For safety.

We're doing it to keep the roadway safe so you can make it home.

That pothole repair can't wait because it is a safety hazard.

That guard row repair can't wait.

It is a safety hazard, and it's what's gonna keep all of us alive and safe so we can go home at the end of the day.

So you pure Mexicano, all right.

Good morning, everyone, and thank you all for being here for what I call my annual Cinco de Mayo celebration where we come together to uplift and honor Chicano leaders and reclaim the significance of this holiday.

Cinco de Mayo has been traditionally been seen and confused as being Mexican Independence Day, but it's not.

Historically, what it is is a symbolic day that was born here in the United States to showcase the winning of the Battle of Puebla, which shows the resiliency of a very small Mexican army that beat a very well-funded French army.

So over the years of history, it has been turned into a very commercialized uh way to uh cater to the Mexican market.

But what we want to do is show that we're more than just that.

We're not just the consumers for some corporations to shoot for, but we really do contribute to the uh fabric of what is the American story, and that is why we are doing this today.

Today we brought together a diverse and dynamic group of honorees, Marcos Reynoso.

He is the owner to Chonsi Chorizo.

I just really want to serve really good food to my community and really good pricing, so everybody can enjoy, not just the one person or the people that have money.

I want everybody to enjoy.

What he puts in the chorizo is something that actually you can't really find anywhere unless you go closer to the border or actually cross.

It's really important to celebrate Cinco de Mayo because you always need to remember where you come from, where your tradition is, what to truly celebrate.

Congratulations.

Thank you for being part of helping us redefine Cinco de Mayo.

Daniel Duno Lopez.

He is a content creator, podcaster, and comedian comedian who proudly represents his Mexican heritage and Echo Park roots.

Today, he's touring the country and selling out shows.

We are proud to celebrate his success and his voice.

I grew up down the street, literally on first in between tempo.

I grew up walking distance.

I used to walk through here.

I would have never in a hundred years thought that I'll be here.

Um, 26 years old, I'm living life, I'm amazed.

Thank you guys for supporting, and shout out the city of Los Angeles.

I love you guys so much.

Thank you.

The Chicano movement here in Los Angeles is thriving.

It's probably the biggest and best it's ever been.

And uh there's areas that we could be in a little bit more, like in the in the movie industry.

We got the music unlocked, we got art on lock, we got food unlocked, and um daily place out, see us shining to our full potential is in the movie industry.

He is an internationally celebrated photographer, director, and urban lifestyle or entrepreneur whose work has captured the essence of who we are.

I represent the city to the fullest and take it with me on my back everywhere I go.

And thank you very much.

Can I have Dr.

Amala Armenta and Jose Loyac join me?

Dr.

Amal Armenta is an associate professor of urban planning at UCLA and the director of the Latino Policy and Politics Institute.

Mexican Americans and Chicanos have been part of LA before LA was even part of the United States.

And so we are leaders in every sector from art to entrepreneurship to academia to universities where I work.

Um our schools are full of amazing Mexican American students, leaders, Latinos, and of all groups.

We're gonna grow up and make a difference.

And Dr.

So more than 50% of the Los Angeles population identifies as being from immigration descent, many of them being Latinos and Chicanos.

So what I'm hoping to do is to emphasize that our stories are complex and they're beautiful and very much part of the American fabric, and it's here in Los Angeles where we set the tone to what that identity is, the battleship Iowa is a remarkable feat of engineering, stretching nearly three football fields long and measuring a hundred and eight feet across.

Today, from its home in the port of Los Angeles, this historic vessel welcomes visitors from throughout Southern California, connecting new generations to stories that helped shape our nation.

But the Iowa is more than a museum.

It has become a gathering place for the community, serving as a living link between Los Angeles maritime past and its vibrant future.

That spirit of connection was also on display as the San Pedro Chamber of Commerce celebrated its 100th anniversary by offering free harbor boat tours, giving Angelinos a rare opportunity to experience the nation's busiest port from the water and see firsthand the scale of the waterfront that powers so much of the region's economy.

We're turning a hundred years old, and as part of that celebration, the Port of Los Angeles is very proud to be hosting free harbor boat tours to the general public.

Good morning.

Welcome.

I'm here for the free harbor boat tour from the port of Los Angeles.

My favorite part about it is that they give us so much history.

The speaker on the boat tells us so much about the shipping terminals and about all the trade that goes on from different countries.

It all comes in through the port of Los Angeles.

It's a great family event, it's very safe.

I actually work at the port, so it's just nice to see it from you know this point of view.

It's great to be among community because I think it gives us a great opportunity for us to connect in the community to learn how every day the Port of LA impacts us, both through economy, through the environment, and you know, just learning about the great things that we do every day.

We especially invite the public to join us on these harbor tours because what they will get to see is an active port, whether we have cranes that are in movement, we have bars that are happening, we have just a whole slew of things that they get to be in front of, they get to hear about.

Somebody on the boat is talking about the important role that the port of Los Angeles plays in our country's movement of commerce.

I think it is very important for both the community and Port of Los Angeles to get involved with each other.

And part of this is this maritime park that shows how community can benefit from collaboration with the Port of Los Angeles.

Hopefully, we continue to have these yearly because they're just a great experience.

This tour is the most fun I've ever been on in Los Angeles.

The water is so calm, you really just feel like you're on a gentle cruise, and it's really a nice family event.

We look forward to coming again next year.

Good morning.

On behalf of the United States Navy, I want to extend thank you to the city of Los Angeles for welcoming our Navy into port for Fleet Week LA.

To everyone here in uniform this morning, thank you for your service to our country.

We are incredibly grateful for your sacrifice, your discipline, and your willingness to serve something greater than yourselves.

We welcome you to the city of Los Angeles.

We thank you for the sacrifice of your service.

But more importantly, we thank you for your incredible dedication to preserving everything that this country represents for more for approaching now 250 years.

God bless you all, and thank you.

Thank you, Councilwoman.

And now we have a very special performance brought to us by Matthew Gordon and the Navy Southwest Band.

So I'm with Navy Band Southwest, and we are supporting the 10th annual Los Angeles Fleet Week this week in Los Angeles.

This is the best part of our job, and we just love connecting with audiences around the Southwest region.

We're looking to just play music, have a great time, talk to people, hear their stories, and share our stories, and just celebrate our Navy tradition.

These sailors and marines, uh, they do represent the very best that our country has to offer.

Uh, we are fortunate to have them here in Portland Los Angeles.

Many of their colleagues are deployed overseas right now in very challenging times, and uh they soon will be deployed.

Uh, this is an opportunity for us to thank them, and also for us to extend our thanks uh to the citizens in Los Angeles.

Many of these uh sailors and marines are the sons and daughters of Angelinos.

Um, we just want to celebrate those tight connections.

Planning that goes into Fleet Week starts 364 days before the actual events.

And Wednesday night, the Rear Admiral welcomed us to the USS Essex at the Port of Los Angeles.

We were greeted by the Pacific Southwest Band, who also played today at Los Angeles City Council, bringing the spirit and talent of the arts to the USC services and the City of Los Angeles.

Such a great day.

On behalf of a very grateful and proud City of Los Angeles, congratulations.

When the battleship Iowa was an active service, it functioned as a floating city at sea, complete with its own bakery, baker shop, tailor shop, and more, supporting thousands of sailors living and working aboard this 45,000-ton warship.

Today, adopted at the port of Los Angeles, it continues its legacy in a different way.

Welcoming visitors year-round and serving as a dynamic centerpiece of the San Pedro waterfront.

During Fleet Week, the Iowa comes alive again as a gathering point for service members and the public.

One of the highlights is the spirited galleys at sea cooking competition, where Navy chefs showcase their skills in fast-paced culinary battles right on the pier, turning the historic ship and surrounding waterfront into an interactive celebration of service and tradition.

The same harbor also plays host to one of the largest public waterfront celebrations in the region, drawing crowds to experience military demonstrations, ship tours, and hands-on exhibits that connect the community directly with today's active duty forces.

It's a powerful reminder that here in Los Angeles, history isn't just preserved, it's still actively being made along the waterfronts.

It's happening and it's on its way.

Just as you experience in New Orleans and Montreal and Montreux.

Those cities have been doing that for decades.

And LA has just been behind.

But our time is now, and so we're really excited about it.

I reside in California.

I reside in Van Nuys, and I'm so glad to be here.

This is a wonderful thing, especially now today, especially with jazz.

It's America's original art form.

And I think more people should be getting exposed to some world-class musicians, many of them that live here in Los Angeles, with all these different artists from across the world.

You get a taste of everything from jazz, New Orleans.

You got people from Cuba, Indonesia.

I'm looking more forward to going to the different places.

Like they said, it's going to be on the beach, it's going to be after dark, there's going to be the carnival festival in the streets.

We're at the Inkwell.

The Inkwell is a location that we obviously were intentional about choosing for the announcement today.

This is a location where predominantly black and brown families were literally forced to bring their families to this passageway if they just simply wanted to have a day on the beach.

So we thought it was important to come full circle and announce this historic festival that really does have at its core.

Brought to America in bondage.

Come to Congo Square New Orleans and through bondage and terror create this incredible sound called jazz, and where it has now impacted the entire world.

Especially because of the history from it, how it developed.

You know, we had spirit shows to slaves developed the spirit juice to help them through their hard times.

All of our ancestors ran through such bitter hardship against them.

We need to really put this on a high, high pedestal in the world of music and in our lives because we can learn so much from it.

And it helps us when we go through hard times as well.

And it inspires us when we have those happy times.

And is never done the same twice.

That's the thing about jazz.

You know, you can improvise, you can put whatever you're feeling in that moment on stage into what you show the audience and you hit them in their heart.

And I'm gonna wrap it with this.

I'm gonna say that 75% of our tickets are free.

75% of our tickets are free.

Everyone on our stage are Grammy Award winners.

They're very international, and we're gonna keep building from here.

13 Nations and Climate.

Go to our website, get tickets now.

So are you ready?

We are on the beautiful grounds of Banning Museum, and we are celebrating as part of Fleet Week, the Wilmington reception.

We are welcoming our sailors and our Marines to Wilmington.

We have food and games and entertainment for them, and just saying thank you for their service.

This is my first time in LA, but I'm stationed in San Diego.

So it's I like the environment.

It's real, it's real laid back and chill.

