>> Clerk: MR. PRESIDENT WOULD YOU LIKE TO RUB%BACKER RUN THROUGH THE AGENDA? >> Council President: THAT SOUNDS GREAT. GO AHEAD. >> Clerk: 11 THROUGH 4 ARE ITEMS FOR WHICH PUBLIC HEARINGS HAVING HELD. POSTED TO COUNCIL 25-1294. ITEM 5 IS AN ITEM FOR WHICH PUBLIC HEARING HAS BEEN HELD. >> Council President: GREAT, THOSE ARE NOW BEFORE US. COLLEAGUES DOES ANYONE HAVE THAT THEY WISH TO CALL SPECIAL? COUNCILMEMBER PADILLA. >> I. Padilla: YES, I WOULD LIKE TO CALL ITEM 5 SPECIAL FOR AN AMENDMENT WHICH SHOULD BE CIRCULATED. >> Council President: OKAY, WE'LL HOLD 5 FOR AN AMENDMENT. ANYONE ELSE, COLLEAGUES? COUNCILMEMBER JURADO. >> Y. Jurado: THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT. I HAVE AN AMENDMENT FOR ITEM 4 THAT SHOULD BE CIRCULATING FLT >> Council President: OKAY, HOLD THAT FOR THE AMENDMENT? COLLEAGUES ANY OTHER SPECIALS? SEEING NONE, I BELIEVE WE CAN TAKE ITEMS 1 THROUGH 3. >> Clerk: YES, THAT'S CORRECT. >> Council President: OKAY, THOSE ITEMS ARE BEFORE US. ANY MEMBERS WISH TO SPEAK ON THESE ITEMS. SEEING NO MEMBER ON THE QUEUE, OPEN THE ROLL, CLOSE THE ROLL, TALLY THE VOTES. >> Clerk: 10 AYES. >> Council President: OKAY, THOSE ARE NOW APPROVED. WE HAVE. >> Clerk: THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. THE COUNCIL MAY NOW MOVE ON TO PRESENTATIONS. >> Council President: OKAY, BEFORE WE DO THAT. I BELIEVE COUNCILMEMBER PARK HAS AN ANNOUNCEMENTS? >> T. Park: THANK YOU, VERY MUCH PRESIDENT AND COLLEAGUES. IT'S A ABSOLUTE PLEASURE TO WELCOME SOME GUESTS. THE INCREDIBLE STUDENTS FROM SAINT SABASTIAN SCHOOL IN WEST LOS ANGELES IS HERE TODAY. SAINT SABASTIAN IS A CATHOLIC SCHOOL THAT PROVIDES DUEL LANGUAGE EMERSION EDUCATION THAT PREPARES STUDENTS FROM PRE-K TO 8th GRADE TO BECOME SCHOLARS, PROBLEM SOLVERS AND SO MUCH MORE. IT'S BEEN REALLY FUN TO SUPPORT THEIR EDUCATIONAL JOURNEY AND IT'S FUN TO HAVE THEM HERE IN COUNCIL LEARNING ABOUT HOW GOVERNMENT WORKS AND ACTUALLY GETTING TO SEE IT IN ACTION. SO IT'S AWESOME TO HAVE YOU. WE'LL SEE YOU SOON! [APPLAUSE] >> Council President: OKAY. MR. NA SAYER YAP, DID YOU HAVE AN ANNOUNCEMENT? >> A. Nazarian: I THINK WE'LL HOLD OFF FOR NOW, THANK YOU MR. PRESIDENT. >> Council President: NO PROBLEM. ALL RIGHT, THEN, ANYTHING BEFORE MOVING TO PRESENTATIONS? >> Clerk: THANK YOU, WE MAY NOW MOVE FORWARD TO PRESENTATIONS. >> Council President: WONDERFUL. OUR FIRST PRESENTATION, WE'RE GOING TO DO IT ONCE MAYBE TWICE JUST DON'T LET GO AT ANY PRICE. [LAUGHTER] COUNCILMEMBER RODRIGUEZ FOR OUR FIRST VERY SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] >> IN PASADENA WAIT TO GO GO ON STAGE BEFORE SOME 70,000. NERVOUS GUYS? >> YEAH. >> WE PAID FOR 92,000 IN BARCELONA SPAIN, BUT THIS IS THE BIGGEST WE'VE DONE IN AMERICA. >> WE WERE COMPLETELY INSPIRED AND WHEN WE FINALLY GOT SOME KEY BOARDS THAT WOULD ACTUALLY PLAY RECOGNIZABLE MUSICAL NOTES AS OPPOSED TO THE COLLECTION OF JUNK THAT WE HAD A KAOUM DATED AND BUILT OURSELVES, THAT JUST MADE RANDOM NOISES, IT WAS THE ESSENTIAL LY THE FIRST SONG WE EVER WROTE. ♪ IT WAS HARD TO BELIEVE, I WAS SO IN LOVE WITH YOU ♪ [MUSIC] ♪ HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT HAPPENS NOW, YOU'VE GOT TO SAY YOU WILL ♪ CHEERS KHAO*ERZ >> M. Rodriguez: I JUST GOT TO ASK DO WE HAVE ANY OMD FANS IN THE HOUSE! I LOVE IT! LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THAT TODAY IN THE CITY OF L.A., WE ARE DECLARING ORCHESTRA MANEUVERS IN THE DARK DAY, IN THE CITY OF L.A. PLEASE JOIN US. I'M PROUD TO BE JOINED BY ANDY, UNFORTUNATELY, PAUL HUMPHREY WAS NOT ABLE TO JOIN US BECAUSE HE'S IN THE AIR ENROUTE BUT ALSO JOINED BY MARTIN COOPER AND STEWARD KERSHAW WHO COMPRISED OMD. THEY ARE THE BAND THAT HELPED SHAPE A GENERATION AND I'M SO HONORED TO BRING THEM INTO COUNCIL CHAMBERS TODAY, YOU KNOW, THIS CITY COUNCIL CHAMBER IS NO STRONGER TO HONORING THE INCREDIBLE PART OF OUR LIVES. WHEN PEOPLE ASK, MUSIC IS SUCH AN IMPORTANT UNIFYER AND NO MORE IMPORTANT NOW, BUT IT'S THE MOMENTS AND MUSIC THAT OFTEN HEALS US AND HELPS TO BRING PEACE AND HAPPINESS TO WHAT OTHERWISE MIGHT BE A VERY CHAOTIC LIFE. SO WHEN I THINK ABOUT OMD. I THINK ABOUT BEING THIS KID AT PACOIMA JUNE IOR HIGH SCHOOL, BEING A LITTLE DIFFERENT, BECAUSE I WAS LISTENING TO MUSIC THAT MY CLASSMATES WERE NOT LISTENING TO. THAT'S WHAT I REFLECT ON AND THESE ARE THE SONGS AND MUSICIAN THAT'S HELPED TO DO THAT FOR SO MANY PEOPLE AND IT'S TRANSCENDED SO MANY GENERATIONS. WATCHING, GOING TO THEIR SHOWS, I SEE HOW IT'S A YOUNGER CROWD THAT NOW CONTINUES TO SHOW UP BECAUSE THEIR MUSIC IS INFECTIOUS AND IT WAS NOT ONLY INSTRUMENTAL IN HELPING TO BRINGING US JOY AS WE WERE GROWING UP BUT IT'S FUN TO WATCH SO MANY OTHER GENERATIONS NOW COMING TO FALL IN LOVE WITH THE VERY THING THAT WE ALL FELL IN LOVE WITH SO MANY YEARS AGO. AND I WILL NOT SAY HOW MANY YEARS. BUT IT WAS A FEW YEARS AGO. OMD'S MUSIC HAS TRULY STOOD THE TEST OF TIME AND CONTINUES TO HAVE A LASTING INFLUENCE ON FANS AND ARTIST ALIKE. FROM ARTIST OF THIS GENRE WHICH HAVE HISTORICALLY NOT BEEN RECOGNIZED BY LOS ANGELES CITY COUNCIL, I WAS PROUD TO HELP CHANGE THAT TRAJECTORY AND NOW ADD THEM TO THE LIST OF THOSE REMARKABLE BANDS THAT HAVE CONTINUED TO FRANKLY NOT GET THE RECOGNITION THAT THEY WERE DESERVING OF. SO IT'S WHY I AM SO PROUD THAT THEY HAVE ACCEPTED AND BEEN AND TOOK A DETOUR ON THEIR RESUMING THEIR TOUR WHICH WILL CONTINUE AT THE HOUSE OF BLUES ON SUNDAY. BUT I'M SO EXCITED THAT THEY HAVE ADJOINED US AND ALLOWED US TO CELEBRATE THEM PROPERLY AS ANGELINOS WHO HAVE BEEN IN LOVE TO THEIR MUSIC GOING BACK TO THE FIRST PERFORMANCE AT WHISKEY GO GO, YOU KNOW, RICHARD BLADE WAS NOT ABLE TO JOIN US TODAY. BUT I HAVE TO GIVE SPECIAL RECOGNITION TO RICHARD WHO WAS THAT DEJAY ON KROQ THAT HELPED US INTRODUCE THESE ACTS. FOR THOSE OF US, OF MY GENERATION, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF YOU HAVE YOUR APPLE MUSIC NOW, OR YOUR SPOTIFY, BUT FOR MANY OF US, BEFORE WE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO GO HIT THE TOWER RECORDS, TO GO BUY OUR VINYL, WE WERE WAITING FOR RICHARD BLADE TO STOP TALKING AFTER HE INTRODUCED THE BAND, SO WE CAN PLAY HIT RECORD ON OUR CASSETTE TAPE AND CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO THE MUSIC FOR DAYS TO COME! [APPLAUSE] THE BRITISH ALTERNATIVE STRUCK A CORD WITH ANGELINOS AND ESPECIALLY THE LATINO COMMUNITY. THE THEMES OF MALANCULY FOR THOSE OF YOU NOT FAMILIAR WITH OMD, THEY ARE THE ELECTRONIC SIM-POP BAND FORMED IN ENGLAND IN 1978. THEIR INNOVATION FUSION OF SIMPOP, MADE AN ENDEARING MARK ON MUSIC. THEIR POETIC LYRICKISM HELPED SHAPE THE MODERN ALTERNATIVE AND ELECTRONIC MUSIC SCENE. FROM DEPECHE MODE IN THE 80s TO THE KILLERS OF 2000, THE WEEKEND'S BLINDING LIGHTS OF 2020s OMD'S INFLUENE CAN BE HEARD ACROSS A GENERATION OF ARTISTS. I MENTIONED EARLIER I DID A LITTLE TEASER TALKING ABOUT MY TOP FIVE OMD SONGS BUT TO BE HONEST IT WAS HARD TO PUT ONLY FIVE, BECAUSE IT'S PROBABLY MY TOP 25. ENOLAG GAY. ELECTRICITY, SOUVENIR, SONGS THAT CONTINUE TO RESONATE AROUND THE WORLD. IT'S WHY WE'RE DECLARING TODAY, OMD DAY. SO TODAY FURTHER ADO, I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE ANDY McCLUSKY TO COME ON UP. THANK YOU FOR JOINING US HERE, WE'RE SO DELIGHTED TO HAVE YOU HERE IN LOS ANGELES CHAMBERS. MAKING YOUR MUSICAL MARK HERE IN THE WORLD. WE'RE HONORED TO HAVE YOU HERE AND PROUD TO RECOGNIZE YOU TODAY. >> Speaker: THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE] WOW. THANK YOU, VERY MUCH, COUNCILWOMAN RODRIGUEZ. THANK YOU LOS ANGELES COUNCIL. AND THANK YOU TO OUR FANS IN THE L.A. AREA. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] WE HAVE PLAYED MANY VENUES IN L.A. VERY BIG ONES BUT I FIND THIS PLACE INTIMIDATING, APOLOGY. I APOLOGIZE THAT PAUL CAN'T BE HERE, HE'S IN THE AIR BUT HE'S GOING TO REHEARSE WITH US LATER OR ELSE. IT'S BEEN A LONG JOURNEY FOR ORCHESTRA MANEUVER IN THE DARK. AS YOU MENTIONED, WE PLAYED OUR FIRST CONCERT WHISKEY GO GO STAYING IN SANTA MONICA. AND TEN YEARS LATER, I MET BELINDA CARLISLE FROM THE CONSENTTIAL BAND. AND FROM WHISKEY GO GO, THE ROXY, THE FONDA THEATER, THE GREEK, AMPITHEATER, THE FORUM AND THE ROSE BOWL WITH A LITTLE BAND CALLED DEPECHE MODE. AND I, I JOKED WITH MONICA, I SAID IT'S REALLY NICE THAT LOS ANGELES GAVE DEPECHE MODE, RECOGNIZE BEFORE US, IT'S NICE HOW I WOULD DESCRIBE IT, THE APPRENTICE BEING RECOGNIZED AFTER THE MASTERS. WE ALL PROMISE WE'RE GOING TO PLAY THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL, ONCE WE'VE DONE THAT, WE GOT THE WHOLE SET AND THEN DO WE HAVE TO GO BACK TO THE WHISKEY AGAIN? >> M. Rodriguez: WHY NOT. >> Speaker: WE BOTH HAVE AMAZING CONNECTIONS TO THIS GREAT CITY. PAUL MARRIED A GIRL FROM TARZANA AND HAS A WONDERFUL DAUGHTER MADELINE WHO STILL LIVES HERE AND WORKS HERE. SO WE HAVE THIS PERSONAL CONNECTION AS WELL. YOU MENTIONED RICHARD BLADE, OBVIOUSLY A FELLOW WHO HAS BEEN ADOPTED BY LOS ANGELES. HE WAS ONE OF THE ONLY DJs THAT PLAYED US ON KROQ WHEN SOME OF THE OTHERS DID NOT PLAY US. THEY DIDN'T THINK IT WAS FIT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION AND I GUESS IT WAS, AND YOU HAVE, I TOLD YOU THIS WAS COOL MUSIC. I TOLD YOU THESE GUYS ARE GOING TO CHANGE THE WORLD. REALLY IT'S A GREAT DAY FOR THE BAND AND EVERYBODY HERE TO SAY THANK YOU. AND LONG WAY AMAZING JOURNEY WITH THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES CONTINUE. THANK YOU SO MUCH. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] >> M. Rodriguez: THANK YOU. >> Council President: OKAY, WE HAVE SOME MEMBERS ON THE QUEUE. COUNCILMEMBER LEE. >> J. Lee: THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER RODRIGUEZ. I CAN ALWAYS COUNT ON YOU TO BRING US BACK TO OUR TIME IN THE 80s. OMD, YOU SAY LIKE WHERE YOU WENT TO HIGH SCHOOL MAYBE, YOU ARE ONE OF THE ALONE PEOPLE THAT KNEW HIM, BUT ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE VALLEY WE WERE IN LOVE WITH THE OMD. AND YOU CAN PLAY JUST THE FIRST FEW NOTES OF FEW SONGS AND IT IMMEDIATELY BRINGS YOU BACK TO A MOMENT IN TIME WHEN LIKE, AS SOON AS YOU START PLAYING IT. AND SO MY WIFE, I WAS FACE TIMING HER BUT THEN OUR BOSS WALKED N BECAUSE SHE WANTED ME TO TELL YOU THAT YOU WERE THE VERY FIRST CONCERT SHE WENT TO AT THE ROSE BOWL WITH DEPECHE MODE WHERE THEY RECORDED THAT SONG. THANK YOU FOR ALL THE YEARS THAT YOU'VE BEEN ENTERTAINING AND I WANT TO TELL YOU IT'S A GREAT TO HAVE OMD DAY IN LOS ANGELES. >> Council President: THANK YOU, MR. LEE. AND I WANT TO ADD, COUNCILMEMBER RODRIGUEZ, YOU ALWAYS BRING THE BEST BANDS HERE TO COUNCIL. AND JUST, AND TICKLE THAT MEMORY IN ALL OF US OF OUR YOUTH AND THE GREAT MUSIC THAT WE USED TO LOVE TO LISTEN TO. I WANT TO THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING HERE. YOU GUYS ARE TRULY PIONEERS IN ELECTRONIC MUSIC AND ALL THE GREAT BANDS THAT CAME AFTER YOU, IN THE 80s AND 90s, I KNOW YOU'VE BEEN CALLED THE SECOND BRITISH INVASION BUT IT REALLY IS AMAZING, NOT ONLY YOUR MUSIC BUT WHAT YOU INSPIRED BEYOND THAT TO THIS DAY, THE UNDER PINNING OF WHAT WE HEAR CAN BE TRACED BACK TO SOME OF THE EARLY WORK THAT WE'VE DONE. I KNOW YOU JUST FLEW IN, BUT I'LL SAY, IF YOU LEAVE, DON'T LEAVE NOW BECAUSE WE HAVE A WHOLE DAY AND WE WOULD LOVE IT FOR YOU TO BE HERE. AND I'LL THROW IT BACK TO MS. RODRIGUEZ. >> M. Rodriguez: I CAN ALWAYS COUNT ON YOU, BOB. YOU KNOW, I CAN ALWAYS COUNT ON YOU. I WAS SHARING WITH MY FRIENDS WHEN I DID MORESAY DAY, AND THEY WERE LIKE PLEASE STOP. I APPRECIATE THAT YOU CAN DELIVER THE LINE AS WELL. COLLEAGUES FRIENDS FANS THANK YOU FOR JOINING US IN CELEBRATING AND DECLARING ONE OF THE GREATEST BANDS THAT HAVE BEEN SUCH AN INFLUENTIAL PART OF OUR LIVES AND OUR MUSICAL HISTORY, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, HELP ME THANK AND CELEBRATE IN THE DECLARATION OF OMD DAY IN THE CITY OF L.A. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] >> THANK YOU. >> M. Rodriguez: THANK YOU. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] >> Council President: ALL RIGHT AS OUR SUPER STARS ARE EXITING THE STAGE, WE'LL ASK COUNCILMEMBER PADILLA TO HEAD TO THE PODIUM. SHE HAS A PRESENTATION. >> Council President: WE HAVE NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH, IS WHAT WE'RE LOOKING TO. [APPLAUSE] ALL RIGHT, COUNCILWOMAN PADILLA, THE FLOOR IS YOURS. AND WE WELCOME ALL OF YOUR GUESTS HERE TODAY. AND LOOK FORWARD TO THIS PRESENTATION. >> I. Padilla: ALL RIGHT, GOOD MORNING EVERY ONE. I WANT TO START, WE KIND OF STARTED THIS PRESENTATION EARLIER TODAY OVER AT THE BRIDGE PRESENTING THE ART FOR NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH. CAN WE PLEASE GIVE A ROUND OF APPLAUSE AS WE GET THIS STARTED? [APPLAUSE] I'M VERY EXCITED TO BE LEADING THIS INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT PRESENTATION TODAY. IT'S A PROFOUND HONOR TO WELCOME ALL OF OUR GUESTS TO LOS ANGELES CITY HALL AS WE COME TOGETHER TO BRAIT THE NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE CULTURE AND PRESENCE HERE IN LOS ANGELES. IT'S TIME TO HONOR THE FIRST PEOPLES OF THIS REGION AND CELEBRATE THEIR ON GOING LEADERSHIP AND SHAPING OUR SHARED FUTURE TODAY. BEFORE WE BEGIN TODAY'S PROGRAM, WE HAVE SOMETHING VERY SPECIAL TO DO AND IT IS MY PRIVILEGE TO WELCOME CHIEF ANTHONY MORALES, CHAIRMAN OF THE SAN GABRIEL BAND OF INDIAN TO SEE OFFER US A WELCOME. >> Speaker: THANK YOU, COUNCILWOMAN. [SPEAKING IN NATIVE LANGUAGE] GREETINGS AND WELCOME TO ALL OF YOU. MY NAME IS CHIEF RED BLOOD ANTHONY MORALES, AND I'M ACCOMPANIED BY OUR MEMBERS AND MY SON YOUNG CLOUD WHO WILL BE START INING PRAYER IN OUR LANGUAGE. I THANK YOU FOR DECLARING NOVEMBER NATIVE AMERICAN MONTH. THIS HONORS OUR ANCESTORS WHO INHABITED THE VILLAGE OF WHERE WE ARE TODAY IN LOS ANGELES. IT'S ALSO HONORS OUR TRIBE THE GABRIELINO AND ALL NATIVE AMERICAN FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY THAT MAKE LOS ANGELES THEIR HOME. THIS HONORING GIVES OUR CULTURE A VOICE AND VISIBILITY. IN THE MEMORY OF ALL OUR ANCESTORS. MY SON ANDREW YOUNG CLOUD WILL DO AN OPENING PRAYER IN OUR LANGUAGE JUST THANKING OUR CREATOR TODAY ESPECIALLY DURING THIS TIME THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE GOING THROUGH. THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE] >> Speaker: [SPEAKING IN NATIVE LANGUAGE] [APPLAUSE] >> Speaker: AT THIS TIME I WANT TO SING A WELCOME SONG, WELCOME TO NATIVE AMERICAN MONTH. [SINGING IN NATIVE LANGUAGE] [APPLAUSE] >> I. Padilla: THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR THAT. NEXT THOUGH, I WANT TO GIVE THE MICROPHONE OVER TO OUR COUNCIL COLLEAGUE, COUNCILMEMBER RODRIGUEZ SO THAT SHE CAN DO A LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND ALSO TALK ABOUT A HOW WE FINALLY GOT TO THIS PLACE AND WHERE WE'RE GOING. >> M. Rodriguez: THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER PADILLA. AND WELCOME, IT'S AN HONOR TO HAVE YOU ALL HERE. AS SOMEBODY WHO HELPED TO LEAD THIS PRESENTATION AS OVER THE LAST CUP --COUPLE OF YEARS, I'M PROUD TO READ FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT THAT WAS HELPED AND DERIVED BY THE WORK OF THE COMMISSION BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, THAT IS NOW ENSHRINED HERE IN LOS ANGELES, CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS IN PERPETUITY, THE APPROPRIATE RECOGNITION THAT THE FIRST PEOPLES OF THIS NATION DESERVE TO BE RECOGNIZED FOR. AND SO, IT IS WITH MY HONOR THAT I WILL RECITE THE LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT THAT HAS BEEN ADOPTED BY THIS LOS ANGELES CITY COUNCIL. THE LOS ANGELES RECOGNIZES THAT WE OCCUPY LAND ORIGINALLY AND STILL INHABITED BY THE KAOESH, TOGAN AND CHUMOKSH PEOPLE. WE --ACKNOWLEDGE THAT COLONIZATION RESULTED IN--THIS IS TRUTH AND HEALING AND RECONCILIATION AND ELEVATING THE STORIES, CULTURE AND COMMUNITY OF THE ORIGIN HAB TANTS OF THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES. WE ARE GRATEFUL TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO LIVE AND WORK ON THESE ANCESTORIAL LANDS AND HONR THE SELF A DEFENDANTATION OF BASE BANDS CONFIRMING THEIR CONNECTION TO ANCESTORAL ON WHERE WE LIVE. GABRIELINO LEAD BY THE GABRIELINO BAND BAND OF NATIONS, KESH, BAND OF MISSION INDIAN SXZ AND SOUTHERN SHUMOSH. GOD BLESS YOU ALL. THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE] >> I. Padilla: THANK YOU, SO MUCH COUNCILMEMBER RODRIGUEZ. NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH IS NOT JUST A COLLECTION OF CULTURE, IT'S A RESILIENCE AND REINVITATION. THIS MONTH INVITES ALL OF US TO LEARN, REFLECT AND DEEPEN OUR UNDERSTANDING OF NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORIES, LANDS AND THIRD COMMUNITIES. I WANT TO EXTEND MY SINCERE THANKS TO THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY NATIVE INDIAN COMMISSION THE NAME THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE HEARING THROUGHOUT TODAY'S PRESENTATION FOR ORGANIZING THIS PRESENTATION AND YOUR LEADERSHIP IN UPLIFTING VOICES, CULTURE, HISTORIES THROUGHOUT OF LOS ANGELES. IN A TIME WHEN SIMPLY BEING WHO WE ARE CAN MAKE US A TARGET. MOMENTS LIKE THIS THAT REMIND US OF OUR HISTORY AND RESILIENCE IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER. IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE HIGHLIGHT THE FIRST PEOPLE, THE ORIGINAL STEWARDS OF THE LAND. I'M PROUD TO STAND HERE TODAY AND RECOGNIZE EVERYTHING RELATED TO WHAT THE GREAT PEOPLE BEHIND ME HAVE DONE TO DEEPEN OUR CONTINUED PRESENCE IN THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES. SO TO EVERY ONE HERE TODAY, THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK, ADVOCACY AND DAILY CONTRIBUTIONS NOT JUST THIS MONTH BUT ALL THE TIME AS WE CELEBRATE IN IN MONTH NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE. YOUR DEMONSTRATE ENSURES THAT YOUR TRADITIONS CONTINUE TO THRIVE. AND NOW, I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE SEAN IMITATES DOG TO INTRODUCE THE NEXT PART OF THIS PRESENTATION. SAY A FEW WORDS AS WELL. >> Speaker: CALL ME DR.--PRIME RIDGE RESERVATION. I'M FROM THE PINE RIDGE INDIAN RESERVATION. AND I'M ALSO THE CURRENT CHAIR OF THE LOS ANGELES INDIAN COMMISSION AS WELL. THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER PADILLA FOR TAKING THE LEAD AND HOSTING THIS YEAR'S NATIVE HERITAGE MONTH CELEBRATION HERE IN LOS ANGELES. ON BEHALF OF THE LOS ANGELES CITY, COUNTY INDIAN COMMISSION WE'RE PROUD TO CELEBRATE NATIVE AMERICAN MONTH ALONG THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES. AND ESPECIALLY HONORED AND EXCITED TO SHARE THAT THIS YEAR MARKS THE 49th YEAR AS A COMMISSION. NEARLY HALF A CENTURY OF SERVICE AND ODD VOLUNTARY CA SEE, WE BEGIN BY ACKNOWLEDGING THE ANCESTORIAL LANDS THE SHUMOSH PEOPLE AND THOSE BROUGHT HERE. TODAY LOS ANGELES IS THE LARGEST URBAN POPULATIONS OF THE COUNTRY. OVER 300,000 NATIVE REPRESENTING OVER 200 TRIBES ACROSS THE UNITED STATES. WE HONOR AND RESPECT THE ORIGINAL STEWARDS OF THIS LAND AND CELEBRATE THE RICH DIVERSITY OF OUR COMMUNITIES AS WE CONTINUE TO SHARE OUR LANGUAGE, CULTURE, DANCE AND HISTORY WITH ONE ANOTHER. EACH YEAR, THE COMMISSION SELECTS A THEME AND THE THEME THIS YEAR, IS FIRE KEEPERS, HONORING FIREFIGHTERS AND FUTURE ANCESTORS. THE DEVASTATING FIRES THAT RAVAGED PALISADES AND ALTADENA. THIS HIGHLIGHTS WHY WE NEED TO PROTECT OUR PLANTS AND TRADITION ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE. AS NATURE IT I HAVE AMERICAN PEOPLES OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LANDS, WATERS, PLANTS AND ANIMALS, IT'S NOT JUST ECOLOGICAL, IT'S DEEPLY SACRED. FOR GENERATIONS, INCLUDING RESPONSIBLE GATHERING PROTOCOLS AND CULTURAL BURNS, BASED ON A PROFOUND UNDERSTANDING OF WORKING WITH THE ENVIRONMENT, NOT AGAINST IT. HOWEVER, AS DOCUMENTED IN KEY REPORTS SUCH AS THE L.A. HARMS REPORT AND CALIFORNIA'S FOURTH CLIMATE CHANGE ASSESSMENT, COLONIZATION VIOLENTLY DISRUPTED THE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES. THIS OPPRESSION, IN FAVOR OF FIRE SUPPRESSION HAS CONTRIBUTED TO THE CURRENT STATE OF ECOLOGICAL INBALANCE AND CATASTROPHIC WILDFIRE SEVERITY. THE DESIRED OUTCOME OF THESE FACTS IS A CALL TO ACTION, TO FORMALLY RECOGNIZE AND INTEGRATE ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE AND BASE STEWART PRACTICES SUCH AS CULTURAL BURNING INTO CON TEMPORARY LAND, FIRE AND MANAGEMENT POLICIES. [APPLAUSE] THANK YOU. THIS INTEGRATION IS NOT SIMPLY, AN ACT OF JUSTICE BUT A CRITICAL NECESSITY FOR INCREASING ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE AND REDUCING WILDFIRE RISK. IN THE FIGHT TO CONTAIN AND PUT OUT THE FIRES, WE WITNESSED SOMETHING TRULY POWERFUL, 14 NATIONS, FROM CALIFORNIA, OREGON, ARIZONA SENDING AIDS TO COVER EFFORTS. WE HONOR AND THANK THOSE NATIONS FOR THEIR GENEROSITY AND SOLIDARITY. THEIR WILLINGNESS TO HELP CAME FROM A PLACE OF KINSHIP COMPASSION AND SHARED RESPONSIBILITY. WE ARE HONORED TODAY TO HAVE IN CHAMBERS WITH US, MORONGO FIRE CHIEF ABDUL AHMED. THANK YOU, SIR. [APPLAUSE] AND WE ALSO HAVE MORONGO FIRE ENGINEER JASON WITH US AS WELL. [APPLAUSE] WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR THE TREMENDOUS SUPPORT YOU AND YOUR NATIONS PROVIDED TO OUR BELOVED LOS ANGELES. TODAY WE ALSO GET TO CELEBRATE THE 2025 HERITAGE MONTH HONOREES THAT WERE SELECTED BY THE COMMISSION EARLIER THIS YEAR. FIRST TENCHA CHAVEZ. METSI SPIRIT OF CREATIVITY HONOREE. [APPLAUSE] AND THE CHAPTER HOUSE, SPIRIT OF TRADITION HONOREE. SO THANK YOU TO THE 14 NATIONS FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND THE THREE HONOREES DOING THE GREAT WORK IN OUR COMMUNITY TO UPLIFT THE FAOEM. --PEOPLE, AS THE COMMISSION MOVES FORWARD, WE KNOW OUR WORK IS FAR FROM OVER, REMAINS COMMITTED AND STRONG, CONTINUING TO PROTECT OUR RIGHTS UPLIFT OUR VOICE SXZ CELEBRATE THE STRENGTH AND BEAUTY OF NATIVE PEOPLE. THANK YOU. >> I. Padilla: OKAY, NOW I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE TRIBAL MEMBERS OF GABRIELINO AND FERNANDOINO TO PERFORM A SONG. THAT WOULD BE THE DRUMERS, RIGHT? >> Speaker: I'M GOING TO SING THE ANCESTORS SONG, HONORING THE ANCESTORS WHO CAME BEFORE US AND IT'S FOR ALL THE NATIVE AMERICAN ANCESTORS AND EVEN ALL ANCESTORS. [SINGING IN NATIVE LANGUAGE] [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] >> I. Padilla: SO MEMBERS THIS YEAR'S THEME OF HONORING FIREFIGHTERSERS AND LEADERSHIP AND FUTURE ANCESTORS, TO CELEBRATE THE OTHER NATIONS THAT CAME TO SUPPORT DURING OUR WILDFIRES. WHEN OUR CITY NEEDED HELP, THE TRIBAL NATIONS ANSWERED THE CALL. 14 TRIBAL NATIONS SENT FIREFIGHTERS TO STAND WITH LOS ANGELES, THEIR COURAGE AND SOLIDARITY WERE A POWERFUL REMINDER THAT EVEN IN THE DARKEST MOMENTS, HUMANITY SHINES ITS BRIGHTEST. I'M MOVED BY ALL THE STRENGTH THAT ALL OF THESE TRIBES DEMONSTRATED. THIS YEAR, I HAVE THE ESTEEMED HONOR OF HONORING THE TRIBAL NATIONS. PLEASE EXCUSE ME IF I BUTCHER SOME OF THESE NAMES. BUT MAYBE YOU CAN HELP ME. BARON BAND OF MISSION INDEPENDENT ANIAN. CLAMATH TRIBES. MORONGO, NAVAHO NATION, PALA BAND, PACHENGA INDIANS. SANT YNEZ OF SHUMUSH INDIAN. VIEJAS BANDS. UHAH OF SAN MANUEL NATION. [APPLAUSE] AND THERE IS A LOT OF AMAZING PEOPLE THAT MADE IT HERE TODAY. I'M GOING TO EXCUSE ME, IF WE MISSED A FEW. I KNOW FOLKS HELPS ON RSVPING WE HAVE CHAIRMAN FROM MORONGO INDIAN NATIONS. CHAIRWOMAN LINN FROM THE YUVATIAN AND, AND YOKA WINTIN NATION. CAN WE GIVE THEM A ROUND OF APPLAUSE. BUT NOW, I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE OVER TO AS MENTIONED EARLIER, THERE IS THREE AWARDS THAT THE COMMISSION IS PROUD TO RECOGNIZE. IF I CAN PLEASE HAVE FOR THE SPIRIT OF COMMUNITY HONOREE, TENCHA CHAVEZ, PLEASE JOIN US IN THE AT THE FRONT. WELCOME. SPIRIT OF CREATIVE HONOREES MESSLY PROJECTS. [APPLAUSE] AND THE CHAPTER HOUSE FOR THE SPIRIT OF TRADITION HONOREE. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] IT IS MY HONOR TO ACKNOWLEDGE AND CELEBRATE ALL OF YOU AND LET'S GIVE YOU EACH AN OPPORTUNITY TO SAY A FEW WORDS. WELCOME. [APPLAUSE] >> Speaker: I HAVE TO PUT A TIMER FOR ME BECAUSE I CAN KEEP TALKING. [SPEAKING IN NATIVE LANGUAGE] GOOD MORNING, I'M TENCHA I'M NAVAHO BORN TO THE MIDDLE PEOPLE OF MEXICAN PEOPLE, MY FAMILY COMES FROM THE LITTLE WATER IN CROWN POINT NEW MEXICO. HOWEVER I WAS RAISED AND BORN IN LOS ANGELES SO I CALLED LOS ANGELES MY HOME. I'M HUMBLED TO ACCEPT AWARD FROM THE LOS ANGELES INDIAN COMMISSION AND FROM MS. PADILLA HERE. TO BE RECOGNIZED THAT HELPED ME FIND MY WAY BACK IS SOMETHING THAT I WILL CARRY WITH ME THE REST OF MY LIFE. I THINK ABOUT OCTOBER 22, 2017 , THE DAY I MADE THE DECISION TO CHANGE MY LIFE. THAT WAS THE DAY I BEGAN MY JOURNEY OF RECOVERY. IT WAS NOT AN EASY ROAD BUT I NEVER WALKED ALONE. MY COMMUNITY SHOWED UP FOR ME. FOR MENTORS WHO BELIEVED IN ME WHEN I COULDN'T BELIEVE IN MYSELF TO THE FRIENDS THAT CHECKED IN AND PRAYED WITH ME, YOU CARRIED ME WHEN I COULD NOT CARRY MYSELF. THAT'S BUILT ON THAT SPIRIT, THE SPIRIT OF ANCESTORS AND THE HOPE THAT IS NO ONE IS EVER BEYOND HEALING. WE LIFT EACH OTHER UP. WE HOPE SPACE FOR EACH OTHER'S PAIN. THIS AWARD IS NOT JUST MINE, IT BELONGS TO EVERY ONE WHO HAS WALKED WITH ME, EVERY ONE WHO CONTINUES TO FIGHT FOR HEALING AND EVERY ONE WHO CHOOSES LOVE AND COMMUNITY OVER ISOLATION AND DESPAIR. FROM MY BOTTOM OF MY HEART, THANK YOU TO THE COMMISSION, TO MY MENTORS AND DAUGHTERS AND EVERY PERSON WHO BELIEVED IN SECOND CHANCES. THIS IS OUR SHARED VICTORY. SHAHAD. THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE] >> I. Padilla: LESLIE. >> Speaker: I'M JUAN GARCIA, WICHOL ON MY FATHER'S SIDE FROM THE MOUNTAINS OF JALISCO. MY MOM WAS DEPORTED TO MEXICO TO A PLACE SHE DID NOT KNOW. SO THAT PART OF MY FAMILY IS DISCONNECTED. AND I SHARE THAT BECAUSE OF THOSE THAT BROUGHT US HERE. I DO WANT TO THANK THE FIRST PEOPLES OF THIS PLACE WHO HAVE HOSTED US, WHO FOR US, HAVE TRUSTED WITH THE WORK THAT WE DO. WE SUPPORT OUR ARTIST BUT WE SUPPORT ARTIST NOT BECAUSE, ARTISTS DO ART FOR ART SAKE, YOU KNOW, THE NATIVE ARTIST WORK TO SUSTAIN THE TRADITIONS AND THE WORLD VIEWS OF OUR PEOPLE. AND I KIND OF LOST WHAT I WAS SAYING, BECAUSE I'M LISTENING TO OMD. BUT I THINK THAT COMES THROUGH AND I'M JUST GOING TO A PARTY I LISTEN TO OMD I THINK THAT'S COMING THROUGH BECAUSE IT'S THOSE LACK OF RESOURCE THAT'S METSI PARTIES HAVE COME TO BUILD THAT HE CAN OTHER SYSTEM THAT OUR ARTIST NEED TO BE ABLE TO GROW AND YOU KNOW, HAVE EXHIBITIONS LIKE THE ONES TODAY. WE DO OUR WORK SO THAT THE GENERATION THAT'S FOLLOW US NEVER HAVE TO WONDER WHETHER THEY CAN BE ARTIST AND SUSTAIN THEIR FAMILIES. WE LIVE IN THE CREATIVE CAPITOL OF THE WORLD AND WE STILL DON'T HAVE THE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR ARTIST TO FULLY THRIVE. SO THAT'S