>> >> Council President: GOOD AMONGER AND WELCOME TO LOS ANGELES CITY COUNCIL MEETING CITY COUNCIL. TODAY IS TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2025. MY NAME IS MARQUEECE, I SERVE AS COUNCIL PRESIDENT. LET'S START BY CALLING THE ROLL. MR. CLERK. >> Clerk: YES, MR. PRESIDENT. BLUMENFIELD HARRIS-DAWSON HERNANDEZ HUTT JURADO LEE MCOSKER NAZARIAN PADILLA PARK PRICE RAMAN RODRIGUE SOTO-MARTINEZ YAROSLAVSKY. 14 MEMBERS PRESENT AND A QUORUM, MR. PRESIDENT. >> Council President: FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS. >> Clerk: APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF MAY 9, 2025. >> Council President: WHAT'S NEXT? >> Clerk: COMMENDATORY RESOLUTIONS FOR APPROVAL. >> Council President: COUNCILMEMBER NAZARIAN MOVES, COUNCILMEMBER PRICE SECONDS, WAT'S NEXT. >> Clerk: TODAY IS TUESDAY AND TIME FOR THE FLAG SALUTE. >> Council President: I'LL ASK EVERYBODY IN THE CHAMBER TO RISE AND FOLLOW ALONG WITH MR. BOB BLUMENFIELD FOR THE "PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE". >> B. Blumenfield: ALL RIGHT, IF I CAN HAVE EVERYBODY PLACE THE FLAG AND PLACE YOUR RIGHT HAND OVER YOUR HEART, READY BEGIN. I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG UFT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION, UNDER GOD INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, MR. CLERK, LET'S RUN THROUGH THE TODAY'S AGENDA. >> Clerk: YES MR. PRESIDENT, 11 THROUGH 3 PUBLIC HEARING. 4 THROUGH 13 ARE ITEMS FOR WHICH PUBLIC HEARINGS HAVE BEEN HELD. ITEMS FOR 4 AND RULE AND RULES INTER GO *T GOVERNMENTAL COMMITTEE REPORTS FOR 9, 10 AND 11 HAVE BEEN SUBMIT ASKED POSTED ONLINE. 16 THROUGH 30 ARE ITEMS FOR WHICH PUBLIC HEARINGS HAVE NOT BEEN HELD. TEN VOTES ARE NEEDED FOR CONSIDERATION. >> Council President: SPECIALS TO MY WEST? MR. BLUMENFIELD. >> B. Blumenfield: I WOULD LIKE TO CALL ITEM 11 FOR COMMENT. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, COUNCILMEMBER HUTT. >> >> H. Hutt: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR, I WOULD LIKE TO CALL ITEM 27 AND MOVE FORWARD ADOPTING THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT'S REPORT RELATIVE TO THE ISSUANCE OF SUPPLEMENTAL TAX EXEMPTION AND EXECUTION OF THE RELATED FINANCING AND REGULATORY DOCUMENT FOR THE McDANIEL HOUSE PROJECT LOCATED IN CD10. >> Clerk: IS THERE A SECOND TO THIS MOTION? >> Council President: COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ SECONDS AND MR. BLUMENFIELD. >> H. Hutt: THANK YOU. >> E. Hernandez: I WOULD LIKE TO 3 FOR SEPARATE VOTE AND COMMENTS ON 7 AND 8. >> Council President: COLD HOLD 7 AND 8 FOR COMMENTS FOR COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ. COUNCILMEMBER JURADO. >> Y. Jurado: FOR ITEM 1 I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE TO APPROVE THE PC N APPLICATION AND ITEM 18, I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE TO NOTE AND FILE PLEASE. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT. >> Clerk: COUNCILMEMBER JURADO, WE NEED A SECOND FOR ITEMS 1 AND 18. >> CAN SOMEBODY SECOND IT. >> Council President: SECOND BY MR. BLUMENFIELD. >> Clerk: THANK YOU. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, SEEING NO OTHERS ON MY LEFT SIDE, THE WEST SIDE, I'LL GO TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ROOM. ANY SPECIALS ON THIS SIDE. YOU CAN ALWAYS COUNT ON COUNCILMEMBER PRICE. >> C. Price: YES AND OUT OF ABUNDANCE OF CAUTION I'M RECUSING MYSELF FROM ITEMS 2 AND 3 BECAUSE MY WIFE'S EMPLOYER HAS WORKED WITH THE APPLICANT IN THE PAST. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, ITEMS 1 AND 3 FOR RECUSAL FOR COUNCILMEMBER PRICE. SEEING NO OTHER SPECIALS, WHAT OTHER ITEMS ARE AVAILABLE FOR OUR ORGANIZATION? >> Clerk: MR. PRESIDENT, THE COUNCIL MAY VOTE ON 4, 9 AND 6 AND 9 AND 10 AND 13, 14 AND 15. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, THOSE ITEMS ARE BEFORE US. OPEN THE ROLL, CLOSE THE ROLL, TABULATE THE VOTE. >> Clerk: 14 AYES. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, WHAT'S NEXT? >> Clerk: THE COUNCIL MAY VOTE ON ITEM 12 CALLED SPECIAL BY COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ FOR A SEPARATE VOTE. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, ITEM 12 IS NOW BEFORE US, OPEN THE ROLL, CLOSE THE ROLL, TABULATE THE VOTE. >> Clerk: 12 AYES, 2 NOES. >> Council President: COUNCILMEMBER JURADO. >> Y. Jurado: CAN CAN I BE RECORDS A NO-VOTE. >> Clerk: FOR THE RECORD, 11 AYES 3 NOES. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, WHAT IS NEXT. >> Clerk: THE COUNCIL MAY CONSIDER 7 AND 8 CALLED SPECIAL BY COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ FOR COMMENTS. >> Council President: COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ FOR 7 AND 8. >> E. Hernandez: I'LL TRY TO BE AS FAST AS POSSIBLE BUT I HAVE COMMENTS FOR BOTH AND I'VE COMBINED THEM. TODAY I RISE TO SPEAK ON 7 AND 8 WHICH ARE RELATED TWO MOTIONS THAT I INTRODUCED TO PROTECT PUBLIC HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE. ITEMS 7, ADDRESSES A DANGEROUS GAP ON HOW THE CITY HANDLES PERMITTING AND REMEDIATION ON CONTAMINATED LAND, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS BROWN SITES. THEY MAY STILL CONTAIN HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES IN THE GROUND. MANY ARE NEAR HOMES, SCHOOLS AND PARKS PARTICULARLY IN WORKING CLASS NEIGHBORHOODS AND COMMUNITIES OF COLOR THAT HAVE LONG SUFFERED FROM EN VIRONMENTAL JUSTICE. THE MOTION AIMS TO CLOSE THESE GAPS BY CALLING FOR A FORMAL CLEARANCE PROCESS IN COORDINATION WITH COUNTY AND STATE AND FEDERAL AGENCIES SUCH AS THE DEPARTMENT OF TOXIC UB STANCES. UPDATING CITY BASES TO IDENTIFY BROWN FIELD SITES AND MAKE SURE THEY ARE TRIGGERED EARLY ON IN THE PROCESS. ASSESSING THE ROLE AND RECOMMENDATIONS TO IMPROVE OR STREAMLINE THESE EFFORTS. I WANT TO THANK MY COLLEAGUES COUNCILMEMBER PRICE AND HARRIS-DAWSON FOR SECONDING THIS MOTION. ITEM 8 ADDRESSES OIL WELLS, OVER ACTIVE OIL WELLS ARE SCATTERED PUTTING 1.7 MILLION DOLLARS FOR METHANE LEAKS AND OIL SPILLS AND EXPOSURE. BENZINE EXPOSURES. CITY'S REGULATION OF OIL WELL REDEVELOPMENT INCLUDING ASSESSING CURRENT ENFORCEMENT PRACTICES AND IDENTIFYING GAPS ESTABLISHING LAND USE AND REMEDIATION STANDARDS FOR PROPERTIES, AND PROPOSING AND REPORTING REQUIREMENTS UPDATING SEEM WITH ADVISORY NOTICES AND SAFETY NOTIFICATION, AND DEVELOPERS AND PROPERTY OWNERS AND INTEGRATED COMMUNITY INPUT. I WANT TO THANK MY COLLEAGUES COUNCILMEMBER McOSKER AND COUNCILMEMBER BLUMENFIELD FOR SECONDING THIS MOTION. I ALSO WANT TO THANK THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES TO UNDO THE HARMS OF OUR OIL INDUSTRY, FOR EXAMPLE, STAND L.A., HE ESPERANZA COMMUNITY HOUSING AND LINCOLN HEIGHTS COALITION. THESE MOTIONS AIM TO PROTECT ANGELINOS THESE GAPS ARE REAL AND HAVE A DIRECT IMPACT ON THOSE WE SERVE. AND WEATHER OUR CONSTITUENTS WITH TRUST. COLLEAGUES I ASK FOR YOUR SUPPORT ON BOTH OF THESE MOTIONS, THANK YOU. THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT. >> Council President: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SEEING NO OTHER COMMENTS ON THESE ITEMS, OPEN UP THE ROLL ON 7 AND 8, CLOSE THE ROLL, TABULATE THE VOTE. >> Clerk: 14 AYES. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, WHAT'S NEXT? >> Clerk: MR. PRESIDENT, THE COUNCIL MAY NOW CONSIDER ITEM 11 CALLED SPECIAL BY COUNCILMEMBER BLUMENFIELD. >> B. Blumenfield: I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT THIS TO HELP--HIGHLIGHT BY IMPROVING COMPOST REGULATIONS, WE CAN MASSIVELY REDUCE HEAT BY TACKLING GHG EMISSIONS AND GETTING TO THE SOLE SET BY STATES AS THEY DID THROUGH SB383 FOR EXAMPLE. COMES FROM OUR OWN LAND FILLS BUT NOW WITH THESE HEAT WAVES, IT'S MORE OBVIOUS THAT WE HAVE TO DO MORE. METHANE GAS A POTENT GAS THAT IS 84 TIMES HARSHER FOR OUR PLANET. IT'S JUST ANOTHER HEAT DRIVER THAT WE DON'T NEED, WORKING ON THE CLIMATE IS NOT THE RIGHT THING FOR TO US KEEP ON DOING, BUT WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT THE STATE IS HELPING US, WORKING WITH LARGE PLAYERS LIKE L.A. AND LAUSD TO CUT THESE EMISSIONS. IN MY DISTRICT, THE INTENSE HEAT IS OUT OF CONTROL. WE EXPERIENCED THAT THIS WEEKEND, LET'S DO OUR PART TO CUT DOWN OUR OWN EMISSION SXZ KEEP L.A. COOL. SUPPORTING THE PAST OF THIS BILL WILL HELP LOS ANGELES, SO WE WILL NOT BE LEFT HOLDING THE BAG FOR STATE WIDE REGULATIONS, IT GIVES US THE STRUCTURE AND SUPPORT WE NEED TO SUPPORT OUR WASTE PROGRAMS. AND WHEN WE WORK FROM A CLEAR PLAY BOOK, IT'S NOT JUST GOOD POLICY, IT'S SMART GOVERNING, SO COLLEAGUES I URGE YOUR SUPPORT OF THIS MOTION SUPPORTING THE SENATE BILL. THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU SO MUCH MR. BLUMENFIELD. LET'S OPEN THE ROLL ON THIS ITEM, CLOSE THE ROLL, TABULATE THE VOTE. >> Clerk: 14 AYES. >> Council President: WHAT'S NEXT? >> Clerk: TIME FOR PUBLIC COMMENT. >> City Attorney: TO PEOPLE PROVIDING PUBLIC COMMENT, WHEN IT'S YOUR TURN TO SPEAK, PLEASE STATE WHICH OF THE AGENDA ITEMS WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO. IF YOU AGAIN STRAY OFF TOPIC, YOU WILL FORFEIT THE REST OF YOUR SPEAKING TIME AND WE WILL MOVE ON TO THE NEXT SPEAKER. THE ITEMS OPEN FOR ON THE AGENDA, ARE 1 THROUGH 3 AND ITEMS 16 THROUGH 30. SO AGAIN, THE ITEMS THAT ARE OPEN FOR PUBLIC COMMENT ON THE AGENDA, ARE ITEMS 1 THROUGH 3, AND ITEMS 16 THROUGH 30. MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC MAY ALSO SPEAK FOR