>> Council President: WELCOME TO LOS ANGELES CITY COUNCIL. TODAY IS OCTOBER 24, 2025. PUBLIC COMMENT WILL BE TAKEN IN-PERSON IN THESE JOHN IF HE RA COULD COUNCIL CHAMBERS. MADAM CLERK, LET'S BEGIN BY CALLING THE ROLL. BLUMENFIELD HARRIS-DAWSON HERNANDEZ HUTT JURADO LEE MCOSKER NAZARIAN PADILLA PARK PRICE RAMAN RODRIGUEZ SOTO-MARTINEZ YAROSLAVSKY. 10 MEMBERS AND A QUORUM MR. PRESIDENT. >> Council President: FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS. >> Clerk: APPROVAL OF MINUTES. >> Council President: WHAT'S COUNCILMEMBER McOSKER MOVES AND SECONDS. WHAT'S NEXT? I THINK SOMEBODY'S MIC IS ON. COUNCILMEMBER BLUMENFIELD MOVES COUNCILMEMBER SECONDS. CAN WE GO THROUGH THE AGENDA. >> Clerk: WOULD COUNCIL LIKE ALL ITEMS TO GO FORTHWITH. >>Council President: WITHOUT OBJECTION. >> Clerk: AND ALSO CONTINUE ITEM 5. >> Council President: WITHOUT OBJECTION, THAT WILL BE NEXT. >> Clerk: FOR ITEM 4, THE TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE AND BUDGET AND FINANCE COMMITTEE REPORTS HAVE BEEN SUBMITTED FOR COUNCIL CONSIDERATION AND IS AVAILABLE ONLINE UNDER COUNCIL FILE 25-11-11, ON THE CONTINUATION AGENDA ON ITEM 5 IS ON ITEM FOR WHICH PUBLIC HEARING HAS BEEN HELD. TEN VOTES ARE NEEDED FOR CONSIDERATION SIR. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, WITHOUT OBJECTION, THOSE ITEMS ARE BEFORE US. ANY SPECIALS MEMBERS? SEEING NO SPECIALS, WHAT ITEMS ARE AVAILABLE FOR VOTES JAO. COUNCIL MAY VOTE ON ITEMS 1 THROUGH 4, SIR. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, OPEN THE ROLL ON THOSE ITEMS, CLOSE THE ROLL, TABULATE THE VOTE. >> Clerk: 10 AYES. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, WHAT'S NEXT? >> Clerk: COUNCIL WILL NOW GO INTO PRESENTATIONS. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT WHITING MORNING OF PRESENTATION AS FRIDAYS TEND TO BE IN OUR CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS, WE'LL BEGIN WITH A VERY SPECIAL PRESENTATION LEAD BY COUNCILMEMBER RODRIGUEZ OF COUNCIL DISTRICT 7. ALONG WITH COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ OF THE FIRST DISTRICT. >> M. Rodriguez: I WAS GOING TO GO SAY, YOU MID-S ONE. YEAH, GOOD MORNING, COLLEAGUES. YEAH. >> E. Hernandez: YES, MA'AM. >> M. Rodriguez: GOOD MORNING, COLLEAGUES AND EVERYBODY IN THE HOUSE TODAY, IT IS, IT'S BEAUTIFUL TO KICKOFF WHAT IS IS OBVIOUSLY A VERY SPECIAL DAY OF PRESENTATIONS. WE'VE GOT A ROOM FULL OF GOOD FOOD CHAMPIONS, SPIRITUAL LEADERS, AND YOUTH LEADERSHIP. AND I AM TALKING ABOUT WHO, I AM SO PROUD AND DELIGHTED TO JOIN COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ TO HONOR THIS LONG OVERDUE, RECOGNITION FOR SOMEBODY THAT I'VE HAD THE TREMENDOUS PRIVILEGE OF BENEFITING FROM AND LEARNING FROM A VERY YOUNG AGE, AT THE AGE OF 20 WHEN I STARTED HERE AT CITY HALL, NONE OTHER THAN THE INCREDIBLE MARY ANNE HAYASHI, PLEASE GIVE HER A ROUND OF APPLAUSE. [APPLAUSE] AT 90 YEARS YOUNG, WE'RE STILL SO FORTUNATE TO HAVE THIS INCREDIBLE WOMAN HERE WITH US TODAY. AND I WANT TO FIRST TAKE A MOMENT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE MARIE ANNE CLUB. PLEASE STAND UP. EVERY ONE NEEDS TO KNOW WHO SHOWED UP FOR MARY ANNE TODAY. [APPLAUSE] FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS, RATHER MARY ANNE HAS BEEN ACORNER OF STONE OF YOUTH DEVELOPMENT IN OUR CITY. BEFORE, THERE WAS A YOUTH DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT, BEFORE THERE WAS SUCH OF A THING OF STRONG LEADERSHIP AND ADD VOLUNTARY COULD SEE THERE WERE THE PIONEERS THAT HELPED TO CREATE SPACE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE TO HAVE A VOICE TO BE EXPRESSED AND TO PUT THEM TO BE PART OF THE LEADERSHIP OF THE CITY. AND YOU KNOW, PREVIOUSLY WHEN I THINK OF THE, YOU KNOW, THERE IS THE FAMOUS THREE TENORS. I THINK ABOUT THE FAMOUS THREE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT LEADERS. I THINK OF MARY ANNE, SANDRA AND OLIVIA MITCHELL AND THESE ARE WOMEN POWERHOUSES THAT I HAD THE INCREDIBLE GOOD FORTUNATE AT A VERY YOUNG AGE WHEN I STARTED HERE AT CITY HALL AS A STAFFER TO LEARN FROM. THEY WERE PART OF THE EXAMPLE AND LEADERSHIP THAT HELPED ME UNDERSTAND, HOW WE NEEDED TO FORCE AND MAKE SPACE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE IN OUR CITY AND THEY HAVE BEEN PART OF THE STRONG NURTURING FORCE OF INDIVIDUALS THAT HAVE HELPED TO MAKE AN INDELABLE MARK FOR YOUNG PEOPLE ACROSS OUR CITY. FOR OVER THREE DECADES, MARY ANNE HAS SERVED AS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF ACTION COMMITTEE. IT WAS UNDER HER LEADERSHIP, THAT THE ACC HAS BEEN SUPPORTING LOW INCOME CHILDREN AND CREATING CRITICAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR GENERATIONS OF FAMILIES. THROUGHOUT HER CAREER, MARY ANNE HAS WORKED TIRELESSLY AND ADVOCATE FOR RESOURCES THAT STRENGTHEN THE CCAC'S ABILITY TO SERVE AT-RISK YOUTH. SHE HAS BUILT PROGRAMS THAT DO MORE THAN SERVE, THEY TRANSFORM. THEY HELPED YOUNG PEOPLE FIND THEIR VOICE, COMPLETE EDUCATION AND DISCOVER THEIR SENSE OF PURPOSE. UNDER HER DIRECTION, YOUTH MENTORSHIP PROGRAM EXPANDED CITY WIDE CONNECTED DOZENS OF TEENS WITH AFTER SCHOOL ENRICHMENT, HER LEADERSHIP HAS FOSTER STRONG RELATIONED BETWEEN CCAC AND LOCAL SCHOOLS LAW ENFORCEMENT AND OTHER COMMUNITY BASE ORGANIZATIONS. CREATING A NETWORK OF SUPPORT FOR THE YOUNG PEOPLE OF LOS ANGELES. HER DECADES OF SERVICE HAVE ALSO CONTRIBUTED TO THE OVERALL SAFETY, STABILITY AND VIBRANCY OF THE ANGELINO HEIGHTS NEIGHBORHOOD. YOU KNOW, I WHAT I LOVED ABOUT MARY ANNE'S STORY, I THOUGHT IT WAS ALWAYS BEAUTIFUL WHEN I, WHEN I MET THE WOMEN AND THE WAY SHE INTRODUCED HERSELF IS I AM A CROATIAN WOMAN WHO MARRIED A JAPANESE MAN, AND SETTLED IN CHINA TOWN. ISN'T THAT LOS ANGELES? RIGHT? AND AGAIN HER VERY WARM OPEN HEARTED AND BEAUTIFUL SPIRIT, IS WHY I'M SO GLAD THAT I'M A COUNCILMEMBER TO BE ABLE TO RECOGNIZE HER AND THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF SO MANY LIKE HER. BECAUSE IT WAS FOR THOSE INDIVIDUALS, THAT SAW MORE IN ME THAN AT TIMES I SAW IN MYSELF THAT I STAND BEFORE YOU TODAY. AND IT'S MY PRIVILEGE TO TELL THEIR STORIES AND TO GIVE THEM THE RECOGNITION THAT THEY DESERVE. BECAUSE AS YOUNG PEOPLE CONTINUE TO BE UNDER ASSAULT TO HAVE THEIR RESOURCES STRIPPED EVEN BY OUR OWN CITY, IT'S BECAUSE OF THE STRENGTH AND FORTITUDE OF VOICES LIKE MARY ANNE'S THAT SHE HAS STAND UP FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AND GIVING THEM A CHANCE AND A ROLE IN THEIR LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND FOR THAT I'M ALWAYS GRATEFUL AND BLESSED TO BE A PROUD DESCENDANT OF LEADERSHIP OF MARY ANNE AND OTHERS. SO MARY ANNE, I JUST WANT TO SAY HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU AND HOW MUCH I'M GRATEFUL FOR YOU. ALL THE EARLY PARTNERSHIPS WHEN I WAS IN CHARGE OF MIKE'S HOLIDAY PARTY, WHERE YOU USED TO DO ALL THE YOUTH, ARTS AND CRAFTS PROGRAMS WHEN WE WOULD BRING 600 YOUNG PEOPLE FROM ACROSS THE DISTRICT TO PLAZA DE LA RAZA A CELEBRATION THAT THEY HAD NEVER SEEN BEFORE. AND I'M JUST GRATEFUL TO BE HERE TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SAY THANK YOU AND GIVE YOU THE RECOGNITION THAT YOU DESERVE. SO PLEASE LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, ANOTHER ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR MS. MARY ANNE HAYASHI. [APPLAUSE] AND AT THIS, THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH. AND AT THIS TIME, AND I WANT TO THANK COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ. SO MUCH BECAUSE THIS MEANS SO MUCH TO ME. AND I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR PARTNERING ALLOWING ME TO PARTNER WITH YOU TO, TO GIVE THIS RECOGNITION TO MARY ANNE. I KNOW HOW PROUD YOU ARE TO REPRESENT THE FIRST DISTRICT AND TO KNOW ALL THE HISTORY AND LEGACY OF INDIVIDUALS THAT HELPED TO CREATE SUCH IMPORTANT SPACE. SO AT THIS TIME, I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE THE COUNCILMEMBER FOR THE FIRST COUNCIL DISTRICT, UNISSES HERNANDEZ. [APPLAUSE] >> E. Hernandez: THANK YOU, COUNCILWOMAN RODRIGUEZ AND THANK YOU MARY ANNE FOR EVRYTHING THAT YOU'VE DONE FOR US IN THE CITY. YOU KNOW, COLLEAGUES, MOST DAYS IN THE CHAMBERS, WE DEBATE, POLICIES AND DEBATES AND PROGRAMS AND INVESTMENTS. THAT'S A JOB. THEN THERE IS MOMENTS LIKE THIS, MOMENTS WHERE WE HAVE THE PRIVILEGE OF CORRECTING THE RECORD OF TELLING THE TRUE STORY OF LOS ANGELES, THE ONE ABOUT ORDINARY INDIVIDUALS DOING THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY THINGS, TENDING TO OUR COMMUNITIES, QUIETLY AND CONSISTENTLY AND THIS IS MARY ANNE, SHE GREW UP IN COUNCIL DISTRICT 1. WELL LET ME SAY THIS, MARY ANNE, I GREW UP IN COUNCIL DISTRICT 1, I'VE SEEN THE PAIN CAUSED BY DECADES OF NEGLECT. AND I LEARNED LONG TIME AGO WHAT YOU HAVE ALWAYS KNOWN IS THAT REAL SOLUTIONS DON'T COME FROM THE TOP DOWN THEY COME FROM THE COMMUNITY UP. FOR 45 YEARS, YOU WERE DOING THE WORK THAT THIS CITY IS ONLY NOW RECOGNIZING AS A TRUE PATH OF SAFETY. WHEN PEOPLE ADVOCATED FOR GANG INJUCTION IN ECHO PARK, YOU WERE LIKE HUH-UH, YOU HAD SAID THE COMMUNITY HAD MOVED BEYOND THE TACTICS. YOU KNEW THE ANSWER WAS NOT MORE PUNISHMENT, YOU KNEW IT WAS MORE CONNECTION SXZ OPPORTUNITIES. MARY ANNE, NO MATTER THE OBSTACLES YOU SAW IN OUR CITY, YU NEVER EVER GAVE UP IN MAKING THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE. AND IN THIS CHAMBER, WITH TALK ABOUT POLICY WINS BUT MARY ANNE, YOUR WINS ARE WALK WITHING AROUND THE CITY RIGHT NOW. YOUR WINS HAVE IMPACTED GENERATIONS IN THE CITY. THEY ARE THE PEOPLE PHOTOGRAPHED IN THE SLIDES ABOVE, THOSE WHO PERFORM BETTER IN SCHOOL BECAUSE THEY GOT HELP WITH HOMEWORK, THOSE EXPOSED TO OPPORTUNITIES BECAUSE YOU BUILT A PLACE FOR THEM. YOU SAID STANDARDS, DEMANDED NO BAD LANGUAGE AND YOU PROVIDED THE MENTORSHIP THAT HELD PEOPLE TOGETHER AND NOW HOLD FAMILIES TOGETHER ALL OVER THE CITY. MARY ANNE, YOU HAVE CHANGED THOUSANDS OF LIVES AND WE ALL SHOULD TAKE YOUR LIVE'S WORK TO HEART. TODAY I MAKE A PROMISE TO YOU, THAT MARY ANNE SQUARE WILL BE A I REMINDER TO FOLLOW YOUR LEAD TO INVEST NMENT COMMUNITY BASE SOLUTION THAT'S YOU HAVE PROVEN ARE THE ONLY THINGS THAT TRULY WORK THAT PEOPLE NOW RECOGNIZE THAT YES, THE ONLY THING THAT CAN SAVE SOMEBODY OFTEN TIMES IS A JOB. YOUR LEGACY WILL FOREVER BE PART OF THE LANDSCAPE OF LOS ANGELES AND FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART, IS THANK YOU, THANK YOU FOR EVAN NASHINGER. --EVERYTHING, THANK YOU FOR BEING BRAVE. THANK YOU FOR UPLIFTING NEW SOLUTIONS EVEN THOUGH PEOPLE WERE TELLING YOU THAT WAS NOT THE WAY TO GO. BECAUSE THAT OPENED THE PATH FOR LIKE ME TO NOW BE ABLE TO FIGHT FOR THOSE THINGS IN CITY HALL AND MAKE THEM PERMANENT AND CITY WIDE AND REMIND PEOPLE, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HUMAN BEINGS THAT NEED LOVE AND CARE. THANK YOU FOR OPENING UP THE PATH FOR PEOPLE LIKE ME TO TALK BEHIND YOU. AND I'LL NOW TURN IT BACK OVER TO COUNCILMEMBER RODRIGUEZ. >> M. Rodriguez: THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ AND THANK YOU FOR COLLABORATING ON DEDICATING WHAT WILL BE RIGHTFULLY KNOWN IN ANGELINO HEIGHTS IS MARY ANNE SQUARE RIGHT ADJACENT TO THE FOOTPRINT OF CENTRAL ACTION COMMITTEE. SO THAT IS GOING TO BE A WELCOME ADDITION TO ANGELINO HEIGHTS. WITHOUT ANY FURTHER ADIEU, COLLEAGUES, THE GREAT MARY ANNE HAYASHI. [APPLAUSE] >> Speaker: GOOD MORNING. IS IT ON? IS THE MICROPHONE ON? OKAY. I'VE BEEN BEFORE THIS COUNSEL SUL MANY TIMES OVER THE YEARS AND I REALLY TODAY, I'M REALLY NERVOUS I'VE NEVER BEEN NERVOUS BEFORE. I'VE NEVER BEEN NERVOUS BEFORE BUT I'M REALLY TOUCHED THIS MORNING. MANY YEARS I'VE, I'VE COME BEFORE COUNCIL, THE ONLY THING THAT MADE ME NERVOUS IS THE TWO-MINUTES TWO OR THREE-MINUTE I HAD TO SPEAK. AND I'M WONDERING NOW, COUNCIL PRESIDENT THAT I'M 90 YEARS IF YOU'RE GOING TO GIVE ME THREE OR FOUR MINUTES TODAY? >> E. Hernandez: YOU GET ALL THE MINUTES. >> Speaker: I GET ALL THE MINUTES. I WOULD LIKE TO THANK COUNCILMEMBER RODRIGUEZ, WE GO BACK A LONG TIME. I'M GOING TO TELL A STORY AND EMBARRASS HER A LITTLE BIT, IF THAT'S OKAY COLLEAGUES? I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR