I See, a series of community curated events.

We thought it was really important to be able to find ways where we can invite our neighbors and our community to really show us what they see in this neighborhood.

And then to have access to the theater and the gallery to be able to show their point of view.

I struggled a lot emotionally with expressing my feelings, expressing how I felt.

And through poetry, I learned that it's okay to be vulnerable and show how you feel and say what you feel without having to feel judged or pressured by anybody.

Within the spoken word, it's from young ladies that have been able to just share about the beauty and the challenges from the experience that they've had from growing up within the community.

These are stories of resilience and culture and beauty.

As you are here as a visitor, you'll see an explosion of art, an explosion of Chicago in particular, but not only the things that we see, but also all the senses, what we touch, what we feel, what we smell.

That is the uh objective is to show uh this through art.

So there's so much to share tonight on that will give an insight of exactly what we see in our neighborhood.

I think it's great for the neighborhood.

I think it's great for the community.

Gives kids an outsource instead of being on the streets.

So I think it's really great overall.

Being here today and speaking about what we see in our neighborhood means a lot because I grew up in this community, and I feel like a lot of people don't see what Canola Park has.

We are part of the community.

We are an amazing performing arts center, a resource for our neighborhood.

It's only right that we share this space with all voices, all experiences, all art forms to be able to really show the value of the arts here in the neighborhood.

We have individuals conducting interviews on site, hiring on site.

We have the DMV providing free identification cards.

We have our partner anti-recidivism providing free live scan.

The public defender's office providing expungement services.

Those type of things are very much needed, and having all these resources under one umbrella is exactly what people need without feeling like they're by themselves.

But if they see a group of people here, I think it just makes the transition a lot easier.

These events remove roadblocks for individuals experiencing systemic barriers, which many times put people into a caste system of post-conviction poverty.

And these events are geared towards creating economic pathways for opportunity for individuals who have been impacted by the criminal justice system.

But when you allow yourself to give yourself a purpose, when you allow yourself to be open to these different pathways, I never thought about being able to step up and take on new positions in life until I was able to accept help.

People who are here want to get back on track.

People who are here want to be in a position to be able to care for their families.

As someone with deep lived experience, myself, I know how important these events are.

This will be our seventh reentry resource and wellness fair serving Angelinos, mobilizing vendors to provide on-site services that address and meet the immediate needs of justice impacted Angelinos.

Once you find your purpose, which you will surround yourself with great people, you know, people who've been through it, be open-minded and just have a community belonging.

No, that's that's what I was saying.

Movie nights are back at the beach.

Join us every Friday at Docweiler for 2026 Beach Movie Nights.

Starting June 5th, enjoy free family-friendly movies under the stars right on the sand.

Kicking off the season, Encanto, the magical story of the magical family in Columbia.

Bring your blankets and lawn chairs.

Seating is first come, first served.

Friday nights, 8 p.m.

Doc Waller Beach.

Visit Beaches.la County.com slash beach movie nights for the full schedule.

Get creative with the Los Angeles Public Library at the Lincoln Heights Branch Library on Saturday, June 6th.

Learn to dye fabric using local plants in this fun hands-on workshop.

Discover sustainable art techniques and create something beautiful.

Saturday, June sixth at eleven AM.

For details, visit LAPL.org.

Looking for something fun to do with your teens, the Los Angeles Public Library invites teens and twins to the Chatsworth Branch Library for a Lucha Libre Masks workshop.

Youth ages eleven to eighteen will explore the history and culture of Lucha Libre Mascaras and get creative Saturday, June sixth at eleven AM.

Learn more at LAPL.

Ready to kick off summer and get moving?

The Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks is hosting a free summer 5K at MacArthur Park Community Center on Saturday, June sixth.

Check in starts at eight AM with race time at nine thirty AM.

Open to all ages, and all registered participants receive that Finisher Medal, official t-shirt, and bib.

Register free at Recreation.parks.

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

And here we are reminded that connection is the future of the city.

Thanks for watching.

Catch these stories and more on Channel 35 or at LACity.gov slash TV.

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

Until next time, tap in, enjoy the ride, and experience everything Los Angeles has to offer.

Um, I'm going to be a man.

Does the family emergency plan include pets?

Nuget, as All right, good morning, everybody.

And welcome to the regularly scheduled meeting of your Los Angeles City Council.

Today is Wednesday, the third day of June in the year 2026, and the year we celebrate uh victories for Mr.

McCosker, Councilmember Park.

Councilmember Rodriguez.

Councilmember Yaroslavsky when she gets here.

Councilmember Hernandez of the first council district.

We're very, very excited to celebrate democracy and to celebrate these victories this morning.

Uh big affirmation of the work of the members of this body, uh, by the voters of the city of uh City of Los Angeles.

Uh Mr.

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

Bloomenfield, Harris Dawson, Hernandez, Herado, Lee, McOscar, Nazarian, Padilla, Park, Price, Raman, Rodriguez, Soto Martinez, Yaroslavsky, 12 members in a court, Mr.

President.

All right, and I was looking at him the whole time, but uh did not want to overlook the one and only Mr.

Tim McCosker.

Congratulations as well.

I was literally making eye contact with you the whole time.

All right, um, first order of business, approval of the minutes of June 2nd, 2026.

Councilmember Judato moves, Councilmember Bloomfield Seconds.

What's next?

Commendatory resolutions for approval.

Councilmember Cosker moves and Council Member Hernandez seconds.

Can we run through our agenda?

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Items one through 10 are items for which public hearings have been held.

Items 11 through 15 are items for which public hearings have not been held.

10 votes are required for consideration.

All right.

Without objection, those items are before us.

Now is the time for specials members.

I see Councilmember Rodriguez on the queue.

But before you go, big congratulations to Councilmember Rodriguez.

I mean, ooh, bad.

Councilmember Soto Martinez.

Got a lot of work to do.

You've got work to do, but we're congratulating you today anyway.

Thank you.

Councilmember Rodriguez.

Thank you.

Item one for comments and adopt the revised ordinance dated May 22nd, 2026.

Alright, Councilmember Judato.

Thank you, Council President.

