raids and the ice, families are afraid their concern for their safety for their rights and what tomorrow bring. And so we have assembled our team here to make sure that families are aware of their rights. We a know your rights campaign and are issuing red cards. We are conducting workshops and trainings for service providers as well as community residents so that they too are aware what rights they have. ICE was driving through the community and so we have put together measures in place and you'll see across the city a number of organizations finding ways to distribute food directly families without putting them in harm's way in. The impulse is common. As important said, we are giving the Consuelo Bonilla a tangible against Maslow's Necesitan oil laws encontramos on various causing précisément. So the Servicios vecinos connect orders even as improving safety for transit riders starts on the sidewalk. A citywide improvement program is giving shelters the upgrades needed to connect to their bus. In Koreatown, 150th Bus Shelter Transformation was a cause celebration. Let me say that we're here in Koreatown at the intersection of Olympic and Vermont Boulevard, celebrating the 150th installation of our step bus. Koreatown is the most densely populated neighborhood in all of Los Angeles, with over 100,000 residents and. We're so excited to celebrate with the community. Phenomenal transformation of existing bus shelter from a static a much more modern amenity featured shelter. Welcome to. Not your mother's bus stop right. This is not what the bus stops look like when was in school and depended on it. It has lighting. It has wi fi. If you've ever been on a bus stop and missed your bus, that surge of frustration is not knowing when the next one's going to arrive. But this tells you. It tells you when your next bus coming. That's a sigh of relief. We're talking about improved infrastructure, transit dependent riders, many essential in a neighborhood that's been overlooked too long. The technology aspect of this investment is huge. But as Summers get sometimes the most important thing shade a shelter to catch a bus and, make our constituents lives a little bit easier. Moving forward, I'd like to see more public and private when the city does the good work as a community. Need to amplify that message and let people know what's happening in. The city of LA, in particular, things that affect public transportation and infrastructure. We want to help get the message out. Let them know it's safe to be on the streets and taking public transportation once again. So START Program is a very community driven process. It was born out of the need to shelters to many of our seniors, our young people riding the bus and other public infrastructure, but also in communities, Koreatown, where it's been very underserved many, many generations, that the community of Koreatown has requested for these types of infrastructure being made here. And we're hoping to install many, many more across. This community. Find out how bus shelters across the city are being at streets la la .org. From Bus shelter glow ups to making improvements elsewhere. Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez wants Angelenos to give their evaluations to the Department of Rec and Parks. That feedback will help assess future needs for city parks as welcome. Thank you all for being here. What is really important opportunity for our community today? We're at Lakeview Terrace Rec Center, where are engaging in the park needs assessment. Not something that I fought for while I was on the budget and finance committee because I want to be able to give direct feedback the city of Los Angeles about their priorities and needs for their local parks. All in is a landscape architecture, planning and urban design. And we're supporting the city this year, in the parks needs assessments. As a consultant we help survey the community to, help do drawings to help provide clarity and to bring all of this data from the community engagement to really help form a vision the next 25 years under the direction of the Department of Rec and Parks. Really, what we've been hearing is that people really want to see a lot of unprocessed, crammed spaces to do recreational. They want to see the department focus things like festivals. Those are the communities has places to gather. So really what we want to do as a part of our second phase of outreach is to talk more those types of amenities and things that they'd like to see in the park system because again, for the next 25 years, we're really setting the standard for what we want to do. So we want a park system that reflects what we're hearing from the community, but also what we think they want to do going forward into the future. We have a team, 13 different firms that are working to help the city on this under a leadership and all them are coming together with different knowledge and different expertise. So we have people that are experts at water. We have people that are at equity. We have people that are experts, public art. We have people that are experts around stormwater. And when that is coming together, we're able to map around city where different priorities really up. It's really great data. But then when we support it with what we're hearing directly, the community, I think that's where it's most interesting. Everyone comes to their parts, different reasons. Some might come for youth recreational sports, some might come for child care. There's a number of needs need to be met at our parks facilities, and we want to encourage families to be able to give their input so that we design a system that for them. It's really important for people be able to voice their concerns. And this is giving that space. And for us to prioritize the funding so that we can invest in those improvements improvements. It's a college signing day celebration that means a bit. Many students at this event are the in their families to go to college. So the investment for families department is adding some support into the festivities festivities. We're thrilled to celebrate our second annual college signing day brought to you by the Community Investment for Families in partnership with the Youth Development Department. In our network of family centers, we 19 centers throughout the city and one of our signature programs within, the family system, is the College Corner. The College Corner program helps young people apply for college. They help them apply for financial aid. They organize campus visits and do so much more to encourage not just the students, their families, to pursue a post-secondary education. I am the first in my family and the first out of three siblings to go to university. The university that I will be attending is Yale University. The College Corner program is a that is available to any student that in the city of Los Angeles. So that is really only criteria. It's open to every student and we want more students to take advantage of these resources. I'm here to celebrate my enrollment at Cal State Beach. I didn't feel confident in where I was going to go, but they helped me a lot. I've gotten more, more help than I feel like deserve. Today we gathered with over 200 students and they are attending some of the top universities, not just the state of California, but we have students that will be enrolled at Yale University and , all of our top universities in California, such as UCLA, our Cal State system, our colleges. So we're just so excited, thrilled to continue to support them as they move into this next chapter. I'm really looking forward to be able to go and explore more a new environment new people, new culture, everything, and just able to grow alongside so many people who aspire to learn and do something and change world for the better. Today We also announce the creation of a new scholarship program, the Olivia mitchell Scholarship program, and we awarded them with $500 each to help support them in their college journey. We are sending a strong message to all of the families that we're here. We're here to support them and we want to break through all of the glass ceilings and be able to accomplish all of their goals and, aspirations. To learn more about family source system, we encourage people to visit our website. Mayor, Bass, Councilwoman Katie Yaroslavsky and volunteers all got busy at the recent AAPI day of service with La hosting major events in the coming years. Volunteer trying to do good has the extra benefit of showing the city in a positive light light. You ready to go out and beautify our city . So we're here at one of ten locations across the city, Shine La, which is a community beautification effort. So we're here in Koreatown with a bunch of volunteers from across the community to help clean it up and make it beautiful. I want you to know this gathering here , this is not the only one. Throughout the city of Los Angeles today, over 1000 Angelinos are participating in the Shine La. Day of service. We need to get Angela nose in every neighborhood involved in beautifying our and preparing for global events that are just around corner. Shine La is the mayor's program to emphasize cleaning Los Angeles and getting ready for all these international visitors that we are expecting in 26, 27, 28 coming in the Olympic Paralympic Games. So we're here to basically get our house ready because when you expect company you're clean. And one thing that is inside especially inspiring to me is to see so many young people here and I hope this is the beginning of a lifetime of service. Reach out to us. If you have ideas on projects you want to work on. We're literally the thing that connects this neighborhood to Hall. We've all been living in this community for almost like our entire lives. So we want to beautify our community and where we resided resided. People definitely turned out. They turned and they turned out with their attitude and their energy . I'm definitely excited to be here. I feel like the community definitely benefits from this and it's you tell the heart is there. So across city there are going to be events like this on a regular going forward for the next few years. Hope people come out, get involved. You can check out the website, Shine LA and figure out how to get involved in your own community. Every one of our neighborhoods deserve to shine. L.A. Public Library has online resources for immigrants and new citizens city for downtown businesses impacted protests and a new relief for disaster survivors. These stories up next on City Beat. The Los Angeles Library has the number of know rights resources available online. Everyone in the US is protected by certain rights under constitution and according to the public library, knowing those rights can make a difference. Know your resources include emergency preparedness, immigration options, rapid response phone numbers, LA and the know your rights card, the library's know your rights is available to everyone online in 23 different languages. For more information, click on the Know Your Rights banner at Lapel. Org Mayor Karen Bass announced that resources would be immediately available to support downtown impacted by protests. The city. The mayor's office for Economic Development Council Member Isabel Jurado and the city's Economic and Workforce Development Department are providing help online. Impacted businesses can join webinars to learn more about assistance including graffiti removal, legal aid and employment support . According to Gerardo local businesses are the backbone of downtown LA and the council members will support them through