They got free food, drink, all for it.

Navy pride, heavy day.

There you go.

While we're here, we're celebrating America's 250th birthday.

An awesome celebration.

We're glad that we could take that celebration and do that as part of the 10th anniversary of LA Fleet Week.

These are great, great anniversaries.

A lot of fun.

Have a great time.

Well, I am so happy to see that we have everyone here at Banning Museum, the home of Finey's Banny.

And we are excited as a community to celebrate and again thank them for the sacrifices that they do for us so that we can enjoy Liberty Psych Today.

It means a lot truly for me to be performing around all these people because I especially grew up in the Los Angeles area.

So getting to play music growing up here and now doing it full-time as a profession is amazing and truly a blessing.

We appreciate their sacrifice, their family sacrifice.

Everybody contributes in the service that these people provide, and we just want to take a moment to say thank you to them.

We should thank them every single day.

But this particular week is a week where we celebrate them and we thank them and we uh give them some food and we welcome them into the community here in Wilmington and San Pedro.

Built to what stands some of the most hazardous conditions out sea, the battleship Iowa stands as a powerful reminder of the precision, discipline, and preparation required to operate safely in extreme environments.

Commissioned in 1943 during World War II, the battleship Iowa is more than 80 years old and remains one of the most iconic battleships ever built.

It was once among the fastest and most powerful battleships in the world, capable of reaching speeds over 30 knots.

And today, permanently docked at the port of Los Angeles.

It continues to draw visitors from across the region as part of the LA waterfront experience.

That connection between history, industry, and community is especially visible during Fleet Week when the waterfront transforms into a citywide destination.

Service members, active duty members, and thousands of guests gather along the port for shift tours, demonstrations, and public events, making the harbor and the battleship Iowa one of the largest celebrations of maritime service on the West Coast.

Nobody knows what we do.

I think we're a victim of our own success because the electricity just flows and it works.

People flip on the light switches and they enjoy necessities and conveniences, and nobody really focuses on how we get that electricity there.

Well, these are the folks that get it there.

So we're here today to celebrate the electrical line workers, our linemen.

This is our 34th uh line worker rodeo.

We have 10 teams from the department that are here competing.

Show the kids and the wives what we do.

Well, I think it's really important to celebrate the work that they do and actually see what it takes to run a power grid and keep it reliable and keep it delivering energy to the citizens of Los Angeles.

This is my first rodeo, uh about a couple more weeks, and then I'll be having my climbing certificate and then hopefully getting a job on LADWP or any of the other utilities.

I wanted to learn a skill that couldn't be taken away from me.

I feel like nowadays a lot of things going towards AI and being alignment, it's something that could um have a long career with.

It's hard work, but it's definitely a fulfilling job to have.

We're very proud of what we do.

We're very proud of our employees, and we love to showcase that.

I've met people here who they worked for DWP, they've retired, and now their kids work for DWP.

You know, people bring their kids or grandkids.

You're looking at probably three or four generations of electrical line workers that are here.

The little babies and the strollers are gonna end up climbing these poles in the next 25 years.

Today, all 104 of our 106 fire stations are open to the public.

Celebrating fire service day.

We also have community events happening throughout the city where we invite the public to come meet their firefighters and get to know their fire stations.

So not only is it bring the community together, it brings them a little knowledge of what the fire department does and what it has to offer, and it incites it gets kids excited about being firefighters and policemen and learning.

So here at Fire Station 112, we have the largest boat that LAFD has to offer.

We have four honorary fire chiefs that we recognize today, one for each one of our geographic bureaus.

Do we have organizations here represented such as LA Port Police?

We have the CERT team, which is a community response team.

We also have join LFD.org, which is our own recruitment office that helps kids in the community become firefighters for the Los Angeles Fire Department.

We have all of our apparatus, our fire engines, our fire trucks, our ambulances, climb on board, touch things, get to ask questions.

You know the most important thing that I'm looking for from my young firefighters is passion.

It's passion and that that community service aspect.

Always support local, and uh you can't go wrong.

Fire stations are in every single community here in Los Angeles, and this is the time where we actually celebrate the partnerships, the friendships, and just all the hard work that our firefighters do to serve our community here in Los Angeles.

Fleet Week isn't the only thing making waves here in San Pedro.

The Port of Los Angeles, America's busiest seaports, has more than 7500 acres of waterfront and handles thousands of cargo ships each year, serving as a critical gateway connecting Los Angeles to the global economy.

Anchored in the heart of it all is the battleship Iowa, one of only four Iowa class battleships ever built for the U.S.

Navy.

And at its peak, the ship carried nearly twenty seven hundred sailors and officers operating as a fully self-contained floating city, complete with its own onboard support systems, designed for long deployment at sea.

It was also armed with nine 16-inch naval guns, among the most powerful ever installed on a battleship, built for long-range precision and unmatched firepower in its era.gov forward slash TV and follow LA City on Instagram, Facebook, X, and YouTube.

Until next time, step aboard, set sail, and enjoy everything that Los Angeles has to offer.

We schedule a meeting of your Los Angeles City Council.

Today is Tuesday, the ninth day of June in the year 2026.

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

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

Blumenfield, Harris Dawson, Hernandez, Hutt, Herado, Lee, McCosker, Nazarian, Padilla, Park, Price, Raman, Rodriguez, Sotomartinez, Yaroslavsky, 11 members present in a quorum, Mr.

President.

First order of business.

Approval of the minutes of June 5, 2026.

Alright, Councilmember Price moves, Councilmember Hutt seconds.

What's next?

Commendatory resolutions for approval.

Councilmember McCosker moves.

Councilmember Park, seconds.

What's next?

Mr.

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

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

Thank you.

Please stand, face the flag.

Right hand over your heart, ready to go.

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

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

Alright, Madam Clerk, let's run through our agenda.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

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

A motion is required for item eight.

Items nine through twenty-two are items for which public hearings have not been held.

Ten votes are required for consideration.

Alright, without objection, those items are before us.

Now is the time for specials.

I have uh councilmember Hutt on the queue.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

I'd like to call item five special for comments.

Alright, five for comments.

Councilmember Blumentfield.

Uh item ten for an amendment, technical amendment.

All right.

Councilmember McCosker.

Thank you very much, Mr.

President.

I'd like to continue item six, one week to uh Tuesday, June 16th, please.

All right, Tuesday one six.

All right, Councilmember Padilla.

I'd like to call item eight special for questions, please.

All right, eight for questions.

Councilmember Rodriguez.

Item 22 for an amendment.

Two two for an amendment.

All right, any other specials members?

Going once, going twice.

All right.

Uh Madam Clerk, given that, what items are available for votes at this time?

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

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

Close the roll.

All right, what's next?

Would the council like to move on to public comment?

Alright, we would like to move on to public comment, but before that, I want to uh yield the floor to council member park of the 11th council district.

Thank you, Council President and colleagues.

It is my absolute privilege and pleasure to get to welcome to our council changers chambers this morning some very, very special guests.

The incredible YMCA teen advisory council from the Pacific Palisades.

And we're really excited to have you all here with us today.

I think you all know that the last year and a half has been incredibly difficult for the Pacific Palisades, and these young people are certainly no exception.

They have stepped up during this extraordinarily difficult time to share their perspectives, to offer their thoughts on future programming.

Of course, the Palisades YMCA was lost in the fire.

This is a collaboration between the Metropolitan Y of Los Angeles and a really incredible local uh community group, Team Palisades that has put together this extraordinary opportunity for our young students here.

So I want to just welcome them and thank you so much for your continued leadership.

You all continue to inspire me and the work that I do every single day.

So thank you for being with us this morning.

So much, Councilmember Park, and welcome to your Los Angeles City call.

Mr.

City Attorney.

Yes, Mr.

President.

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

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

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 are 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 nine through twenty-two.

So again, the items open for public comment on the agenda today are items nine through twenty-two.

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

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

I have a couple more announcements.

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

Finally, in order to help us accommodate as many people as possible and 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 to speak.

The order in which names are called is at random.

That is to say it is randomly generated.

So again, please wait until you hear the name that you signed up under, called allowed to speak.

Thank you.

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

Sam Brown, Denora Alvarado, Louis Morales, Cajo, Gloria Martinez, and Ariana.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Good morning.

I'm speaking on 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.

Go ahead.

Thank you.

Good morning.

My name is Cajo Maida, and I'm on an attorney with public counsel here for item five.

We are a legal services nonprofit organization offering free legal services to low-income folks throughout LA City and LA County, many of whom are small businesses operating in this city.

First, we want to thank Council members Herado, Hernandez, and Hutt for introducing a motion today to create an anti-harassment ordinance and urge the other council members to support this motion.

Our organization serves many small businesses in LA, and we are seeing firsthand how many of them face harassment from commercial landlords, but are left without any protections or remedies.

Commercial landlords refuse to make necessary repairs, unfairly evict tenants, and impose excessive fret increases, making it impossible for the businesses to continue business and serve their communities.

Unlike residential tenants, commercial tenants have very limited legal protections, and they deserve basic protections and stu and stability, which is what a commercial anti-harassment ordinance would provide.

Thank you.

Next speaker.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Um, Samuel Brown Vasquez on general public comment.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Okay.

Council members, I'm here today because I'm uh concerned about what is essentially a land grab.

You have special interest groups, PETA and Last Chance for Animals, which don't even believe in owning pets, arguing that the city council should adopt a policy that bans rodeo.

However, two years ago, we already litigated this issue.

It was sent back to committee where it's languished and it's just been sitting there because it's not a high policy priority for the city of LA.

However, this does impact us, and it impacts us because we care about these animals, and we come from a cultural background that values and really relies on working with the land in the spirit of Emiliano Zapata and the Mexican revolutionaries that you know waged uh the independence and against the dictatorship.

We see a new type of fascism being imposed, which is uh essentially crediting all people that do rodeo as animal abusers.

That's not true.

That's just there's not supported by the fact.

Speaker, your time has expired.

Next speaker.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Hi, public comment.

Okay.

Uh before you begin, feel free to adjust our microphone if you would like.

So you have one minute for general.

Go ahead.

Perfect.

Um hi everyone, my name is Ariana.

I would like to I would like the Arts Parks and Rec Committee to agendize the rodeo ban.

And when the rodeo ban is before you, the city council, I would like you to please vote in support of the rodeo ban.