For item 15, I'd like to move to adopt LAHD's May 18th revised report.

Council Member Pur Hutt.

Councilmember Price.

Thank you, Mr.

Chairman, Mr.

President.

Up the reminder of caution.

I'm recusing myself from items four and fifteen because my wife's previous employer has worked with an organization listed in this project.

All right.

Four and fifteen.

Four and fifteen.

Any other specials members?

To my left and to my right.

Alright, uh, Mr.

Kirk, what items are available for consideration at this time.

The council may now vote on items two, three, and five through ten.

Let's open the roll on those items, close the roll on those items.

Tabulate to vote.

Thirteen ayes.

Alright, what's next?

The council may move on.

May now move on to public comment.

All right, before we go to public comment, she did not request this, but we're gonna ask her to do it anyway.

We have a special introduction by Councilmember Tracy Park to this council.

Yes, that introduction.

Well, this is incredible.

I have my parents here today who are visiting from Arizona.

Welcome to the Ferraro Council Chambers.

Thank you, Councilman.

Welcome, welcome, welcome, and thank you for the the gift of Councilwoman Park.

All right, the uh Mr.

City Attorney, if you can prepare us for public comment.

Yes, Mr.

President.

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

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

We will tell you when your time is up.

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

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

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

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

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

The items open for public comment on the agenda today are items eleven through 15.

So again, the items open for public comment on the agenda today are items 11 through 15.

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

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

A couple more announcements.

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

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

Additionally, if you've requested an accommodation request pursuant to the ADA with the clerk's office, in order to make use of the wireless handheld microphone, or if you would like to make such a request, when it's your turn to speak, please raise your hand so the sergeants know to provide you with that wireless handheld microphone.

Finally, in order to help us run an efficient public comment period, we would ask that you please wait until you hear the name that you signed up under, called aloud before lining up in any order on your left-hand side of the council chambers to speak.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Before we call names for public comment, I want to call everybody's attention.

On this coming weekend, it will be exactly one year since the ICE raids started here in the city of Los Angeles.

And we developed a practice here proposed by Mr.

Blumenfield that we uh did for months after those ice raids started with testimonials from folks in our districts that were impacted by those raids.

Now the ice raids are off of the headlines of the mainstream media.

Um, you know, they're not carrying out these horrific circuses in MacArthur Park or in front of Home Depot anymore.

But the enforcement actions are still happening and happening on a regular basis, and so every week uh our office will ask the council offices if they have a testimonial uh that they want to bring, because we want to keep attention on it as we celebrate freedom on the one hand with our right to vote yesterday.

Uh we want to push uh for a more complete and more perfect freedom um in our day and our time.

And so uh this morning I'm I'm uh joined uh by uh a family that was deeply impacted by a recent enforcement action uh restaurant tours in our uh district uh right there on Vermont near uh USC.

Uh a great uh rotissary uh uh place.

We had a detention on uh May 9th and and went around uh we're around the country now, and we'll get an update from you uh on where your husband is and where the uh enforcement action is, but uh I want to um welcome to the Los Angeles City Council, uh Miss Lawrence, who's gonna give us uh review of the case that her family is undergoing and her business is undergoing at this time.

Good afternoon, council members and members of our community.

Sorry, I'm really nervous.

Um my name is Jenna Lawrence.

I'm a small business owner.

I own two businesses in Los Angeles.

I'm a mother and a resident who never imagined I'd be standing before you speaking about emigration detention, family separation, and a devastating impact it can have on an entire community.

Today I'm here to share what happened to my business partner, Chef Carlos Lule, and the lasting impact it has had on our family, our employees, our businesses, and the community.

On the morning of May 9th, 2026, at approximately 7:30 in the morning, Carlos and I had just left LaGranja rotissary in Los Angeles.

That's our business.

We were going about our normal day discussing business, employees, and future.

And the days leading up to that morning, we had noticed a suspicious vehicle parked outside our business on multiple occasions.

We also observed an individual walking around the gates and lingering near the property, which made us uneasy, though we would we did not know who they were or what they were doing there.

Then everything happened very quickly.

Vehicles surrounded us, men rushed towards Carlos.

They were armed, shouting commands and moving fast.

The last thing Carlos said to me was, I love you and I'll call you in a minute.

Within moments, he was gone.

One minute we were discussing our restaurants.

The next minute, the person I loved worked beside every day and built businesses with had been taken away.

What happened afterward was one of the most traumatic experiences of my life.

For days, nobody could tell me where Carlos was.

Attorneys could not find him.

I called facilities after facilities searching for answers.

I was transferred from one person to another.

Nobody could tell me where he was.

Nobody could tell me if he was safe.

Nobody could tell me if he had food, a bed, a blanket, access to a phone.

For a period of time, it felt like as though he had simply disappeared.

Imagine having someone you love vanish into a system not knowing where they are.

Imagine waking up every morning, wondering if they have eaten, wondering if they're sleeping on a floor somewhere.

Imagine wondering if they are scared, confused, injured, or alone.

Then I finally received a call from Carlos describing to me what was heartbreaking.

He described people being moved from place to place with little information about where they were going.

He described long periods without communication with family members and described people who were terrified.

People who did not know what would happen next, people who did not know where they where they would see when they would see their children again.

People began screaming out their names and phone numbers when I was on the phone with him.

They were yelling.

Think about that.

Human beings screaming out phone numbers because they did not know if they would be able to contact their families or loved ones.

People I didn't know.

People in English, people in Spanish, just writing down different names and phone numbers and where they lived so I could contact them and let them know what had happened to their loved ones.

Human beings and strangers, sorry.

This should break everyone's heart.

It's extremely frustrating not being able to locate someone that you love and care about.

I received calls and messages from family members desperately looking for information, mothers searching for sons, children searching for parents, spouses searching for loved ones, family who had absolutely no idea someone they loved was gone.

No family should have to experience the level of fear and uncertainty.

What has affected me most is not just what happened to Carlos.

It's a realization that so many people in our community are living with this fear every single day.

Carlos had a driver's license, he worked, he paid taxes, he owned businesses, he employed people.

He supported employees and their families, he contributed to this community.