UP TO ONE MINUTE FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. DURING GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT, MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC MAY SPEAK TO ANY OF THE ITEMS OR ANYTHING ELSE IN THE CITY SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION. WE WILL TELL YOU WHEN YOUR TIME IS UP. COUPLE MORE ANNOUNCEMENTS, IF I CAN HAVE THE INTERPRETER MAKE THIS ONE TO THE ROOM PLEASE, IF YOU REQUIRE A SPANISH LANGUAGE INTERPRETER, PLEASE MAKE SURE TO PAUSE EVERY FEW SENTENCES SO THE INTERPRETERS CAN INTERPRET. >> Translator: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> City Attorney: FINALLY, THE SELECTION OF SPEAKERS IS AT RANDOM SO IN ORDER TO HELP US RUN AN EFFICIENT PUBLIC COMMENT, I WOULD ASK THE FOLLOWING, THAT YOU PLEASE WAIT, THAT YOU PLEASE WAIT UNTIL YOU HEAR YOUR NAME CALLED OUT FROM ONE OF THE STAFFERS BEFORE LINING UP. SO ONCE YOU HEAR YOUR NAME CALLED OR THE NAME THAT YOU SIGNED UP UNDER CALLED, YOU CAN FEEL FREE TO LINE UP IN ANY ORDER ON YOUR LEFT HAND SIDE OF THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS. THANK YOU. >> Clerk: I WILL NOW CALL NAMES TO COME UP AND SPEAK. MICHAEL WU, HAIRET ELLIOT, JACOB MONTAG. >> Speaker: HAIRET ELLIOT I SIGNED UP TO SPEAK FOR SIX. HOWEVER I SEE YOU VOTED ON IT AGAIN. >> City Attorney: BUT YOU CAN SPEAK TO GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT ALREADY. ARE THERE ANY OTHER ITEMS YOU WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK TO? YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE FOR COMMENT. >> Speaker: BY THE WAY, I LIKE BLUMENFIELD AND UNISSES, WE LIKE TO HEAR THIS BACKGROUND OF SCIENCE, WE APPRECIATE IT. I CAME TO TALK ABOUT RENE'S PITMAN'S SECOND BOOK, I DID NOT BELIEVE SHE BELIEVES IN PSYCHIC, AND I WAS SO STUPID. LIKE MOST RELIGIOUS PEOPLE THEY BELIEVE IN PSYCHIC, I LET IT GO WHEN I READ A BOOK OF HERS WHERE SHE IS JUSTIFYING THE CIA, IT'S ABOUT MORE THAN HALF THE BOOK. AND I JUST STILL COULDN'T BELIEVE IT, BUT THAT'S HER PROBLEM. THE LAST PART TALKS ABOUT OLD PEOPLE'S FADING MEMORIES IT'S ALL THROUGH ROBERT DUNCAN. IF YOU READ ROBERT DUNCAN, HE DOES NOT KEEP STRESSING LIKE I DO, HE'S AN ATHEIST, HE DOESN'T SAY IT. >> City Attorney: SPEAKER, YOUR TIME IS EXPIRED. NEXT SPEAKER. >> Speaker: GOOD MORNING, GROAT. >> City Attorney: GOOD MORNING, WHICH ITEMS WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO? >> Speaker: I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON 21 AND GENERAL COMMENT, AND FOR THE RECORD I SIGNED UP AS MICHAEL WU. >> City Attorney: SO YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE FOR THE GENERAL AND ONE FOR THE ITEM. >> Speaker: A GREAT COUNCILMEMBER THAT YOU SHOULD EMULATE. IF YOU DON'T KNOW I AM APA, HALF ASIAN AND WHITE. I WOULD RATHER BE A NERDY ASS HOPPA, FOCUSED ON CHARTER REFORM BUT INSTEAD I HAVE TO BE ANNOYING HOPA, BEEN FORCED TO BE ANth. KAREN DOES NOT CARE ABOUT HOPA AND THIS IS ON CITY HALL BEING BOTH BROKE AND BROKEN. I WAS GOING TO TURN TO MY GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT FOR THIS, THIS IS ALL CAPTURED IN LITTLE MAILER THAT WENT OUT, FOR KAREN, OUR MI A MAYOR, HIGHLIGHTING HER INACTION, AND IT WENT LARGELY TO HER DONORS. JUST GOT TO CAUSE SOME CHAOS. THIS IS HIDDEN MAILBOXES TODAY AND FUNNY ENOUGH SEE THAT KAREN HAS FINALLY MADE SOME APPOINTMENTS, WE ARE HALFWAY THERE. HAPPY TO SEE THAT BUT WE HAVE TWO TO GO FOR YOU TO GET THIS COMMISSION, THOSE APPOINTMENTS NEED TO BE OUT THIS WEEK AND CONFIRMED NEXT WEEK. I HOPE THERE IS A COME TO JESUS MOMENT AND I DON'T HAVE TO BE LIKE THIS. UNTIL THEN, I WILL BE FOCUSED ON THIS. AND MAYBE THOSE APPOINTMENT LEFT SIDE COME TOGETHER, IF THEY DON'T, GOING TO START DROPPING SOME DIGITAL ADS, IF THEY DO, I'LL WAIT UNTIL NEXT WEEK, YOU'RE GOING TO LEAVE ME WAITING APPARENTLY. >> NEXT SPEAKER. >> I WOULD LIKE TO CALL OUT MORE NAMES, ROAM A THREE DUARTE, ROB KWAN. >> City Attorney: GOOD MORNING, WHICH ITEMS WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO? >> Speaker: ITEMS 7 AND 8. >> City Attorney: SO ITEMS 7 AND 8 ARE NOT OPEN FOR PUBLIC COMMENT. BUT YOU CAN SPEAK TO THEM IN GENERAL. FEEL FREE TO MOVE THE MIC UP. >> Speaker: I'M JACOB AND I'M A L.A. RESIDENT AND PART OF SUNRISE L.A. I SUPPORT THESE ITEMS BECAUSE I'M DEEPLY CONCERNED ABOUT THE IMPACT OF LIVING NEAR OIL FIELDS AND BROWN FIELD SITES IS HAVING ON MY HEALTH AND THE HEALTH OF MY COMMUNITY. NEARLY TWO MILLION ANGELINOS LIVE NEAR THESE TOXIC SITES, CANCER AND OTHER CHRONIC ILLNESSES. THESE DETRIMENTAL AFFECTS, IMPACT LOWER COMMUNITIES. UNCHECKED DEVELOPMENT ON OR NEAR OIL WELLS, BY EXPOSE ING RESIDENTS TO TOXIC HAZARDS AND WORSENING THE HOUSES THAT WILL BE UNLIVABLE IN THE LONG TERM. ONCE AGAIN, I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR PASSION ITEM 7 AND 8 BECAUSE THAT'S A FIRST STEP TO A WELL MORE BALANCED THAT WILL BE REFLECTED IN THE UPCOMING BUDGET NEGOTIATIONS, THANK YOU. >> City Attorney: NEXT SPEAKER. GOOD MORNING, WHICH ITEMS WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO? >> Speaker: 7 AND 8. >> City Attorney: SOUL HAVE A MINUTE ON GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. >> Speaker: I'M A MEMBER OF SUNRISE L.A. AND I'M HERE TO SUPPORT 7 AND 8 BECAUSE THERE ARE NEARLY 5,000 UNCAPPED OIL WELLS WHICH POSE UNACCEPTABLE RISK TO TWO MILLION PEOPLE. THESE WELLS CAUSE CANCERS AND SERIES CHRONIC ILLNESSES, WE CANNOT JUST IGNORE THIS. WE NEED TO CLEAN UP OUR MESS. WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT HOW THESE HEALTH AFFECTS, THESE HEALTH COSTS AFFECT HEALTHCARE COSTS NOT TO MENTION THE MORAL COSTS TO OUR COMMUNITIES. THESE WELLS ARE NOT EVEN IN USE AND YOU HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO RKT FIE THIS TODAY. THANK YOU. >> Speaker: THANK YOU, YOUNG LADY. >> Clerk: I WOULD LIKE TO CALL UP MORE NAMES. LAURA, JOEVAN HOUSTON, GEORGE BASETI. >> City Attorney: GOOD MORNING P YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES FOR THE ITEMS AND ONE MINUTE FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. BEFORE YOU BEGIN, DON'T START HIS TIME YET. HOLD ON, IT'S NOT YOUR TIME YET. I NEED TO MAKE AN ANNOUNCEMENT TO THE ROOM. SO, TO EVERYBODY WHO IS NEW HERE OR TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN HERE BEFORE, JUST AS AN FYI EXPECT THAT WE WILL HEAR POTENTIALLY VERY OFFENSIVE THINGS OVER THE NEXT FOUR MINUTES. WE APPRECIATE YOUR PATIENCE DURING THIS TIME, MR. HERMAN ALLOWED TO SPEAK. IF YOU WOULD LIKE BECAUSE THE BROWN ACT DOES NOT REQUIRE YOU THE AUDIENCE MEMBERS TO LISTEN, YOU CAN POP IN YOUR HEAD PHONES IF YOU WOULD LIKE, YOU CAN GO FOR A SHORT FOUR-MINUTE WALK AND LOOK AT THE ROTUNDA YOU CAN ALSO STICK YOUR FINGERS IN YOUR EARS IF YOU PREFER TO DO. SO WE WILL LISTEN TO HIS PUBLIC COMMENT BUT YOU DON'T HAVE TO. THE FASTEST WAY TO GET THROUGH THIS, IS LET HIM USE HIS TIME AND THEN WE'LL MOVE ON TO THE NEXT SPEAKER. MR. HERMAN, YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES FOR THE ITEMS AND ONE MINUTE FOR GENERAL. >> Speaker: THANK YOU, THANK YOU FOR THE PRIOR RESTRAINTS AND I MPERMISSIBLE OF MY CIVIL RIGHTS. >> City Attorney: THIS IS NOT ON THE AGENDA. >> Speaker: I'M TALKING ABOUT THE SACURA MARKET LOCATED ON E CAESAR CHAVEZ, REALLY MS. JURADO, WE NEED MORE ALCOHOL IN OUR COMMUNITY WHERE LATINOS AND MINORITIES ARE UNDER CONSTANT ATTACK BY THE POLICE? FUCK THE POLICE. NIGGERS WITH ATTITUDE COME INTO MY COMMUNITY, THREATEN TO GO ARREST ME FOR DRINKING A 40 JUST BECAUSE AGAINSTINGER ALCOHOL BEVERAGAGE, NO THAT NEEDS TO STOP. AND NOW ON TO ITEM NUMBER 2, WAS THE MIA MAYOR? WHERE IS SHE AT? LET'S PUT HER ON RECORD FOR THE FINANCES CONSTRUCTION FOR MULTI FAMILY HOUSING, JUDGE CARTER COULDN'T DO IT IN BRENTWOOD. YOU SEE, THE SHIRT I'M HEARING, SMOKING SCAN, RETIRED AND I'M TALKING ABOUT THE BONDS AND THE BONDS AND THE BOND OF ABUSE BY LOS ANGELES AND THE MEETING OF THE BONDS BY THE MAYOR WHO CONTINUES TO RIP OFF THE PUBLIC. YOU IDIOT TAXPAYERS KEEP FOLLOWING THESE INSTRUCTIONS OF THESITY I DON'T DO INCOMPETENT INCO HEAR ENTER ASSHOLES FOR WHAT REASON? MR. PRICE HAS TO RECUSE HIMSELF BECAUSE HIS WIFE IS ON A FAMILY ISSUE ON FAMILY HOUSING DEVELOPMENT, RIGHT MR. GROAT? THAT HAS TO DO WITH THE APPROVAL OF MAYOR, SO AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED, WE'RE ALL FUCKED, GET A JOB, GET THREE JOBS, BECAUSE YOUR RENT IS GOING UP AND YOU'LL NEVER BUY A FUCKEN HOUSE IN LOS ANGELES AS LONG AS THESE CONDITIONS AND RULES OF PRIOR RESTRAINTS BY THIS BONE HEAD ATTORNEY AND THAT BOLD HEAD FOOL UP THERE, YOU DAWSON. >> City Attorne: I'LL ASK YOU TO STAY ON AGENDA, YOU REFUSED TO AFTER TWO SEPARATE REQUESTS, SO I'M GOING TO MOVE TO YOU GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. YOU HAVE A MINUTE FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT, GO AHEAD. >> Speaker: A MOMENT OF SILENCE PLEASE. >> City Attorney: YOU'RE WELCOME TO BE SILENT BUT YOU ARE TO ADDRESS THIS BODY, NOT THE AUDIENCE. >> Speaker: ITEM 16, ITEM 16 THROUGH 30, I OPPOSE, GO TRUMP GO TRUMP! FUCK LOS ANGELES TRUMP, FUCK BRENTWOOD, FUCK THOSE ASSHOLES WHO CONTINUE TO PUT V.A..s AND ANYONE WHO IS MISS INING ACTION ON A GOD DAMN STREET WITHOUT APPROPRIATE HOUSING, YOU MORONS, YOU'RE IDIOTS, YOU'RE ALL A BUNCH OF IDIOT, AND IF YOU DON'T LIKE T BALD HEAD, TOO BAD. LOOK AT HERE, ITEM 30CD8, COUNCIL DISTRICT 8 FOR THE RECORD AND POLITELY, FUCK YOU! NOW. >> NEXT SPEAKER, MR. HERMAN, YOUR TIME IS EXPIRED. NEXT SPEAKER? YOU FORFEITED THE REST OF YOUR TIME ON THE ITEMS BECAUSE YOU REFUSE TODAY LISTEN TO THE INSTRUCTIONS TO STAY ON TOPIC. IF I POINT, YOU ARE DIS RUPTING THE MEETING. WE CANNOT CONTINUE WITH PUBLIC COMMENT UNTIL YOU VACATE THE PODIUM. >> GOOD MORNING, WHICH ITEMS WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO? >> GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. >> OKAY SO YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE, GO AHEAD. >> Speaker: BUENOS DIAS. MI NOMBRE IS LAURA. >> Translator: GOOD MORNING MY NAME IS LAURA AND I'VE BEEN WORKING AT LAX FOR 24 YEARS. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> I ARRIVED TO THIS NATION 35 YEARS AGO. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Translator: SINCE MIA ING ARRIVAL I'VE BEEN WORKING FOR A LIVING. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Translator: BUT NOW I NEED TO WORK TO BE ABLE TO LIVE. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Translator: AS YOU KNOW, WE'RE HERE FOR BECAUSE WE'RE ASKING FOR WORTH WAGES. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Translator: AND A BETTER HEALTH INSURANCE FOR OURSELVES AND OUR FAMILIES. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Translator: I HAVE A ESPECIALLY FINANCIAL NEED BECAUSE I HAVE TO TAKE MY DAUGHTER TO THE DENTIST. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Translator: I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT THIS IS IT'S VERY DIFFICULT FOR ME TO MAKE THIS PAYMENT EVERY MONTH BUT IT IS NEEDED FOR THE HEALTH OF MY DAUGHTER. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Translator: I HAVE TO DECIDE BETWEEN PAYING, EATING OR PAYING THE RENT. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Translator: PLEASE DO NOT DELAY THIS ANYMORE. >> City Attorney: SPEAKER YOUR TIME IS EXPIRED. AND IF I CAN HAVE THE INTERPRETERS MAKE THIS ANNOUNCEMENT TO THE ROOM AS WELL, SO IF YOU RUN OUT OF TIME OR IF YOU HAVE ADDITIONAL PUBLIC COMMENT THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO PROVIDE. >> Translator: [SPEAKING SPANISH] YOU CAN DO SO IN WRITING AT LACOUNCILCOMMENT.COM. AND IF YOU NEED THE URL, YOU CAN FIND IT ON AT THE TOP OF AGENDA. >> City Attorney: THANK YOU. >> Translator: GRACIAS. >> City Attorney: GOOD MORNING, WHICH ITEM WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO? >> Speaker: GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. I'M JOE NANNED VAN HOUSTON I'M A MEMBER OF S A U AND LAX WORKER. TOMORROW WILL BE A TWO YEARS OF CULMINATION. AIRPORT WORKERS OR HOTEL WORKERS NEED OLYMPIC WAGE AND HEALTHCARE NOW WITHOUT AMENDMENTS. CORPORATIONS AND BUSINESS OWNERS WILL ALWAYS BE HERE, BUT YOU NEED TO DECIDE WHAT AIRPORT WORKERS AND TOURISM WORKERS AND THE PEOPLE THAT RUN LAX, SIDE WITH THEM, SIDE WITH WORKING CLASS, PEOPLE IN LOS ANGELES, WE NEED THIS, WE NEED HEALTHCARE, WE NEED A LIVING WAGE SO WE CAN TAKE CARE OF OUR FAMILIES. PLEASE, I ASK YOU DO WHAT IS RIGHT, DO WHAT IS RIGHT FOR SINGLE PARENTS, DO WHAT IS RIGHT FOR STRUGGLING FAMILIES, THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE] . >> Clerk: I WOULD LIKE TO CALL OUT MORE NAMES, ALEX, BYRON JOSE, JASON READY. >> City Attorney: GOOD MORNING, WHICH ITEMS WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO? >> Speaker: YES, HI, I WOULD LIKE GENERAL AND ALL ITEMS AND I'LL WALK YOU THROUGH, IF I CAN START WITH GENERAL PLEASE. >> City Attorney: WE'RE GOING TO TREAT EVERYBODY EQUALLY, YOU'LL HAVE THREE MINUTES FOR THE ITEMS, I'M GOING TO ASK THAT YOU DO THE ITEMS FIRST. YOU'LL HAVE ONE MINUTE FOR GENERAL. ITEMS FIRST. >> Speaker: READY? ALL RIGHT. I'LL START WITH THE ITEMS FIRST, ON ITEM NUMBER 2, IT'S REGARDING A HOUSING BOND. ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING IS THAT I DON'T SEE WRITTEN ON HERE, ALSO ON THE ATTACHMENTS WHEN YOU USE BONDS, YOU'RE SUPPOSE TO STATE THE METHOD OF PAYMENT AS IT RELATES TO THE BOND. INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH, COVID MONEY HAS BEEN USED WHERE HOW IS THAT RELATED TO A HOUSING BOND? A HOUSING BOND YOU'RE SUPPOSE TO STATE WHERE IT COMES FROM, COVID MONEY WHICH IS SUPPOSE TO BE USED FOR PP LOANS IS NOT A HOUSING BOND. HOW CAN YOU POSSIBLY ALLOCATE MONEY FROM ANOTHER PROGRAM THAT IS CALLED TEXTBOOK FRAUD. THAT IS TEXTBOOK FRAUD. THAT SAME PPP MONEY HAS ALSO BEEN USED TO IMPRISON PEOPLE. HOW ARE YOU USING NON DISCLOSED PUBLIC FUNDS WHICH THEY DID NOT AGREE TO USE FOR HOUSING RELATED MATTERS. MOVING ON TO AGENDA ITEM NUMBER 3, WE HAVE YET ANOTHER HOUSING BOND, HOUSING BOND JUST LIKE ANY OTHER GOVERNMENT BOND YOU'RE SUPPOSE TO STATE THE METHOD OF PAYMENT. THE METHOD OF PAYMENT WILL BE AGREED UPON BIT PUBLIC. THIS IS TEXTBOOK FRAUD WHEN YOU'RE USING THINGS LIKE PPP LOANS AND YOU'RE HANDING IT OFF TO NONPROFIT DOING YOUR DIRTY WORK THAT IS TEXTBOOK FRAUD. MOVING ON TO 30, WE HAVE YET ANOTHER HOUSING BOND, IF YOU'RE FOLLOWING ALONG, CITY ATTORNEY, WHEN YOU USING HOUSING BONDS WHAT ARE YOU SUPPOSE TO DO? YOU'RE SUPPOSE TO DISCLOSE THE METHOD OF PAYMENT PUBLICLY AND DOES IT LINE UP WITH WHAT THE PUBLIC AGREED UPON OR DOES IT NOT? AND REPEATEDLY WHAT IS HELPING? IT'S NOT BEEN LINING UP. THAT IS TEXTBOOK FRAUD, REPEAT AFTER ME, F.R.A.U.D., FRAUD. THAT IS FRAUD, THAT IS WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH THESE BONDS. I'M NOT AN IDIOT. STAY WITH IT ME, I KNOW YOU KNOW YOU'RE SUPPOSE TO DISCLOSE THE MONEY AGREED. THAT'S FRAUD. SHOUT OUT TO SMOKING CAN AND THAT'S FRAUD. THE LESSON OF THE DAY, WHEN YOU USE GOVERNMENT BONDS, YOU'RE SUPPOSE TO STATE THE METHOD OF STATEMENT AND WHEN YOU DON'T USE THE MONEY THAT WAS AGREED UPON FOR THAT SPECIFIC PURPOSE, THAT'S FRAUD. MOVING ON TO GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. >> City Attorney: YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE. >> Speaker: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, CITY ATTORNEY. I BAIT MY CASE AGAINST HYDEE SOTO, SHE DOES NOT WHAT MY FACE LOOKS LIKE AND SHE ADMITTED ON I PUBLIC RECORD THATING SHE KNEW MY CASE WAS FRIVOLOUS AND THAT'S WHY I DESTROYED THAT CASE IN COURT, HOLY SHIT, IT WAS DISCOVERED THAT SHE COULD LUTE WITHED SCIENTOLOGY ADMITTED ON A PUBLIC RECORDING, AND IN YOUR OWN DEPUTY PROSECUTES, ETHAN GREEN SAID HOLY SHIT WHY IS THIS CASE EVER IN COURT. I'M THE FIRST ACTIVIST IN THIS WHOLE YEAR AND A HALF TO BEAT A CASE AGAINST CITY ATTORNEY SOTO, THE FIRST GUY, GET FUCKED, I'LL BEAT THAT CASE. AND I'M HOLDING CITY ATTORNEY ACCOUNTABLE FOR THAT SHIT. REMEMBER THIS FUCKEN DAY. THANK YOU. >> City Attorney: AND AS WE'RE WAITING FOR THE NEXT SPEAKER, JUST OUT OF POLITENESS TO THE SPEAKERS, PLEASE HOLD YOUR APPLAUSE UNTIL AFTER THE SPEAKER IS FINISHED, THANK YOU. GOOD MORNING, WHICH ITEM WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO? >> Speaker: GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. I'M AL, I'M HERE REPRESENTING ACT L.A. WE'RE A COALITION OF FOUR ORGANIZATIONS FOCUSED AT THE INTERSECTION OF HOUSING AND TRANSIT ISSUES. EVERYTHING WE'VE DONE TENURE, FROM MEASURE J TO MEASURE U LA HAS BEEN DONE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH LABOR BECAUSE WE ALL KNOW THAT THERE IS NO FUTURE LOS ANGELES WORTH BUILDING THAT IS NOT BUILT PRIMARILY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE WORKING PEOPLE THAT POWER THE BUILDING THAT MAKE THE CITY GO. WE STAND WITH WORKERS IN SUPPORT OF A LIVING WAGE AND WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO TOMORROW'S VOTE, ON OLYMPIC WAGE AND WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO TOMORROW'S VOTE. THESE WERE APPROVED AROUND THE BROAD BASE BENEFITS AND TOMORROW YOU'LL MAKE GOOD TO MAKE GOOD ON THAT PROMISE, AND I'M LOOKING FORWARD FOR YOU DOING SO. THANK YOU. >> City Attorney: NEXT SPEAKER. >> Clerk: I WOULD LIKE TO CALL UP MORE TEEM. --MORE PEOPLE. >> City Attorney: GOOD MORNING, YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES FOR THE ITEMS AND ONE MINUTE FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. PLEASE BEGIN WITH THE ITEMS. >> Speaker: WHAT'S UP MY HOMEY, WHAT'S UP DOG. LET'S START WITH ITEM NUMBER 22. THIS IS TALKING ABOUT THE KOREA YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER AND I HAVE A REALLY CONCERN ABOUT THIS, BECAUSE I HEARD SO MANY REQUESTS, THAT OUR KOREAN YOUTH, THEY WANT TO HAVE ACCESS TO FREE TRANSGENDER SURGERY, HOWEVER, THE COUNCIL PRESIDENT AND OUR CITY ATTORNEY, BECAUSE BOTH OF YOU ARE BLACK, CONTINUE TO DENY THE KOREAN YOUTH AND KOREAN COMMUNITY TO ACCESS FREE OF CHARGE GENDER SWITCHING. I'M AWARE THAT A CITY ATTORNEY AND THEN COUNCIL PRESIDENT THEY ALWAYS PROVIDE A FREE GENDER CHANGE TO LATINO AND BLACKS BUT WHITE NOT KOREANS, THIS IS VERY RACIST. LET'S MOVE ON TO ITEM NUMBER 23, WHAT'S UP MY HOMEY, WHAT'S UP DOG, NUMBER 23 IS ABOUT POLICE FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC SAFETY ENHANCEMENT. DEFINITELY, I'M HERE TO SUPPORT WITH OUR LAPD, 24-INCH HUARTE, IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT TOILET NEIGHBORHOOD OR NEIGHBORHOOD, WE NEED MORE COPS, MORE SERGEANT DUARTE, WE NEED TO TAKE DOWN THE GANG BANGERS AND CARTEL AND ILLEGAL ATTORNEY LIKE OUR COUNCIL PRESIDENT ATTORNEY. NOW LET'S MOVE ON TO NUMBER 25. ITEM 25 IS ABOUT A HOMELESS STRATEGY COMMITTEE AND TRYING TO CONTRACT WITH HR AND ADVISOR. I WANT TO ASK OUR CITY TOSH, HOW DARE YOU? YOU REALLY REALLY HAVE SOME BALLS TO ASK FOR MORE MONEY FOR HOMELESS SERVICES. YOU SPENT 500 MILLION AND DURING HOME LTS AUDIT REPORT, NONE OF YOU, NO COUNCILMEMBER NO MAYOR, NO CITY ATTORNEY CAN TELL THE PUBLIC WHERE DID THE MONEY GO? AND CITY ATTORNEY, YOU REALLY HAVE 24-INCH BALLS TO ASK FOR MORE MONEY FOR HOMELESS SERVICES. NOW LET'S MOVE ON TO ITEM NUMBER 29. 