PBR's biggest sponsor is US border patrol, and with the ice raids, this is something for us to be aware of as we are all living beings on this earth.

Pain is universal.

Um, my own culture commits animal cruelty and exploitation under the guise of tradition.

And I completely denounce those actions because any injustice should not stand, no matter if it's part of our society or our culture.

We have used tradition to defend injustices in our history as human beings.

Um, and we've evolved, and so I'm asking us also to do the same.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Next speaker.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

A general public comment.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Hello, everybody.

My name is Gloria Martinez, and I'm one of the officers at UTLA.

And we're here today because UTLA stands in favor of the council files 36-0638 to explore a future ordinance giving LA residents like doctor recipients and green cultural green card holders the opportunity to vote in City Council in school board elections.

As a union that represents 38,000 educators in LA, it's about time that we allow families to have a say in school board elections.

Many of our students come from immigrant families.

Their families contribute financially to the city, and they are interwoven into a complex system that does not allow their voice to be heard.

LAUSD serves thousands of students and their families are impacted daily by the decisions that the school board makes.

This directly impacts the budgets at their school sites at their children and the services that their children receive.

It impacts the schools that their children attend, and it will even impact who thank you.

And just an announcement for everyone.

So after you're done speaking, uh if you would enter from your left-hand side of the council chambers and exit to your right, uh that would help us keep the flow going.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Hi, my name is Dina.

I would like to make a general public comment.

Okay.

So we have one minute.

Go ahead.

One minute, okay.

So is my commentary.

I'd like to comment about fast food.

Adelante.

I am a fast food worker.

I've been working at Carl's Junior for the last three years as a cook.

And I'm here to ask for your support in supporting more than the 50,000 fast food workers in LA to provide know your rights trainings.

We ask that this training be uh mandatory and that it's in person so that we can know our rights.

Because these trainings have helped me to know my rights at the workplace.

And I've also been able to advocate myself for myself since I do know my rights when my boss wasn't allowing me any sick days.

Because whether it were for my kids who are sick or some other sick relative, my boss told me that I could not get paid sick days.

So thank you for your coming in.

Your time has expired, but if I could have the interpreters make an announcement aloud to the room, please.

So this goes for the last speaker and anyone else who runs out of time to speak.

So if you run out of time to speak and you would like to leave additional written public comment, you can do so at la councilcomment.com.

Again, that's la councilcomment.com.com.

And you can find that URL at the top of every council agenda or by doing a quick internet search.

Thank you.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

I understand.

That is obliterating family owned businesses all across the globe.

Small family owned legacy businesses that have been passed down from generation to generation.

They're disappearing.

Why?

Due to the rich system that removed the protections that separated commercial and investment banking.

This has to do with the Glass Seagull Act.

We asked that the city council rise up and support the Tahoe ordinance.

I'm also in here in solidarity, opposing any band having to do with the rodeo.

It is animal washing.

It is a large land grab.

When you look at those who own horses and you look at their trails, these are international corporations destroying what is a part of Barutz in California.

So I'm here to also support all the vaqueros in the room.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Uh General.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Good morning, Council.

My name is Sam Carlin, Union Representative with Teamsters Local 952.

I'm here in solidarity with all Starbucks and fast food workers in Los Angeles.

It shouldn't matter what industry you're employed in in LA.

All workers deserve basic rights.

The fast food fair work ordinance must be agendized with the economic development committee and passed immediately.

Enough dragging our feet.

These workers deserve basic folks.

Please get it agendized and let's get this moving.

Thank you, next speaker.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

General comment.

Okay, so we have Larry.

I have a message and it's clear.

Amen your ways, California.

Amen your ways, Los Angeles, and return back to God Almighty.

I'm a retired firefighter, and I came up here to pray for your county.

The Lord bless you and keep you.

The Lord make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you.

The Lord lift up his continence upon you and give you peace.

Shalom, Salam.

So they shall put my name on the children of Israel, and I will bless them.

And again, I say upon this state and upon America, amend your crooked ways and turn back to Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

God bless you, and may his face shine upon you.

Thank you, next speaker.

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

Ernesto Medina, Greenspan, Yenet Martinez and Memphis.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Uh good morning.

My name is Sykes Campbell, and I would like to make a general comment.

Okay.

So you have one minute for general, and if you want to get a little closer to the microphone so we can hear you, that would be great.

Go ahead.

You have one minute.

Sure.

Uh good morning.

My name is Sykes, and I'm a seven-year partner at Starbucks.

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

Being able to know my schedule ahead of time and take an additional hours would give me consistency I need to maintain and plan my life.

With management changing schedules constantly, I currently do not have the basic confidence that anyone requires for rest and to joy and to enjoy time with friends and family.

Starbucks brags about its great benefits, but far too many of us don't meet the 20 hour threshold required to access these benefits.

It's not because we don't want to work, it's because Starbucks manipulates our schedules.

Right now we have no guarantee what our hours are scheduled with our schedules consistently changing.

It's difficult to plan child care, school, or second jobs to be able to afford to live here in Los Angeles.

I urge you to stand by the 50,000 fast food workers fueling the city's economy.

Join us in improving our lives and communities.

Please support and ensure the fast food fair work and ordinance is agendized in committee without further delay.

Thank you.

Thank you, next speaker.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Uh general comment.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Hi, my name is Joseph Rondu, speaking on behalf of people for the ethical treatment of animals.

Los Angeles is known for being a forward-thinking city.

We lead on issues that matter, and we don't wait to do the right thing.

I've seen rodeos in action.

Animals wait.

Animals being pushed, prodded, and forced in stressful situations and painful situations for entertainment.

Rodeos rely on practices that cause fear, stress, and injury, including using spurs, flank straps, electric prods, and forceful roping techniques.

We've already recognized this kind of cruelty in other industries.

The use of animals and circuses once was considered acceptable.

Yet today most people agree it has no place in a compassionate society.

Rodeos are no different.

This ordinance allows cultural celebration to continue while drawing a clear line against animal cruelty.

Today we ask the committee to ban the rodeo.

Thank you.

Thank you, next speaker.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Commentario publico.

I'm a border equestre.

I wanted to say thank you to all the people that are here present uh to defend our culture, but I am also a little bit disappointed with how much time has passed for this to be put into place.

This shows a lack of interest to fix things and we are here in good faith.

I would like to say that we are lovers of our own culture and of horses, and we are protectors of such.

Yeah, because I have been living in Los Angeles for 36 years, my daughter is DACA, and we do not have the right to vote.

So I would like that motion to be approved so that we would have the right to vote as residents of Los Angeles.

Okay, so you have one minute for general.

Go ahead.

Do I get uh item five?

So item number five is not open for public comment because we've already satisfied public comment at committee, but you can speak to her in general.

So you have one minute for general.

Go ahead.

Okay.

Hi, my name is Memphis Perez.

I'm a small business owner and a member of SACE.

And we have been going to almost every community to hear the cries for help from small businesses.

To see a communities below small businesses quietly screaming as they drown in despair, what they look into your eyes for help, and you see yourself drowning as well.

And even though I want to reach out to help them, I ain't got any tools to save them.

I have come to this conclusion that we need better landlords because there is so few of them.

I urge this body to be reasonable to us, the community's little cornerstones, because once we are gone, you cannot replace our authenticity or recreate love childhood memories that only happen in the small businesses.

You guys must act fast to protect us because we are praying in the shadows for just a shot of life.

I urge this chamber to please reach out to your local small business corridors and have a hard to heart with your local small business and tell them that there is help on the way.

Tell them that you will not let them die and that we will find solutions to just hang on a little longer, we are almost there.

Thank you, next speaker.

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

Manuel Norlasco, Matt Russell, Ramia, CI, and Goat Puppet.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Yes, hello, I am Janet Martinez, member of Community Coalition, volunteer.

I've lived in Los Angeles for 20 years and I brought my daughter here when she was very little to this country.

I would like to ask for your support in approving the ordinance that would give uh the right to undocumented people to be able to vote.

For local elections for the representative leaders and also for school boards.

Uh, because there is thousands of people that are in the same situation as me.

And due to fear of the current political climate, they do not they do not express what they need.

Thank you.

Thank you, next speaker.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Uh, uh, I'm with Sage.

Okay, so before she begins, Mr.

Herman, I'm not warning you formally now, but please do not, we go through this every meeting.

Do not stand immediately behind the public speakers.

It is distracting and therefore disruptive to the members, to myself, as well as to the speakers.

Not to mention it's rude, which is not a violation of the Brown Act, but it should be.

Go ahead.

You have one minute.

Adelante, Senora Tieno Minuto.

Yes.

Yes, hello, I am with Sage.

I would first would like to say thank you to all the representatives who have supported us.

Uh, I hope that that support continues in the second term as well.

It's not fair that these small businesses who serve the community so much and to that serve the families as well.

Can los intimid.

That we are intimidated, intimidated by the owners.

And I hope that you also take into this consideration this and support our communities and our culture because you saw all the all the parades that happened with the rodeo riders.

And from the bottom of my heart, please, I ask for your support in our cultural tradition for our family.

Thank you.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Good morning, I'm Naomi.

I'm here for public comment.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Thank you.

I've spent over a decade of my life working in fast food as a Starbucks barista, and I'm an organizer with Starbucks Workers United.

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

Passing this means that workers can receive crucial know your rights trainings.

Being a barista requires far more than food safety and customer service training.

Starbucks workers in LA are regularly witnessing and interacting with extreme violence, mental health crises, drug overdoses, and more.

Okay, and before we begin with Mr.

Herman, I know we have a lot of new people here, so I just want to let everybody know.

Um you might, emphasis on might, I don't know for sure.

You might hear things that are racist or extremely congratulations, Mr.

Spindler.

This is your first and only formal warning, even though you just got here, do not disrupt this meeting in my attempt to try and give instructions in briefing to the public.

So as I was saying, uh I suspect uh we might hear some things that are very, very offensive, potentially racist or sexist.

Uh if you have children here, I think I saw some, you might want to implement the earmuffs.

Uh, if you are young at heart, you also might want to use earmuffs as you are not required to listen to the public comment.

Uh we, however, will continue and listen, the best way to get through this is to just ignore it.

Uh and to uh we well, we appreciate your patience.

Mr.

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

Go ahead.

Buenos días, Pichi Mamones.

Good morning, fucking clowns.