Yet, in a matter of minutes, everything was changed.

Whether someone has lived here for five years or 15 years, the fear and confusion left behind affects for their entire family.

This experience made me think about my own father.

My father was not born in this country.

Today he's a proud American citizen.

But during this experience, I kept asking myself, what if this happened to him?

What if my elderly father had been taken?

What if he was confused?

What if he was able to contact?

What if he was unable to contact family?

What if nobody knew where he was?

What if he needed medication or assistance?

As a daughter, these thoughts were devastating.

And now I'm not.

And now I'm not the only person who has that fears.

Across our, across our city, there are children worried about their parents, parents worried about their children.

Families worried about grandparents, entire households living with uncertainty.

The emotional toll is enormous.

Sorry, the impact reaches far beyond one individual.

Our businesses have struggled, employees have struggled, families who rely on those jobs have struggled.

The triple effect touches the entire community.

Today I'm not asking for federal immigration law to be changed.

I'm asking for compassion.

I'm asking for resources, and I'm asking for clear information that can help families when loved ones are detained.

I'm asking for partnership with organizations that can help people locate family members, understand their rights, and navigate an overwhelming confusing process.

Most importantly, I'm asking that we never forget the humanity behind these stories.

Like these are human beings.

I understand that this can happen to anyone, but we are all human beings, and nobody should have to suffer.

No family should have to be wondering where their dad, mom, children are.

For every family desperately searching for answers.

And for every person who has ever sh ever shouted a name or phone number into the air, hoping someone could carry the message home for them.

Thank you for listening, and thank you for your compassion, and thank you for remembering that behind every immigration story, there's a human and a family that matters.

Thank you so much.

Alright, with that, we'll go to public comment.

Calling names for public comment.

Christy with LaCan, Andrew Salamian, Courtney Alicia Miles, Maudi Manji, and Emmett Florists.

Which items?

Six and seven, but I'll use general, the one minute.

Oh, I'm sorry, you said six and seven, and but I'll use general.

Okay.

So you have one minute for general if you'd like.

Go ahead.

Um good morning, council members.

Andrew Salemian representing the Los Angeles Conservancy today.

We're supporting items six and seven, the low rise ordinance, and the delayed effectuation plan for SB 79.

We support the ordinance as amended by the planning commission and plumb committee.

There were some changes in there through the planning commission process that reflected interestingly some compromise between homeowners and housing advocates.

So especially the rear setbacks increase to eight feet part are important.

We do hope that the city of LA looks at a long-term plan.

And I do think there are community plans in the process, Southeast Valley, South West Valley, and the West Side that affect many of these areas, and it's time for us to really take up the mantle on those and stop responding to state law because our own um planning processes are important as well.

So thank you for that, and um congratulations to those who won last night.

Thank you.

Next speaker.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Uh good morning.

I just would like to make a general comment.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Thank you.

Yeah, I just wanted to express my support for a robust and full implementation of uh SB 79.

I think that uh LA cannot uh build more density around our our public transit networks fast enough.

I think so many of this city's problems are downstream of our decisions over the last uh century really to move away from public transit to move away from density and uh to uh force too much of this city into uh single family housing.

So, yeah, again, please uh let's let's densify, especially around our public transit.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next speaker.

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

Tommy Jesus Rojas, Maria Patino Gutierrez, Smoke and Scan, and Bobby Garrity.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Hello, I'd like to speak to proposed amendments regarding SB 79.

Okay, so you have one minute for general.

Go ahead.

Good morning, everyone.

Courtney Alicia Miles with Abundant Housing LA.

Speaking to proposed amendments for SB 79's implementation.

We want LA to get ready to implement effectively and maximize its potential in building housing close to its highest resource stations.

This includes amend low rise ordinance to include a low rise bonus that would allow five floors and form-based density in exchange for deeper affordability to allow attached at grade parking behind units, and lastly, say why you support this because it's important.

Thank you.

What would you like to speak to?

General public comment.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Good morning, uh good morning council members.

My name is Matthew Munjin with Inner City Law Center.

I represent uh low folks throughout uh the county and city.

Uh we're here today to speak uh in support of uh first of all, thank all the planning staff for their work on SB 79 implementation and the low rise ordinance.

We think it's a really great opportunity for the city to develop uh mixed income housing uh throughout areas where historically we haven't done our significant amount of uh mixed income housing.

Uh we also are speaking in support of asking the council members to support exhibit two B.

Uh council supported uh and unanimously passed a motion to ask uh planning to develop options to allow deeper affordability, and uh want to thank planning staff for developing that option.

Uh I think this could be a unique opportunity to make some of these projects a little bit more feasible while adding a little bit of deeper affordability and adding some more flexibility, making it more likely that parking is built.

I think it's all around going to be a win-win situation.

So, so really hoping the council considers exhibit 2B, as well as adding a little bit more flexibility to ground uh parking.

So thank you very much for your time.

Have a great day.

Thank you.

Next speaker.

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

Renee Pittman, Rosangela Banuelos, Dave, Adam, Scott, Jumbo, and Jessica.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

General comment.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Members of the council, my name is Bobby Garrity.

I am a renter, and I'm speaking here today because the cost of housing in Los Angeles is far too high.

And that's why I'm asking for a strong, full uh implementation of SB 79.

SB 79 legalizes mid-rise apartments near major transit stops.

It is the state minimum, the kind of bill that we pass to make the suburbs do their share of housing.

As the core city and as largest city in the state, we should be far exceeding the requirements of SB 79.

We should have more high rises near those stops.

We should have more mid-rises close to them.

And we should be upzoning all parts of the city.

There's no way we are going to solve the housing crisis and make it affordable to live here if we do not make it easier and less expensive to build more housing across our entire city, but especially near our transit stops.

Thank you.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Hi, good morning.

Item number 11 and General Public.

Okay.

So you have one minute for the item and one minute for general.

Please begin with the item.

Go ahead.

Hi, my name is Casual Rojas for the Apartment Association of Great Los Angeles.

Atlas strongly opposes any further extensions of the citywide emergency restrictions based on the January 2025 wildfires and storms.