THE WORK THAT WE DO AND WE COULDN'T DO IT WITHOUT THE SUPPORT OF THE TRIBAL COMMUNITIES HERE. WE'RE THANKFUL AND THANKFUL THAT THE COMMISSION HAS RECOGNIZED OUR WORK. ART LET'S US BRING IN A LOT OF BEAUTY TO COMPLICATED. AND WE HOPE THAT WITH OUR WORK WE'RE ABLE TO UPLIFT THE WORK OF ALL OF THESE PEOPLE HERE, SO THAT IN THE FUTURE YEARS, WE DON'T HAVE TO SAY LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND THAT OUR LIFE WAY AS GUESTS OF THESE LANDS. THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE] >> I. Padilla: CHAPTER HOUSE? COME ON OVER. >> Speaker: GOOD MORNING, EVERYBODY, [SPEAKING IN NATIVE LANGUAGE] I'M A EMMA ROBBINS AND I'M THE FOUND AND HER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF CHAPTER HOUSE. WE ARE--WE ARE AN INDIGENOUS ARTS ORGANIZATION THAT IS BAYEDS HERE IN TONGAL LAND IN ECHO PARK. I WANT IT THANK YOU, I'M MYSELF ARE FROM THE NAVAHO NATION AND I'M SO BLOWN AWAY BY THE INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY AND HOW WELCOME EVERY ONE HAS BEEN. I LOOK AROUND AND I SEE THIS INDIGENOUS JOY, WE BRING FOLKS TOGETHER CENTERING AROUND NATIVE JOY, THOSE FROM RESERVATIONS, THE FIRST PEOPLES OF THIS LAND, URBAN NATIVES AND REALLY FOCUSING ON HOW WE CAN BRING THESE SPACES INTO PUBLIC AREAS AS WELL. I'M SO HONORED AGAIN AND I WANT TO SAY COME TO THE INDIAN FLEE ON DECEMBER 15th AT THE BROAD. WE WOULD LOVE TO HAVE EVERYBODY HERE BECAUSE WE WILL HAVE NATIVE JOY, WE WILL HAVE ART, AND WE WILL HAVE A LOT OF ARTIST PRESENT. BUT THANK YOU EVERYBODY AND THANK YOU TO THE COMMISSION FOR THIS AMAZING AWARD. AND SHOUT OUT TO ALL OF OUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND VOLUNTEERS WHO CAME TODAY. [APPLAUSE] AND SHOUT OUT TO OUR UNOFFICIAL DIRECTOR OF HOSPITALITY, MY DAUGHTER. [LAUGHTER] >> I. Padilla: ALL RIGHT, YOU WANT TO TALK? OKAY. OKAY. YES, COULD WE GIVE JUST A ROUND OF APPLAUSE TO THE ENTIRE COMMISSION AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ALEXANDRIA VALDEZ. IS OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR HERE? WAS SHE ABLE TO MAKE IT ANYWAY. SHE IS OUTSIDE, GETTING READY TO CELEBRATE OUTSIDE. THAT'S FINE, BUT JUST REMEMBER, IT REALLY TOOK A VILLAGE TO PUT THIS TOGETHER. SO THANK YOU ALL. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. BUT NOW I WANT TO SOMEBODY INVITE SOMEBODY FROM THE FAMILY TO SAY A FEW WORDS. COME ON OVER. >> Speaker: GOOD MORNING, EVERY ONE. IT'S A PLEASURE TO BE HERE WITH YOU TODAY ON BEHALF OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CULTURE AFFAIRS. MY NAME, ASSISTANT MANAGER, NOT AT ALL. MY NAME IS CHRIS CONCEPTION, I'M FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF CULTURE AFFAIRS AND IT'S MY PLEASURE TO BE HERE WITH ON BEHALF OF OUR GENERAL MANAGER, WHO WAS ENABLE TO BE HERE. I WOULD LIKE TO START BY THANK HADING MAYOR BASS, COUNCILMEMBER PADILLA AND ENTIRE COUNCIL FOR YOUR COMMITMENT TO HONORING VISIBILITY, AND CULTURE AND OF THE NATIVE'S AND PEOPLE. OUR MAYOR AND COUNCIL BELIEVES STRONGLY BUILDING UNDERSTANDING, REVEALING IDENTITY AND EMPOWERING DIVERSE COMMUNITIES. THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP IN THIS WORK, IT IS SO IMPORTANT ESPECIALLY DURING THESE TIMES. I'D ALSO LIKE TO THANK THE L.A. CITY COUNTY INDIAN COMMISSION EXAMINE OUR COMMUNITY COLLABORATERS WHO'S PARTNERSHIP THIS MONTH WAS VITAL TO THE CREATIVE OF THIS YEAR'S NATIVE AMERICAN MONTH CALENDAR AND CULTURAL GUIDE. AS THE CITY'S ARTS AND CULTURAL AGENCY WE BELIEVE THAT ART IS ONE OF THE OLDEST FORMS OF STORYTELLING, REVEALING HISTORY, CONVEYING IDENTITY AND FOSTERING UNDERSTANDING. THROUGH ART, WE HAVE LEARNED ABOUT THE SACREDALITY AND HISTORY OF THIS LAND. THE IMPACT IS GROUNDING, FAR REACHING AND EVER LASTING. DCA IS PROUD TO BRING INDIGENOUS ART INTO CIVIC BUILDINGS, HOMES AND COMMUNITIES THROUGH OUR ANNUAL NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH CALENDAR AND CULTURAL GUIDE WHICH YOU CAN NOW VIEW AT CULTURE DOTLA CITYDOT-GOV--WE INVITE YOU TO. ALSO THROUGH THIS GUIDE, WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO ENCOURAGE THE INDIGENOUS VISUAL AND LITERARY ARTIST. THERE ARE 44, EXCUSE ME, THERE ARE ART TWLORKZ FOR 44 L.A. ARTISTS, INCLUDING KATIE DORMING. [APPLAUSE] BEFORE WE TALK ABOUT MORE ABOUT THE ART WORK AND INVITE KATIE UP TO SPEAK. YOU KNOW, WE'VE HAD THE PLEASURE OF BEING JOINED BY HER TODAY AND I WOULD LIKE TO INTRODUCE HER. SHE IS A TONGUA NATIVE. SHE MAKES PAINTINGS AND WRITING, RECLAIMING AND RECASTING WORKING HOLLYWOOD AND ITS LAND ROLES AND HISTORY. HER WORK HAS BEEN EXITED IN GALLERIES AND MUSEUM SUCH AS THE AUTRY MUSEUM, NAZARIAN IN LOS ANGELES, GAOUR RO GALLERY IN SAN FRANCISCO, FORM AND CONCEPT IN SANTA FE AND MORE. SHE ATTENDED THE INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN ARTS IN SANTA FE AS A RESIDENT AND ARTIST AND RESIDENCY IN NEW YORK. PLEASE JOIN ME IN WELCOMING KATIE DORME. >> Speaker: THANK YOU, THANK YOU SO MUCH. MI HIJA, LOS ANGELES ORIGINALLY. [SPEAKING NATIVE LANGUAGE] SO, ANYTHING THAT HE DIDN'T SAY ABOUT MY INTRODUCTION I'M TONGUA AND MY ANCESTORS WERE FROM THE VILLAGE OF KASHNA. THE PAINTINGS INCLUDED IN THIS GUIDE ARE FROM A SPECIAL ILLUSTRATION PROJECT THAT I DID. THE FIRST CHILDREN'S BOOK THAT I EVER ILLUSTRATED ABOUT TOY PARINA, IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHO SHE IS, YOU NEED TO FIND OUT ABOUT HER, IT'S VERY INFORMATIVE. SHE IS AN IMPORTANT FIGURE IN HISTORY. A TONGUA MEDICINE WOMEN WHO LEAD A REBELLIAN AGAINST THE SAN GABRIEL MISSION IN 1985. SHE DID WHAT WAS RIGHT NO MATTER THE COST AND I THINK WE CAN ALL LEARN FROM HER. I DID MY BEST TO ILLUSTRATE IT ACCURATELY, EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE NO PHOTOGRAPHS OF THAT ERA AND ONE OF MY BIGGEST JOY IS REPOPULATING THE LANDSCAPES OVER FLOWING WITH NATIVE PLANTS. THANK YOU AGAIN, AND GO PLANT IN NATIVE PLANTS ON ANY LAND YOU THAT IS NATIVE AREA. IT'S PLANTING SEASON. [APPLAUSE] >> I. Padilla: THANK YOU, THANK YOU ALL FOR THAT. ON BEHALF OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS. COLLEAGUES, PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU'RE IN COMMUNICATION WITH DCA TO GET YOUR SET OF CATALOGUE THIS YEAR, THEY'RE A SUPER UNDER RATED PIECE THAT WE DON'T DBT ENOUGH AND THE DEPARTMENT DOES A WONDERFUL JOB IN PUTTING TOGETHER THESE EVENTS. I KNOW THAT MY OFFICE IS INTENTIONAL IN PUSHING THEM OUT. AND YOU COULD APPRECIATE THE CHEAT SHEET. SO GET YOUR COPIES. PUT THEM IN YOUR LOBBIES, PASS THEM OUT, MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE PART OF EVERYTHING YOU DO. SO WITH THAT, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. >> Council President: BEFORE YOU FINISH, WE HAVE A FEW MEMBERS ON THE QUEUE. IF I CAN GIVE THE FLOOR TO COUNCILMEMBER JURADO FOLLOWED BY COUNCILMEMBER LEE. >> Y. Jurado: THANK YOU, I WANT TO THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER PADILLA FOR INVITING ALL OF THESE FOLKS HERE TODAY. I APPRECIATE YOUR LEADERSHIP IN MAKING SURE THAT OUR ARTS AND OUR HISTORY INCLUSIVE OF NATIVE PEOPLE AND MAKING SURE THAT OUR DIVERSITY IS PROPERLY REFLECTED IN THE PEOPLE'S HOUSE. AS A SCI-FI HEADING, LOVING CHAPTER HOUSE AND THE CONCEPT AND HOW TO BRING US BACK TO OUR TRUER REALITY. I APPRECIATE YOU HONORING THEM AS WELL AND AS WE CONTINUE TO SHAPE OUR HISTORY TO BE REFLECTIVE OF THEIR TRUE SELVES AND I'VE OFTEN SAID THAT MY ROLE IS WE STEWARD THE RESOURCES AND LIVE PEOPLE LIFT WAY THEY AND IT WAS THE GOVERNMENT THAT WAS CREATE IN OPPOSITE AND IT'S UP TO US TO TEND THE LAND EXAMINE CARE FOR IT AND FIGHT THE JOHN LOCK OF WHAT USE ACTUALLY MEANS AND EN VIEW OUR LAWS OF WHAT CARE ACTUALLY IS, WHICH IS WHAT YOU'RE ALL DOING IN THE FIRST PLACE. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BRINGING THIS TO LIGHT. COUNCILMEMBER PADILLA THANK YOU FOR DOING WHAT YOU DO AND I REALLY APPRECIATE EVERYTHING. THANK YOU. >> Council President: THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE] COUNCILMEMBER LEE? >> J. Lee: THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER PADILLA FOR BRINGING THE TRIBES IN HERE. I WANT TO SAY TO RUDY AND MARK, I APPRECIATE THE PRIP OVER THE YEARS AND BEING ABLE TO TALK OPENLY ABOUT SITUATIONS LIKE, LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT, AND THE, WHAT IS BEHIND THAT AND BECAUSE I THINK WHAT WE'RE REALLY LOOKING FOR IS FOR OPPORTUNITIES FOR OUR YOUTH AND I APPRECIATE THE RELATIONSHIP THAT WE HAVE, THE PARTNERSHIP THAT WE HAVE IN CREATING THAT YOUTH PROGRAM TO KEEP OUR COMMUNITIES BEAUTIFUL, I THINK THAT, I BELIEVE THAT YOU'RE SPEAKING AT OUR EDUCATORS ROUNDTABLE TO TALK ABOUT A PROGRAM THAT WE'RE CO-CREATING, HOPE OUR KIDS UNDERSTAND THAT YOUR HISTORY IS PART OF OUR HISTORY. IT'S A HISTORY OF LAND AND MORE THAN JUST A LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT TO ACTUALLY LEARN TO INSERT A PROGRAM SO THE KIDS CAN LEARN. WHEN THEY LEARN ABOUT AMERICAN HISTORY, THEY CAN LEARN ABOUT THE LAND THAT THEY'RE LIVING ON, GOING TO SCHOOL IN AND WORKING ON. AND I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE FRIENDSHIP OVER THE YEARS AND I BELIEVE MARK, I OWE YOU KOREAN FOOD. >> Council President: OKAY, COUNCILMEMBER PARK. >> T. Park: THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT AND THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER PADILLA FOR BRINGING THIS VERY IMPORTANT PRESENTATION. ON BEHALF OF MYSELF AND THE RESIDENTS OF COUNCIL DISTRICT 11, ESPECIALLY THE PACIFIC PALISADES, I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO ALL OF THE TRIBES WHO HELPED FIGHT THE FIRE, AND PROVIDED MUTUAL AID AND SUPPORT DURING THAT REALLY HORRIFIC TIME. YOUR PARTNERSHIP AND GENEROSITY, WERE INCREDIBLY INSTRUMENTAL. I MEAN AS PEOPLE WERE LITERALLY FLEEING OUR BURNING HILL SIDES, YOU WERE ALL WERE RUSHING IN TO THE FACE OF DANGER. YOUR PEOPLE HAVE KNOWN AND CARED FOR THIS REGION SINCE TIME MEMORIAL. YOU KNOW ITS ONESED, ITS SEASONS, ITS PATTERNS BETTER THAN ANYONE. COMMISSIONER, I HEAR YOUR CALL TO ACTION. AND COLLEAGUES I HOPE YOU HEAR THE CALL TO ACTION ALSO. DECADES OF POOR LAND MANAGEMENT POLICIES AND DECISIONS ABSOLUTELY CONTRIBUTED TO THE DEVASTATION THAT WE FACED HERE IN LOS ANGELES. I LOOK FORWARD TO BEING A PARTNER, TO INCORPORATING YOUR WISDOM, YOUR ADVISE AND YOUR LEARNING AS WE, AS A COMMUNITY AND AS A REGION TAKE THE STEPS FORWARD THAT WE NEED TO RECOVER FROM THESE DEVASTATING EVENTS. AGAIN ON THE BEHALF OF THE VERY GRATEFUL COUNCIL DISTRICT AND CITY OF LOS ANGELES, THANK YOU SO MUCH ALL OF YOU FOR WHAT YOU'VE DONE. THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE] >> Council President: THANK YOU. COUNCILMEMBER NAZARIAN? >> A. Nazarian: THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER PADILLA FOR HIGHLIGHTING THIS IMPORTANT PRESENTATION. I WASN'T PLANNING ON SPEAKING, WE HAVE FIVE PRESENTATIONS, SO I THOUGHT THE LESS NUMBER OF COUNCILMEMBERS SPEAK, THE BETTER BUT THIS WAS TOO IMPORTANT FOR ME. TWO QUICK REASONS. ONE, WHAT YOU REPRESENT IS SO CRITICALLY VITAL ESPECIALLY IN TODAY'S AMERICA. IF WE JUST LOOK AT HOW LONG OUR NATION, OUR COUNTY HAS TAKEN TO TAKE RESTOREATIVE STEPS TO FIX WHAT IS DONE IN THE PAST. THE HORRIFIC HARM THAT IT HAS DONE IN THE PAST. AND YET, HERE WE ARE, 200 SOME YEARS LATER, STILL COMMITTING ATROCITIES, TODAY AND HOW MANY GENERATIONS, HOW MANY DECADES IS IT GOING TO TAKE FROM TODAY FOR US TO CONSTANTLY LOOK BACK AND APOLOGIZE TO OUR OTHER BRORTS AND SISTERS WHO ARE BEING IMPACTED AND TARGETED TODAY. SO THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU DO. THANK YOU FOR YOUR PERSEVERANCE AND GRIT. THOSE THE TWO WORDS THAT I HAVE COME TO RESPECT A LOT IN MIA DIFFICULT LIFE, BECAUSE EVEN IN MY HERITAGE, I SEE HOW DIFFICULT IT IS. SO, THANK YOU AGAIN. COUNCILWOMAN FOR BRINGING THIS IMPORTANT RECOGNITION BEFORE US AND THANK YOU ALL FOR WHAT YOU DO AND FOR YOUR PERSEVERANCE. [APPLAUSE] >> Council President: THANK YOU. WHAT AN INCREDIBLE PRESENTATION, AND I WOULD LIKE TO TURN IT BACK TO YOU COUNCILWOMAN TO CLOSE. >> I. Padilla: SO WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A CONCLUDING PERFORMANCE HERE AND THEN EVERYBODY IS INVITED IN THE FORECOURT FOR MORE MUSIC, FOOD AND A TON OF JOY. >> Council President: WONDERFUL. [SINGING IN NATIVE LANGUAGE] [MUSIC] >> Council President: AS THEY'RE LEAVING THE PODIUM, I'LL ASK COUNCILMEMBER SOTO-MARTINEZ TO STEP FORWARD TO THE PODIUM. I ALSO WANT TO TAKE A MOMENT TO RECOGNIZE THAT WE HAVE ONE OF OUR DISTINGUISHED STATE SENATOR MARIA, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. LET'S GIVE HER A HAND. [APPLAUSE] SHE DOES SO MUCH FOR OUR CITY AND FOR OUR STATE. WE'RE GRATEFUL. HE'S MAKING HIS WAY TO THE POED YURJS A PRESENTATION TO HONOR CATALYST CALIFORNIA, AN INCREDIBLE ORGANIZATION. I SEE YOU'RE JOINED BY OUR COUNCIL PRESIDENT WHO LOOKS A LITTLE BIT OLDER TODAY. >> H. Soto-Martinez: HE DOES LOOK A LITTLE BIT OLDER TODAY, ONE-YEAR-OLDER. HAPPY BIRTHDAY. >> Council President: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARCH GHEEZ. >> H. >> H. Soto-Martinez: THANK YOU SO MUCH MR. CHAIR. IT'S HONOR TO CELEBRATE CAL LIST CALIFORNIA, AS THEY CELEBRATE AN ANNIVERSARY AND TO EVERY ONE FROM CATALYST CALIFORNIA, I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE TODAY AND ALL THE AMAZING WORK THAT YOU DO. FOR 25 YEARS, CATALYST CALIFORNIA HAS BEEN A LEADING FORCE