every challenge. For more, visit Mayor de la City dot gov slash press follow. The devastating wildfires in. L.A. City's Housing Authority. Hakala wants to let Angelenos know of a new source of relief for disaster survivors. Cal Assist Mortgage Fund is a new program from the state of California which will support homeowners impacted by disasters between January 23 and January 2025. The closest fund will cover eligible homeowners three months of mortgage payments up to $20,000 before applying review list of qualified disasters for program. Confirm the income limits and check that your mortgage service is participating. For information, visit cal assist Mortgage Fund .org. L.A. sanitation hosted its ever popular house events this year. These more than a simple open house as the trash trucks are open to kids taking on the controls hands on learning at its best. Well, today we're having our north central Open house. This is an opportunity for our LA san employees to volunteer time and engage with the community. And educate them on. A lot of our programs, like our organics program, our recycling programs. We really want to engage the residents so that they understand the value in recycled . We have one earth. We have limited resources and your actions as a resident of sorting your trash and making sure it's properly put in the bins allows us to those commodities into useful products save the earth. So here in the city of angels it is so important for us to sort our trash properly to understand the recycling and the organics rules to make sure that we're calling in our bulky item request so that we're not leaving furniture sitting on the curb. Sand will come and pick it up for free. You just to call us at one 870 7324889. You Call will haul. He is in love with trucks. All the kids love garbage trucks trucks. All ready to go. What I love most about these events is all the families that come here and get to the trash trucks. Kids love trash. So they come get in the trucks. They operate the control. They honk the horns, then they get into another truck where they can actually take a ride around the yard and they just have a blast. It's a great photo opportunity. And after that, they walk through all of our educational booths and learn all about sustainability tips. So they can implement in their own homes. Our goal is here is to make sure that residents know the value of what we do every day. Sanitation is out there collecting recyclables, organics and trash for 750,000 residents and over 6000 tons of materials. And making that that is reused and put to use in our communities. A lot of people don't see us every day, but we are the ones behind the scenes protecting the environment. For more information, please visit our website at LA City Sand Dawg Senior Prom is on the social calendar for older Angelenos who . Look forward to the dancing and the community gathering. It all takes place. Thanks to volunteers and Barnabas Senior Service and LA City's Department of Aging. The participants today at the prom are older adults from across Angeles. It's really an opportunity for us to bring together different cultures, different people to enjoy a day of fun, frivolity and good food like it's the older people enjoying yourself because I enjoy myself. I entertain them. So they, you know, I kind of bring them out. So they do a little try to, you know, do it. I could do it. You can it. So I really hope today that the older adults, the volunteers, everyone that's here walks away with a new appreciation of different cultures, a fun experience, activities dancing, and just a great time. Good food and good entertainment. They have a picture taken. We Didn't have to pay for it yet, but after that out to pay for it and then they they bring lot of stuff to offer us I was excited to be part of this event because it really brought together not only staff older adults and caregivers, but also volunteers from across Los Angeles to really make an impact in people's lives. And it was so inspiring and has such a rewarding experience. It feels good because we need more for us. Older people. So the senior prom was brought together through not only donations, companies, individuals, but also through funding from the Department of Aging and the city of Los Angeles. We're honored to have the general manager, Jaime Pacheco attend and also council person Nithya Raman. Their support made this possible and made this event real success. Beautiful people. Nice to see everybody. So favorite part of prom really has been seeing everybody dressing up, having a good time and dancing. I love to dance myself. It might seem like it's just a dance but for them it's something they look forward to. Year long. They come out and enjoy yourself to see what it's like. You were loving. I love it . The lights, the marquee are a distinct beacon. Lankershim Boulevard behind scenes, this Department of Cultural Affairs Center supporting performing arts in the community with a dance studio and an intimate theater space inside. The Lankershim Arts Center was constructed in 1939 when it was opened in 1939. It was originally LA a la department water and power building. The city of L.A. became the owner of Lankershim Arts Center when it was declared a historical cultural monument on the plaque . Its purpose was that it is an example adaptive reuse the front is actually an example of streamlined modern design. And then if you come here after you're I think it's like five or 6:00. There's like lighting that will turn and then you get to see the full kind of the Lankershim Arts Center Center. We host the bevy of productions , be it dance production and music productions. Sometimes have a film screening art. Think that sort of flexibility is something brings me back every time the theater is very intimate it really feels like you're just right up in front of the talent when. You come and watch a show here. We also youth programming here. We work with with different local artists to be able to provide free programming for children to learn how to sew. We Have a fashion class. We have music classes specifically for percussion and drums. We also another music class for piano and then we also have a dance. It's in our mezzanine is for our dance class that we have. Our mission here is just grow the performing arts really. So whether it be someone trying bring out their own original or like sometimes we even have different groups come in to teach after school classes. Being to grow the performing arts in a community is what makes Lankershim arts stand out . The city investing into places like this is because it gives a place for people were not as confident the ability to express themselves and to give a space for people that are a little bit different space to play because being able to play is important just for our mental health as. Well, as for like the health of community and it just makes the world better place, we look forward to having you here at. Lankershim Arts Center, whether it be taking part in our free programming as well as being able to come and just watch a movie or watch a show. We look forward to you over here on Instagram. Our Instagram handle is DCA underscore Link. You can also out more about us on culture City Gov. That's our website. And this week's Things to Do Get Down to some free summer sounds at Levitt Pavilion . Enjoy some tribute acts July 4th and beyond and L.A. Master Artists work at Coachella 2025. All this up next. Things to do. Calling all music lovers. Join Levitt, LA for ten free summer concerts at MacArthur Park. Each Saturday and >> Council President: GOOD MORNING AND WELCOME TO THE REGULARLY SCHEDULED MEETING OF YOUR LOS ANGELES CITY COUNCIL. TODAY IS WEDNESDAY, THE 25th DAY OF JUNE, 2025. PUBLIC COMMENT WILL BE TAKEN IN-PERSON IN THIS JOHN FERRARO CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS. MADAM CLERK, IF WE CAN BEGIN BY CALLING THE ROLL. >> Clerk: YES, SIR, BLUMENFIELD HARRIS-DAWSON HERNANDEZ HUTT JURADO LEE MCOSKER NAZARIAN PADILLA PARK PRICE RAMAN RODRIGUEZ SOTO-MARTINEZ YAROSLAVSKY. 11 MEMBERS PRESENT AND A QUORUM, MR. PRESIDENT. >> Council President: FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS. >> Clerk: APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF JUNE 24, 2025. >> Council President: COUNCILMEMBER LEE MOVES, COUNCILMEMBER RAMAN SECONDS. NEXT. >> Clerk: COMMENDATORY RESOLUTIONS FOR APPROVAL. >> Council President: COUNCILMEMBER PARK MOVES COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ SECONDS. CAN WE RUN THROUGH THE AGENDA. >> Clerk: YES, SIR. MR. PRESIDENT, COULD COUNCIL LIKE ALL ITEMS TO GO FORTHWITH TODAY. >> Council President: WITHOUT OBJECTION. >> Clerk: THERE ARE SEVERAL REQUESTS TO CONTINUE ITEMS TODAY. ITEM 25 THERE IS A REQUEST TO CONTINUE TO JUNE 27, 2025. AND THERE IS ALSO A REQUEST TO CONTINUE ITEM 47, TO AUGUST 6, 2025. >> Council President: WITHOUT OBJECTION. >> Clerk: ITEMS 1 THROUGH 3 ARE ITEMS FOR PUBLIC HEARING. 24 THROUGH 29. COMMITTEE REPORT FOR ITEM NUMBER 4 HAS BEEN SUBMITTED AND AVAILABLE ONLINE UNDER COUNCIL FILE 23-05S11. ITEM 26 WAS CANCELED IN ERROR, THE COUNCIL WILL NOT NEED TO TAKE ACTION TODAY AS THE ITEM WAS TAKEN CARE OF YESTERDAY. ITEMS 30 THROUGH 46 ARE ITEMS FOR WHICH PUBLIC HEARINGS HAVE NOT BEEN HELD. FINALLY, 47 THROUGH 49 ARE CLOSE SESSION ITEMS FOR WHICH PUBLIC HEARINGS HAVE BEEN HELD. TEN VOTES ARE REQUIRED FOR CONSIDERATION. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, WITHOUT OBJECTION, THESE ITEMS ARE BEFORE US. NOW IS THE TIME FOR SPECIALS. COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ. >> E. Hernandez: I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE THAT WE ADOPT THE ACL REPORT FOR ITEM NUMBER 5. I WOULD LIKE TO CALL ITEMS 8, 19, 20 AND 29, SPECIAL FOR A SEPARATE VOTE. AND I WOULD LIKE TO CONTINUE ITEM 11 AND 34 FOR ONE MONTH. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, MADAM CLERK, YOU GOT ALL THAT? >> Clerk: COUNCILMEMBER, ITEM NUMBER 11 CONTINUE FOR ONE MONTH. >> E. Hernandez: 11 AND 34 CONTINUE FOR ONE MONTH. >> Clerk: CONTINUE FOR ONE MONTH AND THAT WOULD BE JULY 30th. 2025, THE FIRST DAY COUNCIL RETURNS FROM RECESS AND THAT WOULD BE JULY 30, 2025. THANK YOU. >> E. Hernandez: THANK YOU. >> Council President: AND THEN, YOU HAD AN AMENDMENT, DOES THAT HAVE A SECOND CIRCULATED? >> Clerk: THAT WOULD BE ITEM 5. STLL A SECOND TO COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ REQUEST ADOPT THE ARTS COMMITTEE REPORT? >> Council President: MR. McOSKER, THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT, WE ALL SET? COUNCILMEMBER LEE? >> Clerk: THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT, I WOULD LIKE TO ASK THAT 28 THAT WE MOVE TO ADOPT THE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE REPORT. >> Clerk: IS THERE A SECOND TO MR. LEE'S MOTION? >> Council President: THANK YOU, MR. McOSKER. >> Clerk: THANK YOU. >> Council President: MR. McOSKER, DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL? >> Clerk: YEAH, I'M NOT SURE HOW THEY WANTED TO HANDLE THE CLOSE SESSION ITEMS BUT I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR OCEAN'S 11 IN CLOSE. >> Council President: WE'LL GO TO CLOSE FOR THAT ITEM. >> Clerk: THAT'S ITEM 47. >> Council President:--ITEM 48. >> Council President: COUNCILMEMBER RAMAN. >> N. Raman: I HAD A QUESTION FOR ITEM NUMBER 48 THAT I'M STILL TRYING TO GET A ANSWER TO. THANK YOU. >> Council President: COUNCILMEMBER SOTO-MARTINEZ. >> Clerk: ITEM 6 FOR COMMENTS, PLEASE. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT. >> Clerk: ITEM 6, SIR? >> H. Soto-Martinez: YES. >> Council President: ANY OTHER SPECIALS MEMBERS? SEEING NONE, WHAT ITEM DOES THAT LEAVE FOR TO US CONSIDER AT THIS TIME? >> City Attorney: JUST A MOMENT SIR. OKAY, COUNCIL MAY NOW VOTE ON ITEMS, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 12 THROUGH 18. 21 THROUGH 23. 27 AS WELL AS 28, SIR. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, THOSE ITEMS ARE NOW BEFORE US. LET'S OPEN THE ROLL, CLOSE THE ROLL, TABULATE THE VOTE. >> Clerk: 12 AYES. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT. WHAT'S NEXT? >> Clerk: NEXT, COUNCIL MAY VOTE ON THE CLOSE SESSION THAT WAS NOT CALLED SPECIAL AND THAT WOULD BE ITEM 49 AND THAT WAS HEARD IN BUDGET AND FINANCE COMMITTEE. >> Council President: SO ITEM NUMBER 49, COUNCILMEMBER YAROSLAVSKY? IF YOU CAN GIVE US SOME GUIDANCE ON THAT CLOSE SESSION ITEM. >> K. Yaroslavsky: THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT. B & FINANCE COMMITTEE CONSIDERED THE ITEM AND I RECOMMEND WE APPROVE THE ITEMS. >> Council President: 48 WE'RE HOLDING AND 49 WE'LL CONSIDER NOW? >> Clerk: YES, SIR. MAY I READ THE ITEM. IN THE CASE ENTITLED JEFFERY FREED ET AL VERSUS TEE OF LOS ANGELES ET AL THERE IS A RECOMMENDATION TO EXPEND UP TO $230,000 IN SETTLEMENT. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, THAT ITEM IS NOW BEFORE US, LET'S OPEN THE ROLL, CLOSE THE ROLL, TABULATE THE VOTE. >> Clerk: 12 AYES. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, WHAT'S NEXT? >> Clerk: NEXT, MR. PRESIDENT, THERE ARE PRESENTATIONS OR PUBLIC COMMENT, SIR. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, AND WE HAVE OUR ALL OUR SEPARATE VOTE ITEMS DONE? >> Clerk: OH I'M SORRY, YOU'RE CORRECT, THERE ARE SEPARATE VOTES, 8, 19 AND 29, COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ MAY ALL THOSE BE VOTED AT THE SAME TIME? YES. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, IF THE COUNCIL IS CONSIDERING ALL OF THOSE ITEMS AT THE SAME TIME, I DON'T SEE ANY OBJECTION TO THAT, LET'S OPEN THE ROLL ON THOSE ITEMS, CLOSE THE ROLL, TABULATE THE VOTES. >> Clerk: 9 AYES, 3 NOES. >> Clerk: ALSO, MR. PRESIDENT, ITEM 6 IS CALLED SPECIAL BY COUNCILMEMBER SOTO-MARTINEZ FOR COMMENTS, SIR AND THAT IS AVAILABLE. >> Council President: MR. SOTO-MARTINEZ? >> H. Soto-Martinez: THANK YOU, SO MUCH, MR. PRESIDENT. I'M GOING TO TRY TO BRING A LITTLE JOY INTO THIS ROOM. BUT TODAY, WE ARE GOING TO BE APPROVING FOR WHAT BELIEVE IT OR NOT, THE FIRST PUBLIC BATHROOM IN HOLLYWOOD. >> Council President: WOW. >> H. Soto-Martinez: INCREDIBLE. >> [APPLAUSE] >> H. Soto-Martinez: WHEN I GOT IT WAS NUMBER THAT THE NUMBER ONE PLACE IN HOLLYWOOD HAD NO PLACE TO GO NUMBER TWO. AND WITHIN A YEAR OR SO, YOU'LL BE ABLE TO TAKE A BREAK IN HOLLYWOOD, YOU DON'T HAVE TO HOLD IT IN ANYMORE. AND BEFORE YOU START POOH POOHING THIS MOTION, THESE BATHROOMS WILL BE CLEAN, FULLY STAFFED AND PART OF THE NEW VISITOR CENTER IN THE HEART OF HOLLYWOOD THAT WILL HELP TO GET AROUND. BY THE WAY WHO WROTE THESE TPs SO BE AWARE OF THE NOTIFICATIONS IN A FLUSH. >> Council President: WILL SOTO-MARTINEZ EVERYBODY. OPEN THE ROLL, CLOSE THE ROLL, TABULATE THE VOTE. >> Clerk: 13 AYES. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, WHAT'S NEXT? >> Clerk: MR. PRESIDENT, COUNCIL MAY NOW EITHER HAVE PRESENTATIONS OR PUBLIC COMMENT SIR. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT. SO WE HAVE A COUPLE OF PRESENTATIONS TODAY. WE'LL BEGIN WITH COUNCIL DISTRICT 4, AND RECOGNITION OF ALZHEIMER AWARENESS MONTH. WHICH IS A VERY IMPORTANT ISSUE AROUND LOS ANGELES. >> N. Raman: GOOD MORNING, EVERYBODY. I WANT IT THANK THE COUNCIL PRESIDENT FOR LETTING TAKE A FEW MINUTES TO RECOGNIZE ALZHEIMER MONTH AN ISSUE THAT IS CLOSE TO MY HEART AND CLOSE TO OUR OFFICE'S HEART BECAUSE OF MANY PERSONAL IMPACTS. ALZHEIMER IS NOT A FUNNY SUBJECT BUT TODAY WE'RE LUCKY TO BE JOINED BY TWO VERY FUNNY PEOPLE WHO KNOW HOW TO BRING SOME HUMOR AND A LOT OF HEART TO EVEN THE MOST DIFFICULT TOPICS, THE FOUNDERS OF HA LAYERITY FOR CHARITY A NONPROFIT DEDICATE TODAY RAISING AWARENESS AROUND ALZHEIMER AND WORK TO GO CARE FOR FAMILIES IMPACTED BY THE DISEASE. AND THE UNFORTUNATELY TRUTH THAT IS NOW SO MANY OF US. RIGHT NOW, THERE IS AN ESTIMATED 7.2 MILLION PEOPLE LIVING WITH ALZHEIMER IN THE UNITED STATES AND NEARLY $200,000 OF THEM ARE RIGHT HERE IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY. THAT IS A NUMBER THAT IS HARD TO WRAP YOUR BRAIN AROUND. NEARLY EVERY ONE KNOWS SOMEBODY, A GRANDPARENT, A PARENT, A PARTNER A NEIGHBOR, A COLLEAGUE, A FRIEND. THE DISEASE IS HEARTBREAKING IN A WAY THAT CAN BE HARD TO PUT WORDS TO. IT'S UNCURED, AND A DIAGNOSIS CANNOT BE REVERSED. AND DOES NOT ONLY AFFECT THE PERSONA FEBRUARIEDING BUT IT RIPPLES THROUGH THE FAMILIES. AND THESE RIPPLE AFFECTS ARE ABOUT TO BE FELT MUCH FURTHER. OVER THE NEXT SEVEN YEARS, NEARLY 900,000 ADDITIONAL DIRECT CARE WORKERS WILL BE NEEDED TO CARE FOR THE GROWING POPULATION OF PEOPLE LIVING WITH DEMENTIA, THE LARGER WORKER GAP OF ANY SINGLE OCCUPATION IN THE U.S. RIGHT NOW OVER 11 MILLION PROVIDE CARE FOR SOMEBODY WITH ALZHEIMER AND RELATED DIMENSIONS AND ONE-THIRD ARE SOME DAUGHTERS, INCLUDING SOME DAUGHTERS IN MY OWN OFFICE. I'VE SEEN THE TOLL THIS TAKES AND HOW NAVIGATING THE COMPLEXITY CAN FEEL LIKE A TASK, WHICH IS WHY I'M SO GRATEFUL TO HAVE LAUREN AND SETH WITH US TODAY, BECAUSE THEY HAVE MADE IT THEIR MISSION TO PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR THESE CARE TAKERS. THEY TOOK THEIR EXPERIENCE AND TURNED IT INTO PURPOSE, THROUGH HA LAYERITY FOR CHARITY, THEY BUILT A SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR CARE GIVERS, THEY HAVE RAISED MILLIONS FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION AND THEY BROUGHT VISIBILITY TO AN ILLNESS THAT IS TOO OFTEN KEPT IN A SHADOWS AND THEY'VE DONE IT WITH HUMOR AND HUMANITY. THEY REMIND PEOPLE THROUGH THEIR WORK THAT THEY ARE NOT ALONE. LAUREN AND SETH HAVE CREATED A COMMUNITY A LOSS THE ENTIRE COUNTRY AND IN LOS ANGELES THAT, IS FUNDING THE FUTURE OF BRAIN HEALTH AND CHANGING THE CONVERSATION. THEY'RE REACHING YOUNG PEOPLE AND SAY HEY, THIS IS NOT JUST A DISEASE THAT IS IMPACTING YOUR UNCLE, THEY'RE TELLING THE TRUTH TO ENSURE THAT OUR BRAINS ARE AS HEALTHY WHILE CALLING ON ALL OF US TO PROTECT AND STRENGTHEN CRITICAL SYSTEMS LIKE MEDICAL WHICH SO MANY AMERICANS WITH ALZHEIMER RELY ON AS THEIR PRIMARY SOURCE OF CARE. THAT IS WHY TODAY IT'S MY HONOR TO OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZE LAUREN AND SETH FOR HILARITY FOR CHARITY AND THANK THEM THAT EVEN THE DARKEST CORNERS OF ILLNESS, WE CAN FIND CORRECTION AND COMMUNITY AND EVEN LAUGHTER. AND WITH THAT, I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE BOTH OF THEM TO SAY A FEW WORDS. THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE] >> Speaker: THANK YOU SO MUCH TO THE LOS ANGELES CITY COUNCIL FOR THIS MEANINGFUL RECOGNITION. >> Speaker: WE ESPECIALLY WANT TO THANK NITHYA RAMAN, YOU ARE DEEPLY APPRECIATED. >> AND BY RECOGNIZING JUNE, YOU'RE HELPING TO SHINE THE LIGHT IN DISEASE THAT IS KEPT IN THE SHADOW. >> Speaker: WHEN WE FUNDED, IT WAS PART OF PERSONAL. >> Speaker: SINCE THEN WE'VE BEEN DRIVEN TO MAKE BRAIN HEALTH AND HELP FAMILIES NAVIGATING THIS ILLNESS. >> Speaker: TODAY THIS RESOLUTION REMINDS US THAT THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES STANDS WITH US. >> Speaker: WE SHARE WITH EVERY CAREGIVER AND ADVOCATE. >> Speaker: TOGETHER WE'RE CHANGING THE NARRATIVE AROUND BRAIN HEALTH, ONE CITY ONE COMMUNITY AT A TIME. THANK YOU. >> Speaker: THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE] >> Council President: COUNCILMEMBER I'VE GOT A FEW SPEAKERS ON THE QUEUE. START WITHING COUNCILMEMBER PADILLA. >> I. Padilla: IT'S BECOME A TREND THAT I GO FIRST MORE OFTEN NOW, THAT'S OKAY. BUT COUNCILMEMBER, NITHYA RAMAN THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS PRESENTATION. I'VE ALWAYS BEEN A BIG FAN THAT WE ELEVATE THE MONTHLY THEMES RELATED TO HEALTH. WE'RE NOT THE COUNTY PER SE SO WE DON'T TALK ABOUT IT ENOUGH BUT WE HAVE AN AUDIENCE THAT SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE CONVERSATION. THANK YOU FOR BRINGING IT HERE. I GREW UP WITH A GREAT AUNT WITH ALZHEIMER WITH BUT IT WAS IN MEXICO AND SMALL TOWN AND A WHOLE LIFESTYLE TO MAKE SURE THAT SHE WAS OKAY IN A SMALL TOWN. BUT THIS NEW GENERATION LIKE MY MOM AND ACTUAL AUNTS AND UNCLES, AND WE FIND OURSELF TO RESTRATEGIZE NOW IN A MAJOR CITY. SO IT IS A VERY SERIOUS THING. I KNOW WE'VE DONE REALLY GOOD AS A REGION TO TALK ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH BUT THERE IS A LOT MORE TO LEARN ABOUT BRAIN HEALTH. THANK YOU, I APPRECIATE YOU AND I HAVE NEVER REALLY BEEN A BIG FAN IS CELEBRITIES BEING PART OF THIS BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH. >> J. Lee: THANK YOU, FOR BRINGING THIS WONDERFUL PEOPLE IN. NOT ONLY HAVE YOU MADE US LAUGH BUT YOU'RE WORK IN THE AREA, BEING A SON WHO IS DEALING WHO'S DEALING WITH A PARENT WHO'S MOM WAS A BRILLIANT STRON WOMAN, SHE WAS ALWAYS THE BOSS IN THE FAMILY. TO WATCH HER SLOWLY DECLINE AND NOT ONLY SEE THE AFFECTS THAT IT'S HAVING ON HER BUT THE ENTIRE FAMILY. WHEN SOMEBODY FORGETS HOW TO COOK, STARTS THINKING DIFFERENT THOUGHTS ABOUT HOW FAMILIES OR MEMBERS ARE OUT TO GET THEM. THE SITUATION THAT IT CREATES, IT'S, I JUST APPRECIATE THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE OUT THERE FIGHTING UNDERSTANDING. I'M NEW TO THIS, I'M LEARNING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ALZHEIMER AND DEMENTIA AND THE DIFFERENT CATEGORIES. I APPRECIATE THAT, TWO PEOPLE LIKE YOU ARE BRINGING SO MUCH ATTENTION TO THIS TO THE FAMILIES THAT ARE OBVIOUSLY SUFFERING THROUGH THIS. SO THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER. THANK YOU ROGGAN FAMILY. >> Council President: THANK YOU, COUNCILWOMAN RAMAN FOR BRINGING THIS PRESENTATION. THANK YOU TO THE TWO OF YOU FOR PUTTING VERY IMPORTANT ATTENTION TO THIS ISSUE THAT DOES NOT GET TALKED IN POPULAR CULT OOH BUT MOST OF US DEAL WITH IT. WHEN YOU'VE GOT A FAMILY WITH ALZHEIMER, THEY CAN WALK THE STREET AND BOARD A BUS AND A TRAIN, AND THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST TERRIFYING THINGS THAT YOU CAN EVER EXPERIENCE AND THERE ARE NOT A LOT OF PLACE TO SEE GO FOR HELP. YOU KNOW, FOLKS IN MY OFFICE RIGHT NOW ARE LOOKING FOR DAY AND NIGHT TIME CARE AND THE PRICE TAG THEY'RE GETTING BACK IS 25, 20,000 DOLLARS A MONTH, 20,000 A MONTH. THIS IS RIGHT AFTER YOU GOT DONE PAYING FOR COLLEGE FOR KIDS WHICH IS ALSO GOING A OVER THE ROOF. IT DOES NOT GET ENOUGH ATTENTION. I THANK YOU FOR SHARING WITH US AND ALL THAT YOU'VE DONE. ON BEHALF OF THE COUNCIL, I APOLOGIZE FOR COUNCILMEMBER SOTO-MARTINEZ, HE WAS TRYING HIS ONE-LINERS, JUST IN CASE YOU NEED SOMEBODY FOR YOUR NEXT SHOW. >> Speaker: THANK YOU SO MUCH. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU SO MUCH, OUR NEXT PRESENTATION EXCITING ONE WILL BE BROUGHT TO US BY THE ONE AND ONLY MR. TIM McOSKER OF THE GREAT 1-5. >> T. McOsker: GOOD MORNING, GOOD MORNING, GOOD MORNING. THIS PRESENTATION HAS BEEN DECADES IN THE MAKING AND I DID HAVE SOME GOOD BATHROOM HUMOR SO HUGO USED ALL OF MY LINES SO I'M GOING TO MOVE ON. GOOD MORNING, TODAY I HAVE THE HONOR OF RECOGNIZING SOMEBODY AND HIS FAMILY AND HIS FRIENDS AND HIS COLLEAGUES, BUT SOMEBODY WHO HAS LEFT AN UNDELABLE MARK ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC SERVICE. NOT ONLY HERE IN THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES BUT THROUGHOUT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, LET'S HEAR IT FOR RICK COLE. [APPLAUSE] RICK IS THE TEXTBOOK DEFINITION OF WHAT IT IS TO BE A PUBLIC SERVANT, A SERVE APARTMENT LEADER SOMEBODY WHO IS CRITICALLY AND DEEPLY INVOLVED IN THE WORKINGS OF GOVERNMENT AND WHO CAN EVEN GET INTO THE NERDY STUFF ABOUT MAKING GOVERNMENT WORK AND FIGURING OUT HOW IT ALSO WORKS TOWARDS COMPASSION AND EQUITY, BECAUSE IT ALL MATTERS. MAKING GOVERNMENT WORK AND MAKE ITING WORK RIGHT IS THE ONLY WAY THAT WE CAN SERVE PEOPLE. FOR DECADES, FOR DECADES RICK'S CAREER HAS ALWAYS BEEN AND ALWAYS ALWAYS BEEN AT THE LOCAL LEVEL. HE HAS BEEN A LOCAL CLOSEST TO THE PEOPLE PUBLIC SERVANT. YOUR GOVERNMENT MUST BE SMART AND COMPASSIONATE. YOU'VE SHOWN HOW TO REVITALIZE DOWNTOWN WITHOUT DISPLACEMENT AND SHOWN HOW TO HOLD OURSELVES ACCOUNTABLE SO WE CAN DO THOSE THINGS AND GETTING OURSELVES OUT OF THE WAY. YOU MODERNIZED BUDGET TOOLS. TODAY WE CELEBRATE NOT JUST YOUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS BUT THE VALUES BEHIND THOSE ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THE VALUES OF EQUITY, AND INNOVATION AND CIVIC LISTENING AND I'LL COME BACK TO EQUITY, UP LIFTING ESPECIALLY THE FOLKS WHO DON'T HAVE ANYBODY ELSE WHO SERVE THEM AND WE NEED TO LIFT THEM UP. YOU'VE HAD AN IMPACT ON PASADENA, VENTURA, SANTA MONICA, AZUSA, OVER THE COURSE OF MY LITTLE CAREER, WE'VE HAD A LOT OF MUTUAL FRIENDS AND I'VE HEARD ABOUT ALL OF YOUR WORK FROM AZUSA TO VENT RA, IT'S AN HONOR TO BE HERE WITH YOU TODAY WITH YOUR EXTENDED FAMILY AND FRIENDS. AT THIS TIME, I WOULD LIKE TO BRING TO THE PODIUM AND WELCOME INTO OUR CHAMBERS, OUR CONTROLLER, OUR CONTROLLER MR. KENNETH MEJIA. [APPLAUSE] >> THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER McOSKER FOR THIS HONOR FOR OUR CHEEP DEPUTY. RICK COLE, HE HAS BEEN IN GOVERNMENT LONGER THAN I'VE BEEN ALIVE, I POINT THIS OUT NOT TO HIGH THE OBVIOUS AGE DIFFERENCE BUT TO SPEAK TO THE GREATER YEARS OF SERVICE. WHEN RICK GOT ELECTED TO THE PASADENA COUNCIL, HE WAS ELECTED AT 29 YEARS OLD. HE MIGHT HAVE SEEN A LITTLE BIT OF HIMSELF WHEN WE RAN FOR OFFICE AND I WAS SO SURPRISED WHEN RICK REACHED OUT TO ME BECAUSE AS A YOUNG CANDIDATE AND WHEN I WAS RUNNING FOR CONTROLLER, WE HAD NO ENDORSEMENT AND HE WAS THE ONLY ONE IN CITY HALL OR PART OF ANY POLITICAL ESTABLISHMENT TO ENDORSE US AND HELP US. AND WE ENDED UP THANKS TO RICK, WE GOT 513,000 VOTES. RICK, I APPRECIATE, I APPRECIATE, YOUR SUPPORT. BUT WHO IS COUNTING. BUT THAT'S EXACTLY THE KIND OF PERSON RICK IS, RICK IS SOMEBODY WHO CARES ABOUT MENTORING THE NEXT GENERATION OF LEADERS. WHAT MATTERS TO RICK IS NOT ESTABLISHING A LEGACY FOR HIMSELF BUT BUILDING A BETTER FUTURE FOR SOMEBODY ELSE. RICK IS ALWAYS SO GENEROUS WITH HIS KNOWLEDGE. AND I CANNOT COUNT THE TIMES THAT I TURNED TO HIM FOR PRACTICAL ADVISE. THE CITY OF L.A. HAS BEEN FAR TOO LUCKY AND RICK HAS GUIDE US THROUGH MANY TROUBLING TIMES ESPECIALLY THROUGH MAJOR TRANSITIONS AND CRISIS OF OUR HP SYSTEM AND FINANCIAL TROUBLES. SOME OF THE SOLUTION THAT'S RICK HAS CALLED FOR SUCH AS MULTI-YEAR BUDGETING ARE NOW BEING EMBRACED BY THIS COUNCIL AND MAYOR BASS. AS MUCH AS WE WOULD LIKE TO KEEP RICK FOREVER, HIS ATTENTION IS NEEDED RIGHT NOW IN HIS HOMETOWN OF PASADENA. THE CITY OF L.A. OWES AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF GRATITUDE TO RICK, THANK YOU TO MY MENTOR, RICK COLE. [APPLAUSE] >> T. McOsker: AND NOW I'VE NERVOUSLY SAID FROM THE PODIUM, MR. COLE, WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK? >> Speaker: LET ME FIRST INTRODUCE MY FAMILY. MY BRAVE, TWIN DAUGHTERS, ANGEL AND LUZ. [APPLAUSE] THEIR BROTHER DIEGO AND HIS PARTNER SIOMARA. AND THEIR EN DOMABLE MOM, CATHERINE. KENNETH THANK YOU FOR THE HONOR AND PRIVILEGE FOR WORKING AS I'VE ALWAYS CORRECTED ME, I ALWAYS SAY I WORK WITH HIM, HE ALWAYS SAYS I WORK FOR HIM. WE HAVE OUR DIVISION HEADS HERE. SHANE MINUTE, JAMES, PANG AND WOOLLY, IT'S AN INCREDIBLE TEAM OF CIVIL SERVANTS IN THE CONTROLLER'S OFFICE. AND ALL THE PEOPLE THAT I'VE KNOWN IN THIS CITY OVER THE LAST FOUR DECADES, THANK YOU FOR INSPIRING ME. I COULD NOT LET THIS OCCASION PASS WITHOUT SHARING SOME THOUGHTS AND I ASK FOR YOUR INDULGENCE. I WILL NEVER FOR GOAT THE AWE THAT I FELT WHEN I WALKED N.I WAS SENIOR DEPUTY TO RICHARD A LATORRE. NOW I'VE NEVER BEEN MORE ALARMED ABOUT OUR FUTURE. YOU KNOW THE CRISIS FACING THIS CITY, EMERGENCY HOMELESSNESS, FIRE STORMS, THOUSANDS OF JOBS, A CRISIS OF AFFORDING HOUSING AND FEDERAL ADMINISTRATION LITERALLY AT WAR WITH THE GOVERNMENT AND PEOPLE OF LOS ANGELES. THOSE ARE THE HEADLINES, BUT THERE ARE THE INSIDOUS THREATS OF WEAKENING ECONOMY AND CRUMBLING UNFA STRUCTURE AND GRO TEST IN EQUALITY OF INCOME AND TRUST TO CONFRONT THESE . IF WE CANNOT TRIM OUR TREES AND LIGHT OUR BRIDGES AND FIX OUR FIRE TRUCKS, HOW CAN WE HOST AN OLYMPICS IN THREE YEARS? [APPLAUSE] L.A. IS A COMPLEX CITY OF FOUR MILLION PEOPLE OVER 400 SQUARE MILES, MORE THAN 40 DEPARTMENTS, MORE THAN 40,000 CITY STAFF. ON A GOOD DAY, IT'S AN INCREDIBLE DIFFICULT CITY TO MANAGE AND WE HAVE NOT HAD VERY MANY GOOD DAYS LATELY. WHAT MAKES THIS ALL SO MUCH HARDER IS THAT L.A. IS NOT DESIGNED TO WORK. AND THAT'S NOT A CITISM, THAT'S A HISTORIC FACT. BECAUSE 100 YEARS AGO, THE AUTHORS OF CHARTER DESIGNED THIS GOVERNMENT TO AVOID THE CORRUPTION THAT THEY SAW IN CHICAGO AND NEW YORK. THEY DELIBERATELY DESIGNED THIS GOVERNMENT TO WIDELY DISBURSE AUTHORITY TO AVOID THEY MADE POWER DEFUSE. YET L.A. WORKED DESPITE THE CHARTER, IT WAS THE CLIMATE, THE INDUSTRY, THE ENTERTAINMENT AND ABOVE ALL, INCREDIBLE DIVERSITY AND CREATIVE SPIRIT OF THE PEOPLE OF L.A. THAT MADE LOS ANGELES THE EMBODIMENT OF THE CALIFORNIA DREAM. BUT THINGS THAT CAN'T GO ON FOREVER DON'T. FOR DECADES, THIS CITY HAS WRITTEN THE CYCLES OF BLOOMBUST MAKING SHORT-TERM DECISION WZ LONG TERM CONSEQUENCES. FOR DECADES, THIS CITY SYSTEMATIC UNDER INVESTED IN MOANEDER EYESING ITS INFRASTRUCTURE. FOR DECADES, GOVERNMENTS UNDER INVESTED IN OUR CITY STAFF TRAINING EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES AND OUTMOTED PRACTICES THAT ARE SIMILE UNSUSTAINABLE IN THE WORLD WE LIVE IN. THIS IS A MOMENT OF TRUTH. I KNOW SOME PEOPLE SAY WELL YOU KNOW L.A. HAS HAD HARD TIMES BEFORE, WE'LL BE BETTER THAN EVER, IT'S TEMPTING TO RELY ON OUR RESILIENCE TO HOPE THAT THIS TOO SHALL PASS. BUT THAT'S NOT THE WORLD WE LIVE IN. HOPE IS NOT A PLAN, TWO MONTHS AGO IN THESE CHAMBERS, MAYOR BASS RECOGNIZED THE GRAVITY OF THIS MOMENT AND SHE SAID, WE NEED A FUNDAMENTAL OVERHAUL OF GOVERNMENT TO DELIVER THE CLEAN, SAFE AND ORDERLY NEIGHBORHOODS THAT ANGELINOS DESERVE IN A PLACE THAT THEY CALL HOME AND REVERSE DECADES OF FAILURE IN HOMELESSNESS. SHE IS RIGHT! THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT WE NEED, A COMPLETE OVERHAUL OF CITY GOVERNMENT. BOLD, SYSTEMIC CHANGE. IT'S TIME TO REDESIGN L.A. TO ACTUALLY WORK. MAYORS NEED A CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER TO WORK ACROSS DEPARTMENT SILOS, WE NEED CITY WIDE MANAGEMENT, THAT'S WHY CITIES LIKE LONG BEACH, GLENDALE, SANTA MONICA, PASADENA, WEST HOLLYWOOD DELIVER SERVICES MORE AFFECTIVE. YOUR MANAGERS NEED TO BE FREED FROM MICROMANAGEMENT, EMPOWER THEM TO RUN THEIR DEPARTMENTS SO YOU CAN HOLD THEM ACTABLE. L.A. NEEDS A CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER TO PUT ITS FISCAL HOUSE IN ORDER, WE NEED A REAL FIVE-YEAR CAPITAL PLAN, SHIFT FROM BASE TO PERFORMANCE BUDGETING. ALLOCATE AWAY FROM WHAT DOESN'T. IT'S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE. YOU CAN'T HAVE A WORLD CLASS CITY AND A WORLD CLASS WORKFORCE UNLESS YOU INVEST IN WORLD CLASS TRAINING, TECHNOLOGY EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES FOR YOUR WORK FORCE. SO IT'S PAST TIME TO REFORM AN ANT INDICATED CIVIL SYSTEM THAT WAS DESIGNED FOR TYPE WRITERS AND RADIOS INSTEAD OF THE WORLD WE LIVE IN TODAY, A WORLD OF ART FUTBOLER INTELLIGENCE AND DIGITAL DATA. SO EMPOWER YOUR WORKERS, NO LEVEL OF PAY CAN COMPENSATE FOR WORKING IN A MIND-NUMBING BUREAUCRACY. YOU HAVE DEDICATED PUBLIC SERVANT WHO STRIFE TO KEEP THIS CITY GOING EVERY DAY DESPITE EVERYTHING, WHY NOT TRULY PARTNER WITH LABOR? UNLEASH THE INNOVATIVE SPIRIT OF YOUR FRONTLINE WORKERS TO REDESIGN THE SERVICES SO WE CAN LIVE WITHIN OUR MEANS. MAYBE, YOU HAVE DIFFERENT IDEAS, MAYBE YOU HAVE BETTER IDEAS. BUT WHAT L.A. CAN'T SETTLE FOR IS ANYTHING LESS THAN BOLD SYSTEMIC REFORM. I KNOW THAT LOS ANGELES IS THE AOEK ECONOMIC ENGINE AND THE CULTURAL SOLE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. A WORLD CLASS CITY DESERVES A WORLD CLASS CITY GOVERNMENT. ONE THAT IS DESIGNED TO WORK. EXTRAORDINARY TIMES CALL FOR EXTRAORDINARY LEADERSHIP, BENEATH THE BROKEN SIDEWALKS IS A BROKEN SYSTEM. BECAUSE I'VE HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF WORKING WITH EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU EXAMINE YOUR STAFFS. I NO HE THAT TOGETHER, YOU HAVE THE CAPACITY TO LEAD THIS CITY TOWARD BOLD SYSTEMIC REFORM TO MAKE THIS CITY WORK. SO I IMPLORE YOU, CEASE THE DAY. GOD BLESS YOU, I YIELD THE BALANCE OF MY TIME. [APPLAUSE] >> T. McOsker: THANK YOU. RICK FOR REMINDING US THAT WHEN WE BUILT THIS, BEAUTIFUL BUILDING AND THESE CHAMBERS, WE PUT A PODIUM HERE AND A MICROPHONE HERE FOR A REASON. WE TURN THE HORSESHOE AROUND. I'M SURE OTHER COUNCILMEMBERS HAVE COMMENTS. >> Council President: THEY DO. COUNCILMEMBER JURADO. >> Y. Jurado: THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT, I WANT TO THANK RICK COLE FOR YOUR SERVICE AND ALL YOU'VE DONE FOR THE CITY, ESPECIALLY AS A SIDE CHAIR URBAN PLANNER, YOU BEING HONORED BY URBAN PLANNING DEPARTMENTS ACROSS THE NATION. I STUDIED YOUR WORK, YOU BROUGHT ME TO GREAT STREETS AND FIGURING OUT WHAT THAT MEANS FOR OUR CITIES AND STREET ESCAPING AND GOOD LUCK IN YOUR NEXEN DEFER. >> Council President: MR. BLUMENFIELD. >> B. Blumenfield: PROFESSOR COLE, RICK, WHY CAN'T WE GET RID OF YOU, IT'S BEEN THREE TIMES THAT WE TRIED TO EXIT YOU AND YOU JUST KEEP COMING BACK. AND I AM HOPEFUL THAT YOU WILL COME BACK AGAIN, THAT THIS IS NOT YOUR LAST HURRAH, YOU THIS HISTORY OF DOING THAT, WHETHER IT'S THE PASADENA AND YOU COME BACK. I JUST THINK IT'S IN YOUR NATURE AND USING THE PODIUM TODAY, AS YOU DID SO ELOQUENTLY NOT JUST SAY GOOD BUT TO DO A CALL FOR ACTION, I APPRECIATE THAT. AND YOUR ELOQUENCE, SOME OF YOUR PHRASING WORTHY OF JOHNNY COCHRAN. I HAVE REALLY ENJOYED WORKING WITH YOU FOR MANY YEARS, YOU KNOW, I'VE HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF KNOWING YOU THROUGH MANY OF YOUR ADORATIONS. BUT YOU HAVE BEEN A CONSISTENT THROUGH LINE AS A TRANSFORMER AND A CHANGE MAKER IN ALL THE DIFFERENT CAPACITIES THAT I'VE KNOWN YOU. ALL THE THINGS THAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT ARE THINGS THAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT BACK WHEN HE WERE DOING THE INNOVATION AS DEPUTY MAYOR FOR GARCETTI IN SANTA MONICA AND IN A VARIETY OF CAPACITIES. AND WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO WORK WELL TOGETHER TO MACK SOME OF THOSE THINGS HAPPEN. TO CREATE SOME ACCOUNTABILITY NOT JUST TOWARDS IF NOT PERFORMANCE BUDGETING BUT AT LEAST PERFORMANCE INFORMED BUDGETING AND WORE GETTING THERE. BUT I AGREE THAT WE NEED TO MOVE AT A FASTER CLIP AND I PRAOSH YOUR CALL TO ACTION ON THAT. AND MOST OF ALL, I JUST WANTED TO STAND UP TO EXPRESS MY GRATITUDE TO YOU FOR ALL THAT YOU'VE DONE AND YOU CONTINUE TO DO BECAUSE THIS IS NOT A GOOD BY TO PUBLIC SERVICE, THIS IS JUST A SHIFT IN WHERE YOU'RE FOCUS IS GOING TO BE. I KNOW YOU'LL STILL BE A PHONE CALL AWAY WHEN ALL OF US WANT TO CALL ON YOU FOR YOUR LEARNED ADVISE AND ELOQUENCE. THANK YOU. >> Council President: THANK YOU, MR. BLUMENFIELD. COUNCILMEMBER RODRIGUEZ. >> M. Rodriguez: THANK YOU, MR. McOSKER FOR BRINGING THIS GREAT PERSON IN. I REMEMBER WHEN YOU WERE FIRST SERVING AS DEPUTY MAYOR FOR MAYOR GARCETTI AND YOUR PARTING GIFT WAS A LITTLE NUGGET OF CASH THAT ALLOWED ME TO OVERALL L.A. BECAUSE I HAD TALKED TO YOU ABOUT THE NEED FOR US