29, IS ABOUT AGAIN, CITY ATTORNEY YOU HAVE BIG BALLS, YOU WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT TAKE THE MONEY FROM BUREAU OF SANITATION AND THEN TO TRANSFER THE MONEY TO THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE. SO YOU ARE SAYING THAT IN THE FUTURE, WE SEE POOH, WE SEE PEE ON THE STREET. AND THEN SOMEHOW THE MILLIONS AND MILLIONS TRANSFER TO CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE SO YOU CAN PROVIDE GENDER SURGERY FOR BLACK AND LATINO PEOPLE. I REALLY LOVE, LOVE YOUR 24-INCH BIG BALLS SO YOU CAN ASK FOR THIS AGENDA TO BEGIN WITH. NOW LET'S MOVE TO GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT, I WANT TO ASK OUR PUBLIC THAT IT'S NOT ABOUT OUR COUNCILMEMBER SPINDLER AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO FIGHT AGAINST THE CORRUPTION OF THE CITY. WE WILL CONTINUE TO FIGHT AGAINST THE ILLEGAL PRACTICES BY THE CITY ATTORNEY, BY THE COUNCIL PRESIDENT, BY THE ILLEGAL HAMAS SUPPORT BLUMENFIELD DINGO'S OFFICE. WE RESTORE ORDER, YOU COMMIT A CRIME, GU TO JAIL, PERIOD. WHO IS GOING TO RESTORE LAW AND ORDER? COUNCILMEMBER SPINDLER? WHO IS GOING TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERY CRIME HAVE CONSEQUENCES, WHO HAS SOMEBODY WHO HAS ZERO RECORD OF CORRUPTION, WHO HAS ZERO, HE HAS ZERO RECORD ACCEPTING BRIBE MONEY THAT IS OUR COUNCILMEMBER SPINDLER. SO EVERY ONE IN THE SMOKING SCAN, COMMUNITY, EVERY ONE LIVING IN CD1, LET'S TAKE DOWN HERNANDEZ, LET'S VOTE FOR COUNCILMEMBER SPINDLER. TAKE DOWN HERNANDEZ. >> City Attorney: NEXT SPEAKER? GOOD MORNING, WHICH ITEMS WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO? >> Speaker: GENERAL COMMENTS, PLEASE. ?AOUF A MINUTE. >> Speaker: I'M REV. BERNARD WILLIAMS, A METHODIST CONGREGATION IN THE 8th DISTRICT. MY CHURCH, WE HAVE A MATZO IN THE COMMUNITY OF HEART. I'M HERE TODAY AS A, SOMEBODY THAT GREW UP IN THE UNION HOUSEHOLD. I'M HERE TO SUPPORT THIS VOTE FOR TOMORROW ON TOURIST SIDE, OLYMPIC WAGE. I'M HERE AS A MORALIST SPIRITUAL LEADER IN MY COMMUNITY. WE'RE ASKING FOR A YES-VOTE WITHOUT ANY FURTHER DELAY AND ADD ONS. WE NEED THIS PASSED ON TOMORROW. I'M HERE WITH THESE WORKERS FOR TWO YEARS, THEY'VE BEEN TRYING TO GET THIS THING THROUGH. AND TOMORROW IS THE BIG DAY. SO I'M ASKING THE CITY COUNCIL TO DO THE RIGHT THING AND VOTE FOR THIS TOMORROW, WITHOUT ANY FURTHER DELAYS. I THANK YOU AND I PRAY THAT TOMORROW WE WILL GET A VICTORY. AMEN. >> City Attorney: NEXT SPEAKER. GOOD MORNING, WHICH ITEMS WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO. >> Speaker: BUENAS TARDES. MI NOMBRE MARIA RUBIO. >> Translator: GOOD AFTERNOON, I'M MARIA RAOUBIO, I WORK AT FLYING FOODS. I I MAKE 20 DOLLARS AN HOUR, THAT'S NOT ENOUGH FOR ME TO GO FORWARD. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Translator: I ASK YOU FOR YOU TO SAY YES TOMORROW TO THE OLYMPIC WAGE. IN 17 YEARS, AND I CANNOT RETIRE--I'M 72 YEARS OLD AND I CANNOT RETIRE WITH WHAT I'M EARNING. I CANNOT AFFORD RENT. THE COMPANIES MAKE A LOT OF MONEY AND WE NEED A PIECE OF THAT TO MOVE FORWARD. >> Speaker: MUCHAS GRACIAS. >> Translator: THANK YOU VERY MUCH. >> Speaker: GOOD MORNING, BYRON JOSE ITEM 23 AND 25 AND GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. ITEM 23, IF ONLY WE WERE THE LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION, THEN CERTAIN OFFICES WOULD PRIORITIZE MAKING SURE THAT YOUR DISCRETIONARY FUNDS WILL SAVE THE LIFES OF OUR COMMUNITIES. THANK YOU OFFICER PARK FOR WALK AGO WAY TO NOT CONTINUE TO FUND DISCRETIONARY FUNDS IN ADDITION TO THE 47 PERCENT OF THE BUDGET, NOW 49 PERCENT OF THIS BUDGET GOING TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. IT'S NOW TRANSFERRED TO THE FOUNDATION AND WE HAVE NO ACCOUNTABILITY WHERE THE MONEY IS GOING, EVEN WHEN IT'S ADMINISTERED BY THE LAPD WE STILL HAVE ACCOUNTABILITY WHERE THAT IS GOING. SOL IF ONLY THE LIFE OF TRANSGENDER PEOPLE WERE JUST AS IMPORTANT. ITEM 25, AGAIN, THE CITY OF LOST FUNDING THROUGH LAHSA, SO INSTEAD OF CONTINUE TO GO FUND, YET AGAIN ANOTHER REPORT, CONSULTANT TO COME UP WITH GRAPHICS AND THINGS FOR TO YOU SHOW INSTEAD? WE SHOULD BE LISTENED TO COMMUNITY BASE MODELS ENSURING THAT THERE IS PREVENTION FOR HOUSING, FOR HOMELESSNESS, SUCH AS FUNDING AGAIN FOR THE LIVES AND CARES OF OUR PEOPLE OF TRANSGENDER AND INNER SEX COMMUNITIES. PASSED A B22-18 WHEN WE ASKED THE LEGISLATURE TO FUND OUR COMMUNITIES. LAST YEAR, ALONG ASKING YOU THIS, CITY COUNCIL, WE WORK WITH THE L.A. BOARD OF COUNTY SUPERVISOR TO SEE PASS EQUITY MOTION ESTABLISHING 7 MILLION DOLLARS FROM MAY COUNTY COST FROM A LOCAL GENERATED REVENUE BOTH THE STATE NOR THE COUNTY DID NOT DIFFER US TO A FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THAT IS ATTACKING. THE STATE AND THE COUNTY STEPPED UP AND USED AS GENERAL FUNDS TO ENSURE. >> Clerk: ONE MINUTE FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. >> Speaker: THEY DID NOT SAY GO EXPLORE GENERAL FUNDING, THEY DID NOT PASS THE BUC DOWN. SO THIS IS THE TIME FOR US TO SEE THAT YOU ARE STEPPING UP TO ENSURE THAT YOU'RE FUNDING THE CARE AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR PEOPLE. SO THAT MEANS THAT WORKING FOR THE MAYOR AND GENDER AND RACE, DATA COLLECTION, THAT IS DONE WHAT THEY HAVE DONE IN THE COUNTY THAT IS FUNDS TO SHOW NOT JUST CRIMINALIZING TO FUND THE LAPD. WE'RE ASK ALL OF TO YOU USE YOUR DISCRETIONARY FUNDS THAT ENSURE THAT THIS YEAR FOR THE UPCOMING FISCAL YEAR THAT ON THIS BUDGET, YOUR PUTTING YOUR VALUES, NOT JUST CALLING YOURSELF AN ALLY BUT ENSURING THAT THERE IS A-LINE ITEM TO ENSURE THAT TRANSGENDER ARE BEING INCLUDED THROUGH THE INITIATIVE. THANK YOU. >> City Attorney: NEXT SPEAKER. >> . >> Clerk: I WOULD LIKE TO CALL UP MORE NAME, BYRON, KRISTIN, ALMA RAMIREZ. LE >> City Attorney: GOOD MORNING, WHICH ITEMS WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO? >> Speaker: COMMENTARY PUBLICO. >> Translator: GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Translator: MY NAME IS ANDRE SALAZAR AND I'M HERE TO TELL YOU SAVE THE DAY WORKER CENTERS. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Translator: DAY WORKER CENTERS HAVE BEEN HISTORICALLY PLACES WHERE WE GET TOGETHER AND FORM COMMUNITY. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Translator: THEY'VE BEEN TRAINED ON LABOR RIGHTS AND THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS TO OUR COMMUNITIES. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Translator: AT THIS TIME AFTER THE WILDFIRES, THESE WORKERS HAVE BEEN USEFUL IN RECONSTRUCTION OF THE CITY. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Translator: AND WE'RE HERE TO ASK YOU FOR THESE DAYCARE WORKERS TO REMAIN OPEN TO FILL THEIR MISSION OF EDUCATING, SUPPORTING LABORERS WITH THEIR RIGHTS. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Translator: WE THANK ALL THE CENTERS ALSO BECAUSE WE'VE SEEN A GREAT UNION BETWEEN ALL THE WORKERS IN L.A. >> Speaker: GRACIAS. >> Translator: THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE] >> Speaker: PUT ME AS ALL ITEMS AND THE NON-AGENDA PUBLIC COMMENT. >> City Attorney: SO YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES FOR THE ITEMS AND ONE MINUTE FOR GENERAL. PLEASE BEGIN WITH THE ITEMS, GO AHEAD. >> Speaker: THANK YOU, SIR. LET'S START OFF WITH THE SANITATION TRANSFERRING MONEY TO THE CITY ATTORNEY. JUST TO BE HOBEST --HONEST, THAT SOUNDS LIKE DIRTY MONEY. NOW WITH THE ALCOHOL ONE, THE LICENSE AT THE BEGINNING, I'M GOING TO SAY NO, UNLESS IT'S NO MIND A RESTAURANT, BUT IN LOS ANGELES, WE HAVE A LOT OF ACCESS TO ALCOHOL, CANNABIS AND ILLEGAL DRUGS, WE HAVE A LOT. AND YOU KNOW, SO I SAY NO TO THAT. I SAY GO WITH THE LIGHTING. AND THE HOUSING ONE, ALL THAT FRAUD, THANK YOU TO HENRY FOR BREAKING ALL THAT DOWN, THAT WAS VERY INTERESTING, BUT WHEN IT COMES TO THE HOUSING, YEAH, WE NEED TO BUILD HOUSING, I GUESS ALTHOUGH WE DID SPEND WHAT, WAS IT 1.5, NO 12.5 TRILLION DOLLARS ON INSIDE SAFE RIGHT? AND WE HOUSED 5 PEOPLE? SO, I GUESS, I DON'T KNOW, I MEAN, DO WE HAVE ENOUGH HOUSING, I GUESS NOT? THE OTHER ONE IS THE GRANT, I LOVE THE GRANT. I LOVE THE IDEA OF GETTING MONEY THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO KEEP DWINDLING OUR BUDGET FROM ONE BILLION IN THE HOLE TO TWO BILLION, I SAY GET ALL THE GRANTS THAT YOU CAN GET. I DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE IS ON HERE, I GUESS WE CONTINUE TO TALK ABOUT THE HOUSING GRANTS BECAUSE THERE IS A FEW OF THOSE. YEAH, THE HOUSING THING IS A MESS. WE'RE LAO* LOSING OUR COMMUNITIES, I KNOW WE NEED HOUSING BUT WE'RE ALSO LOSING OUR COMMUNITIES. UNITED NEIGHBORS HAS A THING THAT SAYS THERE IS ENOUGH COMMERCIAL SPACE WHERE YOU CAN BUILD ALL THE HOUSING YOU NEED ON COMMERCIAL SPACE SO WE CAN KEEP OUR LITTLE SPACE. AND SHOUT OUT TO SMOKING CAN, I FORGET WHAT IS OPEN AND NOT OPEN. THEY MENTION THE WAGES, I'LL SAVE MY COMMENT ABOUT SLAVE WAGES ON SCIENTOLOGY, TOMORROW THEN. AND THEN, I GUESS, THE CONDUCT IS CAN YOU TALK ABOUT CONDUCT? LIKE I HOPE MR. HUGO IS TELLING MR. NAZARIAN. >> City Attorney: YOU'RE WELCOME TO SPEAK TO GENERAL IF YOU WANT. >> Speaker: WE'RE ALMOST THERE, HELLO SMOKING SCAN. AND I