These restrictions have already greatly exceeded the time when they were necessary and have already been in place for 17 months without serious consideration.

The state ended its emergency restrictions as of February 7, 2026.

The county ended its emergency restrictions as of March 29, 2026.

It is now time for the city's emergency restrictions to finally end.

To approve any further extensions would be a gross overreach by the city and willful abuse of its emergency powers.

While there is no doubt that some homeowners affected by the wildfires are still in process of rebuilding, they are already situated in stable housing situations and are not living in multifamily properties, motels, or hotels.

Therefore, at a minimum, all multifamily properties should be immediately excluded from any further extensions.

Thank you.

We urge the city council to recognize that there is no longer active emergency, as the state and county have already have already done by allowing the existing citywide emergency restrictions to finally expire and voting no on any further extensions.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

General, please.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Thank you.

Good morning, Council members.

My name is Scott Epstein.

I'm the director of policy and research with Abundant Housing LA.

The low rise ordinance is a really exciting opportunity.

Finally, the city is saying we need to make room for more residents to live near high capacity transit, to near to be near high-performing schools and amenities and jobs.

But we need to get the details right.

We need to get the conditions right.

And I urge you to make some key changes to the low rise ordinance to so that we actually can deliver housing.

And those are two.

So one, please adopt exhibit 2B, which is responsible responsive to your direction to affirmatively further fair housing through this ordinance.

And second, please allow at grade parking as an option for these buildings.

Thank you so much.

Appreciate it.

Thank you, next speaker.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

General comment.

Okay.

So you have one minute.

Go ahead.

It's obvious that the revised council rules were passed without getting proper legal scrutiny and they violate the constitution.

A child could tell you that.

Now you might say that free speech violations don't cause terrible harm, but similar similar process failures regarding the police are causing real harm.

You were elected, presumably, because people think each of you has the integrity to oversee basic government functions.

But that hasn't worked so far.

We're supposed to have, quote, a government of laws, not of men.

So do what you should have done a long time ago and publicly request a military-level investigation of official misconduct.

Today, as soon as this meeting ends.

It costs nothing.

And if some well-meaning person tells you you shouldn't, tell them to go to hell.

Next speaker.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Um, Adam from LA Community Action Network on general comment.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Good morning to everyone, especially Heidi Feldstein Soto.

Council Member Herado, LA CAN is still waiting for a response to our letter from weeks ago.

As you know, constituents in Skid Row face violent sweeps every single day, and unlike everywhere else in the district, do not get sufficient notice.

The metal OHS signs in Skid Row serve the purpose of allowing city workers along with LAPD to come and destroy people's lives.

We need an urgent change in Skidrow, and while we 100% know sweeps should end completely, constituents in Skid Row should get the same notice that others in the district do.

While your aide talks about outreach supposedly being done ahead of sweeps at the C CEA meeting, we know it's not.

While your aide talks about working with the bid in LAPD to prioritize areas for sweeps, we know you do.

Why can't sufficient notice be given to Skidrow ahead of these violent traumatic sweeps?

Thank you, next speaker.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

General comment.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Go ahead.

My name is Jesse, and I'm here.

I'm a member of LA CAN.

Why are unhoused folks in Skidrow not offered the same warning about these violent sweeps as others across the district and city?

Councilmember Gerardo, we know that you understand these concerns, though your office never does outreach on Skid Row, and we've never seen your staff at any of the sweeps before, during, or after.

I do community watch every week on Skidrow.

I witness people being harassed, displaced, and pushed from block to block, their property being stolen, destroyed, and thrown away all around trying to survive.

Well, we are 100% against sweeps happening at all.

LA CAN is demanding that our members and our community get at the very least the same treatment as others in our community in your district.

Thank you, next speaker.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Good morning.

My name is David, and I'm a member of LA CAN here to speak on general comments.

Council Member Herado, why don't Skid Row residents get the same advanced notice of sweeps that residents do in every other part of the district?

Residents in Skid Row face daily violent sweeps, and despite the metal signs showing up to eight blocks or more that might face a sweep.

We know that these signs don't provide sufficient notice.

We're still waiting for you to respond to our letter from almost a month ago.

What's the holdup?

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

Victoria Gomez, Armando Herman, Samuel Mares, Jared Wright, Scott, and Eric Anders.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Good morning, sir.

My name is Tommy, but be doing general public comment.

Okay.

So you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Yes, sir.

My name is Tommy.

I'm a proud member of L.A.

Can here to speak on general comment.

Councilmember Herrado, it's been three weeks since you received our letter, following up on our February meeting with you.

Every day the Operation Healthy Street sweeps are happening in Skid Row with no real warning for your constituents.

Every day people are facing the trauma of losing their belongings, watching everything they own get destroyed by city workers under the threat of police violence.

This includes tents and sleeping materials, clothes, but also includes critical documents like IDs, birth certificates, photos of loved ones, and medications.

The experience of these sweeps on people's mental health are immeasurable.

Lots of workers sit in their car, sometimes sleeping.

There is no outreach, no resources, no help, just violence.

Why don't Skid Row residents get the same notice that every other neighborhood in Council District 14 gets?

Thank you.

Thank you, next speaker.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Uh good morning.

Hi, my name is Clyde, and I'm a member of LA Can here to speak on general comment.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Go ahead.

A woman member of LA CAN came in and told us that she didn't know that a sweep was happening and she lost everything.

Including the only pictures she had of her dead mother.

That the city put out paper signs on Ceres Avenue last month.

Shows that the city is very aware that metal signs don't do anything, that paper signs are required so that people know the sweep is actually coming.

Every other part, every other part of CD 14 gets paper signs warnings, resident warning residents of an impending sweep.

LA Can members are demanding the same treatment in Skid Row.

We sent you a letter about three weeks ago and haven't heard back.

Why are how those people in Skid Row treated differently than others in your district?

Thank you.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Good morning.

Just general comment.

My name is Christy.

One minute, go ahead.

Councilmember Herado.

For almost four weeks now, you have neglected to respond to the letter that we issued to you and your staff, in which we followed up on a meeting in February regarding daily OHS sweeps.