A LITTLE STORY ABOUT COUNCILWOMAN? THERE WERE, WHENEVER THERE WAS AN ACTIVITY IN THE COMMUNITY, SHE WOULD ORGANIZE IT, SHE WOULD PROBABLY BE THE FIRST ONE THERE, BRINGING THE DONUTS, SHE WOULD STAY UNTIL ALL THE TOOLS, SHE CAME WITH TENNIS SHOES. SHE MADE AWARDS OUT BUT ALWAYS DOING THE HARD LABOR AND THE WORK. AND I REMEMBER AFTER ONE ACTIVITIES WE HAD A WRAP UP MEETING WITH ALL THE AGENCY THAT'S WERE INVOLVED. AND THE COMMENTS WERE, IT WENT VERY WELL AND THAT YOUNG DEPUTY, SHE'S GOING TO GO PLACES. HELL O. [LAUGHTER] THANK YOU. AND I WOULD LIKE TO THANK OUR NEWEST YOUNGEST DEPUTY, COUNCILWOMAN HERNANDEZ WHO IN THE LAST YEAR HAS BEEN SUCH A HELP TO OUR GRAFFITI STAFF, RECOGNIZED THEIR HARD WORK AND JUST SO EVERY ONE KNOWS, I THINK WAS MENTIONED, I, I'M A RESIDENT AND WORK IN THE FIRST COUNCIL DISTRICT. OUR FAMILY MOVED TO LOS ANGELES IN 1949 AND WE SETTLED AND I'M STILL THERE IN THE UPPER ALPINE AREA. AND, MY HISTORY AND I WE WENT TO OUR LADY QUEEN OF ANGELS SCHOOL. WE MOVED THERE BECAUSE THE CHURCH WAS THERE, St. ANTHONY CROATIAN CHURCH. MY SISTER IS HERE TODAY. WE WENT TO THE LADY QUEEN OF ANGELS HIGH SCHOOL AND GRADUATED FROM PLACITA OLVERA, MY BROTHER GRADUATED FROM CATHEDRAL. MY CUN ADA AND MY BROTHER HAD THE BOY SCOUTS FOR YEARS. WE WERE AT THE BOARD AND WORKED AT CENTER. MY SISTER WORKED IN A LITTLE STORE THERE, ALL THROUGHOUT HIGH SCHOOL. SO COUNCILWOMAN, IF YOU NEED ANYTHING ABOUT THE HISTORY, WE CAN HELP YOU WITH THAT. >> E. Hernandez: YES, THANK YOU. >> Speaker: IT'S BEEN, I STARTED IN 1956. IN 1956, I I STARTED TO WORK FOR THE CATHOLIC YOUTH ORGANIZATION AND THEY HAD SETTLE HOUSES ALL THROUGHOUT LOS ANGELES. MY FIRST ASSIGNMENT WAS EL SANTO NINO LOCATED AT 21st AND TRINITY. AND I WORKED THERE FOR ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF AND AFTER THAT, I WAS ASSIGNED TO WATCH COMMUNITY HOUSE AND THAT WAS ON 103 AND JUNEPER. THEN AFTER THAT, I WAS THERE FOR ABOUT FIVE YEARS AND THEN FOR A 11 YEARS, I WORKED FOR THE FAMOUS TEAM POST PROGRAM. AND WE HAD TEAM POST ALL OVER THE CITY AND THE COUNTY, MOSTLY IN THE HOUSING PROJECTS, THE NICKERSON GARDEN, RAMONA GARDENS, ALISO VILLAGE. AND I DID 11 YEARS THERE. AND SINCE 1981, THAT'S PUTTING ME OVER 45 YEARS, SINCE 1981 I'VE BEEN THE XEK DIFFERENT DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL CITY ACTION COMMITTEE. >> E. Hernandz: YES. [APPLAUSE] >> Speaker: AND YOU KNOW, I'VE KIND OF, YOU KNOW, TAKING THIS AWARD THERE IS NO WAY THIS AWARD BELONGS TO ME ALONE. THERE WOULD BE NO RECOGNITION WITHOUT THE FANTASTIC CENTRAL COMMITTEE STAFF, WHO ARE HERE TODAY. DAVID THE GRAFFITI STAFF, ALL OUR BOARD MEMEBERS, OUR YOUTH PARTICIPANTS. THEY'VE SHOWED PEOPLE WHAT HARD WORK AND DEDICATION CAN DO. AND THERE IS NO WAY, I COULD HAVE MADE IT ALL THESE YEARS WITHOUT THAT. AND A SPECIAL THANKS TO MY FAMILY I HAVE HERE TODAY. MY IMMEDIATE FAMILY, MY TWO DAUGHTERS, MY SON-IN-LAWS, MY GRANDDAUGHTER, MY GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. NIECES, NEPHEWS, CUN ADA SS HERE, MY COMPADRES, MY HAWAII FAMILY, MY CENTER FAMILY. WHEN I LOOKED AROUND TODAY, EVERY PERSON HERE, HAS GIVEN BACK TO THE COMMUNITY. BACK IN THE SEATS THERE, PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN WITH ME FOR MANY YEARS. THEY'RE ALL COMMUNITY ACTIVIST. THEY HAVE HELPED IN SOME WAY OR ANOTHER AND I REALLY THANK MY FAMILY AND ALL THE, THE CENTER FAMILY. THERE IS NO WAY I COULD BE GETTING THIS AWARD TODAY. I MEAN, I PUT THESE PEOPLE, THEY STOOD BY ME FOR ALL KINDS OF ACTIVITIES. AND YOU KNOW, JUST A FEW. WE HAVE PEOPLE IN THIS AUDIENCE WHO WOKE UP AT 6:00 O'CLOCK IN THE MOPINGER --MORNING FOR THE 10-K RUN. MOTHERS WHO SPENT HOURS MAKING FLOWERS FOR THE LOTUS FESTIVAL. PEOPLE BACK THERE WHO HAVE BEEN TUTORS, MENTORS, GIVEN PHYSICALLY AND MONETARILY. I HAVE MY SISTERS HERE. AND SHE LOOKS LIKE ME SO SHE SAID IF I COULDN'T MAKE IT TODAY, SHE WOULD HAVE STOOD IN FOR US. WHAT I'M SAYING, THIS AWARD IS NOT JUST FOR ME. THIS IS FOR THE ENTIRE, GROUP AND FAMILY THAT I HAVE THAT HAVE HELPED ME PARTICIPATE IN THIS. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH. [APPLAUSE] >> E. Hernandez: THANK YOU. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] >> M. Rodriguez: YOU DID YOUR TIME, YOU MADE TIME. THIS IS GREAT. THANK YOU SO MUCH COLLEAGUES. THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ AND I THINK WE'LL GO IN THE FRONT AND JOIN UMAR' ANNE BECAUSE WE HAVE A RESOLUTION ON BEHALF OF THE LOS ANGELES CITY COUNCIL. YOU KNOW, IT'S BEEN, ONE OF THE GREATEST PRIVILEGES OF MY LIFE TO BE ABLE TO CALL ON YOU, NOT JUST AS A FRIEND BUT AS A MENTOR AND THE EXAMPLE OF HOW I APPROACH MY WORK EVERY DAY. AND I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR NOT JUST BEING THAT EXAMPLE TO BE BUT TO SO MANY OTHER LIVES THAT YOU'VE TOUCHED. YOU'VE REALLY CHANGED THIS CITY FOR THE BETTER. AND ON THAT, ON BEHALF OF THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, PLEASE HELP ME JOIN COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ AND I IN THANKING AND CELEBRATING THE GREAT, MARY ANNE HAYASHI! [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] >> Council President: THANK YOU SO MUCH, COUNCILMEMBERS RODRIGUEZ AND HERNANDEZ. SECOND, OUR PRESENTATION WILL BE LEAD BY COUNCILMEMBER JURADO OF THE 14th COUNCIL DISTRICT. >> Y. Jurado: MABUJAI, IT'S FILIPINO HISTORY MONTH. HIGHLAND PARK. SO GOOD MORNING, MY NAME IS COUNCILMEMBER YSABEL JURADO! [APPLAUSE] IT IS MY DEEP HONOR TO CELEBRATE FAM PART TWO AND HONOR TO RECOGNIZE AN ARTIST WHO'S WORK HAS TRANSCENDED THROUGH GENERAL RAISESING, THE INCOMPARABLE RAPPER, FILMMAKER, RUBY IBARRA! RUBY WAS BORN IN TACLOVEN AND RAISED IN THE BAYS AREA AND LIKE SO MANY OF US WHO CARRY MULTIPLE HOME LANDS IN OUR HEART, SHE LEARNED EARLY THAT IDENTIFY IS NOT JUST SOMETHING THAT YOU INHERIT IT'S SOMETHING YOU SHAPE AND CLAIM. BUT HER MUSIC, POETRY AND FILMMAKING, RUBY HAS BUILT A WORK THAT TELLS A STORY WHO FILIPINOS ARE, AS PEOPLE MULTI LINGUAL AND PROUD. HER SONGS UPLIFT EXPERIENCE OF WOMEN, IMMIGRANTS, WORKERS AND ALL THOSE WHO HAVE HAD TO FIGHT TO BE SEEN. AND SHE DOES RAPPING IN ENGLISH, AT TALOGO AND RIGHT NOW, WE NEED PEOPLE LIKE HER TO KEEP DOING WHAT THEY'RE DOING BECAUSE THAT ALONE, JUST BEING YOURSELVES AND NOT DILUTING IT IS IS REVOLUTIONARY. AND THIS RECOGNIZE, YOU MAY RECOGNIZE HER, BECAUSE YES, THIS RUBY WON THE M.P. R TINY DESK CONCERT. [APPLAUSE] I REMEMBER GOING TO A CONCERT BRINGING BACK THE JACKET TO GIVE TO MY OWN DAUGHTER THAT SAYS ISLAND WOMEN RISE, WE'VE BEEN HERE, WE STAY HERE AND WE ARE HERE TODAY AND WHEN SHE STANDS ON STAGE, THEY PUTS HER TEN TOES DOWN, COMMUNITIES, LONG PUSH TO THE MARKET, HEAR THEIR LIVES WITH STRENGTH AND JOY. SO COLLEAGUES, PLEASE JOIN ME IN WELCOMING RUBY IBARRA! >> Speaker: THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER JURADO. IT IS AN INCREDIBLE HONOR TO BE HERE IN CITY LOS ANGELES HALL, TO BE RECOGNIZED IS SOMETHING THAT I CARRY DEEP GRATITUDE AND RESPONSIBILITY. I STAND HERE AS A PROUD FILIPINA ARTIST AND TODAY THIS MORNING, SPECIFICALLY I THINK OF MY MOM WHO EMIGRATED TO THIS COUNTRY WITH THE HOPE THAT SHE AND I COULD DREAM WITHOUT LIMITS. I THINK OF MY MOTHER WHO SHOWED ME THE STRENGTH AND RESILIENCE THAT DEFINES HOW MANY OF OUR LEADERS LIKE COUNCILMEMBER JURADO. I THINK OF MY DAUGHTER WHO REMINDS ME EVERY DAY OF THE IMPORTANCE OF REPRESENTATION AND THE LEGACY WE BUILD FOR THE NEXT GENERATION. BECOMING A NEW MOTHER THIS PAST YEAR, HAS MADE THIS MOMENT EVEN MORE MEANINGFUL BECAUSE I DO NOW IS ROOTED IN THE MORE EMPOWERED FUTURE. MY WORK IS AS SONGWRITER AND PERFORMER HAS ALWAYS BEEN TIED TO THE COMMUNITY. THE MUSIC, I CREATE IS A REFLECTION OF OUR JOURNEY, AS FILIPINO-AMERICANS. IT'S A CELEBRATION OF IDENTITY, WOMEN HOOD AND THE JOY AND STRUGGLE THAT COME GROWING UP BETWEEN TWO CULTURES. I WANT YOUNG FILIPINOS TO KNOW THAT THEIR VOICE MATTER AND THEIR VOICE HAS THE POWER TO MOVE PEOPLE. BEFORE I BECAME A FULL-TIME MUSICIAN FOUR YEARS AGO, I WORKED AS A BOO O TECH SCIENTIST MY PATH HAS NEVER BEEN TRADITIONAL, THAT'S WHY I HOPE OTHERS BUILD A LIFE THAT FEELS TRUE TO WHO THEY ARE. WE ALL DESERVE TO DEFINE OUR OWN SUCCESS AND BUILD CAREERS THAT HONOR OUR PASSIONS AND OUR COMMUNITIES. I AM ALSO GRATEFUL FOR THE CREATIVE COLLABORATION THAT CONTINUE TO UPLIFT FILIPINO ARTIST. THROUGH BO LO MUSIC GRAOURNTION THE LABEL I COFOUNDED, WE AIM TO BUILD A HOME TO FILIPINO MUSICIANS. AND THROUGH THE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM, WE SUPPORT FILIPINA IN HIGHER EDUCATION WHO ARE ALREADY DOING THE TRANSFORMATIVE WORK OF STORY-TELLING. THIS RECOGNITION IS NOT MINE ALONE, THIS IS FOR MY TEAM, MY COLLABORATE OR AND FILIPINO COMMUNITY WHO HAVE SUPPORTED ME ALONG THE WAY. THIS IS FOR THE ORGANIZERS, THE MENTORS, THE EDUCATORS AND EVERY PERSON HERE WHO CONTINUE TO MAKE SURE OUR CONSIDERATIONS ARE NOT ERASED AS A FIRST GENERATION FILIPINA AMERICAN, I THINK ABOUT THE LAST YEAR AND HOW IT BROUGHT A LOT OF CHALLENGES TO OUR IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY. AND WE CONTINUE TO FIGHT AND SPEAK UP FOR THE VOICELESS. BUT AS WE CELEBRATE THE FILIPINO-AMERICAN MONTH, THIS OCTOBER, I THINK ABOUT HOW IMPORTANT AND NECESSARY IT IS TO ALSO CARVE SPACE FOR THE JOY IN THE MIDST OF THE STRUGGLE. TO REMIND US OF THE STRUGGLE. WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO WHY THIS WORK IS NECESSARY AND THAT'S WHY I'M HONORED TO CELEBRATE WITH MY COMMUNITY. THANK YOU TO THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES FOR ELEVATING OUR VOICES AND HONORING OUR HISTORY. FILIPINO-AMERICANS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN LEADERS, INNOVATOR AND STORY TELLERS. WE'RE NOT ONLY SHAPING CULTURE, WE'RE SHAPING THE FUTURE. MY HOPE IS THAT THE WORK I DO SPARKS CONVERSATION, CREATES PRIDE, AND A GREATER BELIEF IN WHAT IS POSSIBLE WHEN WE EMPOWER EACH OTHER. MARAMING. [SPEAKING NATIVE LANGUAGE] AND HAPPY FILIPINO HISTORY MONTH! [APPLAUSE] >> Y. Jurado: SO ON BEHALF OF THE LOS ANGELES CITY COUNCIL IS MY DEEP HONOR IN CELEBRATION OF FILIPINO-AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH TO PRESENT YOU WITH THIS CERTIFICATE RECOGNIZING YOUR ARTISTIC LEADERSHIP AND CULTURAL IMPACT AND CONTINUED WORK TO EMPOWER OUR COMMUNITIES AND THE SPIRIT OF HA 3* A, THIS CERTIFICATE REALLY MEANS, I AM BECAUSE YOU ARE AND YOU ARE BECAUSE I AM. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH. >> Council President: WE HAVE A FEW MEMBERS ON THE QUEUE WHEN YOU'RE READY. >> Y. Jurado: GO AHEAD, COUNCIL PRESIDENT. >> Council President: WE'LL START WITH COUNCILMEMBER SOTO-MARTINEZ FOLLOWED BY COUNCILMEMBER RAMAN. >> H. Soto-Martinez: THANK YOU SO MUCH, MR. CHAIR. WELL I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU COUNCILWOMAN JURADO FOR BRINGING RUBY INTO THIS BEAUTIFUL BUILDING. WHEN I FIRST HEARD YOU WERE BRINGING HER IN, I WAS REMINDED THAT TINY DESK, I LOVE YOUR PERFORMANCE ON THERE AND I WAS VERY HAPPY THAT YOU WON. I THINK YOU DID LIKE A SEVEN-OR 10-CITY TOUR YOU WERE HERE AT THE REGISTER ENTER THEATER. REGENT THEATER. I WAS DISAPPOINTED THAT I COULD NOT SEE YOU AT THE TIME BUT YOU'RE HERE IN CITY HALL. AND YOU HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD, REPRESENTATION MATTERS AND YOU'RE BREAKING THE PAIR --PARADIGM ON WHAT WE CAN DO IN THIS COUNTRY. MANY OF THEM ARE HERE TODAY TO SEE YOU BEING RCOGNIZED. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COMING IN HERE. KEEP DOING WHAT YOU'RE DOING. FYI, WE HAVE THIS GREAT EVENT CALLED BARRIO BI-FIVE, IT WILL BE GREAT TO HAVE YOU PERFORM. WE WOULD LOVE. I'LL SPEAK FOR JENNIFER TAYLOR, I THINK SHE WOULD LOVE TO HAVE YOU AS WELL AS COUNCILMEMBER JURADO. HAPPY FILIPINO MONTH. >> Council President: THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER RAMAN FOLLOWED BY HARRIS-DAWSON. >> N. Raman: COUNCILMEMBER JURADO, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BRINGING CELEBRATION INTO CITY HALL. RUBY, I FOLLOWED YOUR CAREER AND I'VE HEARD YOUR MUSIC. WE'RE EXCITED TO HAVE YOU HERE, THANK YOU TO THE COUNCILMEMBER FOR BRINGING YOU HERE AND HONORING YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO HISTORY, MAKING HISTORY IN AMERICA WHICH IS REALLY EXCITED. AND I WANT TO SAY, SEEING YOUR PERFORMANCE, I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS YOUNG AND THIS IS REALLY DATING ME, I SAW DAILY AND NO DOUBT, AND HE WAS THE FIRST SOUTH ASIAN PERSON I HAD SEEN IN POP MUSIC. AND I FELT SO EXCITED IT FELT REVTARORY TO ME. AND I FEEL LIKE THE PEOPLE OF MEANINGFUL THAT YOU HAVE OF REPRESENTATION AND INCREDIBLE TALENT TOGETHER ARE JUST SO POWERFUL. THANK YOU COUNCILWOMAN, HAPPY FILIPINO HERITAGE MONTH. >> Council President: MR. HARRIS-DAWSON. >> M. Harris-Dawson: THANK YOU FOR BRINGING ONE OF OUR LOCAL HEROES HERE TO BE RECOGNIZED IN THE PEOPLE'S HOUSE. I WANT TO APPRECIATE YOU RUBY, YOU REPRESENT L.A. WELL. YOU REPRESENT FILIPINO'S WELL, BUT YOU REPRESENT L.A. SO WELL IN THE MUSIC SCENE AND YOUR WORK IS TOP NOTCH AND HAS BEEN HIGH-QUALITY. I WAS SO EXCITED TO SEE THAT YOU WERE SOME TYPE OF SCIENTIST, BECAUSE IT COMES OUT IN YOUR LYRIC. SHE HAS BARS TO USE THE BAR, SO WHEN YOU TUNE N YOU'LL GET A TREAT IF YOU HAVE NOT HEARD HER MUSIC. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR EVERYTHING YOU'VE DONE IN REPRESENTING US WELL. [APPLAUSE] >> Council President: AND BACK TO COUNCILMEMBER JURADO TO CLOSE. >> Y. Jurado: WELL THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING OUR FILIPINO IDENTITY, NOT JUST VISIBLE BUT MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE POWERFUL, AND THANK YOU SO MUCH AND CONGRATULATIONS, RUBY! [APPLAUSE] THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT. >> Council President: GREAT THANK YOU SO MUCH. WE HAVE OUR NEXT PRESENTATION. WILL BE LEAD BY OUR COUNCIL PRESIDENT, MARQUEECE HARRIS-DAWSON, HE'S GOING TO MAKE HIS WAY TO THE PODIUM AS THE FOLKS THERE ARE STARTING TO CLEAR OUT AND HEAD TO THE BACK. WE HAVE FOUR AMAZING PRESENTATIONS TODAY. VERY FORTUNATE. >> M. Harris-Dawson: THANK YOU SO MUCH, MR. PRESIDENT AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS. TODAY WE'RE VERY EXCITED AS WE HAVE IN CITY HALL TO OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZE NATIONAL CLERGY APPRECIATION MONTH. THAT'S RIGHT, GIVE IT UP FOR OUR MEMBERS OF THE CLERGY. [APPLAUSE] IT'S A TIME FOR US TO UPLIFT OUR RABBIS, OUR PASTORS, OUR PRIEST, AND ALL OTHER MEMBERS OF THE CLERGY. WE'RE VERY EXCITED EVERY TIME THIS CELEBRATION HAPPENS BECAUSE WE GET TO HOST A VARIETY OF FAITH LEADERS FROM AROUND OUR CITY FROM THE SOUTHERN TIP TO THE NORTHERN IN FROM THE COAST TO THE EAST SIDE. BEFORE, I GET GOING, I WANT TO SEE IF WE CAN GET ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE CLERGY OR THEIR SUPPORTERS TO STAND UP SO WE CAN GET ONE BIG RECOGNITION OF THEM RIGHT AWAY, STRAIGHT AWAY. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] THROUGHOUT OUR HISTORY, THROUGHOUT OUR HISTORY, THEY RESPONDED TO SOME OF THE WORLD'S MOST PRESSING ISSUES THAT IS TRUE FOR US TODAY IN THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES. AS WE FACE HOMELESSNESS, DISEASE, POVERTY AND NOW THIS YEAR, NEW THE ON GOING ICE RAIDS THAT OUR CHURCHES AND TEMPLES AND CATHEDRALS PLAY IN A VERY IMPORTANT ROLE IN HELPING THIS CITY STAND UP TO THIS ON SLOT. WE'RE SO LUCKY THAT WE HAVE NEARLY 15,000 RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS IN OUR CITY. THEY EMPLOY ABOUT 10,000 PEOPLE. SO IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO RECOGNIZE THEM AS THEY DO SO MUCH TO MAKE US A LIVABLE CITY, AND A PLACE THAT ASPIRES TO THE GREATNESS THAT WE ALL DESERVE. IN MY DISTRICT, WE HAVE MANY OPPORTUNITIES TO WORK WITH THE FAITH COMMUNITY ON A VARIETY OF ISSUES, SOME OF WHICH YOU'LL HEAR ABOUT LATER. EACH MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL WILL RECOGNIZE A MEMBER OF THE CLERGY, SOME MEMBERS WHO ARE NOT PRESENT TODAY, WILL HAVE THEY HAVE MEMBERS OF THE CLERGY HERE AS WELL. BUT BEFORE WE DO THAT, I WANT TO TURN THE MIC OVER TO OUR RESIDENT CLERGIMAN IN THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES, ONE OF OUR, OUR FAVORITE GENERAL MANAGERS WHO PLAYS THE ROLE OF LEADING THE CITY DURING THE WEEK BUT ON SUNDAY, YOU CAN FIND HIM RIGHT THERE ON THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF ARLINGTON AND 48th IN THE PULPIT LEADING HIS CONGREGATION IN OUR COMMUNITY, THE ONE AND ONLY JOHN REAMER. [APPLAUSE] >> Speaker: COUNCIL PRESIDENT, YOU'RE TOO KIND THANK YOU SO MUCH. HONORABLE COUNCILMEMBERS, CITY ATTORNEY AND ALL OF THE CITY FAMILY AND THE DISTINGUISHED HONOREES. THANK YOU FOR THIS MOMENT FOR RECOGNIZING WHAT GOD IS DOING. I LOVE STORIES. AND I JUST ASK WHAT STORY SHOULD I SPEAK TO WITH RESPECT TO THE MANY INDIVIDUALS THAT I LOOK TO WITH RESPECT TO THE ROLE THAT THE LORD HAS GIVEN ME. DO I TALK ABOUT DANIEL? DO I TALK ABOUT MORTGAGECHAI, ESTHER, DO I TALK ABOUT THEM? THEY ALL OCCUPY. I CAN ONLY IMAGINE THEM BEING IN HALLS LIKE THIS AS THE LORD USED THEM. BUT THERE IS THIS YOUNG MAN, WHO WAS LOVED. HIS FATHER LOVED HIM, HIS FATHER LOVED HIM DEEPLY WHICH COULD HAVE BEEN CHALLENGING FOR THE BROTHERS WHO DIDN'T QUITE CARE FOR THAT. THEY WERE ENVIOUS, THEY HATED THEIR BROTHER AND SOLD HIM INTO SLAVERY BUT HE WAS NOT ALONE. IN THE MIDST OF GOING INTO SLAVERY A PLACE THAT HE HAD NOT BEEN BEFORE, GOD GAVE HIM FAVOR AND MAKE DECISION SXZ GIVE INFLUENCE. BUT SOMEBODY LIED ON HIM. HE WENT BACK INTO CONFINEMENT BUT HE WAS NOT ALONE. I THE MIDST OF BEING IN A CONFINED ENVIRONMENT, HE HAD FAVOR AGAIN TO BE ABLE TO HELP THOSE WHO NEEDED HELP. CAN YOU IMAGINE THOSE COMING TO YOU FOR ASSISTANCE, REACHING OUT AND NOT BEING ABLE TO FIND AN ANSWER AND HERE IS THIS PERSON UX NOT LIKE ME NOT FROM MY ENVIRONMENT BUT HE HAS SOMETHING ESPECIALLY. AND HE DID. BUT ONE THING HE NEVER FORGOT WAS WHO HE WAS AND WHERE HE WAS FROM AND HIS RESPOND WAS, AM I THE ONE TO GIVE THIS ANSWER OR SHOULD IT COME FROM GOD? AND IN THE MIDST, HE ASKED, DON'T FORGET ABOUT ME. HOW MANY OF US THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN CALLED TO AN ELECTED OFFICE OR SO SERVE, YOU'VE BEEN FORGOTTEN ABOUT, YOU'VE DONE SO MUCH AND YET WHEN IT'S YOUR TURN, YOU HAVE BEEN FORGOTTEN. HE LIED NAYS CONFINED SPACE FOR TWO YEARS AND ANOTHER ISSUE A TROUBLING ISSUE FOR THE LEADER, THE HIGHEST IN THE LAND. THAT NO ONE CAN SOLVE, NO ONE CAN FIX. BUT THE PERSON REMEMBERED WHO HAD HELPED HIM. AND HE SAID I KNOW A MAN WHO IS IN JAIL, WHO CAN HELP YOU. AND HE DID, AND HIS ANSWER WAS, AS TROUBLING AS THIS COUNCIL ELUDED TO, THE BUDGET JUST HAD. ICE HAS BEEN, WE CAN GO ON AND ON WITH RESPECT TO ISSUES IN L.A. HE SAID THIS ANSWER WILL COME FROM GOD AND GOD WILL GIVE YOU PEACE. YOU CAN ASK THESE PEOPLE BEHIND ME FOR THE REST OF THE STORY. MY FATHER GAVE ME SOME ADVISE, GOD REST HIS SOUL AND WHEN I WENT INTO MINISTRY AND I ASKED WHAT DO I TELL PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN AROUND LONGER THAN I HAVE. I WAS AMAZED BY THE HONOREE BEFORE US. AND HE SAID JOHN, YOURS IS TO REMIND THEM. THOSE WHO LABOR, LABOR IN VAIN AND UNLESS GOT WATCHES OVER THE CITY. IT DOES NOT MATTER HOW BIG THE LAPD IS, THE WATCHMAN STAY UP AT NIGHT IN VAIN REMIND THEM THAT THEY HAVE TO RESPECT, AND NOT JUST RESPECT BUT ALSO UNDERSTAND THEIR REASON. WHY ARE WE HERE? WHY ARE EACH AND EVERY ONE ONE OF US IN THE LOCATION AND IN THE ROLES THAT WE HAVE. WE CAN SAY WE RAN FOR OFFICE AND PEOPLE VOTED FOR US, WE CAN SAY THA. WE CAN SAY THAT I SPOKE THE BEST IN THE CONGREGATION AND THE PEOPLE REMEMBERED ME. BUT I LOVE THE FACT NA A PERSON THAT WAS IN JAIL FOR 16 YEARS, BECAME THE NUMBER TWO PERSON IN THE HIGHEST LAND BECAUSE GOD GAVE HIM FAVOR. AND NOT ONLY DID HE BECOME NUMBER TWO HE SAVED THE LAND AND REUNITED THE FAMILY BECAUSE HE WAS AT THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME, THOSE BEHIND ME, THAT'S WHAT THEY DO. THAT'S WHAT EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU DO. AND IN THE LAST THING MY FATHER TOLD ME, REMIND THEM OF THEIR RELATIONSHIPS. THE FIRST BEING WITH THEIR CREATOR, THE ONE WHO CREATED THEM AND THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN CHARGED TO SERVE. SERVE THEM WELL. BECAUSE NOT ONLY ARE WE SUPPOSE TO LOVE GOD WITH ALL THAT WE HAVE BUT WE LOVE OUR WHO? OUR NEIGHBOR. THAT'S RIGHT, BROTHERS AND SISTERS, OUR NEIGHBORS AS OURSELVES. SO ON THIS DAY WHERE WE AND I'M PROUD OF THE CITY, FOR ACKNOWLEDGING CLERGY, ON THE DAY THAT WE ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WE CANNOT DO THIS WITHOUT GOD. BECAUSE WITHOUT GOD WE CANNOT DO NOTHING, I'M HONORED TO SAY CONTINUE TO REMEMBER IT'S NOT ABOUT THE CROWD, IT'S ABOUT THE CALLING. IT'S ABOUT THE ONE THAT CALLED TO YOU SERVE IN WHATEVER CAPACITY YOU'RE IN AND SERVE TO HIS GLORY. THANK YOU. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] >> Council President: REV. GENERAL MANAGER REAMER, ANOTHER ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR HIM. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE. [APPLAUSE] SO AS IS OUR CUSTOM, WE'LL HEAR FROM EACH COUNCIL DISTRICT, WE'LL DW GO IN NUMERICAL ORDER, WE'LL TRY TO LIMIT TO ONE MEMBER OF THE CLERGY, EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE DOZENS AND DOZENS. AND WE'LL BEGIN WITH OUR CITY ATTORNEY, HEIDI FEINSTEIN-SOTO. >> Speaker: THANK YOU, AND GOOD MORNING HONORABLE MEMBERS AND COMMUNITY. I AM VERY PROUD HERE TODAY TO BE HERE WITH THE ASSOCIATED RABBI REBECCA FROM MYSHOL. RABBI SHOTS, SINCE SHE BECAME THE ASSOCIATE RABBI IN 2019 HAS EXEMPLIFIED THE VERY BEST OF OUR YOUNG JEWISH RABBIS ACROSS THE CITY. SHE WAS TAKEN BY THE MISSION, I WAS VERY TOUCHED BY WHAT YOU SAID, SIR, WHEN A YOUNG PERSON COMES TO THE CLERGY WHAT I DO SAY TO THOSE THAT ARE OLDER, SHE SPOKE TO ME. AND SHE TAUGHT ME SOMETHING. BETHON MEANS HOUSE OF THE PEOPLE, A COMMITMENT TO SERVING THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY. RABBI SHOTS LEADS HER SERVICES JOYOUSLY FROM THE HEART, FROM THE JEWISH VALUES OF INCLUSION, NON JUDGMENTAL, BUILDING BRIDGES AND NOT WALLS AND REALLY LIVING OUR DAILY LIVES AND OUR DAILY VALUES IN EVERYTHING WE DO AND TOUCH, THERE IS A PRINCIPLE WHICH MEANS HEAL THE WORLD. RABBI REBECCA DOES THAT EVERY SINGLE DAY OF HER LIFE. IT'S MY PRIVILEGE AND HONOR TO PRESENT RABBI REBECCA WITH A CERTIFICATE FROM MY OFFICE. IN RECOGNITION OF HER SERVICE TO LOS ANGELES. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, RABBI. [APPLAUSE] >> Council President: THANK YOU SO MUCH, THANK YOU SO MUCH TO OUR CITY ATTORNEY AND NOW WE'LL GO TO COUNCIL DISTRICT 1. >> E. Hernandez: THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. THANK YOU COLLEAGUES AND TO OUR GUESTS AND FAITH LEADERS AND AS WE CAN SEE, THERE ARE MANY PHENOMENAL FAITH LEADERS WALKING AROUND OUR CITY AND IN COUNCIL DISTRICT 1 WE ARE BLESSED TO HAVE MANY AS WELL. BUT TODAY I WANT TO UPLIFT ONE, SOMEBODY WHO EMBODIES WHAT IT MEANS TO LIVE YOUR FAITH BUT ALSO SOMEBODY WHO HAS INCREDIBLE IMPACT ON ME IN THE VERY SHORT TIME THAT I HAVE KNOWN HIM. FATHER MARIO, PASTOR OF ST. THOMAS CATHOLIC CHURCH IN PICO UNION. FATHER PLEASE, COME HERE. [APPLAUSE] FATHER MARIO'S IS DEEPLY ROOTED IN OUR COMMUNITY STORY AS A SON OF IMMIGRANTS, HE CARRIES GRATITUDE TO HIS HERITAGE STUDIED IN THE SEMINARY AT A YOUNG AGE AT ST. THOMAS, THE VERY CHURCH HE NOW LEADS. EXAMINE FOR THE PAST 20 YEARS, HE HAS DEVOTED HIS LIFE TO SERVING FAMILIES AND YOUNG. WHERE EVER HE GOES, HE BRINGS COMPASSION, HUMILITY AND FAITH. HE SAYS SERVING THE POOR HAS BEEN A BLESSING TO MY PRIESTHOOD, HE FEEL THE BLESSING EACH TIME, HE OPENS THE CHURCH DOORS OR PRAYS FOR SOMEBODY IN NEED. FATHER MARIO, I DON'T THINK YOU KNOW THIS BUT I WATCH YOUR MISSA, ON INSTAGRAM. SOMETIMES I CAN'T GET TO CHURCH. SO YOU ALL MAKE IT INCREDIBLY ACCESSIBLE, THESE TIMES HAVE BEEN INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT. BUT I WANT TO TELL THE MOMENT THAT IMPACTED ME IS IN THE BEGINNING OF THE RAIDS, I WAS WATCHING ONE OF YOUR MASSES AND YOU SAID, SOMETHING TO THE EFFECT OF, IF I WANT YOU ALL TO KEEP COMING TO CHURCH AND YOU ALL ARE SCARED, DON'T BE SCARED BECAUSE, THEY'RE GOING TO GET TO YOU, THEY'RE GOING TO GET THROUGH ME FIRST. AND WHEN YOU SAID THAT, FOR ME, IT WAS JUST, IT WAS SO PROFOUND, LIKE WHAT YOU WERE WILLING TO DO FOR YOUR CHURCH THAT IS ALWAYS LIKE THIS. ALWAYS FILLED TO THE BRIM. SO YOUR BRAVERY, IT REALLY HELPED ME IN THE BEGINNING WHEN THE RAIDS WERE HAPPENING AND GAVE ME STRENGTH TO SAY YOU KNOW WHAT, IF FATHER MARIO IS GOING TO THROW DOWN, I'M GOING TO THROW DOWN JUST AS HARD. I THANK YOU, FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP AND BRAVERY AND FOR LEADING BY EXAMPLE AND I AM ETERNALLY GRATEFUL. THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE] [LAUGHTER] >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, NEXT WE'LL HEAR FROM COUNCIL DISTRICT 2. >> A. Nazarian: THANK YOU COUNCIL PRESIDENT. THANK YOU FOR PUTTING THIS EVENT. THANK YOU TO ALL OF MY COLLEAGUES, ALL THE HONOREES ALSO FOR NOT ONLY BEING HERE RECOGNIZED BUT BEING RECOGNIZED FOR THE WORK THAT YOU DO ON A DAILY BASIS ESPECIALLY IN VERY DIFFICULT CIRCUMSTANCES AS TIMES LIKE THIS. MY HONOREE FATHER, LOUIS KENSKI UNFORTUNATELY COULDN'T BE HERE BECAUSE HE'S RECOVERING. SO I WILL LET HIM KNOW THAT WE'RE WISHING HIM A SPEEDY RECOVERY. BUT I WANTED TO REGARDLESS OF HIS CIRCUMSTANCES, I WANTED TO RECOGNIZE HIM BECAUSE HIS CHURCH, OUR LADY OF HOLY ROSARY HAS BECOME A BEACON OF SAFETY AND SUPPORT IN OUR COMMUNITY. AS THE TORRENT OF THE ON-GOING RAIDS HAS CREATED THIS TREMENDOUS ANXIETY AMONG IMMIGRANT FAMILIES ACROSS SAN FERNANDO VALLEY, FATHER AND HIS PARISH HAVE MET THIS MOMENT WITH COMPASSION, ACTION AND HOPE. SO I'M GOING TO TELL YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT SOME OF THE THINGS THAT OUR LADY OF THE HOLY ROSARY HAS ACCOMPLISHED IN A VERY BRIEF PERIOD OF TIME, THEY ORGANIZED WORKSHOPS PARTNERING WITH CHIRLA ENSURING NOT ONLY DAK DACA AND YOUNG DREAMERS HAVE ACCESS BUT THE COMMUNITY AND ALL TO HAVE ACCESS TO LEGAL SUPPORT AND TO HAVE A SENSE OF PROTECTION AS THEY NAVIGATE THEIR UNCERTAIN FUTURE. COLLABORATE WITH HERNANDA MEXICANA HELPING FAMILIES TO STAY SAFE AND INFORM TO PREVENT PANIC AND ENSURE THAT LEGAL RIGHTS ARE UNDERSTOOD AND EXERCISED. ORGANIZED A CULTURAL MASS BRINGING PARISHIONERS OF ALL BACK GROUNDS FOR A NIGHT OF PRAYER DEDICATE TODAY FAMILIES WHO HAVE BEEN TARGETED OR SEPARATED. PARTNERED WITH L.A. VOICE, THE LIST GOES ON AND ON AND ON. AND THAT'S NOT, I HAVE NOT SEEN TOUCHED ON THE RESOURCES OF FOOD INSECURITY, SUPPORT FOR INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE NOT GOING TO WORK OR ANYTHING ELSE THAT COMES WITH THE ANXIETY OF TODAY. SO, I, I AM DEEPLY HUMBLED TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO REPRESENT INDIVIDUALS LIKE THIS. WHO MAY NOT BE AT PULPITS OR LOCATIONS BUT DAISES LIKE OURS BUT HAVE THEIR COMMAND AND THEIR ABILITY TO LEAD THEIR CONSTITUENTS AND TO GIVE THEM THE MOST INVALUABLE THING THAT ANYONE OF US WITH GIVE, HOPE. HOPE AND OPPORTUNITY. SO WHILE HE IS NOT HERE, I AM GOING TO BE MAKING SURE TO TAKE THIS CERTIFICATE ON BEHALF OF ALL OF US TO HIM SO THAT HE KNOWS AND HIS PARISHIONERS KNOW WHAT THEY ALL MEAN TO US. THANK YOU FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY AGAIN. [APPLAUSE] >> B. Blumenfield: COUNCIL PRESIDENT, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR BRINGING THIS HONORING CLERGY LIKE YOU HAVE IN THE PAST. IT'S SO INSPIRING AND SO I APPRECIATE TO ALL OF THESE PEOPLE OF GREAT FAITH WHO ARE LEADING IN DIFFICULT TIMES AND ARE HERE TODAY TO BE HONORED SO THANK YOU ALL FOR DOING THAT. TODAY, I AM DELIGHTED TO HONOR KEITH ALAN AND MERYL FROM PURPOSE L.A. CHURCH IN CANOGA PARK. PURPOSE L.A. FUNCTIONS AS A CHURCH BUT ALSO KNOWN AS PURPOSE PLACE L.A. OFFERING WEEKLY WORKSHOP SERVICE SXZ COMMUNITY ORIENTED PROGRAMS IN CANOGA PARK. CENTERS ON FOSTERING CONNECTION AND GROWTH. THEIR GUIDING STATEMENTS ARE FAMILY GATHERS, FAMILY MEET, ROOTS GROW. THEY AIMED TO CONNECT PEOPLE TO PURPOSE, FAMILY AND COMMUNITY AND DESCRIBE AS JUDGMENT FREE AND INCLUSIVE AND ATMOSPHERE WHERE QUOTE FAMILY IS THE VIBE. I'VE HAD THE TREMENDOUS PRIVILEGE OF PARTNERING WITH THEM ON A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT COMMUNITY EVENTS AND OCCASIONS. AND THEY HOST A BACK TO SCHOOL RESOURCE FARES, PROVIDING SHOES, BACKPACKING AND HAIRCUTS AND FREE FOOD AND HAIR CUTS. THEY HAVE A BIMONTHLY GIVEAWAY. THEY HAVE TREMENDOUS ENERGY AND THEY DO SO MUCH. IF YOU THINK PURPOSE L.A. AS A CHURCH AND ORGANIZATION IS GREAT, I WANT TO YOU MEET THE TWO INCREDIBLE PEOPLE STANDING BESIDE ME WHO ARE GUIDING ITS MISSION AND THE WORK THAT THEY DO IN OUR COMMUNITY. PASTOR KEITH ALAN AND MERYL ARE THE LEAD PASTORS OF PURPOSE L.A. NOT ONLY THAT, THEY MET EACH OTHER IN 2002 AND MARRIED IN 2012 AND [APPLAUSE] AND TODAY, IS MERYL'S BIRTHDAY SO HAPPY BIRTHDAY AS WELL. SHE CHOSE TO CELEBRATE HER BIRTHDAY WITH US TODAY. SHE HAVE BACK GROUNDS IN ACTING AND LAW RESPECTIVELY AND FOLLOWED GOD'S CALLING TO OPEN TIME TO DANCE WHICH IS A DANCE STUDIO IN WOOD LAND HILLS. ALSO SERVED FOR TEN YEARS IN NORTH HOLLYWOOD BEGINNING AS YOUTH PASTORS AND THEN BECOMING SOCIAL PASTORS. IT IS SUCH AN HONOR TO HAVE YOU BOTH IN THE DISTRICT, STRAEDING GOOD WORD AND DOING ALL THE GREAT WORK THAT YOU DO TRANSFORMING LIVES ON A DAILY BASIS. SO THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING HERE AND CONGRATULATIONS ON BEING ABLE. I WANT TO PRESENT YOU ON A CERTIFICATE NOT JUST FROM ME BUT FROM EVERY ONE HERE. PLEASE ACCEPT THIS SMALL TOKEN OF APPRECIATION. [APPLAUSE] >> Council President: COUNCILMEMBER DISTRICT 4? >> N. Raman: OKAY, THANK YOU SO MUCH. TODAY IT IS WITH GREAT JOY THAT I UPLIFT COUNCIL DISTRICT 4 JANE POOL FOR THE CHURCH OF THE CHIMES. FOR NEARLY A QUAERT CENTURY JOY HAS BEEN PRESIDENT OF THE CHURCH OF THE CHIMES SOURCE OF GUIDANCE, WARMTH AND FAITH FOR GENERAL RAISESING OF FAMILIES. ORIGINALLY A NEW YORKER JANE FIRST CAME TO CALIFORNIA FOR LOVE, MET HER HUSBAND AND IT WAS THROUGH HER DAUGHTER'S PRESCHOOL THAT SHE DISCOVERED CHURCH OF THE CHIMES AND WHAT BECAME A CONNECTION, THE CHURCH BECAME PART OF HER HOME. OVER THE NEXT 24 YEARS, SHE RAISED HER CHILDREN THERE, GREW HER CHURCHES THERE AND DEVOTED HERSELF TO HELPING OTHERS TO FIND A SENSE OF BELONGING THAT SHE HAD FOUND. THROUGHOUT HER TIME AT THE CHURCH, JANE SERVED WITH MANY ROLES EACH WITH DEVOTION BUT THE GREATEST JOY WAS WORK WITHING YOUNG PEOPLE. BUILT A MINISTRY AND I MET SOME OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE AND THEY ARE REMARKABLE. SHE BUILT AN A PLACE FILLED WITH EMPATHY AND JOY. SHE MET KIDS WHERE THEY WERE AND REMINDED THEM THAT THEY MATTERED AND SHOWED THEM THAT FAITH IS SOMETHING YOU LIVE, NOT JUST SOMETHING YOU SPEAK. WHEN SHE RETIRED THE CELEBRATION WAS A LIVING REFLECTION OF IMPACT. FILLED WITH FACES IN SEEING MULTIPLE GENERAL RAISESING, JANE SAID IT GAVE HER SO MUCH HOPE THAT HOPE THAT THEY WOULD CARRY FORWARD THE SAME COMPASSION THAT GUIDE HER OWN LIFE. IT HAS BEEN MY PRIVILEGE TO REPRESENT THE CHURCH OF THE CHIMES IN COUNCIL DISTRICT 14 AND I HAVE SPENT JOYOUS OCCASIONS INCLUDING IN CHRISTMAS WHEN WE LIGHT THE LARGE CHRISTMAS TREE WITH THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AND MARTIN LUTHER KING EVENT WHERE THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY IS INVITED TO SIT AT THE TABLE AND I'VE NEVER LEFT THAT EVENT WITHOUT FEELING MOVED. FOR JANE AND SO MANY IN COUNCIL DISTRICT 4, CHURCH OF THE CHIMES IS NOT JUST A WORSHIP PLACE BUT IT'S FAMILY BUT AND IT'S JANE'S WORK THAT HAS MADE IT SO. SO PLEASE GIVE A ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR JANE POOL. [APPLAUSE] >> Council President: THANK YOU SO MUCH. COUNCILMEMBER RAMAN, I WILL BE PRESENTING ON BEHALF OF OUR COLLEAGUE COUNCIL KATY YAROSLAVSKY WHO COULDN'T BE HERE TODAY. COUNCIL DISTRICT 5 RABBI JOSEPH CANEVSKI ABOUT TO CELEBRATE 30 YEARS OF BENI CONGREGATION IN THE PICO ROBERTSON NEIGHBORHOOD. UNDER THE LEADERSHIP, THIS SYNAGOGUE HAS BECOME ONE OF THE MOST DIE NOM DIE NANN DYNAMIC AND RESPECTED. TEACHES THE LOVE OF GOD, COMPASSION AND JUSTICE. THE DOORS ARE OPEN REGARDLESS OF AGE, GENDER ORIENTATION OR PHYSICAL ABILITY. THE RABBI HAS LEAD THE WAY FOR ENHANCED ROLE IN WOMEN IN LEADER SHIP, GUIDING THE CONGREGATION AND HIRING THE FIRST FEMALE ORTHODOX CLERGY IN THE HISTORY OF THE CITY. HELPS TO CREATE A BETTER WORLD TO A LOM, REPAIRING HE EARTH. THE RABBI LEADS REGULAR OUT REACH TO THE COMMUNITY AND INVITING THEM TO THE SYNAGOGUE FOR LUNCH, SONG AND CONVERSATION, NOT JUST FOOD WHICH WE CAN HANDOUT FOOD A VENDING MACHINE CAN HANDOUT FOOD BUT ONLY HUMAN BEINGS CAN SERVE A MEAL AND BUILD A RELATIONSHIP AROUND THAT MEAL. HE HAS LEAD THE WAYS TO MAKE SURE THE SYNAGOGUE WAS ACCESSIBLE TO EVERY ONE WITH DISABILITY AND LEAD IN MENTAL ILLNESS AND INTER FAITH DIALOGUE EVEN WHEN IT'S DIFFICULT TO SIT AROUND THE TABLE AND FIND COMMON GROUND, HE CONTINUES TO REACH OUT AND BUILD REACHES. HIS CONGREGATION, TODAY, MAKES A BETTER PLACE. TODAY COUNCIL DISTRICT 5, THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES IS HONORED TO RECOGNIZE RABBI JOSEPH AS LOS ANGELES'S MOST ESTEEMED, ONE OF LOS ANGELES MOST ESTEEM'S STIR ACTUAL LEADERS COMMUNITY ADVOCATE AND THOUGHTFUL TEACHER. CONGRATULATIONS RABBI! [APPLAUSE] >> Council President: THANK YOU, RABBI I'M ALSO STANDING IN FOR COUNCIL DISTRICT, 6, COUNCILMEMBER PADILLA WHO COULDN'T BE HERE THIS MORNING. COME ON UP REVEREND. TODAY IT'S OUR HONOR ON BEHALF OF COUNCIL DISTRICT 6 TO RECOGNIZE PASTOR RYAN DONNELLY OF THE OSBOURNE CHURCH. HE'S A LEADER WHO'S COMPASSION HAS MADE A LASTING IMPACT RIGHT HERE IN THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY. THE COUNCIL DISTRICT 6 COUNCILWOMAN IS PROUD TO HONOR PASTOR RYAN FOR HIS LEADERSHIP AND DEVOTION NOT ONLY TO HIS FAITH BUT TO UPLIFTING HIS NEIGHBORS ESPECIALLY THOSE MOST IN NEED. I HAD THE PLEASURE OF MEETING THE PASTOR THIS MORNING FOR A FEW MINUTES AND I HEARD ABOUT THE STORY ABOUT 75 EURO CHURCH WHO HAS ONLY HAD THREE PASTORS AND YOU'RE THE THIRD PASTOR AND YOU HAVE SERVED IT AS A REFLECTION OF IT. YOU DO THE WORK TO MAKE SURE THE CHURCH CONTINUES BUT MAKING SURE THAT CHURCH PLAYS A ROLE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. AND IT TOUCHES PEOPLE WHO BELONG TO THE CHURCH AND ALSO DON'T BELONG TO THE CHURCH. I NOTE THAT THE CHURCH NOW HOUSES THE NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL MEETINGS AND HAS A PLAYED A ROLE IN OUR COMMUNITY THROUGHOUT COVID, THROUGHOUT HOMELESSNESS AND OTHER THINGS THAT THE CITY HAS FACED. EARLIER THIS YEAR, WHEN THERE WERE FIRES, YOU OPENED UP YOUR CHURCH FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE EATON CANON AND PALISADES AND SAN FERNANDO VALLEY AS WELL AS TO TOUCH AND HAVE RELATIONS WITH PEOPLE. ON BEHALF OF COUNCIL DISTRICT 6, WE'RE VERY VERY PROUD TO HONOR PASTOR RYAN DONNELLY. [APPLAUSE] ALL RIGHT, COUNCIL DISTRICT 7. >> M. Rodriguez: THANK YOU, MR. HARRIS-DAWSON. AND FIRST LET ME GUSH OVER REV. REAMER FOR A SECOND, BECAUSE YOU ALWAYS DO A REMARKABLE JOB ONSETING UP THE STAGE. I'M SO PROUD THAT YOU'RE PART OF THE LEADERSHIP AND FAMILY. I WANT TO THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND I'M ALSO DELIGHTED TO RECOGNIZE, WE'RE SO FORTUNATE THAT WE HAVE SUCH A DIVERSE AUDIENCE HERE TODAY TO REALLY BE WITNESS TO ALL OF THE MULTIPLE CELEBRATIONS OF THE INDIVIDUALS THAT WE'RE HONORING TODAY. BECAUSE I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT YOUNG PEOPLE GET TO SEE, ALL THE CONTRIBUTIONS, IT'S NOT JUST ELECTED LEADERS, BUT IT'S ALL THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF OUR SPIRITUAL LEADERS OF THE DIFFERENT NEIGHBORHOOD ORGANIZATION SXZ ACTIVISTS THAT ARE INVOLVED IN HELPING TO MAKE OUR CITY FUNCTION AND RUN AND SERVE THE NEEDS OF THE PEOPLE. SO I WANT TO RECOGNIZE THE STUDENTS FROM VINEDALE COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMY WHO ARE VISITING US HERE IN THE BACK IN CITY HALL WE'RE JOINED BY 6th 7th AND 8th GRADE STUDENT HERE TO LEARN ABOUT CIVIC ENGAGEMENT. AND I WANT TO THANK THEIR PRINCIPAL AND DEDICATED STAFF AND CHAPERONS, MITCHEL AND KWAN AND PHERSON FOR ORGANIZING THE EVENT. YOU'RE WITNESSING TODAY, NOT ONLY THE INCREDIBLE COMMUNITY LEADERS THAT ARE HERE BUT OF COURSE THE MEMBERS OF OUR CLERGY THAT ARE HELPING TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR COMMUNITIES ARE HEALED AND STRONG AND PREPARED TO ENDURE SOME OF THE MOST CHALLENGING ISSUES THAT CONFRONT US. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE TODAY. AND NOW, IT IS MY GREAT HONOR TO RECOGNIZE THE CLERGY MEMBER FROM THE 7th DISTRICT, REVEREND WHO IS NOT JUST PART OF THE INCREDIBLE LONGSTANDING HISTORY FROM THE COMMUNITY OF PACOIMA, BUT A DEAR FRIEND AND SOMEBODY THAT I'M SO GRATEFUL TO HAVE WITH ME IN CHAMBERS TODAY. REV. BRATTUESDAY IS A U.S. VETERAN WHO IN 1990 WAS ORDAINED AS A CALGARY MINISTER IN PACOIMA WHICH WAS FOUNDED BY HIS PARENTS. HE HAS BEEN A DEDICATED LEADER FOR OVER 50 YEARS. FOLLOWING HIS FATHER'S FAOP STEPS HE BECAME ADVOCACY WITH PRIDE. THE FAMILY IS NO STRANGER TO THESE CHAMBERS NOR TO THE HISTORY OF NOT ONLY THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES BUT DEEPLY ROOT INSIDE PACOIMA AND TESTIMONY TO UPLIFTING OUR COMMUNITIES. REVEREND'S IMPACT IS FAR BEYOND THE WAUFLZ CHURCH, PRESIDENT AS PO COULD I MA CHAPTER AS WELL AS SEVERAL COMMUNITIES AND BOARDS. HE FORMED THE SAN FERNANDO JUNETEENTH COMMITTEE TO PROMOTE AMONG OTHER THINGS THE JUNETEENTH MUSEUM IN FT. WORTH TEXAS. MY DISTINGUISHED HONOREE REVEREND. [APPLAUSE] >> THANK YOU. >> Speaker: THANK YOU, COUNCILWOMAN AND THE LEGENDARY REVEREND. ALL RIGHT, OUR COUNCIL DISTRICT 8 HONOREE IS SOMEBODY WHO IS EXTRAORDINARY LEADER IN OUR COMMUNITY, THE RUN REVEREND DR. ADKINS THE FOURTH, LET'S GIVE HIM A BIG ROUND OF APPLAUSE. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] >> Council President: WE CLEARLY CLEARLY HAS A BIG FOLLOWING. WE CALL HIM IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD WE CALL HIM DR. G, HE GROUP AND A PRODUCT OF OUR COMMUNITY FACED ALL THE THINGS THAT WE FACE IN SOUTH LOS ANGELES AND HAS A CONGREGATION OF ONE OF OUR MOST DIFFICULT INTERSECTIONS. REVEREND DR. G, GROUP IN OUR COMMUNITY, AND PURSUED HIGHER EDUCATION, EARNED BATCHER AND MASTERS AND DOCTORATE DEGREE ALL FROM THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, USC, GO AHEAD USC PEOPLE. [APPLAUSE] THOSE FINGERS IN THE AIR PEOPLE YES. AND IN 2004, HE DEVOTED HIS LIFE TO SERVING THE PEOPLE, BECOMING THE PASTOR. WHAT I'LL SAY ABOUT THIS CONGREGATION AND THIS PASTOR, I SAID EARLIER, THIS IS ONE OF OUR TOUGHEST INTERSECTIONS ANYWHERE IN THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES. IT IS A PLACE OF OUR STAVE --SAFETY PARTNERSHIP. BUT ANYBODY WHO KNOWS FIGUEROA IS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT LOS ANGELES IS INFAMOUS FOR, TRAFFICKING OF YOUNG PEOPLE FOR SEX WORK. AND AS A COUNCIL OFFICE YOU GET A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO CALL AND EXPLAIN, YOU GET A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO, WHO CALL AND ARE VERY ANGRY WITH YOU OR THE COUNCIL OFFICE OR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, OR THE, THE PIMPS OR THE SEX WORKERS THEMSELVES OR THE CUSTOMER. BUT THEN YOU GET THE PEOPLE WHO CALL AND SAY, WE SEE THIS HAPPENING HOW CAN WE HELP. AND WE'VE GOT A CHURCH HERE, WE'RE GOING TO OPEN THE DOORS, WE'RE GOING TO WORK WITH THE TASK FORCE THAT OUR CITY ATTORNEY SET UP IN THE EARLY YEARS TO WORK WITH SERVICE PROVIDERS, LAW ENFORCEMENT, AND COMMUNITY TO CONFRONT THIS PROBLEM BUT ALSO DEAL WITH THE HUMAN BEINGS THAT ARE CAUGHT UP IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. RECOGNIZING THAT IF WE CAN JUST SEE THEIR HUMANITY AND BUILD A RELATIONSHIP WITH THEM, THAT'S A LONG TERM SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM IN FRONT OF US AS OPPOSE TODAY A SHORT-TERM OF SHIPPING THE PERSON OFF TO ANOTHER PLACE OR ANOTHER SIDE OF TOWN. SO ON BEHALF OF COUNCIL DISTRICT 8, REVEREND, WE'RE PROUD TO HONOR YOU FOR CLERGY APPRECIATION MONTH ON BEHALF OF THE PEOPLE OF THE 8th DISTRICT. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] ALL RIGHT, COUNCIL DISTRICT 10? >> H. Hutt: THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. THANK YOU FOR GIVING US THE OPPORTUNITY TO UPLIFT OUR CLERGY LEADERS AND ALSO THANK YOU FOR BRINGING JOHN REAMER TO THE MIC TO SET THE TONE FOR A DAY THAT WE NEED TO REMEMBER ABOUT HOPE AND RESPECT. I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT. TODAY, IN THIS MOMENT, I'M RECOGNIZING PASTOR JULIAN AND CHRISTINE LOWE OF OASIS CHURCH OF LOS ANGELES FOR THEIR INCREDIBLE IMPACT ON THE CITY AND BEYOND. JUST PROVED THE POINT, THEY HAD AN EMERGENCY AND WENT TO GO HELP SOMEONE ELSE SO THEY'RE NOT WITH ME TODAY. BUT THEIR LEADERSHIP REFLECTS A MODERN AND AUTHENTIC APPROACH REACHING PEOPLE WHERE THEY ARE AND HELPING THEM GROW IN PURPOSE AND RELATIONSHIP TO FAITH. IT'S A RELATIVELY YOUNG PEOPLE CONGREGATION THAT YOU DON'T SEE TOO MUCH, I THINK IT HAS TO DO WITH THE FACT THAT YOU CAN BRING YOUR COFFEE INTO THE PEWS AND YOU CAN DRINK YOUR COFFEE AND LISTEN TO THE SERMON, THEY BRING FAITH TO LIFE IN A RELEVANT AND TRANSFORMATIVE WAY. THROUGH OUT REACH AND WORSHIP AND TEACHING, THEY HAVE IMPACTED COUNTLESS LIVES IN THE CITY AND ONLINE. PASTOR JULY I --JULIAN AND CHRISTINA HAVE LEAD WITH GRACE AND AUTHENTICITY, REMINDING US THAT IT'S FAITHFUL SERVICE. SO TODAY, I WANT TO SAY A HEARTFELT THANK YOU TO PASTOR JULIAN AND CHRISTINA AND THE WHOLE OASIS CHURCH L.A. TEAM FOR THEIR TIRELESS TEAM AND PRAYERS OF VISION AND UNWAIVERING BELIEF IN PEOPLE. THANK YOU. >> Council President: COUNCIL DISTRICT 11. >> T. Park: THANK YOU COUNCIL PRESIDENT. THIS IS INCREDIBLE TO DO THESE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS THIS MORNING. THANK YOU FOR LEADING THIS EFFORT. HERE IN COUNCIL DISTRICT 11, IT'S AN INCREDIBLE HONOR TO BE JOINED BY PASTOR MATTHEW AND HIS WIFE MARY. REVEREND GRADUATED FROM GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY WITH A DEGREE IN PHYSICAL LOSS FEE IN 1999 AND THEN WORKED AT THE U.S. CUSTOM SERVICE BEFORE ATTENDING COLUMBIA SEMINARY AND THIS IS ORDAINED AND CURRENTLY PURSUING HIS DOCTORATE IN DEGREE. SERVED IN NORTH CAROLINA AND COKE I CAN'T BEFORE SERVING AS AN ASSOCIATE PASTOR AT WESTWOOD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. HE JOINED PACIFIC PALISADES PRESBYTERIAN IN JANUARY OF 2021. AT THAT TIME, THE COMMUNITY WAS WEATHERING THE PANDEMIC. WHEN THE PALESTINIAN FIRE TORE THROUGH OUR HILL SIDES IN JANUARY, WE LOST SOUFP --SO MUCH MORE THAN HOMES. WE LOST OUR SACRED SPACES THAT HELD OUR PRAYERS, CELEBRATION SXZ OUR GRIEF. AND FOR PASTOR MATT, THAT LOSS WAS, DEEPLY PERSONAL, HIS CHURCH PALY PREZ, WAS REDUCED TO ASHES. BUT AS WE KNOW, FAITH ISN'T MEASURED BY WHAT WE BUILD WITH OUR HANDS, IT'S MEASURED BY WHAT WE CARRY IN OUR HEARTS AND BY WHAT WE GIVE TO OTHERS, EVEN WHEN WE'VE LOST SO MUCH OURSELVES. IN THE DAYS AFTER THE FIRE WHEN THE COMMUNITY WAS TRYING TO FIND ITS FOOTING, HE STEPPED UP, HE HELPED ORGANIZE DONATIONS AND PRAYED WITH A DOZEN OF FAMILIES IN HIS OWN CONGREGATION WHO LOST EVERYTHING. SHORTLY AFTER THE FIRES, PALI PREZ RESUMED AT PRESBYTERIAN AND SHARING A HOME WITH BRENTWOOD PRESBYTERIAN. POSTER REMINDS US THAT THE CHURCH IS MADE OF PEOPLE BOUND TOGETHER BY LOVE, COMPASSION AND FAITH. PASTOR MATT AND HIS WIFE MARY AND THEIR LEADERSHIP CONTINUE TO GUIDE AND UPLIFT OUR COMMUNITY AS THEY SERVE ON THE FRONTLINES OF OUR RECOVERY REBUILDING THEIR OWN CHURCH. AND THEY BOTH CONTINUE TO SERVE AS INSPIRATIONS TO ME PERSONALLY. SO ON BEHALF OF CD11 AND THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES, IT'S AN HONOR TO THANK AND ACKNOWLEDGE PASTOR MATT FOR HIS FAITH IN US, FOR HIS SERVICE TO OTHERS, AND FOR HIS EXTRAORDINARY EXAMPLE OF WHAT IT MEANS TO LEAD WITH GRACE. THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE] >> H. Soto-Martinez: GOOD MORNING, FIRST OF ALL. THANK YOU SO MUCH COUNCIL PRESIDENT FOR CREATING THIS SPACE WHERE WE CAN UPLIFT THE SPIRITUAL LEADERS IN OUR DISTRICTS. IT IS AN HONOR TO RECOGNIZE A PERSON NOT THAT, NOT ONLY DO I ADMIRE THEM BUT I CONSIDER A FRIEND. FOR TODAY'S CLERGY APPRECIATION MONTH PRESENTATION, I WOULD LIKE TO PRESENT REVEREND JAMIE OF SAINT STEVENS EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN HOLLYWOOD. ROOTED IN COMMUNITY, FOUNDED IN 1904, THIS IS A CHURCH THAT EMBRACED DIVERSITY, AFFIRMS ALL IDENTITIES AND PRACTICES RADICAL HOSPITALITY. BUILDING IT INTO A THRIVING MINISTRY. MORE COMFORTABLE IN JEANS AND DOCK MART INS THAN DRESS SLACKS AND LOAFERS, SOMETHING WE SHARE SIMILARLY. HE APPROACHES THE STORY OF JESUS, AFTER EACH SERMON PARTICIPANTS ARE INVITE TODAY SHARE INTERPRETATIONS AND MAKING SAINT STEVEN'S ENGAGED. I'VE KNOWN REVEREND JAMIE FOR SEVERAL YEARS, IN FACT WE FIRST MET IN 2019 AFTER PICTURES OF YOUNG IN CAGES, WHAT WE DID, WE WALKED INTO AN AMAZON RETAIL STORE, ASKED ALEXA TO PLAY RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE AND WE SAT DOWN AND WE ALL GOT ARRESTED PUTTING OUR LIVES ON THE LINE IN THE NON VIOLENT DIRECTION THAT SPIRITUAL LEADERS HAVE TAUGHT US. I'LL SHOW YOU THE PICTURES LATER, THOSE ARE GREAT PHOTOGRAPHS. SO REVEREND JAMIE HAS DEMONSTRATED THAT HE HAS DEDICATED TO THE COMMUNITY NOT JUST AT SAINT STEVENS BUT LOS ANGELES AND AROUND THE COUNTRY. HE HAS FOUGHT AND CONTINUES TO FIGHT FOR IMMIGRANTS FOR WORKING CLASS AND ANYONE WHO HAS BEEN MARGINIZED BY OUR SOCIETY BECAUSE WE UNDERSTAND, MANY OF US UNDERSTAND THAT THE SPIRITUAL PRACTICE CAN'T BE KEPT INSIDE THE BALLS OF THE CHURCH, WE NEED TO GO OUT INTO THE STREETS AND PEOPLE. HE'S A TRUMAN OF GOD IN THAT HE FIGHTS FOR THE PEOPLE AND STANDS UP FOR WHAT IS RIGHT NO MATTER WHAT DIFFICULTIES THEY BRING. THANK YOU FOR REVEREND FOR EVERYTHING THAT YOU DO AND EVERYTHING ELSE THAT HAS BEEN RCOGNIZED TODAY. IT'S AN HONOR TO HAVE YOU HERE AND ON BEHALF OF THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES, WE WANT TO GIVE YOU THIS RECOGNITION. [APPLAUSE] >> Council President: COUNCIL DISTRICT 14. >> Y. Jurado: THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT. TODAY I'M PROUD TO RECOGNIZE L.A. VOICE FOR ITS COMMITMENT AND COMMUNITY POWER ACROSS LOS ANGELES. [APPLAUSE] WE REPUBLIC REVEREND WENDELL AND REVEREND HOOVER MY NEIGHBOR WHO COULDN'T MAKE IT TODAY. BELIEVES THAT DIGNITY BELONGS TO EVERY ONE AND THAT EVERY FAMILY DESERVES SAFETY AND PEACE. THEY PRAY WITH US, THEY ORGANIZE WITH US AND STAND WITH OUR COMMUNITIES WHEN IT MATTERS MOST. IN RESENT MONTHS AS ICE RAIDS BROUGHT FEAR INTO OUR NEIGHBORHOODS, CLERGY AND CONGREGATIONS ACROSS LOS ANGELES HAVE GATHERED SHOULDER TO SHOULDER IN INNER FAITH PRAYER VIGILS, FAITH LEADERS HAVE COME TOGETHER TO FORM CIRCLES OF PROTECTION AROUND IMMIGRANT FAMILIES, THEY HAD CANDLES AND SONGS AND SPOKEN THE NAMES OF THOSE DETAINED AND LEFT FLOWERS IN THE STEPS OF FEDERAL COURTHOUSE. THEY MADE PUBLIC WHAT HAPPENS FAR TOO OFTEN IN SILENCE. THE HEART BREAK, THE CELEBRATION, THE STRUGGLE FOR DIGNITY. TO L.A. VOICE THANK YOU FOR ORGANIZING NOT OUT OF FEAR BUT OUT OF HOPE, THANK YOU FOR REMINDING US THAT FAITH IS NOT PASSIVE BUT IS AN ACT. AND THANK YOU FOR REMINDING US THAT NOBODY IS VOICELESS ONLY UNHEARD AND WHEN THAT VOICE IS ROOTED IN ACTION, IT BECOMES UNSTOPABLE. THANK YOU. >> Council President: THANK YOU SO MUCH. ALL RIGHT. AND AND TO CLOSE, I WANT ALL THE PREACHERS AND RABBI, TO KNOW THAT IF THE CITY COUNCIL HAS GOT A PREACHER, IT'S TIM McOSKER. IT'S A GREAT PLACE TO CLOSE. >> T. McOsker: PLEASE JOIN ME IN WELCOMING PASTOR ROBERT TAYLOR TO CHAMBERS THIS MORNING. [APPLAUSE] PASTOR TAYLOR, IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE FAITH COMMUNITY OF THE 1-5, THE ENTIRE 1-5 FROM WATTS TO THE WATER FRONT. PASTOR TAYLOR HAS PROUDLY SERVED AS THE SENIOR PASTOR OF THE BUELLA BAPTIST CHURCH SINCE APRIL OF 11990 AND A PREACHER OF THE GOSPEL. HE STARTED AS A YOUNG CHILD. PASTOR TAYLOR HAS HELPED FOSTER A TIGHT KNIT COMMUNITY OF FAITH AND ALSO BEEN FUNDAMENTAL IN DEVELOPING TWO ORGANIZATIONS, THE COMMUNITY OUT REACH PROJECT AND BUELLA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. PROGRAMS SUCH AS SENIOR CITIZEN MINISTRIES, FOOD DISTRIBUTIONS, LITERACY TRAINING AND