Este dia yo quiere hablar de los pinchy abogados de este junta numero de C6, por favor.

This morning I would like to talk about the fucking lawyers for this meeting number sixteen, please.

For todos para ven la pinche suscio caies.

So, Miss uh Herrero says she would like to put on the fucking lights to see the fucking streets.

But sangron abogado trae interesado con la junta de putos.

But you know, we know that those fucking lawyers interest the meeting of facts.

For los pinchi elimination para junio 7026, muchos gracias para nada, pendeja pioja.

So for the fucking word that does not exist in Spanish, uh 7th of June 2026 for the meeting.

Fucking bitch.

So here for Bloominfield and the other fucking flea that won by a percentage of votes.

Which item are you speaking to?

I cannot tell.

And this is your only warning.

If you do not stick to the agenda, one minute, hold on.

Okay, at this point you are disrupting the meeting because I am trying to give you instructions.

So this is it.

This is your first and only formal warning.

You do it again, you'll be removed pursuant to Council Rule 7 or Rule 12.

So I need you to identify the items that you're speaking to.

If you do not do so, then we will move you to general public comment where you can speak to anything within the subject matter jurisdiction of this body.

Why do we need to have renovations at a time when the city's budget and the crisis of homelessness doesn't actually fit this criteria of motion?

Why is that, Mr.

Attorney?

Since you say that I'm a number 19 and I'm speaking in Spanish, I'm not talking about it.

It is under Bloomfield and it does, it is under that fucking flea ramen noodle on 19.

Dickhead.

So let me go to another item on my three minutes before I go into my non-agenda public comment.

Oh.

Rodriguez on item 22.

Dickhead.

You want the number?

You need to get back on topic, Mr.

Herman.

Yeah.

We're gonna transfer 148,500 in the CD7 General City Purposes Fund.

I call that a juju cash fund.

What the fuck is a juju cash fund?

Well, that's when the urban garden CD7 assholes conduct business for graffiti busters and the Board of Public Works Office of Community Fation to do what?

The same fucking shit.

People living on the streets, people leaving shit on the streets.

That's not beautification.

Where's your mayor?

Where's your mayor?

See you people vote for these fucking people and they're worthless.

Where's your mayor?

Not to my general.

Now you're on general anyway.

You have one minute for general.

Now, smoking scam.

You see, I'm a target of his fucking retard with a bad haircut with that big old pimple on his face, right?

That Jonathan Grove, bar number 317, 217 for the record.

Then the dickhead tries to accost Mr.

Spindler for simply coming into a public meeting by doing what?

Prior restraint.

It's the same fucking shit of prior restraint, Bob.

But yet you stupid 15 fucks.

Don't give a fuck about the rodeo.

You don't give a fuck about the horses.

All you are a bunch of fucking races against Mexicans and men that ride horses and don't act like a bitch.

So get it straight.

The day I come back in here on my Texas longhorn bull, I will tell you the kind of bullshit you are.

And your time has expired.

With that, we will move on to the next speaker.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

In commentary public.

Many of us as immigrants have to go through a long journey to be able to get through our full immigration status.

And that is why we cannot use our voices and have them heard through the elections in Los Angeles.

And so this motion, I have the hope of being able to use my voice in support of things like mental health support and the conditions of our streets.

So because for some things you still want our tax money, but then you come around and you know you deny our voices.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Commentary public.

Okay, you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Good morning, everyone.

My name is Elida Hernandez.

I am a small business owner out of Lincoln Heights.

And I'm here to thank all of the council members for your support on the Tahoe Ordinance for com uh commercial tenants.

Uh this has been a source of hope for many of us as uh small business owners and tenants.

Adelante.

In especial representing la propiedad donde se encuentra mi negocio.

La incertidumbre para mantener a mis hijos, a mi familia.

Is he mi negocio no va bien?

Tampoco mi casa va bien.

And so uh personally, um this is uh shows a lot of hope for my family because at this time I am personally going through um a harassment case with my landlord.

Right now, the property that I currently work at is on sale, and there is a lot of uncertainty about what could possibly happen with um this property where I have my building or have my business, excuse me.

And so this is important because I use that money from my business to be able to support my family and my kids, and honestly, if my business doesn't go well, my household doesn't go well either.

Thank you.

Next speaker.

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

Tyree Lacey, Larry Hughes, Yolanda Davidson, Cynthia Billingsleigh, and Tiffany Brunelli.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Good morning.

This will be general.

Okay.

So you have one minute.

Go ahead.

And it'll be in uh English and a little bit in Spanish.

Okay, so when you speak in Spanish, if you just pause every few sentences so the interpreters can interpret, we would appreciate it.

You have one minute.

Go ahead.

Thank you.

My name is Rogelio Martinez.

I'm a proud immigrant born in Mexico in the Capitol.

I came here as a little boy, and from 1976 to 2001, I was following the immigration process to ultimately become a naturalized citizen.

So as an immigrant of this great um country, I do not believe that immigrants should have the right to vote.

And I will repeat that.

Immigrants should not have the right to vote.

By doing so, it will erode how the problem needs to be fixed in their home country.

And if we continue to give rights to immigrants, we will just have more mass importation of migrations from other countries into the into America.

We have a people problem.

We have too many people right now.

So to just say you were gonna lower the barrier is not gonna be good.

Damn, my time is up.

Thank you.

Thank you, Speaker.

Next speaker.

No, no, you're so in Mexican.

Okay, next speaker.

It's an American right.

So I sir, I need you to vacate the podium.

And I need the next speaker to come up, please.

Again, members of the public the public public comment is an opportunity for people to voice their opinions, and we have a lot of different views in the city.

We appreciate your patience.

It's expected that we're going to disagree with some opinions that are made, uh, but please keep your applause or your booze at least until the end.

I do appreciate that you did that with the last speaker.

Uh, but again, we do need to get through public comment.

Good morning, Speaker.

What would you like to speak to?

Uh, yes.

I'm speaking here for uh item number five.

Okay.

So you have one minute for general.

Go ahead.

I'm here for public comment.

My name is Tyree Lacey.

I am currently uh owner of two restaurants in the city of Los Angeles.

I've been doing business in the city of LA for approximately 20 years.

Um, so I'm here in in full support of number five Tahoe, the motion for commercial tenant harassment.

I'm a black business, small business owner in LA and urged the city council to vote yes for this motion.

Um, as we know, small businesses are the backbone of our economy here in LA.

We play a big part, and I am currently uh experiencing exactly what this motion is uh set to prevent.

I'm in litigation with my uh property owner for about eight hundred thousand dollars in back fees that do not apply, only because the the property owner feels that it's his predatory right to continue to attack us.

So I'm definitely here to make sure that this word is out.

We uh we're creating our social media campaign and we're gonna move forward.

So thank you, speaker.

Next speaker.

Your time has expired.

Next speaker, good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

I would be speaking a general public comment.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Hi, good morning.

My name is Manuel Nelasco, and I've been a Starbucks uh worker for over eight years.

I'm here to talk about the fast food work ordinance, uh, specifically about the know year to rights training.

This is something that is very essential for food workers like myself.

Uh employers like Starbucks don't want us to know our rights so that they can exploit us and use us uh and force us to work through unsafe uh and unsanitary conditions.

There's been multiple times where I've had to work and keep the business open when there's literal sewage water coming up from the drains or when there's no hot water access.

And due to fear of retaliation, we don't exercise our rights to refuse unsafe work, and we continue to work through these conditions.

And so I'm here to ask uh for your support to stand behind the 50,000 fast food workers in LA and to pass the Fair Food Fair Work Ordinance without further delay.

And so please put this in the agenda uh in committee immediately.

Thank you.

Thank you, next speaker.

Before the next speaker begins, I'd like to make a quick announcement for safety purposes and the efficiency of public comment.

If your name has not been called, please do not line up to the left.

Thank you.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Good morning.

General public comment for item five.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Thank you.

Good morning.

My name is Ramiya Sinha, and I'm a staff attorney on BetZedic's small business development team.

I am here in strong support of Councilmember Jurado's motion to create a commercial tenant anti-harassment ordinance for the city of Los Angeles.

In our work at BetZedic, we regularly represent small business owners who face harassment and coercive conduct from landlords, including service interruptions, unwarranted lease violations, and threats of retaliation, yet have virtually no legal recourse.

These businesses are often immigrant-owned and serve as vital economic and cultural anchors in their neighborhoods.

The city already protects residential tenants from harassment, and the county has extended similar protections to commercial tenants in unincorporated areas.

It is time the city does the same.

I respectfully and strongly urge the council to support this crucial motion.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Thank you, next speaker.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Public comment, please.

Okay.

So you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Hi, my name is Matt Rosell.

I'm the campaign's manager for the Animal Legal Defense Fund.

Corporate rodeos like the professional bull riders come into our community to terrify and provoke animals for entertainment.

This leads to torn ligaments, broken bones, and agonizing deaths for these animals.

Few laws protect them, and animal injuries are common and chronically underreported.

Councilmember Blumenfield has heard the concerns about Latino cultural events and has addressed these issues with amendments to the language.

A recent fatal injury to a bucking bull at the Orange County Fair was witnessed by shock spectators, but went unreported to the California Veterinary Medical Board violating state law.

The Orange County Fair did the right thing.

They indefinitely canceled rodeos.

Pasadena and Irvine have also banned rodeos.

Let's not let this tragedy happen in LA before we do the right thing.

Please agendize and vote yes on Councilmember Bloominfield's ordinance.

Thank you, next speaker.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Hello, general public comment, please.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Hi, my name is Julie Van Winkle, and I'm the vice president of United Teachers Los Angeles.

And I'm here today to speak as a teacher and say that it's not equitable that some of my students' parents can vote in their school board member elections and others cannot.

Parents who are not citizens are no less invested and committed to their public schools than parents who are citizens.

And we should allow all the residents in LA to be able to vote in local elections.

We can't truly say that LA stands with immigrants if we gatekeep them and prevent them from voting in local elections.

Trump and MAGA want to limit voting.

We need to fight to expand it.

So all of our neighbors have the same rights as us.

So I'm very thankful for Councilmember Sodomartinez for bringing the residential voting ordinance and I hope we all support it.

Thank you.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Hi, good morning.

I'm here to make a general public comment.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Good morning to the distinguished city council.