TO MAKE IT A MORE CONSTRUCTIVE USER INTERFACE THAT WE HAD TO HAVE A SYSTEM THAT WAS NOT DESIGNED BY HOW WE WORK, BUT IT WAS DESIGNED TO MAKE SURE THAT THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY COULD NAVIGATE IT AND FIGURE OUT HOW TO MAKE IT ACCESSIBLE. AND IT WAS WORK WITHING JOHN REAMER AND I REMEMBER, WORK WITHING CERTAIN MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY, QUIETLY, SO NOBODY CAN COME MESS WITH WHAT WE WERE DOING MEETING BIWEEKLY AND WE GOT IT DONE IN NINE MONTHS. AND I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU, HAD YOU NOT RELOCATED THE RESOURCES YOU WON HAVE SUCCESSOR BECAUSE IT BECAME ENVOGUE, NOBODY DID THE LIFT AND THE WORK, BECAUSE WHAT BECAME ENVOGUE WAS TO START TWITTING ON THE FRINGES. SO I WANT TO THANK YOU, BECAUSE SO OFTEN WHAT IS CELEBRATED AS LEADERSHIP HAS BEEN PERFORM TIFF. ABOUT WHAT LEADERSHIP LOOKS LIKE AND SEEING THE MATERIAL CHANGE. SO I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR BEING ONE OF THOSE INDIVIDUALS THAT HELPED TO LEAD THE MATERIAL CHANGE, NOT JUST HERE AT CITY HALL BUT IN ALL THE VARIETY OF PUBLIC ROLES THAT YOU'VE HAD AND I LOOK FORWARD TO THAT CONTINUED WORK THAT WILL COME BACK IN PASADENA. AND TO ALL THE SOUTHERN REGION THAT HAS BENEFITED FROM YOUR LEADERSHIP. CONGRATULATIONS AND THANK YOU. >> Council President: THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER COUNCILMEMBER RODRIGUEZ. COUNCILMEMBER PRICE. >> C. Price: THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. THANK YOU MR. McOSKER FOR BRINGING THIS REAL HERO TO US TODAY. RICK, YOU ARE STRONG PUBLIC SERVANT IN AND OUT OF OFFICE AND IN AND OUT OF THE CLASSROOM, YOU KNOW, YOU CONTINUE TO DEMONSTRATE A LEVEL OF COMPETENCE AND CARING. AND I THINK ABOVE ALL, YOUR WORDS ARE ALWAYS, KIND, WELL MAYBE NOT ALWAYS KIND BUT KIND-SPIRITED AND WELL THOUGHT AS WE HEARD JUST RECENTLY. WE APPRECIATE YOU AND YOUR FAMILY HERE WITH US. I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU AND KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK. >> Council President: THANK YOU. COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ. >> E. Hernandez: THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER McOSKER FOR THIS EXCITING BUT SAD PRESENTATION. I'VE KNOWN YOUR WIFE LONGER ABOUT A DECADE, BUT YOU KNOW, EVER SINCE MEETING AND SEEING YOU HOW YOU'VE BEEN BACKING UP KENNETH THAT YOU'RE UPLIFTIN THE THINGS THAT WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT PARTICULARLY AROUND OUR BUDGET, I'M GRATEFUL FOR THOSE MOMENTS AND GIVING US GUIDANCE ON HOW WE SHOULD BE MOVING. THAT COMES FROM A LOT OF CONVERSATION THAT'S WE'VE HAD. PLEASE PUSH INING PASADENA BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT THAT FAR AWAY. WE'RE GOING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN KEEP OUR EYES ON YOU TO CONTINUE THE LEAD OUT THERE. DON'T GO TOO FAR, 'CAUSE I THINK IN THIS MOMENT, WE ALL NEED TO STICK TOGETHER AND KEEP MOVING ON THE THINGS THAT WE KNOW IS BASED ON THE FOUNDATION OF MOVING OUR COMMUNITY AND MOVING OUR COMMUNITY FORWARD. GOOD LUCK ON EVERYTHING THAT YOU'RE GOING TO BE DOING ON YOUR NEXT ENDEAVOR. >> Council President: THANK YOU VERY MUCH. COUNCILMEMBER NAZARIAN. >> A. Nazarian: THANK YOU, THANK YOU MR. PRESIDENT. THANK YOU TO MY SEAT MATE FOR BRINGING THE GREAT HUDINI TO THE GREAT CHAMBERS. I'VE KNOWN YOU SINCE 96 WHEN I WAS A CHORAL FELLOW AND YOU TAUGHT ME A GREAT LESSON AS YOU'RE LEAVING SOME COAL NUGGETS BEHIND YOU. BUT BACK THEN, YOU SPENT WELL OVER AN HOUR TALK TO GO ME JUST A RANDOM KID WHO CALLED YOU UP TO SEEK ADVISE ON A PLACEMENT FOR AN INTERNSHIP BECAUSE IN THE CHORAL YEAR, WE NEEDED TO COME UP WITH OUR OWN DESIGN PLACEMENT. AND YOU SPENT WELL OVER AN HOUR ON ONE CALL AND SUBSEQUENT CALLS AS WELL TO HELP ME WITH MY PLACEMENT. TAUGHT ME A VERY VALUABLE LESSON AND IT WAS SOMETHING THAT I REMEMBERED OVER AND OVER IN MY YEARS AS I GREW OLDER IN THE PROCESS AS A STAFFER TO ALWAYS SPEND TIME TALKING TO FOLKS THAT MAY BE GETTING A START. AND THEY HAVE NOTHING TO OFFER BUT JUST THEIR ENERGY AND MALUABLE OF WANTING TO MAKE A DFFERENCE. I APPRECIATE THAT, THANK YOU. >> Council President: THANK YOU VERY MUCH. COUNCILMEMBER RAMAN. >> N. Raman: THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE TODAY AND COUNCILMEMBER McOSKER AND CONTROLLER MEJIA FOR ORGANIZING THIS AS A SEND-OFF FOR RICK. RICK, I THINK A LOT OF US MET YOU WHEN YOU WERE WORKING AT GARCETTI'S OFFICE AND WHEN MAYOR GARCETTI HAD SET UP YOUR POSITION, I THINK IT WAS A TESTAMENT TO THE WAY IN WAY YOU THOUGHT HOW THE CITY FUNCTIONED. IT WAS A NEW EXAMINE UNIQUE WAY TO THINK ABOUT LOS ANGELES AND HOW THIS CITY WHICH IS, FRAGMENTED, CLUNKY, SOMETIMES UNNECESSARILY BUREAUCRATIC, OFTEN UNNECESSARILY BUREAUCRAT YOU CAN, --BUREAUCRATIC HOW WE CAN USE SOMEBODY LIKE YOU WITH YOUR APPROACH AND INTER TEKT HOW WE CAN REORGANIZE THE CITY TO MAKE IT MORE EFFECTIVELY. AND THAT IS THE MIND SET THAT YOU BROUGHT TO YOUR WORK WITH MAYOR GARCETTI, IT'S THE WORK THAT YOU BROUGHT TO THE CONTROLLER'S OFFICE EXAMINE I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR MANY MANY YEARS OF SERVICE TO LOS ANGELES. YOU WILL BE MISSED DEEPLY BUT I STILL HAVE YOUR PHONE NUMBER SO I PLAN TO CALL ON YOU FOR GUIDANCE AND VISAS WE MOVE FORWARD AS ABOUT UNTANGLING THED KNOTS THAT WE HAVE AHEAD OF YOU US AS A CITY. THANK YOU. >> Council President: THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER RAMAN. COUNCILMEMBER SOTO-MARTINEZ. >> H. Soto-Martinez: THANK YOU, VERY MUCH CONTROLLER MEJIA AND COUNCILMEMBER McOSKER FOR BRINGING IN RICK. YOU KNOW, WE HAD DIFFERENT ISSUE BEFORE COMING INTO THESE CHAMBERS MOSTLY IN SANTA MONICA, BUT I REALLY APPRECIATE GETTING TO KNOW YOU AS A PERSON. THE PASSION THAT IT YOU BRING AND YOU KNOW, I'VE GOT TO SAY, WE'RE STILL SO BUS BUSY IN COUNCIL WITH SO MANY THINGS GOING ON, BUT YOU DO HAVE AN ABILITY TO SHORT OF SHAKE US OUT OF OUR RUT. AND I SEE COUNCILMEMBER NODDING HIS HEAD. EVERY TIME YOU SPOKE AT PA, ALLOWED ME TO REFLECT IN A CITY IN A WAY THAT MOST PEOPLE ARE NOT ABLE TO DO THAT WITH ME. YOU'RE DOING WITH TODAY. I THAT'S A TALENT THAT IS RARE AND I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT TODAY. IT'S A MOMENT TO REFLECT WHAT WE'RE ACTUALLY DOING IN THE CITY AND TRYING TO CREATE THE NORTH STAR AGAIN. I'M GOING TO MISS THAT ABOUT YOU. IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU'VE RETIRED A COUPLE OF TIMES FROM HERE, SO MAYBE THIS WILL NOT BE THE LAST TIME. AGAIN, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR EVERYTHING YOU'VE DONE FOR FOLKS AND WHAT YOU CONTRIBUTE TO THE CITY. I'M SURE WE'LL CROSS PATHS AGAIN, THANK YOU RICK. >> >> Council President: THANK YOU VERY MUCH. MR. SOTO-MARTINEZ. COUNCILMEMBER YAROSLAVSKY. >> K. Yaroslavsky: THANK YOU, I'LL BE QUICK. I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR YEARS OF MENTORSHIP AND FRIENDSHIP. THE COMPASSION AND INTELLIGENCE AND INCISIVE UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT AILS US, CONSISTENTLY, FOR AS LONG AS I'VE KNOWN HERE, SINCE I'VES A CHORAL FELLOW, LONGER THAN I WOULD LIKE TO ADMIT, THAT'S WILL NOT HUMBLE AND INFORMATIVE AND YOU'VE ALWAYS, YOU'VE ALWAYS BEEN AVAILABLE TO BE OF SERVICE. YOU ARE A TRUE PUBLIC SERVANT. SOY WANT TO THANK YOU FOR A LONG CAREER OF GIVING A DAM, IT'S INSPIRING TO ME AND TO MY TEAM. SO THANK YOU. >> Council President: THANK YOU SO MUCH, MEMBERS, THANK YOU MR. McOSKER, THANK YOU MR. COLE. I JUST WANT TO ADD TO EVERYTHING THAT THE MEMBERS HAVE SAID. TREMENDOUS GRATITUDE ON BEHALF OF THE PEOPLE NOT JUST OF LOS ANGELES BUT CALIFORNIA. YOU HAVE A SPECIAL TALENT AND COMMITMENT ABOUT HOW TO MAKE THE GOVERNMENT WORK. AND AS YOU POINTED OUT, EVEN WHEN IT'S INTENTIONALLY SET UP TO NOT WORK. YOU ALWAYS STAND OUT TO ME BECAUSE OF DOZENS AND DOZENS AND DOZENS OF PEOPLE THAT WE ENCOUNTER WHEN WE TRY TO GET THINGS DONE ON BEHALF OF OUR DISTRICT, ABOUT 85 PERCENT OF THEM START OFF WITH WHY YOU CAN'T DO WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO GET DONE. AND THEN, 50 OF THOSE FOLLOW-UP WITH A IS EBBEDING REASON THAT YOU CAN'T DO WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE. AND YOU ALWAYS START, WITH THIS IS HOW YOU GET TO YOUR GOAL. THAT IS DEEPLY APPRECIATED AND FELT IN THE COMMUNITIES EVEN FROM PEOPLE WHO WILL NEVER KNOW YOUR NAME OR SEE YOUR FACE, THEY SEE THE MATERIAL CHANGES THAT YOU HELPED GET MADE. YOU CAN MAKE A LOT OF MONEY DOING ON BEHALF OF LOTS OF PROFITEERING AND PAYING INTEREST, THEY PAY LOTS OF MONEY TO DO THAT. YOU CAN DO THAT TO FATTEN YOUR POCKETS AND BUILD YOUR GENERATIONAL WEALTH BUT YOU DECIDED TO DO IT. AND FOR THAT, WE'RE ETERNALLY GRATEFUL. COUNCILMEMBER McOSKER. >> T. McOsker: WE HAVE ONE MORE NUGGET OF COLE. >> Speaker: I COULD NOT LEAVE WITHOUT INTRODUCING SOMEBODY ELSE, A BIG PART AT THE ZOO, MY SISTER, LISA MILL. I WAS INSPIRED TO COME BACK TO CITY HALL BY KENNETH MEJIA AND THE NEXT GENERATION INSPIRE ME. TO ALL THE STAFFERS AROUND THIS DAIS, IT'S AN INCREDIBLE PRIVILEGE TO WORK IN THIS BUILDING AND YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE YOUR PATHS WILL LEAD YOU. BUT, IT IS BEEN AN INCREDIBLY GRATIFYING CAREER FOR ME TO BE IN PUBLIC SERVICE AND I WISH YOU THE VERY BEST. >> T. McOsker: THANK YOU. AND ON BEHALF OF ALL OF US, RICK, WE HAVE THIS BEAUTIFUL CERTIFICATE TO YOU WITH ALL THE MANY LOVELY THINGS YOU'VE DONE FOR US AND PLEASE COME FORWARD SO WE CAN GET A PICTURE. >> Council President: THANK YOU, THANK YOU MEMBERS, THANK YOU MR. PRESIDENT. THANK YOU. THE INDEMABLE RICK COLE. AND AS WE'RE CLOSING THIS PRESENTATION AND BEFORE WE GO TO PUBLIC COMMENT, MEMBERS WE STARTED YESTERDAY, GIVING SHORT BINET ABOUT THE IMPACT OF OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND THE STREETS THE DAILY TACKLINGS AND KIDNAPPING AND MAULING THAT'S WE SEE IN OUR STREETS. IN THE NAME OF IMMIGRATION REFORM AND ENFORCEMENT, AND SO TODAY, WE'LL HEAR FROM THE 14th COUNCIL DISTRICT, COUNCILMEMBER YSABEL JURADO. >> THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT. COLLEAGUES, I RISE TODAY CARING THE SORROW OF OUR COMMUNITY AND THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT OUR CITY WHOLE. ON JUNE 6th, 14 GARMENT WORKERS FATHERS SONS UNCLES BROTHERS WERE FORCABLY DETAINED BY ICE DURING THEIR WORKPLACE. THESE MEN ARE BELOVED MEMBERS OF THEIR COMMUNITIES AND VITAL THREADS IN THE FABRIC OF LOS ANGELES. THEY ARE PART ON THE INDUSTRY BUILT ON LABOR OF IMMIGRANTS AND TOO OFTEN REPAID WITH WAGE THEFT AND UNSAFE CONDITIONS AND RETALIATION. THEIR NAMES ARE TOMAS, JUAN, JOSE PAULNO, MIGUEL, JACOB, OSCAR URIEL FILIMON REYNALDO, LIEU LUIS, JORGE. THAT DAY THESE MEN WERE TAKEN WITHOUT SOMEPLACING AND THEIR FAMILIES WERE LEFT WITHOUT ANSWERS. BUT THE COMMUNITY DID NOT STAY SILENT, ADVOCATE STOOD OUTSIDE OF THE WAREHOUSE, REFUSE TO GO LEAVE AND SHOWING THE KIND OF SOLIDARITY THAT KEEPS OUR COMMUNITY WHOLE. AMONG NEM WAS DAVID HUERTA A CHAMPION FOR WORKING PEOPLE WHO HAS SPENT HIS LIFE DEFENDING OTHERS. TODAY I'M GLAD TO WELCOME THE FAMILY MEMBER OF ONE OF THE MEN WHO BRINGS WITH HIM NOT ONLY GRIEF BUT RESILIENCE, THEIR PRESENCE IS MORE THAN PERSONAL IT'S AN ACT OF COURAGE OF TRUTH AND RESISTANCE. AND I ASK THAT WE LISTEN WITH OPEN HEARTS, PLEASE WELCOME URIEL WHO WILL NOW SHARE HER STORY. >> Speaker: HELLO MY NAME IS URIEN DAUGHTER OF MARIO WHO WAS KIDNAPPED BY ICE. I'M HERE ON BEHALF OF MY FATHER WHO WERE KIDNAPPED BY ICE. MY SIBLING RAGE FROMING 4 MONTHS TO 20 YEARS AND I NEED OUR FATHER, ESPECIALLY MY FOUR-YEAR OLD BROTHER WHO HAS A DISABILITY AND ASKED US FOR THINKS DAD. WATCHING MY FATHER TAKEN AWAY AND SHANED BY HANDS AND FEET AND WAIST UNABLE UNABLE TO DO ANYTHING. IT WAS THE UNHUMANE CONDITIONS. AFTER THE FATHER MY WAS