EVEN NOTARY NOTIFICATION. BUT MOST NOTABLY, PASTOR TAYLOR PLAYS A KEY ROLE AS THE PRESIDENT OF THE WATTS MINISTERS, THE GREATEST ACRONYM, WHAM, WATTS AREA MINISTERS, IT'S A LEADERSHIP COMPRISED OF FAITH LEADERS, THE GREATEST WATTS AREA IN WILLOW BROOKE WHO COLLABORATE ON SPREADING THE GOOD WORK. THEY HOST EVENTS THAT BRING TOGETHER THE COMMUNITY OF WATTS SUCH AS OUR MLK KING DAY CELEBRATION WHICH IS IN THE ML KING PLAZA WHICH WE'RE GOING TO FIGHT TO PROTECT BECAUSE THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA WANTS TO SELL IT OFF FOR SOMETHING, WE'RE GOING TO FIGHT THAT? WE'RE GOING TO FIGHT TOGETHER? >> Speaker: YES, SIR. >> T. McOsker: AND THIS YEAR, THE KEYNOTE SPEAKER IS ANTI MAXINE, SO WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT. EVERYBODY IS INVITED TO KINGS PLAZA ON MLK DAY. I'M GLAD TO HAVE HIM AS A DISTRICT AND AS A FRIEND AND RELIGIOUS LEADER AND I'M PROUD TO HONOR HIM AS THE HONOREE APPRECIATION MONTH. BUT ALSO TO BRING IT HOME, I WANT TO POINT OUT THAT PASTOR TAYLOR AND FIRST LADY ANNIE TAYLOR ARE CELEBRATING THIS MONTH, THEIR 30th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY. [APPLAUSE] AND ON SUNDAY, ON SUNDAY, OUR VERY OWN BUELLA BAPTIST WILL EXCHANGE VOWELS AT 2:00 P.M., COME EARLY, STANDING ROOM ONLY, I'LL BE THERE I HOPE WITH MY BELOVED WIFE. I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR HONORING ALL OF OUR LEADERS. ON BEHALF OF THE 11-5 AND THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES, WE HAVE THIS BEAUTIFUL CERTIFICATE FOR PASTOR ROBERT TAYLOR. [APPLAUSE] >> Council President: THANK YOU SO MUCH. ANOTHER BIG ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR ALL OF OUR FAITH LEADERS! [APPLAUSE] I ALSO WANT TO POINT OUT, WE GOT FAITH LEADERS WHO ARE BEING RECOGNIZED BUT A LOT OF FAITH LEADERS WHO ARE HERE TO SUPPORT THEIR COLLEAGUES IN THE MINISTRY AND OBVIOUSLY, OUR CREW FROM FAITHFUL SAINT MARK ON FIGUEROA IS HERE AS WELL. SO THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT CELEBRATION TO ME SO THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING PART OF IT AND BRINGING THE LIGHTS THAT ARE AROUND OUR CITY TO THIS BUILDING FOR THE WORLD TO SEE. THANK YOU SO MUCH. >> Council President: THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT. WHAT A GREAT PRESENTATION AND AS THEY'RE MAKING THEIR WAY OFF THE PODIUM, WE HAVE ANOTHER WONDERFUL DELICIOUS PRESENTATION COMING UP FROM CD14 ON PAOD POLICY. IF I CAN ASK COUNCILMEMBER JURADO TO HEAD TO THE PODIUM. >> Y. Jurado: ALL RIGHT. I'M STANDING IN THE SHOES OF AND YOU KNOW I'M A LOT SHORTER THAN COUNCILMEMBER PRICE BUT ON HIS BEHALF WE'RE CELEBRATING GOOD FOOD DAY. BUILDING AN HE VISITABLE FOOD SYSTEM REMINDS US THAT HEALTHY AFFORDABLE FOOD IS A RIGHT. ACROSS LOS ANGELES FAMILIES ARE DOING THEIR BEST TO THRIVE IN A SYSTEM THAT TOO OFTEN MAKES ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE HEALTHY FOOD DIFFICULT. YET EVERY DISTRICT IN THIS CITY IS ALSO HOME TO ORGANIZERS, HOME GROWERS, BUSINESSES, FOOD WORKERS, MUTUAL AID NETWORK AND THOSE BUILDING A BETTER FOOD FUTURE. ONE ROOTED IN EQUITY AND CARE. THAT'S THE WORK WE HONOR TODAY AND WE DO SO AT A TIME WHEN THIS WORK COULDN'T BE MORE URGENT. WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DIS RUPGT SNAP AND OTHER FOOD SUPPORTS, THOUSANDS OF FAMILIES ARE FACING INCREASE UNCERTAINITY AT THE DINNER TABLE. IN THIS MOMENT, IT'S OUR LOCAL NETWORK, OUR PANTRIES, OUR CORNER MARKETS WHO ARE SHOWING WHAT RESILIENT LOOKS IN REALTIME. IN CD14, WE'RE PROUD TO UPLIFT THE SKID ROW PEOPLE'S MARKET, A COMMUNITY. [APPLAUSE] A COMMUNITY CENTER GROCERY STORE MEETING RESIDENTS WHERE THEY ARE AND HONORING THOSE MOST IMPACTED. THEIR WORK REMIEPD US THAT WHEN WE INVEST WE BUILD A MORE JUST LOS ANGELES FOR ALL. AND I WANT TO THANK THE LOS ANGELES FOOD POLICY COUNCIL. THANK YOU. FOR THEIR LEADERSHIP IN SHAPING A CITY WHERE GOOD FOOD IS NOT A PRIVILEGE BUT A RIGHT AND FOR BRINGING US TOGETHER TO MAKE THAT VISION REAL. AND I WANT TO FRAO COUNCILMEMBER TIM McOSKER TO SAY A FEW WORDS. >> T. McOsker: THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER. HAPPY ANNUAL GOOD FOOD DAY. COLLEAGUES AND ALL OF OUR ESTEEMS GUESTS, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. I'M HONORED TO SHARE SPACE WITH MY COLLEAGUE COUNCILWOMAN JURADO ON THIS ISSUE WHERE WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO ANNOUNCE LOS ANGELES FOOD POLICY COUNCIL. THE FOOD POLICY COUNCIL IS HOSTING ITS 14th ANNUAL FOOD DAY, NATIONAL INITIATIVE. AND IT IS AIMED AT INSPIRING AMERICANS TO CHANGE THEIR DIETS. AND OUR FOOD POLICIES, EVERY OCTOBER THOUSANDS OF EVENTS ALL AROUND THE COUNTRY BRING AMERICANS TOGETHER TO CELEBRATE AND ENJOY AND PUSH FOR IMPROVED FOOD POLICIES. THE 2025 THEME IS BUILDING AN EQUITABLE FOOD SYSTEM HONORING THE HANDS BEHIND OUR FOOD. HIGHLIGHTS T HIGHLIGHTS THE ESSENTIAL WORKERS WHO GROE, PROCESS, AND TRANSPORT, COOK, DELIVER, AND MANAGE OUR FOOD EVERY DAY. MANY OF WHOM ARE UNDER ATTACK. WE WANT TO BREAK BARRIERS AND BUILD BRIDGES TO THE CRITICAL NEED FOR HEALTHY AND NUTRITIOUS FOOD ACCESS. PART IS TO MAKE FOOD HYPER LOCAL BY SUPPORTING FAMILY OWNED BUSINESSES AND FARMERS AND LOCAL GROWS WHO CONTRIBUTE TO LOCAL ACCESS ABILITY. IN THAT SPIRIT I'M HONORED AND STAND UP THE WILMINGTON YMCA BEHIND FEED L.A. AND THE FOLKS THAT SUPPORT THEM IN THE COMMUNITY. AS OUR 1-5 GOOD FOOD CHAMPIONS. THIS IS A GROUP THAT PROVIDES AN ESSENTIAL NEED FOR DISTRIBUTING FOOD AND ESPECIALLY AT THIS TIME IN OUR COMMUNITIES CREATES AN OPPORTUNITY FOR FOLKS WHO CAN'T GET OUT OF THEIR HOMES, WHO CAN'T GO TO GROCERY STORES AND THEY MAKE SURE THAEFR SINGLE RESIDENT WHO ASKED FOR HELP, GETS HELP. THE FEED PROGRAM PROVIDES YEAR-ROUND ACCESS TO NUTRITIOUS FOOD, THEY CONTRIBUTE 13 3000 POUNDS OF PRODUCE TO FAMILIES IN COMMUNITIES IN 2024 ALONE. 300 FAMILIES ARE SERVED MONTHLY, THROUGHOUT THE THROUGHOUT THE DRIVE BY EITHER WALK UP OR DRIVE-THRU AT THE WILMINGTON LOCATION RIGHT ON AVOLON THROUGH DELIVERY THE YMCA DELIVERS CLOSE TO 50 BOXES OF FOOD, TOILETRIS. I WANT TO THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER JURADO FOR HAVING ME HERE AND LET'S HEAR FOR THESE GREAT ORGANIZATIONS. THANK YOU. >> Y. Jurado: THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER McOSKER. NEXT I WOULD LIKE TO PASS IT OVER TO COUNCILMEMBER HUTT WHO WILL RECOGNIZE A COALITION OF STREET VENDORS. DIRECTLY IMPACTED BY ON GOING ICE RAIDS AND LEADERSHIP DESERVES OUR RECOGNITION TODAY. >> H. Hutt: THANK YOU SO MUCH COUNCILMEMBER JURADO FOR BRINGING LIGHT TO GOOD FOOD TODAY AND THE MANY BUSINESSES WHO NOURISH OUR COMMUNITY. WHILE WE'RE HERE I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE A SET OF ENTREPRENEURS WHO BRING FOOD TO OUR CITY AND THAT'S OUR STREET VENDORS. MANY NEIGHBORHOODS ACROSS L.A. ARE FOOD DESERT AND ACCESS TO FRESH PRODUCE IS LIMITED. STREET FOOD VENDORS OFTEN PROVIDE THE ONLY SOURCE OF FRESH FRUIT, VEGETABLES RELEVANT FOODS WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE FOR MANY PEOPLE WHO MRIF IN LOS ANGELES. PROTECTING THEM IS NOT JUST ABOUT FAIRNESS, IT'S ABOUT PUBLIC HEALTH AND FOOD EQUITY. STREET VENDORS ARE ENTREPRENEURS, OFTEN OPERATING TO SUPPORT THEIR FAMILIES AND CONTRIBUTE TO THE LOCAL ECONOMY. THEY REPRESENT THE SPIRIT OF OUR CITY, AND SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION THAT DEFINES LOS ANGELES. WHEN WE SEE THEM TARGETED IT DISRUPT THE CITY'S VALUES OF INCLUSION AND OPPORTUNITY. AND ALSO DRIVES THE ESSENTIAL WORKERS INTO HIDING, CUTTING OFF ACCESS TO FOOD IN VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES. FEAR CAUSES VENDORS TO SHUT DOWN, CREATING AN EVEN FOOD SHORTAGE THAT HURTS THE FAMILIES AND INDIVIDUALS THAT DEPEND ON THEM. OUR FOOD VENDORS ARE OUR LOCAL DRIVE-THRU, WHERE WE CAN STOP AND GET A FRUIT BOWL, OR WE CAN ADD SOME TAJIN TO IT TO LIVEN IT UP A LITTLE BIT. AS A CITY WE MUST STAND TOGETHER TO PROTECT THESE STREET VENDORS. THESE FOODS SUSTAIN OUR COMMUNITIES AND THEIR STORIES ENRICH OUR CITY AND THEIR SAFETY SHOULD BE A SHARED CIVIC PRIORITY. THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO TALK ABOUT OUR ENTREPRENEURS THAT BELIEVE IN THE CITY AND PUT THEIR POLE IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS. >> Y. Jurado: THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER HUTT, VERY WELL SAID. AND NOW I WOULD LIKE TO INTRODUCE OUR GUEST TO INTRODUCE THE GOOD FOOD CHAMPIONS. [APPLAUSE] >> Speaker: GOOD MORNING COUNCILMEMBERS I'M ALVA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF FOOD POLICY COUNCIL, A ORGANIZATION WORKING AT THE INTERSECTION OF FOOD AND NUTRITION SECURITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY AND WE'RE HERE TODAY TO HONOR FOOD DAY A GLOBAL INITIATIVE CELEBRATED ANNUALLY AIMED AT PROMOTING ACTION AND ENCOURAGING COLLABORATION FOR A RESILIENT FOOD SYSTEM. FOR THE LAST 14 YEARS, LOS ANGELES FOOD POLICY COUNCIL HAS RECOGNIZED AND ACKNOWLEDGED FOOD DAY IN LOS ANGELES WHICH SERVES AS THE LARGEST CIVIC ENGAGEMENT EVENT FOCUSED ON FOOD IN THE CITY. I'M HONORED TO BE JOINED BY PARTNERSHIPS WITH COUNCILMEMBER CURREN PRICE AS OUR SPONSOR OF FOOD DAY AND COUNCILMEMBER YSABEL JURADO AND COUNCILMEMBER TIM McOSKER AS COSPONSORS FOR THIS YEAR'S EVENT AND RESOLUTION. THIS YEAR'S THEME IS BUILDING AN EQUITABLE FOOD SYSTEM HONORING THE HANDS BEHIND OUR FOOD, RECOGNIZING FARMERS AND ADVOCATES AS THEY ARE KEY ROLES, THEY PLAY A KEY ROLE IN SUPPORTING SUSTAINABLE FOOD ACCESS FOR LOS ANGELES RESIDENTS. WE WOULD LIKE TO RECOGNIZE THE COUNCIL'S LEADERSHIP ON KEY FOOD ACCESS INITIATIVE AS WELL AS RECOGNIZE OUTSTANDING GOOD FOOD CHAMPIONS IN EACH DISTRICT. OVER THE PAST TEN MONTHS, OUR CITY FOOD SYSTEM HAS FACED GROWING STRAIN FROM FOOD RISING, FROM RISING FOOD COSTS AND DISRUPTIONS TO SCHOOL MEALS TO ON GOING THREAT CAL FRESH AND WIC WHICH THOUSANDS RELY ON INCREASED ISAAC TIFF ITS HAVE SPARKED FEAR DETERING FAMILIES FROM ACCESSING FOOD, DISTRIBUTION SITES AND CORNER STONE AND LOCAL MARKETS. THIS WILL IS NOT JUST A HUMANITARIAN ISSUE IT'S ECONOMIC ONE. NUTRITION PROGRAMS LIKE CAL FRESH ARE VITAL GENERATING 1.8 WHEN DISRUPTION HAPPENS. OUR NEIGHBORHOODS LOSE STABILITY AND INCOME. YET EVEN AMID FAE, UNCERTAINITY, OUR FOOD SYSTEM CONTINUES TO MOVE FORWARD THANKS TO THE COMMITMENT OF GROWERS, VENDORS ADVOCATES ACROSS LOS ANGELES AND MANY WHO ARE HERE TODAY AS GOOD FOOD CHAMPIONS. WE CELEBRATE THE RESILIENCE AND RECOGNIZE GOOD FOOD CHAMPIONS MAKING OUR CITY, STRONGER MORE JUST AND BETTER NOURISHED. WE THANK OUR COUNCIL MEMBERS FOR UPLIFTING LEADERS IN EACH OF YOUR DISTRICTS FOR YOUR CONTINUED PARTNERSHIP, TOGETHER, LET'S KEEP BUILDING A HEALTHIER MORE EQUITABLE FOOD SYSTEM. NOW I'M EXCITED TO START CALLING ALL GOOD FOOD CHAMPIONS WITHIN THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES. IF YOU CAN PLEASE GIVE AN APPLAUSE AFTER EACH COUNCIL DISTRICT NOMINEE TO EACH EACH CHAMPION. COUNCIL DISTRICT 1, CULLTIVA LOS ANGELES! [APPLAUSE] COUNCIL DISTRICT 2, NORTH HOLLYWOOD INTER FAITH FOOD PANTRY. [APPLAUSE] COUNCIL DISTRICT 3, SANDY DAVIS UFCW LOCAL 770 FROM SAN FERNANDO VALLEY! [APPLAUSE] COUNCIL DISTRICT 4, NEED FROM CARSON. [APPLAUSE] COUNCIL DISTRICT 5, THE VEGAN JOINT, WEST LOS ANGELES. [APPLAUSE] COUNCIL DISTRICT 6, KAISER PERMANENTE FARMERS MARKET. COUNCIL DISTRICT 7 STEVE LIST FROM SYLMAR. COUNCIL DISTRICT 8, VALLARTA SUPERVISOR FROM CRENSHAW. COUNCIL DISTRICT 9, SOUTH LAMB MANY FROM SOUTH CENTRAL. COUNCIL DISTRICT 10, STREET VENDORS FROM THE COUNCIL. [APPLAUSE] COUNCIL DISTRICT 11, PALISADES GARDEN CAFE FROM PACIFIC PALISADES. [APPLAUSE] COUNCIL DISTRICT 13, LABOR AND COMMUNITY SERVICES MACARTHUR PARK! [APPLAUSE] COUNCIL DISTRICT 14, SKID ROW PEOPLE'S MARKET. [APPLAUSE] COUNCIL DISTRICT 15, WILMINGTON FAMILY CENTER FOR COMMUNITY FEED L.A. [APPLAUSE] THANK YOU AGAIN EVERY ONE. IT'S A VERY IMPORTANT AND SPECIAL DAY TO RECOGNIZE LEADERS IN THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES, AMID OF THE A LOT OF TRAUMA, A LOT OF CRISIS THAT WE'VE DEALT WITH IN THE CITY AND I APPLAUD AGAIN, THE COUNCILMEMBERS FOR THEIR