I organized in LA and those hijos, and I am an organizer at Carecent LA, and I am a mother of two citizens who are my children.

So I'm gonna ask the interpreters interpret the last bit, please, but uh speaker your time has expired.

And to also thank the council members as a resident of Los Angeles.

Thank you.

Next speaker.

Okay, so you will be Maria de Rosario Vasquez.

Soy Mexicana, me gustaría la communidad.

Okay, one moment, senora.

Permitela Interpretation y luego puede continuar.

Okay.

Hi, good morning.

My name is Maria de Rosario.

I have been living in Echo Park as a resident for 30 years.

I am an immigrant from Mexico.

And I'm here to uh to support as a community member uh Hugo Soto Martinez's um motion, and I'm here to ask that all the other council members support it.

Adelante.

Let's pido ustedes que por favor appoy in esta petition.

And I'm here to ask you all to support this motion because it is incredibly beneficial to us and to the community.

Thank you.

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

Don Leonardo Lopez, Geronimo Bugarin, Lisa Vaca, George Magallanes, Sam Brown, and Fidel Vasquez.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

General.

Okay, General.

Comment, please.

In regards to banning rodeo, I want to recognize the important work of animal control officers and veterinarians.

They inspect animals, monitor their health and living conditions, they ensure proper care.

When issues are found, they are required to correct it.

Well, those same people, the professionals help oversee rodeos, enforcing regulations and ensuring animal welfare standards are being followed.

Rodeos operate with oversight, accountability, and concern for the animals involved.

Now let me tell you something that's extremely funny, guys.

Two years ago, ban did not go through, right?

And we left the door open for the these counterparts to come in and work with us to see how we could better help the animal welfare.

Guess what?

Zero calls, no communication.

So they wait two years for something extremely concerned to come and talk to us.

If they were that concerned, they would have been there the next day dealing with us and working as a team to figure out how what we could do to better treat our animals.

But guess not, two years went by, and they're gonna do this again and again and again.

And by the way, half of their team are lawyers.

Thank you.

Thank you, next speaker.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

General public comment.

Okay.

So you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Um hi everyone.

My name is Garen Damirez.

I am also DACA, so I'm here in support of the colleagues that are supporting DACA amendments or DACA demands.

And I also work for Sage, and I am part of the coalition of Small Business Alliance for Equitable Communities.

This is a great first step for small businesses.

Um small businesses in different districts are being priced out by high rent increases, and they cannot afford them.

They're being priced out by corporations and they are not able to afford the high rent increases.

So having this C Tahoe will allow small businesses to stay in place, specifically those that are known as legacy businesses that as you know have been here for more than 20 years operating in our neighborhoods.

They pay more in taxes more than corporations do.

They invest in our local economy and they really do support grassroots efforts with from within the community.

Thank you so much for your time.

Thank you, next speaker.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Um item number five, general comment.

Okay, so you have one minute for general.

Go ahead.

Thank you.

Good morning.

My name is Amy Chong.

I'm representing inclusive action for the city, inclusive action, champions working people, invests in entrepreneurs, and changes systems to build an economy that works for all of us.

I want to thank Councilmembers Gerado Hernandez and Hutt for your leadership in advancing the commercial anti-harassment ordinance motion.

This action brings us one step closer to ensuring small businesses have access to the basic rights and protections they deserve.

Small businesses are the backbone of our neighborhoods, local economies, and commercial corridors, and they should be able to have, uh they should be able to operate without fear of harassment or unfair treatment.

We appreciate the city's commitment to this issue and look forward to working closely with the city departments and the city attorney's office to help craft an ordinance that is both effectful, impactful, and uh imp effective.

Together, we will have an opportunity to create protections that will benefit thousands of small businesses all across Los Angeles for years to come.

Thank you.

Good morning.

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

Go ahead.

Yes, so let's get to.

Oh, Hugo Stalin, a number 20.

Let's give Hugo a hand.

So see, on number 20, this is what happens when you run a business in LA.

Basically, open the doors to the public.

People come in and rip the fucking store to pieces.

And then, of course, you get slapped up the head, and then somebody pulls out their phone while your employees call them some kind of bad name that might start with an NRC, for example.

Well, Ross got hit with a hundred and twenty thousand dollars civil rights fund.

Let's give all communist Hugo a hand.

Yes, sir.

Stalin would be proud.

My son, Stalin would be so proud of Hugo.

And what is this money go to?

The victim gets 20,000.

What have another 100,000?

Here you go.

That's right, to be continued.

So let's see here.

Who else are we fucking today?

See, number 18 here.

Special LGBT.

We're gonna spend 438 dollars.

That's a bargain.

To do what?

To illuminate City Hall on June the 7th.

Well shit, let me look at my calendar here.

Oh, it's June the 9th.

So you mean Tracy Park already spent this money lighting up City Hall two days ago.

And Tracy Park did not get the money before.

Amelda Louisa Padilla did not get the 438 dollars on Friday.

They could have called a special motion to do that, but then that would have given me an extra goddamn fucking minute to speak on the Friday meeting.

And Amelda knows that's not gonna ever happen.

Then we get to number 19, the Madrid Theater.

Look at this.

Yes, that's Rosita.

Rosita used to be a beautiful place.

I grew up there.

Used to have businesses, boxing events.

Elton John performed at the theater one time.

They used to have boxing matches and then concerts.

Elton John.

Now it is just vacant, filled with homeless, urine, trash, drug needles, feces.

You know, all the things that Moni Cal Contregus hates.

So of course $57,000.

That's not gonna do it.

They need millions of dollars.

Not $57,000.

Yeah, Pumpkin Head.

Yeah, I know.

I know what you're thinking, Pumpkin Head.

So today we're gonna appreciate the great one at my public comment.

Nithya Roman noodle, everybody.

Nithya.

You did it!

And I told everybody Friday, I told everybody that Spencer Pratt was gonna get screwed out of that second place.

Let's give voter fraud a hand, everybody.

I love it.

Also, the sales tax is up also slightly.

Now you're gonna pay half a percent more on every goddamn fucking thing you buy for your family.

Let's give it a hand for voter fraud.

That's right.

We want more voter fraud.

More and more voter fraud.

Go voter fraud.

Okay, so at this point you are being repetitive.

So either move on or you will forfeit the rest of your speaking time.

I'm giving it, motherfucker.

I've given you your due.

I'm a good loser.

Let's go voter fraud.

Okay, so you were asked to not be repetitive.

The Brown Act allows us to establish reasonable rules.

Your time is expired.

Next speaker.

Next speaker, please.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Good morning.

General comment.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Go ahead.

For the rodeo ban.

This is not just about animal cruelty.

This is also a public health and safety one.

Studies show evidence that children witnessing animal abuse negatively affects them, both emotionally and behaviorally.

The National Library of Medicine stated, and I quote, animal and child welfare experts argue that government sanctioned exposure of children to brutal violence may be a form of psychological violence against youth.

Hence, if governments, sorry, hold on one second.

Hence if governments choose to condone, be complicit in or ignore this violence exposure, despite having knowledge of the dire psychological and social consequences for youth exposed to this cruelty.

It can be argued that their actions can constitute a violation of basically.

Speaker, your time has expired.

Next speaker.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

General public comment.

Okay.

So you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Thank you.

My name is George Magallanes, and I'm here to ask the council to allow this item of the rodeo ban to uh to die in committee.

Um Councilmember Blumenfeld had the opportunity to meet with us two years ago, and he refused to do that.

Um it's not about uh whether or not we care about treatment of animals.

We all support the humane treatment of animals, and existing welfare laws should be followed and enforced.

However, this ordinance risks unfairly targeting cultural traditions that are important to thousands of residents who practice them responsibly and with respect.

And LA, as the Olympics come, we're gonna have to embrace the diversity that comes with it.

Protecting cultural traditions should be a part of that commitment.

I ask you to reject this ordinance and instead work collaboratively with the equestrian and the chattel communities that are here today to preserve both animal welfare and our cultural heritage.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, next speaker.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

This is general comment.

Okay, so you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Hi, my name is Larry Hughes.

I'm a real estate and mortgage broker here in Los Angeles, California, and I'm here to um strongly favor in motion of the commercial tenant act I anti-harassment.

Please vote yes in this motion to study and implement the commercial anti-tenant harassment audience for far too long.

LA small businesses have been operating without any legal safety net against abusive landlords, abusive landlords.

We are seeing minority and immigrant business owners and gentrifying commercial corridors targeted with coercive retaliatory practices.

Landlords are cutting off essential services, threatening immigration status, and creating intolerable building conditions for it for to force self-eviction.

Bernard landlords are also using a legal system to legally bankrupt businesses with frivolous lawsuits that cost businesses with money that they don't have to defend themselves.

So I urge you to strongly, strongly vote yes on this ordinance.

Thank you, next speaker.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Hi, I'm here to speak about general comment.

Okay.

So the rodeo ban.

Oh, about the rodeo ban?

My name is Tiffany Brunelli, and I'm here today to ask the city council to please put the rodeo ban back on the agenda before it's too late.

Torture is not culture.

What year are we in?

2026.

These innocent calves and horses.

This ban would allow the these um implements of torture to be banned from these rodeos.

So we're asking you to please put the rodeo ban back on the agenda, and there's no emotional piece for the calves and horses in these rodeos.

Um of these calves are it's violence against calves that are four to six months old.

These innocent animals have no choice but to be forced to participate in these rodeos.

So I'm asking you again today to be on the right side of history.

Thank you.

Thank you, next speaker.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Good morning.

General comment.

Okay.

So you have one minute.

Go ahead.

Yeah, good morning, everyone.

My name is Geronimo Bugarin.

I'm in Salmar, California, and I'm here to support our culture and everything that comes behind it.

You have heard everything from all the previous gentlemen, and you've heard the opposition.

Mr.

Bob Bloomingfeld had the opportunity to meet with us in person, sir.

In person, two years and a half.

We met here and we did the same thing.

We wall to wall with Charros against this ban.

And it's time to put this and bury it once and for all.

Leave us alone.

We don't hurt animals.

You, sir, and everyone else in this body has seen the parades that we put together where people enjoy culture and do things in a harmony way where nothing is unbelievable.

I mean, when you come down to horses and the and everything that goes along with it, it changes everyone that's attending these parades and every movement.

And I don't know where Peter came in to say, hey, you know what?

Now we have ice.

