Buenas noches. Muchisimas. Gracias por estar aqui. El pueblo esta presente. El pueblo se ve y se siente. Today we're celebrating El grito 2025. And the theme is Viva la resistencia . We've had over 12 weeks of federal immigration raids on our city, and we wanted to show today, especially what it looks like to resist. And that is through joy, through culture, through food, through being in community and particularly I want to uplift again, joy. That's what's going to refill our batteries so that we can continue this fight to protect our communities here in Los Angeles. I think now more than ever, it is very important for us to come together and be united as a community. We have been through a lot this summer, this year, and I feel like the theme of Viva La Resistencia, which is, you know, long live the resistance. It has a new meaning now. So I think it's really important to come out and show your support. I'm really proud that in spite of the challenges that our community is enduring, that we are still coming together to stay true to our cultural traditions. This El Grito celebration, the celebration of Mexican independence, has taken place here in City Hall for 87 years. And we're not going to let anything stop the traditions from happening at a moment in time when our community needs to continue to come together and celebrate authentically. Who we are. I'm a Mexican-American, so I take a lot of pride in my culture, and I actually moved out to Los Angeles and I'm away from my family. So it just connects me more to my family. Um, and I spent a week in Mexico before and so this is really special to get to experience it now in Los Angeles. Mexicanos. Milagro Torres nos dieron Patria y libertad. Viva mirada. Algo viva enamorados! Viva Randomly! Viva pasado! Viva iraq-iran! Viva Viva Josefa Ortiz de Dominguez! Eva! Eva Vicente Guerrero! Viva! Viva Mexico! Viva viva Mexico! Viva viva Mexico! Viva. El himno Nacional! El position de verbs. In position. Costa. Here I think it's a really beautiful event. Especially to have in the time right now. I know that a lot of people were scared to come, but I wanted to show that, you know, I can be here and represent the people who may not have the ability to have come. And so, yeah, I'm really glad that I was able to show up and that they had such beautiful music, such beautiful food and the people were really amazing to see everybody especially connected with the rope. That was a very beautiful element. And yeah, everybody was really friendly. I really liked that they put on this event for us. Viva méxico! México Viva ! O Los Angeles is the home of the largest concentration of people of Mexican origin outside Mexico City. So it's no surprise that Negrito ceremony has been taking place here at the beautiful City Hall for decades. So it is very exciting, incredibly incredible privilege. I am honored to be the Consul General of Mexico in Los Angeles and to come and celebrate our independence, our pride in our identity, our culture. Well, this is a great celebration of the fabric of Los Angeles. The people of Los Angeles, El Grito, the significance is that we are all bound by our willingness and our demand for freedom and independence. And whether you're Mexican American African American, Anglo American, Asian American, all of our peoples have had struggles against oppression and struggles to take away our freedoms and our people fight back against those, and we declare our independence. Mexican independence Day is a reminder that those of us who believe in justice, those of us who believe in freedom, those of us who believe in equality, if we fight, even when it's darkest, like it's dark today, we will win and we will be victorious. Events like this just really underscore the opportunity to come together and the importance of coming together as a community. And while it may be affecting Mexicans today, tomorrow, it may be another ethnic group, tomorrow another group after that, and so we know we have to work together. Otherwise we're going to all fall. It's important that we talk about our freedom, talk about what we have in common. I'll talk about our ability to work together and so for me, retail represents that. I think that's wonderful because I really like those colors. I like the energy here. It's so positive and so like it. Even despite I'm from another country, I don't speak Spanish, but I feel so cozy, like at home . Like I think I've definitely was speaking Spanish in my previous lives because I feel so good. I feel like I'm belong here. So thank you for this. Like I don't know all the organizations and all the people who made this possible. I feel very nice to be here. I just was walking around, I heard some music. I thought, I have to check it. So here I am and I'm glad that it's happened like this. Happy Mexican Independence Day! I wish everybody peace, love and all the best things and positive vibes. You know today for the city of Los Angeles, I think it's so fitting that one of our toughest Mexican Americans on the council, Eunice Hernandez, is running El Grito this year, a year where there's so much fear, so much uncertainty. But today was supposed to be a day of celebration, a day of happiness. And we're making that happen. The diversity of our city is seen in the folks that are here, and I'm just happy to be a part of it, to be able to talk about the importance of the Mexican American community and its impact in Los Angeles internationally, locally, at all levels, Mexican Americans have always shown to be good Americans, and by continuing to celebrate our culture, that's our way of fighting. We should keep fighting for our rights because we believe we made a difference in Los Angeles. We're here to stay, and we're going to continue making and building and making Los Angeles beautiful. I know that El Grito is a Mexican independence Day, but I think we shouldn't just see it as only that, especially in the times that we're living in independence transcends any nation it's supposed to be something we can all recognize. We should be celebrating any independence from tyranny. And I think that's why so many people have come out to support, because we recognize that. I want to remind our community that there is strength in numbers, and there are so many of us here in Los Angeles and where government isn't able to intervene or support. We have wonderful partnerships with the consul generals from all the different Latin American countries, from our nonprofit organizations, from our labor unions. This is what they're trying to erase and stop us from doing. They're trying to prevent us from being authentically who we are and this event with everyone that's turned out, is a reflection that we are, in fact, here. And we will stay here right now. One of the most powerful things we could do to protect our families here in Los Angeles is to build community, is to know who your neighbor is, is to have their phone number and call and can call them in case of an emergency. Events like these are what help build relationships with communities so that we can survive these tough moments. And that's what helps the government do the right thing. That's what overcomes these moments is community power, people power. Hello everyone, I'm Natalia Bilbao, and here's what's happening in LA this week. Keeping the lights on. Boyle Heights has suffered with almost 2000 street lights out across the community. Council member Isabel Herrera has identified $1 million for a dedicated street crew to ensure that the street lights come back on and stay on . I live literally a block away . I could walk here and I run this route maybe four times to five times a week. I can tell you. I run it at night and it's very, very dark. I have my flashlight that I take with me, so I know it's not safe. I got it. When I came into office, we heard from Eagle Rock to Highland Park to Boyle Heights to downtown LA. People don't feel safe. And part of that is because all the lights are out. In Boyle Heights alone, 1900 street lights are out, and that's the highest number in the city. And so in October of this year, we allocated $1.07 million to make sure that we have a dedicated street crew to make sure that the lighting is going to stay on. We have scientific data that proves what community members feel intrinsically that brighter lights, adequate lighting actually reduces crime. I haven't seen the lights on on this street. Maybe in about four years now. I feel like we've been making this known for years and nobody's listened. You know, we just get to shrug off communities like Boyle Heights deserve to have their lights on public safety starts with equitable city service delivery. We are a community that is often overlooked in favor of other districts in the area. Speak up. Being loud, we have to make our voices heard in order for government to move. In order for our representatives to know what is most important to us, the work can get done. I'm excited to see what this is going to look like at nighttime. Now, with the lights on, let's work and keep the lights on. In Pico-union, the shovels are poised and crews are ready to improve accessibility in the neighborhood. The project is tied to affordable housing, so living, working, walking and accessing Pico-union is set to be better than ever. Today we are doing the groundbreaking for a significant amount of street infrastructure being invested here in Pico-union. We are doing crosswalks, we are doing Ada accessibility ramps, sidewalks. We're doing the street, street lights. This is a phenomenal day for Pico-union. When we talk about the future of infrastructure investment in the city of Los Angeles, this project exemplifies and embodies the future, especially where affordable housing is our centerpiece. So this project is tied to an affordable housing development that has moved forward in this area. Recognizing that we are bringing more people to this area, we wanted to make sure that people could have safe street infrastructure so that kids can walk to the school safely. Parents can walk to work safely, and everybody can come back home. We really believe that our streets should be designed for people, and you do that by making sure that people feel safe walking in their neighborhoods. And so that's really our motivation. We as a city are coming through for our community members, for the voters, for the taxpayers. I'm just glad that we're able to uplift that and have this day to day for them. And with that, we're going to grab our shovels and we're going to break some ground. Two, one. Yay Let's go see Street infrastructure. Councilwoman Heather Hutt, her office and local volunteers gathered to help with food supplies for the holidays. The much needed food giveaway helped neighbors in need, allowing everyone to celebrate. Where we're at, Michelle and Barack Obama sports complex right here on Obama Boulevard. And what we're doing is a much needed food giveaway. We have fresh vegetables. Maybe you can see in the background we have turkey and we have a line that started really early this morning because people are in need. We're giving to the community. We're giving just for people who are just might be a little bit less fortunate when it comes to Christmas and food and making sure, you know, the community just has something to eat with their family. I'm helping people and giving back. It's the holiday season and times are hard. I've probably been here for like each four years and I come back just to help and give back this impacts a lot of people and she's impacting the community. Different communities as well. Just seeing the smiles on these people's faces and seeing how grateful they are. It is an amazing thing. The volunteers are from the community. Many of them are my family members. Everybody's here to give us a hand. My whole team has been out here since early, early this morning organizing. Food is really expensive and people have food insecurities. This should stabilize how they feel about what their next meal is, and that's what we're trying to satisfy. Two sides of the same coin are at work in South LA with funding for green and sustainable projects. Parks in the area are getting EV chargers and more tree coverage, both of which will help bring down pollution levels in the neighborhoods. Where Harbor Park in South LA were celebrating the installations of the South LA Ecolab for the EV chargers. This is part of a bigger program, universal Basic Mobility, which is a 30 million investment in South Los Angeles to bring mobility options, access to opportunity and increased transportation equity. While reducing greenhouse gas emissions at the same time, the bureau got invited to participate in the TCC grant program, and our role is to install 16 EV chargers across four different