LEADERSHIP, FOR RECOGNIZING THEIR CONSTITUENTS, THEIR RESIDENTS AND HEALTHY AND MOVING FORWARDS A HEALTHY AND RESILIENT FOOD SYSTEM IN LOS ANGELES. THANK YOU. >> Y. Jurado: THANK YOU, TO ALL THE GOOD FOOD CHAMPIONS AND NOW ON BEHALF OF THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES, IT'S MY HONOR TO PRESENT THE CERTIFICATE TO THE FOOD POLICY COUNCIL IN RECOGNITION OF YOUR LEADERSHIP IN BUILDING A HEALTHY AND JUST FOOD SYSTEM. THANK YOU SO MUCH. [APPLAUSE] >> Council President: THANK YOU SO MUCH COUNCILMEMBER JURADO AND THANK YOU TO ALL THE GOOD FOOD CHAMPIONS. WHAT A WONDERFL PRESENTATION AND IMPORTANT RECOGNITION THAT WE ARE ALL PART OF THAT IMPORTANT FOOD CHAIN. LET'S MOVE ON WITH THE MEETING, WHAT IS NEXT ON THE AGENDA? >> Clerk: MR. PRESIDENT, PUBLIC COMMENT IS NEXT, SIR. >> Council President: OKAY, LET'S MOVE TO PUBLIC COMMENT IF YOU CAN READ THE INSTRUCTIONS IN PUBLIC COMMENT. >> City Attorney: YES, FOR MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC WHO WISH TO PROVIDE PUBLIC COMMENT, PLEASE NOTE THAT FOR THE ITEMS THAT ARE ON THE AGENDA, PUBLIC COMMENT HAS BEEN SATISFIED. HOWEVER, YOU'LL HAVE UP TO ONE MINUTE FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. SO WE WOULD ASK THAT YOU PLEASE WAIT UNTIL YOU HEAR THE NAME THAT YOU SIGNED UP UNDER CALLED ALOUD AND THEN YOU CAN LINED UP ON THE LEFT OF THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS AND YOU'LL GET ONE MINUTE FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT SO. AS SOON AS YOU GET TO THE PODIUM, YOU CAN BEGIN WITH THE PUBLIC COMMENT. IF I CAN ALSO HAVE THE INTERPRETERS MAKE THIS ANNOUNCEMENT ALOUD TO THE ROOM, PLEASE. IF YOU REQUIRE, HOLD ON JUST A SECOND. MR. CANNEDIDO, ITEM NUMBER 5 HAS BEEN CONTINUED TO NEXT WEDNESDAY. PLEASE DON'T INTERRUPT THIS MEETING WHILE I'M TRYING TO GIVE INSTRUCTIONS. THIS IS YOUR FIRST AND ONLY WARNING. IF YOU REQUIRE A SPANISH INTERPRETER, PLEASE MAKE SURE TO PAUSE 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 REQUESTED ACCOMMODATION UNDER THE ADA WITH THE CLERK'S OFFICE, OR IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO REQUEST AN ACCOMMODATION, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND AND GET THE ATTENTION OF THE SERGEANTS SO THEY CAN WORK WITH YOU AND WE'LL DO OUR BEST TO ACCOMMODATE YOU. WITH THAT, IF WE CAN START CALLING NAMES. AND ONCE YOU HEAR YOUR NAME CALLED, YOU CAN LINE UP IN ANY ORDER, THE ORDER IN WHICH THE NAMES ARE CALLED IS RANDOMLY GENERATED. GO AHEAD. >> Clerk: I WILL BEGIN BY CALLING THE FOLLOWING NAMES, ARIANNA, SERGEANT MA #ED RIZ SERGEANT AND CYNTHIA. AND AS WE WAIT FOR THE PEOPLE TO GET TO THE PODIUM, IF IT'S YOUR FIRST TIME HERE, IT WILL BE A LOOP. SO ONCE YOU'RE FINISHED, YOU CAN EXIT TO YOUR RIGHT, SO YOU'LL ENTER FROM YOUR LEFT AND EXIT FROM YOUR RIGHT HAND SIDE. GOOD MORNING, YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE. >> Speaker: GOOD MORNING. I AM MARIO THANK YOU CITY COUNCIL FOR YOUR ATTENTION. I HAVE BEEN WITNESSED AND VICTIM OF LAPD'S VIOLENT PRACTICES AND FALSE CHARGES. I HAVE BEEN SHOT AT WITH LESS THAN LETHALS AND ARRESTED. MY CITATION STATES THAT I WAS ARRESTED FROM A RIOT. I HAVE NEVER BEEN IN A RIOT, WE WERE LAWFULLY PARTICIPATING IN A FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS. LAPD CHIEF McDONNELL IS EITHER UNAWARE OF THE LEGAL TACTICS HIS OFFICERS ARE USING AGAINST CITIZENS OR TURNING A BLIND EYE. EITHER WAY, HE IS UNFIT FOR THIS POSITION. I URGE YOU TO SERVE THE WELL BEING OF YOUR CONSTITUENTS AND VOTE SUITABLE REPLACEMENT THAT UPHOLD THE LAWS OF THIS GREAT CITY. THANK YOU AGAIN. [APPLAUSE] >> City Attorney: NEXT SPEAKER. GO AHEAD, YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE. >> Speaker: GOOD MORNING, COUNCILMEMBERS. WHILE LOS ANGELES FAMILIES ARE STRETCHING 80,000 A YEAR ACROSS NEARLY THREE PEOPLE, THIS COUNCIL ITSELF PAYS 330,000 EACH PLUS BENEFITS TO REPRESENT US. AND SOMEHOW YOU STILL CAN'T REPRESENT A PROTEST WITHOUT POLICE BARRICADES BEATING US TO THE LOCATION. YOU CALL THIS A SANCTUARY CITY BUT THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO SEEM SAFE ARE THE ONES COLLECTING A QUARTER MILLION DOLLARS PAYCHECK, THE REST OF US ARE PAYING RENT THE SIZE OF YOUR CAR ALLOWANCE, THE REST ARE BEING SILENCED FOR SPEAKING OUT. MAN, I MUST HAVE PICKED THE WRONG PROFESSION. MAYBE INSTEAD OF A 3.3 BILLION DOLLARS POLICE BUDGET, YOU SHOULD BE PUBLIC SERVANTS AND SERVE WITH INTEGRITY WHICH IS NONE OF YOU HAVE AT THIS MOMENT. THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE]. >> Clerk: BEFORE THE NEXT, SUNNY FROM CSUN, BOB, ALEX A, AND CADET SCARLET. >> City Attorney: GOOD MORNING, YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE. GO AHEAD. >> Speaker: AIM ALEXANDRIA I'M A RESIDENT OF LOS ANGELES BEHAVIORAL THERAPIST AND MORE RECENTLY AN ACTIVIST AND INVESTIGATIVE JAOURN DISTRICT AND TERRIFIED CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES. I'VE AID ACTIONS RAPID RESPONSE NETWORKS AND FUNDING EFFORTS AND SO MUCH MORE. I HAVE WATCHED AS THE COMMUNITY LEADERS FIGHT HARD. I HAVE WATCHED THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SLOWLY INFLICT FEAR INTO OUR LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU AS WELL. IN JULY, I WAS BRUTALLY ARRESTED AND DETAINED BY DHS AND JUST A WEEK AGO, I WON MY FEDERAL TRIAL AGAINST THEM. I HAVE HEARD FROM MEMBERS OF THIS COUNCIL THAT WE'RE DOING EVERYTHING THAT WE CAN AND I'M HERE TO TELL YOU THAT IT'S NOWHERE NEAR ENOUGH. THERE ARE OVER 20 PROTESTERS FACING SIMILAR CHARGES ALL BASED ON LIES. WE NEED YOUR HELP! AND EVERY SINGLE WEEK, WE HAVE PEOPLE COME UP HERE AND EXPRESS THAT TO YOU. >> City Attorney: SO TO BE CLEAR, WE HAVE TO GIVE EVERY ONE THE SAME AMOUNT OF TIME. SO IF YOU HAVE ADDITIONAL PUBLIC COMMENTS THAT YOU WANT TO MAKE OR IF WE'RE UNABLE TO HEAR, YOU CAN PROVIDE WRITTEN PUBLIC COMMENT. AT L.A. COUNCIL COMMENT.COM. YOU CAN FIND IT AT THE TOP OF EVERY AGENDA OR YOU CAN DO A QUICK GOOGLE CHURCH AND IT SHOULD BE ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS THAT COMES UP. YOU HAVE A MINUTE, GO AHEAD. >> Speaker: ABOUT 20 YEARS AGO, I GOT INVOLVED WITH A LITTLE GROUP TRYING TO SAVE A BUILDING IN PASADENA. AFTER THAT I DISCOVERED THERE WAS PROPERTY FRAUD GOING ON. SO I OF COURSE I REPORTED TO POLICE. BUT WHAT HAPPENED I WAS INTIMIDATED BY GOONS WHILE THE POLICE DELIBERATELY LOOKED THE OTHER WAY. SO SINCE I COULD DO NOTHING, I DID NOTHING. NOW 20 YEARS LATER, I DECIDED TO GIVE IT ANOTHER SHOT. THE POLICE ARE STILL LOOKING THE OTHER WAY BUT WHAT IS INTERESTING IS THAT I'M NO LONGER BEING AFFECTIVE INTIMIDATED. SOME PUBLIC OFFICIAL IS GOING TO SAVE HIMSELF BY PRESSING BY A MILITARY LEVEL INVESTIGATION OF POLICE MISCONDUCT AND I DON'T SEE WHY THAT SHOULD NOT BE YOU RATHER THAN IN THE ARCADIA OR BURBANK COUNCIL OR SOME COUNCIL IN ANOTHER STATE. THANK YOU. >> Clerk: BEFORE THE NEXT SPEAKER BEGINS, MARY, KAREN, SHARON, KITTY HOLLERETH, OLIVIA IRENE, AND KATIE. THANK YOU. >> City Attorney: GOOD MORNING, YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE, GO AHEAD. >> Speaker: HI I'M JENNIFER COSE AK. ON SATURDAY, MYSELF AND MY PART AND OUR THREE CHILDREN JOINED A PROTEST. AT NO POINT IN TIME, DID ANY MEMBER OF OUR FAMILY FEEL UNSAFE IN THIS PEACEFUL PROTESTERS DURING THE FOUR HOURS THAT WE WERE THERE. IF I THOUGHT THAT OUR CHILDREN WERE IN ANY DANGER, I WOULD HAVE REMOVED THEM FROM THE SITUATION. OUR CHILDREN ARE 9, 11 AND 15, THEY'RE THE FUTURE GENERATION OF THIS COUNTRY. OUR CHILDREN WERE THERE TO USE THEIR VOICES, THEY HELD THE PROTEST SIGNS JUST LIKE EVERY ONE ELSE, THEY SANG AND DANCED. AROUND 7:30 LAPD UNLAWFULLY ORDERED THE DISBURSE OF THIS PEACEFUL CROWD, PROJECTILES WERE THEN FIRED, CLEAR ORDERS WERE NOT GIVEN, THEY WERE NOT GIVEN TIME TO COMPLY, THEY WERE MOST NOT GIVEN EXIT PATH. >> City Attorney: GOOD MORNING, YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE. >> Speaker: HI I'M KATIE LA FOON. I'M HERE TO ASK TO YOU REMOVE JIM McDONNELL FROM LAPD, WE HEARD THEM SAY THAT THEY WILL NOT COOPERATE TO ICE TO PEACEFULLY DOCUMENT AND PROTECT OUR NEIGHBORS WHICH WE HAVE DONE. AND LAPD UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF JIM McDONNELL IS OPERATING UNDER DIRECT ORDER TO OPERATE WITH ICE GOING AGAINST THE PUBLIC WISHES OF THE MAYOR OR LAPD IS OPERATING INDEPENDENTLY OF McDONNELL OR MAYOR BASS, YOU CANNOT CHANGE THE FACTS THAT THEY'RE HELPING LAPD. THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF VIDEOS TO PROOF THIS. THEY'RE CALLING DISSENT ORGANIZERS WHO GET IN THEIR WAY AND DOING WHATEVER THEY CAN TO CLEAR THE ROADS FOR ICE. THIS IS NOT ABOUT PUBLIC SAFETY THIS IS ABOUT FEAR. LAPD KNOWS THAT THEY'RE BEING FILMED, THEY'RE BREAK THE LAW AND DOING IT ANYWAY. WE NEED YOUR HELP, A TWO-THIRDS VOTE CAN REMOVE JIM McDONNELL. >> City Attorney: YOUR TIME IS EXPIRED. NEXT SPEAKER. >> City Attorney: SPEAKER, YOU'RE NOW DISRUPTING THIS MEETING. THIS IS YOUR FIRST AND ONLY WARNING. WE HAVE TO GIVE EVERY ONE THE SAME AMOUNT OF TIME. AGAIN IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL COMMENT--OKAY. SO I BELIEVE THE WOMEN IN THE HOLD ON--. SO THE WOMEN YELLING OUT THIS IS YOUR FIRST AND ONLY FORMAL WRNING. PLEASE DON'T DISRUPT OTHER SPEAKERS, THEY DID NOT DISRUPT YOU. THE WOMAN IN THE JEAN HAS BEEN WARNED ALREADY AND CAN BE REMOVED. >> Council President: THIS IS WHAT I'LL ASK OF FOLKS IN THE GALLERY. WE'RE GOING TO LOSE QUORUM SHORTLY AFTER TEN MINUTES AFTER THE HOUR, WE ARE, SO WE CAN SPEND OUR TIME, THIS IS YOUR SECOND WARNING. SO WE CAN SPEND OUR TIME GOING BACK AND FORTH WITH YOU AND GIVING WARNINGS. ALL RIGHT. THIS WILL WOMAN IN THE BLACK SHIRT, SHE IS REMOVED SUBJECT TO RULE 12. SO WE CAN SPEND OUR TIME GOING BACK AND FORTH OR WE CAN HEAR FROM SPEAKERS. IT'S COMPLETELY UP TO YOU GUYS. >> City Attorney: OKAY, SO. SO WOMEN YELLING OUT, THIS IS YOUR FIRST AND FORMAL WARNING AND THE WOMEN HOLDING UP THE PHONE CURRENTLY, AGAIN, WE HAVE TO GIFP EVERY ONE THE SAME AMOUNT OF TIME. IF YOU'VE BEEN AT THE MEETINGS BEFORE, PEOPLE COME IN AND SAY A LOT OF THINGS THAT YOU MAY OR MAY NOT DISAGREE OR THAT MAY BE OFFENSIVE BUT WE HAVE TO GIVE EVERY ONE THE SAME AMOUNT OF TIME. SO BY ENFORCING THE RULES, WE'RE NOT TRYING TO RESTRICT YOUR ABILITY TO PROVIDE YOUR OPINIONS BUT WE HAVE TO DO IT EQUALLY. SO I WILL ASK PLEASE, THE PERSON AT THE PODIUM NOW, HAS BEEN WAITING PATIENTLY. OKAY. CAN WE GET EYES. LET'S ATTEMPT THIS AGAIN, YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE. >> Speaker: THIS MEETING WAS REAL BORING UP UNTIL NOW. I JUST WANT TO SAY I KNOW THAT THE STATE DID NOT SIGN UP FOR DHS FOR 287G, TO TRAIN THEIR OFFICERS, I LOOKED IT UP. BUT ON JUNE 24th, I BELIEVE IT WAS WHEN ANDREA WAS KIDNAPPED, LAPD FORMED A CIRCLE AROUND THE ICE AGENTS AND PROVENTED HER FROM GETTING FREE FROM THIS LITERAL KIDNAPPING, IT WAS HORRIFYING TO WATCH. SO MY REQUEST IS, I JUST WANT TO KNOW THE TRUTH SO WE CAN MAKE DECISION TO SEE PROTECT OURSELVES AND KNOW IF THERE REALLY IS A DIRECTIVE FOR LAPD TO ASSIST ICE. MY ISSUE IS WITH THE LACK OF TRANSPARENCY, BECAUSE WE CANNOT MAKE DECISIONS FOR OUR OWN SAFETY IF WE DON'T KNOW THE TRUTH. THANK YOU. >> Clerk: BEFORE THE NEXT SPEAKER BEGINS, I WOULD LIKE TO CALL UP JOHN MATTINGLY, JENNY L, X AND ROB KWAN. >> City Attorney: GOOD MORNING, OKAY. >> Speaker: I WANT JIM McDONNELL REMOVED, PERIOD. HE IS CAUSED SO MUCH DANGER TO EVERY ONE, AND I'M HOPING THAT YOU'RE PAYING ATTENTION MR. MARQUEECE WHILE YOU'RE LAUGHING AND I DON'T APPRECIATE YOU ARRESTING MY SISTER TAYLOR WHEN SHE WAS GIVING HER SPEECH IN AUGUST. JIM McDONNELL NEEDS TO GET REMOVED BECAUSE HE HAS LAPD WORKING FOR TRUMP AND ATTACKsING US AND WHEN THEY SAY IT'S TIME FOR DISBURSAL, THEY ARE ALREADY SHOOTING TEAR GAS BEFORE WE CAN DISBURSE. SO AGAIN, JIM McDONNELL, NEEDS TO BE REMOVED. MARQUEECE, YOU NEED TO BE REMOVED, BECAUSE YOU DON'T LISTEN TO YOUR PEOPLE. WHY CAN YOU REMOVE PEOPLE FOR FREEDOM OF SPEECH. HER NAME IS TAYLOR, YOU NEED TO GET A BETTER LEADER, INSTEAD OF A LEADER THAT IS WORKING FOR TRUMP RULES INSTEAD OF PEOPLE'S RULES. WE'RE FIGHTING FOR OUR