PLEASE STAND BY. >> Council President: OF YOUR LOS ANGELES CITY COUNCIL. TODAY IS TUESDAY, THE 19th DAY OF AUGUST IN THE YEAR 2025. MY NAME IS MARQUEECE HARRIS-DAWSON, I SERVE AS PRESIDENT OF THIS COUNCIL. MR. CLERK, IF WE CAN BEGIN BY CALLING THE ROLL. >> Clerk: YES, MR. PRESIDENT. 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: ALL RIGHT, FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS. >> Clerk: APPROVAL OF MINUTES. >> Council President: COUNCILMEMBER MARTINEZ MOVES, COUNCILMEMBER LEE SECONDS. NEXT. >> Clerk: COMMENDATORY RESOLUTIONS FOR APPROVAL. >> Council President: COUNCILMEMBER PRICE MOVES, COUNCILMEMBER JURADO SECONDS, WHAT'S NEXT? >> Clerk: TODAY IS TUESDAY AND TIME FOR THE FLAG SALUTE. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, I'LL ASK EVERY ONE IN THE CHAMBERS TO RISE AND FOLLOW ALONG WITH COUNCILMEMBER HUTT. >> H. Hutt: THANK YOU. LET'S BEGIN THE FLAG SALUTE. I PLEDGE A LUGE ANS TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION, UNDER GOD INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICEFOR ALL. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT. MR. CLERK, LET'S RUN THROUGH OUR AGENDA. >> Clerk: MR. PRESIDENT, ADDITIONAL COMMUNITY IMPACT STATEMENTS HAVE BEEN SUBMITTED FOR ITEMS 3 AND 25 BY THE WEST SIE NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL AND FOR ITEM 44 BY THE VALLEY VILLAGE DELRAY, SHERMAN OAKS AND TUJUNGA NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCILS. THE GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS CMMITTEE REPORTS FOR 12 AND 13 HAVE BEEN SUBMITTED AND UPLOADED TO THE RESPECTIVE COUNCIL FILES. ITEM 1 IS AN ITEM FOR PUBLIC HEARING. 2 THROUGH 36 ARE ITEMS FOR WHICH PUBLIC HEARINGS HAVE BEEN HELD. 37 THROUGH 43 WITH ITEMS FOR WHICH PUBLIC HEARINGS HAVE NOT BEEN HELD. 45 AND 46 ARE CLOSE SESSION ITEMS FOR WHICH PUBLIC HEARINGS HAVE NOT BEEN HELD. TEN VOTES ARE REQUIRED FOR CONSIDERATION. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, WITHOUT OBJECTION, THE ITEMS ARE BEFORE US. NOW IS THE TIME FOR SPECIALS. AND MR. CLERK, FOR THE RECORD, I'M REQUESTING THAT WE HOLD NUMBER 44 ON THE DESK. >> Clerk: ALL RIGHT. >> Council President: SPECIALS, MEMBERS? MR. McOSKER? >> T. McOsker: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MR. PRESIDENT. I WOULD ASK THAT WHEN I JUST SUBMITTED AN AMENDMENT TO ITEM 34 ON BEHALF OF BOB BLUMENFIELD AND THEN ON ITEM 43, I WOULD MOVE ON BEHALF OF CD5 THE CAO REPORT AND NOTE AND FILE THE MAYOR'S OFFICE REPORT. >> Clerk: IS THERE A SECOND TO THIS MOTION? >> Council President: SECOND BY COUNCILMEMBER JURADO. >> T. McOsker: THANK YOU. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT. COUNCILMEMBER JURADO? >> Y. Jurado: COUNCIL PRESIDENT, I WOULD LIKE TO CALL ITEM 38 FOR A SEPARATE VOTE. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ? >> E. Hernandez: THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT, FORGIVE IF THIS HAS BEEN CALLED, 38 SPECIAL FOR A SEPARATE VOTE AND I HAVE COMMENTS FOR 3, 38 AND 20 WHICH CAN BE TAKEN UP TOGETHER. >> Council President: COUNCILMEMBER LEE. >> Clerk: COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ, THAT WOULD BE 3, 28 AND 30? THANK YOU. >> Council President: COUNCILMEMBER LEE. >> J. Lee: THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER PRESIDENT. I BELIEVE YOU HELD 43 ON THE DESK? >> Council President: YES. COUNCILMEMBER RODRIGUEZ. >> M. Rodriguez: YES, 31 AND 44 FOR COMMENTS. >> Council President: COUNCILMEMBER PRICE? >> Clerk: THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. OUT OF ABUNDANCE OF CAUTION, I'M RECUSING MYSELF FROM ITEM 7 AS MY WIFE HAS WORKED WITH THE ORGANIZATION LISTED IN THE PAST. THANK YOU. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, ANY OTHER SPECIALS, MEMBERS? SEEING NONE, MR. CLERK WHAT ITEMS ARE AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME? >> Clerk: MR. PRESIDENT THERE IS A REQUEST TO HOLD 19 ON THE DESK. THE COUNCIL MAY VOTE ON ITEMS, 2, 4 THROUGH 6, 8, 9, 10 AND 11, 12, 13, 14 THROUGH 17, 18, 20 THROUGH 27, 29, 32, 33, 35 AND 36. >> 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: MR. PRESIDENT, THE COUNCIL MAY MOVE ON TO ITEM 42 WHICH IS FOR A VERBAL UPDATE, NO ACTION WILL BE TAKEN ON THIS Y. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU SO MUCH MR. CLERK. MEMBERS AS WE STARTD OUT ABOUT 75 DAYS AGO, WHEN THE SEIGE ON OUR CITY AND CITIES AROUND CALIFORNIA AND THE COUNTRY, COMMENCED IN THE NAME OF IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT, WE COMMITTED TO INTO THESE CHAMBERS, EVERY DAY THAT WE MEET DOCUMENT AND PUT ON THE RECORD WHAT IS HAPPENING IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS TO OUR CONSTITUENTS AND TO OUR NEIGHBORS. SO TODAY, WE WILL HEAR FROM THE LEADERSHIP OF CHIRLA, THE COALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS, CENTRAL AMERICAN RESEARCH COUNSEL AND NCAA, SO WE'LL ASK THE PEOPLE TO JOIN US IN THE DESK FOR A SHORT PRESENTATION. ALL RIGHT AND BEFORE YOU ALL START, WE'LL HEAR FROM A COUPLE OF MEMBERS. WE'LL HEAR FROM COUNCILMEMBER McOSKER AND THEN FROM COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ TO INTRODUCE OUR PANELIST. COUNCILMEMBER McOSKER. >> T. McOsker: THANK YOU SO MUCH, MR. PRESIDENT. MEMBERS. I JUST WANT TO UPDATE ON WHAT IS HAPPENING OUT IN THE FIELD IN THE 1-5. YESTERDAY MORNING WE HAD THREE DAY LABORERS TAKEN BY ALLEGED IMMIGRATION AGENTS IN SAN PEDRO. THEY STAGED AT A TARGET ON NORTH GAFFE STREET AND THEY CONDUCTED THIS ACTION IN THE HOME DEPOT PARKING LOT. WE'VE SEEN THESE TYPES OF RAIDS IN HOME DEPOT AREA. THE HARBOR COMMUNITIES VEN DUEREDED SO MUCH. AND I KNOW I SAID IT BEFORE, FIRST DAILY ICE OPERATIONS WHERE LOCAL ACTIVIST ARE BEING TAUNTED AND MOCKED AND WAVED AT AND SPED BY AND IN ONE CASE, TWO WEEKS OF AGO, ONE OF THE ACTIVIST WAS ARRESTED. I HAVE BEEN WITH THEM ON THE DAILY EVENTS AND I'VE HAD CARS AT HIGH RATES AT SPEED COME RIGHT AT ME, RIGHT AT ME, THEY'RE THINKING I'M, SOMEBODY ELSE, I'M SURE AND THEN SWERVE AWAY AND THEN I GET A GESTURE THAT IS OBSCENE. WE'VE HAD A RAID IN WILMINGTON WHERE AGENTS SAW PEOPLE EATING AT A TACO STAND AND THEY FLIPPED AND ARRESTED THEM AND NOW A RAID AT HOME DEPOT, THEE GUYS LOOKING FOR WORK. WHERE PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO SUPPORT THEIR FAMILIES. I'VE HAD REAL CONCERNS ABOUT THE AGENTS WHO CONTINUE TO COME BACK TO THIS HOME DEPOT OR TARGET OR ANY SITES GOING BACK TO THE SAME SITE TO PICK UP MORE PEOPLE IS JUST CRUEL. I'M GRATEFUL FOR THE PEOPLE HARBOR PEACE PATROL THAT WORK WTH BARRIO UNION. THEY SHOWED UP YESTERDAY AND QUICKLY GATHERED EXAMINE MADE SURE THAT FAMILY MEMBERS HAD THOSE THINGS AND THEY REACHED OUT TO YOU AND THE MANY MANY CALLS YOU GET. IT'S REALLY CLEAR, THESE ARE ACTIONS IN VIOLATION OF THE INJUNCTION. IT IS REALLY CLEAR, THIS IS COWARDESS AND THIS IS ILLEGAL IN VIOLATION OF THE TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER. I APPRECIATE YOU BEING HERE VERY MUCH. I ASK THE PRESIDENT AND I APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE DISTRICT. I KNOW YOU HAVE MANY MANY STORIES IN OUR CITY. >> Council President: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MR. McOSKER. COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ. >> E. Hernandez: THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. THANK YOU TO OUR PARTNERS IN OUR COMMUNITY FOR WORK WITHING US AND COME AND TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING. IN COUNCIL CHAMBERS, TODAY, WE HAVE THE PRIVILEGE OF HOSTING THE ORGANIZATION THAT'S ARE LEADING THE FIGHT AGAINST TRUMP ADMINISTRATION AND DOWN RIGHT INHUMANE ENFORCEMENT. PLEASE WELCOME, CHIRLA CARESSAN OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. TODAY THEY WILL SHARE WITH US THE REALITY ON WHAT IS HAPPENING ON THE GROUND AND HOW OUR FAMILIES ARE BEING IMPACTED AND HOW LOS ANGELES CAN STAND UNITED IN THIS FIGHT. I'M DEEPLY GRATEFUL TO HAVE THEM HERE WITH US TODAY AND COLLEAGUES I URGE US ALL TO LISTEN CLOSELY. I WANT TO BE CLEAR, WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT THE STRATEGY OF THE LITIGATION, WE'RE HERE MORE ABOUT WHAT AS A CITY CAN DO TO HELP OUR COMMUNITIES. AND WITH THAT, I'LL TURN IT OVER TO OUR GUEST. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US. >> Council President: THANK YOU SO MUCH, COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ. TO OUR GUEST. YOU ALL CAN GO IN ANY ORDER. IF IT'S ME WE WOULD START TO ANGELICA BUT IT'S YOUR CALL. >> Speaker: I'LL START. WE HAVE OUR ORDER, I'LL START AND THEN MARTHA AND THEN ANDRES. GOOD MORNING, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR HAVING ME HERE AND HAVING OUR COLLEAGUES TALK ABOUT WHAT CONTINUES TO HAPPEN IN OUR COMMUNITY. MY NAME IS ANGELICA SALAS I'M EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF CHIR LAXER THE COALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS. THERE IS A DRAGNET UNLEASHED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AGAINST IMMIGRANTS IN LOS ANGELES. AND IT'S VIOLATING CIVIL AND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS IRRESPCTIVE OF IMMIGRATION STATUS AND ENDANGER SAFELY. CHIRLA CONVENES THE RESPONSE NETWORK MADE UP OF OVER 30 ORGANIZATIONS AND LABOR UNIONS AND MORE THAN 1300 VOLUNTEERS WHO HAVE DOCUMENTED, COUNTLESS ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS. THIS NETWORK HAS REPORTED THROUGH ITS IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE LINE, 1916 SITINGS OF IMMIGRATION THROUGHOUT L.A. WHERE, WE HAVE OVER 1078 INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE REPORTED PRESENCE OF AGENTS IN THEIR COMMUNITIES. WE HAVE ALSO HAD DOCUMENTED 667 OPERATIONS WHERE INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE PART OF THE RAPID RESPONSE NETWORK ACTUALLY SAW RRESTS HAPPENING. TODAY OVER 4200 INDIVIDUALS HAVE BEEN DETAINED ACCORD TO GO DHS RECORDS. CHIRLA, M DEFINITE AND CA RISEN THAT ARE PART OF THE LEGAL RESPONSE, HAVE COLLECTED OVER 1200 NAMES OF FAMILY MEMBERS WHO CURRENTLY DETAINED THROUGHOUT CALIFORNIA BUT ALSO OUTSIDE OF THE STATE. THE INIS HESEDINTERIM GRADUATION ACTION THROUGHOUT LOS ANGELES COUNTY, INCREASED THE TENSION, THEY TERRORIZED COMMUNITIES AND RESULT IN VIOLENT AND DANGEROUS INCIDENTS INVOLVING FEDERAL AGENTS AGAINST COMMUNITY MEMBERS AS THEY'RE EXERCISING THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS. THESE RAIDS HAVE RESULTED IN TWO DEBTSING ONE IN VENTURA AND ONE IN MONROVIA CALIFORNIA. AND SEVERAL HAVE BEEN CAUSED BY EXCESSIVE USE OF FORCE. AND I WANT TO REPEAT THIS, EXCESSIVE USE OF FORCE IS HAPPENING WHEN THESE RAIDS REPUBLIC CONDUCTED. THE MAJORITY OF THESE RAIDS, DO NOT INCLUDE ARRESTS OR SEARCH WARRANT, THEY RELY ON RACIAL PROFILING AND TARGETING OPEN AIR WORK SHIETS LIKE CAR WASHES, HOME DEPOT, GARDENING, CONSTRUCTION SITES ET CETERA. THESE SITES ENFORCING IMMIGRATION LAWS CONTINUE TO SHIELD THEIR IDENTITY AND REFUSE TO PROVIDE BASIC INFORMATION AS TO WHO THEY ARE. SOME IDENTIFY AS BORDER TROLL, OTHERS AS PATROL ODDS AND OTHERS U.S. MARSHALS. BUT ONLY HAVE POLICE GEAR. YET STILL THEY HAVE NOTHING TO IDENTIFY WHAT AGENT THEY BELONG TO. THEY REFUSE TO TELL THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO THEY ARE, AND WHAT LAWS IMMIGRATION LAWS ARE ENFORCING. MANY DRIVE UP TO OUR NEIGHBORS. THEY ARE EXTREMELY AGGRESSIVE WITH COMMUNITY MEMBERS ASKED FOR THEIR BADGE NUMBERS OR <font color="#FF0000"><u>DENTIFYING INFORMATION.</u></font> THIS IS WHAT CHIRLA ALONGSIDE WITH THE ACL AHHH, PUBLIC COUNSEL, IMMIGRANT DEFENDERS AND LOS ANGELES CENTER AND ENDLON AND THOSE IMPACT TODAY FILE A LAWSUIT TO FILE THESE LAWLESS ACTION TO SEE DEMAND AND ALSO TO DEMAND ACCESS TO DETAINEES. I, OUR LAWSUIT PEDRO VASQUEZ, IS AN IMPORTANT LAWSUIT TO SEEK TO DEFEND OUR COMMUNITIES. AND PEDRO VASQUEZ IS A DAY LABOR SITTING AT A BUS STOP WHO WAS ACTUALLY PICKED UP WITHOUT ANY ARREST WARRANT AND TREATED HOR HORRIBLY ONCE DETAINED. RETRAINING ORDER ON JULY 2025, THIS LEAD TO SIGNIFICANT DECREASE. CATO INSTITUTE REPORTED TODAY THAT THERE WAS A 67 PERCENT DECREASE IN ARRESTS AFTER THE TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER. HOWEVER, WHEN THE 9th CIRCUIT DECISION ON JUNE 30 FURTHER AFFIRMED OUR CLAIMS AND DID NOT STAY THE DECISION THAT TRUMP WANTED, WE IMMEDIATELY SAW THE SAME KIND OF RAIDS CONTINUE AFTER THE SHARP DECREASE. WHAT WE HAVE OBSERVED NOW, IS THESE RAIDS HAVE BECOME MORE VIOLENT, FAST AND FURIOUS AND CONTINUED WITH THE SAME MODE OF OPERATION AS BEFORE. WE'RE SEEING ENFORCEMENT ACROSS THE PROTECTED COUNTIES, THAT INCLUDES L.A., ORANGE, SAN BERNARDINO, AND SAN LOUIS OBISPO, THIS ENFORCEMENT CONDITIONS. THEY CONTINUE MOSTLY IN THE EARLY HOURS OF THE DAY. THIS RANDOMNESS IS NATURALLY SEWING FEAR AND PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM CARRYING ON THEIR ROUTINES. THEY'RE NOT EVEN ASKING QUESTIONS, THEY'RE JUST SWOOPING IN AND GRABBING PEOPLE IN WORK SITES. WE HAVE PEOPLE WITH LPR STATUS THAT OR LEGAL PERMANENT RESIDENT THAT HAVE ALSO BEEN PICKED UP. PEOPLE FEAR BEING PROFILED HURT OR WORSE. AND AGAIN, WE CONTINUE TO DOCUMENT THESE DOCUMENTATIONS. THE BACK AND FORTH TERRORIZED THE COMMUNITY AND UNDERMINES THE COATER AND STOP BLATANT CONSTITUTIONAL ACTIONS. THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION HAS ASKED THE SUPREME COURT TO INTERVENE AND ALLOW THEM TO CONTINUE THEIR ACTIONS. WE WILL GET THEIR DECISION, THE SPREME COURT DECISION ANY DAY NOW. THE NEEDS FOR OUR COMMUNITY ARE GREAT. THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES SHOULD DECLARE A STATE OF EMERGENCY AND TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT FAMILIES AND BUSINESSES TARGETED BY THESE RAIDS. THIS IS A TRUMP-MADE DISASTER AND SHOULD BE TREATED LIKE THE DISASTER THAT IT IS. WE NEED ECONOMIC SUPPORT FOR OUR FAMILIES AND BUSINESSES IMPACTED. WE NEED TO INCREASE INVESTMENT TO SUPPORT THE MASSIVE SCALE OF NEWLY DETAINED INDIVIDUALS. WE NEED TO KEEP OUR COMMUNITY HOUSES, THIS INCLUDES EVICTION PROTECTION AND PASSING THE LOS ANGELES RENT STABLATION ORDINANCE SO FAMILIES WHO ARE TRYING TO SURVIVE CAN KEEP THE HOUSE. POLICE, LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT NEEDS TO UPHOLD CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS BY PROTECTING ANGELINOS WHEN THEY'RE EXERCISING THEIRS, THAT'S THE FIRST AMENDMENT. THE 4th AMENDMENT, THE 5th AMENDMENT WITHIN THE CONSTITUTION. WE NEED YOU TO CONTINUE TO SPEAK UP AND CONTINUE TO SUPPORT OUR EFFORTS TO PROTECT OUR OPPORTUNITIES. THANK YOU FOR ALL THAT YOU'VE DONE. THANK YOU FOR HAVING US HERE. WE CONTINUE TO WORK TOGETHER TO PROTECT EVERYBODY WHO CALLS THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES, HOME, AND I'LL PASS IT OVER TO MY COLLEAGUES. [APPLAUSE] >> Speaker: GOOD MORNING, MARTHA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL RESOURCE CENTER, CARESEN AND I STAND BESIDES YOU ALONG MY COLLEAGUES WERE URGENCY. THANK YOU TO THE CITY COUNCIL, COUNCIL PRESIDENT FOR HAVING US HERE TODAY. BUT ESPECIALLY THANK YOU TO MY COLLEAGUES FOR YOUR LOVE AND COMMITMENT FOR A BETTER LOS ANGELES. I'M HONORED TO STAND WITH YOU. CARESEN HAS SERVED THE LOS ANGELES REGION WITH MORE THAN 40 YEARS. WE'RE ALSO PROUD MEMBERS OF THE LOS ANGELES RAPID RESPONSE NETWORK. CARESEN PROVIDES POLICY AND ORGANIZING PROGRAMS IN RAPID RESPONSE IN CRISIS MANAGEMENT. WE SERVE APPROXIMATELY 25,000 PEOPLE A YEAR. LOS ANGELES IS OFTEN A NATIONAL MODEL FOR A CITY OF IMMIGRANTS AND INCLUSION. HOWEVER, IT IS NOT PERFECT. WE CAN DO MORE. IT IS MY JOB, MY OBLIGATION MY OPPORTUNITY TO PROTECT RESIDENTS WHETHER THEY'RE DOCUMENTED OR UNDOCUMENTED. WE STRIFE AND ADVOCATE TO HAVE A CITY THAT PROTECTS HUMAN AND IMMIGRANT RIGHTS. A CITY THAT RECOGNIZES THE INCREDIBLE CONTRIBUTION IMMIGRANTS MAKE TO THE ASSOCIATE AND ECONOMIC FABRIC OF OUR COMMUNITIES. HOWEVER FOR THE PAST TWO AND A HALF MONTHS, LOS ANGELES HAS BEEN UNDER ATTACK. OVER THE LAST TWO MONTHS, OUR CITY DAY CENTER IN THE WESTLAKE AREA, CD1, IN FRONT OF THE HOME DEPOT HAS BEEN RAIDED BY ICE, THREE TIMES. EACH TIME WE HAVE SEEN AN ESCALATION OF VIOLENCE. THE LAST RAID WHICH CAME AFTER THE TRO WAS A SO-CALLED TROJAN HORSE OPERATION. WHERE MORE THAN 20 ICE AGENTS JUMG PD OUT OF A RENTED MOVING TRUCK MASKED AND TACTICAL GEAR. THEY REMAINED DEFI --DEFIANT. WE HAD MEN AND WOMEN RUNNING FALLING IN THE STREETS AND GETTING HURT. WE HAD CHILDREN SCREAMING FOR THEIR MOTHERS. EACH TIME THEY HAVE TAKEN APPROXIMATELY 20 PEOPLE. MANY CONTINUE TO BE DETAINED UNDER INHUMANE CONDITIONS, SOME HAVE ALREADY BEEN DEPORTED WITHOUT DUE PROCESS AND A NUMBER OF THEM STILL HAVE NOT BEEN FOUND. THEY HAVE DISAPPEARED. WE'RE LIVING A NIGHTMARE WHERE ANGELINOS ARE RACIALLY PROFILES, I WILLY TAKEN BY FEDERAL AUTHORITY AND INHUMANELY TREATED IN DETENSION. IMMIGRANTS ARE AFRAID TO GO WORK AND DAY LABOR WHO DO GO TO WORK ARE RISKING IT ALL. HOWEVER, I OFTEN HEAR THAT HAD THE MAIN CONCERN IS WHY POLICE IS LIMIT ASKED HOW THEY COLLABORATE WITH ICE. THE MAIN CONCERN IS HOW PEOPLE CAN PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF ANGELINOS, WORKING PEOPLE, MOTHERS, FATHERS, IN OUR NEIGHBORS. IN THE FRONTLINES, WE HAVE SEEN THE LAPD SHOOTING TEAR GAS, COLLABORATE WITH ICE TO CREATE A PARAMETER. JUST LAST WEEK, WE SAW LAPD FACE PEACEFUL PROTESTERS LINED UP DEEP. NOT TO PROTECT THE PEOPLE-- >> Council President: SORRY IF I CAN ASK YOU TO PAUSE. THE GENTLEMAN IN THE LIME COLORED LOUNGE PANTS AND GREEN HAT. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED THIS IS YOUR FIRST AND LAST WARNING. AND THE NEXT DISRUPTION, YOU WILL BE EXCUSED. THANK YOU. PLEASE CARRY ON. >> JUST LAST WEEK, WE SAW LAPD AFFECT THE PROTESTERS. IT WAS DISAPPOINTING AND WRONG. THERE IS STILL ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT, ADDITIONAL ESCALATION TRAINING OR AT LEAST WHERE IS THE TRAINING THAT WAS PROMISED FOR THE ESCALATION AFTER THE GEORGE FLOYD INCIDENT? WHERE IS THAT DEESCALATION TRAINING? WE ALSO NEED TO REPRIORITIZE ON HOW TO SPEND CITY RESOURCES. WE WANT A CITY AND A POLICE DEPARTMENT THAT FULLY IMPLEMENTS A SANCTUARY ORDINANCE, A DEPARTMENT THAT BELIEVES PROTECTING IMMIGRANT FAMILIESED --FAMILIES, THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES. PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF ANGELINOS SHOULD BE THEIR NUMBER ONE PRIORITY. WE HAVE SEEN FROM THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, AT FIRST THEY DETAIN PEOPLE WITHOUT JUDICIAL WARRANTS AND RACIAL PROFILE OUR COMMUNITY. SECOND THEY CHASE HUMAN BEINGS LIKE ANIMAL. THEY DETAIN THEM IN INHUMANE CONDITIONS. THEY ARE DENIED DUE PROCESS AND VIOLATE COURT ORDERS AND DECISIONS WITH COMPLETE DISREGARD TO THE LAW. SO WHAT DO WE NEED? WE NEED CONTINUED BOLD LEADERSHIP. WE NEED RESOURCES AND FUND TO GO MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN CONTINUE TO RESPOND TO THIS EMERGENCY. WE NEED YOU STRATEGIC PARTNERS. WE NEED A POLICE DEPARTMENT THAT PRIORITIZED ANGELINOS AND THEIR RIGHTS. WE NEED ADDITIONAL POLICIES TO SUPPORT AND SUPPORT IMMIGRANT FAMILIES. WE NEED HOUSING SECURITY, PRIORITIZING AND PROTECT ITING TENANTS RIGHTS, WE NEED FOOD SECURITY. WE SUPPORT AN IN ORDINANCE THAT GIVES LOCAL POLICE THE ABILITY TO CONFIRM THAT FEDERAL AUTHORITIES HAVE TO IDENTIFY THEMSELVES. WE ARE READY TO PARTNER WITH YOU. WE'RE READY TO MAKE SURE THAT TOGETHER WE CAN PROTECT OUR COMMUNITIES. THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE] >> Speaker: I'M ANDRES KWAN, I'M AN IMMIGRANT AND LAWYER WITH SO. CAL. SINCE I WAS SWORN IN AS A LAWYER FOCUSING ON IMMIGRANT RIGHTS IN DECEMBER 2016, A MONTH AFTER TRUMP ELECTION THE FIRST TIME AROUND. AS SOME FOLKS KNOW, I WAS NOT A U.S. CITIZEN THEN, IN FACT I WAS DEPORTABLE THEN. AND I JUST BECAME A CITIZEN FOUR YEARS AGO. I WAS ABLE TO PROVIDE LAW, BUILDING ON CASE LAW ESTABLISHING AS A NON-CITIZEN, I WAS ALSO A PERSON WITHIN THE MEETING OF 149ING AMENDMENT AND THEREFORE PROTECTED BY THE EQUAL PROTECTION LAWS. THE U.S. CONSTITUTION HAS BEEN A DOCUMENT AND TAKEN ORDERING FOLK WITH COURAGE AND SOLIDARITY AND CITIZENS AND NON CITIZENS. AND PIE LER ABOUT 100 YEARS LATER, ORGANIZING AND SUING TO REALIZE THE PROMISE OF ENFORCED AND EXPAND THE MEANING OF FREEDOM AND EQUALITY IN THE CONSTITUTION. THIS IS IN THIS CONTENT THAT WE KNOW NO MATTER THE COLOR OF OUR SKIN, WHAT LANGUAGE WE SPEAK OR WHERE WE WORK, DOCUMENTED OR NOT, INCLUDING THE RIGHT AGAINST UNSCENABLE SEIZURES, A CON NECTICUT CONCEPT. SO IN JUNE 6th AS YOU HEARD FROM ANGELICA AND MARTHA, THE TRUMP ROUTINE BEGAN ITS SEIGE OF L.A. IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, UNLEASHING MASKED GOONS, AND RIPPING FOLK FROM THEIR FAMILIES AND DETAINING IN CONDITIONS IN FACILITIES, WITH LITTLE TO NO FOOD AND MEDICAL AREA ESSENTIALLY TRYING TO GET FOLKS TO SIGN THEIR RIGHTS AWAY. SO ON JUNE 22th --2nd, AS YOU SEE IN PICTURE, INCLUDING CHIRLA, IMMIGRANT DEFENDERS AND THE UNITED FARMWORKERS SUED THE TRUMP REGENE. AND ON JULY 11, THE FEDERAL COURT, THIS IS A BRIEF RECAP IN HISTORY OF WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE CASE SO FAR. ON JULY 11, FEDERAL COURT OF DISTRICT CALIFORNIA, RULED IN OUR FAVOR AND ISSUED TEMPORARY RETRAINING ORDERS, TROs FOR SHORT BLOCKING THE UNLAWFUL STOPS. MORE SPECIFICALLY, THE STOP AND ARREST TRO PROHIBITS AGENTS FROM RELYING ON FACTORS ALONE AS A REASONABLE SUSPICIOUS FOR STOPPING A PERSON AND THESE ARE APPARENT RACE OR ETHNICITY, TWO SPEAKING SPANISH OR ENGLISH WITH A ACCENT AND TWO, WAR WASH OR TOW YARD RELATED TO THE WORK THE PERSON DOES. FURTHER, THE ACTION TRO REQUIRES LEGAL VISITATION SEVEN DAYS A WEEK FOR A MINIMUM OF FOUR HOURS A DAY AND FOUR HOURS A DAY WEEKENDS AND HOLIDAYS. AND TO PERMIT DETAINED PERSONS TO COMMUNICATE WITH THEIR ATTORNEYS AT NO COST. IMMEDIATELY TRUMP REGIME APPEALED AND ALSO MOVED TO STOP AND ARREST TROs. BUT AFTER NINETH CIRCUIT DENIED, THEY ASKED SUPREME COURT HAS NOT BE RULED. UNTIL A FUTURE MOTION FOR PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION OR PI FOR SHORT WHICH REFILED. BUT EVEN IN THE STAY, WE'RE WORKING HARD TO SECURE A PI WHICH WILL PROVIDE RELIEF FOR A LONGER PERIOD WHILE THE LAWSUIT IS BEING PENDING. THIS HEARING ON A PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION MOTION AND ON A CLASS CERTIFICATION MOTION, WE FILED WILL BE IN A MONTH ON SEPTEMBER 24 AT 9:00 AM. NOW TO END AS ANGELICA AND MARTHA HAVE SAID, WE SAW THE REGIME AND WE'VE BEEN WORKING HARD TO INVESTIGATE THIS RAIDS AND WHAT MAY BE VIOLATIONS. AND AS COUNCILMEMBER McOSKER ALSO DISCUSSED. ALSO MORE RECENTLY, WE'VE BEEN HEARING AT PEOPLE BEING HELD AT FREEZING TEMPERATURES. IT SEEMS LIKE B-18 INTO A YELERA. A STORY ABOUT TRUMP REGIME CALLOUSNESS THAT WOULD MAKE YOU SHIVER. WHEN A DE TAIN' ASKED THE GUARD IF THEY CAN PLEASE RAISE THE TEMPERATURE, THE GUARD ESSENTIALLY TOLD HIM, WE NEED TO KEEP THE TEMPERATURE LOW TO KILL THE BACTERIA ON YOU. THIS IS THE KIND OF CRUELTY AND COMPLETE DISREGARD FOR HUMAN LIFE. AND AS WE'RE TRAGICALLY REMINDED WITH JAMIE AND CARLOS, TRUMP SEIGE OF THE SOUTHLAND HAS HARMED REAL PEOPLE AND REAL LIVES. AND WITH THE UNPRECEDENTED DEPLOYMENT OF NATIONAL GUARD AND THEN MARINES, WE CAN SEE THE TRUMP REGIME PLEA BOOK OF SCAPEGOATING TOWARDS FASCISM. BUT THIS IS NOT WHERE IT STARTS OR ENDS. WE SHALL OVERCOME BUT IT WILL TAKE A VILLAGE AND MOVEMENT TO DO SO, BECAUSE THE LAWSUIT ALONE WILL NOT DO IT. WE NEED ALL OF US DOING OUR PART, EVERYTHING WE CAN. EACH OF US, AS PEOPLE ARE ANXIOUS FROM COMMUNITY DEFENSE GROUP AND RAPID RESPONDERS AS YOU ARE, WE CAN PLAY A VITAL ROLE FROM KNOWING AND EDUCATING FOLKS OF OUR RIGHTS, SAY SOMETHING IF WE SEE SOMETHING, EXERCISING OUR FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS AND IF WE CAN, DOCUMENTING A RAID OR ARREST. IDENTIFYING COMMUNITY MEMBERS BEING ABDUCTED. AND AS A CITY OF L.A., WE SHOULD BE AN EVEN BRIGHTER BEEK ON FOR IMMIGRANT'S RIGHTS, COWARDING, THE CITY SHOULD FULLY IMPLEMENT ORDINANCE ESPECIALLY AT THE LAPD. AND ENFORCEMENT DEFEND AGAINST TRUMP LAWSUIT WHICH COMES AFTER COURT LOSS AFTER ANOTHER. WE MUST ENSURE THAT NO CITY RESOURCES IN ANY WAY, ADVANCE IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT AND INCLUDE LAPD RESPONSE TO SEE SO-CALLED MUTUAL AID REQUEST AND JOINT TASK FORCE. AND AS A CITY HAVE HIGHLIGHTED THEIR RICH CONTRIBUTION OF THEIR IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES INCLUDING TAX REVENUES, WE SHOULD PUT OUR TAX MONEY WHERE OUR MOUTH IS AND PROVIDE RESOURCES TO OUR IMMIGRANT, INCLUDING FOR EXPANDING REPRESENT L.A. >> Council President: THANK YOU SO MUCH. WE HAVE A MEMBER ON THE QUEUE. COUNCILMEMBER RODRIGUEZ. >> M. Rodriguez: THANK YOU. IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU AND THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING HERE. I WANT TO MAKE SURE, YOU KNOW, WE'VE SEEN VARIOUS POSTS ON SOCIAL MEDIA OF INDIVIDUALS DOCUMENTING. AND MY QUESTION IS, I WANT TO MAKE SURE, I WANT TO ASK YOU, TO PLEASE PROVIDE WHAT IS THE BEST METHOD OF DOCUMENTATION THAT YOU CAN SUGGEST TO INDIVIDUALS THAT WOULD BE VIABLE IN HELPING TO CONTINUE TO PURSUE THE TR OS, THE VIOLATIONS OF THE TROs THAT ARE HELPING AND WHAT GUIDANCE CAN YOU PROVIDE FOR THE MEMBER OF PUBLIC. BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT THEM TO BE IN HARM'S WAY. BECAUSE WE WANT YOU TO HELP US, FOR MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, SHOULD THEY BE A WITNESS TO WHAT IS OCCURRING? WHAT IS THE SAFEST AND MOST AFFECTIVE MEANS OF DOCUMENTING THAT WILL AID YOU IN FURTHER EXAMPLES THAT WE CAN PROVIDE TO THE COURTS FOR THE VIOLATION OF TROS AND ANY OTHER DOCUMENTATION. >> I'LL BEGIN FIRST, BY SAYING AS A STATED, THERE IS 1300 INDIVIDUAL VOLUNTEERS THAT ARE PART OF THE RAPID RESPONSE NETWORK IN LOS ANGELES. I ENCOURAGE INDIVIDUALS TO BE PART OF THAT. BECAUSE YOU WILL GET TRAINING AND NOT JUST TRAINING ONCE BUT CONTINUITY OF TRAINING AS WELL. >> M. Rodriguez: HOW DO THEY GET IN CONTACT. >> Speaker: SO YOU CAN CALL CHIRLA AND YOU CAN CONNECT WITH OUR DIRECTOR OF ORGANIZER PEDRO TRUJILLO OR CALL OUR HOTLINE. WE NEED THAT SUPPORT. SO VERY SPECIFICALLY AND I'LL, ASK ANDRES TO GO TO GO EVEN MORE SPECIFIC IN TERMS OF RIGHTS. WHAT WE ASK YOU, IF YOU WITNESS, STAY CALM, YOU HAVE THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO THE DOCUMENT WITH YOUR VIDEO. MAKE SURE THAT YOU STAY, YOU KNOW, STAY FAR AWAY AND DISTANCE FROM THE FEDERAL AGENTS SO THEY DON'T CHARGE YOU WITH OBSTRUCTION. YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO DOCUMENT. BUT ONCE THE OPERATION ARE HAPPENING AND WE SEE THAT THEY'RE HAPPENING SUPER FAST, STAY THERE, TAKE NAMES OF WITNESSES, WHO ALSO SAW IT, YOU WERE A WITNESS BUT THERE WERE OTHER PEOPLE WHO WERE THERE WHO SAW WHAT HAPPENED. OFTEN INDIVIDUALS REMAIN WERE ASKED ASKED ABOUT IMMIGRATION STATUS AND MAYBE THEY'RE U.S. CITIZENS AND GREEN CARD MEMBERS ASK THE INDIVIDUALS TO PROVIDE YOU THEIR NAME AND NUMBER. WHAT HAPPENED BUT ALSO CONNECT WITH RAPID RESPONSE SO WE CAN GO IN AND DOCUMENT. USUALLY THE VOLUNTEERS GO AND THEY STAY THERE AND TALK TO THE WITNESSES IN ORDER TO COLLECT THE EVIDENCE. THAT IS THE EVIDENCE THAT WE HAVE ACTUALLY PROVIDED IN THIS LAWSUIT AND LIKE I SAID, WE RESPONDED IN SITUATIONS WHERE PEOPLE HAVE ARRESTED ARREST 667 TIMES. I NEED YOU TO UNDERSTAND HOW SIGNIFICANT THAT IS, BECAUSE IT'S ONLY BEEN A COUPLE OF MONTHS THAT THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON. >> ANDRES. >> BEFORE YOU GIVE IT TO ANDRES, IF YOU CAN, YOU SHOULD DOCUMENT WHO WAS TAKEN. BUT OFTEN TIMES, THERE IS NO WAY TO LOCATE THE PEOPLE THAT ARE DETAINED UNLESS WE HAVE NAMES AND WE KNOW WHO WAS TAKEN INTO DETENSION. >> ANGELICA AND MARTHA ACTUALLY COVERED THIS AND AS ESPECIALLY AS CHIRLA HAS BEEN COURAGEOUSLY LEADING THE L.A. RESPONSE NETWORK. AND JUST TO EMPHASIZE SOME POINTS THAT ANGELICA MADE, EVERY ONE HAS THE FIRST RIGHT TO RECORD. AS LONG AS WE'RE NOT INTERFERING. NOW, IT TAKES A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF PRIVILEGE TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT. IF SOMEBODY IS RISK OF ENFORCEMENT, MAY NOT FEEL SECURE AND SAFE TO BE ABLE TO PLAY THAT ROLE. BUT, AT A MINIMUM, PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW THEIR RIGHTS WHICH, PEOPLE CAN ACCESS ON ON OUR SO. CAL. WEBSITE. IN ADDITION, WE DO HAVE AN INTAKE INTAKE LINE. AND IT'S SO. CAL., S.O.C.A.L.INTAKE ALTOGETHER. SOCALINTAKE.ORG. AND THIS ALONE IN COMBINATION, RACE OR ETHNICITY. WHAT THE INDIVIDUAL SPEAKS SPANISH OR ENGLISH WITH AN ACCENT. THE LOCATION LIKE A WORK SITE AND WHAT KIND OF WORK THE PERSON DOES, FOR EXAMPLE A HOME DELIVERER AT A HOME DEPOT OR CAR WASHER. THE GOVERNMENT NEEDS MORE THAN THAT TO ESTABLISH REASON FOR SUSPICIOUS BEFORE STOPPING SOMEBODY. AND IF THERE IS A COURT HEARING IN THE NINETH CIRCUIT, THAT THEY EVER PROVIDED ANY INFORMATION, PROVIDING ANY ADDITIONAL OF FACTS THAT THEY'VE COME UP WITH REASON FOR SUSPICIOUS OF THEIR ARREST FOR INDIVIDUALS. THE KIND OF INFORMATION THAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR IS HOW, WHAT ARE THE, WHAT KIND OF CARS AND VEHICLES ARE THEY COMING IN WITH? ARE THEY BLOCK E GRES, INGRESS ENTRANCES EXITS. HOW MANY VEHICLES? HOW MANY AGENTS? WERE THEY WEARING, ARE THEY MASKED? DO THEY HAVE CLEARLY VISIBLE MARKERS. ARE THEY WEARING VESTS, DO THEY HAVE WEAPONS. THAT SHOWS THE EXTREME LEVEL OF FORCE THAT AGENTS HAVE BEEN USE, SOME BELIEVE IS, AN ATTEMPT TO INTIMIDATE AND WHO WOULDN'T BE INTIMIDATED WHEN UNMASKED AGENTS WHO ARE NOT IDENTIFYING THEMSELVES ARE RUSHING AT YOU, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU'VE SEEN VIDEOS OF PEOPLE WHO LOOK LIKE YOU, BEING BEAT UP AND ABUSED. SO WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULDN'T TRY TO AVOID THAT BULL RUSH WITHING WITH YOU WITH MILITARIZED WEAPONS, RIGHT? SO YOU KNOW, WHAT HAPPENED? PLAY IT BY PLAY. IF YOU CAN DOCUMENT IT, AND ALSO AS ANGELICA MENTIONED, THESE RAIDS HAPPEN WITHIN A MATTER OF MINUTES. INCREDIBLY QUICKLY. RAPID RESPONDERS MAY NOT HAVE BEEN IN THERE, UNLESS THEY WERE ALREADY TARGETING HOME DEPOT. SEVERAL CAR WASHES THEY HIT MULTIPLE TIMES. SO IT'S IMPORTANT TO COLLECT AS MUCH INFORMATION AS POSSIBLE. ESPECIALLY ABOUT INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE BEEN TAKEN. BECAUSE AS MUCH INFORMATION INCLUDING NAME AND DATE OF BIRTH WOULD HELP US ACCESS THEM. WHETHER IT'S A B TEAM OR ARLANDO. >> M. Rodriguez: THANK YOU. THE EXPERIENCE THAT WE HAD IN MY DISTRICT BY THE TIME, WE FOUND OUT ABOUT IT, THEY WERE ALREADY GONE. AND ALL WE HAD WERE FIRST NAMES OF THE INDIVIDUAL. AND THE RAPID RESPONSE NETWORK AND AGAIN, AND GOD BLESS EVERYBODY WHO IS PARTICIPATED, BUT WE WANT TO THOUGHTFULLY INFORMED PUBLIC WHO ARE NOT BEEN TRAINED BECAUSE NOT EVERY ONE HAS THE BAND WITH OR CAPACITY TO ENGAGE IN THAT LEVEL. WE WANT TO ENSURE THAT THEY'RE A WITNESS IF THEY'RE AT THE LOWES IN PACOIMA OR HOME DEPOT IN VAN NUYS, BUT ONE THAT AIDS YOU IN WITH YOUR EFFORTS. SO WHAT I ASK, IF IT'S POSSIBLE, EVEN IF THERE IS ONLINE INTAKE, THAT ALLOWS PEOPLE TO PROVIDE ANY INFORMATION THAT MAKES IT MORE ACCESSIBLE THAN HAVING TO CALL OR WHAT HAVE YOU, THAT MAY PERHAPS OR EVEN IF THEY CAN UPLOAD ANY VIDEO FOR THE ACLU, THAT COULD BE PERHAPS BE BENEFICIAL IN FURTHER AIDING IN ANY FURTHER COURT ACTIONS IN PURSUIT OF THE VIOLATIONS OF THE TROs AND WHAT NOT. AGAIN, THANK YOU BECAUSE, I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE, SAFELY PROTECTING EVEN OTHER MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY THAT ARE ATTEMPTING TO BE HELPFUL, THAT THEY DON'T FURTHER SUBJECT THEMSELVES TO PERHAPS THEN, GETTING CHARGED OR PURSUED OR ASSAULTED IN THEIR OWN RIGHT. AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT AGAIN, WE KNOW THAT THIS IS AN ACT OF FEAR MONGERING, WE KNOW THAT THIS IS AN ACT OF TERRORISM, THAT IS BEING INFLICTED IN MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY. HOWEVER