WANT COMMENT ON RANDOMIZE. MR. HUGO, PLEASE TELL MR. NAZARIAN, HE'S GOT A SIGN --SCIENTOLOGY IN HIS AREA DO, THAT HE NEEDS TO MAKE SURE THAT HE NEEDS TO DO. I THINK HE DID A LITTLE BIT OF GOOD MR. HUGO, THEY'RE STILL GETTING THESE PERMITS, INSTEAD OF VIOLATING THE RIGHTS. BUT ONLY TWO DAYS A WEEK INSTEAD OF THE WHOLE ENTIRE WEEK. BUT YOU KNOW, IF THEY VIOLATE IT ONE MORE TIME, IT'S JUST GOING TO BE ANOTHER LAWSUIT FOR THIS CITY. HE DOES NOT CARE BECAUSE THEY CANNOT LISTEN. THE CITY ATTORNEY LISTENS, MR. GROAT, I GIVE YOU CREDIT, YOU LISTEN, LIKE REALLY LISTEN. EVERY ONE ELSE, NOBODY ELSE LISTENS. MR. NAZARIAN USED TO BE GOOD, I NOTICED WHEN MR. McOSKER IS NOT HERE, HE IS GETS HIM OFF TRACK. SHOUT OUT TO BOB, MS. PADILLA IS NOT LISTENING, MS. HERNANDEZ, YOU PROMISED THAT YOU WOULD LISTEN. YOU ARE LISTENING? OKAY, THANK YOU. >> City Attorney: NEXT SPEAKER. >> Speaker: HEY. OKAY, I'M THE DEMAND PIECE OF TRANS LATINA. I HAVE TO THANK MS. HUNT AND MS. HERNANDEZ AND HUGO, THEY HAVE BEEN SO SUPPORTIVE IN OUR COMMUNITY. BECAUSE OUR COMMUNITY WE HAVE SO MANY. I AM THE GRANDMOTHER OF ALL THE TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY. I'M GOING TO BE 84 IN JULY, STILL HERE, I WAS HERE WHEN LADY SIR JAVA, WHERE THE LADIES'S WOULD HONOR MS. HOLLY MITCHELL, I REALLY NEED A PIN FROM YOU AND MS. HUTT. I HONOR THINGS, I WAS HERE WITH THE LIZ TAYLOR FOUNDATION WHEN MR. BRADLEY, I'VE BEEN DOING THIS FOR YEARS AND I'M ALWAYS WILL FIGHT FOR OUR COMMUNITY. BECAUSE OUR COMMUNITY ALWAYS NEED HELP FOR SAFE PLACE TO SEE KEEP PEOPLE, BECAUSE OUR YOUNG LADIES ARE BEING KILLED AND MURDERED AND BEING TAKEN, THE GENDERS. MY GENDER CAN BE TAKEN AWAY BUT MY DIGNITY STAYS WITH ME, I'M MS. LO RELA LA LANE I'M A DIAMOND PIECE AND I LOVE YOU ALL. >> City Attorney: NEXT SPEAKER. >> Speaker: ARTHUR DIXON. >> City Attorney: GOOD MORNING, WHICH ITEMS WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO? JAOU, I'M GOING TO SPEAK TO, FIRST TO THE OIL ISSUE AND THEN TO 2 AND 3 ON THE HOMELESS AND THEN PUBLIC COMMENT. >> City Attorney: OKAY SO YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES FOR THE ITEMS, JUST FOR KLAIK FICKATION, ITEM NUMBER 2 ARE FOR MULTI FAMILY HOUSING, BUT GO AHEAD YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES FOR THE ITEMS AND ONE MORE GENERAL. >> Speaker: ON THE OIL, L.A. IS THE ONE OF THE ONLY CITIES THAT HAS OIL WELLS IN THE MID-APPROXIMATELY OF THE CITY. >> City Attorney: CAN YOU PAUSE HIS TIME, THE OIL ITEM IS NUMBER 8 AND IT'S NOT OPEN FOR PUBLIC COMMENT. YOU CAN GO TO GENERAL. I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU TWO MINUTES FOR ITEMS, YOU SAID 2 AND 3 AND ONE MINUTE FOR GENERAL. YOU CAN SPEAK TO THE OIL ITEM DURING GENERAL IF YOU'D LIKE. GO AHEAD. >> Speaker: AS TYPICAL AS WE FOUND OUT ON THE FREE SPEECH ISSUE, YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY IGNORANT OF THE LAW. I SAW ONE OF THESE SO-CALLED CITY COUNCIL PEOPLE THEY'RE SO IGNORANT OF THE LAW. QUESTION ABOUT WHAT THE REQUIREMENTS OFFER BONDS SO, IN MY PRESENTATION, THIS TIME ON THE LAW, IN HERE, IS A COPY FROM THE PAGE OF THE STATE ON REQUIREMENT FOR BONDS AND THE MAN WAS NOT LYING. MR. CITY ATTORNEY, DID WE JUST NOT NAIL YOU ON A MAJOR ISSUE? AND HERE YOU ARE, PUTING UP A 100 MILLION DOLLARS IN NON VOTER APPROVED BONDS WITH NO ATTACHMENT TO SHOW WHERE WHAT YOU'RE PAYING FOR THEM AFTER YOU USE COVID FUNDS ON DESOTO OF 30 MILLION SOMETHING WHEN I GAVE 6 TO 7 YEARS AGO, A BID TO THE COUNTY WHICH YOU RECEIVED BECAUSE YOU'RE PART OF THE JOY POWERS AUTHORITY. FOR 35,000 DOLLARS FROM GIANT CONTAINERS. RECENTLY I WENT UP BECAUSE OF THE ARTICLE ON SOTO'S UNIT, FOR 600,000 TO GIANT CONTAINERS AND I SEE THAT SAME PROJECT AT GIANT CONTAINERS. NOW THE QUESTION IS IS, DID YOU SPLIT THE MONEY WITH EXTRA CONTAINERS OR DO YOU PUT IT IN YOUR OWN POCKETS? ARE YOU PEOPLE SO STUPID AND WEAK AND IGNORANT AND CORRUPT THAT YOU CAN'T FIND OUT WHAT YOU CAN BUY HOUSING FOR. YOU SEE CONTAINER HOMES COST ABOUT 70,000--OKAY, SO NOW ON TO PUBLIC COMMENT, HUH? I GOT ANOTHER MINUTE, I GET TO KEEP GOING ON THAT ONE. >> City Attorney: HOLD HIS TIME. YOU ARE NOW IN GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT, YOU WERE GIVEN TWO MINUTES. >> Speaker: OKAY GIVE ME BACK MY FULL MINUTE. >> City Attorney: I PAUSED YOUR TIME WHEN YOU WERE SPEAKING. >> Speaker: I WANT TO SEE IT BEFORE I START. I DON'T TRUST YOU BECAUSE YOU'RE A CROOK. WE BUSTED FOOL! WE'RE GOING AFTER YOUR BAR LICENSE. YOU IDIOT. HOW DID YOU PASS THE BAR? BECAUSE THE BAR IS SO CROOKED IN THIS COUNTRY, GO READ LAW 360 HAVE YOU HEARD OF THAT, CCAP, DIS TESIA I DO IT EVERY DAY, YOU NEVER LOOK AT IT. YOU DIDN'T GIVE ME BACK MY TIME. DID YOU? YOU'RE TRYING TO TAKE MY LIFE, FOOLS. AND YOU SAY THAT IS NOT ELDER A BAOU, I HAVE A SERIES KIDNEY INFECTION AND I HAVE NO DOCTORS AND NO MEDICATIONS BECAUSE OF YOU! SO IF I DIE, I HOPE I DIE HERE SPEAKING TO YOU. >> City Attorney: NEXT SPEAKER. >> I'LL CALL UP THE NAMES. ANDREW, SYLVIA. >> Translator: GOOD MORNING, MY NAME IS MARIA TORRES AND I NEED TRANSLATION. >> Speaker: GRACIAS, [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Translator: I'VE BEEN WORKING FOR FLYING FOODS SINCE NINE YEARS AGO. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Translator: AND OUR SALARY IN THE COMPANY IS 20.73. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Translator: AND THE OLYMPIC WAGE WOULD HELP ME TO HELP MY FAMILY IN MY COUNTRY. AND TO PAY MY RENT. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Translator: YESTERDAY I WAS TALK TO GO A COLLEAGUE OF MINE. SHE IS A SINGLE MOTHER AND SHE HAS TWO CHILDREN. SHE WAS CRYING BECAUSE SHE WAS EVICTED AND SHE WAS IN ONE PLACE AND HER CHILDREN WERE IN ANOTHER PLACE. BECAUSE THE WAGE THAT WE EARN IS NOT ENOUGH TO PAY THE RENT AND KEEP THE FAMILY. THAT'S WHY WE CAN MAKE YOU THINK PUT YOUR HAND YOUR HEARTS SO YOU CAN THINK ABOUT THE WORKERS. SO THAT TOMORROW YOUR VOTE MAY BE YES. THANK YOU. >> City Attorney: GOOD MORNING, WHICH ITEMS WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO? >> Speaker: GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. ?AOUF A MINUTE, GO AHEAD. >> Speaker: GOOD MORNING I'M HERE TO SPEAK IN GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT, AND THANK YOU TO COUNCILMEMBERS FOR SUPPORTING 7 AND 8. I WORK FOR PHYSICIAN FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN LOS ANGELES, WE'D LIKE TO THANK COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ FOR PUTTING FORWARD THESE MOTIONS, FOR PROTECTING FRONTLINE COMMUNITIES FRIM PACT OF POST DRILLING. IT IS IMPORTANT THAT UNSAFE AND IMPROPER DEVELOPMENT NEAR ON TOP OF IMPROPERLY PLUG WELLS IS ADDRESSED AND COMMUNITIES ARE ABLE TO BE NOTIFIED ABOUT ON GOING EMERGENCIES AND OTHER ISSUES AT DEVELOPMENT NEAR FORMAL OIL SITES. ADDITIONALLY, I WOULD LIKE TO OFFER MY SUPPORT FOR ITEM 8, MANY IPOC COMMUNITIES AND I WITH WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE COUNCIL FOR CONTINUING TO ADDRESS THIS ISSUE. THANK YOU. >> City Attorney: NEXT SPEAKER. >> Clerk: I'LL CALL MORE NAMES. >> City Attorney: GOOD MORNING, WHICH ITEMS WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO? >> Speaker: ALL ITEMS AND GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. >> City Attorney: YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES FOR THE ITEMS AND ONE MINUTE FOR GENERAL. GO AHEAD. >> Speaker: ALL RIGHT, STARTING OFF WITH ITEM 16, ITEM 16 IS RELATED TO ESTABLISH ITING THE LOS ANGELES TOURISM MARKETING DISTRICT, THAT'S IS THIS JUST RELATE TODAY ADVERTISING OR GIVING HOTEL OWNERS ALL KINDS OF GOVERNMENTAL PRIVILEGES PRETTY MUCH AND ALL THIS STUFF? THIS SEEMS LIKE THIS IS A LOT. THIS IS A LOT LIKE EVERY SINGLE HOTEL IN THE CITY. SO THAT'S JUST SOME INTERESTING QUESTIONS THERE WITH ITEM 16. ALL RIGHT, SO LET'S MOVE ON TO ITEMS 20 AND 21, SO WHAT IS CITY COUNCIL DOING FOR CROATIAN COMMUNITY OR THE HO PA COMMUNITY? WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO HELP THEM TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY GET MORE RIGHTS AND MORE BUT I GUESS YOU'RE LIGHTING UP CITY HALL SO THEY CAN, WHO KNOWS IF THEY'RE ACTUALLY HELPING THEM OR ANYTHING. SO WE HEAR ABOUT THE LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION FUNDS LIKE ALL KINDS OF STUFF THAT THE CITY CAN'T AFFORD, IT'S FOUNDATION GOING TO FUND IT, IT'S NOT THE CITY. SO THAT RAISED SOME INTERESTING QUESTIONS ABOUT ITEM 23, ITEM 23, SEEKS TO TAKE 35,000 DOLLARS FROM THE STREET FURNITURE FUND IN CD5 AND GIVE IT TO THE POLICE FOUNDATION. SO YOU'RE GIVING CITY FUNDS TO THE POLICE FOUNDATION SO THEY CAN FUND STUFF THAT THE CITY ISN'T FUNDING BUT YOU'RE FUND ITING, THROUGH THIS BACK DOOR FUNDING THE POLICE FOUNDATION. SO STOP GIVING THEM MONEY. AND OF COURSE THE POLICE FOUNDATION SHOULD NOT GIVE THEIR MONEY FROM OTHER PLACES WE SHOULD STOP GIVING MONEY TO THE POLICE. BUT HERE WE ARE BACK TO FUNDING THE POLICE FOUNDATION SO IT LOOKS LIKE THE CITY IS NOT FUNDING THE LAVISH PARTIES AND ALL OF THIS STUFF AND ALL THE STUFF IN THE POLICE FOUNDATION FUNDS. BUT YOU'RE GIVING MONEY TO THE POLICE FOUNDATION HERE. HERE. THERE IS A LOT OF CORRUPTION GOING ON WITH THAT. WE HAVE ITEM 24, WHICH IS LIGHTING UP CITY HALL FOR CINCO DE MAYO, SO YEAH. THERE IS A LOT OF QUESTIONS, WHAT YOU'RE DOING FOR THE LATINO COMMUNITY. THAT'S AN INTERESTING QUESTION. SO LET'S MOVE ON TO GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. >> City