In that meeting, you seem to understand that the metal signs do not provide sufficient notice to houseless people that are forced to live outside.

The longer you delay a response to us, that includes a commitment to practical solutions.

Skid Row community members will continue to be placed at risk by your office, vulnerable to the loss of essential survival gear, blankets, clothing, medication, and their mobility devices.

It's easy to point to other city departments to lean on an explanation of how complicated and slow it is to make change.

But the reality is that you have positioned a position of power, and in that position you are choosing not to use that power.

This choice contributes daily to relentless violence.

Next speaker.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Uh public comment.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Hello, my name is Rosancula.

I'm a fast food worker at McDonald's.

Aqui in Los Angeles.

Here in LA.

We ask that you approve the fast food fare work ordinance without further delay.

Los 50 milagors de comida rapida dependemos de su apoyo, asegurar que conoscamos nuestros derechos asicoder asegurar que nuestros trabajos sean seguros y justos.

Yes, us the 50,000 fast food uh workers, we depend on your support so that we may have access to know our rights so that we may be able to have a fair and just workplace and a secure job stability.

And security by knowing the laws that are in place to protect us.

So please vote in support of this.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next speaker.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Uh general.

Okay.

So you have one minute.

Go ahead.

My name is Samuel Motis, N-A-R-E-Z, and I'm representing Flower and Leaf as a general partner and manager of a dispensary.

Uh from uh the one-tenth freeway always to uh our place.

There is no lights.

The street lights have been out for over a year.

That's over three miles of darkness where people were getting killed, jumped, and various other things.

The city council hasn't done anything or anybody else with the city.

Also, as a dispensary uh manager, we also have problems with the dispensaries that are illegal in the area.

Several of our people have come in and said they've gotten very sick from a lot of them.

I've uh correspondent with the 77th precinct, and they said they would have money this year.

They still haven't done it, and these stores are still open.

And also in that area, the trash.

The trash is piling up on the streets, and it's all over the area.

This wouldn't be something that you would see in other areas.

We need to look at that and clean up the area so that we are better.

Thank you next speaker before the next speaker begins I'd like to call up a few more names Alexander Van Galen audit LA Clyde and Greg Bonette.

Good morning what would you like to speak to general public comment please okay so you have one minute go ahead.

Hello my name is Eric a photographer who's been documenting the city's response to ice for what'll be a year this weekend um that's led me to start attending the police commission meetings regularly so I'm here today to uh just say something quick about um council member hurado's motion uh about flock safety first thank you um I think it is wild how quickly this stuff has grown um and I think it's very important that we educate the community about the fact that this private company has a network of cameras all around the country that they can track everyone's move every move.

So I did want to come here and say that the motion seems good to me but I worry that it doesn't go far enough.

I want to make sure that you guys know that back at the police commission in April they said that they were planning to use funds from Project Blue Light which I believe was a grant approved back in 2023 that they would sign a new contact with Flock.

But they also said they were looking into similar programs with Motorola and Axiom.

So the motion seems written around Flock but it's the very idea of these privately owned AI surveillance companies that is an unconscionable invasion.

So it's not just Flock it's it's all bad so thanks.

Thank you next speaker good morning what would you like to speak to uh general public comment okay so you have one minute go ahead all right Gerard Wright with the greater Los Angeles Realtors uh just the conversations around SB 79 and housing production spurred me just to put a public comment in to talk about ULA three dead dangerous letters that has really hurt housing production as well as tax coffers to the city of Los Angeles thinking about uh all the housing production that could have been created which could have helped uh our right our our growing deficits and actually help curb a lot of that would be a great uh benefit to the city of Los Angeles I'm just thinking of what happened around downtown Los Angeles before measure ULA where a lot of mid-rise and high rise buildings were being constructed because it could pencil out same thing around the transit oriented development zones without needing SB 79 they were being built because it could be it could be affordable it could be penciled out it could actually be built and be productive so I just want to put that as food for thought uh as we carry along in the business of today but thank you so very much for your time and attention and congratulations to those council members who won yesterday.

Thank you next speaker.

Good morning good morning three minutes for the items and one of our general uh just for everybody the items that are open for the on the agenda are items 11 through 15.

Go ahead okay I'm going under the name smoke and scan it's my shout out to smoke and scan and you know you didn't call my name first so we're going by smoke and scan today but anyway um so let's start with the um the fire emergency thing um the the I I want to discuss it a little bit it's a fire and an emergency that's still going on because a somebody messed up and drained the reservoir somebody else messed up and didn't have the proper fire equipment ready um and somebody else messed up that uh they weren't even here for it so there are a lot of mess ups and then they're still messing up because people can't you know bit rebuild I mean I think they're able to rebuild like if they want low-income housing um buildings or whatever but people who live there their whole lives or whatever they can't rebuild so you guys have invented the current situation that we saw yesterday right I mean you guys are about because and I'm still on number one unless I have to get off of it.

You guys created that it's gonna be interesting to see what happens I think it should be a nice message to the mayor people are done.

So about the ones with the all the housing stuff, all the housing situations, like I said, there may be a new daddy, you know, um in a few months, right?

It's gonna be very interesting.

I can't wait.

I mean, I'm almost I I wanted just to see what's going on here.

City council is gonna be lit, it's gonna be so exciting.

And I just, you know, if it's if that happens, like so.

I I'm here for it.

I'll probably come like every single time you open up the doors.

It's gonna be funny.

But um, so I hope you guys are including the fact that you know that it could happen.

You should be including the um both candidates, uh, to all the discussions on housing.

So I can't tell what you're speaking to.

It sounds like general.

But the two there's two housing ones.

So there's the LHD resolutions item 15.

I'm gonna ask that you please stick to the agenda items, or I'm gonna move to general.

Go ahead.

That's what I'm saying.

Um, I am saying with these all these housing things that have money, both of the issues that are regarding housing, that you guys should be inviting a potential future mayor to these discussions before you put them on there, before they're on the agenda.

We know that you're probably inviting Bass to it, or she may be, you know, initiating it, but I am saying going forward with any housing um I you know uh agenda item, and I know I bet smoke and scan will agree with me.