parks here in South LA. Our charging program is a little different than most . Um, we install chargers on existing infrastructure. We found that our existing street light circuits had extra capacity when we converted to LEDs. We currently have over 800 chargers throughout the city of Los Angeles, so these chargers are going to offer a convenient place for people to charge close to home, especially for people who may have challenges charging at home like people who live in multi-family housing. For Sutherland Ecolab we're working with community organizations such as three people to increase the community canopy in South LA, call the community Canopy expansion Project and its main goal is to advance shade and tree equity by planting 4000 trees in city parkways and also distributing 2000 fruit or shade trees to residents to plant in their home . Both projects will help each other. The charging station will help with pollution with less carbon monoxide and the area and the tree planting will help absorb that. Uh carbon monoxide . With the events that we had in certain parks where we gave away free seeds and like he said, with the trees, we also was teaching you how to plant and provide and take care of the tree. Also. This is the first park that we're completing. The installations we are working in different parks in South L.A. where we are also installing EV chargers. Our next park will be Vermont Square, South Park and the Wetlands. LA sanitation takes in hazardous household waste at its safe centers. The Ladwp is hosting a customer service Saturday on January 17th and volunteer signups are open for the 2026 Greater Los Angeles Homeless count. These stories up next on City Beat. LA sanitation wants to let Angelenos know that it's safe centers are permanent collection sites for hazardous household and electronic waste. Safe stands for Solvents Automotive, Flammables and electronics and the Safe centers take in items such as aerosol cans batteries paints and more. LA City Sanitation advises keeping items in their original containers if possible, and placing waste securely in the trunk. Separate from personal belongings. Residents are allowed 15 gallons or up to 125 pounds per vehicle per visit to the center. For more information, visit Safe Center under new battery collection centers at the website. Sanitation LA city dot gov. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power invites Angelenos who need help signing up for utility, financial assistance to attend customer support Saturday , Department of Water and Power customer service centers at Crenshaw North Hills and Watts will assist residents with their programs. The one on one consultations will provide ways to save water, power and money, along with same day enrollment in payment programs. Angelenos will need to bring a valid ID, proof of income, proof of disability if applicable, and their la DWP bill, gas Bill and phone bill. No RSVP is needed and bilingual representatives will be available at customer support Saturday on January 17th from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. for more information, visit ladwp dot com . The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, Lahsa, has opened volunteer registration for the 2026 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count each January Lahsa staff and volunteers count unhoused Angelenos makeshift shelters, tents and vehicles, according to Lhasa, the 2026 Greater Los Angeles homeless count will feature improvements in staffing support and the training materials have been simplified to ensure consistency across all LA regions. Lahsa is seeking to recruit 6500 volunteers to assist with the homeless count, which is taking place this year on January 20th, 21st and 22nd. For more information or to register as a volunteer, go to countless. A.org. Councilwoman Heather HUD reviewed 2025 with improvements on key issues in her district underway. HUD's 2026 resolutions are for more progress in housing continued expansion of parks, and keeping the economy strong. I'm Councilwoman Heather HUD, the 10th district City of Los Angeles. I am proud of the work that we've been able to do. I'm proud of government and community working together since I got here in 2022. We've really been working on homelessness, and I'm proud to say we've successfully brought down homelessness in our district by 29, and we've gotten over 2000 people in permanent housing. I'm really proud of that. And, you know, it's not over. There's more work to be done. I'm committed to using every city resource to bring more parks into CD ten. We're currently working on a plan to do a major expansion to Seoul International Park, and the past few months we've secured major renovations to be made to Chateau Park and Lafayette Park, and we also just finished renovating the football field here at Obama Sports Complex. So when we think of Koreatown, it's a very dense population. And in going outside the box, thinking of ways to make spaces usable is why we expanded Pio Pico Library to make a library park and we should see the completion of that very soon. With the World Cup all star weekend, Super Bowl and the Olympics all heading to Los Angeles, we're standing on the edge of a massive economic boom, but a boom only matters if the wealth stays in the neighborhood. This is why our office launched our small business Workshop series by giving our local businesses access to tools like ramp, they can position themselves to secure formal city contracts, transforming them from spectators into vendors and workers. That will make these games possible. We're going to celebrate all the words of Martin Luther King. We have the MLK parade coming in January. I'm excited. It's running all through the 10th district, so come out to King Boulevard and see all of the joy that comes with the Civil rights fight. And then love. Hut it is something I do in Women's Month to remind women about how important they are and to know that I care about their struggle. I can't believe we're almost at 26 continuing to get our unhoused neighbors the housing and resources they need. That's number one. Every single day. Continue growing park space across the district. There are so many children and families who have limited access to being outside to be in parks in our district. And I feel like they're a necessity. So I'm committing to making sure we don't forget. I feel like we've had some lessons learned in 25, 25, showed how resilient Los Angeles is, and then we'll move on with that strength and resilience in. 26. All the good boy and girl dogs at the LA Animal Services shelters got holiday treats and toys, while the generous gifts are a help, the intention is to highlight the dogs and help get them into their forever homes. Today, the Karen Cooper Foundation brought Santa sacks for the dogs across our six animal services centers . We're actually bringing Christmas toys to the shelter here. Actually, there's 1100 toys that we're bringing really wonderful toys and treats for all the shelter dogs that are here. What else can I say? Christmas came early for the shelter pets in LA city. We know these shelter dogs don't really have that much of an opportunity to have any joy during the holidays, so what we do is we bring them all these treats. The other reason that we do it is to draw attention to adoptions that are so much needed. Any animal that goes to a home, it's so important for us because it makes much needed space in the shelters. So we wanted to adopt a dog, so he just came and he fell in love. One of the dogs and I was at work when he told me he already adopted him and I was like, why didn't you tell me? And then when I came to visited him, I'm like, my heart melted too. So I'm like, so happy that he decided to get this dog. Super happy, right now. I know we're both super happy right now. That's all I can say. Michelle and I are here for this cause we're here to bring Christmas to them. But at the end of the day, what needs to really happen is these little guys and gals need to be in their forever homes. It's really helpful to adopt a dog that would change a life to find more ways to support the department, whether it's volunteering, adopting, or donating, you can visit LA Animal Services, dot com. The recent LA rains couldn't dent the community spirit on display at the annual Kwanzaa Festival. In fact, legend has it that rain on this parade is a sign of good luck and blessings to come. The question came up what are we going to do for Kwanzaa? Why don't we do a parade? For With the Kwanzaa, every day does is it brings in the new year. The theme of this year's gala day is kerfuffle, which is literally resurrection. And so we're in a resurrection period. I mean, Kwanzaa to me, is celebrating black pride. So just to have this moment for us to be able to gather together and do something meaningful with no drama, fun times. Leimert Park is always a good time. I'm excited to be out here getting these ladies 39 and over. We get out here double done a line dance, hula hoops, play games, encourage each other. Just bringing back childhood nostalgia. We get excited about all the fun, the cards and the marching and the walking and all the good things that are in this community. Just glad to be here and grateful at 77, to be able to hang with the young folks now. When you walk in the ring at Kwanzaa time, you got blessings. That's what the things you remember the more it rains, the greater the blessings . LA Civil Rights Department is firmly focused on ensuring that hate has no home in LA. Executive director Kapri Maddox spoke about the department's year of action campaigning for civil rights and civil society in a Los Angeles that lights the way for all. Hate has no home in Los Angeles. The relaunch of the campaign, called Just Say Hello , sends a strong message that hate has no home in Los Angeles. We want to build a sense of community, a welcoming feeling with Angelenos. So our reparations report is about 400 pages of the African American experience in Los Angeles, over a 100 year period. There are so many spaces where your color speaks before you do. In America, but even in the city of Angels. And so we want to be intentional to send a strong message that we cannot unsee some of the harms of the past, some of the traumas, and to think about how we can, as a city, right. Those wrongs. We want to be a city where people can live their best lives regardless of how they identify. We stand with folks while they're going through their transition, while they're looking for jobs. And so when you think about the LGBTQ plus community being discriminated in the workplace, particularly the transgender population, we want to make sure we have a pathway for people to be self-sustaining in Los Angeles, making sure that we have housing as well as job fairs for this targeted population is a just service. I just want to say I love AAPI month, Asian American Pacific Islander Month is one of my favorite months in the city. I love the celebration, the food, the colors, the community, the pride. Of course, we had a number of elected officials, including our very own John Lee , Nithya Raman and many others. This is what I really love about our elected officials is you may represent a group in your identity, but you go out and you celebrate all of Los Angeles every Heritage Month. We call our service day. Tom Labonge Day of Service. Tom Labonge loved people. He oftentimes bringing together people from different backgrounds and the opportunity for us to do Tom Labonge day of service gave us a moment for people to work shoulder to shoulder with their fellow Angelenos and have that common connection of wanting to serve. We need to understand that it takes all of us to build a better Los Angeles. We are intentional here at LA Civil Rights to say, regardless of your faith, we stand with you. We don't have hate crime. Stopping at the door just based on your skin color or how you identify. We also have tremendous hate crimes happening against folks based on their faith. So we want to be unified with all faiths to say, we see you, we stand with you, we celebrate you, and we want to create a Los Angeles where people are free to worship as they wish and to not feel like they're at risk if they're going to temple or going to the mosque or going to their churches. We've been able to support folks with Know Your Rights information with Angelenos. We even had a know Your Rights fair at my beloved Cal State LA, where we had 19 service organizations to provide advice , guidance, resources for students at the Cal State LA campus during one of the toughest times of the Ice raids in the City of Angels. When I think about the we Belong campaign, it's something I'm super excited about because we wanted to send