FOR RACIAL EQUITY AND SYSTEMIC CHANGE. ORIGINALLY KNOWN AS ADVANCEMENT PROJECT CALIFORNIA, THEY WERE FOUNDED WITH THE MISSION OF BUILDING A MORE JUST, AND INCLUSIVE CALIFORNIA BY SHIFTING POWER BACK INTO THE HANDS OF COMMUNITY OF COLOR. IN THE PAST TWO AND A HALF DECADES, THEY'VE HAD SOME INCREDIBLE WINDS THAT WE CAN ALL CONTINUE TO MOVE ON. THEY HAVE LAUNCHED THE POWER PROJECT TRAINING THOUSANDS OF GRASS ROOTS TO ENGAGE DIRECTLY IN LOCAL AND STATE BUDGET DECISIONS. THEY RELEASED GROUND BREAKING RESEARCH EXPOSING SYSTEMIC BIAS AND POLICE TRAFFIC STOP DATA. AND THEY'VE HELPED PASS A TRULY INDEPENDENT REDISTRICTING COMMISSION FOR THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES FOR THE FIRST TIME IN OUR HISTORY. THESE HAVE BEEN INCREDIBLE WINDS HERE IN THE CITY AND IN THE STATE. THEY HAVE HOSTED COUNTLESS CONVENING ACROSS LOS ANGELES PROVIDING SPACES FOR RESIDENTS ON HOUSING, EDUCATION, PUBLIC SAFETY AND LOCAL INVESTMENT. SO THANK YOU CATALYST CALIFORNIA FOR BEING DEDICATED STEWARTS OF OUR DEMOCRACY AND PARTNERS FOR JUSTICE. NOW, WE HAVE A SPECIAL MESSAGE, VIDEO MESSAGE FROM ONE OF THEIR LONG TIME COLLABORATOR SO PLEASE TURN YOUR ATTENTION TO THE SCREEN FOR DR. MANEL PASTOR. >> Speaker: AFFECTIVE MARTIALING OF DATA ANALYSIS RESEARCH TO BE ABLE TO ASSIST COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS AS THEIR STRUGGLING, AND FIGHTING FOR EQUITY JUSTICE AND INCLUSION. BUT WHAT IS BEEN REALLY INCREDIBLE IS TO WATCH OVER THAT QUARTER CENTURY, HOW CLOSELY CATALYST HAS STOOD SIDE BY SIDE, WITH THESE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS. AND PARTICULARLY, HOW IN THIS MOMENT, IN WHICH AUTHORITYISM IS THREATENING ALL OF US. THE 25 YEARS HAS BEEN PART OF PREPARING FOR THIS MOMENT. SO KEEP UP THE FIGHT! [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] >> H. Soto-Martinez: THANK YOU, IF YOU'RE WATCHING, DR. PASTOR, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR KIND WORDS. AND NOW I'LL INTRODUCE OUR COUNCIL PRESIDENT AND BIRTHDAY FRIEND TODAY, MARQUEECE HARRIS-DAWSON. >> M. Harris-Dawson: THANK YOU SO MUCH MR. SOTO-MARTINEZ AND THANK YOU MR. CHAIR FOR ALLOWING ME TO BE PART OF AMAZING PRESENTATION. THE CATALYST CALIFORNIA IS THE GREATEST PARTNER AND COPILOT THAT THE SOCIAL JUSTICE MOVEMENT HAS IN ALL OF CALIFORNIA AND ESPECIALLY SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. IF, WE, WE THINK NOW AND WE TAKE FOR GRANTED OUR ABILITY TO ACCESS DATA ON THE INTERNET, AND THE ABILITY TO BE ABLE TO GO ON OUR COMPUTERS AND ASK AI ABOUT DATA, ABOUT ONE ZIP CODE OR ANOTHER ZIP CODE OR CANCER RATES AND ALL OF THESE OTHER THINGS. CANCER CALIFORNIA WAS THE ORGANIZATION TO PIONEER THAT WORK, SO YOU CAN GO TO ZIP CODES AND FIND OUT WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS ALONG THE 110 FREEWAY OR THE NEIGHBORHOODS NEAR ALISO CANYON IN THE VALLEY AND IN ADDITION THEY LET THE LEGAL WORK THAT WE'VE SEEN. SO WE SEE SHINY NEW SCHOOLS, YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, DIDN'T START OFF GIVING LOS ANGELES A LOT OF MONEY FOR NEW SCHOOLS. THAT HAPPENED BECAUSE CATALYST CALIFORNIA WENT TO COURT ON BEHALF OF LAUSD AND OUR CITY AND ALL OF OUR GREAT CIVIL RIGHTS LAWYERS CONNIE RICE AND SO MANY OTHERS, I WILL NOT GO DOWN THE LIST HAVE BEEN PART OF CATALYST CALIFORNIA FOR CALIFORNIA. AND A VERY DEAR FRIEND OF MINE AND JUSTICE HE QUIT AND INNOVATE OR IN THAT CAUSE HAS BEEN JOHN KIM, WHO I WANT EVERYBODY TO GIVE A BIG ROUND OF APPLAUSE ESPECIALLY HIS TEAM. CLAP IT UP FOR HIM. HE SERVED AS THE LEADER AND VISIONARY FOR THIS ORGANIZATION AND HELPED PUSH THE ORGANIZATION TO NEW LEVELS AND AND AS A RESULT, PUSHED THE SOCIAL JUSTICE MOVEMENT EVEN FURTHER THAN IT WOULD HAVE GONE WITHOUT HIM. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL, JOHN KIM. [APPLAUSE] >> Speaker: THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER SOTO-MARTINEZ, THANK YOU COUNCIL PRESIDENT, BIRTHDAY BOY MARQUEECE HARRIS-DAWSON AND TO THE ENTIRE COUNCIL FOR THIS RECOGNITION. 25 YEARS IS REALLY SOMETHING TO CELEBRATE. FROM OUR EXTRAORDINARY FOUNDERS LIKE CONNIE RICE AND MOLLY AND STEVE ENGLISH, GETTING US STARTED HERE IN LOS ANGELES TOOK DECADES OF IMPACT AND GROWTH THROUGHOUT THE STATE, WE'E HELPED TO MASSIVELY EXPAND AND TRANSFORM SCHOOL FACILITIES ACROSS CALIFORNIA TO TRANSFORM HOW WE APPROACH GANG VIOLENCE HERE IN LOS ANGELES FROM CHANGING, HOW WE ACTUALLY USE DATA AND FACTS TO MAKE BETTER AND SMARTER DECISION THAT'S HELP TO EQUITABLY ALLOCATE BILLIONS OF PUBLIC DOLLARS AND STANDING BY OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS, DURING COULD --COVID, FIRES AND INVASION OF LOS ANGELES. WE HAVE STAYED FOCUSED ON MULTI RACIAL SOLIDARITY AND BEING INFLINCHING IN THE FACE OF INJUSTICE. I THINK IT'S MEANINGFUL THAT WE'RE FOUNDED HERE IN LOS ANGELES, THE ETHOSES RUNS HERE IN L.A. THERE IS SCALE AND SIZE IN THIS CITY THAT HAS PUSHED US TO BE MORE AUDACIOUS AND L.A. HAS SEEN THEIR SHARE OF CRISIS AND THAT HAS BEEN BATTLE TESTED AND READY FOR WHATEVER IS NEXT. IT'S GREAT TO SEE HOW MANY COLLEAGUES AND FRIENDS AND ALLIES AROUND THE SOURCE HUE TODAY BECAUSE WE NEED YOUR LEADERSHIP IN SUCH A CRITICAL MOMENT FOR THE CITY. GIVEN ALL OF THE CHAOS THAT IS COMING FROM DC. IT IS NOT ALWAYS CLEAR WHAT IS OUR NEW ASSIGNMENT IN THIS NEW WORLD, FROM THE ICE DISAPPEARANCES, HR1, THE LOSS OF SNAP BENEFITS, WE'RE HE OPENING STAGE OF A WAIVE OF MASS POVERTY THAT WILL SWEEP OVER EVERYTHING. AND THEY'RE UNDERMINING OUR DEMOCRACY AT THE SAME TIME AND CAN'T KEEP OUR AIRPORTS RUNNING AT FULL CAPACITY. YES, GIVEN THIS CHAOS, IT'S HARD TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS OUR NEW ASSIGNMENT IN THIS NEW WORLD. BUT LUCKILY FOR THE COUNCIL, FOR YOU ALL NEXT WEEK, IT WILL BE CRYSTAL CLEAR WHAT YOUR ASSIGNMENT IS. ON WEDNESDAY YOU HAVE A CRITICAL VOTE AROUND THE RENT STABILIZATION ORDINANCE, IT'S ANOPPORTUNITY TO MAKE REAL HISTORIC AND LASTING CHANGE FOR THIS CITY. YOU WILL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO FACE HEAD ON THIS WAVE OF MASS POVERTY THROUGH THE RECOMMENDATIONS ON THE RENT STABILIZATION ORDINANCE WITHOUT ANY ADJUSTMENTS AND AS RECOMMENDED. IT HAS BEEN RESEARCHED AND DEBATED, IT'S BEEN SCRUTINIZED AND ORGANIZED AROUND, NOW IS THE TIME TO STAND BEHIND THE MOST IMPACTED. NOW IS THE TIME TO PASS HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS COMMITTEE, UNDER RAMAN'S LEADERSHIP, SHE IS HANDING YOU A GIFT TO TAKE NEXT WEEK, TO DO SOMETHING REAL AND HISTORIC AND TO DO SOMETHING THAT SO MANY LOW AND MODERATE LOW INCOME TENANTS NEED IMMEDIATELY. WE THANK YOU AGAIN FOR THIS RECOGNITION AND ORGANIZATION AND WE URGE YOU TO APPROVE HNH'S RECOMMENDATION NEXT WEEK. THANK YOU SO MUCH. [APPLAUSE] >> H. Soto-Martinez: JUST AS A GOOD ORGANIZER, YOU NEVER MISSED AN OPPORTUNITY TO PUSH SOMETHING. THAT'S WHAT ORGANIZING IS, YOU'VE GOT TO BE ABLE TO DO IT IN ANY SITUATION. JOHN, THANK YOU FOR YOUR WONDERFUL WORDS AND ENERGY AND PASSION THAT WE ALL NEED TO AGREE. I AGREE WITH EVERYTHING YOU SAID. WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, WOULD I LIKE THE COUNCIL PRESIDENT AND I WOULD LIKE TO PRESENT CATALYST CALIFORNIA. >> Council President: YOU HAVE A MEMBER ON THE QUEUE. >> H. Soto-Martinez: OH, WE HAVE A MEMBER. >> Council President: HOWEVER YOU WANT TO DO IT T COUNCILMEMBER PRICE WOULD LIKE TO SAY A FEW WORDS. >> C. Price: THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. I JUST WANT TO THANK COUNCILMEMBER MARTINEZ AND COUNCIL PRESIDENT MARQUEECE HARRIS-DAWSON FOR BRINGING CATALYST, THEY'VE BEEN A UNIQUE TOOL. AND MY CONSTITUENTS IN CD9 HAVE BENEFITED FROM YOUR ADVOCATESHIP AND YOUR COMMITMENT TO MAKING THINGS BETTER. AND WE JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU CONGRATULATIONS. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, BACK TO YOU TO CLOSE THIS INCREDIBLE PRESENTATION. >> H. Soto-Martinez: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, ON BEHALF OF THE ENTIRE CITY COUNCIL, WE WOULD LIKE TO PRESENT THIS CERTIFICATE TO CATALYST CALIFORNIA FOR 25 YEARS AND HERE'S TO 25 YEARS MORE. PLEASE GIVE THEM A ROUND OF APPLAUSE. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] >> Speaker: THANK YOU SO MUCH. >> Council President: OKAY AS THEY MAKE THEIR WAY OFF THE PODIUM, WE HAVE COUNCILMEMBER PARK TO THE PODIUM FOR A COLORFUL PRESENTATION, I BELIEVE. WELCOME COUNCILMEMBER PARK AND THE FLOOR IS YOURS. >> T. Park: THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT AND COLLEAGUES. IT IS A REALLY SPECIAL MORNING HERE IN CITY HALL AND I AM PROUD TO WELCOME SOME OF OUR VERY OWN FROM THE PACIFIC PALISADES, THE TEAM BEHIND THE CRAYON COLLECTION AND THEIR INSPIRING BANNERS OF HOPE PROJECT. THOSE BANNERS NOW HANG PROUDLY, OOH, LET ME GO BACK. LET ME START AT THE ACTUAL BEGINNING. FOUNDED BY PALISADESIAN AND HER DAUGHTER SOPHIA IN 2013, CRAYON COLLECTION STARTED FROM A SIMPLE IDEA, RESCUING CRAYONS THAT RESTAURANTS WOULD OTHERWISE THROW AWAY AND GETTING THEM INTO THE HANDS OF KIDS. IT BEGAN AS A LOCAL ACT OF KINDNESS BY PROMOTING SUSTAINABILITY AND INCREASING ACCESS TO ART MATERIALS AND OFFERING FREE ART EDUCATION TO UNDER SERVED SCHOOLS. BUT IT BLOSSOMS INTO AN INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT REACHING CLASSROOMS IN ALL 50 STATES AND A DOZEN COUNTRIES AND EVEN EARNING A GUINNESS WORLD RECORD FOR DONATING MORE THAN ONE MILLION CRAYONS. SHELL'S MISSION HAS ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT TWO THINGS, CARING ABOUT HER PLANET AND NATURING CREATIVITY IN CHILDREN. THIS YEAR HER TEAM TOOK EVEN DEEPER MEANING, AFTER THE DEVASTATING FIRE ON JANUARY 7th, OUR COMMUNITY NEEDED SOMETHING TO LIFT OUR HEARTS AND REMIND US WHO WE ARE. THEY WENT TO TEACHERS TO PROMPT STUD TOENTS REFLECT ON WHAT HAPPENED WHILE REMEMBERING WHAT THEY LOVED MOST OF THEIR COMMUNITY. THAT'S HOW BANNERS OF HOPE FOR PACIFIC PALISADES WAS BORN, A COLLABORATION AMONG 11 DIFFERENT SCHOOLS WHO'S STUDENTS CREATED WORKS OF ART AND CHOSE THREE WORDS OF HOPE TO REPRESENT THE FUTURE THEY IMAGINED FOR THEIR HOMETOWN. THEIR BANNERS NOW PROUDLY HANG FROM EVERY LIGHT POLL IN THE PALISADES, A RIBBON OF COLOR AND SPIRIT THAT TELLS THE STORY OF UH WE RISE TOGETHER AFTER A TRAGEDY. THE BANNERS OF HOPE WAS ACKNOWLEDGED BY THE MUSEUM OF CON TEMPORARY ART L.A. AND BANNERS WERE ON DIS PLATE AS PART OF THE GRAND AVENUE ART ACCESS. COLLECTION DID NOT STOP THERE, THEY RESTOCKED SUPPLY PROJECTS FOR EVERY SCHOOL AND LAUNCHED FREE ART SPACE PROGRAMS TO HELP STUDENTS PROCESS LOSS AND FIND JOY AGAIN. IT'S A POWERFUL REMINDER OF HOW CREATIVITY CAN HEAL A COMMUNITY. AND JUST FOR PERSPECTIVE, THEY DONATED OVER 3500 POUNDS OF BRAND NEW ART SUPPLIES TO EACH OF OUR PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS. SO TODAY, WE'RE HONORING SHEILA MORA BODI AND COVE --SOPHIA AND ENTIRE TEAM, KRISTIN GABRIEL, SHAN, CAHAKIM AND ALL 11 PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS FOR GIVING OUR CITY SOMETHING TO BE HOPEFUL ABOUT. SHEILA AND SOPHIA, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR REMINDING US THAT EVEN AFTER OUR DARKEST DAYS, COLOR ALWAYS FINDS ITS WAY BACK. SO WE HAVE A VIDEO CUED UP THAT WE WOULD LOVE TO PLAY. >> THE PALISADES IS A REALLY TIGHT-KNIT COMMUNITY THAT IS FILLED WITH TRULY INCREDIBLE PEOPLE. JANUARY 7th WAS A DAY WE'LL NEVER FORGET. IT CHANGED OUR ENTIRE LIVES. >> WHEN WE FOUND OUT THAT WE WERE GOING TO BE EVACUATED FROM SCHOOL. >> IT WAS CRAZY IT HAPPENED TO QUICKLY. >> FOR ME PERSONALLY WHEN THE PALISADES FIRES HIT, THERE WAS NO WRAPPING MY HEAD AROUND THE MAGNITUDE OF WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN. >> DRIVING TLUT PALISADES VILLAGE WAS A MOMENT THAT BROUGHT ME TO MY KNEES. I DON'T THINK EVEN GHOST TOWN IS THE RIGHT WORD, IT WAS JUST, JUST DEVASTATION, THERE WAS NO SIGN OF US. THE BEST PART OF THE PALISADES, THE PEOPLE, THE COMMUNITY. IT WAS A REALIZATION THAT IN ORDER TO BRING THIS COMMUNITY TOGETHER, WE NEED SOMETHING TO UNITE US. [APPLAUSE] >> T. Park: WOW, IT'S STILL INCREDIBLY HARD TO SEE THOSE IMAGES AND, THESE INCREDIBLE ACTS OF SERVICE, THIS EXTRAORDINARY COMMUNITY. IT JUST KEEPS SHOWING UP. TO FIND WAY TO SEE MAKE IT BETTER. I'M SO INCREDIBLY PROUD OF YOU. THANK YOU FOR THAT. IT IS MY HUGE PRIVILEGE AND HONOR TO INTRODUCE SOPHIA MOROBODI SOMEBODY WHO HAS BEEN CREATING COLOR AND JOY TO TELL US MORE OF WHAT SHE IS DOING. [APPLAUSE] >> Speaker: OKAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH TO ALL THE COUNCIL FOR THIS INCREDIBLE HONOR. I'M SOPHIA AND I'M THE COFOUNDER OF CRAYON COLLECTION. AN BEHALF OF ALL OF US WE'RE SO GRATEFUL TO BE RECOGNIZED HERE OUR BANNER OF HOPE PROJECTS. SEEING THE PLACE I'VE CALLED HOME FOR THE LAST 18 YEARS, DEVASTATING BY THE FIRES, WAS TRULY HEART BREAKING. OUR RESPONSE WAS TO HELP THROUGH CREATIVITY, TO USE ART AND RECONNECT WITH OUR COMMUNITY. WATCHING EACH SCHOOL COME TOGETHER AND CREATE SOMETHING MEANINGFUL DURING SUCH A DIFFICULT TIME AND SEEING THE ART WORK ON THE LIGHT POLLS WAS TRULY UPLIFTING. WE'RE COMMIT TODAY BRINGING ART EDUCATION TO ALL CHILDREN SPSHL THOSE EXPERIENCING TRAUMA. WE'RE PROUD TO SHARE MESSAGES OF KINDNESS, UNITY AND RESILIENCE. TRANSFORMING OUR VILLAGE INTO A COLORFUL REFLECTION THAT DEFINES PALISADES. THANK YOU AGAIN TO COUNCILMEMBER PARK, OUR AMAZING SCHOOLS AND THE PALISADES COMMUNITY FOR EMBRACING THIS