They should invite both parties.

Now you've exhausted your one minute on that item on item 15.

Please move on to another item.

Okay, the next item is I love little league, love them.

Uh, you know, but you know, we're broke because um you guys mismanaged everything.

And so, you know, we could have let's invite the Dodgers to come and pay for little legs.

Let's really save our money and fix this city, and um, and do that, and you know, and as far as you know, you know, and there's gonna be a lot of changes.

You're and in fact, I think your boss may have been fired, uh, Mr.

City Attorney.

I don't know if that's on the agenda item.

Um, I don't even know if smoke and scan cares if it's on the agenda item, but I think your boss has been fired.

And we can go to five, four, three, two, one minute for the public.

Okay, here we go.

Okay, I'm here for the same thing.

Okay, you know, sometimes I hear you bring things, you know, bring children and what children are going through with the speaker today and stuff.

But what about Scientology's children and the victims of Scientology that I've been advocating?

Laura, she is a victim herself, it's been advocating for herself and others, and it's it's nothing.

Okay, no one hears anything.

And Mr.

Hugo, congratulations.

I guess that you, you know, you won your seat, it seems, but you know what?

You're not don't think that that means that you can get comfortable and and just act like nothing's going on.

Scientology held an event for three days, they held El Ron Hubbard Way hostage in your watch on your area, okay, without a permit, they had no permit.

What are you doing about it?

I mean, besides not looking at me or paying attention.

Besides that, are you gonna follow through and do anything?

Or are you the Scientology?

Um, are you their guy?

I am gonna vote.

I want anyone who is not like Mayor Bash sat with Scientology, she spoke for them.

What are you gonna go speak for them too?

Hugo, they you need to deal with the fact that they had no permit and hijacked a street for three days.

Do something.

And next speaker.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

I'm here for item five.

Okay, so item five is not open for public comment, but you can speak to it during general.

So you have one minute for general.

Go ahead.

Um for general.

Uh I support SB 79, and I will be back for item five uh when that's on the table.

So hold his time.

So you can speak to item five now during your one minute for general public comment if you would like.

I see.

Okay, yes.

Uh, I represent the uh ownership and applicant of item five.

Uh, which is respectful hall route at 1375 summit rich place.

I ask the city council deny the appeal.

Uh we uh the applicants uh and the ownership uh have agreed to all the conditions set forth in the approval, and uh thank you for your consideration.

Thank you.

Next speaker, good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Uh general public comment, please.

Okay, so you have one minute, go ahead.

Buenos días, good morning, everybody.

My name is Victoria Luz Gomez.

I am an organizer with the housing action coalition as well as a lifelong Angelino.

I first just want to start by acknowledging my fellow Latinos, Latinas, Monica, Hugo, Unisis, congratulations on your re-election.

I am proud to see some Latino representation in the council.

Um, I'm also here to talk about SB 79 implementation and urge this council to adopt the exhibit 2B recommendations.

Uh specifically, we encourage uh changes that allow for a low rise ordinance change and at grade parking.

Um it's time for us to adopt recommendations that allow for more housing units to be built and increase the feasibility of projects in our city.

There's a lot of politics at play with this, but I really encourage y'all to keep the people at center and think about what needs to be done to build more housing.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next speaker.

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

Kristen Moxon, Lara FM, and Pedro Ramirez.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Um I want to speak to item number 13 first.

Okay, and general or just the comment.

So you have one minute for item 13 and one minute for general.

Please begin with the item.

Go ahead.

Okay, so it says here uh relative to the special events ordinance, which provides that the city council may add or remove events from the list of citywide special events by motion.

I would like for you guys to really bring up the fact that Scientology should no longer be on this uh list of citywide special events.

Absolutely no reason.

For them to be on that means that you're giving them a way to recruit children, a way to recruit people from other countries using their R1 visa.

This is where we're talking about this city getting infiltrated.

And this is where we're asking you remove Scientology or any of its front groups, like the Dianetics or CCHR or psychiatric, uh, whatever these front groups are, which I've given you all pamphlets for, that needs to be removed from the list of citywide uh uh as a motion to be uh taken down.

Scientology is not allowed to have that.

Okay, now I'm gonna go to my public comment.

So, public comment.

This is a super important thing here.

This last week, you guys had uh the El Ron Harvard Way shut down with no permits.

We've been asking Hugo, you gotta pay attention to this.

This past weekend, El Ron Hubbard Way was shut down by Scientology, and then when the protesters that go there or the people who go to audit to show the city evidence, you got they had no permit.

The people that were normally there to harass the protesters were nowhere to be seen.

We found out later they had absolutely no permit.

So when does this stop?

We've been fighting this for three years.

We've given you books of children that were born and raised in this.

You have Karen Bass who continues to not speak about how horrible Scientology infiltrated her to be speaking on the stage, and yet you guys still don't speak up about the infiltration of Scientology.

It's corruptions, it's human trafficking, it's disconnection of mothers and children in Los Angeles.

Your time has expired.

Next speaker.

Next speaker.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Hello, people, general comment.

Okay, so you have one minute, go ahead.

Alright, thank you.

Hello, my name is Pedro Ramirez.

I am a best food worker here in LA County.

Um I don't really have a script other than just my fault.

I don't really have a script other than just like my lived experience and the way that I see it.

Um the system kind of just works on dependence.

Oh, it's no, it actually here's how it is.

I wrote this earlier.

The business model is dependent on instability.

Workers are kept below the benefit threshold, schedules change week to week, and the burden gets pushed onto workers' bodies, families, and public systems.

For the most part, it's how it feels.

When labor flexibility becomes priority over stability, unpredictability stops being an accident.

It becomes policy.

And again, it's how it feels.

So my personal thing is I ask and urge, please pass the first food work ordinance, fair work ordinance.

We like the ability to have our schedules continuously, you know, consistent, week over week.

So I can plan my life around that and not sporadically.

I'm an adult, I'd like to have my adult life.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next speaker.

Council president.

Those are all the names for public comment.

Alright, that concludes public comment for this morning's meetings.

Um Mr.

Clerk, what's before us?