a message to our immigrants that you belong here. And so the campaign is I belong. You belong, we belong. You know , people often say in hate, go back to where you belong. We wanted to blanket the city with a message that everyone belongs . We were intentional to do this in a number of languages, but our first language out of the box, we did it in Spanish. Many of us have come from different places and spaces for the freedom and the liberties. Los Angeles offers us all. Our city is strong. We are standing with all communities. I want you to know we have your back. We are here for you and we are building a Los Angeles for all. In this week's Things to Do help keep MLK Jr's dream alive at freedom Festival. Enjoy a guided Tidepool Walk at Cabrillo and get those Legos clicking and a brick play date in Koreatown. All this up next on things to do . It's freedom Festival happening on MLK day Monday, January 19th. Join Council President Marquis Harris Dawson Council member Curren Price, and Councilwoman Heather Hutt in partnership with Community Coalition and Destination Crenshaw to celebrate the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. According to Council President Harris Dawson, this yearly staple provides hundreds of South L.A. residents with resources, culture and connection. This year's festival highlights the impact and unity in action with the theme Still We Rise Keeping the Dream Alive. Head to Leimert Park for freedom Festival on the Martin Luther King Jr holiday Monday, January 19th, from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. for more information, visit the Instagram account of Council President Marquis Harris Dawson at MDC. D eight. Enjoy a guided Tidepool walk with the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium educators on Saturday, January 17th as they interpret the various habitats of the Cabrillo Beach Coastal Park. The walk begins at the Aquarium courtyard and takes in the native gardens, salt marsh beaches and tide pools along the way, you'll see fossils, native plants, birds, and other interesting finds. Head outside, bring a snack, and meet at the aquarium for a tidepool. Walk on Saturday, January 17th at 1:30 p.m. for more information, see the events calendar at Cabrillo Marine Aquarium .org. Join the Los Angeles Public Library for brick Play date at the Pico Koreatown Branch Library on January 17th. If you love to build things, join the playdate at the library. Families are welcome to come and use their imagination to build and play with the library's Legos. This activity is recommended for kids ages four and up. Head to the community room at the Pico Koreatown Branch Library for the hands on activity brick play date on Saturday, January 17th at 1:30 p.m. for more information, visit lapl.org. Slash events. And that's a look at some things to do. And that's all for this week. I'm Natalia Bilbao and from all of us here at LA this week. Thank you so much for joining us. Remember that you can watch us online anytime at LA Cityview. Org. And we're also on Instagram, Facebook x and YouTube. See you next time for more LA this week . And welcome to the regularly scheduled meeting of your Losl TO THE REGULAR SCHEDULED MEETING OF YOUR LOS ANGELES CITY COUNCIL. TODAY IS FRIZ, THE 9th DAY OF JANUARY, THE YEAR 2026. THE BIRTHDAY OF MY MOST BELOVED ANGELINO, MS. CARRY HARRIS-DAWSON. PUBLIC COMMENT WILL BE TAKEN IN-PERSON FOR THIS MEETING. MS. MADAM CLERK, LET'S BEGIN BY CALLING THE ROLL. >> Clerk: YES, SIR. BLUMENFIELD HARRIS-DAWSON HERNANDEZ HUTT JURADO LEE MCOSKER NAZARIAN PADILLA PARK PRICE RAMAN RODRIGUEZ SOTO-MARTINEZ YAROSLAVSKY. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT NEXT. >> Clerk: APPROVAL OF MINUTES. >> Council President:er COUNCILMEMBER RODRIGUEZ MOVES COUNCILMEMBER McOSKER SECONDS, NEXT. >> Clerk: COMMENDATORY RESOLUTIONS FOR APPROVAL. >> Council President: COUNCILMEMBER PARK MOVES COUNCILMEMBER LEE SECONDS. TODAY IS FRIDAY, BUT I BELIEVE, THE "PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE" IS IN ORDER AS THIS IS OUR FIRST MEETING OF THE YEAR. ALL RIGHT, DO WE HAVE A VOLUNTEER TO LEAD US IN THE "PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE"? COUNCILMEMBER PA*RK? >> T. Park: PLEASE RISE IF YOU'RE ABLE, PLEASE YOUR HAND OVER YOUR HEART. READY BEGIN. I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE 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 JUSTICE FOR ALL. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, MADAM CLERK, WHAT'S NEXT? >> Clerk: MR. PRESIDENT-- >> Council President: I KNOW I KNEW YOU OFF WITH THE "PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE", MY APOLOGIES. >> Clerk: NO, IT'S OKAY, MAY I RUN THROUGH THE AGENDA? >> Council President: YES, PLEASE. >> Clerk: 1 THROUGH 8 ITEMS FOR WHICH PUBLIC HEARINGS HAVE BEEN HELD. 9 THROUGH 11 ARE ITEMS FOR WHICH PUBLIC HEARINGS HAVE NOT BEEN HELD. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, THOSE ITEMS ARE BEFORE US WITHOUT OBJECTIONS. DO WE HAVE SPECIALS FOR THIS MORNING'S MEETING? MEMBERS? TO MY LEFT? LOOKS LIKE MR. McOSKER? >> T. McOsker: THANK YOU, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MR. PRESIDENT. I WOULD LIKE TO CALL ITEM 2 SPECIAL FOR AN AMENDMENT WHICH IS BEING CIRCULATED NOW. >> CouncilPresident: ALL RIGHT. COUNCILMEMBER JURADO? ARE YOU STANDING FOR A SPECIAL? >> Y. Jurado: YES, COUNCIL PESIDENT I WOULD LIKE TO CALL 23 AND 24 SPECIAL FOR A SEPARATE VOTE. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ. >> E. Hernandez: YES, GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL PRESIDENT, CAN I CALL ITEMS 23 AND 24 SPECIAL FOR SEPARATE VOTE AND ITEM 30 FOR COMMENT SXZ CONTINU 28 FOR ONE MONTH. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT. WE HAVE A DATE, MADAM CLERK FOR ONE MONTH. >> Clerk: SO 28 IS CONTINUED FOR ONE MONTH AND THAT WOULD BE FRIDAY FEBRUARY 6, 2026. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, COUNCILMEMBER SOTO-MARTINEZ. >> H. Soto-Martinez: YES, I WOULD LIKE TO CALL ITEM 29 FOR COMMENTS PLEASE. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT. COUNCILMEMBER RAMAN. >> N. Raman: I ALSO WANTED TO MAKE A COMMENT ON ITEM 29. >> Council President: ANY OTHERS TO MY RIGHT? TO THE LEFT OF THE CHAMBER? ALL RIGHT, SEEING NO OTHER SPECIALS, MADAM CLERK, WHAT ITEMS ARE WE ABLE TO CAST VOTES ON AT THIS TIME? >> Clerk: MR. PRESIDENT, COUNCIL MAY VOTE ON ITEMS 1 AS WELL AS 3 THROUGH 8, SIR. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT. . LET'S OPEN THE ROLL ON THOSE ITEMS, CLOSE THE ROLL, TABULATE THE VOTE. >> Clerk: 14 AYES. >> CouncilPresident: ALL RIGHT. WHAT'S NEXT? >> Clerk: MR. PRESIDENT, WOULD COUNCIL LIKE TO GO INTO TESTIMONIALS OR PRESENTATIONS? >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, WE'LL GO TO TESTIMONIALS AND THEN WE'LL GO TO PRESENTATIONS. AND THIS TESTIMONIAL WILL BE LEAD BY COUNCILMEMBER RODRIGUEZ BY OF THE 7th DISTRICT. >> M. Rodriguez: THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. SADLY, 2026 HAS STARTED WITH NO SHORT OF CHAOS WITH ADMINISTRATION LEADER NA CONTINUES TO INSULT. SADLY WE JUST SAW A WOMAN LOSE HER LIFE, WHEN RENEE GOODE, AT THE HANDS OF ICE. THIS IS THE 5th LOSS OF LIFE THAT HAS RESULTED FROM THE ASSAULTS LEAD BY ICE AGENTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY. BUT WHAT IS MORE INFURIATING IS THAT ASIDE FROM THE ASSAULTS THAT HAVE BEEN LEVEED TOWARDS THSE THAT ARE EITHER PROTESTING OR HELPING TO DOCUMENT THE ACTIONS THAT ARE TAKING PLACE IN COMMUNITIES ACROSS THIS COUNTRY, WE KNOW THE HARM THAT IS BEING INFLICTED ON MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY WHO'S VOICES ARE BEING IGNORED. WHO'S FAMILIES ARE GETTING TORN APART. THIS CHAOS CONTINUES TO INFLICT SUCH TREMENDOUS HARM ACROSS AMERICA. YOU KNOW, IT WAS JUST AT THE END OF THE YEAR THAT WE BROUGHT IN A NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS INCLUDING MEMO TORRES TO TALK ABOUT ALL THE CATALOGUING OF THE INCIDENTS TAKING PLACE JUST HERE IN THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA REGION. BUT WHEN I LOOK AT THE FOOTAGE OF WHAT OCCURED TO RENEE, A WOMAN WHO HAD JUST DROPPED OFF HER SIX-YEAR-OLD SON AT SCHOOL, THERE IS NO WAY THAT IT DOESN'T TOUCH AND AFFECT EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US BUT MAKE, MAKE NO MAKE NO MISTAKE, THIS IS ALL INTENDED TO INFLICT FEAR AND SILENCE OUR COMMUNITIES. TO BECOME COMPLICITY AND ENABLE THE ASSAULTS THAT ARE HAPPENING TO IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES ACROSS THIS COUNTRY. AND FRANKLY EVEN CITIZENS ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND WE SAW THAT HAPPEN WITH RENEE GOODE. I WANTED TO TAKE A MOMENT TO REMIND US ALL THAT WHILE WE DON'T HAVE THE DIRECT AUTHORITY TO SUPERCEDE WHAT THIS PRESIDENT IS DOING, AND WHAT IS BEING ENABLED BY FEDERAL LEADERS THAT HAVE BEEN ELECTED TO REPRESENT US, WE DO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DOCUMENT, TRACK AND PROTECT OUR RESIDENTS AND DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THE ACTIONS THAT TAKE PLACE IN THIS CITY. AND I WANT TO ASSURE THE PUBLIC THAT THE SILENCE IN THE REPORT BACKS THAT WE HAVE SOUGHT, TO ENSURE THAT THERE ARE ACTIONS THAT WE CAN BE TAKING TO MAKE THE MOST TO PROTECT MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITIES WHETHER THEY ARE PROTESTING OR WHETHER THEY ARE MERELY DOCUMENTING WHAT HAS TRANSPIRED HERE ON THE ASSAULTS AGAINST MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY. GLOVES ARE OFF. IT'S HAPPENING NOW, AND IT'S HAPPENING THIS YEAR. SO, IN HONOR OF RENEE GOODE AND SADLY ALL THE OTHER INDIVIDUALS THAT HAVE BEEN TORN APART AND AFFECTED DIRECTLY BY THE ACTIONS OF ICE, I JUST WANTED TO START THIS, THIS COUNCIL MEETING IN RECOGNITION OF WHAT CONTINUES TO HAPPEN ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND ACROSS OUR CITY. AND TO ENSURE THAT EVERYONE RECOGNIZES THAT ALL ANGELINOS UNDERSTAND, THAT AT LEAST FOR MYSELF AND SPEAKING FOR MYSELF, AS A LEADER, ELECTED TO REPRESENT TO BE 115th OF THE LEGISLATIVE BODY OF THIS CITY, I'M NOT HERE TO SUGGEST OR PRETEND NOR SHOULD YOU BE UNDER ANY MISUNDERSTANDING THAT THEIR ACTIONS HAVE SLOWED, THEY HAVE NOT. DON'T NORMALIZE THE ACTION, DON'T TURN AWAY, CONTINUE TO BE A VOICE FOR CHANGE, AND I WANT TO INVITE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC TO CONTINUE AND I THANK THEM FOR SHOWING UP FOR BEING THAT VOICE AND THAT ADVOCACY. BUT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE SOME ELECTIONS COMING UP AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT EVERYONE REMEMBER THEIR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT AND WHAT THIS KOUPT REIS SUPPOSE TO STAND FOR AND REPRESENTS. THANK YOU. >> Council President: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, COUNCILMEMBER RODRIGUEZ. IT'S AN APPROPRIATE START TO OUR WORK HERE IN THE COUNCIL GIVEN THE GRAVITY OF WHAT IS HAPPENING IN OUR COUNTRY AND IN OUR COMMUNITY. OUR NEXT PRESENTATION WILL BE BROUGHT TO US BY COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ OF THE FIRST DISTRICT. >> E. Hernandez: THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT. WE HAVE A FEW GUESTS WITH US HERE TODAY. I'LL GIVE THEM SOME TIME TO JOIN US. THANK YOU, COUNCILWOMAN RODRIGUEZ FOR YOUR WORDS AND UPLIFTING RENEE NICOLE GOODE. THIS WEEK SHE WAS GOOD, SHE, RENEE WAS SHOT AND KILLED BY ICE. HER DEATH DESERVES OUTRAGE, CARE AND JUSTICE BUT IF WE ONLY SHOW UP SOMETIMES, THEN WE'RE NOT ACTUALLY COMMITTED TO JUSTICE, WE'RE COMMIT TODAY CONVENIENCE. WHAT HAPPENED TO KEITH PORTER ALSO DESERVES OUR ATTENTION, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT INVOLVES FEDERAL ICE AGENTS WHO OPERATES WITH NO OVERSIGHT AND VIOLENCE WITHOUT DENIAL. THIS HAPPENED IN OUR OWN BACK YARD AND SILENCE IS NOT AN OPTION TO GROUND AND YOUS AT THAT TO* TALK ABOUT KEITH, I'M GOING TO BE INVITING COURTA WHO IS A FAMILY MEMBER OF KEITH PORTER. KEITH PORTER WAS A FATHER, A NEIGHBOR AND A BELOVED MEMBER OF OUR COMMUNITY THAT IS GRIEVING AND DEMANDING ANSWERS. AN OFF DUTY ICE AGENTS DOES NOT GET TO DECIDE WHO LIVES AND WHO DIES PERIOD. HE CAN'T BE THE JUDGE AND ALL THE OTHER PARTS OF THIS SYSTEM. IT TAKES COURAGE FOR FAMILIES TO SHOW UP IN THE MIDDLE OF GREETING AND DEMAND TRUTH. --GRIEF AND DEMAND TRUTH. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. PLEASE WELCOME HIS FAMILY. OKAY, I'LL BE INVITING HIS MOTHER TO TALK AND SHARE A FEW WORDS. THANK YOU. >> Speaker: MY SON KEITH DID NOT DESERVE THIS. KEITH PORTER WAS A WONDERFUL SOUL. HIS HEART WAS BIG. HE HAD A BIG HEART, HE LOVED SO HARD AND SO LOVED SO DEEP. ANYONE WHO CAME IN CONTACT WITH KEITH, LOVED HIM. HE WAS A JOY, HE WAS A JOKESTER, HE WAS MY BABY. HE WAS A FATHER, A COUSIN, AN UNCLE, AND HE ALWAYS SAID, FAMILY OVER EVERYTHING MEANT THE MOST TO HIM. MY BABY CALLED ME EVERY MORNING TO SAY GOOD MORNING, MOM I LOVE YOU. EVERY DAY BEFORE HE WENT TO WORK JUST TO SAY MOM I LOVE YOU, HOW IS YOUR DAY? HE LOVED HIS DAUGHTER, HE LOVED ME SO MUCH I MISS MY CHILD, HE DOES NOT DESERVE THIS. HIS FAMILY, I'M SO GRATEFUL FOR HIM. HE LOVED UNCONDITIONALLY, HE NEVER ARGUED, HE WAS THE ONE THAT BROUGHT PEOPLE TOGETHER WITH LOVE AND UNIT. HE WAS THE TYPE OF PERSON THAT THERE WAS NO ANGER, HE ALWAYS BROUGHT JOY INTO THE ROOM AND HE MADE YOU FEEL SPECIAL. EVERYBODY HAD A NAME. AND IT WAS FROM LOVE, JOY. HE LOVED TO COOK, HE WOULD COME TO YOUR HOUSE AND JUST RAM YOUR REFRIGERATOR AND COOK A MEAL. HE JUST WANTED HAPPINESS. HE WANTED EVERYBODY TO JUST BE FILLED WITH JOY. HE WOULD SAY, I DON'T CARE MOM IF I HAVE A DOLLAR IN MY POCKET, YOU WOULD NOT KNOW IT, BECAUSE I'M A MILLIONAIRE, I'M GOING TO WALK JUST LIKE THAT. I AM GOING TO LET EVERYBODY KNOW. I'M THAT PERSON. I'M GOING TO PUT MY CLOTHES ON AND I'M JUST GOING TO LOVE. I'M PIR ACTUAL, AND I LOVE. AND THERE IS A LOT OF PEOPLE OUT THAT LOVE ME AND I KNOW IT. SO I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW, PLEASE. JUSTICE FOR MY BABY, HE DOES NOT DESERVE THIS, PLEASE. THIS PERSON HURT MY CHILD AND HE WOULD NEVER HURT ANYBODY, HE LOVED SO HARD, HE RESCUED ANIMALS, HE WORKED WITH DISABLED FAMILY. HIS HEART WAS SO BIG. HIS HEART WAS SO BIG, HE DIDN'T DESERVE THIS. HE WAS ON HIS WAY BACK TO SAY MOMMY I LOVE YOU, HAPPY NEW YEAR, HE DIDN'T EVEN GET A CHANCE TO POP THE CHAMPAGNE. HE DIDN'T GET A CHANCE TO SAY GOODBYE. I JUST WANT TO TOUCH MY BABY ONE MORE TIME AND KISS HIS FACE AND HOLD HIM. HE WAS SNATCHED FROM US, LORD, PLEASE, I JUST WISH YOU COULD GET JUSTICE FOR MY CHILD. OH PLEASE, GET JUSTICE FOR MY BABY. >> SAY HIS NAME! >> KEITH PORTER. >> SAY HIS NAME? >> KEITH PORTER. >> SAY HIS NAME? >> KEITH PORTER. >> I'M JAMAL, I AM THE ATTORNEY ON BEHALF OF THE FAMILY. ECHOING WHAT WE HEARD FROM HIS MOM, KEITH IS MORE THAN A HEADLINE. KEITH IS A HUMAN WHO LOVED, WHO GAVE LOVE AND DESERVES JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY. WHAT DOES JUSTICE LOOK LIKE? WHAT JUSTICE STARTS BY RELEASING THE NAME OF THE ICE OFFICER. WE DON'T KNOW HIS NAME. CERTAINLY, WE KNOW HE WAS NOT ACTING UNDER ANY SORT OF DUTY. THIS WAS NOT A TRAINED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER RESPONDING TO A CRIME. LAPD WAS UNDER WAY. AND WHAT WE'RE SEEING WITH THE KILLING OF KEITH IS JUST A MICRO CAUSE UM IS GOING ON ACROSS THE COUNTRY, WHAT WE'RE SEEING IN MINNEAPOLIS AND ACROSS OUR COMMUNITIES, WITH BLACK AND BROWN AND UNDER SERVED COMMUNITIES, OUR ICE OFFICERS REEKING HAVOC, COMMITTING CRIME. : WITH LITTLE TO NO ACCOUNTABILITY AND TODAY WE'RE ASKING FOR THAT ACCOUNTABILITY. THANK YOU. >> Speaker: GOOD MORNING, I'M JOSEPH WILLIAMS I'M WITH BLACK LIVES MATTER LOS ANGELES AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF STUDENTS DESERVE AND I WORK DIRECTLY WITH KEITH'S COUSIN WHO LET US KNOW WHEN KEITH WAS MURDERED. WHEN THIS HAPPENED, WHEN WE HAD A VIGIL ON SUNDAY NIGHT IN HONOR OF HIS KEITH. HIS CO-WORKERS FROM HOME DEPOT WERE ALREADY THERE. HE HAS WORKED AT HOME DEPOT FOR JUST ABOUT A YEAR AND ALREADY HAS A BIG IMPACT THAT DOZENS SHOWED UP, EVEN BEFORE ACTIVIST OR COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS SHOWED UP TO SHOW THEIR LOVE, TO SHOW HOW DEEPLY THEY HAD IMPACTED HIM. LIKE HIS FATHER SAID, HE WAS A FATHER. IF YOU LOOK AT HIS INSTAGRAM, HIS SOCIAL MEDIA, SO MUCH WAS LOVING ON HIS CHILD, HIS FAMILY AND HIS COMMUNITY. AND I ALSO WANT TO SAY THAT YES THIS IS A SYMPTOM OF WHAT IS HAPPENING FROM THE NATIONAL LEVEL ON DOWN WITH THE UNJUST IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT THAT IS HARMING IMMIGRANTS AND ALSO MANY OTHER FOLKS IN OUR COMMUNITIES AND IT'S NOT SEPARATE FROM WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THIS CITY. WE KNOW THAT IN THIS CITY, LAW ENFORCEMENT SHOOTING, BY LAPD, HAVE INCREASED WHAT 70 PERCENT LAST YEAR, AND HAS BEEN VERY LITTLE ACCOUNTABILITY IN ANY OF THOSE CASES. THE FACT THAT KEITH PORTER'S MURDERER WAS NOT ARREST ASKED MADE TO GIVE UP HIS SERVICE WEAPON ON THAT NIGHT IS UNACCEPTABLE! UNACCEPTABLE! THIS MAN MURDERED SOMEBODY IN COLD BLOOD WHO IS CELEBRATING NEW YEAR'S EVE, WHO WAS WAITING FOR HIS FAMILY TO COME JOIN HIM IN CELEBRATION, WHO WAS A BELOVED FATHER AND COMMUNITY MEMBER AND WORKER. AND THIS IS SOMETHING THAT ABSOLUTELY CITY COUNCIL AND THIS ENTIRE CITY MUST LOOK AT AND SAY THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE, IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT WE CAN POINT FINGERS AND SAY THIS IS DONALD TRUMP'S FAULT, WE FWHAOED TO LOOK AT OURSELVES, WHAIN VESTMENTS ARE WE MAKING WITH OUR BUDGET THAT IS ALLOWING THIS TO CONTINUE NOT ONLY FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT BUT LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT FROM OUR COMMUNITY. AND WE ALSO KNOW THAT IMMIGRATION IS A BLACK ISSUE, RIGHT, THAT THE HARMS THAT ARE HAPPENING, IN OUR COMMUNITY ARE NOT AFFECTING FOLKS WHO ARE COMING FROM CENTRAL OR SOUTH AMERICA, WE KNOW THE LARGEST LAW ENFORCEMENT OPERATION IS HAPPENING IN MINNEAPOLIS TARGETING BLACK SOMALI IMMIGRANTS. AND WE KNOW THAT THIS SYSTEM OF WHITE SUPREMACY, RELIES ON ANTI BLACKNESS AND SEIZURE OF INDIGENOUS LAND TO ENRICH THE CAPITALIST CLASS. SO WE'RE ASKING TO YOU USE THE POWER THAT YOU ALL HAVE TO SET THE BUDGETS IN THE CITY TO HOLD THE MAYOR ACCOUNTABILITY --ACCOUNTABLE IN. CITY TO SAY WE MUST INVEST IN THE ACCOUNTABILITY AND TEAR AND RESOURCES AND SUPPORTS FOR OUR COMMUNITY AND WE MUST DIVEST, WE MUST MOVE MONEY AWAY FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT THAT IS HARMING FROM OUR COMMUNITY REPEATEDLY. KEITH PORTER'S LIFE MATTERS. KEITH PORTER'S LIFE MATTERS! KEITH PORTER'S LIFE MATTERS! AND HE DESERVES ACCOUNTABILITY. HIS MOM SHOULD NOT BE HERE, SHE SHOULD NOT HAVE TO COME HERE, WHILE SHE IS GRIEVING TO SAY PLEASE, PLEASE, DIRECT YOUR OFFICERS TO ARREST THE PERSON WHO MURDERED MY SON! THAT SHOULDN'T BE HER RESPONSIBILITY. IT IS YOU ALL, YOU ALL HAVE POWER, TO SAY OUR CITY EMPLOYEES, LAPD SHOULD BE ARRESTING ANY OFFICERS WHO ARE CAUSING HARM IN OUR COMMUNITY. SO WE HAVE GOT TO STOP POINTING THE FINGER ONLY AT DONALD TRUMP, AND SAY WHAT IS WITHIN OUR POWER? WHAT IS WITHIN THE POWER OF CITY COUNCIL HERE TO MOVE TOWARDS REAL JUSTICE FOR THE FAMILY OF KEITH PORTER AND TENS OF THOUSANDS OF OTHER FAMILIES IN OUR COMMUNITIES WHO ARE BEING CONSTANTLY HARMED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS FM BOTH FAD RAL LAW AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT. SO WE WILL BE HERE, CONTINUING TO DEMAND JUSTICE FOR KEITH PORTER AND FOR ALL THE OTHER FOLKS WHO HAVE BEEN STOLEN BY LAW ENFORCEMENT, KIDNAPPED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT, WHO HAVE BEEN HARMED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT BECAUSE THERE ARE MANY. KEITH PORTER'S DAUGHTER IS 9 YEARS OLD AND A 20-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER. AND THEY WILL LIFT REST OF THEIR LIVES WITHOUT THEIR FATHER. THERE IS NOTHING THAT ANYONE IN THIS ROOM CAN DO TO GET JUSTICE FOR KEITH PORTER BECAUSE THAT WOULD MEAN HE WOULD BE HERE FOR HIS FAMILY. BUT WHAT WE CAN DO, IS TO MOVE FORWARD AND GET ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THE FOLKS THAT STOLE HIS LIFE UNJUSTLY. HE SHOULD NOT BE WALKING FREE, HE SHOULD STILL NOT BE ANONYMOUS. EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW WHAT IN MAN IS, WHAT HIS NAME IS, WHAT HE LOOKS LIKE AND HE SHOULD BE IN JAIL. HE SHOULD BE FACING CHARGES? SO HE CALL ON YOU ALL TO USE THE POWER THAT YOU HAVE, AS THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE SECOND LARGEST CITY IN THE COUNTRY, AS FASCISM IS ADVANCING AROUND THE COUNTRY. AS LAW ENFORCEMENT TERROR IS ENFORCING AROUND THE COUNTRY, WHAT WILL YOU DO? WHAT WILL YOU DO? NOT IN STATEMENTS, BEFOREHAND OR LETTERS OR ASSOCIATE MEDIA POST? WHAT WILL YOU DO WITH THE POWER OF THE POSITIONS TO DEMAND REAL JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY AND A DIFFERENT FUTURE AND A DIFFERENT WORLD FOR KEITH PORTER'S FAMILY, FOR BLACK FAMILIES, FOR IMMIGRANT FAMILIES ALL AROUND OUR CITY! SO WE'LL CONTINUE TO FIGHT FOR JUSTICE IN THE NAME OF KEITH PORTER AND WHO FOR HIS FAMILY AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO DEMAND THAT YOU ALL IN POSITIONS OF POWER WHO HAVE BEEN ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THIS CITY, DO WHAT YOU MUST DO WITH THE POWER AND POSITIONALITY THAT YOU HAVE TO FIGHT AGAINST THE FASCIST REGIME NA IS ADVANCING. THIS IS UNPRECEDENTED TIMES AND YOU ALL MUST TAKE UNPRECEDENTED MEASURES TO DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY TO DEMAND TRANSPRENCY AND TO DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT WITH THE RESOURCE THAT'S WE AT OUR DIS POTION AL HERE. PRESIDENT TRUMP IS DEFUNDING EDUCATION, THE VERY PUBLIC SERVICE THAT'S OUR COMMUNITIES RELY ON, AND AS CREATED THE LARGEST LAW ENFORCEMENT ENTITY IN THE HISTORY OF THIS COUNTRY. IN THE HISTORY OF THIS COUNTRY! SO WHAT IS UNACCEPTABLE THAT THIS COUNCIL ALSO VOTED TO INCREASE FUNDING FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT, FOR LAPD, THESE THINGS ARE ARE NOT DISCONNECTED. THESE ARE ABSOLUTE CONNECTED. SO WE STAND HERE IN DEEP SOLIDARITY WITH THE FAMILY OF KEITH PORTER IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE FAMILY OF RENEE GOODE WITH THE FOLKS SHOT YESTERDAY IN PORTLAND OREGON AND ALL THE FOLKS SHOT AND KILLED AND STOLEN FROM THEIR FAMILY BY LAW ENFORCEMENT THAT YOU ALL IN CITY COUNCIL HAVE THE POWER AND RESPONSIBILITY TO TAKE ACTION AROUND. THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE] >> I WANT TO GIVE MY DEEPEST CONDOLENCES TO KEITH PORT PER'S MOM, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE FOR YOUR WORDS. THANK YOU EVERYBODY FOR BEING OUT HERE FROM THE COMMUNITY. AND THANK YOU FOR EVERYONE FOR YOUR WORDS. THANK YOU COUNCIL PRESIDENT FOR YOUR TIME AND FOR ALLOWING US TO SHARE. THANK YOU. >> SAY HIS NAME. >> KEITH PORTER. >> SAY HIS NAME. >> KEITH PORTER. >> SAY HIS NAME! >> KEITH PORTER! >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER RODRIGUEZ AND HERNANDEZ FOR STARTING US OFF WITH THOSE IMPORTANT TESTIMONIALS AND TO COUNCILMEMBER'S RODRIGUEZ'S POINT, THE TESTIMONIAL IS GETTING WORSE NOT BETTER, WE STARTED WITH SOMEBODY BEING CHASED AND AND NOW WE'RE AT PEOPLE GETTING SHOT IN COLD BLOOD AROUND THE COUNTRY. SO THIS COUNCIL WILL CONTINUE TO PRESS THE POINT AND SHINE A LIGHT ON THAT ISSUE. SO AGAIN, THANK YOU AGAIN TO COUNCILMEMBER RODRIGUEZ AND HERNANDEZ AND THE FAMILY OF KEITH PORTER THAT JOINED US TODAY. ALL RIGHT, MEMBERS, TODAY IS OUR FIRST MEETING OF THE YEAR 2026 AND MANY OF YOU WILL REMEMBER OUR FIRST MEETING OF THE YEAR 2025, IT IS A DAY THAT WILL BE REMEMBERED FOR EVER HERE IN THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES WHEN WE WERE VISITED WITH ONE OF THE MOST TRAGIC DAYS THAT WE'VE SEEN IN OUR HISTORY AND SOME OF THE GREATEST DAMAGE TO PROPERTY AND TO THE TAKING OF HUMAN LIFE BY NATURE THAT WE HAVE SEEN IN THE HISTORY OF OUR CITY. AND SO, TO COMMEMORATE AND TO MARK AND TO REMEMBER, THE FIRES OF 2025 THAT AFFECTED US HERE IN LOS ANGELES AND IN THE PALISADES AND SAN FERNANDO VALLEY AND MALIBU AND ALTADENA AND THE COUNTY, I WANT TO CALL TO THIS DESK TO LEAD US IN A COMMEMORATION, OUR REPRESENTATIVE FROM PALISADES AND THE WEST SIDE, OUR OWN COUNCILMEMBER TRACI PARK. MRO*UZ --[APPLAUSE] >> T. Park: GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE. AND THANK YOU COUNCIL PRESIDENT FOR LETTING ME TAKE THE CHAIR FOR THIS SPECIAL PRESENTATION. ON JANUARY 7, 2025, HORRIFIC FIRES DECIMATED THE COMMUNITIES OF THE PACIFIC PALISADES AND ALTADENA. IN THE PACIFIC PALISADES, 12 LIVES WERE LOST. IN ALTADENA, ANOTHER 19 TRAGIC DEATHS. ACROSS LOS ANGELES, WE CONTINUE HOLDING THEIR FAMILIES CLOSE IN OUR HEARTS. PLEASE JOIN ME IN A MOMENT OF SILENCE TO REMEMBER THOSE WHO DIED THAT DAY. THANK YOU. ONE YEAR AGO ON WEDNESDAY, OUR CITY EXPERIENCED THE WORSE DISASTER IN ITS 240-YEAR HISTORY. THE DAY STARTED LIKE SO MANY OTHERS. FOR US, IT WAS A COUNCIL DAY, A LONG COMMUTE FROM OUR VARIOUS PARTS OF THE CITY TO THESE CHAMBERS. COLLEAGUES YOU PROBABLY ALL DID WHAT I DID ON THE DRIVE IN THAT DAY, A FEW MINUTES OF KNX, A FEW PHONE CALLS, WONDERING WHAT DRAMA WOULD UNFOLD RIGHT HERE. FOR THOUSANDS OF OTHERS, IT WAS THE SAME. SCOOCHING THE KIDS OFF TO SCHOOL, DRAGGING THE TRASH BINS TO THE CURB, PETTING THE DOG GOODBYE AND RUSHING OFF TO WORK. NEVER KNOWING THAT IT WOULD BE THE LAST TIME THAT THERE WOULD BE NO FORMAL GOOD-BYE. CHIEF CROWLEY CALLED ME DURING OUR COUNCIL MEETING TO LET ME KNOW THAT THERE WAS A BURNING IN THE PALISADES AND THAT IT WAS GROWING QUICKLY. SHE WAS CALM BUT URGENT WHEN SHE SUGGESTED THAT I GET BACK TO THE WEST SIDE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. COUNCILMEMBER RAMAN, YOU ALREADY HAD A FIRE BURNING IN COUNCIL DISTRICT 4. WE WERE BOTH WORRIED