DETAINED, WE COULDN'T LOCATE MY FATHER FOR A WEEK. WE WERE WORRIED THAT WE COULD NOT FIND OUR FATHER AND WHEN WE WERE ABLE TO FIND HIM, WE FOUND HIM IN THE WORSE CONDITIONS. MY FATHER WAS IN THE SAME CLOTHES FROM WHEN I LAST SAW HIM. HE WAS GIVEN NO MEDICINE AND LITTLE TO NO FOOD. AS WE SPEAK TO YOU RIGHT NOW, MY FATHER IS CAGED WITH OVER 80 PEOPLE AND I DIDN'T, AND I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF HE HAS EATEN TODAY. THE CONDITIONS ARE HORRIBLE AND MY FATHER CANNOT ACCESS LEGAL COUNSEL EVEN THERE ARE LAWYERS READY TO SUPPORT MY FATHER. I WAS LUCKY TO FAOUND MY FATHER BUT OTHERS MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY CANNOT FIND THEM. MY DAUGHTER TURNED TWO YEARS OLD ON MONDAY, AND I COULDN'T HELP BUT FEEL DEEP SADNESS AND ANGER BECAUSE OF THE HORRIBLE CONDITIONS. MY DAD IS A FATHER, A GRANDFATHER AND CONTRIBUTING MEMBER OF THIS. OUR COMMUNITIES DO NOT DESERVE TO BE PROFILED. I CALL ON ALL OFFICIAL FROM L.A. MAYOR BASS AND STATE WIDE TO STEP UP TO CONTINUE TO DEFENDING L.A. STATUS AS SANCTUARY CITY, IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT BY LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. [APPLAUSE] >> Y. Jurado: THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT. >> Council President: THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER JURADO AND THANK YOU FOR THE COURAGE TO STAND UP AND TELL YOUR STORY TO US AND TO EVERY ONE WATCHING. WITH THAT, MADAM CLERK, MR. CITY ATTORNEY IF YOU CAN PREPARE US FOR PUBLIC COMMENT. >> City Attorney: TO PEOPLE PROVIDING PUBLIC COMMENT WHEN IT'S YOUR TURN TO SPEAK, PLEASE STATE WHICH OF THE AGENDA ITEMS YOU WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK TO. YOU'LL HAVE ONE MINUTE FOR ITEM AND UP TOO THREE MINUTES TOTAL FOR THE ITEMS OPEN FOR PUBLIC COMMENT. WE'LL TELL YOU WHEN YOUR TIME IS UP. WHEN SPEAKING ON AGENDA ITEMS, YOU MUST BE ON TOPIC. OUR GOAL IS TO GET THROUGH AS MANY SPEAKERS AS WE CAN. FUR NOT ON TOPIC OR IF WE CANNOT TELL WHETHER YOU'RE ON TOPIC, YOU'LL GET ONE BRIEF WARNING FROM ME OR THE COUNCIL PRESIDENT. AT THAT POINT, YOU NEED TO GET CLEARLY ON TOPIC. IF YOU DON'T DO SO AND STRAY OFF TOPIC, YOU WILL FORFEIT YOUR SPEAKING TIME AND WE WILL MOVE ON TO THE NEXT SPEAKER. THE ITEMS OPEN FOR PUBLIC COMMENT ARE 1 THROUGH 3 WHICH ARE BUSINESS IMPROVE ITEMS. 30 THROUGH 33 AND 35 THROUGH 46. SO AGAIN, THE ITEMS OPEN FOR PUBLIC COMMENT ON THE AGENDA, ARE ITEMS 1 THROUGH 3, ITEMS 30 THROUGH 33 AND ITEMS 35 THROUGH 46. ITEM NUMBER 34 HAS BEEN CONTINUED. MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC MAY ALSO SPEAK FOR UP TO ONE MINUTE FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. DURING GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT, MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC MAY SPEAK TO ANY OF THE ITEMS OR ANYTHING ELSE IN THE CITY'S SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION. YOU HAVE A COUPLE MORE ANNOUNCEMENTS IF I CAN HAVE THE INTERPRETER MAKE THIS ONE ALLOWED 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: 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. >> Translator: [SPEAKING SPANISH] GRACIAS. >> City Attorney: ONE FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT IN ORDER TO HELP US RUN AN EFFICIENT PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD, I WOULD ASK THAT YOU PLEASE WAIT UNTIL YOU HEAR THE NAME THAT YOU SIGNED UP UNDER CALLED ALOUD BEFORE SIGNING UP. THE LIST IS RANDOMLY GENERATED BASED ON THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE SIGNED UP. SO AGAIN, ONCE YOU HEAR THE NAME, YOU CAN LINE UP ON YOUR LEFT HAND SIDE OF THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS IN ANY ORDER. THANK YOU. >> Clerk: I'LL BEGIN CALLING NAMES, JASON REEDY, SCIENTOLOGY AND KAREN SONG. >> City Attorney: GOOD MORNING, YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES FOR THE ITEMS AND ONE MINUTE FOR GENERAL. >> Speaker: THANK YOU, LET'S START WITH ITEM NUMBER 1. [SINGING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE] MOVE ON TO ITEM NUMBER 2. [SINGING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE] LET'S MOVE ON TO ITEM NUMBER 3. [SINGING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE] >> City Attorney: GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. >> Speaker: THANK YOU. I'M HERE, I WANT TO SPEAK TO OUR COMMUNITY LEADER MR. HERMAN AND OUR COMMUNITY LEADER LAW ATTORNEY, MR. SPINDLER. I WANT TO HAVE A CHANCE TO STAY IN CITY OF L.A. AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT CITY ATTORNEY, CAN YOU PLEASE DO NOT DEPORT ME. I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR COUNCILMEMBER PRESIDENT HARRIS-DAWSON, CAN YOU PLEASE DO NOT DEPORT ME BECAUSE OUR COUNCIL PRESIDENT, MADE IT CLEAR, HE'S GOING TO PROTECT EVERY BLACK IMMIGRANT, BUT HOWEVER I'M CAUCASIAN, CAN YOU PLEASE PROTECT EVERY SINGLE LAW ABIDING CAUCASIAN IMMIGRANT, WE DESERVE TO LIVE IN THE CITY, HAVE FREE FOOD, HOUSING, FREE PROSTITUTE AND FREE FIGUEROA SERVICES, SO PLEASE DO NOT DEPORT ME, I WANT TO STAY SMOKING SCAN, I WANT TO STAY ALLOW ME A CHANCE TO STAY. SMOKING SCAN, PLEASE. >> City Attorney: SPEAKER YOUR TIME IS EXPIRED. >> Clerk: BEFORE THE NEXT SPEAKER, I WOULD LIKE TO CALL A FEW MORE NAMES. BIKE CHAN, AND--ZHEN. >> City Attorney: GOOD MORNING, WHICH ITEMS WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO? >> Speaker: ALL ITEMS AND GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. >> City Attorney: OKAY, YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES FOR THE ITEMS I'M GOING TO ASK YOU THAT YOU BEGIN WITH THEM, AND THEN GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. >> Speaker: WE HAVE A COUPLE OF MOTION THAT WE HAVE NOT METAPHOR A QUARTER HOW ARE YOU VOTE FOR A MOTION WHERE YOUR BID HAS NOT METAPHOR PEOPLE TO FILE THEIR GRIEVANCES, HOW CAN YOU TAKE A VOTE WHEN YOU HAVE NOT CONTACTED THE NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL FOR WHICH THESE BIDS ARE AND STILL ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THEY HAVE NOT MET AND YOU'RE TRYING TO VOTE ON A MOTION THAT THEY'RE TRYING TO MAKE A BID. HOW IS IT THAT YOU HAVE BIDS LIKE HOLLYWOOD BID THAT LITERALLY DO NOT MEET FOR OVER A QUARTER AND AT THE SAME TIME, AT THE SAME TIME, YOU'RE STILL ALLOWING THEM TO GO AND HAVE MOTIONS HERE BEFORE THE COUNCIL. HOW IS IT THAT A BID CAN STILL HAVE A MOTION THAT YOU'RE AGREEING TO WHEN THEY HAVE NOT MET TO TAKE PUBLIC COMMENT WHICH IS THE WHOLE POINT OF THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL AS WELL. WE'RE GOING TO TALK NEXT ABOUT SOME OF THE HOUSING ITEMS ON THE AGENDA TODAY. IF YOU HAVE NOT HEARD, THERE IS AN ORDER MADE ON THE RECEIVERSHIP, AND GUESS WHAT CARTER SAID. CARTER SAID, SCREW YOUR RECEIVERSHIP, YOU'RE GOING TO REPORT TO COURT. I TRUST NONE OF YOU CORRUPT ASSHOLES AND FOR THAT, THE PEOPLE ARE NOW SEEING EXACTLY WHICH OF YOU GUYS HAVE NONPROFIT, INVOLVEMENT, WHICH ARE LEGITIMATE OR NOT AND HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE IN ANY OF THESE OR NOT. HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE CONSTITUTED AS A UNIT, HOW MANY BEDS AND WHAT IS THE DEFINITION OF A BED? THAT'S WHAT JUDGE CARTER SAID. >> City Attorney: SO THAT DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE RELATED TO ANY ITEMS OPEN. PLEASE STICK TO THE ITEM. >> Speaker: ITEM 36 IS YET ANOTHER ITEM THAT WAS ON THE JUDGE O CARTER CASE FOR HOMELESS FRAUD IN THE CITY OF L.A. YOU KNOW WHAT CARTER SAID, FUCK THE CITY COUNCIL AND FUCK LOS ANGELES. >> City Attorney: THIS IS THE FINAL WARNING, ITEM NUMBER 3 IS A REAP ITEM. STICK TO THE ITEMS FOR THE NEXT 43 SECONDS. >> Speaker: THAT'S FINE, CAN YOU GIVE ME BACK THE 12 SECONDS, ALL RIGHT, I'LL TAKE THAT AS A PRIOR RESTRAINING ON MY PUBLIC COMMENT HERE TODAY. AND I'M ON YOUR ASS CITY ATTORNEY ABOUT THE COMPLAINTS, AND YOU KNOW I'M GOING TO COME FORWARD. >> City Attorney: YOU'VE BEEN WARNED THREE TIMES NOW, YOU HAVE ONE MONEY FOR GENERAL. GO AHEAD. >> Speaker: AGAIN, WHY ARE WE HERE TODAY? BECAUSE MARQUEECE IS ARGUING WHAT CRITERIA IS CONSTITUTED AS THE SEXIEST. STAFFERS ARE ANNOYED THAT MARQUEECY IS GETTING WITH THESE ARGUMENTS. HOW DO I KNOW THIS? YOUR STAFFERS TELL ME. HOW ABOUT YOU STOF ARGUING WITH YOUR STAFFERS AND INSTEAD DO YOUR JOB. LIKE NOT RESTRICT MY PUBLIC COMMENT WHEN I'M TRYING TO TALK TO MAYOR BASS OVER A SECRET MEETING THAT YOU DON'T ALLOW PEOPLE GET INTO UNLESS THEY KNOW WHAT IS IN THAT HALLWAY. HOW ABOUT YOU DO THAT MARQUEECE, HOW ABOUT INSTEAD OF ARGUING WITH YOUR STAFFERS, LIKE WHAT MAKES THE SEXIEST MAN ALIVE, YOU STOP EXPLAIN TO GO YOUR STAFFERS AND YOU DO THAT, MARQUEECY? HOW IS THAT FOR WHICH OF YOU HAVE SNITCHES ON THE INSIDE. AND FOR THAT, I'M GOING TO BE REPORTING ON THE JUDGE O CARTER CASE. AND HUGO STILL CAN'T LOOK AT ME IN THE EYES, FUCK YOU HUGO. >> Clerk: HAGGIS AND ERIC R. >> Speaker: HELLO. >> City Attorney: YES, WE CAN HEAR YOU. GOOD MORNING, WHICH ITEMS WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO >> City Attorney: >> Speaker: I THINK 2 AND 44 AND 45 EXAMINE PUBLIC COMMENT. >> City Attorney: SO YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES FOR THE ITEMS AND 1 AND 2 WITH THE BID ITEMS. >> Speaker: 1 AND 2 DEALS WITH STREETS AND I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT WHEN IT COMES TO WORKING WITH DEALING WITH STREETS, PEOPLE CANNOT BE EARNING WAGES. AND I DON'T THINK YOU DO ENOUGH TO REALLY MAKE SURE THAT THERE IS ANY KIND OF LABOR TRAFFICKING WHEN IT COMES TO DEALING WITH STREETS BECAUSE I SEE ALL THE TIME ON EL RON HUBBARD WAY, AND THIS IS A COMPARISON THAT I SEE PEOPLE THAT ARE GETTING SLEIGH WAGES WORKING ON A PUBLIC COMMENT. I DON'T KNOW HOW THAT IS ALLOWED, I KEEP HEARING THAT THERE IS AN MOU, AND ANOTHER THING THAT THEY'RE INVOLVED WITH BECAUSE THE BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DIT, THEY SHOULD, THERE SHOULD BE A RULE THAT THEY HAVE TO BE IN GOOD STANDING. IF YOU'RE ON BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT. IF YOU HAVE A SEAT, YOU SHOULD HAVE NOT HAVE CASES THAT VOLVE CHILD BRIDES OR RICO CIVILIAN, I WOULD THINK BECAUSE NOW THE EAST HOLLYWOOD BID, THEY HAVE A SCIENTOLOGIST AS A SEAT ON THAT BID, AND THEY ARE IN COURT RIGHT NOW, ON A CHILD BRIBE CASE, IMAGINE A CHILD BRIDE, YOU KNOW, NOT VOLUNTEERING BUT YOU KNOW, WHATEVER, AND THEN A CIVILIAN RICO CASE. WHY ARE THEY ON A BID? ARE YOU GUYS MONITORING WHO SEATS ON THESE BIDS? AND IF THEY'RE IN GOOD STANDING? LIKE WE WOULDN'T WANT, YOU KNOW, CRIMINALS OR ANYONE WHO YOU KNOW, DOES BAD THINGS ON OUR BIDS, WE NEED TO FEEL SAFE. SO ANYONE THAT WOULD HAVE RICO CASES AGAINST THEM, I DON'T FEEL SAFE HAVING THEM ON MY BID. NOW FOR THE OTHER ONES, 45-44 WITH THE SCENE YOZER, I SEE THAT YOU TRY TO DO HEALTHCARE FOR THE SENIORS BUT YOU DID YOU KNOW THAT SENIORS ARE TRAPPED WITH CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY, THEY DON'T A LAW PEOPLE TO DIE IN THERE, THEY HAVE LIKE A HOSPICE A FEW BLOCKS AWAY WHICH IS A VERY SAD PLACE. AFTER THE LISA McPHERSON, THEY DECIDED THAT NOBODY IS GOING TO DIE AT A FLAGSHIP AND THAT'S THE BIG BLUE BUILDINGS. THEY HAVE TO BE PUT ELSEWHERE TO DIE. BUT THEY DON'T BELIEVE IN MEDICATION OR ANYTHING PROPER, I HOPE THAT WHATEVER YOU'RE DOING WITH 44 AND 45, THAT WOULD YOU MAKE SURE THAT THESE SENIORS ARE COVERED BECAUSE NOBODY SHOULD HAVE ANY, AFTER THEY GAVE THEIR LIVES TO THIS ORGANIZATION, SOME WOULD CALL A CULT, I WOULD BUT I'LL BE NICE. THEY SHOULD BE CARED FOR. >> City Attorney: THANK YOU FOR GETTING BACK ON THE ITEMS. YOU NOW HAVE A MINUTE FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. >> Speaker: THANK YOU. I WOULD LIKE TO SHOUT OUT TO SMOKING SCAN. SMOKING SCAN AND I ARE SCARED ABOUT THIS RANDOMIZING, AND MR. CITY ATTORNEY, YOU AND I SPOKE ABOUT FOR A LITTLE IN THE HALLWAY YESTERDAY. IF IT DOES EXIST IT'S CAL IBRATED IT. WE TESTED IT, I PROBABLY NEED MORE COFFEE, AND WE PUT IN 50 DIFFERENT NAMES, JUST TO TEST, WHENEVER THE UNIONS ARE HERE, NONE OF THE SKY FLIES ARE CALLED. AND I'M CALLING THEM SKY FLIES OUT OF AFFECTTION, OVER 50 NAMES WERE PUT IN AND NONE OF THEM WERE CALLED. THAT'S CONCERNING, I'M GOING TO BE FILING A COMPLAINT, WE'RE ON THE PROWL, WE'RE INVESTIGATING THIS, THIS IS TEAM SKOEKING SCAN AND I WE WANT THAT RANDOMIZING FIXED. >> City Attorney: SPEAKER YOUR TIME IS EXPIRED. JUST AN ANNOUNCER, PLEASE DON'T PUT MULTIPLE NAMES IN THERE. IT WILL DECREASE THE CHANCE THAT'S FEEL WHO FOLLOW THED RULES AND ONLY ENTER ONE NAME TO SPEAK. IT'S TO GIVE EVERYBODY THE EQUAL OPPORTUNITY TO BE SELECTED. >> Council President: MR. SPINDLER AND THIS MAN IN THE SHREK SHIRT, YOU MAY DISRUPT THE GREAT WORDS THAT HERMAN HAS TO SAY. >> Speaker: BEACH, RIGHT MS. AUGUSTINE. IT'S AMAZING THAT WE HAVE ALLEGED VIOLATIONS AGAINST VETERANS WHO USE THEIR MOTOR HOMES AND TRAINERS ATTACHED. YOU ARE SO DISGRACEMENT. THAT'S NUMBER 47, JACKASS. ARE YOU LOOKING GOOD? THEN DICK HEAD ON ITEM NUMBER 1, L.A.