Thank you.

Speaker, your time has expired.

Next speaker.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

General public comment.

Lisa Baca.

I'm with the California State Horseman's Association.

Uh equestrians contribute 11.6 billion dollars to the California general uh economy.

We have had two years, two years from the last motion in December to meet with Councilmember Blumenthal.

Never happened.

City Attorney write a motion, never happened.

The equestrian community in the San Fernando Valley is a bulk of that 11.6 billion dollars.

We are asking that this council not doing a round end to what was previously passed because of a timeout that's happening in three weeks.

Pete is now saying ICE and Border Patrol are anti-rodeo.

Well, Border Patrol has consistently funded the safety clowns at every rodeo.

It has nothing to do with the city of Los Angeles.

So please do not agendize any new motion, honor the motion that was passed in December and meet with us if you're going to do anything.

Thank you.

Thank you, next speaker.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Good morning.

I'll um here to speak about item number five.

Okay, so you have one minute for general.

Go ahead.

Okay, I stand with the district by GS and um as a black owned small business owner in the city of Los Angeles.

I am urging the city council to vote yes in the motion for a commercial tenant anti-harassment ordinance.

Minority owned legacy businesses are the economic backbone of our neighborhoods, yet we are being targeted and systematically pushed out by predatory commercial landlords.

Landlords are um intentionally using bad faith tactics, withholding critical building repairs, ignoring structural issues, and sudden extreme rent hikes.

Solely to be forced long term tenants of color out so we can flip, excuse me, so we can flip and redevelop the properties.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next speaker.

Good morning.

What would you like to speak to?

Public comment?

So you have one minute for general.

Go ahead.

So first off, I want to congratulate council member Raman for moving on to the general elections.

I think you came on strong on the following in the last couple of weeks, and so here you are.

With that having been said, Councilwoman Raman, I you're well aware about rape cop Gabriel Spotus who put a woman on a 5150 hold when she got out of the hold.

He raped her, had anal sex with her, and fisted her and wanted to have sex with dogs.

You've been briefed on that whole situation.

I think it's time for you to speak out and demand that that cop be held accountable and prosecute or at least have the DA look at it.

I gotta tell you, I talked to Spencer Pratt and I asked him, and he said yes, he should be sent to the DA.

I think you miss an opportunity by not saying it first.

I think it meant a lot to the victims that he said it means a lot to me too.

Now it's your turn.

Time to speak up for the victims, time to be a champion of the victims.

Council President, that is all the time allocated to public comment.

What's going on?

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

Just uh for the record, uh, Mr.

City Attorney, I wanted this to be recorded.

We started public comment at uh 10 18.

It is now 11 30, so we took public comment in excess of an hour.

We're sorry we couldn't get to everybody, but uh we allowed as much time as possible.

Councilmember Rodriguez.

Thank you.

Um, I just wanted to take a moment to thank everyone that came out to provide testimony today.

You know, what's critical is as policymakers that we are thoughtful in hearing the implications of the decisions that we make and what the real impacts are.

What brought so much of this on today was derived by, is derived, I'm sorry, council member.

So the woman in the on to my left in the magenta jacket, this is your first and only formal warning.

Please do not disrupt the council member while she is speaking.

The same goes for everyone else.

Again, we we took over an hour of public comment.

We appreciate everyone being here.

If you'd like to provide additional written public comment, either because you ran out of time or because we ran out of time, you can do so at la councilcomment.com, but you cannot disrupt this meeting.

I'm sorry, go ahead.

Thank you.

But what was most disheartening in some of the communications.

Okay, I'll continue.

What was most disheartening was this newfound insertion to suggest that people were concerned about ice and looking at members of my community and suggesting that this is why they too should be concerned, and it's exploitive and frankly disrespectful and infuriating that that is kind of a last ditch effort to suggest to my community why they should now that they've been wrong the whole time.

You know, it's infuriating that anybody would utter that comment if you were not it's infuriating that that would attempt it that there would be an attempt at exploiting that.

And you know what?

We don't forget.

We don't forget because our community continues to endure these types of assaults every day.

This is just the latest one.

So I look forward to having a robust and honest conversation about how we actually protect what is culturally very dear to members of my community, to continue to protect animals.

Because the reality is that the activities that we're talking about that my community has long enjoyed are practices that actually responsibly care for these animals.

It is a long-standing practice.

So again, I just wanted to thank all the members of the community that have come out to provide testimony, and to say that as policymakers, our responsibility is to make sure that we engage with all parties.

I know sadly that doesn't always tend to be the case.

But we need to make sure that we understand that the decisions that are being made, there's always implications, and we have to be clear-eyed when we make decisions that are going to have a detrimental impact to persecuting one community over another.

Because we've seen that happen time and time again.

So with that, I just want to say thank you to everyone that came out today to make the time to communicate your side, to address your concerns, and understand that I will continue to make sure that our community isn't uh attempted, isn't vulnerable to assault because of inflammatory language or exploitive opportunities that other sides attempt to insert in these conversations.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilmember Rodriguez.

Councilmember Nazarian.

You're on the queue.

Okay, so the person is excused from this meeting.

It's like the ninth time you've spoken out.

We're going to Madam Clerk, uh, I believe Mr.

Zarian is asked for his name to be off the queue.

Thank you.

I I uh believe I'm gonna be speaking when item eight comes up, so I'll wait until then if you'd like to.

Thank you.

Uh all right.

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

The council may now vote on items nine and eleven through 21.

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

Close the roll, tabulate the vote.

Then what's next?

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

Councilmember Hutt.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Um, members, as one of the co-authors of this motion, I understand the importance of my voice, and I stand here today in strong support of this action to begin important work to protect our small businesses throughout our neighborhoods and our communities.

Our city is defined by its diversity, and we come together and thrive and are strong because of it.

My district is a tapestry of Los Angeles, and that includes the thousands of entrepreneurs and small businesses that make up the 10th district.

Our small business owners work hard to provide for themselves, for their staff and for their families.

They should never have to look over their shoulder or worry about being bullied by property owners.

The same property owners who have seen these tenants make improvements and bring in customers as their property values rise, and then see them turn around and displace them for new businesses as our indigenous businesses struggle without any protections or any relocations.

It's unacceptable that small business owners have to deal with harassment while attempting to keep their doors open in the communities that they were raised in as children.

These are the same entrepreneurs who are already facing systematic hurdles and assessing accessing resources and funding.

As a city, we have to do better in protecting the people who believe in the dream of having their own business in their own community.

Small businesses like these heard here today are the fabric of our community.

Yet they, along with so many other entrepreneurs and business owners, are dealing with these unfair pressures just to keep their doors open.

Small businesses are often the first job many of our members, especially our young people ever have.

Developing and passing a commercial tenant anti-harassment ordinance is how LA steps up and protects local businesses that build up our communities.

Let's do right by them.

Today, on behalf of our small mom and paps, our aunts and uncles, our TIAs and TOs.

For the these small businesses members, I ask for your I vote.

Thank you.

Thank you so much, Councilmember Hutt.

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

15 eyes.

Alright, what's next?

The council may take up item number 10 as amended by motion 10.

A Bloomenfield Yareslovski.

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

Close the roll, tabulate the vote.

59.

Alright, what's next?

The council may take up item 22 as amended by amending motion 22a Rodriguez Price.

Alright, are you?

I guess not.

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

Close the roll, tabulate the vote.

59.

All right, what's next?

The council may move on to item eight called special by councilmember Padilla for questions and council member Nazarian.

Councilmember Nazarian.

Thank you, Council President.

I just wanted to move to adopt the recommendations of the Bureau of Sanitation as noted on today's agenda.

And uh once the conversation is done, I will be asking for a urgent forthwith vote as well.

Right on and look forward to making further comments at the end.

Thank you.

Okay, Councilmember Padilla.

I was hoping that the department could come and give us a presentation and answer some questions for item eight.

Alright, do we have uh department representatives here for this item?

There it looks like they're coming to the table.

And pardon me, Mr.

Chair, is there a second to the Nazarian motion?

Seconded by Councilmember Hudato.

Give us a brief overview of what's before us, and then we'll go to Councilmember Padilla for questions.

Okay, well, good morning.

Alex Hulu, Assistant General Manager Ali Sanitation Environment, and I'll have Paul Colbian, acting division manager, give the quick presentation.

Good morning.

Uh my name is Paul Cobian.

I'm the acting division manager for the Solar Resources Commercial Franchise Division.

The report before you is uh recommendation based upon the work that sanitation has been doing over the past two years.

Um, I think just for additional context.

Uh, in October of 2023, uh, City Council have directed Ali SAN to negotiate with the current uh recycled service providers uh to reduce customer fees and explore greater competition after multiple rounds.

Um we were those negotiations did not result in the contract amendments that the cities that met the city's objectives in March of 2024.

Uh City Council directed Ali San to proceed with the new competitive procurement for recycla 2.0 and uh to support that effort, the Board of Public Works uh along with Ali SAN, issued a task order solicitation uh to develop the necessary studies.

Um the uh outgrowth of some of those studies is uh the R3 report, which is uh an amendment that's attached to the uh this report, and uh the recommendation there is essentially for the creation of a special fund, as well as uh the annual cost uh associated uh with that special fund.

Um, in addition, the report is also recommending uh the option to close some enforcement gaps that the city currently has uh under uh LAMC uh 6603, and the goal there is to essentially allow for sanitation to enforce.

Uh we currently have the ability to enforce when customers do not have black uh so trash service.

We're asking for the inclusion of blue and green bin as well in that.

Yeah.

And we're available for any questions.

Thank you.

Alright, Councilmember Padilla.

Thank you for being here.

I notice your report mentions that there is an annual cost-based adjustment.

If we were to pass this, I'm curious, does that mean the consumer should expect an increase annually, or does this mean that the service providers will should expect an increase annually?

And how do we know or guarantee that the service provider isn't going to push that onto the consumer?

Okay, as we want to do.

Go ahead.

So part of Recycla 2.0, there is we we are shifting uh from a uh franchise fee to a cost-based fee.

Uh and the report.

I also uh I can't hear you.

Could we please have the floor a little bit quieter?

And then you can also talk more to your microphone, that'll help.

We need both.

Thank you.

The transition from uh a franchise fee to a cost-based fee.

Uh that's the recommendation.

Um, and so the R3 report identified the total cost being a little over 41 million dollars annually.