COLLABORATION. LET'S CONTINUE TO SPREAD HOPE, ONE CRAYON AND ONE BANNER AT A TIME. >> T. Park: ABSOLUTELY EXTRAORDINARY AND NOW IT IS MY PLEASURE TO BRING UP TO BRING UP SOPHIA MOROBONI, SHEILA, SHOR. SHEILA, COME ON UP. >> Speaker: TO SAY YOU'RE OUR HERO IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT, WHAT YOU'VE DONE FOR OUR COMMUNITY, IS REMARKABLE AND YOU STEPPED UP TO THE PLATE LIKE WE COULD NOT HAVE ASKED FOR A BIGGER, BETEDER ANGEL TO COME REPRESENT US. THANK YOU ON BEHALF OF ALL OF US, YOU DESERVE THE BIGGEST AWARD THERE IS. AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH THE REST OF THE COUNCIL FOR THIS HONOR AND WE'RE TRULY TRULY GRATEFUL. WHAT I BEGAN DOING 15 YEARS AGO, RIGHT HERE WITH SOEF YA, I WAS GOING TO RESTAURANTS BECAUSE SHE DIDN'T LIKE MY COOKING AND EVERY TIME WE WENT TO RESTAURANTS, SHE ATE, AND AT THE END OF THE MEAL, SHE WOULD GETCRAYON SXZ AFTER, THE CRAYONS WOULD GO IN THE TRASH. AND I THOUGHT, I'M TEACHING MY CHILD HERE A THROW-AWAY SOCIETY AND TEACHERS ARE SPENDING OVER 900 DOLLARS ON CLASSROOM SUPPLIES. SO THE CRAYON COLLECTION WAS STARTED TO SCHOOLS THAT ARE TITLE 1 ALONGSIDE FIRST OUR CURRICULUM SO WE CAN REINSERT THE ARTS INTO ALL CLASSROOMS. BECAUSE IN MY OPINION P EVERY CHILD DESERVES RIGHT TO CREATE AND HAVE AN ART EDUCATION AND UNFORTUNATELY NOT EVERY ONE HAS THAT THESE DAYS. WHAT BEGAN WITH CRAYON COLLECTION EVOLVES INTO A LARGER CHANGE-MAKING ORGANIZATION THAT IS ALSO CALLED HABITS OF WASTE, WE SPEAR HEADED THE STRAW AND CONVINCED ALL FOOD DELIVERY TO CHANGE THEIR DEFAULT SETTINGS SO USERS ONLY GET PLASTIC CUTLERY UPON REQUEST. THIS YEAR JANUARY 7th AND WE WERE STUNNED. THE IMAGES YOU SAW IN THE VIDEO WERE FROM MY BACK YARD, WE'RE STILL DISPLACED. STILL TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO. THANKS TO INSURANCE COMPANIES AND NOBODY ANSWERING US, BUT IN ALL HONESTY, THERE WAS ONLY ONE THING TO DO THAT WAS TO LEAN INTO MY COMMUNITY AND DO WHAT I KNOW. AND I KNOW THAT ART HEALS. AND WITH THAT IN MIND, I HAD INVITED ALL 11 SCHOOLS TO PARTICIPATE BY CONTRIBUTING ONE WORK OF THEIR ART ALONG WITH THREE WORDS OF HOPE. TODAY WE HAVE SOME OF THE TEACHERS HERE WHO MADE ROOM FOR THIS CURRICULUM AS THEY WERE TRYING TO REBUILD A SCHOOL SOMEWHERE OUT OF NOWHERE, SOMEWHERE IN OFFICE BUILDINGS, I DON'T KNOW HOW THEY MANAGED TO PUT TOGETHER A SCHOOL WITHIN SCHOOLS AND I'M SO GRATEFUL AND THEY CREATED THE MOST BEAUTIFUL ART AND PUTTING THEM UP ON THE BANNERS, MADE UP US FEEL LIKE WE WERE REPRESENTING SOMETHING AND REPRESENT THE PEOPLE OF PALISADES. IN ALL HONESTY, IT FEELS LIKE THAT WAS THE ONE THING THAT WE COULD NOT HOLD. IT WAS SIGNS AND LAWYERS AND RUBBLE REMOVAL BUT HOW ABOUT US? AND THOSE BANNERS REPRESENT US. WE HOPE TO CONDITION THE WORK IN ALTADENA AND SO MANY OTHER AREAS. AND WE'RE SO THANKFUL AGAIN FOR THIS HONOR. >> T. Park: THANK YOU SO MUCH. REALLY TRULY THIS HAS BEEN AN INSPIRATIONAL PROJECT AND IN THE WAKE OF THE DISASTER FOR THOSE OF WHO WERE THERE, TO BEAR WITNESS, YOU SAW, IT WAS AN AWFUL SITE. NO MATTER WHAT DIRECTION, YOU LOOKED, IT WAS ABSOLUTELY HORRIFYING TO SEE. AND SO THESE, BRIGHT BITS OF LIGHT, THIS RIBBON OF COLOR STRETCHING THROUGH THE HEART OF THE COMMUNITY, HAS BEEN ABSOLUTELY GAME CHANGING AND A WAY FOR STUDENTS TO EXPRESS THEMSELVES AS WELL AFTER THESE INCREDIBLY HUGE CHALLENGE THAT THEY'VE ALL BEEN THROUGH AS YOUNG PEOPLE. SO I WANTED TO JUST TAKE A QUICK MOMENT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE SUPPORTING TEAM AND SCHOOLS. I'VE ALREADY MENTIONED JASMINE RESEND HE IS, CHLOE, KRISTIN GABRIEL AND SHANDEL. BUT I ALSO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE 7 ARROWS, ELEMENTARY, CALVARY, MARQUEZ CHARTER ELEMENTARY, K-I EDUCATION CENTER. SAINT MATTHEW, PAL' HIGH, PALI ELEMENTARY, CORPUS KRISTI AND VILLAGE SCHOOL. SO COLLEAGUES WITH THAT, I WOULD LIKE TO TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY ON BEHALF OF THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES, AND OUR COUNCIL, TO RECOGNIZE THE CRAYON COLLECTION FOR THEIR EXEMPLARY SERVICE. [APPLAUSE] THEIR WORK TRULY HAS BEEN INSTRUMENTAL IN PREPARING THIS NEXT GENERATION OF STUDENTS AND ARTIST AND THEY HAVE BEEN AT THE HELM OF LEADING HOPE AND RECOVERY IN THE PACIFIC PALISADES. CONGRATULATIONS. >> THANK YOU. >> Council President: COUNCILMEMBER PARK, WE HAVE ONE MEMBER ON THE QUEUE. COUNCILMEMBER RODRIGUEZ. >> M. Rodriguez: THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER PARK AND SHEILA AND ALL OF YOU. I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU, THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL PRESENTATION. AND IN THE WAKE OF DEVASTATATION AND HAVING TO BEEN UP TO THE PALISADES TO JOIN YOU ON MORE THAN ONE OCCASION, IT'S BEAUTIFUL TO SEW HOW THE SUPPORT IS GROWING FROM THE COMMUNITY UP AND FROM THE YOUNG PEOPLE. YOU NAILED IT, WHEN YOU TALKED ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF ART. EARLIER TODAY, WE WERE CELEBRATING MUSIC. BUT THAT LEVEL OF EXPRESSION IS SO INCREDIBLY HEALING AND SO IMPORTANT FOR YOUNG PEOPLE TO HAVE ACCESS TO IT TO HEAL THE TRAUMAS AND BE ABLE TO PROTECT THEMSELVES. WE SAUNA THOSE ARE THINGS THAT GET CUT FIRST, THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL PART OF WHAT YOUNG PEOPLE NEED TO EXPRESS THEMSELVES IN POSITIVE WAYS. I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS ALTOGETHER EXAMINE FOR PUTTING THESE YOUNG PEOPLE, PUTTING THEIR EXPRESSION, THEIR HOPE ON HEALING TO FULL DISPLAY FOR WHAT I THINK WILL BE AN ASPIRATIONAL RETURN FOR THE PALISADES. CONGRATULATIONS AND THANK YOU. >> Council President: THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER PARK. THANK YOU FOR HIGHLIGHTING THESE ORGANIZATION THAT'S BRING HEALING TO THE COMMUNITY AND THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT OF THESE ORGANIZATIONS. >> T. Park: THANK YOU AND CONGRATULATIONS AND THANK YOU TO CRAYON COLLECTION. THANK YOU. >> Council President: I BELIEVE WE HAVE COUNCILMEMBER RODRIGUEZ AND COUNCILMEMBER SOTO-MARTINEZ FOR A JOINT PRESENTATION. >> M. Rodriguez: ALL RIGHT. GOOD MORNING. COLLEAGUES, I AM THRILLED TO BE JOINED--WOW, THIS IS GREAT. I AM THRILLED TO BE JOINED TODAY BY THE SANDRAU FIGUEROA VILLA CLUB, HERE IN THE CITY HALL. TO CELEBRATE WOMAN THAT FOR MANY NEEDS NO INTRODUCTION. YOU KNOW, I RECENTLY CELEBRATED 30 YEARS THAT I FIRST ENTERED THIS BUILDING. AND, I ALWAYS REFLECT BACK ON THE INDIVIDUALS THAT MADE SUCH AN INDELABLE MARK ON MY LIFE TO HELPED TO INSPIRE AND TEACH ME AND GUIDE ME, IN HELPING TO SHAPE THE KIND OF LEADER THAT I WOULD BECOME. AND YOU KNOW, WHEN I THINK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, I MADE THE DECLARATION THAT ONLY VILLA MITCHELL WAS THE PATRIOT SAINT OF YOUNG PEOPLE. WE RECENTLY HONORED MARRIAN HAYASHI BUT WHEN I THINK ABOUT THE LEGACY OF EAST SIDE AND THE INDIVIDUALS THAT HAVE HAD SUCH A PROFOUND AFFECT OF THE VOICES OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY THE DISENFRANCHISED COMMUNITIES THAT WERE SO OFTEN OVERLOOKED AND IGNORED AND ATTEMPTED TO HAVE OUR VOICES SILENCED. I COULD THINK OF NO OTHER THAN SANDRA FIGUEROA VILLA. SANDRA HAS HAD AN INCREDIBLE HISTORY AND I WOULD BE REMISS IF I DIDN'T OBVIOUSLY, SOCHI AND JESSE THAT ARE AN IMPORTANT PART OF HER STORY. THERE IS NO SURPRISE WHY THERE IS SUCH A CROWD HERE TO CELEBRATE RECOGNIZING HER TODAY INCLUDING OUR FORMER ASSEMBLY MEMBER AND STATE SENATOR, ALL OF THESE INDIVIDUALS ARE HERE BECAUSE THERE IS NO QUESTION THE LEVEL OF CONTRIBUTION AND HISTORY THAT SHE HAS MADE. AND IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE CELEBRATE THESE TITANS OF OUR COMMUNITY AND CELEBRATE THEM IN A MANNER THAT THEY'RE DESERVING OF. BECAUSE WHILE THEY'RE CONTRIBUTION TO SEE OUR CITY, LIVE ON AND INSPIRE SO MANY OF US TO DO THE WORK THAT WE DO, WE HAVE TO TELL THESE STORIES AND WE HAVE TO INSHRINE IT IN OUR HISTORY BOOK. BECAUSE WE'RE WATCHING A PRESIDENT, WE'RE GOING TO MAKE SURE THAT IT'S PERMANENTLY ENSHRINED FOR THE PEOPLE THAT FOUGHT FOR US WHEN NOBODY ELSE DID. [APPLAUSE] FOR DECADES, SANDRA DEDICATED HER CAREER TO LIFTING UP LOS ANGELES THROUGH COMPASSION, ADVOCACY AND HER LEADERSHIP. AS THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF EL CENTRO DELL PUEBLO, FOR HA YEARS, SHE WORKED TIRELESSLY TO STRENGTHEN FAMILIES AND CREATE OPPORTUNITIES FOR THOSE WHO TOO OFTEN GO UNHEARD. SHE TRANSFORMED THE ORGANIZATION FACING A 25,000 DEFICIT WITH ONLY TWO PART-TIME STAFF INTO A NATIONALLY SERVICE PROVOIDERS WITH 80 EMPLOYEES AND ANNUAL BUDGET OF 10 MILLION DOLLARS. THROUGH YOUR VISION AND LEADERSHIP, EL CENTRO DEL PUEBLO BECAME DEBT FREE. WHILE DEVELOPING A 10-,000 SQUARE FOOT BUILDING FOR SERVICES THROUGH COMMUNITY MINDED LEASING. SHE WAS ALSO, A DISTINGUISHED MEMBER OF OUR POLICE COMMISSION AS AN APPOINTEE OF MAYOR ERIC GARCETTI IN 2013 WHERE SHE PLAYED A PIVOTAL ROAD IN CREATING POLICIES THAT GUIDE POLICE OFFICERS INTERACTIONS WITH UNHOUSED INDIVIDUALS AND IN DRAFTING THE LAPD DEESCALATION USE OF FORCE POLICY BOTH OF WHICH ARE MODELS FOR 21st CENTURY POLICING. HER COMMITMENT EXTENDS FAR BEYOND HER TITLE. SHE HAS BEEN A MENTOR, PROBLEM SOLVER AND FIERCE ADVOCATE FOR PUBLIC JUSTICE AND EDUCATION. AND THROUGH HER STEADY LEADERSHIP HAS HELPED SHAPE POLICIES THAT PROTECT SOME OF OUR MOST VULNERABLE RESIDENTS. AGAIN IT WAS WHEN I WAS A 20-YEAR-OLD STARTING AT CITY HALL THAT I WENT CD1 USED TO, CD1 AND CD13 USED TO SPLIT ECHO PARK. AND THOSE COUNCIL BOUNDARIES NEVER MEANT A DAM THING. WE WERE ALWAYS THERE WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH EACH OTHER. I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS WORK WITHING MIKE IN JACKIE GOLDBERG'S OFFICE, THERE WAS SO MUCH BEAUTIFUL HISTORY ABOUT HOW WE USED TO COME TOGETHER AND WORK WITH VERY LITTLE RESOURCES. FOR AN INSTITUTION THAT IS SO OFTEN DIDN'T RECOGNIZE OUR COMMUNITY, WE HAD TO FIGHT AND SCRAPE TO GET THE RESOURCES THAT WE NEEDED. AND SADLY SO MUCH OF THAT WORK IS WHAT INSPIRED ME TO WORK WITH YOUTH LEADERS TO CREATE THE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT. WE TAUGHT ALL OF THOSE YOUNG PEOPLE ABOUT HOW TO USE THEIR VOICE AND DEMAND CHANGE. AND I WISH THAT THIS CITY GOVERNMENT CONTINUED TO BE RESPONSIVE TO THOSE DEMANDS. SADLY THAT DOES NOT ALWAYS HAPPEN AND WE WATCH THE EROSION OF SOME OF THAT CRITICAL WORK. BUT IT'S YOUR LEGACY AND EXAMPLE THAT HELP ME GET UP EVERY DAY DETERMINED TO DO WHAT I DO AND BE AN UNAPOLOGETIC VOICE TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT, BECAUSE THERE IS NEVER A RIGHT TIME TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT, YOU DO THAT. I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR BEING THAT EXAMPLE. IT'S A SIGN, IT'S AN EXAMPLE THAT FRANKLY, NOT ALL LEADERS ARE ELECTED. [APPLAUSE] I RAN, I WANTED TO SAY. >> Speaker: I RAN AGAINST MIKE HERNANDEZ AND SHE WAS AN INTERNAL. I MET HER THROUGH THAT OFFICE AND BACK THEN, SHE WANTED TO MEET WITH ME AND TALK TO ME ABOUT THE CAMPAIGN AND HOW TO RUN AND THEN SHE TOLD ME, I WANT TO BE A CITY COUNCIL PERSON, BACK THEN AND LOOK AT HER NOW. THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE] >> M. Rodriguez: YOU KNOW, I JUST WANTED TO BE PART OF THE CHANGE AND MAKE ITING WORK FOR OUR COMMUNITY. BUT IT WAS YOUR EXAMPLE THAT TAUGHT ME SOME OF THOSE IMPORTANT EARLY FUNDAMENTAL LESSONS ON HOW TO DO IT AND FOR THAT I'M GRATEFUL. AND I WANT TO THANK MY COLLEAGUE HUGO SOTO-MARTINEZ. THIS IS NOT MY PART OF THE CITY THAT I PROUDLY REPRESENT. BUT I'M PROUD THAT I HAVE A HISTORY AND A RELATIONSHIP WITH THIS PART OF THE CITY. BECAUSE IT HELPED TEACH ME THE FUNDAMENTAL LESSONS THAT I NEED TO BE A STRONG LEADER FOR MY OWN COMMUNITY. SO FOR THAT, I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR BEING THAT EXAMPLE AND OF COURSE I WANT TO THANK XOCITL. AND I KNOW IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME. SO I JUST, I'M SO PROUD TO BE AN ELECTED MEMBER AT THIS TIME WHEN WE CAN CELEBRATE AND HONOR THE TRUE PILLARS OF OUR COMMUNITY THAT SO OFTEN DON'T GET RECOGNIZED AND I LOOK FORWARD TO OUR FUTURE UNVEILING OF SANDRA FIGUEROA VILLA SQUARE IN ECHO PARK! [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] BECAUSE THOSE ARE THE APELLIDOS THAT NEED TO BE EN SHRINED ACROSS THIS CITY. AND WITH THAT, MY HONOR AND MY FELLOW COUNCILMEMBER HUGO SOTO-MARTINEZ, BECAUSE I KNOW WE HAVE A SHARED LOVE FOR THIS WOMEN. AND I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO DO THIS. THERE WERE SO MANY CRITICAL PEOPLE THAT WERE SO INFLUENTIAL IN MY LIFE AND I WANTED TO TELL ALL OF YOU WHILE I HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO SO. THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING YOU'VE DONE NOT JUST FOR ME BUT FOR OUR COMMUNITY. WITH THAT, I THANK YOU. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, COUNCILMEMBER HUGO SOTO-MARTINEZ. [APPLAUSE] >> H. Soto-Martinez: THANK YOU SO MUCH, COUNSEL --COUNCILWOMAN, FOR DOING THIS TOGETHER. I KNOW WE TALKED ABOUT IT FEW MONTHS AGO AND IT FEELS JOYFUL TO BE HERE. THANK YOU TO SENATOR DURAZO AND BOARD OF TRUSTEE, STEVE AND ALL THE FOLKS HERE FROM EL CENTRO DEL PUEBLO. IT'S ALWAYS GREAT TO UPLIFT A MEMBER FROM THE COMMUNITY, SOMEBODY LIKE SANDRA. EL CENTRO IS LITERALLY NEXT TO OUR FIELD OFFICE IN ECHO PARK. AND I KNOW SHE HAS BEEN SERVING THERE AS AN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR ALMOST 45 YEARS. BUT I FIRST MET SANDRA RIGHT AS I WAS FINISHING MY CAMPAIGN. I REMEMBER MEETING AT YOUR HOUSE, AND TALKING AND JUST MEETING HER, THERE WAS AN IMMEDIATE CONNECTION. THERE IS AN IMMEDIATE CONNECTION BECAUSE OF THE WORK, OFTHE PEOPLE THAT WE KNEW, THE VALUES, AND JUST WHAT WE WANTED TO SEE IN THIS WORLD. AND IT'S NOT OFTEN THAT YOU MEET SOMEBODY THAT YOU HAVE THAT IMMEDIATE CONNECTION. NOW, I'VE SPENT 16 YEARS WITH MY FORMER EMPLOYIERS AND I THOUGHT WAS A LONG TIME. BUT BEING THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR SINCE 1980, MEANS YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE A CERTAIN TYPE OF PERSONALITY TO CONTINUE TO BE THE PILLAR IN THE COMMUNITY. AND YOU KNOW, EL CENTRO DEL PUEBLO DOES SO MUCH. WHEN YOU SHOW UP, YOU'RE GOING TO SEE FOLKS FEELING LOVED AND VALUES. AND WE DO SO MUCH OUT OF THAT SPACE FROM GIVING AWAY, BACKPACK GIVEAWAYS, TOY GIVEAWAYS, BASKETBALL GIVEAWAY. THAT SPACE IS THE PART OF THE SPACE. I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU DO IT. I'VE ASKED, HOW DO YOU GET SO MANY PEOPLE, BUT THEY SHOW UP, HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE SHOW UP AND IT'S BEEN A WONDERFUL TIME THERE. ONE OF MY JOYFUL AND SADDEST MOMENT IS WITH YOUR INVITATION TO YOUR BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT. THEY HAVE A BEAUTIFUL COURT LOWRIDER STYLE DESIGN. SO MY TEAM AND I, WE HAVE DOANY WHO IS 6-4, I'M NOT GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE OUTCOME BUT WE DIDN'T DO WELL. WE LUKE TO WIN IN CD13 BUT IT WAS FUN BEING THERE WITH THE KIDS AND COMMUNITY. BUT WHAT I THINK GIVES ME A LOT OF INSPIRATION ABOUT SANDRA AND THEIR TEAM, THEY'RE NOT SATISFIED, THEY WANT TO CONTINUE TO EVOLVE AND BRING A VISION. SO A FEW MONTHS AGO, MAYBE LATE LAST YEAR, WE WERE LIKE, HOW CAN WE, YOU KNOW, BRING IN SORT OF UNITE HRE, ORGANIZING STYLE AND DEVELOP FOLKS AND DO MORE ORGANIZING? I LOVE DOING THAT STUFF. AND SANDRA WAS LIKE LET'S DO IT. LET'S BRING A MORE INTENSE ORGANIZING STRUCTURE TO THE COMMUNITIES THAT WE ALREADY HAVE TO MAKE IT EVEN STRONGER. AND SHE'S LIKE, WE'RE GOING TO DO IT. AND WE HAVE BENEFITED FROM THAT COLLABORATION WITH CD13. BECAUSE WHEN THE RAIDS STARTED HAPPENING AND THE ATTACKS STARTED HAPPENING IN OUR COMMUNITIES, WE HAVE THE SYNERGIES, WE HAVE THE RELATIONSHIP TO BE ABLE TO RESPOND TO EVERYTHING THAT WAS GOING ON IN THE COMMUNITY. WE QUICKLY DEPLOYED FOOD DISTRIBUTIONS AND RENTAL ASSISTANCE AND WHATEVER THE COMMUNITY NEEDED, AND THAT GIVES, THAT JUST MADE ME INCREDIBLY PROUD, BECAUSE IT'S NOT OFTEN WHAT YOU HAVE SOMEBODY IN THE COMMUNITY THAT HAS THAT SAME VISION. SO IT'S BEEN WONDERFUL TO HAVE YOU AND CONTINUE TO CELEBRATE YOU AND I KNOW, WOEL CONTINUE TO WORK ON SO MANY THINGS. I JUST WANT TO SAY, THAT SANDRA ES GUERRA, ES UNA CHINGONA AND LIKE THE YOUNG KIDS SAY, THE YOUTH, SHE IS A BADIE THANK YOU SO MUCH. I'LL PASS IT BACK TO COUNCILWOMAN RODRIGUEZ. >> M. Rodriguez: THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER SOTO-MARTINEZ. NOW I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE OUR DISTINGUISHED SENATOR FROM THE 27 THEDING DISTRICT, MS. MARIA. >> Speaker: THANK YOU, THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER RODRIGUEZ AND SOTO-MARTINEZ FOR THIS MOTION. IT IS SUCH AN HONOR TO RECOGNIZE A WOMAN WHO WHO'S LEGACY IS WOVEN INTO THE VERY FABRIC OF ECHO PARK AND ALL OF LOS ANGELES. IS WE CELEBRATE NOT JUST NAMING A STREET CORNER, NOT A LIFETIME, A LIFETIME OF SERVICE, ADVOCACY AND CHANGE. SANDRA FIGUEROA VILLA! YES! SOUNDS BEAUTIFUL. SHE HAS SPENT OVER 4 DECADES UPLIFTING OUR COMMUNITIES. BECOMING THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL DEL PUEBLO, TWO PART-TIME STAFF, A DEFICIT BUT SHE WALKED IN THOSE DOORS AND SHE CHANGED EL CENTRO AND AS A RESULT OF THAT, SHE CHANGED OUR COMMUNITY. BUILDING A NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED SOCIAL SERVICE PROVIDER WITH 8 EMPLOYEES AND A 10 MILLION DOLLARS BUDGET. SHE HAS BECOME, SHE HAS MADE EL CENTRO A SANCTUARY FOR OUR FAMLIES. FOR OUR YOUTH AND LITTLE KIDS AND OLDER KIDS AND TEENAGERS AND YOU SEE, OUR SENIORS, THEY ALL HAVE A PLACE THERE. DAY TREATMENT PROGRAMS, CULTURAL COMPETENT SERVICES TO REDUCE VIOLENCE AND STRENGTHEN OUR FAMILIES. NAMING THIS INTERSECTION OF SUNSET BOULEVARD AND LAMOIN STREET AS THE SANDRA FIGUEROA VILLA SQUARE IS MORE THAN SYMBOLIC, IT'S A PERMANENT TRIBUTE TO A WOMAN WHO HAS TURNED COMPASSION INTO INFRASTRUCTURE. THIS CORNER BY THE WAY, MY DISTRICT OFFICE IS IN HER BUILDING. AND YOU KNOW, IT'S, I, I WALK WHEN I'M WALKING INTO MY OFFICE, I TAKE A SHORTCUT AND I WALK THROUGH THE OFFICES OF EL CENTRO. SO I SEE THE WORK. AT DIFFERENT HOURS OF THE DAY, I SEE THE WORK THAT SHE AND THE STAFF AND THE ORGANIZERS DO EVERY SINGLE DAY. THEY DISTRIBUTE FOOD, ESPECIALLY IN THESE TIMES WHEN THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS CUTTING BACK, THEY'RE STEPPING UP TO PROVOID MORE. I SEE YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE BOXING PROGRAM, TAKING SKATEBOARDING CLASSES, OR JUST SIMPLY STOPPING BY AND TAKING PART IN ANY ONE OF THEIR MANY RECREATION PROGRAMS. IT WAS THE CENTER OF EARTH DAY, IT WAS THE CENTER OF PLACE FOR PRIDE ECHO PARK. IT WAS THE CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES. PEOPLE KNOW, OUR COMMUNITY KNOWS WHERE TO GO WHEN THEY NEED HELP. AND THEY LEARN HOW TO BECOME VOLUNTEERS FOR THE PROGRAMS THAT OTHER PEOPLE NEED. SHE SERVED ON THE BOARD OF POLICE COMMISSIONERS SO SHE HAS LOOKED AT THE WHOLE CITY AND POLICIES OF DEESCALATION AND HUMANE TREATMENT OF UNHOUSED INDIVIDUALS. SHE REMINDS US, LEADERSHIP IS NOT ABOUT TITLES, IT'S ABOUT BEING THERE BESINGER IT'S ABOUT SHOWING UP, DAY AFTER DAY, YEAR AFTER YEAR FOR THE PEOPLE WHO NEED US MOST AND EVEN WHEN SHE WAS FACING HER OWN PERSONAL HEALTH STRUGGLES, SHE NEVER STOPPED CARING ABOUT OUR COMMUNITY AND FIGHTING FOR OUR COMMUNITY. GRACIAS. [APPLAUSE] AND AGAIN, THANK YOU TO THE XOCHTL AND JESSE FOR ALLOWING HER TO DO SO MUCH FOR OUR COMMUNITY AND SUPPORTING HER SO MUCH. SO SANDRA FIGUEROA VILLA SQUARE WILL INSPIRE OUR FUTURE GENERATION THAT'S THEY OUGHT TO BE COMMITTED WITH HEART, WIN AT --INTEGRITY AND UNWAIVING COMMIT TOMENT JUSTICE. QUE VIVA SANDRA FIGUEROA VILLA! >> M. Rodriguez: QUE VIVA. THANK YOU SO MUCH, SENATOR. AND NOW OUR HONOREE AND SOMEONE WHO HAS OBVIOUSLY HAS MEANT SO MUCH TO SO MANY OF US, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, SANDRA FIGUEROA VILLA. >> Speaker: THANK YOU, EVERY ONE. GOOD MORNING. STANDING HERE AT CITY HALL MEANS SO MUCH TO ME. THIS BUILDING IS ISN'T JUST WHERE DECISIONS ARE MADE, IT'S WHERE THE HEART OF OUR CITY LIVES AND IT WAS IN THIS BUILDING IN THE 80s, I WASN'T REALLY INVOLVED IN GOVERNMENT, I WAS PROTESTING A LOT AND DOING A LOT OF THAT STUFF AND THEN I THOUGHT, OH NO NOW I HAVE TO BE THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND KIND OF OPEN MY HEART TO WHAT I'M DOING IT FOR IS WHAT ENDED UP HAPPENING TO ME. AND I LEARNED HOW CITY GOVERNMENT WORKED HERE. AND IT WAS PAINFUL FOR ME, BUT LOOK AT US NOW, YOU KNOW. I JUST, I JUST HAD TO PUT MY OWN PERSONAL AGENDA, I GUESS ASIDE AND JUST FOCUS ON THE PEOPLE THAT WE'RE SERVING. I WAS BORN AND RAISED RIGHT HERE IN LOS ANGELES. THE CITY HAS GIVEN ME EVERYTHING, MY VALUES, MY SENSE OF PURPOSE, AND MY DEEP BELIEF IN COMMUNITY. I'VE SEEN HOW STRONG WE CAN WHEN WE COME DOTING THROUGH GOOD TIMES AND THROUGH CHALLENGES. TODAY, OH GOD, TODAY AS I STAND HERE AT 71 YEARS OLD, I FEEL PROUD TO BE CONSIDERED AN ELDER, SOMEBODY WHO HAS WITNESSED THE GROWTH, THE STRUGGLES AND THE BEAUTY OF THIS CITY OVER SO MANY YEARS. I CARRY THE LESSONS OF THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE ME, AND I HOPE TO PASS, A FEW ALONG TO THE NEXT GENERATION. ESPECIALLY OLIVIA MITCHELL WAS ONE OF MY MENTOR SXZ ES AND SANDOVAL WHO IS SITTING HERE. FOR THE PEOPLE THAT KEEP FIGHTING FOR FAIRNESS, EVERY ACT OF SERVICE, EVERY MOMENT OF COURAGE, EVERY VOICE THAT SEAKS UP, THAT'S WHAT MAKES LOS ANGELES SHINE. I'M DEEPLY TO EVERY ONE WHO CONTINUES TO SERVE WITH HEART, COMPASSION AND INTEGRITY. AND I'M SO PROUD TO STAND HERE AS SOMEBODY WHO BELIEVES WITH ALL MY HEART IN THE SPIRIT OF THE CITY AND PEOPLE, AT THIS POINT, I'M BLESSED TO HAVE AN AMAZING STAFF HERE, THEY'RE MY TEAM! THEY'RE THE ONES THAT MAKE IT HAPPEN FOR THE COMMUNITY! AND I WOULD NOT BE HERE TODAY HAD THEY NOT DONE FROM THE VERY BEGINNING STARTED WITH TWO, THREE, FOUR UNTIL WE AGREE AND THE SERVICES WE HAVE COMMUNITY ASKED FOR, WE DID A LOT OF SURVEYS IN THE COMMUNITY. I HAVE FRIENDS HERE FROM HIGH SCHOOL. I HAVE FRIENDS HERE WHO DROVE FROM SAN DIEGO, ALTADENA, YOU KNOW, AND WHO KNOWS, AND THEN, AND I HAVE FRIENDS HERE FROM THAT ARE FOLLOWING MY HEALING JOURNEY AND RECOVERING HEALTH AND EVERYTHING ELSE. MANY WHO HAVE TOUCHED MY HEART. BUT MOST OF ALL, MY HUSBAND AND DAUGHTER. WHEN I TOOK OVER EL CENTRO, IT HAD NO MONEY AND I TOLD MY HUSBAND, I WAS READY TO GO TO OXY AND MY HUSBAND SAID WE CAN DO THIS, WE CAN DO THIS. HE WAS WORKING IN HIS CAREER IN EDUCATION .S SO I SAID YES, WHAT THAT MEANT YES, WHILE I DO THIS WORK, HE WILL CONTINUE HIS CAREER AND SUPPORT ME. TANK YOU, JESSE, I LOVE YOU. [APPLAUSE] AND MY DAUGHTER XOCHTL THEN WE HAD A BABY, AT 42 YEARS OLD. I WAS NOT READY, I WAS TOO BUSY DOING POLITICAL WORK AND HERE SHE IS, SHE IS 39 AND SHE AMAZING. 29 SORRY! 29! [LAUGHTER] YEAH, SHE IS 29 YEARS OLD AND WHEN I FIRST GOT SICK WITH MY HEALTH AND CANCER, SHE WAS PROBABLY NOT EVEN 20 AND IN COLLEGE AND IT WAS SO PAINFUL FOR ME TO SEE HER, YOU KNOW, GO THROUGH THAT. YOU KNOW, AND BECAUSE SHE HAD TO GO TO SCHOOL. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT, I JUST, I'M, I'M ALMOST 5 YEARS IN REMISSION! [APPLAUSE] AND SO, HERE I AM, YOU KNOW, I JUST GET UP WITH A LOT OF GRATITUDE IN THE MORNING AND I TAKE ADVANTAGE OF MY LAND, YOU KNOW, LIKE THE NATIVE AMERICANS AND COUNCIL JURADO WAS TALKING ABOUT EARLIER. WE HAVE A BIG PIECE OF LAND. AND I TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT, ESPECIALLY WHEN I HAVE TO TAKE THE DOGS FOR A WALK. IT'S ALMOST HALF ANCHOR SO I WALK AROUND IT LIKE TWO OR THREE TIMES. THAT'S MY ACTIVITY. SO ANYWAY, THANK YOU COUNCILWOMAN MONICA, AND I LOVE HER HUSBAND RAUL. HE'S AMAZING. COUNCILMEMBER HUGO, IT'S REFRESHING TO HAVE COUNCILMEMBER THAT REALLY WORKS WITH OUR COMMUNITY AND EL CENTRO DELL PUEBLO. SO THANK YOU HUGO. AND WENDY ASSEMBLY MEMBER, SHE REALLY GOT INVOLVED WITH EL CENTRO AND I APPRECIATE HER AND LOVE HER SO MUCH. YOU KNOW, WE'VE GONE THROUGH SOME THINGS TOGETHER AND IT'S BEEN AMAZING AND MARIA ELENA OVER HERE, LA JEFA. I LOVE HER, AND I'M GOING TO MISS HER WHEN THEY GOES TO THE COUNTY BECAUSE SHE IS GOING TO GO. ALL RIGHT, I LOVE YOU. YOU KNOW, HER STAFF, WE'RE LIKE A BIG FAMILY. YOU KNOW, CENTRO, TEAM, I HOPE, YOU KNOW, THAT YOU FEEL LIKE IT'S A BIG FAMILY. COUNCIL, YOU ALL ARE PART OF MY EXTENDED FAMILY AND I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH. SO THANK YOU FOR THIS HONOR. [APPLAUSE] >> M. Rodriguez: THANK YOU. SO COLLEAGUES, WITH THAT, PLEASE HELP ME CELEBRATE AND HONOR THIS INCREDIBLE WOMAN IN THE WAY WE KNOW SHE UNDERSTAND, WITH A THUNDEROUS APPLAUSE, BUT WE HONOR SANDRA FIGUEROA VILLA, FOR ALL OF HER CONTRIBUTIONS THAT HAVE LEFT A MARK ON SO MANY LIVES BUT WE LOOK FORWARD TO THE DEDICATION OF SANDRA FIGUEROA VILLA SQUARE FOR EVERY ONE TO SEE AND KNOW THE NAME OF THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF THIS REMARKABLE WOMEN. QUE VIVA SANDRA. QUE VIVA SANDRA! [APPLAUSE] >> Council President: THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER RODRIGUEZ AND SOTO-MARTINEZ FOR THAT PRESENTATION. WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON TO BUSINESS. [APPLAUSE] MADAM CLERK, WHAT IS NEXT? >> Clerk: MR. PRESIDENT THERE IS A REQUEST TO CONTINUE ITEM NUMBER 4 AND AMENDING MOTION 4-A TO WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 12th. >> Council President: WITHOUT OBJECTION, THAT WILL BE THE ORDER. >> Clerk: THE COUNCIL MAY NOW MOVE ON TO PUBLIC COMMENT. >> Council President: WE'RE NOW GOING TO MOVE ON TO PUBLIC COMMENT. PUBLIC COMMENT WILL BE TAKEN IN-PERSON IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER ONLY. MR. CITY ATTORNEY, WOULD YOU EXPLAIN THE RULES TO MEMBERS IN THE COUNCILMEMBERS WISHING TO SPEAK? >> City Attorney: SO TODAY THERE HAVE NOT BEEN ANY ITEMS FOR PUBLIC HEARING. SO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO WOULD LIKE TO PROVIDE PUBLIC COMMENT WILL HAVE UP TO ONE MINUTE FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. PLEASE KEEP IN MIND, THAT DURING GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT, YOU STILL NEED TO SPEAK WITHIN THE JURISDICTION OF THE COUNCIL WHILE WE RECOGNIZE THAT IS QUITE BROAD, IT IS NOT EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN. SO, JUST PLEASE KEEP THAT IN MIND. I HAVE A COUPLE MORE ANNOUNCEMENTS IF I CAN HAVE THE INTERPRETER MAKE THE FIRST ONE ALOUD TO THE ROOM. IF YOU REQUIRE A SPANISH LANGUAGE INTERPRETER, PLEASE MAKE SURE TO PAUSE EVERY FEW SENTENCES TO THE INTERPRETER CAN INTERPRET. >> Interpreter: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> City Attorney: DON'T WORRY WE WILL PAUSE YOUR TIME WHILE THE INTERPRETERS ARE INTERPRETING SO YOU WILL GET THE SAME AMOUNT OF TIME AS EVERY