I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE YOU KNOW, NOT RESPONDING WITH CHECKERS BUT RESPOND WITHING CHESS, HOW ARE WE MAKING VERY IMPORTANT DECISION THAT'S IF THEY'RE WITNESS THAT THEY'RE ENGAGING RESPONSIVELY, SAFELY AND IN A MANNER THAT ACTUALLY HELPS US, NOT CREATING MORE CHAOS IN THE MOMENT. WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DO SO VERY THOUGHTFULLY. >> COUNCILWOMAN, MY EXPERIENCE HAS BEEN BASED ON THE COUNTLESS, RESPONSES TO RAIDS, THAT MANY TIMES THE PUBLIC IS AT A DISTANCE, THEY ARE ACTUALLY AT A SAFE DISTANCE, THEY'RE DOING WHAT THEY'RE SUPPOSE TO DO. WE UPLOADED VIDEOS. "L.A. TIMES" JUST DID A WHOLE PEACE ON HOW TO SAFE DEDOCUMENT. I NEED TO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT THE VERY ACT OF TAKING OUT A CAMERA OR A CAMERA OR A PHONE CAMERA, OFTEN TRIGGERS THE AGENTS TO COME AND GET CLOSER TO THAT INDIVIDUAL. BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT THAT WITNESS. SO I NEED TO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT MANY TIMES, THE PUBLIC IS SIMPLY VIDEO TAPING AND JOURNALISTS HAVE BEEN ATTACKED. JOURNALIST HAVE BEEN ASKED THEIR IMMIGRATION STATUS. >> M. Rodriguez: I UNDERSTAND THE RULES. THE RULES DON'T APPLY BUT WE HAVE TO PROVIDE. WE HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO PROVIDE RESPONSIBLE GUIDANCE FOR MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC. >> AGREE. >> M. Rodriguez: TO ENSURE THAT WE DO OUR PART TO ENSURE THAT WE'RE NOT INFLICTING MORE HARM TO INDIVIDUALS AND IS MOST HELPFUL WITH THE TYPE OF DOCUMENTATION THAT WE PROVIDE. AGAIN MAKING ACCESSIBLE ONLINE PORTAL IF POSSIBLE TO EVEN CAPTURE FOR INDIVIDUALS, I THINK MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC GENERALLY DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH IT OTHER THAN POST-IT ON SOCIAL MEDIA CAN AID US IN COLLECTING LARGER QUANTITIES OF DOCUMENTATION FOR WHAT MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ARE WITNESSING. THANK YOU. >> Council President: THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER PADILLA. >> I. Padilla: HELLO. THANK YOU ALL OF YOU FOR BEING HERE AND PROVIDING THIS REPORT. I THINK, WE ALL APPRECIATE IT, WE ALL KNOW THE WORK YOU'RE DOING. WE ALL KNOW THE AMOUNT OF COORDINATION ACROSS THE CITY THAT YOU ARE TAKING ON AND EVEN ACROSS THE CITY, INTO THE COUNTY. SO I DO WANT TO START BY SAYING THANK YOU. AND YOU KNOW, I THINK WE ALL KIND OF NOTICING THAT, THE RULES ARE NOT APPLYING. RIGHT. AND WE'RE HAVING THESE CONVERSATIONS RELATED TO OR MAKING RULES AND REMIND US OF WHAT THE RULES ARE AND, MY OBSERVATION, IS THAT, YOU KNOW, THIS IS GOING TO BE A BATTLE OF THE GENERATION TO REALLY TAKE ON THE REQUESTS RELATED TO FEDERAL OVER REACH OF LOCAL CONTROL. RIGHT. BUT, AS WE LIVE THROUGH THAT AND WE FIGURE THAT OUT AND IT GETS PACKAGED NOT JUST IN OUR CITY BUT OTHER CITIES GOING THROUGH IT AS WELL. I DID WANT TO POSE A QUESTION, BECAUSE YOU KNOW, IN MY DISTRICT, MOST OF THE RAIDS HAVE HAPPENED AT HOME DEPOT AND THEY HAPPEN AT HOME KEY DEPOT AND IT'S THE FORMAL DAY SO THAT TELLS ME THAT THERE IS SHEET CHEAT AND THAT'S WHY WE ARE%BACKER THEY ARE, YOU KNOW, STAGING AND THE PORTION, THE PART OF DISTRICT 12 THAT IS NEXT TO MINE AND THEY GO INTO MY DISTRICT AND MADE THEIR RAIDS. SO MY QUESTION IS, AND I KNOW YOU'RE BUSY WITH THE LEGAL STUFF BUT AS AN ORGANIZATION THAT WORKS WITH THE UNDOCUMENTED COMMUNITIES. HAVE WE BEGUN THE CONVERSATION OF HOW TO RETHINK THE WAY BUSINESSES AND WORKERS INTERACT? IN A WAY, BECAUSE WE KNOW KNOW THAT THE DAY LABOR CENTER MODEL IS NO LONGER A GOOD APPROACH OR SAFE APPROACH? >> WELL I'M GOING TO, I GUESS I DON'T AGREE THAT THE DAY LABOR CENTER AND MODEL IS NOT A GOOD APPROACH. CHIRLA STARTED THE FIRST DAY CENTER IN LOS ANGELES. IN THE EARLY 90s AND WE STRUGGLED OVER YEARS AND YEARS AGO WITH THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES, WITH THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES TO SET UP SAFE WORKING SITES THAT WERE NOT AT STREET CORNERS. SO I DON'T THINK THE ISSUE IS DAY LABOR SITES AT HOME DEPOT, WE WORKED REALLY HARD EVEN WITH THE CORPORATION TO HAVE THEM ONSITE. AGAIN, IT WAS ABOUT PUBLIC SAFETY AND IT WAS ALSO ABOUT WORKER RIGHTS AND WORKER JUSTICE. SO, I DON'T THINK THAT THAT IS THE ISSUE. I THINK THAT THE PROBLEM THAT WE HAVE IS MASSIVE RACIAL PROFILING BECAUSE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS ARE INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS. AND SO THAT MEANS THAT EVERY SINGLE PERSON, WHO IS WORKING WITH AT ANY SITE, HAS A RIGHT TO BE TOLD IS THERE A WARRANT AGAINST YOU? IS THERE A WARRANT FOR YOUR ARREST? WHAT IS THE REASONABLE SUSPICION AND WE NEED TO HOLD HOME DEPOT ACCOUNTABLE FOR ALLOWING THIS KIND OF, ENTRANCE INTO PARKING LOTS AND THE TREATMENT OF OUR FOLKS. SO I DON'T THINK THAT IT'S THE DAZE LABOR CENTER MODEL, IT'S THE MASKED LAWLESSNESS OF THE FEDERAL AGENCY THAT IS GOING ON. AND IT'S IMPACT ING NOT JUST THE DAY LABORS. I HAVE INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE PATRONS THEY WERE CUSTOMERS OF HOME DEPOT WHO WERE QUESTIONED ABOUT THEIR IMMIGRATION STATUS. SO THIS IS NOT ABOUT THE DAY LABORER, IT'S ABOUT FEDERAL AGENTS THAT THEY FEEL THAT THERE IS NO RULE, THEY HAVE THE GREEN LIGHT TO DO ANYTHING AND QUESTION ANYBODY ABOUT THEIR IMMIGRATION STATUS. AND I WANT TO ALSO STATE TO DO IT ALSO FORCEFULLY. THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT A LOT OF THESE INTERACTIONS ARE CONSENSUAL THAT PEOPLE ARE GIVING INFORMATION FREELY. YOU KNOW, THEY'RE GIVING THEIR IMMIGRATION STATUS, FREELY. BUT WHAT THEY'RE DOING IS THEY HAVE GUNS IN FRONT OF THEM. THEY'RE BA'ATH THEM UP THE MISTREATMENT IS SO BAD. SOMETIMES PEOPLE ARE JUST GRABBED. LET'S PUT THE REAL PROBLEM IS A FEDERAL AGENTS THAT ARE VIOLATING THE CONSTITUTION RIGHTS. >> I. Padilla: I AGREE THAT WE'RE SEEING THINGS ABOUT HER ORRENDOUS, BUT THE ARGUMENT THAT I'M TRYING TO MAKE IS IT'S A LONG TERM BATTLE WITHIN THE SPACE OF THE COURTS. WHAT I'M TRYING TO UNPACKAGE AND SEE WHAT ORGANIZATIONS LIKE YOUR OWN ARE THINKING, AT THIS MOMENT, THAT IS WHERE THEY'RE GOING. THERE ARE INDIVIDUALS THAT DON'T KNOW THEIR ROUTES, RIGHT. THEY DON'T KNOW, WHAT OTHER OPTIONS THEY HAVE. SO I'M CURIOUS IF AT THIS MOMENT IN TIME, WHEN WE KNOW THAT IS THEIR STRATEGY, HOW'S ARE WE OVER THINKING THROUGH THEIR STRATEGY THAT WE'RE SEEING ON THE GROUND? I'VE GOT TO BE HONEST, WHEN IT COMES TO OUR CONSTITUENTS, I CAN GIVE THEM THE MANUSHA BUT WHEN YOU EMPHASIZE THIS IS AN ADMINISTRATION THAT IS INTENTIONALLY TRYING TO BREAK THINGS, FOR THEIR AGENDA, I STILL HAVE TO GIVE THEM AN ANSWER, ABOUT WHAT ELSE WE'RE DOING TO GET THE INDIVIDUALS THAT THEY'RE LOOK FOR? INTO A DIFFERENT PLACE TO AVOID THE SWEEP? >> I JUST WANT TO MENTION THAT THE DAY LABOR CENTERS HAVE EXIST AND CREATED ORGANIC. THESE WORKERS WERE ALREADY THERE. SO THE DAY LABOR CENTERS, REALLY EXIST TO GO INTO THOSE SPACES WHERE WORKERS NATURALLY GO TO SEEK WORK, AND TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL SUPPORT SERVICES AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION THAT IS CRITICAL FOR PEOPLE TO KNOW THEIR RIGHTS. SO WE'RE CONTINUING TO DO THAT. BUT WE ARE, THIS IS A WHOLE NEW WORLD. WHERE, WE WERE ABLE TO SAY, THAT, DAY LABOR CENTERS ARE OUR ORGANIZATIONS, CHURCHES, WERE SAFE SPACES. BUT THIS IS ADMINISTERTION THAT IS NOT FOLLOWING THE LAW. THAT IT'S BLATANTLY VIOLATING THE LAW. SO IT IS VERY FRUSTRATING ON WHAT ANSWER WE GIVE AS AN IMMIGRANT RIGHTS ORGANIZATION. TO BE ABLE TO PROTECT PEOPLE, RIGHT. BECAUSE IT'S BECOMING HARDER AND HARDER TO DO THAT. SO I BELIEVE, LIKE ANGELICA SAID, THAT IT'S THAT THEY'RE PROVIDING AN EXTRA PROTECTION. DO WE HAVE TO THINK OUTSIDE OF THE BOX ON HOW TO PROTECT OUR COMMUNITY ABSOLUTELY. WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE PUT IN PLACE POLICIES AND PROTOCOLS OF PEOPLE WHAT TO DO. IT'S NOT THAT PEOPLE DON'T KNOW THEIR RIGHTS, IT'S THAT THEY'RE NOT BEING RESPECTED. SO IT'S A HARD THING TO COME BACK. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT IS HAPPENING, IS THAT, WE HAVE VOLUNTEERS, AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS IN THE AREA WHO ARE COMING TO STHAOEZ SITES IN FRONT OF HOME DEPOT WHETHER THERE IS A DAY CENTER, TO PATROL THE AREA. IN OUR WESTLAKE DAY LABOR CENTER, THERE IS PEOPLE ON ALL OF SIDES OF THAT, YOU KNOW, MINI MALL. AND THEY ARE ABLE TO, THEY'RE NOT ABLE TO STOP FEDERAL AUTHORITIES FROM COMING AND ARRESTING PEOPLE AND DETAINING PEOPLE, BUT THEY'RE DEFINITELY ABLE TO DOCUMENT AND TO MAKE SURE THAT WE KNOW WHO IS BEING TAKEN. IF THE DAY LABOR CENTERS, IT WOULD BE JUST PEOPLE THAT DISAPPEARED AND WE WOULD HAVE NONE OF THE SUPPORT EVIDENCE THAT WE NEED. BUT WE HAVE TO BE CREATIVE. WE HAVE TO THINK OUTSIDE OF THE BOX. WE NEED RESOURCES TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN CONTINUE TO PROTECT AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE ESPECIALLY THE MOST VULNERABLE LIKE DAY LABORERS AND STREET VENDORS. [APPLAUSE] >> I. Padilla: THANK YOU. I NEEDED TO HEAR THAT. BECAUSE YOU KNOW, I'VE DONE WORK OVER THE YEARS WITH DAY LABOR CENTERS INCLUDING IN HOUSTON TEXAS, AND THE OUTCOME WAS ALWAYS TO KNOWING YOUR RIGHTS, BEING PROTECTED PUBLIC SAFETY AND PUBLIC HEALTH BUT THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF THAT LOCATION CORRECT THE WORKER TO THE EMPLOYER AND IF WE CAN FIGURE OUT A WAY TO DO THAT. IT'S PART OF OUR OVERALL LOCAL ECONOMY, THEY ARE PART OF THE ENTIRE SYSTEM OF OUR LOCAL ECONOMY. I THINK WE NEED TO RETHINK IT IF WHAT IT'S BECOME TODAY, IS A CHEAT SHEET FOR THEM TO GO HIT THEIR NUMBERS SO TO SPEAK. I JUST WANTED TO PUT THAT OUT THERE. I LASTLY WANTED TO SEE, I KEEP SEEING SCATTERNESS, MESSAGES TO BOYCOTTS, HOW SERIES IS THE GRASS ROOTS. IT HAS TO BE GRASS ROOTS, WE HAVE ONLY SEEN IT HISTORICALLY BE AFFECTIVE, HOW SERIES --SERIOUS IS THE APPROACH OF BOYCOTT OF THE INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE BENEFITING FROM THIS? >> WE SHOULD BE BOYCOTTING HOME DEPOT, THAT'S FOR SURE. I WOULDN'T BE SHOCKED TO FIND OUT IF HOME DEPOT IS COULD COLLUDING WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. AND TO EP HOLD AND PROTECT, EVERY ONE'S RIGHTS INCLUDING THE DAY LABORERS BUT ALSO THEIR CUSTOMERS. WE KNOW OF MANY MANY CUSTOMERS WHO WERE ARRESTED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT BY THESE MASKERED GOONS AT HOME DEPOT SITES, IT'S NOT JUST DAY LABORERS. WHAT ARE THEY DOING ABOUT THAT? AND ALSO COUNCILMEMBER PADILLA, I WOULD SAY THE CITY SUPPORTS DAY LABOR CENTERS INCLUDING VAN NUYS, INCLUDING CYPRESS PARK AND OTHER CENTERS. AND THESE ARE MANY OF THESE SITES, THEY HAVE BUILDINGS WHERE WORKERS WERE ABLE TO DAY LABORERS WERE ABLE TO BE IN. AND THE PROGRAM NEEDS, A WARRANT TO ABLE TO ACCESS. AND THAT'S PROTECT ITED. SO IT'S A LAW GAME, WE SHOULD BE CREATIVE AS EVERYBODY MENTIONED. BUT ALSO WE SHOULD DOUBLE DOWN ON THE SUPPORT OF DAY LABOR CENTERS, THAT'S AT LEAST MY OPINION. >> I. Padilla: NO FURTHER QUESTIONS. >> Council President: THANK YOU SO MUCH. COUNCILMEMBER SOTO-MARTINEZ AND THEN COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ TO CLOSE. >> H. Soto-Martinez: THANK YOU SO MUCH, COUNCIL PRESIDENT AND COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ FOR BRINGING, WONDERFUL FRIENDS INTO COUNCIL. AND COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ, I KNOW YOUR DISTRICT HAS BEEN GROUND ZERO FOR MANY OF THESE ATROCIOUS EVENTS SO THANK YOU FOR TAKING LEADERSHIP FOR THE CITY IN THIS AWFUL MOMENT. I WANT TO THANK ANGELICA, MARTHA AND ANDRES FOR COMING AND GIVING US INFORMATION ON WHAT THE PUBLIC SHOULD BE DOING AND SETTING A PATH ON WHAT WE COULD BE DOING AS A CITY. YOU KNOW, AS SOMEBODY WHOSE PARENTS WERE UNDOCUMENTED WHEN THEY CAME INTO THIS COUNTRY, I CANNOT IMAGINE ABOUT THIS THIS. WHEN MY PARENTS WERE OUT STREET VENDING, I NEVER THOUGHT OF THEM NOT COMING HOME TO A FAMILY MEAL. I CANNOT IMAGINE. TRAUMA A FAMILIES BEING SPLIT APART P KIDS NOT HAVING SEEING THEIR PARENTS AGAIN. AND THE SECONDARY OF THIS TRAUMA, WE WILL NOT KNOW THE DEPTH OF THIS THIS UNTIL MANY MANY YEARS FROM NOW. BUT I APPRECIATE YOUR UNIFIED CALL ABOUT WHAT WE SHOULD BE DOING AT THIS MOMENT. AND WHAT YOU SAID, YOU NEED TO PLAY THEIR PART. WE HAVE PEOPLE TO VERIFY AND DOCUMENT AND LET THE RAPID RESPONSE NETWORK KNOW, SO THEY CAN MOBILIZE RESOURCES. WE HAVE ATTORNEYS ANDRES VERY GOOD FRIEND OF MINE, FIGHTING AGAINST THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THROUGH THE LEGAL APPARATUS. WE SEE FOLKS DOING MUTUAL AID AND ACTION PROTEST AND SO MANY OTHER THINGS, AND I THINK THAT IS WHAT YOU ARE BEING, YOU'RE ASKING TO US DO RIGHT NOW, IS FOR EVERY ONE TO PLAY THEIR ROLE TO THE BEST OF THEIR ABILITY. AND I THINK MY COLLEAGUES AND I ARE UNIFIED IN PUSHING BACK AGAINST THIS AGENDA. NOT ONLY DO WE HAVE TO MEET THIS MOMENT RIGHT NOW AND YES, WE SHOULD FUND REPRESENT L.A. TO A HIGHER NUMBER. IS DO BELIEVE WE SHOULD PUT MONEY FOR FINANCIAL SUPPORT OR FOOD OR WHATEVER IS NEEDED IN THIS MOMENT. BUT BEING IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY, IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT MEET THISING MOMENT. W KNOW IMMIGRANT FACE WAGE THEFT, WE KNOW THAT THEY LIVE IN-HOUSE HADING THAT IS MANY ININHABABLE, WE KNOW IMMIGRANTS DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO GOOD JOBS OR LABOR BENEFITS. WE KNOW THAT THEY LIVE IN RENT CONTROLS UNITS WHERE THE RENTS GO UP. IS AGREE WITH THE CALL THAT YOU'RE GIVING US HERE TODAY. BUT I ALSO WANT TO BRING TO THIS COUNCIL, NOT ONLY ARE WE FIGHTING FOR IMMIGRANTS BUT FOR SO MANY COMMUNITIES, WE SEE OUR LGBTQ ALLIES BEING ATTACKED AND OUR WOMEN'S RIGHTS. AND ANDRES, YOU SAID IT WELL, WE'RE FIGHTING AGAINST A WHITE NATIONALIST THAT IS CLEANSING OF THIS GOVERNMENT. IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE ME, GO READ HATE MONGER AND THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT THIS ADMINISTRATION. AT THE MOMENT, WHAT WE'RE ASKED TO IS TO HAVE SOLIDARITY, NO MORE MOVEMENTS FIGHTING FOR THEIR OWN PIECE OF THE PIE, WE'RE ALL LIVING IN THE SAME MOMENT AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE ASKING US TO DO. AND AGAIN, I APPRECIATE YOU COMING HERE AND YOU CAN COUNT ON THIS BODY TO HAVE SOLIDARITY IN THIS MOMENT UNTIL WE GET PAST THIS DIFFICULT MOMENT. AND AGAIN, THANK YOU SO MUCH COUNCIL PRESIDENT FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP AND COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ FOR BRINGING THESE FOLKS HERE TODAY. THANK YOU. >> Council President: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MR. SOTO-MARTINEZ. MS. HERNANDEZ, TO CLOSE. >> E. Hernandez: I HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS AND THEN I'LL CLOSE OUT. I WANT TO UPLIFT THE PEOPLE THAT YOU'VE BEEN TALKING TO THAT HAVE BEEN INCARCERATED IN THESE PRISONS IN THESE CAGES. IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT PUTTING A PERSON IN THE CAGE, IT'S ABOUT LOSING, YOUR AUTONOMY, NOT ONLY WHERE YOU CAN BE BUT YOUR ENTIRE BODY. THE WAY THAT THEY SEARCH PEOPLE'S BODIES. THE WAY THAT THEY DISAPPEAR BUT THEY'RE BEING ABUSED AND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS ARE BEING VIOLATED. THEY'RE BEING TORTURED. WE EXPLAIN HERE WHEN IT'S TOO COLD IN HERE. IMAGINE THAEZ THAT ARE BEING PUT IN ICE BOX. IT'S THE TORTURE OF OUR PEOPLE AS WELL THAT IS OCCURRING. IF YOU CAN'T, PLEASE, PUT US IN THE CLIMATE OF THE COUNTRY, RIGHT. THIS IS HAPPENING HERE IN LOS ANGELES, AND WE'RE TRYING TO SHOW EVERYBODY WHO IS WATCHING, WHAT IS HAPPENING IN LOS ANGELES, TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING IN LOS ANGELES. PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW SERIOUS THIS IS. THEY'RE GOING TO COME FOR THE IMMIGRANTS FIRST AND THEN DOCUMENTED PEOPLE AND THEN EVERYBODY ELSE, BLACK BROWN, LGBTQ, THEY'RE ALREADY DOING IT. BUT THE SERIOUSNESS, THERE IS SO MUCH