To the city.

Uh no, so so that would be uh the proposal.

So we released an RFP in uh September of 2025, and in that RFP, uh we had identified the cost uh per zone.

You know what I still can't hear you.

Can we take these conversations?

District 4.

Can we please take this somewhere else?

This is very important.

I think you know this is important to me.

Please proceed.

Sure.

So when the RFP was released in September of 2025, uh the RFP identified how the the 41 million dollars uh would be divided across the 11 zones, and so the proposers were aware that uh part of their proposal would need to include uh the cost as part of as part of their pricing strategy.

Do we have any uh mechanisms to make sure that they don't push the cost onto the consumer?

It would be based upon their pricing strategy, and uh it's we we see that as a business decision from each of the proposers.

Okay, does LA SANS still stand by the February 2027 implementation implementation date?

What other milestones do we need in order to stay on track?

So we are currently remaining on track and we anticipate coming back first to the Board of Public Works and then to City Council within the August September time frame of 2026.

Thank you.

But you did mention that we are seeking approvals and SEQA requirements that could potentially uh delay this.

Where are we on that?

Um, and do we know if we're gonna have a SQL review by council district or is it by uh proposal?

Can you tell us a little bit more about that?

So uh City Council had adopted and approved the uh certified program EIR in 2013 for the recycler program.

We uh the program continues uh to work under that uh certification, and so the uh proposal that sanitation would bring back to city council would be uh what we refer to as an addendum to that program EAR.

Um it's not as um uh rigorous, yeah, as as doing a full blown EIR program EAR, and so um based upon uh my experience it's something that we can turn around fairly quickly.

By to make sure everything is still online by February 27.

Yes, the CEQA would have to be um taken into consideration before um any uh decision and any any uh discretionary decisions are made um on the program.

What are the um what are the milestones that could potentially be a high risk to reach February 27?

Yeah, Alex Haru, Assistant General Manager LA Sanitation.

We really need to be working hand in hand with the CLA, CAO, and council.

Our goal is to be at council in August-September time frame because the contract expired on January 31st.

Right now, from the sanitation perspective, we are on goal to reach here.

Before it comes to the council, it has to be approved by the board of public works.

ED3 has to be done through the mayor's office and the CAO.

Once they approve it, then we'll be coming to committee and council.

And if we need every this has happened before, council worked with us on other important programs.

So we believe the pace we're going right now, we should be here in August, give us enough time so that we can do the implementation starting February 1st, 2027.

Okay, and also my understanding was that you guys were gonna do a PowerPoint presentation as you answered questions today.

So I was hoping that the whole council would see that the worst case scenario, if this doesn't work out, is a renewal of five years of existing contracts.

Is that correct?

Um we did the PowerPoint presentation at committee.

No, you didn't.

It's not what we saw in committee.

I'm sorry, this is the first this is the first time that I was given this paper presentation, and there's actual guesstimates of what the new costs are going to be.

We have not shared what the new cost is gonna be.

So it's not the presentation from committee.

No, the committee, the power, I'm sorry, the PowerPoint we did at committee talked about the timeline and what the what Paul mentioned, council will be approving today.

Correct.

We are in negotiations right now, and we cannot disclose what those rates are.

When we come in September to this council, council will have two reports.

We'll have the existing cost of the program with the access distance fee, as well as what the new rates is gonna be.

Approximately an increase of about $30, right?

No, I don't know.

That's the PowerPoint that's in front of me shows today, but I didn't see that in committee.

I'm sorry, we have just talking about the report.

Yeah, that one, I thought you were going to present that here because you didn't present it in committee.

No, so I was handed something that you were gonna from the council, so I did my questions based on what I saw.

We have coming at council.

How is that?

Why is it different than what you showed us in committee?

The briefing paper we have here is existing cost.

We have not shown what the rates are.

This is confidential.

We have nobody has that data except the evaluation team.

Okay, but to answer my question, if all of this doesn't work out, is it true that we would just be able to um continue with the existing contracts?

Great question.

This is the option that council would have in September.

You'll have option to continue the contract at the sole discretion of the city.

The rates for 2027 are already in the contract.

The city at all at its sole discretion, can do the contract for five more years.

And the council will compare the existing costs versus the new ones uh that Paul talked about.

So you'll have the two, but we do not have the future costs yet.

We still we are in negotiations.

Well, then why did I get this paper?

Why did I get the existing cost of the program?

I know, but one of the columns says projected January 2027 cost of the existing parentheses plus that 5%.

And it looks like on average, each of these is going to increase about 20 to 30 dollars.

So we can say that early on.

So the one you have, I'm sorry.

And I just want my council colleagues to see this because it took close to 10 years to build that the first recycla.

Close to 10 years.

It was a whole community campaign, and I just kind of feel like this council doesn't understand the history or how long it took to build this, and now we're doing this in haste.

And I think what we need to understand is I don't know about you guys, but I keep getting phone calls about how everything is going up.

And if we're gonna do this, well, I mean, you're talking about increasing it for multi-unit dwellings, um, and that's where some of our most vulnerable families are, and we know that it always goes, it gets projected onto the consumer regardless of what we call it at the city council level.

So I'm just trying to be as transparent as possible so that everybody has all the information that they need by the time we get to September.

My understanding is the only thing we really need to do.

What they really what we really want that we didn't have before is to make sure that we were in compliance with the organics based on state mandates.

Is that correct?

So the council instructed sanitation because they know what the existing cost today, correct?

They know what the existing costs would be if they continue the contract through 2027.

So council said we already know what the rates are.

We know we already so go out, do an RFP and eliminate the access and distance fee, remove removing barrier to recycling to 25 million dollars that the general fund is paying right now, remove access and distance fee, implement the organics program, and then come back to us with the rate.

So you know what I think the city is in the best position could be right now because you already know what your cost is, and if you get the new rate, you can compare the two.

You say, okay, I'm this is what I'm paying, this is what I'm gonna pay, this is what the new one, and then council could make the decision, but that number is not available till September 2026.

Got it.

So when it's September, we will ask ourselves the prioritization of what this cost the city, what it costs your department, and what that means for the consumers, correct?

Exactly.

You will have those data in September.

Right now, we are in negotiations and per the city rules and regulations, we have to keep everything secret and confidential.

Even the staff who are involved in it, they had to sign document that those data would not be disclosed until we're ready to come to council.

Okay, I still have a lot of questions, but just for the sake of being prepared to September, I'm gonna cut some of these out.

Uh I wanna know what you're doing to make sure that these service providers are also in communication with ITA in conversations related to 311 to make sure that as consumers report bulky items or illegal dumping that it is uh being paid uh by correctly by whose jurisdiction on who by contract is supposed to take care of it.

What are you doing in that perspective?

Okay, the bulky item program is a separate program.

That is the one that council voted several months ago.

Maybe it's about increasing the rates on our residents.

Single family 750,000 residential customers service by sanitation, as well as over 450,000 multifamily units who are served by recycler could call 311, could and request the bulky item.

Uh and so that fee is separate from the recycler program.

The recycler service providers only provide trash, recycling, organics for businesses who request bulky item, there's a separate fee that they will have to pay for, but because they're not included, however, residential customers are covered under sanitation.

So we kept those two separate.

So that's bulky items.

What about illegal dumping?

Illegal dumping is a citywide program, it's not really a recycler.

We have to follow Prop 26 regulations.

So what we're doing with illegal dumping in the new RFP that we released, we are requiring every single recycler service provider to provide 40 cubic yard dumpsters just for visualization.

It's from the wall where the council president's sitting till over what I'm sitting.

That dumpster could be used by the community in coordination with council offices and the mayor's office, where we place it strategically, it's uh and then the community could put their stuff in.

It's it's deployed usually in the morning of the event and removed at night.

So community could bring their stuff.

That's part of the enhancement that the council wanted to see in the RFP and it's included.

Okay, got it.

Thank you.

Um, but that's still, are you working with ITA from the perspective of fixing 311 to make sure that the service providers um are letting us know how to also improve it?

Because it's not just um LA SAN, that it's from what you just answered that designates who does the pickup.

So, are you talking to them about making sure that it is a continuum of service when it is when it does need to get to them to take care of it?

Or is it just getting stuck at the app?

Where are we at with that?

So there is two different elements here.

The one about the my LA311 app, those questions really should be answered by ITA, not sanitation.

We our responsibility is that the recycla service providers use the proper uh database and that they already identified no RFP, and that request will be sent to sanitation database, and then we are dispatch it.

That is handled by sanitation.

The app is different, my and then I think ITA should be able to answer that one.

But we are not relying on ITA for our uh recycla program.

Okay, thank you for that.

No further questions, Mr.

Nazarian.

Thank you, Council President.

Very much appreciate my colleagues' um vocalness on this matter, and I appreciate her questions during committee as well.

I have to say I am extremely appreciative of uh LA Sanitation's work on behalf of the residents of the city and on taking every step seriously in what they've learned since the trial and error of this first going into place in 2017 and making sure that they incorporate everything that they've learned into this 2.0 version so that we get the best outcome in this next contract negotiation, uh, RFP negotiation.

The city has the upper hand in this process where it should be, because that's what you want governance to look like in order to get the best result on behalf of its constituents.

So let me just clarify what the action before you today is simply to request an ordinance from the city attorney to modify the city's municipal code to reflect the structural improvements.

Should this body at a later time choose the new contracts later in this year?

We're just basically putting the infrastructure in place so that once when we do vote on the proposals that we want to move forward with, everything is ready to go.

That's what we're doing today.

So we will have a second bite at the apple if we want to debate the merits of whatever RFP conclusion sanitation brings forward to us today.

It's just about making sure that the infrastructure is in place so that when we do decide to move forward, everything works.

I hope that clears up any confusion and I respectfully ask for an I vote.

Thank you.

All right, thank you, Mr.

Nazarian.

Thank you, Councilmember Buddy, and thank you uh for your presentation this morning.

Uh seeing no other members on the queue, let's open the roll on this item, close the roll, tabulate the vote.

149s, all right.

What's next?

Thank you.

There is a request, excuse me.

Sorry, Council President.

If I can ask for an urgent forgent forthwith without objection, yes.

Is there a second to the motion for an urgent forthwith?

Mr.

McCosker seconds.

Uh, that case there's a vote to be taken.