The council may now vote on items 11 through 14.

Alright, let's open the roll on those items.

Close the roll, tabulate the vote.

13 ayes, and there's a request for item 14 to go forth with.

Without objection, that'll be the order.

What's next?

Item number one, called special by Councilmember Rodriguez for comments.

Councilmember Rodriguez.

Thank you.

Colleagues, most of us around this horseshoe have worked with our communities to address a number of nuisance properties.

And we know that the current process can be incredibly cumbersome with a number of delays from timelines that have to be met to ensure that we're meeting the legal obligations that are required before we can actually do anything that would help to protect many of the neighborhoods that are exposed to the public safety concerns that are often associated with these properties.

In my district, I have a significant property that also presented severe fire danger, and that was on Latoon Canyon.

And while we had been absolutely diligent working with the Department of Building and Safety and the City Attorney's Office, it's been years of coordinating and orchestrating efforts to clean up that property to mitigate all the public safety risks that it presents to the neighborhood.

I want to give special recognition to Charles Sewell and of course our city attorney Heidi Faltsein Soto for their assistance and support in helping to amend this ordinance that provides greater clarity, accountability, and certainty to how we address nuisance properties across the city.

Charles was very helpful and instrumental in helping to make these proposed amendments to this coordinated or to uh this ordinance.

I also want to thank the Department of Building and Safety for their work on these amendments that are before us today, because they have been important partners as we all know in helping to address a number of nuisance properties across the city.

The amended ordinance before us today makes several important improvements, establishing stricter and clearer deadlines for the property owners to complete abatement and provides the city with explicit authority to utilize contract services and seek reimbursement from property owners when necessary.

Contract work is often required for the tasks that the city is not equipped to perform, such as hazardous materials removal.

Among the key changes that are presented in this new ordinance, we're accelerating the timeline to commence abatement from 30 days to 15 days.

We're accelerating the timeline to complete abatement work from 90 days to 45 days.

It provides that if deadlines are not met, the city may order a building to be vacated, initiate enforcement actions, and take steps to abate the property and correct deficiencies, including demolition of vacant structures when warranted.

It expands the definition of building and clarifies that surrounding areas may also be subject to abatement.

It clarifies that the department, not the property owner, may seek to correct deficiencies through a notice of intention.

It authorizes other city departments and government agencies to perform abatement work at the city's request.

It allows the city to recover abatement costs incurred by the department's agencies and contractors performing abatement work.

It also authorizes building and safety to declare a property a nuisance, a public nuisance, and proceed with abatement when a property has previously been subject to planning department enforcement and has failed to comply with the order to discontinue or revoke a use.

Colleagues, these reforms, I believe, are important to not just achieving greater public safety outcomes for residents, but most importantly, helping to reduce sometimes the number of calls that are associated for first responders to have to go to some of these properties and respond to issues at these properties.

But more importantly, it helps to make greater efficiencies with staff time in helping to relieve ourselves of these nuisance properties and in many cases eliminating a source of blight in many of our residential neighborhoods.

And so I ask for your I vote and support the adoption of the revised ordinance dated May 22nd, 2026.

Thank you.

Thank you so much for your comments and for your work on this important issue, important to every district.

Councilmember Rodriguez.

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

139.

All right, what's next?

The council may now vote on items four and fifteen called special by Councilmember Price for recusal.

Alright, we'll give Council Member Price an opportunity to recuse on these items.

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

Alright, what's next?

Council has motions for posting and referral.

They are posted and referred announcements members.

Mr.

McCosker.

Thank you very much, Mr.

President.

I have a fun and exciting announcement to make, and I think we even have a picture.

This morning, I attended one of the Verde Exchange events, many of us have participated in, and as is usual, David Abel brought the Verde Exchange down to the harbor just to talk about issues involving the blue economy and our decarbonization of the port.

And we had an opportunity this morning to take the maiden voyage.

I couldn't jump on, I had to jump off and get to council, and they're probably out cruising right now on the El Escudo.

The El Escudo is a unique, one-of-a-kind, only one in the world ferry that is hybrid and capable of running entirely on electric for up to two hours and can transport 350 passengers as a ferry.

It is going to be used for whale watching, and it's going to be used for uh tours throughout the harbor, which is a regular occurrence, but it is an example of a harbor craft, the first in the world of its size, harbor craft that is entirely zero emission for up to two hours and does real work within the harbor, including tours and again whale watching.

It is still in testing right now, but it's an example of the work that we all did as a labor community, a business community, government agencies from AQMD to the city to make a commitment that we are going to convert engines for watercraft and for equipment in our terminals and ultimately for the ships coming and going and the trucks leaving our terminals to get to a zero emissions port.

And this is example one.

This is the this is an incredible, not a starting point, but an incredible step towards getting all of our harbor craft to zero admissions.

And again, it is important for us to acknowledge when the city does something really, really well.

And by really well, only one of its kind in the world.

And it's right here in the Port of Los Angeles.

And it's run by Harbor Breeze Cruises.

I want to give props to Captain Dan, Captain Dan Salas, born and raised in Wilmington, and he owns the company, and he works closely with the AQMD and the Port of Los Angeles and other funders.

And here we have it.

And when you come on down to the port, and when we're doing ferries, the Janicean ferries back and forth at the uh for the Olympics between San Pedro and Long Beach, I hope we'll be riding this boat.

Right on.

Right on.

Thank you so much, Mr.

McCosker.

That deserves a big round of applause.

For our city, uh, Councilmember Park.

Thank you, Council President and colleagues.

Um, I wanted to take a minute and welcome to our chamber, Ashley Wiggins.

Um, Ashley is joining us from London where he's built a very distinguished career as a filmmaker and storyteller, and his latest work, Barefoot to Hollywood, explores the remarkable life and legacy of Marilyn Monroe.

Uh, we were honored to premiere his documentary um last weekend at the Bundy Triangle Park that was an international premiere and first screening of the movie here in Los Angeles, and then we wrapped it up with a screening of some Like It Hot, because in case you hadn't heard Monday was Marilyn Monroe's 100th birthday, and so it has been a real journey uh the production of this movie back and forth between London and Los Angeles.