Attorney: OKAY, YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE GO AHEAD. >> Speaker: I'M SURE YOU LOVE THIS HERE, MARQUEECE, BOB, YOU KNOW, ALL THE OFFICERS, YOU DON'T HAVE TO LIFT A SINGLE FINGER, YOU'RE JUST FORCING THE CLERK, WHO YOU'RE PAYING ANY EXTRA FOR ALL OF THIS NEW RESPONSIBILITY OF READING OFF NAMES FOR PUBLIC COMMENT, INSTEAD OF PRESIDING OFFICER DOING IT THEMSELVES LIKE THEY WERE SUPPOSE TO. SO YOU GOT THE CLERK READING OFF NAMES AND CITY ATTORNEY READING PUBLIC COMMENT, YOU GOT, YOU KNOW, BUT, ISN'T THE PRESIDING OFFICER TO READ OFF THE NAME AND TO RUN PUBLIC COMMENT HERE? SO HOPEFULLY THE CLERK IS BEING PAID EXTRA OF THIS EXTRA RESPONSIBILITY THAT IS BEING DUMPED ON THE CITY CLERK HERE OVER THE LAST FEW MONTHS, YOU NEED TO PAY ATTENTION TO PUBLIC COMMENT. AND FUCK THE BUDGET, REJECT THE BUDGET. >> City Attorney: NEXT SPEAKER. >> Clerk: I WOULD LIKE TO CALL MORE NAMES, TIANA, GINA, ARMANDO. >> City Attorney: GOOD MORNING, WHICH ITEM WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO? >> Speaker: HI I'M NICHOLAS I'M THE CHAPTER CHAIR OF MOVEMENT LOS ANGELES. AND I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE OUR APPRECIATION. THIS IS A BIG STEP FORWARD IN ADDRESSING THE TOXIC POLLUTION WHICH AFFECTS EVERY SINGLE IN THE CITY OF THE CITY AND REGISTER REGISTER REGION. AND I WOULD LIKE TO EXPRESS THE SOLIDARITY OF OUR MOVEMENT AND WITH AIRPORT WORKERS AS THEY FIGHT FOR DIGNITY, RESPECT AND LIVING WAGE, WE URGE YOU TO PLEASE VOTE YES WHEN THE ITEM COMES TO COUNCIL TOMORROW. THANK YOU SO MUCH. >> Speaker: GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. >> City Attorney: YOU HAVE A MINUTE. GO AHEAD. >> Speaker: I'M ARMANDO MUNOZ, I'M PROUD MEMBER, IT'S BEEN TWO YEARS SINCE WE'VE BEEN COMING HERE. TOMORROW IS GOING TO BE A HISTORIC DAY, THOUSANDS HAVE WORKED HARD FOR THIS DAY. WE HAVE MID-S WORK, SKIPPED DOCTOR APPOINTMENT SXZ USED OUR SAVING TO COVER THE DAYS WE MISS SO YOU CAN HEAR STORIES. TOMORROW YOU'RE GOING TO STAND WITH THE PEOPLE OF LOS ANGELES OR STAND WITH CORPORATE GREED. WE ARE GOING TO COUNT ON YOUR VOTE AND YOUR VOTE IS GOING TO DEFINE WHO YOU ARE. SO PLEASE STAND WITH US AND VOTE YES FOR THE MINIMUM WAGE ORDINANCE. THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE] >> City Attorney: GOOD MORNING, WHICH ITEMS WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO? >> Speaker: I'M SPEAKING ON GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. I'M A TRANSGENDER ANGELINO AND THE CHILD OF MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS. I'M HERE TO FULLY REALIZE THE PROMISE OF L.A.'S FOR EVERY ONE. BY MAKING MEANINGFUL INVESTMENTS. IT STANDS FOR DIVERSITY BELONGING AND INSOLUTION AND CALLS US TO CALL OUT AGAINST HATE. JUST LAST MOBSINGER SABRINA A 61-YEAR-OLD IMMIGRANT AND LONG TIME BUSINESS OWNER ENDURED A HORRIFIC PUBLIC ATTACKS. OVER TWO WEEKS, SHE SEXUALLY ASSAULTED AND THREATENED WITH DEATH BY MULTIPLE BECAUSE SHE IS A TRANSGENDER WOMEN AND A MIGRANT. THE LAPD RESPONSE WAS SLOW AND INO INAFFECTIVE. INSTEAD OF INVE.S FOR THE COMMUNITY TO HELP US WHERE IT'S NEEDED. THANK YOU. >> City Attorney: GOOD MORNING, WHICH ITEMS WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO? >> Speaker: HI GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. PLEASE. >> City Attorney: YOU HAVE A MINUTE PLEASE. >> Speaker: HELLO MY NAME IS TEEN A AND I SERVE AS THE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE DIRECTOR FOR BLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS. WE'RE HUMAN RIGHTS PRODUCTIVE SUPPORTING THE HEALTH AND WELL BEING OF BLACK WOMEN AND GIRLS. A RATIO AND ENVIRONMENTAL COALITION OF COMMUNITY BASE ORGANIZATIONS FIGHTING FOR ANGELINOS ON THE FRONTLINES OF NEIGHBORHOOD OIL DRILLING. I'LL BE BRIEF I JUST WANT TO THANK THE COUNCIL FOR APPROVING 7 AND 8 AS BOTH ARE EXTREMELY VITAL FOR THE HEALTH OF FAMILIES. THANK YOU AND HAVE A GREAT REST OF YOUR DAY. >> City Attorney: GOOD MORNING, WHICH ITEMS WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO? >> Speaker: IT'S GOING TO BE PUBLIC COMMENT. I WORK AT LAX EXAMINE I'M A MEMBER OF LOCAL 11, FOR OVER TWO YEARS I'VE BEEN SHOWING UP HERE, MISSING WORK AND PLEADING WITH YOU NOT TO DELAY THE OLYMPIC WAGE. I'M PLEADING FOR TO YOU VOTE YES TOMORROW. I'M STRUGGLING TO PAY FOR MY MEDICATION APPROXIMATES. WE NEED THESE RAISES AND PEOPLE ARE STRUGGLING, PLEASE VOTE YES, NO DELAYS. THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE] >> Council President: IS THAT THE LAST PUBLIC COMMENT? >> Clerk: THAT WOULD BE THE LAST SPEAKER. >> Council President: OKAY, SO PUBLIC COMMENT IS NOW CLOSED. WHAT IS NEXT? >> City Attorney: MR. PRESIDENT, SO BECAUSE ITEM 16 IS CREATION OF A NEW TOURISM DISTRICT, I RECOMMEND THAT WE EXHAUST PUBLIC COMMENT ON ITEM 16. SO IF YOU ARE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM NUMBER 16, BUT HAVE NOT HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO LINE UP ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE OF THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS. AGAIN, THIS IS ONLY FOR ITEM 16, NOT FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT AND NOT FOR ANY OTHER ITEMS. SO IF YOU'RE HERE FOR ITEM 16, THE CREATION OF A FEW TOURISM DISTRICT, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO LINE UP. I SEE ONE SPEAKER LINED UP. >> Council President: OKAY, WHO IS THE NEXT SPEAKER? COME FORWARD IF YOU'RE HERE ON ITEM 16. IS THERE ANYONE LINED UP FOR ITEM 16? COME TO THE LEFT SIDE OF THE CHAMBER, HOUSE RIGHT STAGE RIGHT. >> City Attorney: CAN WE COULD NOT FIRM, IS HE HERE FOR ITEM 16? >> Council President: THIS ONLY APPLIES TO FOLKS WHO HAVE NOT SPOKEN ALREADY. YOU CAN COME SPEAK ON ITEM 16, THAT IS THE ONLY THING OPEN AT THE MOMENT. >> City Attorney: SPEAKER, YOU'VE ALREADY SPOKEN, YOU HAVE ALREADY GIVEN YOUR FULL-TIME. I'M NOT SEEING ANYONE ELSE COME UP FOR ITEM 16. MS. ROACHA, ARE YOU HERE FOR ITEM 16? >> Council President: YOU CAN COME SPEAK TO ITEM 16 BUT YOU CANNOT YET OUT. COME TO THE MICROPHONE RIGHT NOW, AND YOU'LL HAVE A CHANCE TO SPEAK TO ITEM 16. IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO SPEAK TO ITEM 16, YOU DO NOT NEED TO COME TO THE MICROPHONE. ONE ITEM, ITEM 16, I BELIEVE YOU'RE THE LAST ONE HERE TO SPEAK ON THAT ITEM. GO AHEAD. >> Speaker: YOU DIDN'T CALL ME. >> City Attorney: AND BEFORE YOU CALL ME. >> Speaker: THERE WAS A TIME LIMIT THAT LIMIT IS PASSED. >> Speaker: BUT YOU DIDN'T CALL ME. >> Council President: YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE TO SPEAK TO ITEM 16, THAT IS THE ONLY THING AFFORDED. TIME FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT AND FOR PEOPLE WHO DID NOT GET CALLED, IS OVER. WE HAVE METAPHOR AN HOUR, AND THAT'S IT, YOU HAVE A CHANCE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 16, DO YOU WISH TO SPEAK ON ITEM 16? >> Speaker: OKAY, WHAT IS ITEM 16. >> Council President: YOU DO NOT WISH TO SPEAK TO IT? >> Speaker: YOU DIDN'T CALL ME. >> Council President: THAT'S IT, IS THERE ANY OTHER SPEAKER FOR ITEM 16? PUBLIC COMMENT IS CLOSED, THANK YOU. WE'LL NOW MOVE ON TO THE REST THE MEETING. JAOT COUNCIL MAY SPEAK ON 16, 17, 19 THROUGH 22, 24 THROUGH 26, AND 28 THROUGH 30. >> Council President: OKAY, THOSE ITEMS ARE BEFORE US. ANY MEMBERS WISH TO SPEAK TO THOSE ITEMS? SEEING NO MEMBERS ON THE QUEUE, LET'S OPEN THE ROLL, CLOSE THE ROLL, TALLY THE VOTES. >> Clerk: 14 AYES. >> Council President: OKAY. >> Clerk: MR. PRESIDENT, THERE IS A REQUEST TO SEND 16, 26 AND 30 FORTHWITH. >> Council President: WITHOUT OBJECTION, FORTHWITH IS ORDERED. NEXT? >> Clerk: THE COUNSEL SUL MAY CONSIDER ITEM 1 WHICH MOTION JURADO BLUMENFIELD HAS BEEN GRANTED THE NECESSITY APPLICATION. >> Council President: OKAY, THAT ITEM IS BEFORE US. SEEING NO MEMBERS ON THE QUEUE, LET'S OPEN THE ROLL, CLOSE THE ROLL, TALLY THE VOTES. >> Clerk: 14 AYES. >> Council President: GREAT, THAT MEASURE IS APPROVED. NEXT ITEM. >> Clerk: THE COUNCIL MAY NOW CONSIDER ITEM 18 CALLED SPECIAL FOR WHICH JURADO BLUMENFIELD HAS BEEN INTRODUCED. >> Council President: THAT ITEM IS BEFORE US. SEEING NO SPEAKER ON THE QUEUE, LET'S OPEN THE ROLL, CLOSE THE ROLL, TALLY THE VOTES. >> Clerk: 14 AYES. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, WHAT'S NEXT? >> Clerk: THE COUNCIL MAY VOTE ON ITEM 23 CALLED SPECIAL BY COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ FOR A SEPARATE VOTE. >> Council President: ITEM 23 IS BEFORE US, SEEING NO SPEAKERS ON THE QUEUE, LET'S OPEN THE ROLL, CLOSE THE ROLL, TALLY THE VOTES. >> Clerk: 11 AYES, 3 NOES. >> Council President: OKAY, THAT MEASURE IS ADOPTED. NEXT ITEM. JAOT COUNCIL MAY NOW CONSIDER ITEM 27 CALLED SPECIAL BY COUNCILMEMBER HUTT TO ADOPT THE LOS ANGELES HOUSING REPORT. >> Council President: OKAY, THAT ITEM IS NOW BEFORE US, SEEING DEMO MEMBERS ON THE QUEUE, OPEN THE ROLL, CLOSE THE ROLL, TALLY THE VOTES. >> Clerk: 14 AYES. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, THAT'S APPROVED. NEXT MEASURE. >> Clerk: THE COUNCIL MAY CONSIDER 2 AND 3 CALLED SPECIAL BY COUNCILMEMBER PRICE FOR RECUSAL. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, MR. PRICE, PLEASE EXIT THE CHAMBERS BRIEFLY. ONCE PROSECUE PRICE, MR. PRICE IS NOW OFF THE BOARD, SO WE WILL CONSIDER THAT ITEM. SEEING NO MEMBERS ON THE QUEUE. ANY MEMBERS WISH TO GO SPEAK? SEEING NO MEMBERS, LET'S OPEN THE ROLL, CLOSE THE ROLL, TALLY THE VOTES. >> Clerk: 13 AYES. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, THOSE MEASURES ARE ADOPTED. WHAT'S NEXT? >> Clerk: THE COUNCIL HAS MOTIONED FOR POSTED AND REFERRAL. >> Council President: WITHOUT OBJECTION, THEY ARE POSTED AND REFERRED. JAOT DESK IS CLEAR, SIR. >> Council President: WONDERFUL, COLLEAGUES ARE THERE ANY ANNOUNCEMENTS? LOOKING TO MY LEFT AND MY RIGHT FOR ANNOUNCEMENTS? SEEING NO ANNOUNCEMENTS, OKAY, WE WILL MOVE ON TO ADJOURNING MOTIONS. FICK ASK EVERYBODY IN THE CHAMBER TO RISE FOR ADJOURNING MOTIONS. COLLEAGUES? ARE THERE ANY ADJOURNING MOTIONS? I DIDN'T SEE YOU AT THE PODIUM. I ASSUMED SOMEBODY WAS HERE BECAUSE I SAW MY GOOD FRIEND, JOHN AND OTHERS. COUNCILWOMAN HUTT. >> H. Hutt: THANK YOU MR, CHAIR. A CHERISHED FRIEND, THE HONORABLE NATE HOLDEN. FOR OVER HALF A CENTURY NATURE HOLDON POURED HIS LIFE TO SERVING THE PEOPLE FROM HIS TIME AS A VETERAN IN THE AEURO SPACE ENGINEER TO IMPACTFUL YEARS AS A CALIFORNIA STATE SENATOR. HE WAS CHAMPION FOR URBAN DEVELOPMENT ACROSS LOS ANGELES EN SURING THAT PROGRESS REACHED EVERY CORNER OF OUR CITY. HE STOOD FORM FOR CONSUMER PROTECTIONS, EMPOWERING INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES. AND IN A LANDMARK ACHIEVEMENT THAT RESONATES TO THIS DAY, HE AUTHORIZED A BILL THAT EN SHRINED MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY, AS A HOLIDAY IN OUR STATE. DURING HIS TIME ON COUNCIL, NATE INNOVATED SPIRIT SHOWN, HIS NATE'S INNOVATIVE, HE PIONEERS PROGRAM THAT TACKLED ILLEGAL FIREARMS. RECOGNIZING THE IMPORTANCE THAT SAFETY, HE ALSO CHAMPIONED THE ORDINANCE REQUIRING BROITLY COLORED TOY GUNS. FOLLOWING THE 1992 LOS ANGELES UPRISING, NATE WAS THE FORCE BEHIND THE REVITALIZATION OF THE CRENSHAW YAI, SHOWING HIS COMMITMENT TO THE COMMUNITY HE SERVED. HE CHAMPIONS MEASURES THAT SUPPORTED THE HANDICAP, FOUGHT AGAINST DISCRIMINATORY RED LINE PRACTICES AND HOME MORTGAGES THROUGH THE DISCLOSURE ACT OF 1976, SECURED VITAL FUNDER FOR INNER-CITY SCHOOLS AND BROUGHT TO LIFE THE REGIONAL PARK, ADDRESS A PROLIFERATION OF LIQUOR STORES AND PROVIDED MUCH NEEDED PROPERTY TAX RELIEF FOR SENIOR CITIZENS. NATE'S HOLDEN'S PLACE IN HISTORY IS NOT SOLELY DESIGNED BY HIS LEGISLATION BUT BY THE DIFFERENCE HE MADE IN THE LIVES OF COUNTLESS ANGELINOS. AND ENDURING IMPACT HE HAD IN THE LAND CAPE OF OUR CITY AND OUR STATE. HE WAS A MAN OF ACTION, DRIVEN BY A PROFOUND LOVE FOR THE PEOPLE AND PLACES HE REPRESENTED. LET US REMEMBER HIS DEDICATION, HIS VISION, AND HIS UNWAIVERING COMMITMENT TO MAKING A BETTER LOS ANGELES FOR ALL. MAY HE REST IN POWER. THANK YOU. >> Council President: THANK YOU. WE HAVE SOME OTHER MEMBERS ON THE QUEUE. >> Speaker: THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT MEMBERS HEATHER THIS IS BEEN AN A WEEK'S BEEN LIKE I'VE BEEN LIKE ON A ROLLER COASTER. I DON'T KNOW IF THERE WOULD BE A POLITICAL HERB WESSON, A POLITICAL ME IF IF WERE NOT FOR NATE HOLDEN. YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A SAYING IN OUR COMMUNITY, IF YOU CAN HELP SOMEBODY, THEN YOUR LIFE HAS NOT BEEN IN VAIN. NATE HOLDEN SENATOR HOLDEN, COUNCILMEMBER HOLDEN HELPED THOUSANDS. LIKE I SAID TO YOU, HE GAVE ME MY VERY FIRST JOB IN POLITICS BUT WHAT MOST PEOPLE DON'T KNOW, HE GOT ME MY FIRST GOVERNMENT JOB AT THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES WHERE I MET MY WIFE, THREE WEEKS FROM TODAY, WE WILL CELEBRATE OUR 44th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY. THAT'S NATE HOLDEN. [APPLAUSE] MY DAUGHTER-IN-LAW WHO WORKS HERE, IF I WAS NOT HERE, SHE WOULD NOT HAVE MET MY SON AND WOULDN'T OF HAD THE TWO LOVELY GRANDKIDS THAT I HAVE AND HERE IS MY DAUGHTER-IN-LAW ALEXIS, AND MY SON, NATE JUST HIRED ON HIS OWN AND NOW HER BE THE THIRD WORKS FOR THE STATE. AND I CAN GO ON AND ON, SO NATE'S LIFE WAS NOT IN VAIN, HE TOUCHED SO MANY PEOPLE. AND YOU TALK ABOUT THE GREAT THINGS HE DID, THE MOST IMPORTANT THING THAT YOUR DAD DID, HE KNEW HOW TO LIVE. THAT'S WHAT HE DID AND WHEN IT WAS NEVER, A DULL MOMENT. BILL ROBINSON WHO IS IN THE BACK, BILL STAND UP WHERE EVER YOU ARE, HE WAS OUR REPRESENTATIVE TO THE KOREA TOWN AREA. WE WENT TO KOREA BIG TRIP PULSEAN, WE HAD A HURRICANE, WE WENT TO TAIWAN, THE PRESIDENT DIED. WHERE EVER NATE WENT, SOMETHING HAPPENED. MY EXECUTIVE ASSISTANCE, THAT MANY OF YOU KNOW, SEAN, LOVE WALLACE WORKED IN THIS BUILDING, SHE GOES TO JAM CABSINGER MEETS A GUY AND FALLS IN LOVE AND DECIDES TO GO BACK AND MARRIED, AND SEES BEEN MARRIED TO THIS GUY SINCE 1990, JUST BECAME A GRANDMA. JAMAICA JUST HAD HURRICANE GILBERT, I'M GOING TO DONATE MILLIONS OF SURPLUS CITY EQUIPMENT TO THE COUNTRY OF JAMAICA. THIS IS WHEN WE COULD DO IT. AND WE WIND UP WITH THE GOVERNMENT PAYING FOR US TO GO TO JAMAICA, WAS SMART. EVEN THOUGH, WE GET THERE, I JUST GOT TO I'LL FINISH THIS, WE GET TO CORE YA, I MEAN WE GET TO JAMAICA AND THE GOVERNMENT IS PAYING FOR IT, SO WE'RE NOT STAYING AT ONE OF THE NICER HOTELS. SO WE DECIDED TO TALK A NAP. HAVE YOU EVER FELT EYES ON YOU. AND SO I OPEN MY EYES, AND ON THE DRESSER, THERE IS A BIG LIZ ART AND I RUN TO ANOTHER DOOR AND I SAID LOUIS I HAVE A LIZARD. HE SAID I HAVE TWO. WE THEN TOGETHER RUN TO COUNCIL NATE HOLDEN'S OFFICE WE'RE BANGING ON THE DOOR AND ALL WE CAN HEAR IS CURSING AND HOLLERING AND SCREAMING WITHIN A HALF HOUR. WE HAD A LUXURY BUS COME PICK US UP, TAKE US TO THE TRI ALL RESORT AND WE HAD A PHENOMENAL TRIP. THAT'S NATE HOLDEN. ANYWAY, HE WILL BE MISSED. I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH WORDS TO THANK HIM FOR EVERYTHING THAT HE GAVE TO ME AND MY FAMILY. THANK YOU GUYS FOR HONORING, ONE HELL OF A DUDE. OH LAST THING, HE TAUGHT ME AND FOR SOME OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE HERE, ESPECIALLY THE YOUNG DUDES, HE HIRES ME AND WE GO TO BEVERLY HILLS, AND HE TAIKDS ME TO BALI'S WHERE YOU BUY SHOES AND THIS IS IN 1987, AND HE BOUGHT ME A $500 PAIR OF SHOES. GUYS, DON'T WEAR THEM CHEAP SHOES, CAUSE YOU WILL NOT LIVE TO BE 95 LIKE NATE HOLDEN. GOD BLESS YOU NATE. >> I WOULD LIKE TO THANK, COUNCIL PRESIDENT AND THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL AND MOST NOTABLY, COUNCILMEMBER HUTT, FOR BRINGING US HERE TODAY TO HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO PAY RESPECTS TO MY DAD, MY BROTHER AND I, WE THANK YOU FOR THAT HONOR, WE KNOW THAT DAD WAS HERE NOT TOO LONG AGO, WE KNOW SOMETIME LAST YEAR. AND I KNOW YOU HAD A DESIGNATED TIME FOR HIM TO SPEAK, AND I KNOW THAT WAS PROBABLY GENEROUSLY MAYBE 10 MINUTES, AN HOUR AND TEN MINUTES LATER, HE LET YOU ALL GO. BUT I WANT SAY THAT HE IS SOMEBODY THAT HAS HAD AN ENDEARING IMPACT NOT ONLY AS A FAMILY BUT ON THIS COMMUNITY, THIS CITY AND THIS NATION. HE'S SOMEBODY THAT WALKED INTO ROOMS, AND HE CAN WALK INTO AND HE WOULD BE THERE TO HELP THEM. HE CAN WALK INTO A ROOM, WHERE IT COULD BE THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, AND HE WOULD TREAT THAT PERSON NO DIFFERENT. MY DAD WAS SOMEBODY WHO WAS ALL ABOUT SERVICE, WHETHER IT WAS WHEN HE PUT HUZ AGE UP FROM 16 TO 18 TO GO FIGHT IN WWI. 2. HE WAS OLDER THAN I THOUGHT. WWII. AND HE MADE IT VERY CLEAR, THAT THE REASON THAT HE WANTED TO GO TO WAR WAS IT TAKE OUT OPPRESSION, TO TAKE OUT HITLER. AND EASTBOUND IF RESENT TIMES HE RECOUNTED ON THOSE MOMENTS. SO I KNOW THAT HIS HEART WAS ALL ABOUT SERVICE, AS YOU SAW THAT WITNESSING HIS CAREER AND POLITICS. BUT IN RESENT TIMES WHEN HE WAS NOT SERVING IN POLITICS, AT 95 LAST YEAR, HE WAS STILL DRIVING. AND HE WOULD GET IN HIS CAR ON PARTIES, AND HE WOULD GO GET CRATES OF TOMATOS, DON'T ASK ME WHY TOMATOS, BUT HE WOULD TAKE THEM TO SENIORS. HE'S A SENIOR HIMSELF, OLDER THAN MANY OF THE PEOPLE HE WAS DELIVERING TOMATOS TO. BUT WHAT HE WAS TRYING TO DO BY THAT WAS STAY ALIVE. HE COULDN'T JUST SIT AROUND, MANY OF YOU RECEIVED PHONE CALLS FROM HIM. HE COULDN'T IGNORE ISSUES CAUSE HE WAS WRITING LETTERS TO THE PRESIDENT TELLING HIM WHAT TO DO AND HE WOULD SAY, SEE, HE'S DOING WHAT I TOLD HIM TO DO. AND I WOULD SAY, NINE TIMES OUT OF TEN, HE WAS DOING WHAT NATE HOLDEN TOLD HIM TO DO. IT'S NOT EASY BEING IN THE SAME BUSINESS AS YOUR FATHER. BECAUSE I'VE GOT A DIFFERENT STYLE, YOU WON'T SEE ME DOING ONE-ARM PUSH UPS HERE IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS. BUT HE DID, HE WAS PROBABLY THE FIRST AND LAST TO DO IT. THAT BE A RESOUNDING IMAGE OF A GUY THAT WAS ALL ABOUT LIFE, FIGHTING FOR LIBERTY AND CARING FOR PEOPLE. I'M SO HONORED TO CALL HIM FATHER, AND HE LIVES IN ALL OF US. AND FOR MY FAMILY, AND OUR FRNDS WHO ARE HERE TODAY, WE'RE ALL MADE BETTER BECAUSE HE WAS PART OF OUR LIFE. AND I THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO GRIEF WITH YOU TODAY. [APPLAUSE] >> Council President: WE'VE GOT SOME MEMBERS ON THE QUEUE IF YOU'RE READY FOR THAT? >> H. Hutt: I DIDN'TS. >> Council President: LET'S START WITH MR. McOKAYER FOLLOWED BY MR. HARRIS-DAWSON. >> T. McOsker: THANK YOU SO MUCH. FIRST OF ALL, COUNCILMEMBER FOR COMING AND MR. WESSON, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR BEAUTIFUL WORDS ABOUT YOUR FATHER. I THINK FOLKS WHO KNOW ME, KNOW THAT I CONSIDER MYSELF A HAHN IN THE HAHN FAMILY AND THE FIRST TIME I MET KENNY HAHN WAS BECAUSE THE GENTLEMAN WHO I DIDN'T KNOW TAPPED ME ON MY SHOULDER AND HE SAID, I SEE YOU KEEP LOOKING AT THE SUPERVISOR, AND IT WAS YOUR DAD, AND DURING THAT FIRST CONVERSATION WITH KENNY HAHN WITH YOUR DAD ADVOCATING FOR ME. HAHN SAID, KID YOU SHOULD WORK FOR HAHN SOME DAY. I DID AND WHEN I GOT HERE AT THE ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, COUNCILMAN HOLDEN, OR UNCLE NATE WAS A CONSTANT COMPANION, AFTER MEETING HE WOULD SAY COME TO MY OFFICE AND THAT MESSY OLD OFFICE WITH STUFF PILED, I WOULD SPEND FIVE MINUTES OR TWO HOURS AND HE WOULD JUST TELL ME, EXACTLY HOW POLITICS WORK, HOW PEOPLE WORK, HOW TO CONNECT WITH PEOPLE THE THIKZ THAT HE HAD DONE AND HIS CAREER, THE THING I NEED TODAY TELL MY BOSS TO DO, WHO WAS ON HIS WAY TO BECOME MAYOR. AND I HAVE TO SAY COUNCILMEMBER HOLDEN WAS JUST SO SO GOOD TO ME. HE WAS GOOD TO A LOT OF PEOPLE BUT I FELT SPECIAL, I FELT LIKE I WAS ONE OF HIS KIDS. AND I CAN REMEMBER ONE PARTICULAR DAY THAT IN THAT TWO HOURS WHEN HE SPOKE TO US A FEW MONTHS AGO, ONE OF THE STORIES THAT HE TOLD WAS ONE THAT I THINK ABOUT ALMOST EVERY DAY, MY COLLEAGUES WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED EVEN THOUGH I LOST MY COOL, I WAS IN THE MAYOR'S OFFICE I WAS MAD AT THE COUNCIL AND THE COUNCIL WAS MAD AT THE MAYOR, AND FEW MINUTES LATER, I GET A CALL FROM COUNCILMAN HOLDEN, HE SETED McOSKER, STAND OUT THE WINDOW, LOOK WHAT YOU SEE, AND HE TOOK ME THROUGH THE QUESTIONS, IS THE TREES OUT THERE, IS THE SUN OUT? IS EVERYTHING OKAY, IN THE WORLD? TAKE A DEEP BREATHE, ENJOY YOUR LIFE YOU WILL ONLY BE SHEER A SHORT TIME IN CITY HALL, FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT AND MOVE ON. AND SADLY, I DON'T ALWAYS TAKE THAT ADVISE BUT I SO APPRECIATE HIM. AND THAT'S PART OF LIVING A GOOD LIFE AND AS, AS PRESIDENT EMERITUS TOLD US, PICK YOUR BATTLES AND FIGHT FOR YOUR PEOPLE AND MOVE ON. SO GOD BLESS HIM AND THANK YOU, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING HIM WITH THE WORLD. >> Council President: THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE] COUNCILMEMBER NAZARIAN FOLLOWED BY COUNCILMEMBER PRICE. >> A. Nazarian: THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT. I JUST WANTED TO ECHO EVERYTHING THAT ALREADY BEEN SAID AND WHAT THE FORMER SPEAKER AND COUNCIL PRESIDENT MENTIONED ABOUT HELPING OTHERS. AN INDIVIDUAL WHO BECAME A GOOD FRIEND, WAS AT A RAIDER'S GAME RANTING AND RAVING AND EXPLAINING ABOUT THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE CITY. LITTLE DID HE KNOW THAT BEHIND HIM WAS SITTING A VERY POWERFUL COUNCILMEMBER WHO WAS LISTENING TO HIM, AT SOME POINT HE LOOKED AT HIM IF YOU HAVE SO MUCH TO EXPLAIN ABOUT WHY DON'T YOU COME WORK FOR ME. THAT BECAME KAREN DAREIAN, WHAT STRUCK ME IS THERE WERE NO ARMENIANS HE WAS JUST GIVING AN OPPORTUNITY TO SOMEBODY WITH RAW TALENT AND UPLIFT. SO I VERY MUCH APPRECIATE ALL OF HIS CONTRIBUTIONS, I APPRECIATE WHAT THE HOLDEN FAMILY HAVE DONE. AND THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER, COUNCILMEMBER HUTT THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS, AND GIVING IT THE RESPECT THAT IT DESERVES. IF IT'S NOT ASKING FOR TOO MUCH, I WOULD BE HONORED TO BE ADDED AS WELL. THANK YOU. >> Council President: THANK YOU, AND I THINK ALL MEMBERS WILL WANT TO BE ON THIS ADJOURNING MOTIONS, SO COUNCILMEMBER HUTT WILL HAVE ALL MEMBERS. NEXT, COUNCILMEMBER PRICE. >> C. Price: THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. COUNCIL WOMEN THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THE HOLDEN FAMILY IN. THIS IS A TIME FOR CELEBRATION AND ALL THE WORDS HAVE BEEN SO HEARTFELT SO MEANINGFUL AND SO ACCURATE. I MET NATE, HE DIDN'T KNOW ME FOR FROM A HOLE IN THE WALL, I WAS RUNING FOR OFFICE, AND HE WAS VERY ENCOURAGING, HE INSPIRED ME AND MAINTAINED THAT RELATIONSHIP OVER THE YEARS. MY FONDEST MEMORIES OF COURSE, SOME MAY BE FAMILIAR WERE HIS VOTER GUIDES THAT HE GOT OUT, AND CHRIS YOU MAY HAVE HELPED HIM AUTHOR SM. BUT THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT HE WAS PASSIONATE B LETH FOLKS KNOW WHAT WAS RIGHT AND WHAT WAS WRONG. THERE WAS NO GRAY MATTER FOR NATE P HE CAME DOWN HARD. SO HE'S GOING TO BE MISSED BUT HE LEAVES BEHIND A LASTING LEGACY OF FAMILY AND FRIENDS, WHO SUPPORT AND LOVE AND WILL REMEMBER AND WHO TODAY HONOR NATE HOLDEN. THANK YOU. >> Council President: THANK YOU. AND THEN BEFORE I GO TO MR. HARRIS DOWS O CLOSE, LET ME ADD MY VOICE TO THE CHORUS. I DIDN'T HAVE THE PRIVILEGE OF KNOWING MR. HOLDEN UNTIL HE WAS A THE YOUNG MAN OF 80, YOU WOULD NOT HAVE GUESSED THAT HE WAS 80 BECAUSE HE HAD WAS SO SPIRITED AND HAD THIS INCREDIBLE ENERGY. AND HIS PRESENCE IS IN THIS CHAMBER AND HAS BEEN EVER SINCE AND I'VE HAD THE PLEASURE OF KNOWING CHRIS AND HE LUFZ LIVES THROUGH YOU AND YOUR FAMILY. I'LL TURN IT OVER TO MR. HARRIS-DAWSON TO CLOSE. >> Council President: THANK YOU FOR THE HOLDEN FAMILY TO BEING HERE AND WESSON FOR BEING HERE, AND ENTIRE COUNCIL FOR TAKE ITING THE TIME TO RECOGNIZE THE GIFT THAT NATE HOLDEN WAS TO ALL OF US. LIKE MR. BLUMENFIELD, I NEVER GOT UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL WITH COUNCILMEMBER HOLDEN BUT I LIVED IN SOUTH L.A. AND HIS FINGERPRINTS TO THIS DAY, ARE STILL EVERYWHERE. IF YOU GO TO THE RESTAURANTS, YOU'LL STILL SEE HIS SIGNED PICTURE UP IN RESTAURANTS, YOU'LL SEE SERTS THAT HE DID 40 YEARS AGO, YOU TILL SEE THOSE UP IN BUSINESSES AND UP IN CHURCHES, YOU KNOW, THE PRAOEFPERS WILL --PREACHERS WILL REFER TO HIM AS IF HE WAS STILL ON THE COUNCIL. THEY WILL SAY, GO TO SPEAK TO COUNCILMEMBER HOLDEN. THAT'S THE KIND OF RELATIONSHIP THAT HE HAD, AND ALSO LEFT A MARK ON THIS BUILDING, YOU KNOW, TAKE FOLKS A LITTLE BIT WHEN CHANNEL 35 FIRST STARTED BROADCASTING COUNCIL MEETINGS. AND COUNCILMAN HOLDEN WOULD SIT SOMEWHERE OVER HERE AND HIM AND HAL BURN ?ND STON AND ALATOR, YOU WOULD THINK THEY WERE GOING TO GET FIST FIGHT ON THE COUNCIL WHEN THEY WENT AT IT AND THEN WHEN YOU SAW THEM IN PUBLIC, THEY WERE THE BEST OF FRIENDS. CAN THAT'S THE WAY THEY DID GOVERNMENT AND THE ENERGY THEY HAD FOR DOING WHAT WAS RIGHT FOR THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES. WHEN I, EVEN TODAY, I REMEMBER THOSE DAYS BECAUSE YOU, YOU HE'S ONE OF THOSE MEMBERS WHERE YOU STILL FEEL HIS ENERGY IN THIS ROOM, EVEN THOUGH I NEVER SHARED THE SPACE WITH HIM. SOMETIMES COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ WILL SAY, I'M CALLING THIS SPECIAL FOR A SEPARATE VOTE TOBT NO-VOTE ON THIS ONE ISSUE, I THINK ABOUT NATE HOLDEN. USED HE USED TO DO A LOT OF 14-1. WHEN I HEAR MR. McOSKER AND I THINK OF HOLDEN. WHEN I SEE COUNCILMEMBER PARK PUT HIS FOOT DOWN AND START POINTING, I THINK OF, AND DISCUSSION AND FOR ME, MY OWN STORY, I FEEL LIKE YOU REALLY, YOU DON'T REALLY RALLY KNOW A POLITICIAN UNLESS YOU HAVE THE OCCASION TO KNOCK ON DOORS AGAINST THEM. AND SO THERE IS AN ASSEMBLY RACE THAT HE WAS INVOLVED IN THAT THE MAYOR, BACK THEN WHEN SHE WAS FIRST RUNNING FOR STATE ASSEMBLY, WE HAD TO KNOCK ON DOORS FOR HER AND COUNCILMEMBER HOLDEN ENTERED THE RACE LATE AND SO WE'RE ALL CONCERNED, WE'RE GOING TO HUSTLE AND OUT WORK THEM. AND I LOST TRACK OF THE NUMBER OF DOORS I WALKED AND KNOCKED ON WHERE AT THE MOMENT IN HISTORY, THE COUNCIL WAS HAVING A DEBATE ABOUT WAGES I FORGET WHICH SET OF WORKERS IT WAS BUT THE COMMUNITY WAS VERY MUCH IN FAVOR OF THE WAGE INCREASE AND COUNSEL COUNCILMEMBER HOLDEN WAS NOT IN FAVOR. SO WE LEAD WITH THIS. AND THAT, AND TO A PERSON PEOPLE, WOULD SAY, YOU KNOW, HE'S WRONG ABOUT THE WAGE INCREASE, I THINK IT SHOULD HAPPEN BUT YOUNG MAN TURN AROUND AND SEE THAT TREE IN FRONT OF MY HOUSE, IT HAD A BRANCH HANGING DOWN AND COUNCILMEMBER HOLDEN CAME TO MY HOUSE AND COUNCILMEMBER HOLDEN STAYED HERE UNTIL THE WORK WAS DONE. SO I DON'T AGREE WITH HIM ON THIS, BUT I'LL BE WITH HIM. AND THAT WAS DOOR AFTER DOOR BLOCK AFTER BLOCK, AND WHAT YOU SAY THE GREATEST CONSTITUENTS POLITICIAN THAT CALIFORNIA HAS KNOWN. RIGHT IN THE HAHN TRADITION LIKE COUNCILMEMBER M*UK OSKER POINTED OUT. THERE IS NOT NOBODY THAT DOES NOT HAVE A STORY ABOUT COUNCILMEMBER HOLDEN SHOWING UP. HE SAID TO TWO THINGS TO ME WHEN I TOOK OFFICE, HE SAID, WHEN A PERSON CALLS YOU WITH A PROBLEM, IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW IMPORTANT THEIR PROBLEM IS IN THE WORLD JUST KNOW IT'S THE MOST IMPORTANT PROBLEM TO THEM. HE ALSO SAID TO ME, EVERY DAY THAT YOU DON'T GO IN AND DON'T TELL A GENERAL MANAGER OFF, YOU'RE NOT DOING YOUR JOB AND YOU SHOULD NOT GET PAID. THAT ONE I HAVE NOT COME TO TERMS WITH. THIS IS THE EXAMPLE THAT WE ALL WISH TO FOLLOW. I WANT TO THANK THE COUNCILMEMBERS FOR HOLDING TIME AND HOLDEN COMMUNITY AND COUNCILMEMBER HUTT, THE COUNCIL PRESIDENT AND ASSEMBLY MEMBER EXAMINE BUDGET CHAIR, HOLDEN FOR BEING WITH US TODAY. AND MAY NATE HOLDEN REST IN THE PLACE OF POWER THAT HE DESERVES. [APPLAUSE] >> Council President: OKAY, DO YOU WANT TO CLOSE? >> H. Hutt: I WANT TO ADD TO WHAT COUNCIL PRESIDENT MARQUEECE HARRIS-DAWSON SAID. NATE HOLDEN MADE A LOST CALLS TO ME ABOUT ME DOING BETTER FOR OUR CONSTITUENTS. AND THAT'S REALLY WHAT HE CARED ABOUT, OUR TREES GETTING TRIMS OR POTHOLES BEING FILLED? AND IF I WAS NOT MOVING FAST ENOUGH, HE LET ME KNOW. AND IN THAT REALLY IS A GREAT WAY TO LEAD, IT REALLY IS A GREAT WAY TO LEAD. SO I LEARNED FROM HIM, I'M GOING TO MISS HIS CALLS. I'M GOING TO MISS HIS QUESTIONS MORE THAN ANYTHING. THANK YOU HOLDEN FAMILY FOR SHARING HIM. THANK YOU. >> Council President: THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE] COLLEAGUES ARE THERE ANY ADDITIONAL ADJOURNING MOTIONS? LOOKING TO MY LEFT? LOOKING TO MY RIGHT, SEEING NO MORE ADJOURNING MOTIONS. IN THE SPIRIT OF NATE HOLDEN, GO THE EXTRA MILE FOR YOUR CONSTITUENTS. THIS MEETING IS ADJOURNED.