We're voting on urgent forthwith, all right.

Let's open the role and urgent forthwith.

Close the role, tabulate the vote.

14.

All right, what's next?

There is a request to reconsider item number 10.

Let's open the roll on reconsideration.

Close the roll, tabulate the vote, 149s.

All right, Mr.

City Attorney.

I just wanted to confirm for the record who the second was on the motion to reconsider.

Mr.

McCosker.

Thank you.

Alright.

What's next?

Item 10 is before council as amended by amending motions 10A, Bloomingfield Yaroslavsky, and 10 B, Roman Yaroslavsky.

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

Close the roll, tabulate the vote.

14.

Alright, what's next?

The council has motions for posting and referral.

Those motions are posted and referred.

Announcements.

Members, are there any announcements to my left?

Announcements to my right.

Alright, I'll ask everyone in the chamber to rise for adjourning motions.

And I'll first look to my left for adjourning motions.

I see we'll begin with Mr.

Lee.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Council members, I'd like to adjourn in the memory of Sandra Sandy Clydesdale, my former colleague and a dedicated public servant and cherished friend to so many throughout Council District 12 and the city family.

She passed away recently at the age of 88 years old.

For decades, Sandy devoted herself to serving the people of the Northwest San Fernando Valley.

She began her career alongside former Congressmember Bobby Fiedler, serving faithfully before Congressmember Fiedler's election and continuing through her retirement.

What began as a professional partnership grew into a lifelong friendship?

Sandy then served as district director for former councilmember Hal Burnson and Greg Smith.

During her council district 12 tenure, she became a familiar, respected, and beloved presence in the community.

Her commitment to service extended far beyond City Hall.

She was deeply involved with the Devonshire Police Activity League supporters, or PALs, rising from secretary to president and playing a major role in the success of the annual PALs golf tournament.

I worked with Sandy during Greg's eight years in office, and I got to know her as someone with warmth, humor, and a genuine love for helping others and everything she did.

But beyond her professional accomplishments, she was deeply loved by her family and all who knew her.

Her family remembers her as someone who truly loved life and gave to others every single day.

Even in the smallest moments, one of the questions she asked most often was simply, what can I do for you?

She spent many years helping those experiencing homelessness, providing food, shelter, refuge, and whatever support she could to offer to people in need.

She gave of herself fully and selflessly right up until the very last moments of her life.

Her family described her as living, breathing saint, and there is perhaps no greater testament to a life well lived than to be remembered for the kindness, generosity, and love that you've shared with others.

She was beautiful, deeply loved, and will be missed beyond words.

She's survived by her five children, Kevin, Kim, Carrie, and Laura, as well as 13 grandchildren, 21 great grandchildren, and three great-great-grandchildren, all of whom carry forward her legacy of love, compassion, and service.

To those who knew Sandy, they will remember her sharp wit, infectious humor, determination, and remarkable ability to connect with people from all walks of life.

She truly loved our community, cared deeply about the people she served.

And on behalf of the CD 12 family, I extend my heartfilled condolences to her family, friends, and all those whose lives she touched.

I will miss her egg salad sandwiches and her homemade beef jerky, and I hope wherever she is, she is resting in peace.

Thank you so much, Mr.

Lee.

Mr.

McCosker.

Thank you very much, Mr.

President.

Colleagues, I rise to adjourn today's meeting in memory of Teresa Mascola, a lifelong San Pedro resident and cherished member of the Harbor Community.

Teresa was born on September 14th, 1935 in San Pedro to Tony and Helen Zangaro.

She attended 15th Street Elementary School and later attended Mary Star of the Sea High School, where she was a member of the first graduating class in 1954.

It was there that she met the love of her life, Lou Louis Mascola, with whom she shared 69 beautiful years of marriage.

Together, Teresa and Lou built a loving family and raised four children Louie Jr., Denise, Janine, and John.

Teresa was incredibly proud to be the grandmother of twelve grandchildren and the great grandmother of six great grandchildren.

Her family was the center of her universe, a large, loving family in our community.

Teresa was well known for opening her home to family and friends, whether it was hosting holiday gatherings or parties.

Great memories were guaranteed.

She enjoyed traveling with her friends and loved ones and shared stories of their adventures.

She was preceded in death by her beloved son, Louie Jr., who I remember in high school, and her husband, Louie, Louis Sr.

She will be remembered for her strength, kindness, and generosity.

The family would also like to thank her caretakers, of course, Al and Anna Valencia, who became cherished members of the family.

She was called to heaven on May 21, 2026, at 90 years young.

We extend our deepest sympathies to the entire Mascola family who mourn her loss.

May she rest in peace and may perpetual light shine upon her.

Thank you so much, Mr.

McCosker.

Any other adjourning motions?

Councilmember Raman.

Thank you.

Today I ask that we adjourn in memory of Sarah Kaplan, the beloved mother of our CD4 communications director, Stella Stahl.

Many of us in Council District Four came to know Sarah through Stella's stories and through the profound bond they shared.

Some of us had the privilege of meeting and getting to know Sarah personally, but all of us came to understand that she was no ordinary person.

Brilliant, fiercely independent, endlessly curious, deeply committed to living life on her own terms.

Sarah was born in London in 1952 and grew up in a family steeped in art, politics, ideas, and spirited debate, and carried that intellectual curiosity with her throughout her life.

She traveled the world, taught English in Indonesia, earned degrees in philosophy and Southeast Asian studies, crossed deserts and embraced adventure wherever she found it.

Eventually, that path brought her to Los Angeles, where she built a remarkable career in film and television.

As her career took off, Sarah began a fruitful partnership with director JJ Abrams, working on multiple groundbreaking TV series, including Felicity, Alias, and The Pilot for Lost, which won her an Emmy.

Brothers and sisters, political animals, Ray Donovan, and the acclaimed crazy ex-girlfriend followed, and she continued working into her late 60s.

What emerges most clearly from the stories shared by those who loved her is not the producer.

It's the woman, a woman who believed art could save us, including a love for Bob Dylan that she shared with my husband.

A woman who believed family is something we create as much as we inherit, evident in the large number of people who came to honor her memory at her home a couple of weeks ago.

A woman who taught her daughter to question the rules, to think for herself, to be generous and to be fearless.

Stella describes her mother as someone who showed her what it means to live a fulfilled life.

Someone who never accepted less than she deserved.

Hearing the words Stella shared after her mother's passing one sentence stayed with me.

She wrote, there are mothers and daughters, and there are mothers and daughters.

That was us.

Anyone who knows Stella understands exactly what she meant.

The bond they shared was extraordinary, built on admiration, trust, laughter, and love.

Sarah didn't simply raise Stella.

She shaped the remarkable person we're privileged to work with every day.

After Sarah's retirement came the diagnosis of Alzheimer's, a devastating disease for a life divine by independence.

Even in the face of it, Sarah continued to embody the spirit that made her uniquely herself, creating art, inviting friends over, and holding tightly to her daughter's love.

There is something profoundly moving about a life lived with such intention.

On behalf of Council District 4, I want Stella to know that we mourn alongside her.

We're grateful for the woman who helped make her who she is, and we celebrate a life that was extraordinary.

Some le some lives leave behind memories, others leave behind a way of seeing the world, and Sarah gave those who loved her both.

And I asked that we adjourn in her memory today.

Thank you.

Thank you so much, Councilmember Rahman.

Seeing no other adjourning motions, we're adjourned for today.

You see you tomorrow.

So she would be on the sets of movies.

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

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

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

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

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

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

And so here's one example of that.

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

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

So there are a lot of interesting photos like that.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

So this is something that no longer exists.

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

Um, she shot on Melrose a lot.

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

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

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

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

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

If you've lived through it, I think you can go and it can generate a great deal of nostalgia.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hi, I'm Anna Burton, an emergency manager with the Port of Los Angeles.

I've been emergency management for more than 30 years with the city, and this is my career report.

We'll take a question.

I have always wanted to work abroad in East Asia and thought it was amazing how you were able to visit China and Japan to review their emergency management programs.

What is the biggest difference you experienced in the work culture in those countries?

Well, I had the opportunity to travel to both of those countries during my career, as well as several others, and it was incredible.

When I traveled to Beijing, it was just prior to their hosting of the Olympics.

So there was a lot of construction.

Also in Shanghai, a lot of construction that was moving very quickly.

I thought the crowds, the transportation, and the just the difference in the culture was amazing.

In Japan, I thought it was incredible the way they were so welcoming, as well as in China, to hear and to see from us.

And it was just an honor to be treated to that opportunity.

I think one of the major differences was the general impact of how close they were, how many people, and the significant transportation resources that were available to them.

I think being the first-time traveler to those Asian countries, all of it was such an opportunity, both with the diversity of the people, the languages, the food, how they lived, but just really being hosted and just being taken care of was just an amazing opportunity.

Their emergency planning is very different.

In China, they still refer to it as civil defense.

And in Japan, it was very much like our Western cultures, very focused on earthquakes, preparedness, and notifications.

Japan has a very advanced system.

The population is very receptive to preparing for emergencies, and it's built into their neighborhoods at the very local level.

So it was inspiring, and I took a lot of those lessons back, and we implemented them here in Los Angeles.

And you'll hear that later when we talk about some of our earthquake notifications.

How does the port of Los Angeles evaluate emergency plans regularly in both quantitative and qualitative perspectives?

The Port of Los Angeles is one of many departments in the city, and we are required to have our department emergency plan as well as a continuity of operations plan.

And we are required to annually review them.

And we review them for many different purposes.

The first is to make sure that everything's up to date.

If we have contact information or there's organizational changes, that those are reflective in all of our updates.

We're also working with all the other city departments at the leadership of the city's primary emergency management department.

So if any federal guidelines or state changes occur, they share those and updates, and we're required to make sure that those are reflected in our local plans at the department level.

We're unique in so much as our plans are tied into not just other port organizations, but our stakeholders, so that with the local, the state, many federal agencies and cities and communities within our port area and around us, we have to make sure that they're consistent so that we're not crossing each other's evacuation zones, that we're not, you know, duplicating efforts, or that we don't have too much redundancy, that the terminology we use is the same, and that we collaborate together because in an emergency we are going to have to come together using the same language and terminology.

And as we see in the pandemic, a lot of the things that we do, we have to do together to make sure that we make the best use of all of our resources.

How hard would you say it was to get where you are today