RIGHTS, PERIOD. >> City Attorney: NEXT SPEAKER. GOOD MORNING, YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE. >> Speaker: AND YOU DO LIMIT PUBLIC SPEAKER. ITEM 5 HAS BEEN SET ASIDE, 750,000 DOLLARS. WHERE IS SHE AT? THE COUNCILWOMAN SHE REQUESTED, MR. McOSKER QUESTIONED WHERE THAT MONEY IS COMING FROM, THANK YOU. I WOULD LIKE TO SUBMIT MORE PICTURES FOR THE FIRE THAT WILL HAPPEN IN PORTER RANCH. YOU'RE GOING TO SPEND 750,000 DOLLARS TO DEFEND THE PALISADES AREA. HERE IS A FUTURE FIRE AND YOU FOLKS WON'T DO NOTHING! WHY IS IT THAT YOU FOLKS KNOW THAT THEY FOUND OUT WHO STARTED IT, IT WAS A CIGARETTE STARTED IT. HOW MANY CIGARETTES HAVE I BROUGHT TO YOU AND SHOWED YOU WHAT THEY'RE DOING UP THERE. AND ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS REMOVE AND REINSTATE THE PARK ON THAT ONE LITTLE SECTION BUT NO, YOU DON'T DO IT. AND YOU CONTINUE, SIR THE SAME RESTRICTION ON PUBLIC SPEAKING THAT MS. MARTINEZ STARTED AS YOU SIR. >> City Attorney: NEXT SPEAKER, YOU'VE ALREADY RECEIVED YOUR FIRST, MR. CANNEDIDO, YOU'VE ALREADY RECEIVED YOUR FIRST WARNING, WE DO NOT WANT YOU REMOVED. YOU CAN PROVIDE THE HANDS OUTS TO THE SERGEANT IF YOU WOULD LIKE. GOOD AFTERNOON. >> Council President: COME ON MR. CANNEDIDO, YOU'RE TAKING UP MR. KWAN'S TIME. >> Speaker: IT'S OKAY. >> City Attorney: OKAY. >> Speaker: I'LL ALLOW IT. I'M GOOD WITH IT. >> City Attorney: YOU'VE BEEN WARNED MULTIPLE TIMES AND YOU'RE ELIGIBLE FOR REMOVAL. PLEASE DO NOT CONTINUE TO DISRUPT. >> Speaker: I UNDERSTAND YOU CONTINUED ITEM 5 BUT I WANT TO KNOW WHY THE BROWN ACT DOES NOT REQUIRE YOU TO OPEN PUBLIC COMMENT ON THAT. THEY REPRESENTED THIS AS A TK NICOLE CHANGE AND WHAT FOLLOWED? WE SAW COUNCILMEMBER RAMAN FLAG THAT THERE WAS AN INSIGNIFICANT CHANGE THAT THE CITY WOULD BE PAYING 750,000 AND NOT DWP AND WE HAD TO BRING ANOTHER ATTORNEY AND SAW COUNCILMEMBER McOSKER, AND COUNCIL PRESIDENT ECHO THE CONCERNS AND THEN WE HAD A 30-MINUTE CLOSE SESSION FOLLOWED BY THE PRESIDENT SAYING THERE WAS UNDERSTANDABLE CONSTERNATION. BEFORE THIS WHOLE DISCUSSION THE MATTER PASSED WITH ONE DISSENTING VOTE, AFTER, WE SAW THE MOTION FAIL WITH FOUR NEW MEMBERS JOINING. IS THAT NOT SUBSTANTIAL CHANGED? I'M LOOKING OUT FOR THE COUNCIL PRESIDENT, THIS WHOLE SESSION WAS ABOUT THE FBI DEMANDING RECORDS. MAYBE YOU CAN GETAWAY WITH THE OTHER MATTERS BUT I'M SURE THE FEDS ARE LISTENING RIGHT NOW. DO I NEED TO TALK TO MY FRIENDS AT THE D.A. >> City Attorney: NEXT SPEAKER. >> Clerk: BEFORE THE NEXT SPEAKER BEGINS, I WOULD LIKE TO CALL UP. >> City Attorney: MR. KWAN, THIS IS YOUR FIRST AND ONLY FORMAL WARNING, PLEASE DO NOT DISRUPT THIS MEETING. GOOD MORNING, YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE. >> Speaker: DID YOU SAY I SHOULD WAIT? >> City Attorney: SORRY, WE'LL START. DID YOU WANT TO READ MORE NAMES? OKAY. >> Clerk: THANK YOU. SO BEFORE THE NEXT SPEAKER BEGINS, I WOULD LIKE TO CALL UP ERIC ANDREWS AND DAN M. >> City Attorney: GOOD MORNING, YOU HAVE, GOOD AFTERNOON, YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE. >> Speaker: I'M JOHN MATTINGLY I'M ASKING COUNCIL TO REPLACE JIM McDONNELL. MANAGEMENT STARTS AT THE TOP, HE HAS MISS MANAGED, DEPLOYING MORE OFFICERS THAN NECESSARY. I HAVE TALKED TO OFFICERS WHO DO NOT WANT TO BE THERE. BOTH OF THESE POINTS EQUATE TO IRRESPONSIBLE USE OF FUNDS, GRANTING PAY AND OVERTIME LIKE YOU GAVE THEM A BLANK CHECK NOT TO MENTION LIABILITY PAY OUTS. THIS MONEY CAN BE USED FOR ESSENTIAL PROGRAMS AND SERVICE THAT'S HAVE BEEN UNDER FUNDED AND CUT. PROGRAMS THAT EACH OF YOU ENDORSE AND SERVICES THAT SUPPORT YOUR VOTERS. PLEASE SEND A MESSAGE TO YOUR VOTERS BY REPLACING CHIEF McDONNELL WITH RESPONSIBLE LEADERSHIP THAT PROTECTS ANGELINOS. THANK YOU. GOOD AFTERNOON. >> Speaker: EVERYTHING HE SAID. LOS ANGELES CLAIMS TO BE A SANCTUARY CITY YET CITY COUNCIL AND MAYOR BASS ALLOW JIM McDONNELL TO ABUSE PROTESTERS WHEN EXERCISING THEIR FIRST <u>MENDMENT RIGHT.</u> THE LAPD UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF JIM McDONNELL USED EXCESSIVE ABUSE, WHERE THEY BEAT CITIZENS WITH BATONS AND TRAMPLED PEOPLE WITH HORSES. WHAT ARE YOU DOING? NOTHING! NOTHING! THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY TO ACT AS STREET GANGS, FORCING PROTESTERS TO LEAVE AREAS WITHOUT DECLARING THOSE AREAS UNLAWFUL. WHAT REASON DID THE PRESIDENT HAVE TO BLOCK OFF STREETS ON OCTOBER 18th? THEY HAD NONE. ENTITLES TO PROTECT PROTEST TO ASSEMBLE THE OVER REACH OF OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. [SCREAMING] >> City Attorney: SPEAKER, YOUR TIME IS EXPIRED. WE HAVE TO MOVE ON TO THE NEXT SPEAKER. SPEAKER, SPEAKER, YOU'VE ALREADY BEEN WARNED, PLEASE DO NOT CONTINUE TO DISRUPT THIS MEETING. FOR MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO ARE HERE, WE WANT TO ALLOW AS MANY PEOPLE TO HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT BUT WHEN YOU DISRUPT THIS MEETING AND WE CAN'T REGAIN CONTROL OF THE ROOM, THE ONLY WAY TO CONTINUE WITH PUBLIC COMMENT IS TO WARN AND REMOVE YOU, WHICH IS NOT WHAT ANYONE HERE WANTS. [SCREAMING IN THE BACKGROUND] >> Speaker: MY NAME IS ERIC YOU HEARD FROM A LOT OF PEOPLE WHAT WE SAW SATURDAY NIGHT. I WANT TO TELL YOU WHAT I HEARD. I HEARD PEOPLE IN PAIN, LEADING FOR THEIR FAMILIES, PLAY MUSIC JOYFUL AND ANGRY, I HEARD BAB PIPES I HEARD SOMEBODY A POLICE OFFICER SAY REMEMBER YOUR OATH AND HE SAID I DON'T WORK FOR YOU. I HEARD HORNS HONKING FROM THE FREEWAY BEFORE. AND THOSE REMINDING US OF OUR RIGHTS. SOMEWHERE IN THERE, ABOVE AND THROUGH ALL OF THAT, I WAS APPARENTLY SUPPOSETO HAVE HEARD A COP ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CROWD WARNED THAT WE HAD BEEN DECLARED UNLAWFUL. THEN I HEARD THAT LAPD WAS MOVING IN FROM ALL SIDES. PEOPLE STARTED TO LEAVE WHICH IS WHAT THEY WANTED. THEN I HEARD SOMEBODY SAY HORSES, THEY CHARGED AND I HEARD SCREAMING AND I HEARD MY HEART POUNDING IN MY EAR. REMOVE JIM McDONNELL, THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE] >> Speaker: I'M HERE TO ASK McDONNELL TO BE REMOVED, THANK YOU. >> City Attorney: YOU HAVE A MINUTE. >> Speaker: I'M DANIEL SOSA, ON OCTOBER 11th, THE "L.A. TIMES", REPORTED HOW THEY'RE INFLUENCING JIM McDONNELL'S DECISIONS. LAPD BLATANTLY DIS REGARDS ORDERS. SINCE JUNE, LAPD HAS BEEN PART OF CAMPAIGN OF ASSAULT AND, LAPD HAS USED PRIOR RESTRAINT TO BLOCK OFF STREETS IN ANTICIPATION OF PROTEST, AND DECLARED AND DECLARED UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLY ON PEACEFUL CROWDS. DESPITE A TRO PREVENTING THEM FROM DOING THAT. THIS BLATANT DISREGARD FOR THEIR OWN POLICIES AND DISREGARD ON THE LAW ON CONSTITUTION AND JUDGE'S ORDER AND THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE IS A SLAP IN THE FACE TO YOU AND EVERY ONE IN THE CITY. THEY'RE DAMAGING THIS--. >> City Attorney: SPEAKER, YOUR TIME IS EXPIRED. NEXT SPEAKER. >> Clerk: BEFORE THE NEXT SPEAKER BEGINS, I WOULD LIKE TO CALL UP DAVID BRAUN ANDY GARCIA AND JOSE HERNANDEZ. >> City Attorney: GOOD AFTERNOON, YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE FOR GENERAL. >> Speaker: GABE DUNN. I JUST WANTED TO TALK ABOUT WHAT YOU GUYS ARE ABLE TO DO. ON OCTOBER 22, IT SEEMS LIKE A MOTION WAS PUT FORWARD TO CREATE MORE FUNDING FOR LAPD, WHICH IS A VERY WEIRD THING TO DO RIGHT NOW. IT SAYS 150,000 FROM HOMELESS SERVICES ACCOUNT TO BE TRANSFERRED TO THE POLICE FUND FOR OVERTIME FOR POLICE OFFICERS WHO ARE AS MANY PEOPLE HAVE SAID HERE, BEATING US. AND YEAH, I JUST AM CURIOUS WHY KATY YAROSLAVSKY AND JOHN LEE PUT THIS FORWARD ESPECIALLY AS THE MAYOR GIVES LIP SERVICE ABOUT INSIDE SAFE CONSTANTLY. I AM JUST XUEROUS WHO MAKES THE DECISION ESPECIALLY IN TIME WHEN WE'VE GIVEN MUCH TESTIMONY. SO IT SEEMS LIKE LIKE THERE IS STUFF WITHIN YOUR CAPABILITIES TO DO EVEN THOUGH YOU SAY NOT. AND I WONDER WHERE THE MONEY IS GOING? THANK YOU. >> City Attorney: NEXT SPEAKER. [APPLAUSE] >> City Attorney: GOOD AFTERNOON, YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE. >> Speaker: FIRST OF ALL I WOULD LIKE TO ADDRESS OFFICER RICHARD, THERE IS NO FAKE PRESS. WHEN YOU HAVE EVERYBODY OUT THERE, ALL THE LAPD BA'ATH EVERYBODY, ONE OF THE FAKE ASS OFFICERS CRACKED A GIRL'S SKULL, SIX STITCHES WITH A WOODEN. WHEN LAPD COMES OUT THERE AND SAYS WE'RE MAKING A LEGAL ASSEMBLY, WE'RE THERE FOR FREEDOM OF SPEECH, WE'RE DANCING AND HAVING FUN, WE'RE ENJOYING OURSELVES GIVING OUR PROTEST, THE WAY WE PROTEST AND THEN THEY CAME OUT THERE ALL AGGRESSIVE FOR NO REASON. AND YOU GUYS ARE SPENDING 160 MILLION DOLLARS ON CIVIL RIGHTS LAWSUITS AND FREE PALESTINE AND FUCK DHS. >> Clerk: BFT NEXT SPEAKER BEGINS, I WOULD LIKE TO CALL UP HUNTER DUNN AND ALEX CRUISO >> City Attorney: GOOD AFTERNOON, YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE. >> Speaker: SO AMERICA, THE BIGGEST CREATOR OF REFUGEE HAS NO RIGHT TO LEGISLATE AWAY IMMIGRATION. AN IMPERIAL COUNTRY HAS NO AUTHORITY TO DENY ENTRY TO REFUGEE, THAT THEY THEMSELVES CREATED THROUGH THEIR CAPITALISM BULL SHIT! SO NO THEY DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO PROSECUTE THESE PEOPLE BECAUSE WE RUIN THEIR COUNTRY. WE DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT TO PERSECUTE THESE PEOPLE? AND WHAT ARE WE DOING? WORKING IN TANDEM WITH FUCKEN ICE, WE'RE WORK WITHING THEM, ALL OF YOU, I DON'T RECALL SEEING ANY OF YOU AT THE NO KINGS PROTEST? WHERE WERE YOU AT? WHY DO NOT SEE THE FASCIST? WHERE IS YOUR INTEGRITY? WHERE IS YOUR COURAGE? WHERE IS YOUR COURAGE? >> City Attorney: NEXT SPEAKER? >> Clerk: BEFORE THE NEXT SPEAKER BEGIN, I WOULD LIKE TO CALL UP MICHELLE. >> City Attorney: GOOD AFTERNOON, YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE, GO AHEAD. >> Speaker: FIRST AND FOR MOST, I WANT TO SAY I LOVE L.A. AND MY QUESTION TO YOU AND ALL OF AND THE CHIEF IS HOW DO YOU SLEEP AT NIGHT? I USED TO BELIEVE THAT SOME COPS ARE GOOD AND THEN I REALIZE IF YOU WEAR THE UNIFORM YOU'RE COMPLICITY. WE CANNOT COUNT ON YOU, OR THE CHIEF TO KEEP US SAFE. YOUR YOB IS TO SERVE US AND THE PEOPLE. CHIEF, YOU AND YOUR COPS HAVE DONE ANGELINO SUCH A GREAT DISSERVICE, AND WE WILL NOT STAND FOR IT, NO LONGER. WE DESERVE TO FEEL SAFE NO MATTER WHAT, WHAT WE IDENTIFY US. I DEMAND A LEADER, WE DEMAND FREEDOM OF SPEECH. WE WILL CONTINUE TO FIGHT FOR THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN KIDNAPPED. WE WILL CONTINUE TO MARCH AND PROTEST AND DEMAND CHANGE. I DEDICATE THIS TO ALL THE NATIVES BECAUSE WE WILL NEVER BE IMMIGRANTS ON STOLEN LAND Y QUE VIVA LA RESISTANCIA. >> Clerk: BEFORE THE NEXT SPEAKER BEGINS, I WOULD LIKE TO CALL UP AKERMAN. >> Speaker: I'M HUNTER DUNN I'M A SPOKESMAN FOR THE NATIONAL 5051 MOVEMENT. I'M NOT HERE TO TALK ABOUT THAT I'M HERE TO DEMAND THAT THIS COUNCIL IMMEDIATELY REMOVE POLICE CHIEF JIM McDONNELL. I WAS THERE WITH A POLICE OFFICER STEPPED OUT OF A CAR POINTED AT A MEDIC BEARING THE AMERICAN FLAG, GOT BACK IN HIS CAR AND RAN HIM OVER. I WAS THERE WHEN THAT HAPPENED. THEY WOULD HAVE HIT MORE PEOPLE IF HEROIC PEOPLE DID NOT MOVE PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR WAY. THAT'S NOT THE ONLY THING THAT HAPPENED, THEY HAD LETHAL WEAPONS AND HORSES, THEY INJURED SEVEN JOURNALIST VIOLATION. THE LAPD DOES NOT SEEK TO SERVE AND PROTECT THE COMMUNITY, INSTEAD TO KILL AND DESTROY AND DEFEND A FASCIST GOVERNMENT THAT IS TAKE OUR NEIGHBORS HOSTAGE, A REAL COMMUNITY WOULD NOT ATTACK PEACEFUL PROTESTERS, IT WOULD ARREST ICE FOR ITS CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY. I YIELD THE REST OF MY TIME. >> Clerk: I WILL BE CALLING THE LAST TWO SPEAKERS UP. I WILL BE CALLING JESSE J AND DANIEL SOSA. >> Council President: DANIEL SOSA SPOKE ALREADY. ALL RIGHT, SO THAO WILL CONCLUDE TODAY'S PUBLIC COMMENT FOR TODAY'S MEETING. WE'RE GOING TO LOSE QUORUM. ALL RIGHT, MADAM CLERK, WE LOST QUALMER SO WE NEED TO ADJOURN THIS MEETING. >> Clerk: COUNCIL HAS MOTION--[AUDIENCE BEING DISRUPTIVE] . >> Clerk: THIS MEETING IS ADJOURNED DUE TO LOSS OF QUORUM. [AUDIENCE BEING DISRUPTIVE] >> Council President: ARE THERE ANY ADJOURNING MOTIONS MEMBERS? ALL RIGHT. SEEING NO ADJOURNING MOTIONS, THIS MEETING IS ADJOURNED.