Ashley has been here with us over the course of the last week, so I just wanted to take a moment to thank him for the art history and really documenting the enduring legacy.

So Ashley, if you want to say a few words, I'd love to give you the mic just real quick.

Sure, thank you very much.

It's an absolute pleasure to be here.

I've been watching Los Angeles on the Silver Screen and the television my whole life.

So to actually be here and film as well as have a premier here is a dream come true.

So I want to thank the city of Los Angeles, the people of Los Angeles, and Tracy Park.

Thank you very much.

Thank you very much.

Thank you so much.

Thank you, Council President.

All right.

Any other announcements, members?

Alright, seeing no other announcements, I'll ask everyone in the chamber to rise in reverence for adjourning motions.

And I'll look to my right for adjourning motions.

Seeing none, we'll go to Councilmember Hutt on my left.

Thank you so much, Mr.

President.

Colleagues, today I ask that we adjourn council in the honor of Dr.

William A.

Bill Burke, a beloved husband, father, grandfather, and one of Los Angeles' most dedicated civic leaders.

Bill was born on May 13th, 1939.

He earned a bachelor's degree from Miami University in Ohio and a doctorate of education from the University of Massachusetts.

He served in the U.S.

Air Force before embarking on a remarkable career in business and public service.

In 1972, Burke founded the American Health Care Delivery Corporation and later served as chairman of the board at the Genesis International, a Los Angeles-based real estate and mining development holding company.

From 1981 to 1984, he supervised the planning and construction of mining concessions in Liberia for the world mining development.

Bill is best remembered as the founder of the Los Angeles Marathon.

Inspired by his service as a commissioner of tennis during the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.

He created what grew into one of the nation's five largest marathons.

His philosophy was simple and enduring.

The marathon was for the runners in the community, putting the emphasis on the community.

In 1993, then California State Assembly Speaker Willie Brown appointed Burke to the South Coast Air Quality Management District Governing Board, where he served until his retirement in 1921, Laura, 2021, including 23 years as chairman, making him the longest serving member.

His initiatives there include the creation of environmental justice program, the asthma and outdoor air quality consortium, the brain and lung tumor and air pollution foundation, and a helping hand initiative to protect both health and jobs during an economic downturn.

Burke also served as the state's Fish and Game Commission, wildlife conservative conservatives board, California Coastal Commission, Air Resource Board, and the Los Angeles Fire Commission.

He was also appointed Council General to the Republic of Ma.

Yet for all his accomplishments, Bill was most proud of his family.

He was a devoted partner to his wife Yvonne, a loving father to his daughters Christina and Autumn, and a grand a proud grandfather who delighted in every family gathering, milestone, and moments spent together.

Burke is survived by his wife of more than 53 years, former Congresswoman and Los Angeles County Supervisor Yvonne Brathway Burke, and his two daughters, former State Assemblywoman Audumn Burke, and Christina Burke Adams.

Our prayers are with his family and friends and all who loved him.

May he rest in everlasting power.

Thank you.

Mr.

Price.

Thank you, Councilwoman.

I too would be joined to this.

Brother Burke was really a renaissance man.

He was really a Renaissance man.

The arts, music, you know, we know about his interest in sports, not just the marathon, but in sailing and fishing, and was always there to provide words of advice and encouragement to elected and want to be elected and has been elected.

He's always uh welcome.

So it's gonna be with a great deal of sorrow that we uh that we adjourned his honor.

He was a great man, a great spirit, and as you said for so many years, was the power behind the throne.

Uh, both in Congress and then on the board.

He was really a power that uh made her powerful.

So he'll be missed.

Thank you.

Thank you so much, Councilmember Rodriguez.

Thank you, Councilmember Hutt for that beautiful adjournment.

You know, uh we're watching some of these incredible legacy titans, these civic leaders that spanned just you know so much, as uh Mr.

Price talked about from the arts and sports and uh just an incredible influence of positive change that was it was among those that was celebrated and welcomed for helping to bring these pieces together, and it's a reminder of how we still need to work to cultivate that because it was individuals like Bill Burke and so many others of that generation of that ilk that did so much positive in leading change in working with elected officials to really do some incredible legacy work that we still celebrate today.

So um, and uh I I know how just what uh what a painful loss this is for the family.

Uh, and I thank you for this adjournment and um you know it's just a reminder that I really would love for all of us to continue to identify individuals like Bill, that we can leave a lasting legacy and acknowledgement for the contributions that they've made through the dedication of the squares uh to give people the flowers that they deserve to be getting before we have to do so posthumously, and so um, but thank you for that beautiful adjournment.

May he rest in peace.

Thank you so much, Councilmember uh Rodriguez.

I'd also uh like to be added uh to this adjourning uh motion is Mr.

Burke is uh in many ways for me the consummate Angelino uh giant in terms of his accomplishments.

I remember the first time I met him, they were like, You're going to meet the person that created the LA Marathon.

So I'm thinking, like, oh my gosh.

And when you got in his presence, it was like you were in the barber shop and just sitting around talking and uh did not put on the slightest air at all.

Not one bit, uh, and would make everybody in the room uh feel welcome.

But when it was time to get down to business and time to be serious, he had no peer.

Uh I remember being in a room where he was getting ribbed a little bit for his role on AQMD, and people are like, Well, you're just there to make deals, and you're a businessman, and he stood up and he said, Let me tell you why I'm on the AQMD.

And he described being in the neo-NATO ICU, and seeing babies born with congenital lung and heart conditions caused directly by the mother's and father's exposure to dirty air.

And none of us ever said a word to him again about his environmental credentials, uh, even though he was a stone coal businessman by by any description.

And so um, no small thing that uh he's the husband of uh supervisor Yvonne Burke and the dad of uh assemblywoman Autumn Burke, uh also uh the the role of a Renaissance man.

And so um it is like Councilmember Rodriguez said, important to celebrate uh who he is to us, uh, but what this city can produce to, you know, somebody who got in the car and drove here from Cleveland as a young man to make a life for himself.

Uh and so with that, we'll adjourn in the memory of Bill Burke.

Thank you so much, everybody.