-->> City Attorney: 47 IS NOT OPEN FOR PUBLIC COMMENT. YOU'RE OFF TOPIC. YOU HEAD 47 EARLIER, PLEASE STICK TO THE AGENDA ITEMS OR I'M GOING TO MOVE YOU TO PUBLIC COMMENT. >> Speaker: I'M ON L.A. BBB-IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT, FUCK YOU ON ITEM NUMBER 11. ITEM NUMBER 2, ANOTHER IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT IN CD10, FUCK YOU AND HUTT TOO AND HERB WESSON. LOOK AT NUMBER 3, DICK FACE WITH THE PIM LZ ON YOUR FACE, DOG EATER, THE CLOSE OF A HEARING AND WILL BE PUBLICLY LIVE STREAMS. WHAT IS LIVE STREAMS DICK HEAD, MY VOICE IS LIVE STREAMS, DICK HEAD. LET'S GO TO THE HOUSING, DICK FACE, LET'S TAKE IN ONE. ITEM NUMBER 30, DICK FACE, FUCKEN COMMUNICATION FROM THE FUCKEN BASTARD OF LOS ANGELES HOUSING DEPARTMENT, THANK YOU FOR THE RESOLUTION, DAVID O CARTER YES! WE WILL MONITOR L.A., WE WILL MONITOR HOUSING. >> SO THAT WAS EXPLAINED TO THE PREVIOUS SPEAKER, THESE ARE REAP ITEMS, IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE L.A. ALLIANCE CASE AND JUDGE CARTER. >> LOOK AT HERE, DICK FACE ANOTHER MOTION BY THE RACIST SOTO-MARTINEZ AND NOODLE NOODLE NOODLE NOODLE, OH YEAH, RELATIVE A &ING FOR FUCKEN CONSUL ACTION, JUNE 10, 2025, CF, FOR CUNT FUCKERS. 2588, DISTRICT CD13, SUBING A BIG ONE LIKE THE ONE IN MY FLIER I HAD EARLIER. BUT LET'S GO ON, RECOMMENDATION COUNSEL BITCH MAYOR APPROVAL WHEN WE'RE IN A BUDGET CRISIS. BUT TO AMEND THIS SHIT, SMOKING SCAN , YOU GOT IT. WHAT DOES THE NIGGER KNOW? YES, I'LL TELL YOU TO TRANSFER, THE 238, THE APPROPRIATION TO WHITE NIGGER PORTION PROJECT, ITEM GENERAL CITY PURPOSE, FUCK YOU. NOW TO MY GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. >> City Attorney: GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. >> Speaker: U.S. 395, U.S. 395, 44 19 69, A DIRTY NIGGER L.A. L.A. IS THE RACIST DIRTY NIGGER COUNCIL OF 13 DIRTY NIGGERS AND TWO SPECIFIC DIRTY NIGGERS WHO BROUGHT EMOTIONAL HARM AND STRESS TO VETERANS, THANK YOU COKLE DOODLE DOO BOB BLUMENFIELD, AND PINCHE MEXICANA, NOODLE NOODLE. WHERE IS MS. HUTT, I WANT TO TALK ABOUT HIS MS. HUTT, I WANT TO TALK ABOUT AUGUSTINA RELATIONSHIP WITH MR. PRICE AND HIS SECOND WIFE AND YOU DAWSON, YOU GOT A LITTLE CLICK. I CAN'T WAIT UNTIL THE FBI ROLL UP ON YOUR PLACE NIGGER, DOJ ARRESTED THAT MOTHER FUCKER, EDWARD CHEN, FUCK YOU. >> City Attorney: AND YOUR TIME IS EXPIRED, IF WE HEAR YOU AGAIN, YOU'LL BE SUBJECT TO RULE 12 AND 7. SPEAKER BEFORE YOU BEGIN, FOR ANYONE WHO TUNING IN FOR THE FIRST TIME, I APOLOGIZE FOR THE WORDS YOU JUST HEARD AND YOU WORDS YOU MAY HEAR MOVING FORWARD. THEY DO NOT REFLECT THE VIEW OF THIS CITY AND BODY AND ANYONE AROUND THIS HORSESHOE. WE APPRECIATE YOUR PATIENCE, THE GOALS I CAN ONLY IMAGINE IS TO, AN ITING --ANTAGONIZE NOT ONLY US BUT THE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC. THE QUICKEST WAY IS TO LET IT PLAY OUT. WE APPRECIATE ALL YOUR PATIENCE REMOTELY AND THE PEOPLE IN THE ROOM. GOOD MORNING, WHICH ITEMS WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO? >> Speaker: GENERAL. >> City Attorney: YOU HAVE A MINUTE. >> Speaker: LOS ANGELES IS A SAFE PLACE, YESTERDAY I WAS PICKPOCKET AND I HAD MY PHONE THIS WAY, BECAUSE I DIDN'T WANT TO DIVE TOO FAR. AND I WAS SITTING IN A BIKE AND A GUY COMES UP TO ME, A BLACK, SKINNY 160 WITH A UNION PURPLE SHIRT, I NEED SOME MONEY VERY AGGRESSIVE. AND I SAID I'M BROKE, I HAD TO GO ON PURSUIT, I GOT PHONE AND WALLET BACK, BUT HE TOOK SOME MONEY. WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT THIS, THE OLYMPIC RIGHT SIDE COMING AND WE'RE GOING TO GET A LOT OF PEOPLE RIPPED OFF. IT'S L.A. CITY AND SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE TO STOP THE BS. I'M HOPING WE CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. AND THEN SECOND ISSUE, I'M GLAD THE HOTEL AND UNIVERSAL IS NOT COMING UP. HAVE A GOOD DAY, KMA. >> Clerk: BEFORE THE NEXT SPEAKER, I WOULD LIKE TO CALL A FEW MORE NAMES, DONALD HARLAND, DONNIE JONES, ZIBA AND GROAT. >> City Attorney: BEFORE YOU BEGIN, SO IF YOU HAVE ADDITIONAL COMMENTS AND YOU RUN OUT OF TIME OR IF WE RUN OUT OF TIME AND YOU'RE NOT ABLE TO COME TO THE PODIUM CAN SPEAK, PLEASE REMEMBER YOU CAN ALL THES PROVIDE ADDITIONAL PUBLIC COMMENT. THAT'S L.A. COUNCIL COMMENT DOT-COM. >> Speaker: GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT PLEASE. >> City Attorney: YOU HAVE A MINUTE. >> Speaker: INCOMPETENT MAYOR BASS, STOP GLORIFYING IMMIGRANT CRIMINALS. STOP VILLE FIEG OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS. MAYOR BASS, EVERY TIME YOU OPEN YOUR MOUTH ON TV, YOU BRING SHAME TO THE CITY AND SHOWCASE YOUR COLLECTIVE INCOMPETENCE, WE ALL WATCH YOU CALL YOUR SPONSOR TERRORISTS, PEACEFUL TERRORISTS WHILE THEY DESTROYED THE CITY FOR SEVEN DAYS. MAYOR BASS, YOU'RE DEMONIZATION OF ICE OFFICERS, MUST STOP BEFORE IT RESULTS IN DEATH. YOU SAY KIDNAPPING, YOU REFUSE TO TURNOVER. DEPORTATION ORDERS ARE ISSUED BY FEDERAL JUDGES, NOT BY ICE OFFICERS. THAT WAS THE LAW UNDER PRESIDENT OBAMA, BIDEN AND OUR MAGANOUS, PRESIDENT TRUMP. >> City Attorney: SPEAKER, YOUR TIME IS EXPIRED, NEXT SPEAKER. >> Speaker: I SIGNED UP AS ERIC R, I'LL SPEAK TO ALL ITEMS AND GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. >> City Attorney: OKAY, GOOD MORNING, YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES FOR THE ITEMS AND ONE MINUTE FOR GENERAL. GO AHEAD. >> Speaker: ALL RIGHT, SO WE'RE GOING TO START OFF WITH, ITEM NUMBER 37, I THINK IT IS. WE HAVE A FEW ITEMS FROM STAFFER B. IT LOOKS LIKE THAT IS. THEY SHOULD TAKE MORE MONEY FROM THE LAPD. WE HAVE ITEM 40 WHICH IS LIGHTING UP CITY HALL IN RECOGNITION, I GUESS THE VICTIMS OF THE NIGHT TIME FIRE, THIS IS FROM JUNE 10th, I GUESS, YOU'RE DOING THIS 15 DAYS LATE, AFTER IT ALREADY HAPPENED. SO WHAT IS THIS CITY GOING TO DO OTHERWISE TO HELP THE PEOPLE OF NORTH VASDONIA? THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION, JUST LIGHT UP CITY HALL TO MAKE IT LOOK LIKE. I DON'T KNOW. WE HAVE ITEM 41 FOR VARIOUS COMMUNITY PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS AND VALLEY VILLAGE IN CD2. HOPEFULLY THESE ARE GOOD STUFF. WE HAVE ITEM 42, FUNDING FOR SERVICES IN CONNECTION WITH L.A. PRIDE. SOY GUESS, IT'S GOOD THAT YOU'RE DOING THAT. OF COURSE, YOU KNOW AS ALWAYS THE LAPD CONTINUES BRUTALIZING MEMBERS OF THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY AND YOU DO NOTHING ABOUT IT. WE HAVE ITEM, LET'S SEE, SO, WE HAVE LET'S GO TO GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. >> City Attorney: OKAY, YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE GO AHEAD. >> Speaker: OKAY, UNISSES, TURNING YOUR BACK TO ME RIGHT NOW, WHY WAS YOUR CHIEF OF STAFF CALLING PROTESTERS AT AN ICE RAID COPS LAST WEEK? IT SOUNDS LIKE THAT WAS HAPPENING? YOUR CHIEF OF STAFF WAS ACCUSING PROTESTERS IN A ICE RAID AS BEING COPS. THESE PROTESTING THESE VIOLENT KIDNAPPING BY MASKED, THESE VIOLENT EXTREMIST, ICE AGENTS IN PLAINCLOTHES AND SKI MASKS, MONEY OF YOU DO ANYTHING, NONE OF YOU REALLY DO ANYTHING. YOU DO THESE LITTLE RECOGNITION OF IMPACTS IT'S CAUSING BUT MEANWHILE THE LAPD IS CONTINUING TO ASSIST ICE, THEY JUST DID YESTERDAY. NOT TOO FAR FROM HERE, IN DOWN FOUN. ASSISTING ICE AGAIN, BRUTALIZING PROTESTERS. AND YOU DO NOTHINGABOUT IT, DO ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT IT. CANCEL YOUR RECESS. >> City Attorney: NEXT SPEAKER? GOOD MORNING, WHICH ITEMS WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO? >> Speaker: I WILL SPEAK TO THE PUBLIC AT THIS CLOWN SHOW ON OF INCOMPETENCE ON ALL ITEMS AND GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. >> City Attorney: YOU HAVE A THREE MINUTES FOR THE ITEMS AND ONE FOR GENERAL. >> Speaker: ITEM 1, 2 AND 3, IN MY OPINION THE FUNDING SHOULD COME FROM THE MULTI BILLION DOLLARS BUDGET AND NOT THE PEOPLE. IS ANYBODY OUT THERE STUPID BELIEVE THAT TRACI PARK AND HUTT, OUT ON PRICE OR DIM WIT RAMAN WHO HAS DOING NOTHING BUT PURCHASE NEW OUTFITS KNOWS HOW TO INCREASE BUSINESS COMMERCE IN THESE AREAS. IN MY OPINION INCREASING TRUE COMMERCE IS CRITICAL TO THE CITY'S JOB CREATION HOWEVER TAXING THESE BUSINESS THROUGH ORDINANCES OF BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT IS WORTHLESS BECAUSE DENOMIC TRACI PARK, AND INDICTED PRICE AND KNIT WIT RAMAN, THE MONEY WILL GO INTO THE GENERAL FUND BY GIVING IT TO THE LAPD OR THEMSELVES, EMBEZZLING CURREN PRICE AND SLEAZY MARQUEECY, DAWSON. REMOVAL OF PROPERTY FROM REAP ACCOUNT. IN MY OPINION, THE REAP ACCOUNTS SHOULD BE RETURNED TO THE PROPERTY OWNERS AND FUNDED BY THE ONE BILLION DOLLARS THESE SELF-SERVING CORRUPT IDIOT TIM McOSKER GAVE THE POLICE DEPARTMENT LAST YAE, BANKRUPTING THE CITY INTO A ONE BILLION DOLLARS DEFICIT. IN MY OPINION ALL REAP FUNDS SOULD BE INVESTIGATED BY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL AS TO WHY SLAES' AND INDICTED PRICE ARE FUNNELING REAP ACCOUNT FUNDS INTO THEIR FAVORITE CONTRACT POCKETS FOR KICKBACKS INTO THEIR OWN POCKETS. 