ON THE LINE THAT I DON'T THINK PEOPLE HAVE A CLUE ABOUT. CAN YOU JUST, KIND OF BRACE GROUND US IN THAT, WHERE WE ARE IN THE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE OF IT ALL? >> I'LL START FIRST ON OCTOBER FIRST, THERE WILL BE 1170 BILLION DOLLARS IN ORDER TO EXPAND DETENSION INCARCERATION TO HAVE MORE AGENTS WITH BONUSES RECRUITING LEFT AND RIGHT IN ORDER TO HUNT US DOWN. I COME TO YOU, AFTER AND I KNOW MARTHA AND I HAVE THE PRIVILEGE, THE HONOR TO TALK TO THE FAMILIES. AND TO SEE, EVERYTHING THAT IS HAPPENING TO THEM, ON SATURDAY, MORNING I MET WITH A FAMILY OF MR. CARLOS MONTOYA. I SPOKE WITH HIS DAUGHTER FROM GUATEMALA AND HIS NIECE HERE IN LOS ANGELES. AND THIS IS A FAMILY WHO LOST A PERSON WHO WAS NOT JUST IMPORTANT TO THEM, THEIR LOVED ONE BUT WAS AN IMPORTANT TO AN ENTIRE COMMUNITY HE WAS A GOOD MAN. WHO WORKED IN CONSTRUCTION, WORKED AT EVERYTHING IN ORDER, NOT JUST TO PROVIDE FOR THEIR FAMILY BUT TO SEND TO THE COMMUNITY TO THE COMMUNITY, THE CHILDREN WHO NEEDED SHOES. THE KIDS WHO NEEDED SUPPORT. I NEED YOU TO UNDERSTAND WHO IS BEING ATTACKED. AND WHEN I TALKED TO MARIELA SAID, I WANT, I WANT JUSTICE BUT I WANT LEAD THAERZ ARE GOING TO STEP INTO THEIR POWER. STEP INTO THEIR POWER SO NOBODY HAS TO LOSE THEIR LIFELIKE MY UNCLE DID. AND FOR ME, IT'S ABOUT, THIS IS HAPPENING ALL OVER THE COUNTRY BECAUSE THERE ARE RESOURCES THAT ARE AVAILABLE. BILLIONS OF DOLLARS THAT ARE AVAILABLE. THIS FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS PUT MORE MONEY INTO THE ENFORCEMENT OF IMMIGRATION LAWS THAN MONEY FOR THE ENTIRE LAW ENFORCEMENT, MUNICIPAL, SHERIFFS, ALL THE OTHER FEDERAL ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES. SO IF THEY THESE, IF THEY CAN DO WITH WHAT THEY HAVE NOW, IMAGINE WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN WITH OUR COMMUNITY. THAT'S WHY I'M SAYING TO YOU, DECLARE A STATE OF EMERGENCY. YESTERDAY I HAD A CONVERSATION WITH MY COLLEAGUES IN CHICAGO, THEY'RE ASKING HOW ARE ARE YOU DOCUMENTING. THEY'RE BEING THREATENED. UZ SEE WHAT IS HAPPENING IN WASHINGTON DC, IN NEW YORK CITY BUT ALSO IN OUR SOUTHERN STATES AND MID-WESTERN STATES WHERE THERE ISN'T CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS LIKE THE ONES, THEY DON'T HAVE BODIES LIKE THIS. IN FACT THEY'RE WORKING DIRECTLY WITH THE FEDERAL ADMINISTRATION TO DEPORT OUR PEOPLE. BUT ALSO IT'S PROFITEERING. THERE IS A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE MAKING A LOT OF MONEY, SO CIVIC AND GEO ARE GOING TO BILLIONS OF CONTRACTS TO DETAIN OUR PEOPLE AND SEND THEM ACROSS OUR COUNTRY. CALIFORNIA CITY IS ABOUT TO OPEN ANOTHER DETENSION CENTER. WE'VE GOT TO STOP THIS, THIS IS HORRIFIC AND I WANT YOU TO KNOW, THAT EACH ONE OF RIGHT NOW IS LIVING IN A MOMENT WHERE YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. YOU REALLY CAN FOR THESE FAMILIES AND YOU CAN STAND UP BOLDLY, PUT THE RESOURCES WHERE OUR COMMUNITY NEEDS SO THEY CAN SURVIVE. AND I WANT TO SPEAK ABOUT OUR SMALL BUSINESSES. THESE BUSINESS RIGHT SIDE HURTING. YOU SUPPORTED THEM DURING THE FIRES. YOU SUPPORTED THEM DURING THE PANDEMIC, YOU NEED TO THINK ABOUT THE BUSINESSES IN THE SAME WAY THAT YOU DID THEN. AND LASTLY, I LIVE IN NORTHWEST PASADENA, I HAVE A SITUATION WHERE BARELY GETTING OUT OF THE FIRES. WE'VE HAD RAIDS THERE, I HAVE PEOPLE WHO LOST THEIR HOME AND HAVE FAMILY DETAINED. HOW CAN THAT BE SO. THIS IS UNATTAINABLE. WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ACT BOLDLY AND THINK ABOUT THIS MOMENT. AND BACK TO THE WORDS OF COUNCILMEMBER PADILLA, WE HAVE TO THINK OUTSIDE OF THE BOX BUT WE ALSO HAVE TO BE BOLDER AND BRAVER DURING THIS TIME. PEOPLE HAVE A LOT OF FEAR, WE NEED TO STEP INTO OUR COURAGE. WE NEED TO STEP INTO OUR COURAGE RIGHT NOW BECAUSE COURAGE EXIST WHEN THERE IS FEAR. THANK YOU. >> E. Hernandez: THANK YOU SO MUCH. [APPLAUSE] >> Council President: THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU TO OUR PANEL. THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING HERE. COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ. >> E. Hernandez: THANK YOU, THANK YOU SO MUCH, THANK YOU FOR SETTING THAT LANDSCAPE FOR US, AN JE ANGELICA. I WANT TO NEXT STEPS. ONE IS DECLARE THE STATE OF EMERGENCY. THREE SUPPORTING OUR FAMILIES, MAKING SURE THAT THEY DON'T FALL INTO EVICTION OF HOMELESSNESS PIPELINE AND THAT'S THROUGH THE RENT STABILIZATION, THROUGH OTHER MEANS THAT ARE GOING TO BE IN FRONT OF US TO APPROVE AND VOTE. AND MEETING PEOPLE WITH THAT AND RESOURCE. I HOPE MY COLLEAGUES HEAR YOU, IT'S A MOMENT TO BE BOLD. WE HAVE THE BULLY PULPIT, WE CAN SAY THINGS. WE HAVE A A BUDGET, BUT SOMETIMES WE NEED TO REASSESS OUR BUDGETS TO MEET THE MOMENT. BEFORE THIS, WE HAVE NOT SEEN OUR SMALL BUSINESS IMPACTED AT THE LEVEL THAT THEY ARE BEFORE THE BUDGET. SO I HOPE THAT WE CAN REASSESS HOW WE MOVE NEXT. AND I HEAR YOU ANDRES ABOUT CORPORATIONS WHO ARE, YOU KNOW, POTENTIALLY WORKING AND HELPING WITH FEDERAL IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT. AND I WANT THESE COMPANIES TO KNOW THAT WE'RE WATCHING. WE'RE WATCHING THE COLLABORATION AND CALLS THAT THEY'RE MAKING AND ALSO WATCHING THEM NOT DO NOTHING WHEN PENSKE TRUCKS ARE BEING OPENED. I HEARD AND YOU IT TAKES 8 PEOPLE TO MOVE THINGS IN THE BODY. I HEAR 7 OTHERS. I'M GRATEFUL FOR YOU SHOWING YOUR BRAVERY. EVEN COMING OUT HERE TO TALK, PUTS PEOPLE IN DIFFERENT SITUATIONS AND WE TALK ABOUT SECURITY AND ALL THE THINGS, SO I'M GRATEFUL FOR WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE TO NOT JUST DOT WORK DURING THE CRISIS BUT I THINK OUR FOLKS ARE DOING AS GOOD AS THEY ARE BECAUSE OF THE DECADES OF WORK THAT YOU'VE DONE TO BUILD THE STRENGTH, CAPACITY AND CONNECTIONS IN THIS COMMUNITY. THANK YOU. >> MAY I MAKE ONE LAST COMMENT. COUNCIL PRESIDENT. >> Council President: YES, SIR. >> I HEARD OF PEOPLE HAVING TO EMBRACE AND HUDDLE BECAUSE OF HOW COLD IT IS FOR THAT BODY HEAT. AN 8 5-YEAR-OLD SHIVERING, ON THE CONCRETE FLOOR TRYING TO SLEEP. THEY'RE MAKING IT SO HARD TO PEOPLE CAN MAKE THEIR SIGN THEIR RIGHTS AWAY AND VOLUNTARY DEPARTURE. I HEARD SOMEBODY WHO HAD BUT STILL PROVIDED HIS STORY AND INFORMATION. EVEN IF IT'S NOT IN OUR DIRECT SELF TR, HE SAID IT, I'M DOING IT TO THE PEOPLE TO NOBODY ELSE CAN GO THROUGH THIS AGAIN. I JUST WANT TO GROUND US AND REMIND US OF THAT. WE NEED THE SOLIDARITY THAT WE'VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE AS HUGO MENTIONED AND WE IMPLORE YOU TO, DO EVERYTHING YOU CAN DO AS A L.A. CITY COUNCIL. >> E. Hernandez: THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT. THANK YOU SO MUCH, ANDRES. [APPLAUSE] AND COUNCIL PRESIDENT, I WANT TO UPLIFT YOUR LEADERSHIP AS WELL AND THAT OF THE MAYOR. SHE HAS BEEN STEPPING UP AND HAVING THE CONVERSATIONS AND PUSHING OUR, ALL THE ENTITIES TO FLOW DOWN FOR OUR CITY. BUT THE WAY YOU HAVE OPENED UP OUR COUNCIL TO TELL THE STORIES OF MULTIPLE DISTRICTS BEING IMPACTED. I THINK FOR THE HISTORY, FOR PEOPLE TO WIT, I'M GRATEFUL YOU CREATED THAT OPPORTUNITY. >> Council President: THANK YOU SO MUCH AND THANK YOU TO MEMBERS WHO PARTICIPATED AND PUSHED US TO DO THIS. THIS IS THE IDEA OF OUR COUNCIL PRESIDENT PRO TEM BOB BLUMENFIELD TO DO THIS EVERY MORNING. SO I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ACKNOWLEDGE HIM. WE WILL CONTINUE, WE'LL BE EVERY MORNING UNTIL AS WE SAY, AT THE PARK, IT'S NOT OVER UNTIL WE WIN, SO WE'LL BE HERE EVERY MORNING UNTIL WE RETURN PEACE TO OUR STREETS AND JUSTICE TO OUR PEOPLE. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH. MR. CLERK, WE'LL CONTINUE THIS ITEM. AND I'LL ASK YOU WHAT'S NEXT. >> Clerk: THERE IS A REQUEST TO CONTINUE ITEM 19 TO WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 209ING, 2025. >> Council President: WITHOUT OB JEBSINGER. >> Clerk: FOR THE RECORD ADDITIONAL COMMUNITY IMPACT STATEMENT HAS BEEN SUBMITTED BY ITEM 28 BY THE HISTORIC PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL. THE COUNCIL MAY NOW PROCEED TO PUBLIC COMMENT. >> Council President: WE'LL PREPARE FOR PUBLIC COMMENT. AND I'LL NOTE, MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL, STAFFS AND GALLERY, WE WILL HOLD PUBLIC COMMENT TILL NOON SO THAT GIVES US 40 MINUTES. EVERYBODY BE AWARE, START AS AS SOON AS WE CAN SO WE CAN GET TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE. >> City Attorney: TO PEOPLE PROVIDING PUBLIC COMMENT WHEN IT'S YOUR TURN TO SPEAK, PLEASE STATE WHICH OF THE AGENDA ITEMS YOU WANT TO SPEAK TO. YOU'LL HAVE ONE MINUTE PER ITEM, UP THREE MINUTES. WE WILL TELL YOU WHEN YOUR TIME IS UP. WHEN SPEAKING ON THE AGENDA ITEMS, YOU MUST BE ON TOPIC, OUR GOAL IS TO GET THROUGH AS MANY SPEAKERS AS WE CAN. IF YOU ARE NOT ON TOING OR IF WE CANNOT TELL WHETHER YOU'RE ON TOPIC, YOU WILL GET ONE BRIEF WARNING FROM ME OR THE COUNCIL PRESIDENT. AT THAT POINT, YOU NEED TO GET IMMEDIATELY AND CLEARLY ON TOPIC. IF YOU DO NOT DO SO, OR SFRAI OFF TOPIC, YOU WILL FORFEIT THE REST OF YOUR SPEAKING AND WE'LL MOVE ON TO THE NEXT SPEAKER. ITEMS OPEN, 1, AND 37 THROUGH 46. AGAIN THE ITEMS OPEN FOR PUBLIC COMMENT ARE ITEMS NUMBER 1, AND ITEMS NUMBER 37 THROUGH 46. 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 TOO ANY OF THE ITEMS OR ANYTHING ELSE IN THE CITY'S SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION. I HAVE A COUPLE MORE ANNOUNCEMENTS BEFORE WE BEGIN. IF I CAN HAVE THE SPANISH LANGUAGE INTERPRETERS PLEASE MAKE THIS ALOUD TO THE ROOM. PLEASE MAKE SURE TO PAUSE SO THE INTERPRETER CAN INTERPRET. >> Translator: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> City Attorney: AND DON'T WORRY WE'LL PAUSE YOUR TIME WHILE THE INTERPRET CER SPEAKING SO YOU GET THE SAME AMOUNT OF TIME AS EVERY ONE ELSE. >> Translator: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> City Attorney: FINALLY THE ORDER WE TAKE PUBLIC COMMENT IS RANDOM GENERATED. SO IN ORDER TO RUN AN EFFICIENT PUBLIC COMMENT, PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU WAIT UNTIL YOU HEAR THE NAME YOU CALLED, CALLED ALOUD, AFTER YOU HEAR YOUR NAME CALLED, YOU CAN LINE UP IN ANY ORDER ON YOUR LEFT-HAND SIDE OF THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS. >> Clerk: I WILL BEGIN BY CALLING NAMES, TIA, AFREA, LENA, DOLORES ROSA AND LORI LATROP. TIA MATT, AFREA, LENA, DOLORES ROSA AND LAURA LATROP. >> City Attorney: GOOD MORNING, WHICH ITEMS WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO? >> Speaker: GOOD MORNING, I'M GIVING GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. I'M LENA SULLIVAN I'M HERE WITH. I'M HERE WITH ALL OF THESE FOLKS TO ASK YOU TO PLEASE STRENGTHEN LARSO AND CAP THE RENT AT 3 PERCENT. I'M ALWAYS SPEAK TO GO THOSE STRIVING TO SURVIVE IN L.A. ONE GOT THE MAXIMUM 4 PERCENT PLUS 2 PERCENT FOR TAKING IN A FAMILY THAT'S A NUMBER OF 10 PERCENT. COUNCILMEMBER HUTT, 78 PERCENT OF YOUR CONSTITUENTS ARE RENTERS AND 12 PERCENT OF RSO UNITS ARE IN YOUR DISTRICT, I ASK TO YOU PLEASE STAND WITH YOUR RENTER CONSTITUENTS AND VOTE YES. AS WELL AS FULLY FUNDING RENTAL ASSISTANCE. CAP THE RENT AT 3 PERCENT. >> Clerk: BEFORE THE NEXT SPEAKER, BEGINS, I WILL CALL A FEW MORE NAMES. ROBERT, HARRIETTE ELLIOT, NICOLE PAULSON. >> City Attorney: GOOD MORNING, WHICH ITEMS WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO? >> Speaker: ITEM NUMBER 34, PLEASE. >> City Attorney: JUST FOR EVERYBODY, IF IT'S JUST THE ITEM, PLEASE LET US KNOW THE ITEM, IF IT'S THE ITEM AND ITEMS PLUS GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT, PLEASE LET US KNOW IF YOU WOULD LIKE GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT AS WELL? IS IT JUST ITEM 34? >> >> Speaker: YES. >> City Attorney: OKAY, YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE FOR THE ITEM. >> Speaker: I WANT TO REMIND YOU THAT THE HARBOR NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL DID SUBMIT A CIS STATEMENT, AGAINST THIS PROJECT. THERE IS BEEN NOTHING THAT HAS BEEN TRANSPARENT ABOUT IT FROM THE BEGINNING. I URGE THAT YOU, PLEASE HELP FIGURE OUT WHAT WENT WRONG, WHERE IT WENT WRONG BECAUSE WORDS DO MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE. AND SOME ARE ALONG THE LINES, I BELIEVE GONE A FURTHER THAN IT NEEDED TO AND CONTINUE TO GO INTO A CIRCLE THAT NEEDS TO STOP AND HELP FIGURE OUT WHAT WENT WRONG SO IT DOES NOT CONTINUE TO HAPPEN IN HARBOR CITY OR HAPPEN IN ANOTHER CITY. WE NEED TO GET THIS FIXED. THANK YOU. >> Speaker: HOLA. >> City Attorney: GOOD MORNING, WHICH ITEM WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO? >> Translator: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Translator: PUBLIC COMMENT. >> City Attorney: OKAY, YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE. GO AHEAD. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Translator: YES, I AM HERE TO SPEAK ABOUT THE RENTS RAISING. WE NEED HELP, WE NEED IT SO THAT THE RENTS ARE NOT RAISED BECAUSE WE RUN THE RISK OF BEING EVICTED. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Translator: AND I ALSO NEED, I'M ONE OF THE PEOPLE THAT NEEDS HELP PAYING RENT. WE NEED HELP PAYING RENT BECAUSE ME IN PARTICULAR, MY HUSBAND HE WORKS AT HOME DEPOT AND AS WE KNOW HOME DEPOT HAS BEEN SUBJECT TO THE RAIDS BY ICE. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Translator: AND I AM A STREET VENDOR MYSELF AND AIM FRAYED TO GO AND WORK BECAUSE OF THE RAIDS. THAT'S WHY WE NEED RENTAL ASSISTANCE, PLEASE HELP US. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Translator: BECAUSE IT'S A TERRIBLE AND SCARY SITUATION FOR US. MANY OF US WE ARE NOT WE'RE TOO SCARED TO GO OUTSIDE BECAUSE OF THE RAIDS THAT ARE GOING ON. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. [APPLAUSE] >> City Attorney: GOOD MORNING, SPEAKER, YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES FOR THE ITEMS AND ONE MINUTE FOR GENERAL. GO AHEAD. >> Speaker: START WITH ITEM NUMBER 39, IS A ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL OVERDOSE AWARENESS AWARENESS. I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE SURE THAT COUNCIL UNDERSTAND THAT THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES, REALLY NEVER CARE ABOUT ANYTHING ABOUT OVERDOSE. BECAUSE, A LOT OF THOSE ILLEGAL GANG BANGERS CONTINUE TO DO DRUGS ON FIGUEROA, ON SKID ROW, ON ANY CORNER OF STREET OF LOS ANGELES AND NOBODY CARES. THE OTHER DAY I WAS OVERDOSED AND THEN THE ONLY PERSON WHO CARED IS ACTUALLY MY NURSE DANA, DANA IS THE ONE WHO TAKE CARE OF ME IN THE ICU, NOT THE CITY ATTORNEY, NOT THE COUNCILMEMBER OR BLO MA DINGO, I WANT TO THANK DANA VERY MUCH FOR TAKING CARE OF THE PATIENTS IN THE ICU, ESPECIALLY FOR ALL THE PATIENTS OVERDOSE PATIENTS WHO HAVE BEEN IN THE ICU. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK, DANE A.LET'S MOVE ON TO ITEM NUMBER 40, ABOUT THE KOREAN INDEPENDENCE DAY, INCLUDING THE ILLUMINATION OF THE CITY HALL. YES, I AM HERE TO SUPPORT THE KOREAN INDEPENDENCE DAY AND HOW ARE WE GOING TO CELEBRATE IT? THAT WILL BE WE ARE GOING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE GOING TO HOST A KOREAN BBQ IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET OF THE FIGUEROA AND 77, I THINK THAT'S THE BEST WAY FOR US TO RECOGNIZE THE IMPORTANCE OF KOREAN INDEPENDENCE DAY. AND THEN, FURTHERMORE, WE ARE GOING TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERY SINGLE KOREAN HOMELESS PERSON, EVERYTHING GO KOREAN OVERDOSE PATIENTS IN HOSPITAL, THEY ARE GETTING THE CARE THEY NEED. THEY'RE GETTING THEIR SERVICES, THEY NEED. THEY ARE GETTING THE SHELTER, WHATEVER THEY NEED. AND MOST IMPORTANT, WE'RE FOCUSING ON THE LAW A BIDING KOREAN-AMERICAN, NOT THE ILLEGAL KOREAN-AMERICAN. WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE SUPPORTING THE LEGAL, LEGAL AMERICAN ONLY. >> City Attorney: YOU'VE EXHAUSTED YOUR TIME ON ITEM 40, PLEASE MOVE ON TO ANOTHER ITEM. >> Speaker: LET'S MOVE ON TO 43, NO 42, ITEM NUMBER 42, I'M HERE TO THANK OUR ICY LAW ENFORCEMENT FOR ARRESTING THE GANG BANGERS. I'M HERE TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO THE LAPD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND ICE, AND FBI, CIA, RIGHT THERE, TO MAKE SURE THE CITY LOS ANGELES REMAINS SAFE. WE'RE GOING TO MAKE SURE THAT WEE GOING TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERY SINGLE ALL OF THOSE, GANG BANGERS ON FIGUEROA, PROSTITUTION, DRUG RING, CARTEL RING, CONTINUE TO GO TO JAIL AND PRISON GOING TO GET DEPORTED, BECAUSE CRIMINALS HAVE NO PLACE IN LOS ANGELES. WE SUPPORT ICE, LAPD, LAW ENFORCEMENT OF EVERY SINGLE KIND. >> City Attorney: GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. >> Speaker: FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. YES, I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT FOR EVERY ONE IN THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES, WHO ARE SO SICKENED BY YOUR SERVICES TAKEN ILLEGAL AND SERVICES TAKEN BY ILLEGAL. THAT THERE ARE SO MANY ILLEGAL CARTEL AND GANG BANG SXERZ ILLEGAL WHATEVER DRUGS, FENTANYL, MARIJUANA ON THE STREET. I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT SURE THAT THE 15 COUNCILMEMBERS DOES NOT DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT T.EVERY SINGLE 15 MEMBERS COUNCIL, THEY'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THEIR ILLEGAL. BUZZ WHICH COUNCILMEMBER ARE GOING TO SUPPORT THE LAW AND ORDER, THAT WILL BE COUNCIL MEMBER SPINDLER, SUPPORT FOR MY NURSE DAY A AND MY COUNCILMEMBER SPINDLER. WE'RE GOING TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYBODY IN LOS ANGELES LEGAL CITIZEN CAN CONTINUE TO THRIVE, CONTINUE TO SPEAK. >> City Attorney: THANK YOU YOUR TIME IS EXPIRED. NEXT SPEAKER. GOOD MORNING, SPEAKER, WHICH ITEMS WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO? >> Speaker: NUMBER 34 AND GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. >> City Attorney: YOT NUMBER 34 LOOKS LIKE PUBLIC COMMENT HAS BEEN HELD. SO SORRY YOU CAN SPEAK TO IT DURING GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. >> Speaker: OKAY, AND I HAVE A PACKET. >> City Attorney: ITEM 34 HAS BEEN AMENDED AND I DON'T THINK ANYBODY HAS HAD A CHANCE TO SPEAK ON IT. YES, SO COUNCILMEMBER McOSKER, WOULD YOU LIKE TO MAKE A REQUEST TO REOPEN PUBLIC COMMENT ON ITEM 34. >> T. McOsker: YES, GIVEN THE AMENDMENT THAT WAS INTRODUCED TODAY. >> Speaker: OKAY. >> Clerk: IS THERE A SECOND TO THIS MOTION? >> Council President: MR. BLUM FILED HAS SECONDED. AND I'M FINE WITH REOPENIG PUBLIC COMMENT FOR ITEM 34. >> Speaker: THANK YOU SO MUCH. NICOLE PAULSON OUR MALL NEIGHBORHOOD IS FACING A RV PARK WITHOUT OUR VOICES AND WITHOUT ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW AND WITHOUT SAFEGUARDS THE LAWS RQUIRE. IT IS ABOUT MORE THAN ONE PROJECT. IT'S ABOUT WEATHER ANGELINOS CAN TRUST THEIR CITY TO FOLLOW THE LAW. IT EXIST FOR A REASON TO MAKE SURE PROJECTS ARE SAFE, COMPATIBLE AND REVIEWED WITH COMMUNITY INPUT. SKIPPING THAT PROCESS IS NOT JUST WRONG, IT'S DANGEROUS. THIS RV PARK IS PLANNED ON TOP OF NINE CAPPED OIL WELLS THAT OPERATED FOR OVER A CENTURY, YET THERE IS BEEN NO SOIL TESTING, NO CEQA REVIEW, NO ASSURANCE THAT THE LAND IS SAFE FOR HUMAN HABITATION AND FAMILIES TO LIVE ON. WE ARE ONLY ASKING FOR FAIRNESS, SAFETY, AND THE PROCESS THAT THE LAW REQUIRES. PLEASE UPHOLD THE CUP AND PROTECT THE HEALTH AND CHARACTER OF EVERY COMMUNITY IN LOS ANGELES. I HAVE ANOTHER MINUTE. >> City Attorney: YES, SO GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. >> Speaker: OKAY. SO, THIS IS A DISCREPANCY BETWEEN YOU KNOW, THE LAMC AND THE STATE STATUTE AND THERE IS MULTIPLE DIFFERENT THERE IS TWO DIFFERENT, THE STATE AND THE CITY HAVE MADE A C.U.P.AND THEN THE DEFINITION PORTION AND THEN 14.0 CAME ALONG AND REQUIRED ADMINISTERIAL PROCESS WHICH DOESN'T SAFEGUARD OUR PEOPLE IN OUR COMMUNITY AND, ESPECIALLY THE FACT THAT IT'S BEING BUILT ON, CAPPED OIL WELLS WITHOUT FULL ENVIRONMENTAL KNOWLEDGE. I'M SCARED FOR MY COMMUNITY. I REAL, AND THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE THAT ARE GOING TO BE PLAN TO LIVE THERE. I JUST WANT SAFE AND OUR VOICES TO BE HEARD IN THIS PROCESS THAT IS COMING INTO MY COMMUNITY AND YEAH. THAT'S IT. THANK YOU. >> Clerk: BEFORE THE NEXT SPEAKER BEGINS. I WILL CALL A FEW MORE NAMES, SHANE HINSON, BOB MINGLE, CHEETAH ASHLEY, JOSE DOMINGO, COJO THE ARTIST. >> City Attorney: GOOD MORNING, WHICH ITEMS WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO? >> Speaker: I WAS SAYING, NUMBER 1 BECAUSE I DON'T LIKE THE PRO LIBERATION OF LIQUOR STORES BUT I WANT NUMBER 2 WHICH HAS TO DO WITH HUMAN TRAFFICKING. AND THE BOOK CALLED. ?AOUF ONE MINUTE FOR ITEM NUMBER ONE. AND ITEM NUMBER 2, PUBLIC COMMENT HAS BEEN SATISFIED BUT YOU HAVE A MINUTE FOR PUBLIC COMMENT. >> Speaker: I WILL NOT TAKE THE WHOLE MINUTE. NICOLE WROTE "NATION BETRAYED" >> City Attorney: SPEAKER DOES NOT APPEAR TO HAVE ANYTHING WITH NUMBER ONE. SO I'M GOING TO MOVE TO YOU GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. >> Speaker: I'M GOING TO MINE, WHICH IS PATRICIA CORNWALL IS A POPULAR WRITING THAT WRITES ABOUT DIRECTED ENERGY. LAST WEEK W CITY ATTORNEY, YOU, TOLD ME THAT BY TALKING ABOUT THE TWO, ROBERT DUNCAN'S DEATH IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH CITY BUSINESS. WELL I'M GOING TO TELL YOU SOMETHING, CITY BUSINESS, I WENT TO OFFICE DEPOT ABOUT THE CONVERSATION WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT BUT TO GET MY WINDOWS MEASURED BECAUSE THE CIA IS INTERESTED IN PROMOTING SEX THEY DON'T WANT ME TO HAVE GOOD COVERING OF MY WINDOWS. I BROUGHT THIS UP TO THE COMMISSION OF WOMEN AND THEY DID NOTHING ABOUT IT. MY DOCTOR OPTOMETRIST IS TRYING TO FUCK ME, HIS NAME IS KARIK CAHALI. HE DOES NOT KNOW WHAT HE'S DOING. >> City Attorney: SPEAKER, YOUR TIME IS EXPIRED, NEXT SPEAKER. >> Speaker: HELLO I'M SHANE AND I'M GOING TO SPEAK ON ITEM 44 AND GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. >> City Attorney: YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE FOR THE ITEM AND ONE MINUTE FOR GENERAL. PLEASE BEGIN WITH THE ITEM. >> Speaker: THANK YOU. WE ASK THE CITY COUNCIL TO REFER ITEM 44 WHICH ASKED THE CITY TO OPPOSE FOR A FULL HEARING. SB79 A LAWS MULTI MIX FAMILY HOUSING. IN A CITY LOSS JOIN IS SPONSOR OF 79 BECAUSE WE BELIEVE THIS WILL INCENTIVIZE PRODUCTION OF AFFORDABLE AND MIXED INCOME HOUSING. PROTECTED CONTROL UNITS THAT WILL SPUR THE PRODUCTION OF DEEPLY AFFORDABLE HOUSING. WILL ENSURE MORE INCOME TENANTS WILL ENSURE TO LIVE IN A HOME. ATTEMPTS TO PUT SB79 IN A BAD LIGHT. BACK TO THE RULES COMMITTEE SO THE PUBLIC CAN RECEIVE A FULL HEARING ON THE BENEFITS OF THIS BILL. I'M MOVING ON TO GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. >> City Attorney: OKAY, YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE. >> Speaker: I ASK THE L.A. CITY COUNCIL TO AGENDIZE A VOTE ON THE RENT STABILIZATION ORDINANCE. HELPS KEEP TONS OF THOUSANDS OF ANGELINOS HOUSED. HOWEVER THE CURRENT INCREASE IS ALLOWED UNDER THE FORMULA ARE TOO HIGH AND CONTAIN LOOPHOLES THAT HAS RENT INCREASES FOR RENTERS. ANGELINOS WHO ARE ALREADY STRUGGLING TO MAKE THE RENT. I URGE L.A. CITY COUNCIL TO ADOPT THE FORMULA. SPECIFICALLY WE ASK THAT THE BASE RENT INCREASE BE SET TO 60 PERCENT CPI, RENT INCREASE CAN'T BE PLACED AT 3 PERCENT WITH NO FLOOR. AND THAT WE ELIMINATE LOOPHOLES THAT ALLOW LANDLORDS TO RAISE HAND IF THEY'RE ADDITIONAL OCCUPANTS. WE HAVE BEEN WAIT ANDING WAITING FOR THE L.A. COUNCIL TO PROTECT RENTERS. PLEASE AGENDIZE THIS ITEM. THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE] . >> Clerk: BEFORE THE NEXT PERSON SPEAKS, I WILL CALL MORE NAMES. BRIAN SPRADLIN, BRENDAN FISHER, MICHAEL ACKERMAN AND BARBARA BRODY. >> City Attorney: GOOD MORNING, WHICH ITEMS WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO? >> Speaker: ITEM NUMBER 44. >> City Attorney: YOU HAVE A MINUTE, GO EAD HA. >> Speaker: GOOD MORNING, I'M SHADA I REPRESENT THE GLEN NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION AND WE URGE YOU TO OPPOSE SB79. I WAS HERE A FEW MONTHS AGO WHEN THE COUNCIL VOTED TO APPROVE THE HOUSING ELEMENT AS IT LEFT OUT THE SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES. OUT OF THE UP ZONING AS IT SHOULD. IF YOU DO NOT OPPOSE SB79, YOU'RE REOPENING THE VOTE THAT YOU TOOK FEW MONTHS AGO. THIS IS NOT CONSISTENT VOTING. SO I ASK YOU DO NOT SEND IT BACK TO THE RULES COMMITTEE AND QUICK WITH WHAT WAS AGENDIZED TODAY WHICH WAS TO DECIDE ON THIS ITEM AND WE URGE YOU TO OPPOSE 79, THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE] >> City Attorney: GOOD MORNING, WHICH ITEMS WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO? >> Speaker: ITEM 34 AND GENERAL COMMENT. >> City Attorney: OKAY, YOU'LL HAVE ONE MINUTE FOR THE ITEM AND ONE FOR GENERAL. >> Speaker: I'M BOB MING APPROXIMATELY, ITEM 34 I'M HERE REPRESENTING MY NEIGHBORHOOD. WE'VE DONE OUR DUE DILIGENCE, WE FILED FOUR APPEALS. WE'VE GONE TO THE PLANNING ZONING COMMISSION, WE'VE DONE THE C PC COMMISSION. WE FOLLOWED EVERYTHING BY YOUR STANDARDS TO THIS POINT. EVERYTHING THAT WE'VE DONE HAS BEEN STORM WALLED. WAOEFBL PASSED OVER, IT SEEMS LIKE EVERYTHING NA IS FOCUSED ON THIS IS ON PAPERWORK. I'VE ASKED OVER AND OVER, I ASKED PHYLLIS OF PLANNING COMMISSION, I ASKED OTHER OFFICIALS IF THEY LOOKED AT THIS PROJECT. THE ONLY PEOPLE THAT WE'VE GET ANY FEEDBACK FROM IS TIM McOSKER, WE ISSUE STUFF TO HIM AND HE FILES MOTIONS. THIS IS WRONG, THIS IS A WRONG PROJECT. >> City Attorney: GENERAL. >> Speaker: THE CITY COUNCIL NEEDS TO WAKE UP AND FOCUS ON THIS HERE. THIS IS A SMALL ISSUE THAT WILL BE CITY WIDE IF IT'S NOT HANDLED RIGHT NOW. WE NEED TO STOP THIS. WE'VE BEEN, WE FILED SMRAINTS WITH BUILDING AND LABS, AND ALL OF THOSE WERE NO REPLIES, NOBODY WANTS TO DEAL WITH US BUT THEY WANT TO A LAW THE PERMITS IN EVERYTHING. THIS NEEDS TO GET BACK, THE COUNCIL NEEDS TO GET ON A BUS AND DRIVE OUT THERE AND REALLY LOOK AT THIS PROJECT AND WHAT IS GOING ON HERE. IN ONE OF YOUR COUNCILMEMBERS, THIS IS GOING TO HAPPEN. THIS MAN HAS NOT FOLLOWED THE RULES ONE BIT. IF YOU LOOK AT WHAT WE'VE DONE AND WHAT HE'S DONE, HE HAS NOT FILED ANY APPEALS. WE WENT TO THE PLUM COMMITTEE, MS. RAMAN, THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT THE CITY BEING SUED. WELL YOU'RE ALREADY SUING YOU. WE'RE FIGHTING FOR OUR LIVES IN HARBOR CITY. >> City Attorney: SPEAKER, YOUR TIME IS EXPIRED. NEXT SPEAKER. GOOD MORNING, WHICH ITEMS WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO? >> Speaker: GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. >> City Attorney: YOU HAVE A MINUTE, GO AHEAD. >> Speaker: GOOD MORNING, EVERY ONE, OR AT LEAST THE FEW COUNCILMEMBERS THAT ARE STILL HERE. I'M BRANDON AND I'M HERE TO ADVOCATE FOR THE L.A. KEEP L.A. HOUSED TO PLACE ON 60 PERCENT OF CPI FOR HOUSING, DOWN TO 3 PERCENT, TO GET RID OF THE ADDITIONAL UTILITY BUMPS, NEW OCCUPANT RUMP AND ELIMINATE CONSIDERATION. IT'S HARD TO GO A DAY WITHOUT A HEADLINE. AND FRANKLY, WE IF I HAVE IN A TIME WHERE EVERY DAY PEOPLE LACK ANY LACK OF REAL PROTECTIONS. LAST SPRING WE HAD AN UNT TO REFORM LARSO AND YOU MISSED THAT OPPORTUNITY. BUT STILL YOU HAVE CHANCE TO PROVIDE RELIEF. SO WHILE I ASK YOU TO STOP BEING POLITICIANS AND BEING THE PUBLIC SERVANTS YOU WERE ELECTED TO BE. THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE] >> City Attorney: GOOD MORNING, SPEAKER WHICH ITEMS WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO? >> Speaker: ITEM NUMBER 34 AND GENERAL AS WELL. >> City Attorney: YOU HAVE A MINUTE FOR ITEM AND ONE FOR GENERAL. >> Speaker: HELLO. I WANT TO REMIND THE COUNCIL THAT CEQA IS NOT OPTIONAL. IT'S THE LAW. SPECIFICALLY LISTS PROJECTS LOCATED ON OR NEAR THE ABANDONED WELLS AS POSING HAZARDS. THIS PROJECT SITS ON NINE ABANDONED WELLS ON SOIL CON DAMNATION. UNDER LAAMC, CANNOT BYPASS CEQA. THE COURTS WILL BE CLEAR IF DISCRETION IS REQUIRED OR ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS ARE PRESENT, FULL CEQA REVIEW IS DANGEROUS. IT WOULD EXPOSE THE CITY TO RISKS. THIS PROJECT MUST UNDER GO PERMIT WITH CEQA REVIEW. ANYTHING ELSE IS UNLAWFUL. OUR NEIGHBORHOOD, RECOGNIZE THE NEED FOR HOUSING. BUT THIS IS NOT THE PROPER DEVELOPMENT FOR OUR QUIET NEIGHBORHOOD. >> Clerk: BEFORE THE NEXT SPEAKER, BEGINS, YOU WILL CALL A FEW MORE NAMES. LUCIA ABAD. DANA BANANA, ALISHA BALTCZAR. >> City Attorney: GOOD MORNING, WHICH ITEMS WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO? >> Speaker: 45 AND 46 AND PUBLIC COMMENT. >> City Attorney: OKAY YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES FOR THE ITEMS AND ONE FOR GENERAL. PLEASE BEGIN WITH THE ITEMS. >> Speaker: YOU HAVE A COUPLE ITEMS MARKED FOR CLOSE SESSION AND ANY CAN BE PUT IN CLOSE SESSION WITH LITTLE OR NO NOTICE. THIS IS A PROBLEM, I SUGGEST THAT THESE RECORDINGS OF CLOSED SESSIONS BE PUBLISHED AS SOON AS SETTLEMENTS HAVE BEEN REACHED BUT YOU'LL FIND JUSTIFICATION FOR KEEPING THEM CONFIDENTIAL, I HAVE NO CONFIDENCE THAT THE BROWN ACT WILL BE FOLLOWED. IF YOU WANT TOXER YOU CAN TEXT EACH OTHER AND EXAMINE NOBODY WOULD BE THE WISER AND IF CAME OUT THAT YOU WERE VIOLATING THE BROWN ACT. ALSO A SOLUTION AND NO EFFORT ON YOUR ISSUE. REPRESENTATIVES EACH SEND PUBLIC LETTERS TO THE GOVERN ASKING HIM FOR MILITARY OVERSIGHT OF THE POLICE. I ABSOLUTELY DO NOT WANT TROOPS IN THE STREETS BUT I DO WANT A HANDFUL OF NATIONAL GUARD INVESTIGATORS TO LOOK INTO POTENTIAL POLICE MISCONDUCT. GENERAL COMMENT. I WANT TO REMIND THAT THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF PUBLIC COMMENT IS NOT TO COMMUNICATE WITH REPRESENTATIVES. IF PEOPLE WANTED TO DO THAT, THEY CAN JUST SEND YOU A LETTER. THE PRIMARY PURPOSE IS TO ALERT THE PUBLIC AND OFFICIALS ABOUT IMPORTANT ISSUES AT THE SAME TIME. SO IF ANYBODY HERE, OR ANYBODY WATCHING ON SMOKING SCAN, THINKS A NATIONAL GUARD INVESTIGATION OF THE POLICE DOES NOT MAKE SENSE, PLEASE TELL ME WHY. THANK YOU. >> City Attorney: GOOD MORNING, WHICH ITEMS WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO? >> Speaker: I'M HERE TO SPEAK ON THE BEHALF OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL. >> City Attorney: COME OF THINGS, FORMAL IMPACT STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN SUBMITTED TO THE CLERK'S OFFICE OR AND JUST ON YOUR BEHALF AS JUST THE NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL. >> Speaker: I'M SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL. ON THIS ITEM ALONE, AND I'M GOING TO EXPAND WITH TWO DIFFERENT CIS STATEMENTS, ONE THAT WAS FILED IN MARCH AND THAT WAS FILED THIS APRIL. AND I SENT A NOTE TO THE CLERK ABOUT THAT. SO YOU'LL HAVE TWO MINUTES FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL. GO AHEAD. >> Speaker: OKAY. BY THE WAY, BEFORE YOU START THE TIME, THE COUNCIL PRESIDENT IS GONE? >> City Attorney: AGAIN, I BELIEVE THEY'RE IN THE BACK BUT FOR NOW, YOU HAVE TO PROVIDE, YOU'LL HAVE TO START THE CLOCK FOR THE COMMUNITY IMPACT STATEMENT. SO YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES FOR THE COMMUNITY IMPACT STATEMENT. GO AHEAD. >> Speaker: BARBARA BRODY SPEAKING ON WEST SIDE OF THE COUNCIL RESPECTFULLY URGING THE COUNCIL TO APPROVE ITEM 44 THAT OPPOSED SB79. THIS NEEDS TO BE TAKEN UP TODAY BECAUSE THE ASSEMBLY IN SACRAMENTO WILL BE VOTING TOMORROW ON IT. IT SHOULD NOT GO TO THE RULES COMMITTEE WHERE IT HAS LANGD SINCE MARCH. LET'S BE VERY CLEAR, A VOTE FOR THIS RESOLUTION, IS NOT A VOTE AGAINST HOUSING DENSITY AS MANY HOUSING ADVOCATES WRONGLY CLAIM. A VOTE FOR THE COUNCIL FILE IS A VOTE TO FIGHT BACK AGAINST SACRAMENTOS EFFORTS TO OVER SIDE THE LAND USE PLANS AND AUTHORITY WITH ONE SIZE FITS ALL MANDATES THAT IGNORE THE DIVERSITY OF LOS ANGELES AND OUR STATE. L.A. INVESTED SIGNIFICANT RESOURCES TO DEVELOP A HOUSING ELEMENT THAT MEETS THE HOUSING GOALS. IT WAS THE RESULT OF A MASSIVE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION EFFORT. WHILE THE HOUSING ELEMENT PLANS AND REQUIREMENTS ARE APPLIED STATE WIDE, SENATOR WIENER HAS PRESENTED SB79 AS A ONE-SIZE MITTS ALL --FITS ALL. HE HAS BEEN MAKING DEALS BEHIND THE CURTAIN TO EXCLUDE CITY'S AND COUNTIES WILL EXCHANGE THEIR VOTES FOR THEIR EXCLUSION. L.A., IS NOT IN THAT MIX AND WE NEED TO GO ON THAT RECORD O POSING THIS MEASURE. SCOTT WIENER HAS ATTEMPT TO EXPLAIN THE HIGH COST AS A PLACE OF REGULATION AND ZONING. IT'S ANYTHING BUT THAT. THERE ARE MANY OTHER FACTORS INVOLVED THAT ARE IGNORED. HE VILIFIES IN PLACE SINGLE-FAMILY ZONING. AND IN L.A., IT'S NOT 70 PERCENT IN-HOUSING AREA. IT'S 45 PERCENT OF DEVELOPABLE LAND, R1 IS 45 DEVELOPABLE LAND IN L.A. CAN'T BUILD MULTI FAMILY ZONES. RESENT STUDIES OF HOUSING DOCUMENT THAT SB79 FAILS TO ADDRESS THE ROOT HOUSES OF THAT COST OF HOUSING. SAN FRANCISCO FEDERAL BANK, THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF SAN FRANCISCO CONCLUDED CONTRARY TO THE BELIEVES AN INFLUENTIAL NARRATIVE DMENS TRAIT THAT HIGH HER INCOME GROWTH PREDICT SIMILAR GROWTH IN-HOUSING PRICISES, POPULATION AND LIVING SPAI, IN OTHER WORDS, HOUSING COSTS SO MUCH IN CALIFORNIA LARGELY BECAUSE PEOPLE MAKE SO MUCH IN CALIFORNIA AND PRIVATE DEVELOPERS CHARGE WHAT THE MARKET WILL BEAR. SB79 IS A BLANK CHECK FOR DEVELOPERS ALLOWING THEM TO RETURN. WILD STREETS IN MY BACK YARD WITHOUT INFRASTRUCTURE NEIGHBORS COMMUNITY. THANK YOU. >> City Attorney: GOOD MORNING, WHICH ITEMS WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO? >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Translator: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Speaker: BUENOS DIAS. [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Translator: GOOD MORNING TO THE COUNCIL, I'M A MEMBER OF ACE FROM DISTRICT 9. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Translator: I'M HERE BECAUSE I'M A SINGLE MOTHER AND I'M ALSO A STREET VENDOR. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Translator: I'M ASKING YOU GUYS TO CAP THE RENT AT 3 PERCENT. I'M A STREET VENDORS AND AS YOU GUYS KNOW WITH THE AGGRESSIVE RIGHTS A LOT OF US HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO GO OUT AND MAKE MONEY SO I'M VERY BEHIND ON RENT. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Translator: PLEASE FULLY FUND RENTAL ASSISTANCE AND RENT FOESER DISRUPTIONS TO STATEHOUSED L.A. VOTE YES TO THE KLH PROPOSAL FOR LARSO, EXTRA INCAESZER UTILITIES AND REMOVE RENT INCREASE SXZ CAP AT 3 PERCENT. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Translator: FINALLY ALLEY IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO VOTE ON LARSO, WE'RE RENTERS WHO DON'T HAVE ENOUGH TO PAY RENT. >> City Attorney: NEXT SPEAKER, THANK YOU. GOOD MORNING, WHICH ITEMS WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO? >> Speaker: I'M SPEAKING ON GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. GOOD MORNING, I'M ALICIA BALT SAND CZAR AND I'M HERE WITH MY FOAM ACE MEMBERS TO ASK YOU TO CAP RENT AT 3 PERCENT. I'M A MEMBER OF CD15, OR WHAT WE CALL A 1-5 AND I BECAME A MEMBER OF THAT COMMUNITY TEN YEARS AGO. I ALMOST PASS ADD WAY IN A HOMELESS SHERLT. DUE TO MY DISABILITY, A SOCIAL WORKER HELPED ME GET HOUSING AND I THOUGHT I NEVER HAD TO WORRY ABOUT THAT. BUT HERE I AM TEN YEARS AGO, HAVING TO FEAR FOR MY RESIDENT, AND HEADLIGHT CARE AND STABILITY AND GENERAL. RIGHT NOW, MY SON IS 16 AND I WOULD LIKE TO SEE HIM GRADUATE WHILE LIVING INDOORS. IF OUR RENT GOES UP ANYMORE. PROGRAMS LIKE SECTION 8, WILL NOT KEEP US HOUSE ASKED WILL NOT HELP US. WE'RE ASKING YOU WE'VE BEEN HERE SEVERAL TIMES TO ASK YOU GUYS. PLEASE CAP THE RENT AT 3 PERCENT. AND IF YOU COULD, FUND THE PUBLIC BANK. [APPLAUSE] >> City Attorney: GOOD MORNING. WHICH ITEMS WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO? >> Speaker: GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. >> City Attorney: YOU HAVE A MINUTE. >> Speaker: THANK YOU FOR INVITING PEOPLE TO THE CHIRLA AND ALL THOSE PEOPLE, THEY WERE GREAT. ONE QUESTION THAT I WAS WEIRDED OUT THAT YOU KEPT ASKING THEM FOR SOLUTIONS, I WISH YOU WOULD BE COME UP WITH SOLUTIONS YOURSELVES OR WORK WITH THE. THE RENT MORATORIUM IS IMPORTANT, BUSINESS START WITHING THE CURFEW THAT BASS. MARQUEECE AVOID PUBLIC COMMENT. HE HATES LISTENING TO US. I'M SAD THAT SOTO LEFT. I DON'T KNOW WHO WORKS WITH UNION, I KNOW HE DOES. WE NEED THE UNIONS TO BE ALL ON BOARD. YOU NEED TO HELP US. I'M NOT GETTING PAID TO DO THE ACTIVISM THAT I'M DOING. HOPEFULLY, YOU'RE ACTIVIST FOR THE PEOPLE. OH MY TIME IS UP, I WILL UNDERSTAND THAT, HAVE A GREAT DAY. BLESS YOU, ET CETERA ET CETERA AND FUCK--. >> City Attorney: OKAY, I WANT TO CHECK I BELIEVE A COUPLE OF COMMUNITY IMPACT STATEMENTS, I KNOW WE HEARD FROM ONE. IS THERE ANYBODY HERE TO PROVIDE A COMMUNITY STATEMENT THAT WAS APPROVED BY YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL. YES, PLEASE COME TO THE PODIUM. AND AGAIN, THIS IS A FORMAL COMMUNITY STATEMENT THAT WAS APPROVED BY YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL AND ADOPTED BY YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL AND SUBMITTED TO THE CLERK'S OFFICE. AND WE'LL JUST GIVE HER ONE MOMENT TO GET TO THE PODIUM. GOOD MORNING, YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD COMMUNITY IMPACT STATEMENT. >> Speaker: HI I'M LIDIA AND PRESIDENT OF THE AT TUJUNGA COUNCIL. AND HERE ON 79, I'M INVOLVED WITH THE HOUSING AND WATCHING THE BILLS THAT HAVE BEEN GOING BY. ONE OF MY BIGGEST COMPLAINTS ABOUT THAT IS IS THAT SACRAMENTO KEEPS DOING UNFUNDED MANDATES, THOSE ARE ILLEGAL. THEY'RE PUTTING THE PRESSURE ON THE CITY TO PAY FOR THE INPHA STRUCK OF THINGS THAT THEY'RE DEMANDING. IT IS ILLEGAL. THE CITY NEEDS TO STAND UP FOR ITSELF AND ITS TAXPAYERS TO LET THEM KNOW THAT WE'RE NOT GOING TO CONTINUE TO ALLOW THESE BILLS TO COME FROM SACRAMENTO, WITHOUT, THE MONEY TO BACK THEM UP FOR THE INFRASTRUCTURE. I'M GOING TO SWITCH TO THE REASON I'M HERE TODAY. AND I DID PASS OUT OUR CIS ON THE ISSUE. WE ARE OPPOSED TO SB79 AND WE'RE OPPOSED FOR A LOT OF REASONS. BUT ONE OF THEM IS PEOPLE BELIEVE THIS IS GOING TO BRING THE HOUSING THAT IS NEED. WITH IT, CAN ALSO BRING THE DEATHS OF COMMUNITY MEMBERS DUE TO POOR PLANNING. AND THE REASON Y IS FOR EXAMPLE, I LIVE IN SUN LAND AT TUJUNGA, I LIVE IN A AREA THAT IS HIGH FIRE DANGER THAT HAS ALREADY BEEN EVACUATED WITH HALF A THOUSAND PEOPLE HAVING TO LEAVE DUE TO FIRES. WE HAVE HAD THE BIGGEST FIRES IN L.A. COUNTY AND L.A. CITY. THE ISSUE IS, IF THEY'RE GOING TO BE CONTINUING TO OVER BUILD IN OUR COMMUNITY, WHICH IS A HILLSIDE AREA WITH ONLY ONE WAY IN AND OUT FOOTHILL BOULEVARD, YOU'RE SAYING THAT WITHOUT THE PARKING REGULATION SXZ WITHOUT PEOPLE HAVING TRANSPORTATION, THAT THEY WILL BE ALLOWED TO JUST SIT THERE AND DIE. BECAUSE WE ALL KNOW THAT WE'RE BUILDING A LOT OF HOUSING ON THE BLIC TRANSPORTATION ROUTES. AND AS WE KNOW IN PALISADES, AS SOON AS AN EMERGENCY HAPPENS WHETHER IT'S A TSUNAMI, WHETHER IT'S A FIRE, THE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM SHUTS DOWN! THEY ARE NOT GOING TO ENDANGER BUS DRIVERS, AND TRAINS AND PEOPLE ON THOSE AND PUSH THEM INTO AREAS THAT ARE ON FIRE OR BEING FLOODED OR IN THE MIDDLE OF A MUDSLIDE. SO YOU ARE POTENTIALLY CAUSING FUTURE THAT MAY CREATE DEATHS FOR PEOPLE, THAT'S NOT SAFE HOUSE HADING. AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT NEEDS TO BE CONSIDERED. SO PLEASE VOTE NO, ON SB79 AND BACK IT UP ON ANY OF THESE BILLS THAT ARE BAD FOR THE PEOPLE AND ARE UNSAFE. THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE] >> City Attorney: AND I'VE BEEN INFORMED THAT WE HAVE ONE MORE COMMUNITY STATEMENT FILED BIT COMMUNITY COUNCIL. BEFORE YOU BEGIN, JUST SO EVERYBODY AWARE, WE HAVE A WONDERFUL ROBUST NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL SYSTEM IN THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES. AND IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL, THEY'RE SUBJECT TO THE BROWN ACT, OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. THE LOCAL LAW A LAWS A FORMS THEM TO THE OPPORTUNITY TO ADOPT FORMAL STATEMENTS ON MAF OF THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL. THAT'S WHAT HAS BEEN DONE. THE FORMAL STATEMENTS HAVE BEEN SUBMITTED TO THE CLERK'S OFFICE, THAT'S WHAT WE'RE HEARING RIGHT NOW. GOOD MORNING, YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES FOR THE COMMUNITY IMPACT STATEMENT. >> Speaker: GOOD MORNING, AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. I'M FROM THE HARBOR CITY NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL. WE HAD SUBMITTED CIS, HERE BY EXPRESS OUR STRONG OPPOSITION TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF RB PARK OWNED BY STEWARD OPERATING WITHIN HARBOR CITY LIMITS. WE BELIEVE THAT ALLOWING THE SILVER RV TO OPERATE HERE WOULD HAVE FAMILY NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES BY THE RV PARKS IN OPERATION THAT MR. SILVER OWNS. THESE ARE THE CONCERNS. COMMUNITY CHARACTER, INSTRUCTION OF SILVER RV PARK WILL ALTER THE CHARACTER AND CHARM OF HARBOR CITY. OUR COMMUNITY VALUES IN SMALL-TOWN FEEL AND CLOSE KNIT RELATIONSHIP. SILVER RV PARKS PRESENTS WOULD INVITE, SORRY MY GLASSES ARE OLD, WOULD INVITE MORE RVs, PARK ON RESIDENTIAL STREETS AROUND HARBOR CITY TO WAIT FOR A SPOT IN RV PARKA LAWING THAT OLDER RVs TO PARK OUT ON THE STREETS. TRAFFIC INFRASTRUCTURE. SILVER PARK OPERATION WOULD LEAD TO INCREASED TRAFFIC CONGESTION AND STRAIN IN OUR INFRASTRUCTURE. OUR ROADS AND UTILITY AND PUBLIC SERVICES ARE NOT EQUIPPED TO HANDLE OUR INFLUX OF RV AND VISITORS THAT RV PARKS MAY A TRACK. SOME MAY NOT BE MAINTAINED LEAD TO GO HIGHER CHANCES OF BREAK DOWN FLUID LEAKAGE OR OTHER ISSUES THAT WOULD STRAIN LOCAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND RESOURCES. QUALITY OF LIFE IS THE NOISE POLLUTION, TRASH LEFT OUTSIDE, NONWORKING VEHICLES AND OTHER DISRUPTIONS ASSOCIATED WITH RV PARK WOULD DIMINISH THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR RESIDENTS AND THE GREEN MEADOWS AND NEAR BY NEIGHBORHOOD. FAMILIES, SENIOR AND OTHER VULNERABLE POPULATIONS WOULD BEAR THE BRUNT OF THE DISTURBANCES. MR. SILVER HAS RECEIVED POSING HEALTH RISK AND OTHER SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES. THE LACK OF PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT AND INPUT ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENT OF RV PARK TRANSPARENCY THAT SHOULD BE ACORNER STONE OF ANY USE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, THAT CONCLUDES PUBLIC COMMENT FOR TODAY'S MEETING. THANK YOU TO EVERY ONE WHO CAME TO PARTICIPATE. MR. CLERK, CAN WE TAKE UP ITEM 7? FIRST. WHICH WE LOSE MR. PRICE, ON ITEM NUMBER 7, THIS IS A RECUSAL. ALL RIGHT, LET'S OPEN THE ROLL, CLOSE THE ROLL, TABULATE THE VOTE. >> Clerk: 12 AYES. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, WE'LL INVITE MR. PRICE BACK IN. AND, WHAT IS NEXT MR. CLERK? >> Clerk: MR. PRESIDENT, THE COUNCIL MAY VOTE ON 1, 37, 39, 40, 41 AND 43. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, LET'S OPEN THE ROLL ON TOSE ITEMS, CLOSE THE ROLL, TABULATE THE VOTE. >> Clerk: 13 AYES. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, WHAT'S NEXT? >> Clerk: THE COUNCIL MAY NOW VOTE ON ITEM 38 CALLED SPECIAL BY COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ AND JURADO FOR SEPARATE VOTE. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, COMMENTS EITHER OF THOSE MEMBERS? MS. HERNANDEZ, MS. JURADO? ALL RIGHT ITEM NUMBER 38 IS BEFORE US, CALLED SPECIAL BY COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ AND COUNCILMEMBER JURADO FOR A SEPARATE VOTE. LET'S OPEN THE ROLL, CLOSE THE ROLL, TABULATE THE VOTE. >> Clerk: 10 AYES, 3 NOES. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT. WHAT'S NEXT? >> Clerk: COUNCIL MAY NOW CONSIDER ITEM 3 CALLED SPECIAL BY COUNCILMEMBER RODRIGUEZ FOR COMMENTS. >> Council President: COUNCILMEMBER RODRIGUEZ. >> M. Rodriguez: TODAY WE'RE CONSIDERING A NUMBER OF INITIATIVES AND MOTIONS THAT REAFFIRM OUR VALUES FROM OVER REACH. FROM DEMANDING TRANSPARENCY TO FOYA REQUEST TO RESPOND WHEN FEDERAL AGENTS TRAMPLE ON OUR CIVIL RIGHTS, TO REJECTING THE MILITARYIZATION OF OUR NEIGHBORHOODS AND SUPPORTING THAT STOPS SECRET POLICING IS ABOUT DEFENDING THE DIGNITY AND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS OF ANGELINOS. AT THE CENTER IS THE NEED FOR COMPREHENSIVE REFORM. FOR TOO LONG, MILLIONS OF PEOPLE, INCLUDING DREAMERS, TPS HOLDERS, UNGREEN CARD VETERANS THAT HAVE SERVED THIS COUNTRY IN MULTIPLE BATTLES ARE ESSENTIAL WORKERS HAVE LIVED WITH GREAT UNCERTAINITY DESPITE THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO SEE COMMUNITIES AND OUR ECONOMY. FAMILIES SHOULD NOT HAVE TO LIVE IN FEAR AND OUR CITIES LIKE L.A., SHOULD NOT HAVE FORCE TODAY RESPOND PIECEMEAL FOR FEDERAL FAILURES. REAL REFORM WILL PRODUCE A LEADERSHIP TO CITIZENSHIP THAT HONORS THE HARD WORK OF OUR IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES. COLLEAGUES OUR VOTES TODAY, ARE MORE THAN JUST SYMBOLISM, THEY ARE A DECLARATION THAT LOS ANGELES WILL NOT SHRINK FROM OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO LEAD. I HOPE THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES, CAN SEND A CLEAR SIGNAL ACROSS THE COUNTRY, AND IN SOLIDARITY WITH OTHER CITIES, IN THE COUNTY, AND THE NATION, THAT TOGETHER WE CAN TAKE A COORDINATED STANCE, AGAINST THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN THEIR ACTIONS WITH RESPECT TO IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT. AND SO AS WE DO, LET US REMEMBER, THAT OUR NORTH STAR IS TO PROTECT THE PEOPLE WE SERVE AND DEFEND THE RIGHTS AND DIGNITY OF EVERY ANGELINO. AND WITH THAT, I ASK FOR YOUR AYE VOTE. >> Council President: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, COUNCILMEMBER RODRIGUEZ, LET'S OPEN THE ROLL ON THAT ITEM, CLOSE THE ROLL, TABULATE THE VOTE. >> Clerk: 13 AYES. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT. WHAT'S NEXT? >> Clerk: THE COUNCIL MAY NOW CONSIDER ITEMS 28 AND 30 CALLED SPECIAL BY COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ FOR COMMENTS. >> Council President:er COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ. >> E. Hernandez: GREAT, THANK YOU COUNCIL PRESIDENT. REAL QUICK, THOUGH, IS IT POSSIBLE THAT I COULD BE RECORDED AS A NO-VOTE ON NUMBER 38. >> Council President: MR. CLERK? >> Clerk: SIR IF THE COUNCIL WOULD LIKE TO WISH TO RECONSIDER THE ITEM. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, LET'S DO THAT AFTER WE DEAL WITH THE ITEM BEFORE US. >> E. Hernandez: GREAT, THANK YOU. THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT. NO ONE SHOULD BE DRAGGED OUT OF A TRUCK, STOPPED ON A STREET OR CONFRONTED IN PUBLIC BY SOMEBODY CLAIMING TO BE LAW ENFORCEMENT AND REFUSE TO GO PROOF IT. THIS MORNING WE HEARD CLEARLY FROM CHIRLA, CARESEN ABOUT THE WAY FEDERAL AGENTS HAVE BEEN TERRORIZED OUR COMMUNITIES. RAIDS WITHOUT WARRANT, AGENTS REFUSE TO GO IDENTIFY THEMSELVES, PARENTS AND WORKERS LEFT POWER LTS IN THE FACE OF FEAR. THINK ABOUT HOW VULNERABLE THAT MOMENT IS, SOMEBODY APPROACHES, THEIR FACE IS COVERED, THEY WON'T IDENTIFY THEMSELVES, THEY SAY THAT HE HAVE AUTHORITY OVER YOU. WHAT ARE YOU SUPPOSE TO DO? WHO DO YOU CALL? WHAT THIS COUNCIL IS DOING AS A CITY'S LEGISLATIVE BODY IS SEEKING A STANDARD FOR HOW WE EXPECT THEM TO ASK. WE WANT TO WORK IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE POLICE COMMISSION AND THE MAYOR TO ENSURE THAT THESE POLICIES ARE MODERN AND AFFECTIVE AND AS CLEAR AS DAY. TOE ITS CLEAR, THIS MOTION IS ABOUT TRUST. TRUST THAT THE CITY WILL PROTECT ITS PEOPLE. TRUST THAT OUR IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES WILL NOT BE LEFT ALONE IN MOMENTS OF FEAR AND UNCERTAINITY AND WHEN SOMEBODY CLAIMS THE AUTHORITY OF LAW, THEY WILL BE HELD TO THE STANDARD OF PROVING IT. THAT'S WHY ON THE SIDE OF THIS MOTION, I WANT TO UPLIFT 38 AND 30, THAT REINFORCE THE SAME VALUES, NO SECRET POLICE AND NO FEDERAL IMMIGRATION AGENTS HARASSING STUDENTS OR ACCESSING THEIR PERSONAL DATA. I ALSO WANT TO THANK MY COLLEAGUES COUNCILMEMBER BLUMENFIELD WHO HAVE SIGNED ON AND COPRESENTED THESE WITH US. EVERY ANGELINO DESERVES TO FEEL SAFE IN THIS CITY AND EVERYTHING IN OUR POWER TO KEEP THAT PROMISE. THANK YOU, AGAIN AND THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER BLUMENFIELD FOR COPRESENTING THIS MOTION AND EVERYTHING TO EVERY ONE WHO HAS THROWN DOWN. >> Council President: THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ. SEEING NO OTHER MEMBER IN THE QUEUE, OPEN THE ROLL, CLOSE THE ROLL, TABULATE THE VOTE. >> Clerk: 13 AYES. >> Clerk: MR. PRESIDENT, FOR ITEM 38, SINCE THE OUTCOME WILL NOT CHANGE THE OUTCOME, THE VOTE IS NO-VOTE AND THAT WILL CHANGE THE VOTE TO 9 AYES AND 4 NOES. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, WHAT'S NEXT? >> Clerk: THE COUNCIL MAY CONSIDER ITEM 34 CALLED SPECIAL BY COUNCILMEMBER McOSKER FOR COUNCILMEMBER BLUMENFIELD FOR WHICH AMENDING MOTION A, HAS BEEN CIRCULATE ASKED POSTED ON THE BULLETIN BOARD. >> Council President: MR. McOSKER. >> T. McOsker: THANK YOU VERY MUCH. FIRST I WANT TO THANK THE RESIDENT FOR SPEAK ABOUTING THIS ITEM. JUST TO GIVE THE CONTEXT. THE ITEM WAS VETO WAS RECOMMENDED FOR VETO AND REMAND BACK TO THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT FOR FURTHER CONSIDERATION ON THE APPEAL THAT WAS FILED BY THE NEIGHBORS. THE AMENDMENT DO IT DOES ADD LANGUAGE. IT ADS A REQUEST THAT THE CITY ATTORNEY, PROVIDE AN ANALYSIS OF WHETHER OR NOT THE RV PARK IN THIS SITE REQUIRES A CONTINUAL USE PERMIT OR NOT AND IF NOT, WHY NOT? JUST TO GIVE THE CITY ATTORNEY A LITTLE HEAD START, I WANT TO SPEAK TO THIS BRIEFLY. THE DEFINITION OF RV PARK SAYS, SHALL REQUIRE A CONTINUAL USE PERMIT. THE DEFINITION. LATER PROVISIONS, FOR GENERAL PROVISIONS, DID AMEND THE WAY THAT CERTAIN OTHER USES CAN COME IN MINISTERIALLY. HOWEVER IT DOES NOT MODIFY THE DEFINITION AND THAT VERY SECTION ALSO SAYS THE RV PARK SHALL BE LAWFULLY, SHALLING LAWFULLY PERMITTED AS OF THE TIME BEFORE OR AFTER THE ORDINANCE. WHICH IN ITSELF, ASSUMES THAT THERE IS GOING TO BE, A CUP OR SOME OTHER DISCRETIONARY ACTION. I WILL SAY ALSO, IN CASE THE CITY ATTORNEY NEEDS A LITTLE MORE HELP, THE LANGUAGE ALSO SAYS THAT IF PERFORMANCE STANDARDS AREN'T MET THAT ARE LAID OUT IN THIS CODE THAT A CUP SHALL BE REQUIRED. THIS DEVELOPER HAS MISSED ON VIRTUALLY EVERY SINGLE PERFORMANCE STANDARDS AND OUR, AMENDING LANGUAGE TODAY ASKED FOR A BRIEF ANALYSIS OF THOSE STANDARDS, AND THE ARGUMENT THAT'S WERE MADE BELOW AND SO TO GIVE THE CITY ATTORNEY, AGAIN AN OPPORTUNITY AND A HEAD START PERFORMANCE STANDARD ONE, VIOLATED THE DRIVE VIALS ARE NOT AT THE REQUIRED SAFE CIRCULATION AND ACCESS PROVISIONS AND CODE SECTIONS HAVE BEEN SUBMITTED BY THE APPELLANTS. PERFORMANCE STANDARD 2, SET BACKS, UTILITY PEDAL STOOL, FRONT YARD SETBACK, SAME, THE DEVELOPERS HAS MANIPULATED THE DATA. PERFORMANCE STANDARD FIVE, THE LANDSCAPE BUFFER WAS TAKEN AWAY WITH DEFAULT. PERFORMANCE STANDARD 6, THE LANDSCAPING IS WELL BELOW THE MINIMUM REQUIRED, PERFORMANCE STANDARD 8, MAINTENANCE AND ADA COMPLIANCE, ADA PARK HAS BEEN TAKEN AWAY AND REPLACED WITH UTILITY INFRASTRUCTURE. AND 9, IMPACTS THERE IS NOT SUFFICIENT PARKING UNDER THAT CODE TO ALLOW THIS USE. PERFORMANCE STYLE 10, THE WRONG FENCING HAS BEEN PUT IN INSTEAD OF A ROD IRON, THERE IS A BARBED WIRE. AND THIS IS 11, THIS IS A BIG ONE, BECAUSE IT SHOWS THE PRACTICE OF THIS DEVELOPER. THE THING WAS BUILT OUT WITH 48 TO 50 STALLS WHEN 46 WERE APPROVED ON THE PLAN. THE PLAN THAT WAS UNLAWFULLY APPROVED. BUT THEY DON'T EVEN COMPLY WITH THE THING THAT THEY DID WITHOUT THE C.U.P. THIS IS A PATTERN THAT OCCUR IN THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, SANTA CLARITA COUNTY, HAD TO PROSECUTOR THE DEVELOPER FOR DOING THE SAME THING. THERE IS MORE. AND IT'S ALL BEEN SUBMITTED, WE DON'T HAVE TO DECIDE THIS TODAY, IT'S BEEN PUT ON REMAND BUT I DO WANT TO PUT THE CITY ATTORNEY IN A POSITION WHERE THEY CAN OPEN THE CODE, LOOK AT THE DEFINITION OF RV PARK AND APPLY THE LAW. I WOULD URGE THE AYE VOTE ON THE VETO AND REMAND AND THE AMENDMENTS. THANK YOU. >> Council President: THANK YOU MR. McOSKER AND THANK YOU TO EVERYBODY WHO WEED IN. IT'S A LITTLE BIT OF A TRACK SO WE APPRECIATE YOU SEEING YOU. OPEN THE ROLL, CLOSE THE ROLL, TABULATE THE VOTE. >> Clerk: 12 AYES, 1 NO. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT. WHAT'S NEXT? >> Clerk: THE COUNCIL MAY NOW VOTE ON ITEM 3, HELD FOR A SEPARATE VOTE. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, THIS IS ITEM 3 CALLED SPECIAL BY COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ. THAT'S WHAT IT SAYS. OH YOU WANT TO COMMENT? ALL RIGHT. ITEM NUMBER 3. WE'RE SURE? ALL RIGHT, LET'S OPEN THE ROLL, CLOSE THE ROLL, TABULATE THE VOTE. >> Clerk: 13 AYES. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, WHAT'S NEXT? >> Clerk: THE COUNCIL MAY NOW CONSIDER ITEM 44 WHICH WAS HELD ON THE DESK AND CALLED SPECIAL BY COUNCILMEMBER RODRIGUEZ FOR COMMENTS. >> Council President: I ASK THAT THIS BE HELD ON THE DESK FOR PURPOSES OF HEARING THIS IN COMMITTEE. OUR TEAM, AGENDIZED THIS IN ERROR AND THAT THREW A MANY FOR A LOOP. I KNOW THERE IS EXCITEMENT. I WOULD LIKE TO STILL LIKE TO HEAR IT IN COMMITTEE BUT I KNOW MEMBERS THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON IT TODAY. I SPOKE, I CALLED SACRAMENTO AND SPOKE WITH THE CLERK AND THE AUTHOR, THIS WILL NOT BE HEARD ACCORDING TO THEM, THIS WILL NOT BE HEARD UNTIL AT LEAST THE MIDDLE OF SEPTEMBER, SO WE HAVE AT LEAST THREE WEEKS TO CONSIDER THIS IN THIS COUNCIL AND HEAR FROM OUR PLANNING AND BUILDING AND SAFETY SO ON AND SO FORTH. THAT'S THE UNDERSTANDING I HAD THIS MORNING. MEMBERS OF THIS COUNCIL, TOLD ME THAT THEY WOULD BE OL'ED VOTED ON FRIDAY AND I CALLED TO CONFIRM THAT, BUT THAT'S NOT THE CONFIRMATION. I KNOW THERE IS A NUMBER OF MEMBERS WANT TO GO SPEAK BEGINNING WITH THE RODRIGUEZ. >> M. Rodriguez: THE INFORMATION I GOT IS THAT IT WOULD BE SCHEDULED FOR THE 20th IN ASSEMBLY. THIS BODY ENGAGED IN A GREAT OF DEAL OF WORK IN HELPING TO ENSURE THAT WE MAXIMIZE OPPORTUNITIES OF HOUSING IN AREAS APPROPRIATE IN OUR CITY. WE KNOW WE HAVE A NUMBER OF DYNAMIC, INTER PLAYS WHERE WE HAVE TRANSIT DEVELOPMENT HAPPENING. BUT, ALSO WE'VE LIMITED, WHERE WE CAN MAXIMIZE THOSE DENSITIES, BASED ON THE EXPERIENCES THAT SO MANY OF OUR COMMUNITIES HAVE LIKE IN THE NORTHEAST SAN FERNANDO VALUE. SB79 PROPOSES THAT, EVEN A PROPOSED, TRANS IT LINE, WOULD QUALIFY FOR THE MAXIMUM DENSE FICKATION FOR BUILDING HOUSING IN THE AREA. THE CHALLENGE IN MY OWN DISTRICT IN THE NORTHEAST SAN FERNANDO VALLEY WHERE WE'RE STILL A WAITING THE FULL CONSTRUCTION OF LIGHT RAIL TO CONNECT US IN THE NORTHEAST COMMUNITIES. THE SECOND PHASE, OF OUR LIGHT RAIL PROJECT IS NOT ONLY NOT FUNDED, IT IS NOT LIKELY TO FULLY MATERIALIZE IN THE MANNER THAT IT WAS ORIGINALLY PROJECTED TO BE DELIVERED IN OUR COMMUNITY. THE CHALLENGE WITH THAT, IS THAT MERELY SB79 SAYS THAT MERELY THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT OF THIS TRANSIT LINE, WOULD QUALIFY THAT AREA ACHIEVE MAXIMUM DENSE FICKATION UP TO FOUR STORIES. THAT CONTINUES TO BE STRUNG OUT AND LIMITED WITH ITS QUALITY ACCESS TO PUBLIC TRANSIT. WE'VE DONE A GREAT DEAL OF WORK HERE ON THIS BODY TO ENSURE THAT WE'RE TAKING THE UNIQUE DYNAMICS OF EACH OF OUR COMMUNITIES, WHETHER IT'S EQUESTRIAN, SEVERITY ZONES, SB79 WOULD I BELIEVERLY SAY THAT ONE SIZE FITS ALL AND IT TAKES NOTHING INTO ACCOUNT WHAT THE WORK THAT LOS ANGELES HAS ENGAGED IN WITH RESPECT TO CHIRP AND ALL--SO MANY OF OUR OFFICES WERE INVOLVED WITH. WE WENT THROUGH THE LABORIOUS TASK TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE IN SYNCH AND WE'RE BUILDING HOUSING THAT HELPS THE MEET DEMAND OF GROWING POPULATIONS HERE IN LOS ANGELES. BUZZ SB79 SNL THE SOLUTION FOR LOS ANGELES. IT ACTUALLY DOES MORE HARM THAN GOOD. SO COLLEAGUES, I REALLY URGE THAT IN THE TIMELINESS GIVEN WHAT THE STATE LEGISLATURE, L.A. NEEDS TO SEND A STRONG RESPONSE. AND WE CANNOT DELAY, BECAUSE THEY'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO SWEEP AWAY OUR LOCAL AUTHORITY THAT ENSURES OUR AUTHORITY TO REPRESENT AND ENSURE THAT OUR COMMUNITIES HAVE A VOICE. AND SO I WANT TO THANK YOU MR. LEE FOR INTRODUCING THIS RESOLUTION, AND IT IS MY HOPE THAT WE WILL ON IT TODAY. THANK YOU. >> Council President: COUNCILMEMBER PARK? >> T. Park: THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT AND COLLEAGUES. WE ALL KNOW THAT L.A. NEEDS TO PLAN FOR GROWTH. WE NEED MORE HOUSING. AND IT NEEDS TO BE HOUSING THAT PEOPLE CAN ACTUALLY AFFORD BUT THAT DOES NOT MEAN THAT WE CAN BE WRECKLESS ABOUT WHERE AND HOW WE BUILD. ONE SIZE FITS ALL MANDATE FROM SACRAMENTO IS NOT SAFE AND IT'S NOT RESPONSIBLE. WITH SB79, SACRAMENTO IS HIJACKING LOCAL PLANNING, STRIPPING AWAY NEIGHBORHOOD VOICES, IGNORING SAFETY AND INFRASTRUCTURE AND HANDING THE KEYS TO CORPORATE DEVELOPERS. AND L.A. IS ALREADY LEADING ON HOUSING. ALL OF US HERE, AS WELL AS THE MAYOR, ADOPTED THE CITY WISE HOUSING INCENTIVE PROGRAM. AND UNLIKE SB79, CHIP IS NOT COOKIE CUTTER, IT INCENTIVIZES DEVELOPMENT WHERE IT MAKES SENSE. IT OFTEN OFFERS GREATER INCENTIVE THAN THE STATE. ALSO REFLECTS THE CULTURAL AND HISTORIC DIVERSITY OF OUR DISTRICTS AND THEIR MONUMENTS, ENVIRONMENTAL SENSITIVE AREAS AND PUBLIC SAFE TEES. IT'S ALSO ROOTED IN EXHAUSTIVE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND IT IS ALREADY PART OF OUR HOUSING ELEMENT, WHICH THE STATE HAS APPROVED. CITY'S THAT HAVE DONE THE WORK TO RESPONSIBLE ADDRESS HOUSING SHOULDN'T BE LUMPED IN WITH THE SAME MANDATES THAT APPLY TO CITIES THAT HAVE DONE NOTHING. SB79 OVER RIDES OUR PROGRESS, IT DIS REGARDS OUR COMMUNITY AND OPENS THE FLOOD GATES TO TARGET VULNERABLE NEIGHBORHOODS. PLACES WHERE FAMILIES HAVE LIVED FOR DECADES. AND SACRAMENTO IS NOT FOOT IFING THE BILL, THE COST UPGRADING SCHOOLS, UTILITIES, ROADS, PUBLIC SAFETY WILL FALL ON THE SHOULDER OF ANGELINOS. AND THAT'S GOVERNMENT OVER REACH AT ITS WORSE. WE ALL AGREE, WE NEED MORE HOUSING, ESPECIALLY AFFORDABLE HOUSING, BUT IT NEEDS TO BE DONE THOUGHTFULLY AND WITH RESPECT FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD THAT WE SERVE. SB79 FAILS THAT TEST. WHAT IS WORSE, WE HAVE LITTLE TIME TO ACT. COUNCIL PRESIDENT, SB79 IS ON THE APPROPRIATIONS AGENDA FOR THIS WEDNESDAY. WE NEED TO TAKE A VOTE ON THIS TODAY. IF WE DON'T, WE ARE GIVING UP OUR VOICES AS A BODY AND ABANDONING THE VOICES OF CONSTITUENTS THAT WE REPRESENT TO SACRAMENTO. IF YOU DON'T AGREE WITH THE RESOLUTION, THEN VOTE NO ON IT. BUT DOING NOTHING MEANS THAT TODAY, WE ARE GIVING UP OUR ABILITY TO PROTECT OUR RESIDENTS, AND THEIR INTEREST. SO WITH THAT, I ASK FOR YOUR NO-VOTE ON THE REFERRAL AND AYE VOTE IN SUPPORT OF THE RESOLUTION. >> Council President: THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER PARK. AND I HOPE EVERYBODY IS RECORDING THAT THERE IS A CONTENTION THAT IS GOING TO BE VOTED ON TOMORROW. COUNCILMEMBER LEE. >> J. Lee: THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. COLLEAGUES BEFORE YOU TODAY IS THE RESOLUTION THAT I INTRODUCED TO OPPOSE SB79 AND LIKE THE OTHER TWO COUNCILMEMBERS HAVE JUST SPOKE BEFORE ME, WE ALL AGREE THAT L.A. IS IN THE MIDST OF A HOUSING CRISIS WHICH IS EXACTLY WHY WE AS A CITY HAVE DONE THE HARD WORK OVER THE COURSE OF MANY YEARS TO ADOPT THE HOUSING ELEMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION PLAN UNANIMOUS LEA PROVED BY THIS COUNCIL AND HELPED BY THE STATE EARLIER THIS YEAR. SB79 IS A BLUNT TOOL THAT DOES NOT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE YEARS OF PAINSTAKING WORK THAT WE HAVE TAKEN TO ADOPTING ELEMENT IMPLEMENTATION PLAN WITH EXTENSIVE PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT WITH OUR COMMUNITIES AND TECHNICAL DEPARTMENT STAFF. THE CONSEQUENCE OF THIS PROPOSED BILL ARE TOO FAR REACHING FOR THIS BODY TO DELAY. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE, I HEARD THE SAME INFORMATION AS MY TWO COLLEAGUES THAT THE ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE WILL BE HEARING THIS BILL TOMORROW AT 9:00 AM WITH A FULL ASSEMBLY VOTE EXPECTED SHORTLY THEREAFTER. THIS BODY REGARDLESS OF OUTCOME MUST BE ON THE RECORD FOR THIS BILL. KICKING THIS ITEM BACK TO COMMITTEE WILL LEAVE OUR CITY WITHOUT AN OFFICIAL POSITION WHILE THE BILL KEEPS MOVING FORWARD IN SACRAMENTO WITHOUT INPUT FROM OUR GREAT CITY OR ITS LEADERS OR MORE IMPORTANTLY THE PEOPLE OF LOS ANGELES. WHY WOULD WE NOT TAKE A STAND AGAINST SACRAMENTO TRYING TO TAKE LOCAL CONTROL AWAY FROM US. NOBODY KNOWS THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES MORE THAN THE LOCAL LEADERS THAT REPRESENT T.I URGE YOUR NO-VOTE SENDING IT BACK TO COMMITTEE. >> Council President: COUNCILMEMBER JAOUR DO. >> Y. Jurado: THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT. THE RESOLUTION SEEKS TO MAINTAIN LOCAL CONTROL OVER LAND USE WHICH CAN HAVE MAJOR I AM --IMPLICATIONS FOR MY DISTRICT ESPECIALLY IN BOYLE HEIGHTS. WOULD BE SUBJECT TO NEW ZONING, AS DRAFTED, THIS POLICY PAINTS A BROAD BRUSH IN A NEIGHBORHOOD WITHOUT REGARD OF ENGAGEMENT AND DIS INVESTMENT IN A COMMUNITY OF COLOR THAT IS LOW INCOME. THE PLAN WAS RECENTLY ADOPTED AROUND PROTECTIONS FOR LONG TIME EXISTING TENANTS. THE MAJORITY OF WHOM ARE EXTREMELY LOW INCOME P.THE ZONING APPROACH IS SPECIFICALLY TUNED FOR TENANT PROTECTIONS. AT THE SAME TIME, THE PLAN STRATEGICALLY LOCATES SIGNIFICANT NEW DENSITY ALONG TRANSIT CORRIDORS. WE'RE LOOKING TO ADD MORE HOUSING IN A WAY THAT ADS MULTI GENERATIONAL HOUSEHOLDS TO AGE IN PLACE. ALL OF THIS COMES AFTER OVER A DECADE OF HARD WORK BY THE PLANNING DIFFICULT IN CLOSE CONSULTATION WITH MY CONSTITUENTS WITH A HARD SHIP REBUILDING OF TRUST WITHIN REPLANNING AND FOCUSING ON THE REPLANNING AND I FEEL THIS PLAN THOUGH NOT GETTING EVERYTHING THEY WANT. DOES INCORPORATE BOYLE HEIGHTS VALUE TO PROTECT LOW INCOME RESIDENTS WHILE IDENTIFYING NEW RESIDENTIAL CAPACITY AND I DON'T WANT TO STAND IN THE WAY OF THAT. AND SUPPORT SB79 THAT WOULD DESTROY THAT WORK. AT THIS POINT, IT'S UNCLEAR HOW THE BILL WILL IMPACT TENANT PROTECTIONS. NATURALLY AFFORDABLE UNITS IN BOYLE HEIGHTS IS WELL DOCUMENTED. THIS BILL SEEMS SIMPLE BUT CITY PLANNERS WILL TELL ME IT WILL REQUIRE SITE BY SITE ANALYSIS TO UNDERSTAND WHICH UNITS ARE IMPACTED AND WHICH ARE NOT. AND IN THE TIME THAT IT TAKES TO ASSESS THAT, THAT MEANS THAT OUR UNITS WILL BE LOST AND WE'LL NEVER GET THEM BACK. AND I'M NOT WILLING TO GAMBLE LOSING BOYLE HEIGHTS. THAT'S A GAMBLE I DON'T WANT TO TAKE. CONSIDERING THE LACK OF CLARITY AROUND TENANT PROTECTIONS HOW IT MAY OR MAY NOT IMPACT MY DISTRICT. I CANNOT SUPPORT THIS BILL AT THIS TIME. >> Council President: COUNCILMEMBER PADILLA? >> I. Padilla: MEMBERS, I TOO I'M GOING TO VOTE THAT WE NOT SEND THIS BACK TO COMMITTEE WHERE I FEAR IT IS JUST GOING TO SIT THERE AND THEN POTENTIALLY DIE AND AS A COUNCIL NOT ABLE TO GIVE OUR POSITION ON THIS. I VERY MUCH PRAOEFSH THAT LOCAL CONTROL OVER LAND USE TO BE THE LAND OF THE LAND AND NOT LEAVE IT UP TO GENERALIST IN SACRAMENT O.MOST OF THIS YEAR, IS HAVE HAD VERY HEATED EMOTIONAL CONVERSATIONS WITH MY COMMUNITY RELATED TO DENSITY. AND THIS IS WORK, RIGHT, IT IS WORK TO GET TOGETHER WITH THE COMMUNITY AND LISTEN TO THEM AND EXPLAIN TO THEM, YOU KNOW THE DIFFERENT INTER CRA SEE RELATED TO HOW WE INCREASE OUR DENSITY. AND WHILE SOMETIMES IT MAY BE HEATED AND SOMETIMES IT MIGHT FEEL LIKE A TON OF CONFLICT. WHEN YOU ENGAGE WITH YOUR COMMUNITY ABOUT WHAT SORT OF LAND USES YOU WANT TO SEE, YOU DO NEGOTIATE. AND YOU DO REACH A COMPROMISE AND THEN YOU REACH MULTIPLE GOALS INCLUDING THE HOUSING SUPPLY, WHO ALSO KEEPING THE DIGNITY AND BRINGING AMENITIES AND MITIGATIONS THAT ARE APPROPRIATE FOR YOUR COMMUNITY. AND SB79 WOULD TAKE THAT AWAY. I JUST WANT TO EMPHASIZE THAT, WE WERE ELECTED TO DO THE WORK. AND SB79, WOULD ELIMINATE OUR ABILITY TO DO THE WORK AND IT'S NOT GOING CREATE