The Los Angeles City Council held a lengthy regular and special meeting on June 17, 2026, the last meeting before the Juneteenth holiday. Key actions included votes on Measure ULA reforms, a comprehensive charter reform package covering parks funding, police oversight, voting rights, port governance, and personnel changes. The meeting began with presentations honoring Black Music Month figures and included extensive public comment.
Measure ULA Reform (Items 78–79):
Charter Reform (Special Meeting, Items 67–77):
Other Items:
I've been doing this for 20 years. It's so nice to see the kids, how they enjoy seeing the drivers that actually collect their trash. I watch the kids come and they hug their drivers and they take pictures with them. It's really enjoyable to see. We have children that have been coming here for 20 years, if not longer. And some of those children actually work for us now. It's great to see that we had over 2,000 RSVPs for this event here today. It's a great turnout. It's great to really engage with the community and really understand not only the services we provide, but some of the needs of our residents. I would recommend anybody come to this event. In fact, I just took a whole video myself to show everybody I know what they have here. And I learned about all different kinds of services that the sanitation department gave. I also got to enjoy time with my little boy. There's so many freebies. There's hats, there's face painting, there's sitting in the trucks and getting to see how those work. It was very entertaining and very informative as well. Do not litter. All this trash that we see out there doesn't magically come from outer space. Us human beings bought it and dropped it. We get off the bus and we know exactly what to do. All through the year, we're going to schools. We have an environmental education program about the impact of trash on the streets and when it rains, trash goes down to the storm drain and impacts the beaches and oceans. So they're educated to that. And then at the end of the school year, we bring out a few thousand of those kids to the beach, and that's what's going on today. When you pick up trash, it's kind of fun because you can see like a lot of people here on this beach are helping the planet. I'll don't connect other trash because I don't want animals to get extinct. And it helps the environment too. So it's fun for me to pick up the trash. It's sad and it's fun. We're finding a lot of plastic and we're also. Oh look, what is this? It's that part of a straw. We've been finding a lot of plastic. There's capsules, cups. I hope that these cleanups will make the kids better environmental stewards. Um, it really does take all of us working together to keep our natural faces clean. A lot of kids are not aware of what we need to do to take care of our earth. So programs like this and celebrating earthly, it really makes us very conscious. Anybody find their new trash? I think it's important for their future and you know the earth's future, and they get this experience and they learn that their actions can affect the community as a whole. Anybody that you talk to that's involved in this environmental movement, when they were a kid, they were at the beach and they fell in love. So this is a love project. This is getting kids down here to fall in love. Well, good morning everyone. Welcome to Parthenia Place. This is home to about 160 residents. I thank you all for being here to celebrate a major investment in this community. We are very grateful uh and excited uh with today's announcement by Congresswoman Luz Rivas, who was able to secure 750,000 for the residents of Parthenia Place to be able to repurpose um a room into a computer lab. This building was uh built in 2021 and it houses formerly homeless um and other residents. Uh so this computer lab will be a great way to bridge the digital divide.