37, 38, 39 IS VIOLATING ASIAN JOHN LEE TO GIVE ANOTHER 250,000 TO LAUPTD FOR OVERTIME. JOHN LEE HAS TO BE THE DUMBEST RACIST ASIAN ON THE PLANET AND IN THESE MOTIONS HE AND HIS CLOWN COUNSEL SUL ARE GOING TO GIVE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS TO LAPD AFTER VOTING FOR THE ONE BILLION DOLLARS INCREASE THAT PUT OUR CITY IN THE CURRENT BILLION DOLLARS DEFICIT EMERGENCY WHERE 650,000 CITY WORKERS ARE PROTECTED TO LOSE THEIR JOBS IN PUBLIC SERVICES, STUPID STUPID. STUPID. ITEM 40 DIM WIT RAMAN AND MARTINEZ, IN THE POST NIGHTCLUB FIRE, THEY ARE HYPOCRITE WHEN THEY DID NOTHING TO PREVENT THE CITY BURNING DOWN AND FIRE DAMAGE. IN MY OPINION, ALL THE ITEMS SHOULD RECEIVE A NO-VOTE, EMBEZZLING PO LIGAMENT CURREN PRICE AND INSANE DAWSON. GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. >> City Attorney: GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. >> Speaker: THIS L.A. COUNCIL IS AN INCOMPETENT ENTERPRISE OF CORRUPT CRIME, HOMELESS EPIDEMIC EMERGENCY WITH 16,000 STRUCTURES AND 6,000 HOMES BURNED EMERGENCY. THE ATTORNEY GENERAL THE FBI AND IRS CURRENTLY IN A MASSIVE INVESTIGATION OF OUR SLEAZY GOVERNMENTS MISS APPROPRIATION OF BILLIONS IN HOMELESS FUNDS. THE GOOD NEWS, DAWSON CAN HIS CREW ARE GOING TO JAIL. KAREN CLASS, HER DEPUTY MAYOR INDICTED FOR MAKING BOMB THREATS AND MARK THE 30-YEAR RIPLEY TOMAS CONVICTED, JOHN LEE INDICTED FOR ETHICS VIOLATIONS. NURY MA AND KEVIN DE LEON AND JOSE HUIZAR 12 YEARS, DAWSON UNDER RESING. COUNCILMAN ENGLANDER. >> City Attorney: NEXT SPEAKER. >> City Attorney: SO MR. SPINDLER, I NEED YOU TO MAKE YOUR WAY. WE NEED TO MOVE ON. SO YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES FOR THE ITEMS AND ONE MINUTE FOR GENERAL. >> Speaker: I'M DISABLED, COME ON. LET'S SEE HERE, WE HAVE TRACI PARK FORMERLY KNOWN AS TRACI BEACH IN THE COURT SYSTEM. LET'S SEE HERE, ARTICLE 13, LET'S SEE HERE, ARTICLE 13, WHAT IS IS IN ARTICLE 13, THAT'S COURT-MARTIAL BUT WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT THAT? >> City Attorney: WHICH ITEM ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? >> Speaker: I'M TALKING ABOUT NUMBER 1, CRAZY FUCKEN NIGGER. NOW GOING TO HAVE A LIVE STREAM FOR BALANCE. LET'S GIVE A TRACI PARK FOR TRANSPARENCY. THIS IS VERY GOOD. THAT'S RIGHT, AND WE'RE GOING TO COUNT THE BALLOTS, I'VE GOT GOOD NEWS, YOU DEFEATED, THE BAD NEWS IS, BECAUSE THEY'RE COUNTING IT, YOU LOSE. THAT'S RIGHT. THEN WE GET NUMBER 2, THE ILLUSTRIOUS HEATHER AUGUSTINE IS DOING ANOTHER ARTICLE 13. WHEN? SITTING THERE CAN HAVE FAMILY OFF THE BACKS OF THE MIDDLE CLASS. WHY? WHILE, WHILE YOU TEXTING PEOPLE WHO ARE PART OVER THEIR SOUTH OF THE 10 FREEWAY, NOBODY GOT NO MONEY THERE. SAY NO AND THEN NUMBER 3, HAMBURGER HERNANDEZ IS ALSO DOING THE SAME CRIME! BUT I GOT GOOD NEWS, I WILL TRADE THIS SANDWICH IF YOU'LL TAKE ITEM 3 OFF THE BALLOT, I WILL GIVE YOU THIS FOOD. COME AND EAT, I GOT YOU FOOD. NOW NO, ALL RIGHT, MUST BE IN A DIET. NOW WE'RE GOING TO GET MORE SHIT. IT DOES NOT MATTER WHAT I SAY, IT DOES NOT MATTER WHAT I DO, I'M JUST ANOTHER FOO. NUMBER CD2 AND NUMBER 30, THAT IS THE ARMENIAN GOAT HUNTER 2.0 AND CONGRATULATIONS ON BEING EMANCIPATED 31. ALSO THE TRACI BEECH GETTING HER LANDLORD EVICTED. GOOD JOB, JUST REMEMBER EVERYBODY IF YOU HAVE YOUR COCKROACHES IN YOUR BATHROOM AND YOUR BOSS IS YOUR LANDLORD, ALL YOU'VE GOT TO DO IS THREE THINGS, PAYOFF THE COUNCILMEMBERS, PAYOFF THE BUILDING INSPECT OR AND DONATE TO THE VARIOUS NONPROFITS ON THE LIST, AVAILABLE ON BOB BLUMENFIELD.NET. AND THEN WE HAVE NUMBER 33, K.K.K. TAI KATY YAROSLAVSKY. >> City Attorney: THAT IS NOT ON THE AGENDA, THIS IS YOUR ONLY WARNING. YOU'RE ON PUBLIC COMMENT. >> Speaker: CAN I HAVE MY PUBLIC COMMENT, ALL RIGHT, NOW TODAY, JUDGE CARTER STABBED ME MT BACK. MY VIETNAM VETERAN BROTHER, STABBED ME IN THE BACK, HE IS LETTING NITHYA NOODLE NOODLE NOODLE KEEP CONTROL OF ALL THAT SLUSH NONPROFIT MONEY, THAT MEANS I'M NOT GOING TO SHUT YOU DOWN. MY BROTHER, YOU HAVE TURNED YOUR BACK ON ME. NOW I'M GOING TO EXPOSE ON FRIDAY SOMETHING I KNOW ABOUT I DIDN'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT BUT I GOT TO TELL THE TRUTH. AND THEN REMEMBER, THE INDICTED ONE, PRICE GOES BACK TO COURT I AUGUST WITH HIS NEW 5th NEW J JUDGE COLE. LET'S GIVE HIM A HAND. JUDGE COLE IS A NEW JUDGE, HE USED TO BE A GANG PROSECUTOR, PRICE, I DON'T THINK YOU WANT HIM AS YOUR JUDGE. >> City Attorney: YOUR TIME IS EXPIRED. >> Clerk: BEFORE THE NEXT SPEAKER, I WOULD LIKE TO CALL A FEW MORE NAMES. >> City Attorney: MR. SPINDLER, DO NOT YELL OUT WHILE STAFF ARE TRYING TO MAKE ANNOUNCEMENT TO THE ROOM. IF YOU DO SO, YOU'LL BE POTENTIALLY REMOVED. >> Clerk: AUGUST WILLIS, DAMON, ALFRED VASQUEZ, KAREN PETERSON, SMOKING SCAN AND ANTONIA RAMIREZ. >> City Attorney: GOOD MORNING, WHICH ITEM WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO? >> Speaker: WE'LL JUST SAY ALL ITEMS AND PUBLIC COMMENT. >> City Attorney: OKAY, YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES FOR THE ITEMS AND ONE FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. >> Speaker: THERE IS A NO-BID LEASE CONTRACT WITH AN ORGANIZATION CALLED NORTH VALLEY CARING SERVICES. THIS IS AN ORGANIZATION, 501C, THAT SUPPORTS RESIDENTS WITH THINGS LIKE FOOD, SHOWERS, CLEAN CLOTHES AND SAFE OVERNIGHT PARKING. THIS IS A NOBLE MISSION OBVIOUSLY BUT IT'S A LITTLE FRUSTRATING THAT RATHER THAN DEALING WITH THE CAUSE OF THESE ISSUES, THIS BODY WOULD PREFER TO DEAL WITH THE SYMPTOMS AND FUNNEL MORE MONEY INTO SALARIES AND SUBSIDIZE 501C3. SAFE PARKING CAUGHT MIA TENSION BECAUSE WE KEEP HAVING MOTION TO SEE CREATE NO MORE OVER NIGHT PARKING ZONES. SO WHILE THIS BODY FURTHER PUSHES PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THEIR CARS, WE ARE FUNNING MONEY TO SAFE PARKING. WHY DON'T WE JUST OFFER SAFE PARKING? I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S UNIQUE, THERE IS A LOT OF THOSE. MAYBE ANOTHER ONE WOULD GIVE US A BETTER DEAL. THERE IS ALSO MOTIONS ON THE AGENDA REGARDING THE LOS ANGELES, DEPARTMENT OF AGENCYING, RELATED TO HEALTHCARE, NEW ACTS AND APPROPRIATIONS TO FUND SERVICES FOR OUR ESTEEMED RESIDENTS, THE SENIOR POPULATION. AGAIN, WE HAVE THIS ISSUE OF UNHOUSED, THE FASTEST GROWING POPULATION OF UNHOUSED RESIDENTS RIGHT NOW ARE SENIOR CITIZENS. I HAVE A NEIGHBOR WHO LIVES ON ASSOCIATE SECURITY AND SHE IS STRUGGLING AND DEALS WITH HARASSMENT FROM HER LANDLORD. AGAIN, RATHER THAN DEALING WITH THE CAUSE, THIS ORGANIZATION WOULD RATHER PUT A BAND-AID ON THE SYSTEM BUT IT COSTS US MORE MONEY OVERTIME. AND OUR CITIZENS ARE ESTEEMED RESIDENTS, THEY DESERVE BETTER. WE HAD CELEBRITIES, DEALING WITH ALZHEIMER. AND IT WAS I GUESS THEY GET TO LAUGH. A LOT OF SENIORS ARE STRUGGLING TO GET THEIR BASIC NEEDS MET. IT'S, IT'S GOOD THAT WE'RE ADDRESSING THESE THINGS BUT IT'S A MEATER OF HOW ARE WE ADDRESSING THEM? ARE WE DEALING WITH CAUSES OR SYMPTOMS? WE'RE WONDERING WHERE IS ALL OUR MONEY GOING? WE ALSO HAVE ESCROW ACCOUNT PROGRAMS. I DON'T KNOW IF ERIC PREVIN, THEY SAID REAP CLEARLY WORKS. WE DON'T HEAR FROM THEM BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE PHONE CALLS. IT'S NOT A DETERRENT FOR BAD ACTORS AS FAR AS IT LANDLORDS GO AND IT'S SHITY FOR TENANTS. >> City Attorney: PUBLIC COMMENT. >> Speaker: [SINGING] WE'RE IN AN EMERGENCY. THE MAYOR SAID THE CONTROLLER WAS WRONG, HE WAS RIGHT ALL A WRONG. YOUR REVENUE FORECAST WAS WRONG NOW ALL OUR MONEY IS GONE. THIS FISCAL EMERGENCY, IS A LACK OF COMPETENCY AND WE CAN'T PRETEND, YOU DIDN'T CAUSE THIS. IT'S A REALLY ALL YOUR FAULT, THAT THESE LAYOFF RIGHT SIDE OCCURRING, AND WE'RE SUFFERING BECAUSE WE'VE SEEN YOU LIE, WAY TOO MANY TIMES WHILE OUR UNHOUSED NEIGHBORS DIE. IT IS A CRIME, YOU PARTIED ON OUR DIME WHILE WE STRUGGLE TO SURVIVE. SHOUT OUT SMOKING SCAN AND FUCK YOU ALL SINCERELY. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, THAT CONCLUDES PUBLIC COMMENT FOR TODAY'S MEETING. MADAM CLERK? ALL RIGHT, MR. CITY ATTORNEY HAS A BID ANNOUNCEMENT. >> City Attorney: YES, SO PUBLIC COMMENT ON ALL OF THE OTHER ITEMS ARE CLOSED. I RECOGNIZE I THINK MOST EVERYBODY HERE HAS SPOKEN. BUT IF YOU ARE HERE FOR THE BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT, OKAY,--. >> City : PLEASE DO NOT DISRUPT THE MEETING. >> City Attorney: IF YOU ARE HEAR FOR ITEMS 1, 2, AND 3 AND YOU HAVE NOT SPOKEN, PLEASE LINE UP ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE OF THE CHAMBERS. THIS IS NOT GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT, IT'S JUST 1, 2 OR 3, THE ESTABLISH OF THE. OF THE BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT ITEMS. GOING ONCE. GOING TWICE, SO MR. PRESIDENT, I DO NOT SEE ANYTHING MAKING THEIR WAY. >> Council President: NOR DO I, ALL RIGHT, MADAM CLERK, WHAT ITEMS ARE AVAILABE FOR CONSIDERATION AT THIS TIME? >> Clerk: MR. PRESIDENT, THE FIRST ITEM THAT IS AVAILABLE WOULD BE ITEM 24 AND FOR THAT ONE, MR. PRICE IS RECUSED. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT. SO WE WILL TAKE UP ITEM NUMBER 24 ONCE WE'VE GIVEN COUNCILMEMBER PRICE THE OPPORTUNITY TO RECUSE. ALL RIGHT, LET'S OPEN THE ROLL ON THAT ITEM. CLOSE THE ROLL, TABULATE THE VOTE. >> Clerk: 12 AYES. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, WE'LL INVITE MR. PRICE BACK. >> Clerk: AND WHILE MR. PRICE IS MAKING HIS WAY BACK, MAY I READ FOR ITEMS 1 THROUGH 3 FOR THE BIDS, THE PUBLIC HEARINGS FOR THESE ITEMS ARE NOW CLOSED. TABULATION FOR THE BALLOTS SHALL TAKE PLACE IN ROOM 233, IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE CLOSE OF THE HEARING AND WILL BE PUBLICLY LIVE STREAMED. FOR THE DIRECTION TO LIVE STREAM, VISIT CLERK.ORG, SLASH BIDS. AND SIR, COUNCIL MAY NOW VOTE ON 1 THROUGH 3, 30 THROUGH 33 AS WELL AS 35 THROUGH 36, SIR. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, OPEN THE ROLL ON THOSE ITEMS, CLOSE THE ROLL, TABULATE THE VOTE. >> Clerk: 13 AYES. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, WHAT'S NEXT? >> Clerk: NEXT WOULD BE CLOSE SESSION SIR. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, WE'LL ASK EVERY ONE TO PREPARE THE ROOM FOR CLOSED SESSION. SO THAT WOULD INCLUDE COUNCILMEMBERS, CITY STAFF, COUNCIL STAFF, MAYOR, CITY ATTORNEY, CONTROLLER'S OFFICE. COUNCILMEMBER RODRIGUEZ. >> M. Rodriguez: BEFORE WE GO INTO CLOSE SESSION, IF I CAN CALL 43 FORTHWITH. >> Clerk: YES, WILL DO. FOR THE RECORD, ALL ITEMS ON TODAY'S AGENDA ARE FORTHWITH. [COUNCIL IN EXECUTIVE CLOSED SESSION] >> A. Nazarian: PRESENTING AND SHOWCASING DIE LIKE A BEGAN IN HONOR OF GUN AWARENESS MONTH, IT WILL BE THIS COMING FRIDAY AND SATURDAY AT EL PORTAL THEATER AND IT'S WE'RE GOING TO ALSO BE HOSTING A QUESTION AND ANSWER AFTER WORDS, WITH THE DIRECTOR OF FILM ALONG WITH THE SEVERAL OF THE ACTORS AND ACTRESSES. I ENCOURAGE EVERY ONE TO JOIN US ON VALLEY COLLEGE OR EL PORTAL THEATER ON JUNE 28th FOR A FREE SCREENING. >> Council President: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MR. NAZARIAN, ANY OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS. SEEING NONE, ADJOURN MOTIONS? MS. RODRIGUEZ. >> M. Rodriguez: I ASK THAT WE ADJOURN IN HONOR OF OUR ABUELA NILEDA, BORN IN HE ESPERANZA LAS VILLE AS CUBA, SHE WAS FIERCELY INDEPENDENT. A WOMAN WHO LEFT CUBA IN 1995, PER SEEING WHAT MANY OF US PURSUE IN THIS COUNTRY, BETTER OPPORTUNITIES AT A BETTER LIFE. I THINK MY HUSBAND SAID IT BEST, THE ONLY THING SHE LOVED MORE THAN HER INDEPENDENCE WAS HER FAMILY AND HER BELIEVES. SHE WAS NEVER SHY TELLING YOU HOW SHE FELT AND LET YOU KNOW WHY YOU WERE WRONG. WE WERE VERY KINDRED IN THAT WAY. I WAS COMFORT TO SHARE WITH HER, WHETHER IN NEW YORK OR MIAMI OR VISITING WITH HER. I HAVE MANY MEMORIES FROM OUR WEDDING TO CELEBRATING HER 100tH BIRTHDAY. ONE OF MY FAVORITE MEMORIES WAS NEW YEAR'S EVE IN 2009, WE WERE AT HOME AND I WAS RECOVERING FROM A MINOR SURGERY AND IT WAS ABOUT 9:00 AM THAT WE GOT A CALL AND THE KIDS AND RAUL AND I WERE WATCHING TELEVISION, WAITING FOR THAT NEW YEARS, WATCHING THE NEW YEARS BALL DROP IN NEW YORK. WHEN WE GOT A PHONE CALL, AND IT WAS FROM PAPITO AND NILEDA WHO WERE SCREAMING ON THE OTHER END OF THE PHONE BECAUSE SHE SAID THEY COULDN'T HEAR US BECAUSE THEY WERE AT A PARTY, NEW YEAR'S EVE, MIND YOU WE WERE IN THEIR 80s AND HERE WE ARE IN OUR MID-30s HUDDLED UP AT HOME ON THE COUCH BUT THEY WERE OUT LIVING LIFE. AND IT WAS TESTIMONY TO HOW SHE LIVED HER LIFE, SHE NEVER STAYED HOME, SHE WAS ALWAYS OUT AND ABOUT, BECAUSE HER LIFE PHILOSOPHY WAS YOU'LL REST WHEN YOU'RE DEAD. AND IT WAS THAT EXAMPLE THAT I'M SO CELEBRATEFUL FOR THAT SHE IMPARTED BOTH WITH MY HUSBAND AND I AND OUR ENTIRE FAMILY AND MY KIDS. BUT IT'S ONE OF THE MOST TREASURED AND FAVORITE MEMORIES OF HER. IT'S JUST HER, HER, WILLINGNESS AND INTEREST AND, YOU KNOW, SHE JUST LIVED LIFE TO THE FULLEST AND SHE DID IT WITH THE FAMILY AND WE HAVE SO MANY WONDERFUL MEMORIES AND I'M REALLY THANKFUL FOR IT. SHE IS NOW REUNITED WITH HER BELOVED SIBLING AND OF COURSE PAPITO, I'M SURE THE PARTY IS LIVELY UP THERE. HER LEGACY CONTINUE WITH HER, HER CHILDREN, MY MOTHER-IN-LAW, JOSE AND FRANK CHARON, HER GRANDCHILDREN AND GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. ABUELA NILDA, MAY YOU REST IN PEACE. >> Council President: THANK YOU SO MUCH, COUNCILMEMBER. ANY OTHER ADJOURNING MOTIONS? SEEING NONE, WE ARE ADJOURNED. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, EVERYBODY.