ANY BETTER CONVERSATIONS WITH OUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS AS WE DECIDE WHAT OUR COMMUNITIES AND OUR CITY LOOKS LIKE IN THE FUTURE. SO I HOPE THAT, THE MAJORITY OF YOU WILL VOTE TO NOT SEND THIS TO COMMITTEE AND SUPPORT MR. LEE AND COUNCILMEMBER PARK'S ORIGINAL MOION. >> Council President: COUNCILMEMBER RAMAN. >> N. Raman: COLLEAGUES, I WAS GOING TO SUGGEST THAT WE DO SEND THIS BACK TO COMMITTEE BECAUSE THE RESOLUTION IS GEARED AS ESSENTIALLY AN OPPOSE AND UNLESS L.A. IS EXEMPTED FOR A BILL THAT DOES HAVE BIG IMPLICATIONS FOR LOS ANGELES AND IT BEHOOVES TO PROVIDE REAL FEEDBACK TO A BILL THAT HAS MOMENTUM IN SACRAMENTO, IF IT DOES PASS, HOW WILL I AM ACCOUNT OUR NEIGHBORHOODS AND HOW WILL ADDRESS THE REAL ISSUES? BUT, IT SOUNDS LIKE, THERE IS MOMENTUM TO MOVE FORWARD AND TAKE TAI VOTE. AND I WILL SAY I'M TORN BETWEEN THIS ITEM BUT I WILL BE VOTING ON THIS RESOLUTION, NOT BECAUSE I'M IN AGREEMENT OF THE DESIGN OF SB79 AND IT'S CURRENT FORM, BUZZ OUR HOUSING CRISIS IS TOO DIRE FOR US NOT TO ENGAGE CONSTRUCTIVELY WITH THESE BILLS WHICH L.A. DOES NOT DO IN ADEQUATE AMOUNTS. IF THOUGHT THAT THIS BODY WAS ACCOUNTING IN GOOD FAITH, I WOULD SUPPORT THIS RESO, WE HAVE NOT DEMONSTRATED THAT IN THE PAST. JUST IN THE PAST FEW MONTHS, WE TRIED TO STOP MULTIPLE ALREADY APPROVED 100 PERCENT AFFORDABLE PROJECTS, FROM MOVING FORWARD AND WE WASTED HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF COURT AND LOST. WE ALSO TRIED TO STOP ALREADY APPROVD PUBLICLY FUNDED AFFORDABLE PROJECTS IN PUBLIC LAND AND HAVE SPENT MORE MONEY DEFENDING THOSE PROJECTS IN COURT AND SO FAR HAVE LOST. WE'RE WAITING YEARS ON ENTITLED PROJECTS THAT IMPROVE THOUSANDS OF UNITS BECAUSE WE ARE WILLING TO CONTINUE WITH OUR HIGHLY POLITICIZED AND CLUNKY WHICH ALLOWS PROJECTS TO SIT IN PLUM FOR YEARS, I VOTED ON SOMETHING THAT WAS IMPLEMENTED THREE YEARS. HUNDREDS OF UNITS. W'RE MAKING EFFORTS ON PROGRAMS. OVERALL WE TALK A LOT ABOUT OUR HOUSING CRISIS, ON THIS BODY. BUT OUR ACTIONS HAVE NOT MET THE MOMENT AND THE ONLY TIMES THAT THEY HAVE MET THIS MOMENT IS WHEN SACRAMENTO HAS FORCED US TO DO SOMETHING. THAT'S WHY WE DID IT. AND THAT'S WHY SACRAMENTO KEEPS INTERVENING. [APPLAUSE] WE HAVE NOT BEEN RESPONSIBLE WITH OUR EFFORTS TO RELEASE PER HOUSING GROWTH WHICH I BELIEVE IS THE BIGGEST PROBLEM FACING LOS ANGELES OVER THE NEAR TERM AND UNTIL WE DEMONSTRATE THAT RESPONSIBILITY LOCALLY, I'M GOING TO OPPOSE ANY EFFORT. I'M NOT SAYING DON'T ENGAGE, I'M JUST SAYING YOU HAVE TO ENGAGE CONSTRUCTIVELY AND REALLY FOCUS ON THIS ISSUE WHICH I THINK IS SO IMPORTANT, WE HAVE TO BUILD MORE HOUSING AND WE HAVE TO DEMONSTRATE THAT WE AS A BODY ARE WILLING TO TAKE THE POLITICAL RISK TO SEE DO T.THANK YOU. >> Council President: COUNCILMEMBER SOTO-MARTINEZ. >> H. Soto-Martinez: THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER. COUNCIL PRESIDENT. COUNCILMEMBER RAMAN, YOU HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD. I WANT TO PUT A LITTLE THINGS IN PERSPECTIVE, THIS IS A RESOLUTION SO IT'S UNFORTUNATE THAT OF THE THINGS WE'RE DEBATING IS NOT THINGS THAT WE CONTROL OURSELVES. AND SECOND OF ALL, I THINK THE POINT THAT COUNCILMEMBER RAMAN MADE ABOUT THE STATE COMING N BECAUSE THE CITY IS NOT DOING THEIR JOB, THERE IS A LOT OF CITIES IN CALIFORNIA THAT ARE DO NOT WANT TO BUILD MORE DENSE PLACES, DENSE BUILDINGS IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS. AND THERE ARE COUNCIL DISTRICTS AND COUNCILMEMBERS WHO DO NOT WANT TO BUILD DENSITY IN THEIR OWN DISTRICTS. AND, THAT'S, WE'VE GOT TO BE REAL. WE'RE HAVING A REAL CONVERSATION NOW. SO YOU CAN'T HAVE YOUR CAKE AND EAT IT TOO. IF YOU WANT, THE SOLUTION TO THESE ISSUES, THE HOMELESSNESS, PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE SITES, BUILD THEM IN YOUR DISTRICTS AND DON'T SAY THAT IT WILL BE AFFECTED WHEN YOU'RE STOPPING PROJECTS YOURSELF. WE'RE GOING TO KEEP IT REAL, 100 PERCENT. I SUPPORT SENDING IT BACK TO COMMITTEE, I WANT TO HEAR A REPORT BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE THE WILL OF THE BODY IS NOT THERE, I'LL BE SUPPORTING THE COUNCIL PRESIDENT'S TO RULES. I ALSO WANT TO VOTE NO, BECAUSE I WANT TO HAVE A DISCUSSION. AND ONCE AGAIN, RIGHT, WE'RE USING, WE'RE LISTENING TO THE MOST, THE LOUDEST VOICE NZ OUR DISTRICT, BUT THAT IS NOT THE MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE OF PEOPLE OF LOS ANGELES. THE MAJORITY WANT TO SEE MORE HOUSING. THEY WANT TO SEE MORE PROJECTS BEING BUILT WITH AS MUCH AFFORDABLE. AND I MYSELF WANT TO SEE THE PROJECTS BEING BUILT OVER 40 PERCENT OF THE PEOPLE BUILDING THESE BUILDINGS, ARE UNDOCUMENTED AND YET WE DEPEND ON THEM FOR SO MUCH. SO THOSE DISCUSSIONS ARE HAPPENING IN SACRAMENT O.SO IS WOULD RATHER WAIT AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS AND THEN TAKE THE POSITION. BUT I JUST WANT TO POINT OUT, THE HYPOCRISY OF SOME OF THE COMMENTS MADE HERE, YOU CANNOT HAVE YOUR CAKE AND EAT IT TOO. WHATEVER THE COUNCIL DECIDES, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE TO RESPECT THAT DECISION. THANK YOU SO MUCH COUNCIL PRESIDENT. >> Council President: COUNCILMEMBER YAROSLAVSKY. >> K. Yaroslavsky: THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT. SO I BELIEVE THAT THE CITY AND THE CITY COUNCIL SHOULD TAKE A POSITION ON ONE OF THE LARGEST. THIS RESOLUTION WAS INTRODUCED IN MARCH, SINCE SB79 THAT'S PASSED THE SENATE AND SAID TO BE HEARD TOMORROW AND COULD BE POTENTIALLY BE LAW IN THREE WEEKS. IT'S OFFICIALLY OVER IN AUGUST. SO WE DON'T HAVE TIME. I AGREE THAT WE SHOULD HAVE HAD A MORE ROBUST CONVERSATION IN COMMITTEE, BUZZ WE DIDN'T HAVE THAT CONVERSATION AND HERE WE ARE. THE WINDOW FOR TO US WEIGH IN ON THIS, FOR ALL REASONS IS CLOSING. AND A DELAY IS NO LONGER TENABLE. COLLEAGUES I URGE TO YOU OPPOSE AND TAKE UP THIS IDEA TODAY. ON THE SUBSTANCE OF SB79, I SUPPORT THE RESOLUTION OPPOSING 79, AS SOMEBODY WHO STRONGLY SUPPORTS ADDING MORE HOUSES AND DENSITY IN YOUR TRANSIT. WELL PLANNED HOUSE HADING BUILT IN YOUR TRANSIT IS CRITICAL TO MEETING OUR CLIMATE GOALS AND REDUCING TRAFFIC AND ENSURING THAT CALIFORNIANS HAVE ACCESS TO OPPORTUNITY. MY DISTRICT IS GEARING UP FOR THREE NEW DISTRICTS AND TWO MORE IN THE NEXT TWO YEARS. ON METRO WE'RE ABOUT TO CONSIDER PLANS FOR THE IS SEPULVEDA PASS. AND PROVIDE THAT CRITICAL LINK IN A REGIONAL SYSTEM. WE'VE INVESTED BILLIONS IN OUR INFRASTRUCTURE. I WANT HOUSING DENSITY, BUT I DON'T BELIEVE THAT SB79 IN ITS CURRENT FORM GETS US THERE IN A WAY THAT IS SMART OR RESPONSIBLE. IT'S A BLANKET APPROACH THAT OVER RIDES THE LOCAL TOOLS THAT WE HAVE JUST IMPLEMENTED HERE IN LOS ANGELES. CHIP WAS DESIGNED TO DO EXACTLY TO DO WHAT SB79 IS DOING BUT IT DOES SO IN A WAY THAT IT'S THOUGHTFUL, IT ADS CAPACITY FOR HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF NEW UNITS, MANY OF WHICH IF NOT COUNCIL DISTRICT 5 AND I SUPPORTED IT. I INTER GRADES CONSISTENT WITH LAW. IT'S AN ALIGNMENT WITH ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW AND DISPLACEMENT SPEXES ALREADY VETTED AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT. AND IT'S ONE OF THE MOST AMBITIOUS HOUSING EXPANSIONS IN THE STATE WITH REZONING THAT MEETS AND EXCEEDS STATEHOUSING TARGETS AND ALREADY, PROVEN TO BE DELIBERATING, E'RE START TO GO SEE PEOPLE PULL PERMITS. DOES IT GO FAR? NO. OUR HOUSING PROJECT IS NOT GOING TO BE SOLVED WITH ONE PIECE OF LEGISLATION, WHICH IS WHY WE'RE STILL WORKING TO HOUSING CONSTRUCTION. WE'RE LOOK TO GO FIX OR PERMITTING WAY, THAT TAKES TOO LONG, AND BUILDING CODES, WITH POLICIES LIKE SINGLE STAIRCASE REFORM. THESE CONVERSATIONS SHOULD BE HAPPENING IN LOS ANGELES AND NOT IN SACRAMENTO BECAUSE WE KNOW OUR COMMUNITIES AND NUANCE BETTER THAN SCOTT WIENER. AND IT'S ON THE LAST PIECE THAT WE SHOULD BE IN AGREEMENT. WHETHER OR NOT YOU AGREE WITH THE ZONING CHANGES THAT SB79 WILL BRING. THIS IS YET ANOTHER BILL FROM THE STATE THAT TAKES AWAY CONTROL OVER THESE DECISIONS. IF YOU BELIEVE IN THE IDEA OF HOME RULE WITHIN PARAMETERS WHICH IS WHAT WE DID WITH CHIP, THIS TREND SHOULD CONCERN YOU. I ASK TO VOTE ON THIS HERE AND TO VOTE IN OPPOSITION OF SB79 WITH MR. LEE'S RESOLUTION. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. >> Council President: THANK YOU VERY MUCH. MEMBERS THANK YOU FOR COMMENTS AND ENGAGEMENT IN THIS ISSUE. LOOK THE MAIN REASON I WANTED THIS TO COMMITTEE IS I FEEL LIKE THIS BILL LIKE A LOT OF THINGS IS RIFE WITH MISINFORMATION. JUST TODAY, THREE MEMBERS OF THE BODY HAVE DIFFERENT WHEN IT'S GOING TO BE VOTED ON. I LITERALLY JUST LOOKED AT MY PHONE FOR TOMORROW'S ASSEMBLY, THAT BILL IS IN SUSPENSE AND NOT VOTED ON. THERE IS A LOT THAT WE DON'T KNOW AND COMMITTEE SOLVES THAT. ON THE CONTENT OF THE BILL, LOOK MY GENERAL FEELING IS, THERE IS NOTHING EVEN, IF I AGREE WITH SOME OF THE THINGS IN SB79, THERE IS NOTHING THAT THIS BODY COULDN'T DO IT SELF FOR LOS ANGELES. THE THING THAT WE'RE WE CANNOT DO, WE CANNOT GET THE OTHER CITIES IN THE COUNTY TO COME A LONG. AND A BIG PART OF OUR PROBLEM IS THE OTHER CITIES, THEY DON'T EVEN EVEN WHAT WE'RE DOING NOW, FOR ALL THE CRITICISM OF LOS ANGELES AND OUR UNWILLINGNESS TO BE AS 'EM BRACING IN DENSITY, OUR NEIGHBORING CITIES DO EVEN LESS. AND THE STATE IS THE ONLY WAY TO HAVE TO COMPEL THEM. THAT'S WHY IT'S WORTHY OF A LONGER AND MORE IN DEPTH DISCUSSION BECAUSE OF OUR NEIGHBORS AND ALL OF US HAVE NEIGHBORING CITIES THAT NOT ONLY DON'T PRODUES HOUSING BUT THEY SEND THEIR WORKING POUR TO LOS ANGELES TO GET AFFORDABLE HOUSING THAT WE BUILT. AND THEY MAKE THE PROIFT OFF THAT WORKER SO THE RESTAURANT OR WHATEVER BUSINESS IT IS, AND THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES BEARS THE COST, OF HOUSING THEM, PROVIDING PUBLIC SAFETY FOR THEM AND ALL THE REST AND AT SOME POINT, WE'VE GOT TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS. THIS IS NOT A BURDEN LOS ANGELES WITH BEAR ALONE. AGAIN, YOUR COUNCIL PRESIDENT HAS LOTS OF FAULTS. COUNTING IS NOT ONE OF THEM. SO SICK COUNT AND FEEL THE ENERGY OF THE GROUP SO I'M GOING TO WITHDRAWAL MY REQUEST AND WE'LL VOTE THE VOTE AT THIS TIME. MR. CLERK, WE'LL OPEN THE ROLL, ON ITEM 44. CLOSE THE ROLL, TABULATE THE VOTE. >> Clerk: 8 AYES, 5 NOES. >> Clerk: THIS ITEM IS ADOPTED. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, WHAT'S NEXT? >> Clerk: MR. PRESIDENT, WOULD COUNCIL LIKE TO CONVENE IN CLOSED SESSION FOR ITEM 45 AND 46? >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, WE'LL PREPARE THE ROOM FOR CLOSED SESSION. STAFF, CITY ELECTED OFFICIAL, CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE. IN THIS CASE, CAO AND PERSONNEL WILL BE WITH US FOR THIS HEARING. [COUNCIL IN CLOSED EXECUTIVE SESSION] >> Council President: BEGIN BY CALLING THE ROLL. >> Clerk: YES, MR. PRESIDENT. BLUMENFIELD HARRIS-DAWSON HERNANDEZ HUTT JURADO LEE MCOSKER NAZARIAN PADILLA PARK PRICE RAMAN RODRIGUEZ SOTO-MARTINEZ, YAROSLAVSKY 15 MEMBERS AND A QUORUM MR. PRESIDENT. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, MR. CITY ATTORNEY, ANYTHING TO REPORT OUT OF CLOSED SESSION? >> City Attorney: NO MR. PRESIDENT, THERE IS NOTHING TO REPORT OUT OF CLOSED SESSION. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, MR. CLERK, WHERE ARE WE? >> Clerk: COUNCIL HAS ITEMS FOR POSTED AND REFERRAL AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS IMMIGRATION A.G. AND DISPLACED COMMITTEE WITH JOBS COMMITTEE, WILL START AT 2:30 P.M. >> Council President: 2:30, OKAY. >> K. Yaroslavsky: WE'RE GOING TO START THE BUDGET AT 2:30. >> Council President: COUNCILMEMBER RODRIGUEZ. >> M. Rodriguez: GIVEN THE TIMELINE THAT ITEM 44 GET SENT URGENT FORTHWITH. >> Council President: WITHOUT OBJECTION. DO WE NEED A VOTE ON URGENT FORTHWITH? >> Clerk: YES, SIR, WE CAN TAKE THE URGENT FORTHWITH ON ITEM 446789 --44. >> Council President: OPEN THE ROLL, CLOSE THE ROLL, TABULATE THE VOTE. >> Clerk: 15 AYES. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, ANY OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS MEMBERS? SEEING NO OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS, I'LL ASK EVERYBODY IN THE CHAMBERS TO RISE FOR ADJOURNING MOTIONS. ALL RIGHT WE'LL BEGIN OUR ADJOURNING MOTIONS WITH MR. LEE. >> J. Lee: THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. >> Council President: OKAY, YOU HAVE SOME FOLKS COMING UP. >> J. Lee: COLLEAGUES, I'M, JOINED BY MY GOOD FRIEND, HOWARD TO ADJOURN IN THE MEMORY OF HIS BELOVED WIFE ELLEN WANG, A BELOVED MEMBER OF OUR COMMUNITY WHO PASSED AWAY AT THE AGE OF 78, SHE WAS A FORCE OF NATURE AT SIERRA CANYON SCHOOL WILL BE FELT FOR GENERATION TO SEE COME. LEN WAS BORN IN CULVER CITY AND SPENT YEARS. SHE ATTENDED PATRICK COMMUNITY JUNIOR HIGH WHERE SHE QUICKLY BECAME AN ACTIVE LEADER AND WHERE SHE BECAME A SPIRIT CHEERLEADER SHOWING HER ENERGY AND DEDICATION TO COMMUNITY. AFTER BRIEFLY ATTENDING CAL STATE NORTHRIDGE, ELLEN CHOSE TO FOLLOW A CALLING INTO NURSING. IT WAS AT THAT AGE AT 18, THAT SHE MET THE LOVE OF HER LIFE, HOWARD WANG, HER PARTNER AND HUSBAND, FOR OVER 50 YEARS. SHARED VISION. WHEN HOWARD RECEIVED A FELLOWSHIP AT CLAREMONT, SHE SUPPORTED HIM BY WORK AT A BANK. UPON RETURNING, THEY OPENED SIERRA CANYON SUMMER CAMP FOR THEIR LOVE FOR EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY. TAT CAMP QUICKLY BECAME MORE THAN A SUMMER PROGRAM WHERE CHILDREN CAN LEARN, THRIVE AND KIDS LOVED IT SO MUCH THAT THEY DIDN'T WANT TO LEAVE. THAT INSPIRED INTO A FULL PLEDGE SCHOOL IN 1978, A PLACE THAT IF YOU VISITED, YOU WOULD KNOW BUILT ON LOVE, VALUES AND BELIEVE THAT LEARNING SHOULD BE BOTH MEANINGFUL AND FUN. ELLEN DID ERG WHILE RAISING TWO CHILDREN, MANAGED HR AND THEN OFFICE, SECURED PERMITS, AND EVEN COOKED MEALS AT THE CAFETERIA. THERE WAS NOTHING SHE COULD DO. ELLEN CHOSE TO RETURN TO HER EDUCATION, APPLIED FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE PROGRAM IN CAL STATE NORTHRIDGE, AND DESPITE BEING REJECTED BASED GENDER, SHE WENT BEFORE THE BOARD AND WON. GRADUATED AS THE FIRST FEMALE GRADUATE AT CSUN COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM ALL WHILE RAISING HER YOUNG CHILDREN. HER REMARKABLE CAREER CONTINUED WHEN SHE WAS RECAOUTD BY UNIVISION, ULTIMATELY BECAME THE FIRST FEMALE VICE PRESIDENT, SHE CHATTERED GLASS CEILINGS NOT ONLY FOR HERSELF BUT FOR GENERATIONS OF WOMEN WHO WOULD FOLLOW. SHE WAS DEEPLY COMMITTED TO WOMEN'S RIGHTS AND CIVIL RIGHTS, A WOMEN WHO MARCHED WITH DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. AND ALWAYS STOOD ON THE SIDE OF JUSTICE. AFTER RETURNING FROM UNIVISION FOR FURTHER EXPANSION INTO HIGH SCHOOL. SHE WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN ESTABLISHING THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND SERVED AS A BOARD MEMBER FOR OVER A DECADE. HER LEADERSHIP EXPANDED BEYOND EDUCATION BECAUSE SHE SERVED ON A BOARD WHERE SHE WAS HONORED AS BOARD MEMBER OF THE YEAR IN 2008. IN 2022, ELLEN WAS DIAGNOSED WITH ALZHEIMER DISEASE. TRUE TO HER RESILIENT NATURE, SHE FACED THE CHALLENGE WITH COURAGE AND DIGNITY. SHE PASSED AWAY SURROUNDED BY HER FAMILY EXAMINE LOVED ONES, OVER 450 PEOPLE ATTENDED HER MEMORIAL, A TESTAMENT TO THE LIVES SHE'S TOUCHED AND THE LEGACY SHE LEAVES BEHIND. SHE IN EVERY SENSE THE ALL-AMERICAN VALLEY GIRL. SOMEBODY WHO LOVED HER FAMILY, SOMEBODY WHO LOVED HER COMMUNITY DEEPLY. AND SOMEBODY WHO GAVE HERSELF OF HERSELF WITHOUT HESITATION. HER LIFE WAS AN EXTRAORDINARY BLEND OF HEART, GRIT AND VISION. I'M DEEPLY GRATEFUL FOR EVERYTHING SHE HAS CONTRIBUTED TO OUR COMMUNITY IN CD12. ELLEN IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND HOWARD, HER TWO CHILDREN, SCOTT AND KAREN, AND HER THREE GRANDCHILDREN, LINSAY TYLER AND SARAH. MAY HER MEMORY BE A BLESSING AND MAY SHE REST IN PEACE. >> Council President: THANK YOU SO MUCH, MR. LEE. THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US TODAY, MR. WANG. ANY OTHER ADJOURNING MOTIONS? SEEING NONE, WE ARE ADJOURNED. THANK YOU SO MUCH, EVERYBODY.