ONE ELSE. THANK YOU. >> Interpreter: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> City Attorney: ADDITIONALLY, IF YOU HAVE MADE AN ACCOMMODATION REQUEST PURSUANT TO THE ADA OR IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO AND YOU WOULD LIKE TO UTILIZE THE WIRELESS HAND HELD MICROPHONE, WHEN IT'S YOUR TURN TO SPEAK, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND AND LET THE SERGEANT KNOW SO THEY CAN PROVIDE YOU WITH THE WIRELESS MICROPHONE. ONE FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT IN ORDER TO HELP US RUN AN EFFICIENT COMMENT PERIOD, WE WOULD ASK THAT YOU PLEASE WAIT UNTIL YOU HEAR THE NAME THAT YOU SIGNED UP UNDER BEFORE LINING UP TO SPEAK. THE NAMES ARE READ ALOUD AND THEY'RE CALLED AT RANDOM, THAT MEANS THEY'RE RANDOMLY GENERATED. ONCE YOU HEAR YOUR NAME, YOU CAN LINE UP ON THE LEFT TO THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS. THANK YOU. >> Clerk: I'LL BEGIN BY CALLING THE FOLLOWING NAMES, ROSE QUACK, MANNY MORALES, BOXER GEN N AND RONNY RODRIGUEZ. >> City Attorney: YOU HAVE A MINUTE. >> Speaker: TO ALL THE CRAZY MOTHER FUCKERS, PINCHE PUTOS, IS PUTAS. [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Interpreter: YEAH, YES TO ALL OF YOU, YOU ASSHOLES YOU DON'T GIVE A FUCK AND DON'T GIVE A SHIT TO ANYTHING ABOUT ANY OF THESE MEXICANS, FUCK YOU. >> Speaker: AND FOR THIS REASON, DONALD J TRUMP HAS DONE A GREAT THING THAT IS TO STOP YOU MOTHER FUCKERS FROM DOING YOUR DIRTY BUSINESS, ORGANIZED CRIME AND IN THE NAME OF DONALD TRUMP AND PAM BONDI, FUCK YOU AMERICA! YOU'RE DOOMED. THE CHINESE, THE RUSSIAN ANS AND ALL THOSE FUCKEN CAMEL JOCK LIKE NAZARIAN, YOU'RE GOING TO LEARN A LESSON, YOU WON WON SOUP. >> City Attorney: MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, WE DO APOLOGIZE, WHILE MR. HERMAN MANAGED TO KEEP A LID ON IT FOR MOST OF THE MEETING WHICH FOR I ADMIT, HE'S ALLOWED TO PROVIDE PUBLIC COMMENT. WE APPRECIATE YOUR PATIENCE. AGAIN THEY DO NOT REPRESENT THE VIEWS OF THIS BODY COLLECT IVELY OR INDIVIDUALLY. THE BEST WAY TO GET THROUGH IS TO LET HIM GET THROUGH IT. YOU HAVE A MINUTE. >> Speaker: GOOD AFTERNOON TO MY FELLOW CONSTITUENCY OF LOS ANGELES AND CITY COUNCIL. I ASK WHEN YOU'RE GOING TO GET OFF YOUR HANDS AND DEMAND THE RESIGNATION OF JIM McDONNELL. IN THE LAST TWO YEARS, LAPD HAS COST THE TAX TAXPAYERS OVER 200 MILLION IN SETTLE FEES AND WITH THAT MONEY WE COULD HAVE PROVIDED TRANSPORTATION TO EVERY ANGELINO FOR A YEAR. WE WOULD ASK YOU TO ASK FOR THES. AND TO THE OFFICERS, PLEASE TREAT US WITH RESPECT AND WE WILL TREAT YOU WITH RESPECT. DO NOT SHOOT TEAR GAS INTO A RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD OFF OF SUNSET THAT CAN CAUSE RESPIRATORY ISSUES IN MINORS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES IN WOMEN. THERE WILL BE A CHANGE COMING NEXT YEAR AND WE WILL VOTE A SOCIAL DEMOCRAT LIKE MANDHNI. >> Clerk: BEFORE THE NEXT SPEAKER, MICHAELA CO MEN, SIM, MANUAL M, MARY F AND JOHN D. >> Speaker: GOOD MORNING, COUNCILMEMBERS I'M MANNY MORALES AND I'M WITH SAGE IN SOUTH L.A. I'M HERE BECAUSE ULA IS WORKING AND KEPT MORE THAN 10,000 FAMILIES HOUSED. AND BUILDING THE FOUNDATION OF 13,000 MORE TO PROVIDE A RENT RELIEF TO MORE THAN 10,000 HOUSEHOLDS. U OF L, AND NEW HOUSING THAT IS ALREADY MOTION, PROJECTS THAT WOULD NOT EXIST WITHOUT U LA. IF THIS FUNDING IS REDUCED THOUSANDS OF RENTERS WOULD LOSE THEIR NET. OUR CITY WOULD HAVE FEWER TOOLS TO PROVENT HOMELESSNESS AT THE MOMENT WHEN THE NEED IS THE GREATEST. THIS COMMUNITY FOUGHT FOR ULA TO HAVE MORE ACCOUNTABILITY, FAMILIES ARE WAITING FOR RELIEF AND GIVE OUR OPPOSITION AMMUNITION TO SAY THE PROGRAM IS NOT WORKING. WE NEED COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT. THANK YOU. >> City Attorney: NEXT SPEAKER. >> Speaker: HOLD MY TIME SIR, THANK YOU SIR. >> City Attorney: GOOD AFTERNOON, YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE. >> Speaker: TO THE PEOPLE FROM THE PALISADES, THANK YOU FOR SOME OF THE INFORMATION HA HAS BEEN GIVEN. IN PORTER RANCH, IF YOU HAVE A HOUSE, MAKE SURE YOU'RE INSURANCE IS UPDATED BECAUSE EVERY SIX MONTHS, THEY CHANGE IT AND IF YOU'RE NOT COVERED, YOU'RE GOING TO LOSE OUT. ESPECIALLY ON THE ENDORSEMENT WHICH IS USUALLY 20 PERCENT. PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU'RE INSURANCE IS UPDATED. AND MAKE SURE THAT YOU HAVE A HOME IN A TRUST, MAKE SURE THE TRUST IS ON THAT POLICY, BECAUSE IF NOT, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE PROBLEMS WITH THE INSURANCE COMPANY. IS MR. PRICE HERE? I WANT TO WELCOME HIM BACK AND TELL HIM MY PRAYERS ARE WITH HIM. SECONDLY, I THINK IT WAS IN 2009, I WAS BACK THERE AND THED CHIEF OF POLICE WAS THERE McDONNELL AND HE HAD LOST TO BECK AND I TOLD HIM HE HAD GREATER THINGS TO DO. THIS IS NOT IT, MR. CHIEF McDONNELL. >> City Attorney: NEXT SPEAKER, YOUR TIME IS EXPIRED, WE NEED TO MOVE ON TO THE NEXT SPEAKER. GOOD AFTERNOON. >> Clerk: SORRY. BEFORE THE NEXT SPEAKER BEGINS, I WOULD LIKE TO CALL UP KELLY, BEINTA, JESSE, SCARLET M, DAISY, GORDIE, HAIRY KIM, DALIA LUCERO AND SYLVIA F. >> City Attorney: GOOD AFTERNOON, YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE. >> Speaker: I COME HERE WEEK AFTER WEEK SAYING THE SAME THING, THE POLICE ARE NOT DOING THE MOST BASIC THINGS OF THEIR JOBS. THEY'RE NOT DOING REQUIRED RECORDS AND THE ONLY SOLUTION IS FOR TO YOU ASK THE GOVERNOR TO SEND A HANDFUL OF VODER FROM --INVESTIGATORS TO LOOK FOR MISCONDUCT. IT'S REALLY YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO MAKE THE REQUEST. PEOPLE WOULDN'T REPORT CRIMES LIKE EXTORTION SO THERE WILL BE NO EVIDENCE, NO PETITION SXZ NO PROTEST. WE KNOW YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO RESPOND TO PUBLIC COMMENTS DURING THE MEETING, BUT YOU CAN ABSOLUTELY DO IT AFTERWARDS. PLEASE EXPLAIN WHAT THE PROBLEM IS. THANK YOU. >> City Attorney: NEXT SPEAKER. GOOD AFTERNOON. >> Speaker: MY NAME IS JENNIFER COSE AK. MOST OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. ONTARIO, U.S. CITIZEN WAS SHOT ON THE SHOULDER FROM BEHIND BY A HOME AGENT. 7 PEOPLE INCLUDING A U.S. CITIZEN AND HIS TODDLER WERE KIDNAPPED BY THE AGENTS. ONE OF THE AGENTS WAS SEEN LAST WEEK AT RAPID RESPONDERS IN SANTA ANA. IT'S PRETTY HORRIFYING. ABANDONED STREET VENDORS CARTS AND VEHICLES WITH DOORS LEFT OPEN AND HAUNTING SCENES OF PEOPLE BEING TAKEN AWAY BY MASKED AGENTS. AND NOW EVEN U.S. CITIZENS ARE NOT SAFE FROM THIS RAIN OF TEARNY. WHY IS LAPD PRIORITY HAVE BEEN TO BRUTALIZE ANGELINOS AGAINST THEM. I DON'T WANT TO HEAR THAT THEY'RE HERE TO PROTECT US AND SERVE US. THERE IS ZERO ACCOUNTABILITY. NEXT SPEAKER, YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE. >> GOOD AFTERNOON, MY NAME IS DAISY AND I'M PART OF COMMUNITY LAND INTEREST IN BOYLE HEIGHTS IN EAST L.A. I'M HERE BECAUSE L.A. IS WAKING AND MAKING A REAL DIFFERENCE. IT'S KEPT MORE THAN 10,000 FAMILIES HOUSED, HELP FIND NEW AFFORDABLE PROJECTS AND BUILDING THE FOUNDATION FOR MORE THAN 10,000 OVER THE NEXT DECADES. AND IT'S ALREADY PROVIDED RENT RELIEF FOR MORE THAN 10,000 FAMILIES. THESE ARE FAMILIES WHO HAVE BEEN ABLE TO AVOID EVICTION AND HOMELESSNESS. THESE ARE THE YOUR HOUSING PROJECTS THAT WON BE BUILT WITHOUT U LA. U LA IS ALSO A TOOL THAT PRESERVES THE NATURAL OCCURRING AFFORDABLE HOUSING THAT ALREADY EXIST IN OUR CITY. AS AS LONG AS WE KEEP OUR FAMILIES HOUSED. IF THIS FUNDING WERE REDUCED, THOUSANDS *F VENDORS WOULD LOSE REALLY VITAL SAFETY NET. THANK YOU. >> Council President: BEFORE WE MOVE ON TO THE NEXT SPEAKER, I WOULD LIKE TO ASK, IF YOU SIGNED UP FOR PUBLIC TO JUST LINE UP, ON MY RIGHT, YOUR LEFT. >> City Attorney: GOOD MORNING, YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE. GO AHEAD. >> Interpreter: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Interpreter: SO YES I'M DALIA LUCERO, U.L.A. IS MAKING A DIFFERENCE, IT'S PROVIDED RENT RELIEF FOR MORE THAN 10,000 LIVING SPACE SXZ AS WELL AS PROVIDED NEW HOUSING FOR OVER 800 NEW LIVING SPACES AS WELL. IT'S ABOUT FAMILIES THAT HAVE EVADED EVICTION AND MOVED ORDINANCES OR NEW THINGS THAT ARE NOW IN BETTER NOW FUNCTIONING. [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Interpreter: PROJ ACCOUNTS THAT WOULD NOT EXIST WITHOUT ULA. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Interpreter: ANGELINOS VOTED FOR ULA TO HAVE SOLUTION THAT'S WILL LAST. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Interpreter: PLEASE DEFEND WATT VOTERS WERE ASKING FOR AND PLEASE CONTINUE TO ALLOW THEM TO KEEP FUNDING THIS. THANK YOU SO MUCH. >> Speaker: MUCHAS GRACIAS. >> City Attorney: GOOD AFTERNOON, YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE. >> Speaker: I'M FEELING FABULOUS TODAY. THE PRESIDING OFFICER KNOWS A LOT ABOUT FABULOUS, GIVING HIS NAME IN FABULOUS NEVADA ACCEPTING BRIBES WITH HUZ FORMER BOSS, MITCHELL ENGLANDER. THERE IS A LOT OF PEOPLE HERE WHO WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK TO YOU ABOUT THE VIOLENCE, THE IMPENDING FASCISM FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND WE HAVE TO SIT THROUGH TWO HOURS OF PRESENTATIONS, NOT ALLOWED TO SPEAK ON ANY OF THE AGENDA ITEMS, EVEN THOUGH, I DON'T THINK OF THEM HAVE HAD A HEARING BEFORE EVERY COUNCIL MEMBER. AND WE'VE GOT, THIS REPUBLICAN WHO CHANGED HIS PARTY AFFILIATION TO FULL VOTERS PRESIDING OVER THE MEETING, PAID BY THE LAPD WHO IS REPEATEDLY ASSISTING ICE, JIM McDONNELL. >> City Attorney: NEXT SPEAKER? >> Speaker: THANK YOU, CITY COUNCIL. I'M MA RIO PROTESTERS, THERE TO REPRESENT OUR MOST MARGINIZED. BHIEL THEY'RE BEING DRAGGED THROUGH HORRORS, WE WANT THEM TO KNOW THAT WE SEE THEM AND THEY HAVE WORTH CAN THEY'RE NOT INVISIBLE. I WANT EVERY ONE IN THIS ROOM THAT WHILE YOU DESERVE YOUR DESERVED ACCOLADES FROM THIS COUNCIL, OUR KIDNAPPED CHILDREN BEING DRAGGED THROUGH THE DARKEST TIMES OF THEIR LIVES THROUGH OUR GOVERNMENT AND THEY DON'T KNOW WHY THEY DESERVE THIS. AS PEACEFUL PROTESTERS, WE HAVE BEEN ASSAULTED. BUT WE'RE ASKING OF YOU OUR REPRESENTATIVES IS TO DO THE SAME FOR US AS WE'RE DOING FOR THE DISENFRANCHISED, WE NEED YOU TO HEAR US, PLEASE REMOVE CHIEF McDONNELL FROM HIS POSITION. THANK YOU AGAIN. >> City Attorney: GOOD AFTERNOON, YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE. >> Speaker: FIRST AND FOR MOST I WANT TO START BY ACKNOWLEDGING NATIVE AMERICAN. AT A TIME WHEN PEOPLE ARE BEING REMOVED FORCABLY. MEANWHILE THE MAYOR IS CONGRATULATING, MAYOR JOHNSON FROM CHICAGO AND NOW MANDHNI FROM NEW YORK FOR TAKING ACTIONS AGAINST THIS UNCONSTITUTIONAL ADMINISTRATION. YOU ALL SIT AND DO NOTHING. THIS COUNCIL HAS CONVERTED ITSELF INTO AN EVIDENT AGRECIOUS. BUT DO YOU SERVE US? ABSOLUTELY NOT. THE LAW IS WITH US BUT YOU ARE NOT IT SEEMS TO BE, RIGHT? GOD BLESS THIS LAND AND PROTECT THIS LAND BECAUSE IT'S VERY EVIDENT THAT YOU WILL NOT. >> City Attorney: NEXT SPEAKER. [APPLAUSE] >> Speaker: IN THE SPIRIT OF NO KINGS I WOULD LIKE TO READ THIS PASSAGE FROM THE INDEPENDENCE AMONG [READING] THAT SECURE MEN DRIVING THEIR JUST POWERS FROM THE CONSENT OF GOVERN THAT WHENEVER GOVERNMENT IS DESTRUCTIVE IT'S THE RIGHT TO THE PEOPLE TO HE SHALL I ABOLISH IT. I PUT THIS QUESTION BEFORE THE COUNCIL ARE WE NOT IN A MOMENT AND HAS THIS NOT PROVEN EVERY SINGLE MOVEMENT THAT OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS BEING DESTRUCTIVE FROM ITS DEMOCRACY AND IT'S UP TO ALL OF US, OUR GOVERNOR TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. WE CAN ALL DO THIS TOGETHER. WE NEED TO WORK TOGETHER. AND I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE A COUPLE OF MINUTES OF ANY COUNCIL TIME TO TALK ABOUT WHAT WE CAN DO TO WORK TOGETHER IN THIS MOMENT. AND WITH THAT IN MIND, I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO--. >> City Attorney: SPEAKER? GOOD AFTERNOON, YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE. >> Speaker: YES, MY NAME IS ALEX, AND I'M NOT GOING TO RECITE WHAT JENNIFER SITED EARLIER, THE FEW OF THE ALL TOO MANY ATROCITY THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS PERPETUATING IN THE CITY, WE ALL KNOW ABOUT THEM. EVEN THE POLICE OFFICERS IN THIS ROOM ARE A DIVERSE GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT SHOULD UNDERSTAND THAT THEY AND THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS ARE SUBJECT TO THE KIND OF THINGS THAT ICE AND FEDERAL AGENTS ARE HERE IN THIS TOWN. AND WE NEED TO STOP THIS. I'M THE ONLY CHILD OF TWO CONCENTRATION CAMP SURVIVORS, AND I KNOW A HITLER WHEN I SEE THEM. WE CREATING COST AND DIVERSION, A CITY THAT HAS NOT BENZINE THIS DIVISION IN SO MANY MANY YEARS. WE NEED TO STOP IT FOR ALL OF OUR SAKE AND WE NEED TO DO IT NOW! [APPLAUSE] ?AO. GOOD AFTERNOON, YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE. >> Speaker: GOOD MORNING BEINGER I'M ANAI, THE COMMUNITY AND I FOUGHT FOR ULA TO MAKE HOUSING FOR AFFORDABLE BUT CITY DELAYS ARE HOLDING IT BACK. RENTAL ASSISTANCE WAS PAUSED FOR THREE MONTHS AND THE CONTRACT IS STILL IN SIGN. THESE DELAYS HURT REAL PEOPLE AND FAMILIES ARE WAITING FOR RELIEF. THIS GIVES OUR OPPOSITION AMMUNITION TO SAY THE PROGRAM IS NOT WORKING. WE NEED TRANSPARENCY, URGENCY AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT. PLEASE FIX THE DELAYS AND PROTECT ULA FROM BEING WEAKENED. THANK YOU. >> City Attorney: GOOD AFTERNOON, YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE. >> Speaker: HELLO GOOD MORNING. CD1 WHERE WERE YOU? THE PEOPLE THAT VOTED FOR YOU, ARE BEING HIT REALLY HARD. DON'T SEND YOUR PARTNERS TO TAKE VIDEOS, ASK HOW WE'RE HEALING EACH OTHER. ASK ME, I WAS THERE. I VOLUNTEER AT HOME DEPOT ALL TIME. I'M ASKING CD1 WHERE SHE IS. SHE IS NOWHERE TO BE FOUND. THE MAYOR WEARS DODGER GEAR AND HAS TO STICK A SIDE, EITHER SHE IS DODGERS AND STICKS WITH THEM OR STICKS WITH US BEING ATTACKED. POLICE OVER STEPPING, LIKE THEY HAVE FULL IMMUNITY IS WRONG AND YET WE SEE LAPD ON HORSES BEATING ON PEOPLE. WE NEED TWO-THIRDS OF THE VOTE TO DEMAND THAT THE CHIEF RESIGNS AND YOU ALL HAVE THE POWER. THE MAYOR IS ALREADY SPOKEN ON HER STANCE AND SAYS SHE DOES NOT WANT FOR HIM TO BE RELEASED. SO YOU HAVE THAT POWER. PLEASE MAKE THAT CHOICE. [APPLAUSE] >> City Attorney: GOOD AFRP, YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH BREX SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Interpreter: YES MY NAME IS HE ESMERALDA NEGERETE. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Interpreter: I'M A PERSON WHO KNOWS THEIR NEIGHBORS AND THE PEOPLE AROUND THEM AND KNOWS ABOUT THEIR NECESSITIES EVERY DAY. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Interpreter: I'M HERE TO TELL YOU THAT ULA IS WORKING. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Interpreter: BUT THE DELAYS AND THE LACK OF IMPLEMENTATION FROM THE CITY IS MAKING IT NOT HAPPEN. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Interpreter: THOSE DELAYS ARE AFFECTING CURRENT FAMILIES THAT ARE WAITING FOR HELP RIGHT NOW. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] CAN HERE HERE TO MAKE LOS ANGELES NOT A CITY FOR THE RICH PEOPLE BUT FOR ELDER PEOPLE AND FOR IMMIGRANTS. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Interpreter: AND FOR THE COMMUNITIES OF LOW RESOURCES TO BE ABLE TO LIVE WITH STABILITY AND DIGNITY. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Interpreter: WE VOTED FOR ULA TO DO ITS JOB AND WE NEED TRANSPARENCY AND URGENCY AND INCLUSION FROM THE COMMUNITY SO IT MAY WORK. THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE] >> City Attorney: GOOD AFTERNOON, YOU HAVE ONE MONEY. >> Speaker: MUY BUENAS TARDES. >> Interpreter: GOOD AFTERNOON, I'M HE WILL ELLA GARCIA. I'M A ORGANIZER FROM COMMUNITIVE COLLECTIVE COMMUNITY POWER. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Interpreter: AND ALL I'M SAYING WHO SAYS THAT ULA IS IS NOT WORKING? >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Interpreter: BECAUSE WE WENT CANVASSING COLLECTING MORE THAN THOUSANDS OF SIGNATURES AND WE WON IT WITH A DEMOCRATIC VOTE. AND DO YOU GUYS WANT TO STOP IT IN ITS TRACK RIGHT NOW. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Interpreter: WHO IS ULA BOTHERING? THE RICH AND THE CORPORATIONS. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Interpreter: HAS WHY I'M TELLING YOU AS PUBLIC SERVANT TO PROTECT ULA. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Interpreter: BECAUSE ULA WILL CREATE MOWER HOUSING FOR OUR COMMUNITIES. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Interpreter: AND MAINTAINING OUR COMMUNITIES HOUSED AND BEING ABLE TO BE DEFENDED IN A COURT BY LEGAL REPRESENTATION. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Interpreter: AND ULA IS CREATED AS A NEW ALTERNATIVE FOR HOUSING WHICH IS A SOCIAL HOUSING. THIS IS WHAT OUR COMMUNITIES DESERVE. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Interpreter: HAS WHY I'M ASKING YOU WITH URGENCY TO PLEASE PROTECT ULA. >> City Attorney: THANK YOU, NEXT SPEAKER. GOOD AFTERNOON, YOU HAVE ONE MONEY. GO AHEAD. >> Speaker: MUY BUENOS DIAS. [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Interpreter: YES, MY NAME IS ROSA I'M A MEMBER OF COLLECTIVE COMMUNITY POWER. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Interpreter: I'M HERE TO ASK FOR YOU TO PLEASE LEAVE ULA ALONE. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Interpreter: IT WAS SOMETHING DEMOCRATIC ELECTED BY THE MEMBERS OF CALIFORNIA AND AS MUCH SHOULD BE RESPECTED. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Interpreter: AND IT'S A WAY OF STOPPING WITH HOUSING PROBLEMS AND WITH NEW EMPLOYMENT ISSUES. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] IT IS PLEASED IT'S SOMETHING THAT THE COMMUNITY NEEDS AND AS WE SAID, IF IT WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS VOTED DEMOCRATICALLY, IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE NEED. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Interpreter: PLEASE ALLOW ULA TO SHOW ITS POTENTIAL MAKING A DIFFERENCE FOR OUR COMMUNITIES. THANK YOU. >> City Attorney: AND MR. PRESIDENT, YOU ANNOUNCED EARLIER, IF ANYONE WANTED TO PROVIDE PUBLIC COMMENT, THEY CAN LINE UP. I BELIEVE WE HAVE EXHAUSTED PUBLIC COMMENT AS I DO NOT SEE ANYBODY ELSE LINED UP. >> Council President: I'M NOW CLOSING PUBLIC COMMENT ON ALL ITEMS AND GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. MADAM CLERK, WHAT ITEMS CAN COUNCIL VOTE ON? >> Clerk: THE COUNCIL MAY GO TO ITEM 5 CALLED SPECIAL BY COUNCILMEMBER PADILLA FOR AN AMENDMENT. >> Council President: I BELIEVE THAT'S AMENDMENT HAS BEEN CIRCULATED, YOUR AMENDMENT? >> I. Padilla: YES IT HAS. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, MADAM CLERK CAN YOU PLEASE OPEN THE ROLL ON THIS ITEM? CLOSE THE ROLL, TABULATE THE VOTE. >> Clerk: 10 AYES. >> Clerk: 10 AYES. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU. WHAT'S NEXT? >> Clerk: THE COUNCIL MAZ MOTIONED FOR POSTED AND REFERRAL. >> Council President: POSTED AND REFERRED. >> Clerk: THE DESK IS CLEAR. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, MEMBERS ANY ANNOUNCEMENTS? COUNCILMEMBER NAZARIAN? >> A. Nazarian: GO AHEAD. >> M. Rodriguez: ALSO, WELL NO, WE'LL BE ON HOLIDAY. I WANT TODAY INVITE EVERY ONE, VETERANS DAY IS NEXT WEEK AND WE WILL BE HOSTING, I WANT IT THANK COUNCILMEMBER BLUMENFIELD BUT IN MY DISTRICT, WE HAVE THE ONLY VETERAN'S DAY PARADE IN THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES, ON 11-11 AND YOU WANT TO THANK COUNCILMEMBER BLUMENFIELD WHO WAS ONE OF THE ORIGINAL FOUNDERS OF THE VETERANS PARADE. IT'S HELD IN THE 7th DISTRICT AND HAS BEEN FOR COUPLE OF DECADES NOW. BUT I WANT TO THANK HIM FOR HIS FINANCIAL SUPPORT, TRAGICALLY AMONG THE CHALLENGES THAT WE'RE FINDING AS A CITY IS THAT THE VERY SAME CIVIC ACTIVITIES THAT WE USED TO SPONSOR IN SUPPORT OF THE CITY ARE NOW, BEING DONE SO AT GREAT AND TREMENDOUS COST TO COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS THAT WANT TO HOST THESE TYPES OF TRADITIONS LIKE THE PARADE. WE RECEIVED A BILL, OR THE ORGANIZERS RECEIVED A BILL OF OVER 30,000 DOLLARS FOR DOT TO BE ABLE TO SUPPORT THIS EVENT. SO I WANT TO THANK COUNCILMEMBER BLUMENFIELD AND THANK ALL THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY COUNCILMEMBERS THAT WILL BE PARTICIPATING IN THIS EVENT. BUT AGAIN, IT'S JUST A REMINDER OF THE FINANCIAL IMPACTS OF THE DECISION THAT'S ARE GOING TO HINDER MORE OF THESE TYPES OF VERY IMPORTANT COMMUNITY EVENTS THAT HAVE BEEN CELEBRATED THROUGHOUT OUR CITY'S HISTORY. YOU WANT TO THANK FRED FLORES AND THE ORGANIZERS OF THE SAN FERNANDO VETERANS'S DAY PARADE AND I LOOK FORWARD FOR EVERY ONE JOINING US AT THE COMMENCEMENT AT THE LOCATION OF BRAND BOULEVARD AND LAUREL BOULVARD, IT STARTS AT 11:11. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT ANY OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS TO MY RIGHT TO MY LEFT. COUNCILMEMBER NAZARIAN. >> A. Nazarian: THANK YOU, AND THANK YOU COUNCILWOMAN FOR HIGHLIGHTING THE EVENT THAT YOU'RE HELPING LEAD. IT'S CRITICAL THAT WE REMEMBER AND HONOR OUR SERVICE MEMBERS. I, I WANTED TO TAKE A MOMENT AND RECOGNIZE A WONDERFUL INDIVIDUAL AND A MEMBER OF OUR CITY FEMALE WHO IS GOING TO BE MOVING ON TO GREENER PASTURES AND SAY A FEW WORDS ABOUT HIM. HE BEGAN HIS CAREER WITH THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES IN 2013 AS A CASE WORKER FOR COUNCILMEMBER PAUL KREKORIAN, MY PREDECESSOR IN COUNCIL DISTRICT 2. HE WORKED TO COORDINATE SPECIAL EVENTS AT THE TIME. WE CAN THANK HIM FOR THE CREATION OF NOHO SUMMER NIGHTS, THE SERIES OF FREE MOVIES AND CONCERTS IN NORTH HOLLYWOOD PARK WHICH HAVE BECOME A SUMMER TRADITION IN NORTH HOLLYWOOD. I'M NOT EXAGGERATING WHEN I SAY THAT HE'S AN EXTREMELY HARD WORKER. IT'S NO SURPRISE THAT HE ROSE QUICKLY FROM CASEWORK TORE FIELD DEPUTY AND TRANSPORTATION DIRECTOR AND BECAME HIS BOSS'S DEPUTY. TRANSPORTATION POLICY IS A NUTS AND BOLTS KIND OF FIELD AS WE ALL KNOW AND IT CAN BE VERY COLD AND BUREAUCRATIC AT TIMES BUT THERE IS NOTHING COLD OR BUREAUCRATIC ABOUT SAHAG IN FACT HE'S BROUGHT QUITE A BIT OF WARMTH TO THE ARENA P.CONSTITUENTS BECAME VERY ATTACHED TO SAHAG AND WE'RE SORRY TO SEE HIM GO. IF YOU KNOW HIM, IT'S EASY TO SEE WHY. HE'S A WARM INDIVIDUAL, AS I'VE EVER MET IN GOVERNMENT AND HE TREATS EVERY STAKEHOLDERS CONCERN AS THOUGH, IT'S JUST AS IMPORTANT TO HIM AS IT IS TO THEM. AS A DIRECTOR OF, AS THE DISTRICT 2 TRANSPORTATION DIRECTOR, HE WORKED ON EVERYTHING FROM THE CHANDLER BIKE PATH IMPROVEMENTS TO ONE OF THE LARGEST AL FRESCO'S STREET CLOSURES IN LOS ANGELES. THERE IS A SPEED HUMP AT EVERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN LOS ANGELES BECAUSE HE WORKED ON DOING THAT STARTING WITH CD2. AS A METRO BOARD DEPUTY, HE HELPED EXPAND THE METRO BIKE SHARE PROGRAM AND PARTICIPATED IN THE PLANNING OF THE DISTRICT NO HO DEVELOPMENT. THE NO HAD NOTED HO TO PASADENA TRANSIT CORRIDOR AND RIGHT LIGHT RAIL PROJECT. TWO YEARS AGO WHEN HE AND HIS WIFE CHRISTINA WELCOMED THEIR BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER LORI INTO THIS WORLD, HE LEFT DISTRICT 2 OFFICE AND JOINED THE STREET SERVICES. HE SERVED ASLY LIASON BETWEEN STREETS L.A. AND OTHER GOVERNMENTAL AGENCIES. HE DEVELOPED DEVELOP THE SIDEWALK AND AMENITIES PROGRAM WHICH IS BRINGING BENCHES, SHADE AND OTHER AMENITIES TO BUS RIDERS ACROSS THE CITY. IN HIS 12 YEARS WITH THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES, HE HAS IMPROVED THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR COUNTLESS ANGELINOS FOR YEARS TO COME. NOW HE'S LEAVING L.A., LOS ANGELES CITY TO WORK WITH FOR L.A. METRO WHERE I KNOW HE WILL CONTINUE TO DELIVER POSITIVE CHANGE FOR THE PEOPLE OF ALL OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY. I KNOW I SPEAK FOR ALL OF THE STAFF AND CONSTITUENTS OF COUNCIL DISTRICT 2, WHO KNOW HIM BEST WHEN I SAY, WE WISH HIM VERY BEST IN EVERYTHING TO COME IN THE FUTURE MONTHS AND YEARS AHEAD. AND I NEED TO ALSO ADD TO ALL OF THIS THAT I DID NOT ADD TO MY TALKING POINTS. THAT I MET FIRST MET SAHAG MANY MANY YEARS AGO WHEN HE WAS A HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT. I SAW THE SPARK IN HIM. I SAW THE TALENT IN HIM. SO A LITTLE OVER TEN YEARS AGO, I DON'T WANT TO AGE MYSELF BUT ALMOST 15 YEARS AGO, WHEN I WAS RUNNING FOR OFFICE FOR THE FIRST TIME, I BROUGHT HIM ON BOARD AND HE WORKED VERY DILIGENTLY, VERY HARD AND, AND YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE SMALL BUDGETS AND ASSEMBLY RACES. SO IT WAS, EXTREMELY IMPORTANT THE WORK THAT HE DID AND I, THE BUDGETS IN THE ASSEMBLY EVEN AFTER YOU GET ELECTED ARE MRET' SMALL. SO I ASKED COUNCILMEMBER KREKORIAN IF HE HAD A SPOT FOR A HARD WORKING INDIVIDUAL ON HIS STAFF SO HE CAN BRING HIM ON. AND WATCH HIM GROW. AND PAUL TOOK ME UP ON THE OFFER AND STARTED AS CASEWORKER AND ROSE UP. IT'S WONDERFUL THAT WHEN WE INVEST IN ONE ANOTHER, HOW WONDERFUL THINGS WITH BRIDGE IN YEARS TO COME. AND I CANNOT BELIEVE 15 YEARS LATER, SAHAG IS HERE MARRIED WITH A FAMILY AND NOW MOVING ON TO BIGGER AND BETTER PASTURES. I DON'T KNOW IF NECESSARILY BETTER BUT BIGGER PASTURES AND A PLACE WHERE WE CAN ALL CONTINUE WORKING TOGETHER. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH, CONGRATULATIONS. OUR LOSS IS L.A. METRO'S GAIN BUT I LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUING TO WORK WITH YOU. [APPLAUSE] >> Council President: THANK YOU SOUM NAZARIAN, ANY OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS? COUNCILMEMBER I CAN'T ROZ SKI? >> K. Yaroslavsky: I WANT TO EXTEND A CONGRATULATIONS TO SAHOG ON IN MOVING OVER TO ME TRO. YOU WERE INCREDIBLY HELPFUL TO US, AS WE STEPPED INTO THAT ROLE AND I HAVE A LONG SPEECH BUT I'M NOT GOING TO READ IT BECAUSE IT'S BEEN A LONG MEETING. COUNCILMEMBER RAMAN ALSO WANTED TO ACKNOWLEDGE YOUR WORK. SO THIS IS COUNCILMEMBER RAMAN'S REMARKS. COLLEAGUES I'M SORRY TO NOT BE THERE IN PERSON TO EMBODY THE JOY WHEN WE THINK OF SAHOG. HIS BIG SMILE HE REACHED OUT TO YOU US AS A NEW OFFICE TO MAKE SURE WE HAD WHAT WE NEEDED TO NAVIGATE THIS COMPLEX PLACE. WHETHER IT WAS HOW BEST TO PARTICIPATE IN METRO MEETINGS TO FOR STRATEGIC AND CREATIVE APPROACHES OF WORK WITHING DEPARTMENTS TO GET POTHOLES FIXED, BUS SHELTERS BUILT HE REMAINS OPEN AND EXCITED AND BIGHEARTED IN SHARING HIS KNOWLEDGE. WHILE HE'S NOT GOING FAR, HE WILL BE DEEPLY MISSED IN THE BUILDING AND WE WISH HIM LUCK IN THIS NEW ENDEAVOR. CONGRATULATIONS. [APPLAUSE] >> Council President:er COLLEAGUES ANY OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS? OKAY, CAN WE ALL STAND FOR ADJOURNING MOTIONS? LOOK TO MY RIGHT? ANY ADJOURNING MOTION TO MY RIGHT? ANY ADJOURNING MOTIONS ON MY LEFT? SEEING NONE, THIS MEETING IS ADJOURNED. HAPPY VETERANS DAY, EVERY ONE. WE WILL SEE YOU NEXT WEDNESDAY.