WONDERING, HOW BAD THINGS WOULD GET. I ALSO REMEMBER COUNCIL PRESIDENT, YOU SO KINDLY OFFERING TO ALLOW ME TO BE EXCUSED SO I CAN GET TO THE WEST SIDE TO BE WITH MY CONSTITUENTS. WHEN I ARRIVED TO THE PALISADES, THE CHAOTIC FIRE STORM WAS ALREADY UNDER WAY. THE AIR WAS ALREADY CHOCKED WITH SMOKE, WE CAN BARELY BREATHE. THE WIND WAS RAGING FROM ALL DIRECTIONS, THICK ASH AND AMBERS WERE WHIZING THROUGH THE AIR LIKE BULLETS, SIRENS CUT THROUGH NEIGHBORHOODS THAT ONLY HOURS BEFORE WERE QUIET AND FAMILIAR. OUR OWN FIREFIGHTERS WERE RUSHING IN PUTTING THEIR LIVES AT-RISK TRYING TO FIGHT A FIRE THAT OVERWHELMED OUR SYSTEMS AND RESOURCES FASTER THAN ANYTHING WE HAD EVER SEEN BEFORE. IN FACT, THOUSANDS OF FIREFIGHTERS FROM OVER 400 DEPARTMENTS ACROSS L.A. COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, THE ENTIRE U.S. AND MEXICO AND CANADA CAME TO THE AID OF LOS ANGELES. AT THE SAME TIME, EVACUATIONS WERE ALREADY BREAKING DOWN. COMMUNICATION SYSTEM SYSTEMS WERE OFF LINE, THE POWER WERE OUT AND SO WERE THE TRAFFIC LIGHTS WITH AN ENDLESS STREAM OF CARS INCHING THEIR WAY OUT OF MALIBU AND PACIFIC PALISADES ON TO PCH. UP STREAM, TRAFFIC CAME TO A STANDSTILL AS FIRE JUMPED THE HILL SIDES, HUNDREDS FLED ON FOOT. I'LL NEVER FORGET THE SITE OF SO MANY PEOPLE WALKING OUT OF THE PALISADES TOWARDS THE BEACH, SO MANY FOR THE LAST TIME CARRYING ONLY WHAT THEY COULD. AS THEY LEFT, THE FIRE RACED DOWN THE HILL SIDES AND THEIR ENTIRE TOWN BURNED. ONE BY ONE, THEIR HOMES, THEIR CHURCHES, THEIR SCHOOLS, THEIR BUSINESSES ALL THE THINGS THAT DEFINE A PLACE THAT CREATED NEIGHBORHOOD, IN JUST A FEW SHORT HOURS WERE GONE. ALL TOLD LOSSES TOO STAGGERING TO COUNT, DEVASTATION TOO GREAT TO QUANTIFY, AND HEART BREAK THAT WILL NEVER HEAL. FOR MOST, THERE WAS NOTHING TO RETURN TO, AND NOTHING PREPARES ANYONE FOR A DAY LIKE THAT. BUT THE STORY OF WHAT HAPPENED AFTER THE FIRE IS SOMETHING REMARKABLE TOO. WHAT CARRIED THE PACIFIC PALISADES THROUGH THAT DAY, AND THROUGH THE VERY LONG YEAR THAT FOLLOWED, WAS NOT A SINGLE ACT OR INSTITUTION, IT WAS PEOPLE. WHILE THE ROADS WERE CLOSED AND THE UTILITIES WERE OUT AND FAMILIES WERE SCATTERED BEYOND THE CITY AND BEYOND, PALISADESIANS DID WHAT THEY HAVE ALWAYS DONE, THEY SHOWED UP FOR EACH:00 NOT BECAUSE THEY WERE TOLD TO, NOT BECAUSE THERE WAS A PLAN BOW BECAUSE THEY UNDERSTOOD INSTINCTIVELY THAT COMMUNITY WOULD BE THE FIRST LINE OF SURVIVAL AND THE FOUNDATION FOR RECOVERY. NEIGHBORS CHECKED ON NEIGHBORS WITHOUT EVEN KNOW IF THEY'RE OWN HOMES WERE STILL STANDING, PEOPLE SHARED INFORMATION WITH EACH OTHER WHEN OFFICIAL CHANNELS WERE OVERWHELMED, THEY OPENED THEIR PHONES, THEIR LIVING ROOMS AND THEY BEGAN REBUILDING HUMAN CONNECTIONS LONG BEFORE REBUILDING STRUCTURES WAS EVEN IMAGINABLE. AND WHEN THE SHOCK GAVE WAVE TO REALITY THAT BECAME LEADERSHIP. ORGANIZED BLOCK BY BLOCK WHEN THERE WAS NO ROAD MAP THE, CONVENED MEETINGS TO UNDERSTAND DEBRIS REMOVAL AND INSURANCE TIME LINES AND BUREAUCRATIC PROCESSES THAT FELT IMPOSSIBLE TO NAVIGATE ALONE. THEY WORKED TOGETHER TO COORDINATE DEBRIS REMOVAL HELPING ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOODS MOVE FORWARD TOGETHER, RATHER THAN PARCEL BY PARCEL. WHEN FRUSTRATION AND FEAR TOOK HOLD AND IT DID, RESIDENTS CREATED SPACES TO TALK, TO LISTEN AND TO KEEP EACH OTHER MOVING FORWARD EVEN AT TIMES WHEN IT MIGHT HAVE JUST BEEN EASIER TO GIVE UP. THERE WERE SHREDS ENVISIONING HOW REBUILDING COULD HAPPEN BETTER AND SAFER, POP UP MEET TO GO ADDRESS INSURANCE GAPS AND FINANCIAL CHALLENGES EARLY MORNING EMAILS AND LATE CALLS AND COUNTLESS HOURS OF VOLUNTEER LABOR THAT WILL NEVER BE CAPTURED NAYS REPORT OR PRESS RELEASE BUT WITHOUT WHICH THIS RECOVERY WOULD HAVE STALLED. THIS ORGANIZED COORDINATION LASTED NOT FOR DAYS BUT FOR MONTHS AND THAT WORK CONTINUES TODAY. THERE ARE COUNTLESS PALISADESIANS THAT CARRY THIS AND I CANNOT NAME THEM TODAY BUT MANY OF THEM ARE HERE, SUE COAL, JESSICA ROGERS, KIM FEDER, SAM LAGANA, ALLISON POLLHILL, SIR LOCK, HERSCHMAN, CAROLYN DAVID-ROSS, DAPHNE, LARRY VAIN, PASTOR MATT HARDEN, NORA, SHERRI MANDEL, ROSEANNE LANDA, LEANNE SANDERSON, MARK SMITH, MICHELLE EVAN HALL, CAMERON BROWN, PAUL NAIGLE. AND THIS COMMUNITY DIDN'T DO IT ALONE, IN THE HOURS AND DAYS THAT FOLLOWED, COMMUNITIES ACROSS LOS ANGELES OPENED THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS, THEIR SCHOOLS, THEIR HOMES AND THEIR HEARTS TO SO MANY DISPLACED FAMILIES. VOLUNTEERS FED FIRST RESPONDERS AND DONATION CENTERS, ESSENTIAL AND EMERGENCIES SUPPLIES ARRIVED BY THE PALLET-LOAD. ANGELINOS FROM ACROSS THE CITY, OFFERED HELP WITHOUT CONDITION, FAITH GROUPS, NONPROFITS STEPPED IN TO FILL THE GAPS BEFORE GOVERNMENT SYSTEMS CAN EVEN CATCH UP. THE CALIFORNIA NATIONAL GUARD ARRIVED AND PROVIDED SECURITY AND STABILITY FOR MONTHS AFTER THE FIRE. FEMA AND THE RED CROSS STEPPED IN WITH EMERGENCY RELIEF FOR FAMILIES AND BUSINESSES AND UNDER THE EXTRAORDINARILY LEADERSHIP OF COLONEL ERIC SWANSON DID NOT ONLY CLEAR DEBRIS WITHIN RECORD TIME THEY CLEARED A PATH HOME. AT THIS TIME I WOULD LIKE TO TAKE A MOMENT AND PLAY A TRIBUTE VIDEO TO LOOK BACK AT JANUARY 7th AND THE WEEKS AND MONTHS THAT FOLLOWED. >> WHAT WAS LOST IN THESE FIRES, WASN'T JUST PROPERTY, THIS WERE PLACES, HOMES THAT WERE FILLED WITH HISTORY, GIFTS, FROM GRANDPARENTS, MEMORIES, BY PARENTS, AND DREAMS CARRIED BY CHILDREN. THIS FIRE TOOK TOO MUCH MORE THAN STRUCTURES, IT TOOK PIECES OF YOUR COLLECTED HISTORY. >> ONE YEAR AGO, L.A. EXPERIENCED THE WORSE DISASTER IN ITS 240-YEAR HISTORY. IN A MATTER OF FEW SHORT HOURS, AN ENTIRE COMMUNITY WAS DESIGNATED. --DECIMATED. 12 PEOPLE LOST THEIR LIVES, SO MANY KHOIFZ LOST, YMCA, SCHOOLS, THE LIB REHUNDREDS OF BUSINESSES, THE HISTORIC SUNSET CORRIDOR, LANDMARKS, REDUCED TO ASH. AND YET EVEN IN THE APOCALYPTIC AFTERMATH, L.A. SHOWED UP. IN THE MONTHS THAT FOLLOWED, OUR CITY DEPARTMENT WORKED AROUND THE CLOCK, RESTORING REAOULT, REOPENING ROADS, FEMA AND THE ARMY CORPS CARRIED OUT AN EXTRAORDINARY MISSION, CLEARING NOT JUST THOUSANDS OF PARCELS IN RECORD TIME BUT CLEARING THE FIRST STEP FORWARD FOR A COMMUNITY DESPERATE TO COME HOME. THIS WAS AN ABSTRACT WORKCIOUS IT WAS URGENT, IT WAS HUMAN AND IT WAS ABOUT STABILIZING AN ENTIRE COMMUNITY WHILE THE GROUND WAS STILL SHIFTING BENEATH US. >> IT IS TT ALPHABET AREA IN THE PACIFIC PALISADES THAT WAS RECEIVED THE MOST BECAUSE THE FIRE. DEVASTATING FIRE TOOK MOST HOMES IN THE ALPHABET AREA. I WAS HERE ON JANUARY 7, MEETING SOME CONSTITUENTS. >> WE KNEW THAT, WE DIDN'T KNOW A LOT OF WHAT WAS GOING ON, IT SEEMS TO BE CHAOS AND THE REPORTS WERE COMING IN, OBVIOUSLY, BUT WE DIDN'T THINK THAT WE HAD ANOTHER OPTION. WE HAVE A TEAM MEMBER, THIS IS A COMMUNITY, THIS IS A PLACE THAT WE KNOW AND LOVE. THERE WERE STILL PEOPLE AND LINGERING, OKAY LET'S JUMP INTO ACTION JUST LIKE WE DO EVERYTHING ELSE. SO WE SPENT THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS, WE WERE KNOCKING ON DOORS, HELPING PEOPLE LOAD THEIR CARS, HELPING PEOPLE GET DOWN THE HILL AND I'LL NEVER FORGET THE FIRST NIGHT, WE CAME DOWN WE WERE ALL COVERED IN ASH AND SMOKE AND COUNCILWOMAN HUGGED EACH OF US AND IT WAS, IT WAS OVERWHELMING TO REALIZE WHAT WE WERE IN. >> I WANT TO GO BACK IN THE ORIGINAL FIRE, WE HAVE SUE AND SHE HAS BEEN EVACUATED. CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT THOSE MOMENTS WHEN YOU REALIZED IT WAS RAVAGING YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD AND YOU NEED TO GET OUT. YOU THINK ABOUT THOSE MOMENTS OF HAVING TO CHOOSE WHAT TO TAKE WITH YOU. >> I'VE BEEN EVACUATED BEFORE AND IT'S 24 HOURS, IT'S A PANIC MODE YOU TRY TO TAKE A DEEP BREATHE AND YOU GO TO ROOM TO ROOM AND DECIDE WHAT TO TAKE. THAT'S WHAT WE DID FOR ABOUT AN HOUR AND AT SOME POINT, YOU JUST HAVE TO GO. >> WE LEFT THE HOUSE, I WOULD SAY ON THAT DAY ABOUT 12:30 IN THE AFTERNOON. THE FIRE CAME AROUND 7:00 THE ALPHABET STREETS. SO ALL OF THESE MONTHS, PART OF ME WISH I DIDN'T RUN OUT SO QUICKLY AND INSTEAD WISH THAT I HAD STUCK AROUND, BECAUSE AS EVERYONE KNOWS, WHEN YOU LOSE YOUR HOUSE, IN A HORRIBLE DISASTER LIKE WHAT WE HAD, IT IS NOT JUST THE HOUSE, IT'S ALL THE THINGS THAT YOU HAVE COLLECTED, YOUR KIDS MEMORY BOOKS, YOUR CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS. EVERYONE I KNOW IN THE PALISADES, WAS TRAUMA EYESED WHETHER THEIR HOUSE WAS LEFT STANDING, IT'S A CLOSE KNIT TOWN TO TO HAVE WHAT FELT LIKE YOUR BIG EXTENDED FAMILY SCATTERED ALL OVER CREATION, WAS YOU KNOW, VERY WAS VERY DIFFICULT AND VERY SAD. >> THE ASIAN TERRACE IS A MOBILE HOME PARK IN THE PALISADES THAT DATES BACK TO THE 1950s, WHEN I WAS A KIDS IT WAS A RETIREMENT PARK, THAT WE WERE GRANDFATHERED INTO BECAUSE M GRANDFATHER OWNED HIS PLACE. BUT THE COMMUNITY WOULD VOTE TO BECOME AN ALL-AGES PARK AGAIN. MY SON WAS THE FIRST BABY BORN IN THE PARK. THERE IS NOT A SINGLE PERSON WHO LIVED THERE THAT DIDN'T UNDERSTAND HOW LUCKY THEY WERE TO CALL THAT PLACE HOME. >> I'M WALKING YOU WALKING THROUGH THE BURN ZONE. I'M WALKING YOU THROUGH THIS POST, THIS IS A SPECIAL PLACE. >> WE FORMED A LONG TERM RECOVERY GROUP TO SUPPORT THE ROSTER OF CITIZENS HERE. MY ROSTER IS 10,460 FAMILIES AND IT'S MY ROLE TO CONNECT WITH THOSE PEOPLE WHETHER THEY'RE, THEIR WELL INSURED AND ON THEIR WAY TO RECOVERY OR WHETHER EVERYTHING WAS DESTROYED IN THE FIRE AND NOTHING LEFT. THE HARDEST PART FOR ME IS UNDERSTANDING THAT I HAVE TO STOP AND ADD A PSYCHOLOGICAL COMPONENT TO EVERY CONVERSATION TO EVERY FAMILY THAT COMES THROUGH MY DOOR BEFORE WE CAN EVEN MOVE INTO ON WORKING ON REBUILDING ON DEALING WITH THEIR INSURANCE ON DEALING WITH ALL OF THOSE STRUGGLES. WE HAVE TO GET THEM GROUNDED. >> MANY LOTS HAVE BEEN CLEARED THANKS TO THE EXTENSIVE WORK OF ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS. WE HAVE SEEN A LOT OF ACTIVITY IN THE ALPHABET. WE HAVE SEEN TRUCKED GOING IN AND OUT OF PALISADES. >> WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO SEE LATER TODAY IS US GOING THROUGH THESE PROPERTIES MAKING AN ASSESSMENT AND GOING ON. >> WHAT REALLY AMAZED ME WAS ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS, THEY CAME IN AND PERFORMED MIRACLES. >> ULTIMATELY THAT CLEAN UP REMOVED A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF HURDLES BOTH AS OUR ABILITY TO MOVE FORWARD BUT ALSO THAT WE CAN START LOOKING TO THE FUTURE FOR THE POTENTIAL TO REBUILD AND TO RETURN. >> BELOW PACIFIC PALISADES AND IMPACTED BY THE WILDFIRES THAT STRUCK YOUR COMMUNITY IN THE EARLY DAYS OF JANUARY 2025. I MISS ALL OF YOU AND THINK OF YOU OFTEN. DAILY I SAY MY PRAYERS FOR THE SURVIVORS THAT YOU WILL GET BACK ON TO YOUR LAND AND OVERCOME DIVERSITY. I WITNESSED FIRSTHAND JUST HOW RESILIENT YOUR COMMUNITY IS. THE SOUND OF CONSTRUCTION EVERYWHERE, WARMS MY HEART. I WOULD LIKE TO THANK EVERY MEMER OF THE COMMUNITY FOR MAKING MY SIX MONTHS IN YOUR COMMUNITY SPECIAL. IS TRULY FELT LIKE I WAS PART OF THE COMMUNITY UNITED UNDER A COMMON GOAL OF GETTING EACH SURVIVOR BACK ON THEIR FEET. >> YOU KNOW, JESSICA, AS WE ARE ALMOST AT A YEAR FROM ALL OF THIS HAPPENED, AS I THINK BACK TO THOSE EARLY DAYS IN THE AFTERMATH AND THE FEAR OF LOOTERS. >> IN THE FIRST THREE WEEKS AFTER THE FIRE, MY HOUSE, MY LOT, MY LAND, MY REMAINS WERE SWIFTED THROUGH FIVE TIMES FOR COPPER. IT'S A FEELING OF BEING VIOLATED AT YOUR MOST VULNERABLE. SO WE APPRECIATED THAT YOUR OFFICE HAS SPOKEN UP FOR THIS COMMUNITY WHEN WE NEEDED THE NATIONAL GUARD FOR LONGER. >> WE WORKED VERY CLOSELY TO GET HOMES LEJD WITH LAPD FOR NO TRESPASSING DIRECTIONS, YOU'VE GOT NEIGHBORHOOD WATCHES ORGANIZED. WE'VE GOT THE CAMERA SYSTEMS ALREADY IN PLACE AND WE'RE BUILDING OUT MORE. >> LET'S CONTINUE TO HAVE OPEN MINDS AND BEING AS CREATIVE AS E CAN. TOGETHER, WE CAN GET THROUGH THIS. >> I'M STILL OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THE PALISADES. ALTHOUGH WE HAVE BEEN TESTED, WE ARE COMING THROUGH THOSE TESTS TOGETHER. WE'RE RESILIENT AND WE CARE FOR EACH OTHER. OUR COMMUNITY IS STRONG AND COMMITTED TO GETTING BACK IN OUR HOMES. >> PRIOR TO THE FIRE MY YOUNGEST SON WAS INTO GARDENING, STILL IS, IN THE FRONT OF OUR HOME WE HAD A SMALL PIECE OF DIRT THAT WOULD EVENTUALLY BECOME HIS GARDEN. AND HE BECAME FAMOUS FOR THE TOMATOS THAT HE GREW. AFTER THE FIRE, WE RAN INTO ONE OF OUR NEIGHBORS AND SHE HAD THE DAY OF THE FIRE, HAD COLLECTED PURCHASED THREE OF HIS TOMATOS AND SHE STILL HAD THEM IN HER PURSE. AND FROM THERE, SHE GAVE ME THE TOMATOS AND WE PLANTED THE SEEDS. >> WE'RE COMING BACK. THIS IS GOING TO BE A DAY OF, A LOT OF HOPE, AND A LOT OF FAITH AND THAT IS WHAT THIS REPRESENTS FOR ME. >> THE PACIFIC PALISADES REFUSED TO BE DEFINED BY ITS WORSE DAY. BUT THIS COMMUNITY IS STILL HEALING, AND THEY STILL NEED OUR HELP. AS THE CITY, WE REMAIN COMMITTED TO HONORING WHAT WAS LOST, PROTECTING WHAT REMAINS AND DOING THE HARD WORK REQUIRED TO PREPARE FOR WHATEVER COMES NEXT. THE VIDEO SUMS THE INCREDIBLE WORK AND BRAVERY THAT PEOPLE SHOWED IN THE IMMENSE SORROW AND OVERWHELMING DEVASTATATION. MUCH OF THAT WORK WAS DONE BY HUNDREDS OF DEDICATED CITY WORKERS, COUNTLESS DEPARTMENTS WORKED AROUND THE CLOCK TO RESTORE ORDER, SAFETY AND BASIC SERVICES. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT COORDINATED RESPONSE UNDER EXTREME PRESSURE AND DURING AN EXTRAORDINARY DEPLOYMENT LAPD MAINTAINED SAFETY AND OFFERED REA TOUR ANS TO A COMMUNITY ON THE EDGE. FROM DAMAGED ROADS AND HILL SIDES, THE BUREAU OF ENGINEERING HAS ALREADY STABLELIZED INFRASTRUCTURE AND BUILDING AND SAFETY IS WORKING THROUGH UNPRECEDENTED DEMAND. L.A. SAN AND STREETS L.A. HELPED CLEAN UP TRASH AND REMOVED CHARED TREES AND BRUSH AND SWEPT AWAY THE MILLIONS OF NAILS THAT SOMEHOW ENDED UP IN OUR ROADWAYS. A AS WE FACE STORMS, LANDSLIDES AND FLOODING AND MORE, THEIR WORK HELPED PREVENT EVEN MORE DAMAGE AND LOSS. THEREFORE COLLEAGUES ON BEHALF OF A GREATFUL DISTRICT AND CITY, I WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND MY SINCERE THANKS AND APPRECIATION TO OUR INCREDIBLE CITY FAMILY FOR THEIR DEDICATION AND SERVING OUR RESIDENTS IN THE AFTERMATH OF THIS TRAGEDY. ON THE SCREEN YOU'LL SEE THE NAMES OF SOME OF THE CITY STAFF WHO WERE PART OF THE FIRE RESPONSE AND I WOULD LIKE TO READ THE NAMES OF THE DEPARTMENT WHO AT THE REQUEST OF MAYOR BASS WORKED DIRECTLY ON THE GROUND OR SENT THEIR STAFF TO ASSIST WITH THE DISASTER RECOVERY CENTER, AND IN SO MANY OTHER CAPACITIES. DEPARTMENT OF AGING, DEPARTMENT OF BUILDING AND SAFETY, DEPARTMENT OF CANNABIS REGULATION, OFFICE OF THE CITY ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER, DEPARTMENT OF CITY TOURISM, LOS ANGELES WORLD AIRPORTS, DEPARTMENT OF ANIMAL SERVICES, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF LEGISLATIVE ANALYST, OFFICE OF THE CITY ATTORNEY, CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS AND EQUITY DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE CITY CONTROLLER, DEPARTMENT OF CULTURE AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF DISABILITY, EL PUEBLO DE LOS ANGELES. DEPARTMENT OF POLICE PENSIONS, CITY ETHICS COMMISSION, OFFICE OF FINANCE, LAFD, LOS ANGELES PUBLIC LIBRARY, LAHSA, THE HOUSING AUTHORITY, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AGENCY, L.A. CITY EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM. L.A. HOUSING DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY, PERSONNEL DEPARTMENT, LAPD, BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS, OFFICE OF THE MAYOR, DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOOD EMPOWERMENT, DEPARTMENT OF CITY PLANNING, BUREAU OF CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION, BUREAU OF ENGINEERING, BUREAU OF STREET SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF RECREATION AND PARKS, DEPARTMENT OF WATER AND POWER, YOUTH DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT, BUREAU OF SANITATION, BUREAU OF STREET LIGHTING, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK, COMMUNITY INVESTMENT FOR FAMILIES DEPARTMENT, ECONOMIC AND WORKFORCE DEPARTMENT PORT OF LOS ANGELES AND THE L.A. ZOO. COLLEAGUES THAT VERY WELL MAY HAVE BEEN EVERY DEPARTMENT IN THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES WHO HELPED, WHO HAS DEDICATED STAFF AND TIME AND GRIT AND HEART. I ALSO WANT TO TAKE A MINUTE COLLEAGUES AND THANK EACH OF YOU, SOME OF YOU JOINED ME IN THE PALISADES ON THE DAY OF THE FIRE AND MANY OF YOU CAME ALONG TO BEAR WITNESS TO WHAT HAPPENED. OTHERS OF YOU LOANED YOUR BEAUTIFICATION TEAMS, YOUR OUT REACH TEAMS AND YOUR STAFF TO ANSWER OUR PHONES AND RESPOND TO EMAILS TO GREET PEOPLE AT OUR DOORS, AND TO STAFF OUR DONATION CENTER SO THAT MY TEAM CAN FOCUS ON THE DEVASTATION IN FRONT OF US. THOSE EARLY DAYS WERE THE TOUGHEST OF MY CAREER, OF MY LIFE REALLY, BUT COLLEAGUES YOUR GENEROSITY AND SUPPORT LIGHTENED MY LOAD AND ALLOWED ME TEAM AND I TO DO ALL THAT WAS NECESSARY TO HELP STABILIZE A TRAUMATIZED DISPLACED COMMUNITY. SO COUNCIL PRESIDENT HARRIS-DAWSON, COUNCILMEMBER LEE, COUNCILWOMAN RODRIGUEZ, COUNCILMEMBER YAROSLAVSKY, COUNCILMEMBER HUTT, COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ, COUNCILMEMBER RAMAN, COUNCILMEMBER PADILLA, COUNCILMEMBER PRICE, COUNCILMEMBER SOTO-MARTINEZ, AND COUNCILMEMBER >> T. McOSKER AND HOW MANY JURADO, ON BEHALF OF COUNCIL DISTRICT 11, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT THEN AND NOW TOO. THAT BRINGS ME TO MY INCREDIBLE TEAM. I AM IN AWE, OF THE WAYS YOU ALL HAVE SHOWED UP FOR OUR RESIDENTS OVER THE LAST YEAR. AFTER THE FIRE YOU ALL WORKED PACTICALLY AROUND THE CLOCK EVERY SINGLE DAY FOR WEEKS WITHOUT A BREAK OR A DAY OFF. YOU PUT YOUR LIVES ON HOLD TO SERVE OUR RESIDENTS AND OUR CITY. YOUR ACTIONS WERE NOTHING SHORT OF HEROIC AND THANK YOU WILL NEVER BE ENOUGH. SEVERAL OF MY TEAM MEMBERS, ON THE GROUND DURING THE FIRE, WORKING HER SECOND DAY IN MY OFFICE AS THE NEWS DEPUTY FOERLT PALISADES, HAVING HER FIRST CONSTITUENT COFFEE IN THE PALISADES WHEN THE FIRE BROKE OUT. ARUSE, YOU DIDN'T WAIT FOR ANYONE TO DIRECT YOU OR TO TELL YOU WHAT TO DO, YOU JUST WENT RIGHT INTO THE MIDDLE OF IT ALL. YOU WALKED RIGHT INTO THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND YOU STARTED SAVING LIVES AS YOU ESCORTED RESIDENTS OUT WHO NEEDED HELP. LA*UZ [APPLAUSE] [APPLAUSE] I DON'T SEE JUAN, THERE HE IS, MY DISTRICT DIRECTOR PULLED TOGETHER AND INCREDIBLE FIELD TEAM THAT MORNING AND RUSHED FROM WESTCHESTER ON TO THE FIRE ZONE. AND ON THAT DAY, JUAN LEAD, SEAN AND TRAY AND ALSO JULIO TORRES AND MARTIN PEREZ BOTH OF WHO WERE ALSO ON THEIR SECOND DAY ON THE JOB ON CD11 ON A MISSION ACROSS THE PALISADES. TOGETHER, THOSE SIX INCREDIBLY BRAVE PEOPLE WENT DOOR TO DOOR EVACUATED RESIDENTS, RECUING AND LOADING PETS, RECOVERING LOST ITEMS AND WATERING DOWN ROOF TOPS AND BURNING BUSHES LITERALLY SAVING HOMES, AND LIVES. TEAM CD11, YOU ALL LITERALLY PUT YOUR OWN LIVES AT-RISK TO SAVE AND PROTECT OTHERS. YOUR BRAVERY IS NOTHING SHORT OF REMARKABLE. I WAS AT THE COMMAND POST. I WAS AT THE COMMAND POST DURING THE FIRE BUT COMMUNICATION WERE DOWN AND I WAS WORRIED SICK ABOUT YOU ALL BECAUSE I COULDN'T GET AHOLD OF ANY OF YOU ON THE PHONES. AND AS THE HOURS DRUG ON, THE MORE WORRIED I GOT. AND I WILL NEVER FORGET HOW RELIEVED I WAS WHEN YOU ALL FINALLY EMERGED HUDDLED TOGETHER AS A GROUP WALKING OUT OF THE PALISADES ON FOOT DOWN TO PCH. THOSE HUGS WE SHARED, CAME FROM THE DEPTH OF MY SOUL. AS THE FIRE BURNED, FOR DAYS AFTER, THIS TEAM RETURNED TO THE BURN ZONE ALL DAY, EVERY DAY CHECKING ON HOMES, LOOKING FOR ANIMALS, PUTTING OUT FIRES, MOSTLY WITH DIRT, CHECKING IN WITH SURVIVORS WHO HAD ACTUALLY NEVER LEFT THE PALISADES AND BRINGING SUPPLIES TO FIRST RESPONDERS AND SO MUCH MORE. WITHOUT BEING ASKED, THEY WENT LOOKING FOR THINGS THAT NEEDED TO BE DONE AND THEY DID THOSE THINGS. MEANWHILE BACK AT CITY HALL, MY LEGISLATIVE TEAM, LEAD BY KEVIN BRUNKY AND SARAH AND CRAIG AND BY THE WAY CRAIG AND SARAH WERE ALSO BOTH ON THEIR SECOND DAY ON THE JOB ON CD11, THEY SPRANG INTO ACTION TALKING TO OTHER CITIES AND MEETING WITH LEGISLATIVE TO COORDINATE RELIEF EFFORTS AND DETERMINE NEXT STEPS, THEY WROTE THE DOZENS OF MOTIONS THAT KICKED OFF THE RESPONSE AND LAID THE FOUNDATION FOR THE RECOVERY WE ARE NOW AMIDST. MY SENIOR ADVISOR, STAFFED THE COMMAND POST FOR MANY WEEKS BRINGING US THE MOST CURRENT INFORMATION SO WE CAN KEEP THE RESIDENTS UPDATED AS THE CIRCUMSTANCES CHANGED DAY BY DAY. MICHAEL AM STER, MATT, CAROL WILLIAMS, CASEY PRATTS AND GREG HELPED SET UP STAFF AND SUPPLY EVACUATION CENTERS, AND THEY SET UP A MASSIVE DONATION CENTER AT OUR WESTCHESTER OFFICE WHILE ALYSSA BARREL AND WILLIAM FIELDED HUNDREDS OF CALLS AT OUR CITY HALL OFFICE AND OUR WESTCHESTER OFFICE. DAVE CA NO WORKED DAY AND NIGHT COORDINATING DOZENS OF HE MEETINGS AND EVENTS THAT SUDDENLY FLOODED OUR CALENDAR. MY COMMUNICATION PEOPLE PETE BROWN AND JONATHAN WORKED AROUND THE CLOCK TO KEEP THE RESIDENTS UPDATED AND INFORMED. AND MY INCREDIBLE CHIEF OF STAFF, SIR, YOU LEAD US THROUGH IT ALL. YOU KEPT US MOVING AS A UNITED TEAM, MANAGING THE CONSTITUENTS, MANAGING ME AND DOING IT ALL WITH INCREDIBLE GRACE AND HUMILITY UNDER INCREDIBLY CHALLENGING AND PERSONALLY DIFFICULT CIRCUMSTANCES. I COULDN'T PICK MORE IMPORTANT ANGEL IN A CITY OF ANGELS TO HAVE ON MY SIDE. [APPLAUSE] COLLEAGUES IT HAS BEEN A FULL COURT PRESS THAT HAS NOT LET UP FOR MONTHS IT DIDN'T LET UP ALL YEAR AND STILL HASN'T. TEAM YOU MAKE SO INCREDIBLY PROUD, PROUD TO SERVE OUR CITY, PROUD OF OUR WORK TOGETHER AND PROUD OF EACH OF YOU FOR DOING YOUR INCREDIBLE ROLES THROUGHOUT ALL OF THIS AND THE DEDICATION AND THE UNIQUE CONTRIBUTIONS THAT EACH OF YOU HAVE MADE. YOU GUYS INSPIRE ME TO DO ALL THAT I DO AND I COULDN'T DO THE WORK WITHOUT YOU AND I WOULDN'T WANT TO ANYWAY. SO XLAOEGZ AND FRIENDS, WE KNOW THAT RECOVERY DOES NOT HAPPEN IN A YEAR AND WHILE THE PROGRESS IS UNDENIABLE, THE HARDEST PART IS STILL UNFOLDING, THOUSANDS ARE STILL NAVIGATING INSURANCE AND FINANCE CHALLENGES, ALI, MORTGAGE FORBEARANCE IS EXPIRING. EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD, IN LOS ANGELES IS JUST ONE DISASTER FROM DEVASTATION. BEING READY IS NOT A DUBSING REAND INVESTING IN RECOVERY CAN'T BE OPTIONAL. THE LESSON IN THIS TRAGEDY CAN'T JUST BE ABOUT WHAT WENT WRONG, IT MUST BE ABOUT WHAT WE DO TO MAKE IT RIGHT. AND MOVE FORWARD TOGETHER WITH PURPOSE, INTENTION AND RESOLVE. THANK YOU COUNCIL PRESIDENT. [APPLAUSE] >> Council President: THANK YOU SO MUCH, COUNCILMEMBER PARK AND TEAM CITY 11, IS KNOW WE'VE BEEN JOINED BY SOME ANGELINOS FROM THE PALISADES NEIGHBORHOOD, SO THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS MORNING. AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT IF MEMBERS WANT TO MAKE A COMMENT CAN DO SO AT THIS TIME. IF NOT WE CAN PREPARE FOR PUBLIC COMMENT. ALL RIGHT. WE'RE ALSO JOINED BY SEVERAL GENERAL MANAGERS, I WANT TO THANK THEM FOR THEIR PRESENCE AS WELL. >> E. Hernandez: ALL RIGHT, WE'RE GOING TO GO AHEAD AND GET STARTED. GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE. GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE. WE'RE GATHERED TO CELEBRATE A CAREER THAT HAS QUITE LITERALLY CHANGE THE FACE OF LOS ANGELES. AFTER 25 YEARS, CHIEF DEPUTY CITY ENGINEER IS GEARING UP FOR A WELL DESERVED RETIREMENT. BORN IN MEXICO CITY AND EDUCATED AT PRINCETON AND BERKELEY, JOINED THE BUREAU OF ENGINEERING IN 2001, SHE HAS SEFSHDS AS THE FIRST WOMAN TO LEAD THE ARCHITECTURE DIVISION AND FIRST WOMAN AND ARCHITECT TO SERVE AS CHIEF DEPUTY CITY ENGINEER. YOU ARE LITERALLY BREAKING CONCRETE CEILINGS. IF YOU HAVE WALKED ACROSS THE NEWS SIXTH STREET BRIDGE, YOU HAVE WALKED THROUGH DEBRA'S VISION. FOR TOO LONG OUR COMMITTEE MEMBERS WATCHED AS OTHERS ENJOYED ACCESS TO PARKS WHILE OURS WAITED. DEBRA HELPED US BRIDGE NA GAP FOR THROWING DOWN BY TAYLOR YARDS. IF YOU HAVE NOT BEEN THERE, DON'T WORRY THERE IS A LOT OF WORK TO MAKE IT DONE. IT'S BEAUTIFUL. LEADING OUR INTERIM HOUSING, NEW BEGININGS AND BEING A HUGE PART OF OUR 11 MILLION DOLLARS REINVITATION OF REAL DE LOS ANGELES PARK. THE JOY SHE FELT SEEING COMMUNITIES GET WHAT THEY WERE FIGHTING FOR. BUZZ YOU'RE A FIGHTER AND GET THINGS DONE. WE'VE BEEN THROUGH SEVERAL RIBBON CUTTING. THIS IS THE KIND OF SPIRIT DEBRA BROUGHT TO THIS WORK EVERY SINGLE DAY AND THIS IS THE PRESENCE THAT WILL BE DEEPLY MISSED IN THIS BUILDING ACROSS THE CITY AND AT PARTICULAR COUNCIL DISTRICT 1. WE'RE HAPPY SHE WILL BE MORE, SHE WILL HAVE MORE TIME FOR HER FAMILY, HER HUSBAND DAVID, HER CHILDREN, NICKA, HOW DO YOU PRONOUNCE THIS, AARON AND HER GRANDSON OATIS. DEBRA YOU'RE A LIVING LEGEND, AND YOUR WORK WILL OUTLAST US ALL. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE. I HOPE YOU GET TO ENJOY AND HAVE THE MOST FUN AND BUILD THE BEST MEMORIES BUT DON'T FORGET US, BECAUSE WE MIGHT NEED YOU, BUT PLEASE REST AND ENJOY. NOW I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE DAVID MATA OUR CURRENT CHIEF OF ENGINEER TO SHARE A FEW WORDS WITH US. THANK YOU. >> GOOD MORNING, THIS IS A DAY OF CONFLICTING EMOTIONS AS WE COULD NOT GRAD LATE DEBRA AND HONOR HER IN A GREAT CAREER AND WISH HER OUR BEST. NR MY EARLY DAYS, I FELT FORTUNATE TO WORK WITH GOOD QUALITY FAOEM AND THE MENTORS AND DEBRA IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF THAT DESCRIPTION. WE AT THE PUBLIC WORKS ENGINEERS HAVE ALL BEEN BLESSED FOR THE PAST 25 YEARS OF DEBRA'S SERVICE TO THE CITY. AS A COUNCILMEMBER JUST MENTIONED SHE CAME TO WORK FOR THE CITY WITH A DEGREE FROM PRINCIPLE PRINCETON AND BERKELEY. HAS HAD MANY PROJECTS IN ADDITION TO PROJECTS, SHE LEAD THE L.A. RIVER MASTER PLANNING. WITHOUT A DOUBT, DEBRA HAS FINGERPRINTS ALL ACROSS THE CITY AND DURING HER RETIREMENT AS SHE MOVES ABOUT THE CITY, SHE CAN SEE MANY OF THE PROJECTS THAT SHE HAS OVERSEEN, INCLUDING NEIGHBORHOOD CITY HALLS, COMMUNITY CENTERS, LIBRARIES, STATIONS, RECREATION CENTERS, GYMNASIUM AND EVEN RETAINING WALLS. ON A PERSONAL NOTE I HAD THE PLEASURE TO WORKING WITH DEBRA AND HAD A UP CLOSE VIEW TO APPRECIATE ALL THAT SHE DOES. ESPECIALLY THE MENTORSHIP THAT SHE HAS PROVIDED US. SHE TAKES TIME TO LISTEN, AND PROVIDE THOUGHTFUL FEEDBACK WHETHER IT IS A CHALLENGE OR WITH A PERSON FACING A CAREER CHOICE, SHE ALWAYS GIVES GREAT ADVISE. DEB RA, IT'S HARD TO SEE YOU GO, YOU'VE BEEN A GREAT FRIEND AND COLLEAGUE. ALONG WITH THE ENTIRE ENGINEER TEAM, ARE SAD TO LEAVE YOU. AND YOUR SON AND DAUGHTER. I AM FOREVER GRATEFUL FOR ALL THAT YOU'VE DONE FOR THE CITY OF ENGINEERS AND THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES. I WISH YOU ALL THE BEST. CONGRATULATIONS. [APPLAUSE] >> Speaker: THANK YOU. >> E. Hernandez: NOW LET'S HEAR FROM. PERSON OF THE HOUR, I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE DEBRA TO SHARE A FEW WORDS WITH US. >> Speaker: SO IT'S A SOMBER DAY FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS. AND FOR ME, I HAVE VERY MIXED FEELINGS ABOUT THIS RETIREMENT. I HAVE LOVED WORKING FOR THE CITY, THE PROJECTS WITH ALL OF YOU ACROSS THE CITY, EACH ONE IS SPECIAL. MY KIND OF CLEARING CRY IS THAT DESIGN MATTERS AND I THINK I BROUGHT THAT TO EVERY PROJECT I WORK, WHETHER IT WAS A RETAINING WALL OR SMALL PARK. AND I HOPE THAT THE CITY CONTINUES TO SEE THE VALUE IN DESIGN, BECAUSE EVERY INVESTMENT IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO IMPROVE OUR COMMUNITIES. I THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR COLLABORATION, THIS COUNCIL HAS BEEN GREAT TO WORK WITH ALL OF CITY HALL HAS BEEN GREAT TO WORK WITH AND I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING MORE GREAT WORK. WHEN I STARTED, IT WAS LIKE MY 5th CAREER AND IF YOU HAD TOLD ME AS AN ARCHITECT THAT I LOVED WORKING FOR THE BOOR OFF ENGINEERING IT WOULD SURPRISE ME BUT IT HAS BEEN FANTASTIC. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, COUNCILMEMBERS. >> E. Hernandez: THANK YOU SO MUCH. I WANT TO OFFER MY COLLEAGUES A FEW MOMENTS TO SAY A FEW WORDS. >> Council President: THANK YOU WE'LL GIVE WITH COUNCILMEMBER NAZARIAN. >> A. Nazarian: THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ FOR BRINGING UP THIS IMPORTANT RECOGNITION. OF A FELLOW VALLEY RESIDENT AND SOMEBODY WHO HAS INSPIRED ME, GUIDED ME AS A YOUNG STAFFER WHO HAD A LOT OF QUESTIONS TO AN ADULT INDIVIDUAL AND ELECTED WHO STILL HAS A LOT MORE QUESTIONS NOW. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ALL OF OUR CONTRIBUTIONS I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU OUT ABOUT AROUND COYOTE CAFE AND MANY MORE BLESSINGS AND WISHES TO YOUR FAMILY AS WELL AS YOU GET TO NOW SPEND MUCH NEEDED TIME TOGETHER. CONGRATULATIONS AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR HONORABLE SERVICE. >> Council President: THANK YOU SO MUCH, COUNCILMEMBER RODRIGUEZ? >> M. Rodriguez: THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ FOR BRINGING IN DEBRA. DEBRA, YOU KNOW, WE'VE HAD, I'VE HAD THE BENEFIT OF BEING ABLE TO WORK WITH YOU FOR NOW MORE THAN A DECADE. I DIDN'T REALIZE HOW QUICKLY TIME FLEW. BUT YOU KNOW, YOU DO CARE DEEPLY ABOUT DESIGN AND I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS I APPRECIATED ABOUT YOU MOST, WAS THAT YOU UNDERSTOOD THAT IT MATTERED FOR EVERY PART OF THE CITY. IT DIDN'T MATTER WHAT ZIP CODE YOU LIVED IN. SO I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THAT EQUITY LENS AND MAKING SURE THAT ALL OF OUR COMMUNITIES GOT TYPE OF QUALITY INVESTMENT THAT THEY WERE DESERVING OF. I WANT TO THANK YOU, WE HAD, I WE HAD MANY CONVERSATIONS WHEN I WAS ON THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS AND YOU TALKED ABOUT YOUR SON AND FAMILY AND JUST, YOU KNOW, ALL THE REMARKABLE LIVES YOU'VE HAD. AND I JUST WANT TO WISH YOU VERY BEST. THANK YOU YOUR SERVICE HERE IN THE CITY AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR FRIENDSHIP. CONGRATULATIONS ON A WELL EARNED AND DESERVED RETIREMENT. I KNOW BOE IS GOING TO MISS YOU TREMENDOUSLY. BUT IS WHAT I DO KNOW IS YOU HAVE DONE A REMARKABLE JOB AS HAS ALL THE LEADERSHIP THAT I CAN THINK OF AT BOE TO ENSURE THAT THERE IS A SUCCESSION PLAN THAT THERE ARE TALENTED PEOPLE THAT WILL FALL BEHIND YOU AND HELP MAINTAIN THE SAME LEVEL OF PRESENCE AND COMMITMENT THAT YOU HAVE FOR YOUR LEVEL OF SERVICE. SO I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU SO MUCH, IT'S BEEN AN HONOR AND PLEASURE TO WORK WITH YOU. >> Speaker: THANK YOU. >> Council President: THANK YOU. COUNCILMEMBER PRICE? >> >> C. Price: THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ FOR BRINGING A REAL ANGEL IN TO SEE US. IT'S BEEN BITTERSWEET TO SAY GOODBYE. YOU'VE BEEN A FRIEND ALL OVER THE CITY, PROJECTS THAT YOU'VE HELPED ON IN CD9 AND I'M JUST I AM KRESSED BECAUSE YOU'RE CONCERNED NOT ONLY WITH THE ARCHITECTURE INTEGRITY AND APPROPRIATENESS OF THIS BUT THE BUILDING OF THE STRUCTURE, BUT ALSO THE COMMUNITY IMPACT AND PARTICIPATION. SO YOU'VE ALWAYS MAINTAINED AN EYE AND I APPRECIATE YOUR SERVICE. THANK YOU, KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK. >> Council President: COUNCILMEMBER RAMAN? >> N. Raman: I JUST WANTED TO RISE ALSO AND THANK YOU DEBRA FOR YOUR MANY YEARS OF SERVICE AND TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT I KNOW OUR STAFF HAS WORKED CLOSELY WITH YOU DURING YOUR TIME. AND YOUR VOICE AND YOUR FEEDBACK ON OUR PRIORITIES IN MY OFFICE WERE VIEWED WITH THE GREATEST OF RESPECT AND GREATEST OF GRATITUDE BECAUSE WE KNEW THAT YOUR INPUT INTO ANYTHING THAT WE WERE WORKING ON WOULD MEAN THAT IT WOULD GET DONE AND GET DONE THE RIGHT WAY. AND I'M JUST GRATEFUL THAT WE HAD THAT PARTNERSHIP AS I'VE SAID AT ANY OF THE RETIREMENT THAT'S WE'VE HAD RECENTLY, YEAH, WE'RE LOSING AN INCREDIBLE FONT OF EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE ABOUT HOW THIS VERY COMPLICATED AND OFTEN CONFUSING CITY WORKS. AND WE'RE GOING TO FEEL THAT GAP. AND I JUST, I KNOW, IS HOPE THAT WE CAN MAKE IT OUT, BUT JUST KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, YOUR PRESENCE IS GOING TO BE DEEPLY DEEPLY MISSED AND I'M JUST SO GRATEFUL FOR WHAT YOU'VE ALREADY GIVEN TO THE CITY AND THE CITY IS VERY GRATEFUL FOR YOU. THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU. >> Council President: COUNCILMEMBER LEE? >> J. Lee: YEAH, DEBRA SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN SAID MORE THAN ONCE OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS, WE'VE LOST KEY MEMBERS FROM THE BUREAU OF ENGINEERING, WAS, WELL DEBRA IS STILL THERE. AND THIS RETIREMENT IS SO WELL EARNED BECAUSE I KNOW HOW HARD YOU'VE WORKED, BECAUSE YIZ OF A PROJECT IN MY DISTRICT THAT YOU WERE NOT PART OF. YOU ALWAYS HAD YOUR HANDS-ON. SO I JUST WANT TO STAND UP AND SAY ON BEHALF OF CD12, THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING THAT YOU'VE DONE FOR OUR CITY AND THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING YOU'VE DONE FOR THE NORTHWEST SAN FERNANDO VALLEY. >> THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER JURADO? >> >> Y. Jurado: THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD. DEBRA, CD14 WOULD NOT LOOK THE WAY IT DOES RIGHT NOW WITHOUT YOU. I HOPE YOU'LL COME AND CELEBRATE THE PARK WITH US. COME THIS SUMMER AND ALSO, THANK YOU FOR INTRODUCING US TO HEIDI DUCKLER, WE HAVE SOME GREAT IDEAS ON HOW TO WORK TOGETHER IN THE DAM COMPANY. BUT THE CITY, YOU CAN DRIVE-THRU IT AND SEE ALL YOUR FINGERPRINTS, LITERAL AND FIGURATIVE LEON IT. THANK YOU FOR YOUR YEARS OF DEDICATION. >> Council President: THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER JURADO. THANK YOU VERY MUCH DEBRA, I CONCUR CAN EVERYTHING THAT OTHERS HAVE SAID. I WANT TO TALK ABOUT A PROJECT THAT HAD YOU MAY NOT REMEMBER. IN MY FIRST YEARS I TOOK YOU AND OSAMA AND OTHERS IN LEADERSHIP TO A BUILDING AND I SAID THIS IS WHAT OUR DISTRICT OFFICE HAS TO LOOK LIKE. YOU REMEMBER THAT. AND IN MY MIND I THOUGHT THERE IS NO WAY THAT WE CAN DO IT. AND YOU LOOKED AT ME AND SAID WE CAN DO IT AND DO IT UNDER BUDGET. THAT PROJECT TURNED OUT SO WELL, THAT OFTEN SOMETIMES WHEN THE CONSTITUENTS WALK IN, THEY OFTEN SAY HOW CAN HOW IN THE WORLD AFFORD A NICE BUILDING IN COMMUNITY. SO I ALWAYS REMEMBER YOU FOR THAT. I ALWAYS INVOKE YOUR NAME WHENEVER RESIDENTS BRING THAT HUP. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR SERVICE AND THANK YOU FOR THINKING ENOUGH OF THE PEOPLE IN LOS ANGELES TO DEDICATE THIS PART OF YOUR LIFE TO MAKE IT A BEAUTIFUL PLACE FOR EVERYONE. [APPLAUSE] >> THANK YOU. >> E. Hernandez: THANK YOU, COLLEAGUES, THANK YOU COUNCIL PRESIDENT. TO ALL THE FAMILY, FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES WHO JOINED US TODAY, MY DEEPEST GRATITUDE FOR BEING HERE AND GIVING DEBRA A PROPER SEND OFF. WE HAVE A RESOLUTION SIGNED BY THE ENTIRE CITY COUNCIL CEMENTING YOUR LEGACY HERE IN LOS ANGELES. PLEASE JOIN ME IN GIVING HER A ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR HER DECADES OF SERVICE TO THE CITY. [APPLAUSE] >> ALL RIGHTCIOUS THANK YOU SO MUCH. COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ SUCH A GREAT PRESENTATION, I'M NOW ASK THE CLERK AND CITY ATTORNEY TO PREPARE US FOR PUBLIC COMMENT. >> YES, MR. PRESIDENT. TO PEOPLE PROVIDING PUBLIC COMMENT WHEN IT'S YOUR TURN TO SPEAK, PLEASE STATE WHICH OF THE AGENDA ITEMS YOU WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK TO. YOU'LL HAVE ONE MINUTE PER UP TO THREE MINUTES TOTAL FOR THE ITEMS OPEN FOR PUBLIC COMMENT. 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 TOPIC 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 CLEAR LEON TOPIC. IF YOU DO NOT SO, WE WILL MOVE ON TO THE NEXT SPEAKER. THE ITEMS OPEN FOR PUBLIC COMMENT ON THE AGENDA, ARE ITEMS 9 THROUGH 27 AND ITEMS 29 THROUGH 31. SO AGAIN, THE ITEMS OPEN FOR PUBLIC COMMENT ON THE AGENDA, ARE ITEMS 9 THROUGH 27 AND 29 THROUGH 31. ITEM NUMBER 28 HAS BEEN CONTINUED TO FEBRUARY AND AS THUS NOT OPEN FOR PUBLIC COMMENT. MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC MAY ALSO SPEAK FOR UP TO ONE MINUTE FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. DURING GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT, MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC MAY SPEAK TO ANY OF THE ITEMS OR ANYTHING ELSE IN THE CITY JURISDICTION. I HAVE A COUPLE MORE ANNOUNCEMENTS IF I CAN HAVE THE INTERPRETERS MAKE THIS ONE ALLOWED TO THE ROOM PLEASE, IF YOU REQUIRE A SPANISH LANGUAGE INTERPRETER, PLEASE MAKE SURE TO PAUSE EVERY FEW SENTENCES SO THE INTERPRETERS CAN INTERPRET. >> Interpreter: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> City Attorney: DON'T WORRY WE WILL PAUSE YOUR TIME WHILE THE INTERPRETERS ARE INTERPRETING SO GET THE SAME AMOUNT OF TIME. >> Interpreter: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> City Attorney: ADDITIONALLY IF YOU HAVE MADE A REQUEST UNDER THE ADA IN ORDER TO MAKE USE OF HAND HELD MICROPHONE, PLEASE LET THE SERGEANT KNOW WHEN YOU HEAR YOUR NAME CALLED OUT WHEN IT'S YOUR TURN TO SPEAK. SO ONCE YOU HEAR YOUR NAME CALLED ALOUD, THEN YOU CAN RAISE YOUR HAND AND THE SERGEANTS CAN BRING YOU THE WIRELESS HAND HELD MICROPHONE. IF YOU MADE THAT REQUEST. FINALLY THE ORDER THAT WE CALL THE NAMES IS RANDOMLY GENERATED. SO IN ORDER TO ACCOMMODATE AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE, YOU PLEASE WAIT UNTIL YOU HEAR THE NAME YOU SIGNED UP UNDER BEFORE LINING UP ON YOUR LEFT HAND SIDE. AFTER YOU HEAR YOUR NAME CALLED ALLOWED, YOU CAN LINE UP ON ANY ORDER ON YOUR LEFT HAND SIDE OF THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS, THANK YOU. >> Clerk: I'LL BEGIN BY CALLING THE FOLLOWING NAMES, KARINA R, LARA, ANDREA FONG AND DAN GUS. >> City Attorney: I SEE ONE PERSON COMING UP. MR. HERMAN, TO THE EXTEND THAT YOU ASK FOR THE MICROPHONE, I ASK THAT YOU ADHERE TO THE INSTRUCTIONS I'VE GIVEN. PLEASE ABIDE BY THE PROCEDURES. GO AHEAD. WE'LL TAKE THE FIRST SPEAKER AT THE PODIUM FIRST. >> Speaker: OKAY. OKAY. I'LL GO. >> City Attorney: GOOD MORNING, GO AHEAD. >> Speaker: GENERAL COMMENT. >> City Attorney: YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE. >> Speaker: ELECTED OFFICIALS MAY ASSUME NA PEOPLE WILL MAKE THE MOST NOISE ABOUT WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT TO THEM. UNFORTUNATELY, THIS ASSUMPTION BREAKS DOWN WHEN IT COMES TO EXTORTATION. PEOPLE THREAT END WITH VIOLENCE WHEN THEY GO TO THE POLICE, WILL NOT GO TO POLICE. PEOPLE KNOW THAT THEY'RE BEING VICTIMIZED AND THEY KNOW THAT THEY'RE REFUSE TO GO LIFT A FINGER. YOU NEED TO WRITE A LETTER TO THE GOVERNOR ASKING FOR A MILITARY INVESTIGATION OF POLICE MISCONDUCT. HE WOULDN'T RISK STEPPING ON THE TOES OF LOCAL OFFICIALS SO IT REALLY IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY. I DON'T KNOW WHAT NONSENSE YOUR BEING FED IN CLOSED SESSION BUT I SUSPECT YOU'RE BEING TOLD NOT TO HELP. ANYONE WHO TOLD YOU THIS IS DELUSIONAL AND JUST PLAIN BAD. >> Clerk: I WOULD LIKE TO CALL UP STEVE HORWITNESSES, INDICATE TEE WILL AFOON. M ADU RO NICK SIMON AND HARRIETTE ELLIOT. >> Speaker: TEST, TEST, TEST. SMOKING SCAN, I WANT TO SPEAK ON ALL ITEMS AND PUBLIC COMMENT. WHAT IS MY TIME SIR, ALL RIGHT, ASSHOLE, I GUESS IT'S THREE MINUTES, PLUS ONE. GOT IT. TODOS CABRONES Y PUTAS. >> Interpreter: ALL OF YOU MOTHER FUCKERS, WELCOME TO MY HOUSE 2026. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Interpreter: I AM THINKING OF ALL THE ELDERS IN COUNCIL DISTRICT 14, MOTHER FUCKERS. >> Speaker: WHICH IS ITEM NUMBER 3. >> City Attorney: ITEM 3 IS NOT OPEN FOR PUBLIC COMMENT. ITEM 3 IS NOT OPEN FOR PUBLIC COMMENT. IF YOU WERE LISTENING EARLIER, THE ITEMS ARE 9 THROUGH 27 AND 29 THROUGH 31. SO THIS IS YOUR ONLY WARNING. PLEASE SPEAK TO THE ITEMS IN THE REMAINING 2 MINUTES AND 14 SECONDS OR I'M GOING MOVE TO YOU GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. >> Speaker: SO SMOKING SCAN ON ITEM NUMBER 30, CIVIL RIGHTS IMMIGRATION, THANK YOU DONALD TRUMP FOR AGING AND DISABILITY AND PUBLIC SAFETY ON BEHALF OF DAVID O CARTER WHO JUST GAVE THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES A NICE BEAUTIFUL FINE IN THE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FOR DOING NOTHING. YES. THE ASSOCIATED IMPERSONATING OF FEDERAL STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT BY YOUR SO-CALLED GROUPS CALLED AS LAHSA. WE KNOW THAT, PERSONS UNDER THE FALSE PRETENSE OF BEING PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICERS, HAVE DONE NOTHING, NOT ONE GOD DAMN THING FOR HOUSING. AND THAT ONE--. >> City Attorney: THIS IS NOT RELATED TO ITEM 30. SO YOUR FINAL WARNING, STICK TO THE ITEM OR LET US KNOW WHAT ITEM YOU WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK TO. >> Speaker: SO YOU'RE SAYING DISABILITY AND PUBLIC SAFETY IS NOT WHAT I'M SPEAKING ABOUT. CAN YOU REFINE ME WITH THE ANSWER. >> City Attorney: IT DOES NOT MATCH THE DESCRIPTION OF THE ITEM. >> Speaker: OKAY, FUCK THE LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENT TO THE IMMEDIATE AND HARASSED THREATENED PERSONS OR PROPERTY OF ANY OTHER FUCKEN METHOD THAT COULD BE UNDERSTOOD. 40 USC POLITELY, FUCK YOU, BIG HEAD! THANK YOU, SMOKING SCAN FOR THAT. >> City Attorney: THANK YOU YOU'RE WELCOME TO TALK ABOUT MY BIG HEAD DURING PUBLIC COMMENT. >> Speaker: OH I GOT 3 MINUTES PLUS ONE, WHAT HAPPENED FOO. >> City Attorney: WE GAVE YOU MULTIPLE CHANCES. >> Speaker: GAVIN NEWSOM LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, HAS ANNOUNCED NA IT'S TIME TO CLEAN UP THE HOMELESS CRISIS. IF YOU BELIEVE THAT, THAT'S LIKE SAYING, I HAVE A BIG DICK IN MY HAND, WHICH YOU SEE I DON'T. THE ONLY DICK IS THIS ONE, IS POINTING AT YOU, TO CREATE A CRISIS THAT DAVID O CARTER A FEDERAL JUDGE HAS ANNOUNCE IN ADDITION YOUR INCOMPETENT STUPID LAWS HAVE MADE THE SITUATION WORSE LIKE THAT JACKASS GOVERN WHO MADE HIS STATEMENTS AGAINST TRUMP. THANK YOU DONALD TRUMP FOR SAVING AMERICA. DONALD TRUMP HAS DONE AN EXCELLENT JOB AT PROVIDING US ALL THE SAFETY FROM ALL THE DRUGS THAT THIS CITY HAS ALLOWED AT THE AIRPORT AND THE PORTS. >> City Attorney: MR. HERMAN YOUR TIME IS EXPIRED. NEXT SPEAKER. GOOD MORNING, WHICH ITEMS WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO? >> Speaker: NO ITEM, JUST PUBLIC COMMENT. >> City Attorney: YOU HAVE A MINUTE. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] COUNSELS HOLD ON. GIVE TIME FOR TRANSLATION. >> Interpreter: I LIVE CLOSE TO 7th AND WILSHIRE AND THERE THERE IS A NEIGHBOR WHO HAS AN APARTMENT, WHO HAS AN, HOW DO I SAY THIS? >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Interpreter: HE HAS A HIGH AMOUNT OF MAIL ACCUMULATED IN HIS FRONT DOOR AND BECAUSE HE HAS NOT PICKED IT UP IN A WHILE, MEANS KNOWING IS LIVING THERE. >> Speaker: GRACIAS. >> Interpreter: THANK YOU. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Interpreter: IN THE BOOK OF JOHN DEAN HE SAYS THAT THERE IS CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANTS. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Interpreter: HE HAS ERASED PREVIOUS CRIMINAL RECORDS WITH HELP FROM THE GOVERNMENT 6789 >> Speaker: SI. [SPEAKING SPANISH] AND UNDER BUSH TOO. >> Interpreter: IT WAS FIXED BY THE GOVERNMENT UNDER BUSH ALSO. >> Clerk: BEFORE THE NEXT SPEAKER, I WOULD LIKE TO CALL JESSICA ROGERS, LITTLE WAYNE, EDGAR, JIM G AND CAESAR LOPEZ. >> City Attorney: GOOD MORNING, WHICH ITEMS WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO? >> Speaker: GENERAL COMMENT. >> City Attorney: OKAY, YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE. >> Speaker: [BLOWING WHISTLE] THIS IS PUBLIC TIME, NOT PUBLIC TIME. HALF THE REPS ARE DONE, CLOSE THE LOS ANGELES CENTRAL JAIL, MEN CENTRAL NEEDS TO BE CLOSED. >> City Attorney: OKAY AND BEFORE I MOVE TO THE NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE DO NOT BLOW A WHISTLE OR LOUD MICROPHONE AS IT GOES THROUGH THE SPEAKERS AND WE HAVE STAFF THAT WEAR HEADPHONES AND IT COULD DAMAGE THEIR EAR DRUMS, NOT TO MENTION IT'S A WHISTLE WE CAN HEAR IT. >> Speaker: I'M KATIE, I HAVE A GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. >> City Attorney: OKAY YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE. GO AHEAD. >> Speaker: A YEAR AGO, WE WERE ON FIRE AND I SAW THE CITY COME TOGETHER IN A WAY THAT STILL MAKES ME EMOTIONAL. NONE OF YOU TOLD YOU THE PEOPLE ON THE GROUND TO DO IT BETTER, DOING THEIR BEST TO HELP NEIGHBORS AND WHEN WE WERE STILL WIPING CASH FROM OUR CARS, I CAME HERE BEGGING FOR HELP. I ASKED YOU TO SHOW UP TO THOSE BEING TERRORIZED BY ICE AND YOU IGNORED ME AND ALL OF US. THE MESSAGE HAS BEEN TO PUT THE BLAME ON PEOPLE, TO PUT THE RESPONSIBILITY ON US TO BE PEACEFUL WHICH WE ALWAYS BEEN NOT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OR LAPD WHICH HAS BEEN VIOLENT. ROBERTO WAS KILLED BY ICE, YOU SAID AND DID NOTHING. IT HAS THE FAULT IS ON HIM. LEAVING TERMINAL ISLAND, YOU DID NOTHING. THE MESSAGE SAID TO DOCUMENT THEM FROM A DISTANCE. EVERYONE LOVES TO SAY THAT L.A. IS THE TESTING GROUND. GIVE ME A MINUTE, I'M BEGGING YOU. >> City Attorney: HOLD ON, YOUR TIME IS NOT RUNNING RIGHT NOW. YOUR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT IS EXPIRED. IF YOU CONTINUE ABOUT THE ICE RAIDS, YOU CAN SPEAK TO ITEMS 29 AND 30, SO YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES FOR THE ITEMS, GO AHEAD. >> Speaker: YES, PLEASE. EVERYBODY LOVES TO SAY THAT L.A. IS TESTING GROUND AND WE ARE. RENEE GOODE DIED BECAUSE OF THE ACTIONS THAT HAVE HAPPENED HERE. WE'VE WARNED EVERYBODY THAT THIS WOULD HAPPEN. WE TOLD EVERYBODY THAT WAS HAPPENED. KEITH PORTER WAS KILLED ON NEW YEAR'S EVE AND NOBODY HAS SAID ANYTHING. THERE HAS BEEN BEEN A SFAIMENT FROM THE MAYOR, NOBODY HAS SAID SHIT, GIVE US SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN SXWLAIM. WE NEED SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN. THE CITY HAS A WHOLE HAS BEEN CONTINUED TO STAY HOME AND NOT TO STAND UP, YOU GUYS HAVE HELPED DO THAT. PLEASE DON'T POST ON SOCIAL MAOEDS I CAN'T ABOUT WHERE IS THE PLUS? PLEASE I AM BEGGING YOU, I AM BEGGING YOU, DO IT DIFFERENTLY. WE NEED YOU. WE NEED SOMEBODY TO DO SOMETHING. LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENED IN CHICAGO LAST NIGHT. PEOPLE ARE HERE, THEY'RE READY TO STAND BEHIND YOU BUT WE'VE BEEN CONTINUED THAT IF WE SHOW UP, THEY WILL BE GET SHOT. THEY WILL BE BEATEN. OUR OWN LAW ENFORCEMENT. WE NEED SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN. WE NEED YOU GUYS. WE NEED TO BELIEVE IN YOU. GIVE US SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN. THIS IS THE TESTING GROUND, IT'S STILL BEING TESTED. YOU GUYS CAN LIKE CHANGE THAT AND I'M BEGGING YOU TO HELP US. PLEASE. >> City Attorney: NEXT SPEAKER. GOOD MORNING, WHICH ITEMS WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO? >> Speaker: GOOD MORNING, SIR AND HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE. ALL ITEMS, YOU SAID 29 AND 30 WERE ABOUT PUBLIC SAFETY AND ICE AND ANYTHING THAT HAS TO DO WITH PALISADES, MAY I FINISH SIR. >> City Attorney: YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES FOR THE ITEMS AND THAT'S 9 THROUGH 27 AND 29 THROUGH 31. >> Speaker: SO GIVE ME ALL OF THEM SIR. LET'S START WITH PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICERS. YOU KNOW, I'VE MENTIONED IT BEFORE, WE HAVE THE FINEST POLICE CHIEF IN THE CITY, McDONNELL. A LOT OF YOU MAY NOT LIKE HIM, BUT WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT SOMEBODY WHO IS PREPARED FOR A JOB TO KEEP THIS CITY SAFE, CHIEF McDONNELL IS THAT PERSON! BUT I PERSONALLY HAVE TO SAY, SIR, MR. McOFK DONNELL WHAT HAPPENED? GOD GAVE YOU THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE IN CITY SAFER. HE GAVE YOU THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO GOOD WHEN YOU SEE ICE PEOPLE IN THE CITY WHO ARE DOING WRONG! THAT'S NOT LAW, THAT'S CRIME! SO I'M NOT BEING DISRESPECTFUL AND I'M NOT AFRAID OF YOU SIR, I RESPECTFULLY JUST ASK YOU TO PLEASE, PLEASE, MAKE THIS CITY SAFER AND DO WHATEVER YOU CAN TO PROTECT OUR CITIZENS. IN REGARDS TO, CAN I TALK ABOUT THE PALISADES FIRES WAS THAT AN ITEM. I'LL TALK ABOUT IT, HE'S NOT LISTENING. IT'S NICE TO HEAR YOU ALL, TALK ABOUT OH MY GOD, PALISADES, THE OTHER FIRE, I APOLOGIZE, I'M OLD, I CAN'T REMEMBER AND EVERYBODY WANTS TO DO SOMETHING! WHERE WERE YOU BEFORE! THIS MORNING WHEN I HAD TO WAKE UP EARLY, BECAUSE THE TREES FELL DOWN, BECAUSE THERE WERE 65 MILES PER HOUR WINDS KNOCKING DOWN MY TREES IN THE BACK YARD, CAN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT THE WINTD OR RAIN? BUT WHAT DO YOU GUYS DO? YOU GIVE THE MATCH THAT WILL LIGHT PORTER RANCH. YOU FOLKS. >> City Attorney: WHAT ITEM ARE YOU SPEAKING TO? MR. CANDIDO, WHICH ITEM ARE YOU SPEAKING TO. YOU WANT TO MOVE TO GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. OKAY, YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE. >> Speaker: SIR, I WANT TO BE RESPECTFUL. WOULD YOU CUT THAT OUT. THIS IS REALLY RIDICULOUS, YOU'RE ACTING LIKE. SO WHAT IS HAPPENING IN PORTER RANCH, WORRIED ABOUT THE TREES FALLING, AND YET I'M WORRIED ABOUT THE FIRE THAT TAKE PLACE. AND THEN YOU COME HERE, PALISADES, OH WE'RE HERE, I'M REALLY SORRY, I CAN'T REMEMBER THE OTHER NAME. AGAIN, HERE YOU ARE, YOU HAVE A CHANCE TO DO SOMETHING. BUT YET YOU STILL ALLOW ILLEGAL PARKING IN PORTER RANCH WHERE THEY'RE TEARING UP THE AREA WITH SPEEDING. YOU KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE CRASHED? I MAY HAVE 60 MILES PER HOUR WINDS BUT I HAVE 80 MILES PER HOUR CARS GOING UP RESEDA. AND WHAT ARE YOU DOING ABOUT IT? JOHN LEE, YOU'RE LOOKING DOWN, I'VE BEEN A CONSTITUENT UP THERE FOR YEARS! AND YET YOU CANNOT LOOK ME IN THE FACE, RIGHT? YOU KEEP THAT NICE SUIT BUT I WORKED HARD FOR MY HOUSE. I WORKED HARD, I WENT FROM THE STREETS OF VAN NUYS TO PORTER RANCH AND I NEVER FORGOT WHERE I CAME FROM. >> City Attorney: MR. CANDIDO YOU'RE NOW DISRUPTING THIS MEETING, BECAUSE WE CANNOT MOVE ON TO THE NEXT SPEAKER. YOU'RE TIME IS EXPIRED, WE NEED TO MOVE ON TO THE NEXT SPEAKER. >> Speaker: DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. >> City Attorney: I'M GOING TO ASK THE GENTLEMAN WITH THE BEARD AND WHISTLE ON MY LEFT HAND SIDE, DO NOT BLOW THAT WHISTLE AGAIN, IF YOU DO IT AGAIN, YOU'LL BE SUBJECT TO REMOVAL PURSUANT TO RULE 7 AND 12. MR. KANDIDO, YOU'VE ALREADY RECEIVED YOUR FIRST AND FINAL WARNING. NEXT SPEAKER. >> Speaker: HI GOOD MORNING. IT HAS TO DO FOR ME FOR BEING HANDICAP, NOT JUST ME BUT FOR ALL PEOPLE WHO ARE HANDICAP. >> City Attorney: YOU HAVE A MINUTE. >> Speaker: FOR VAN NUYS AREA, WE REALLY NEED TO HAVE SAFETY FOR US BECAUSE I WAS HIT BY A CAR AND THIS WAS BACK IN 20--JANUARY OF 23. AND IT WAS ON MY BIRTHDAY, IT WAS ON THE 26th AND I ENDED UP GOING TO EMERGENCY HOSPITAL. BUT THAT'S AS FAR AS IT WENT, THANK GOODNESS FOR THAT. BUT IT WAS THE IDEA STILL WHERE I LIVE IS BETWEEN TWO BUILDINGS AND THERE IS ONLY A LITTLE SMALL LITTLE RED CURVE AND THAT'S ALL THEY DID. THERE WAS ONCE ABOUT A TIME, A WHOLE, THE WHOLE ENTIRE AREA WHERE THE BETWEEN TWO BUILDINGS WERE. THEY WAS A--RED. >> City Attorney: SPEAKER YOUR TIME IS EXPIRED. BUT IF YOU CAN GO TO THE SIDE OR THE BACK, JUST FOR A FEW MINUTES PLEASE. WE NEED TO GO TO THE NEXT SPEAKER. >> Clerk: BEFORE THE NEXT SPEAKER, I WOULD LIKE TO CALL RM, LORI, MIKE W, ERIC ANDERS, THAI FORMAN, JARED AND PALOMA BUSTOs. >> City Attorney: GOOD MORNING, WHAT ITEM. >> Speaker: PUBLIC COMMENT. ?AOUF A MINUTE. >> Speaker: GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE COUNCILMEMBERS. I'M EDGAR AND I'M A FAST FOOD WORKER. I'VE BEEN WORKING IN THE FAST FOOD INDUSTRY FOR SOME YEARS AND I'M HERE TODAY TO ASK YOU TO SUPPORT THE FAST FOOD FAIR WORK ORDINANCE AND THESE ORDINANCE IS GOING TO BENEFIT MANY OF FAST FOOD WORKERS OF THEIRS. MANY FAST FOOD WORKERS LIKE ME WHO NEED TO GET PAID VACATIONS, FAIR SCHEDULING, AND KNOW ABOUT THEIR RIGHTS. THANK YOU FOR LISTENING TO ME. HAVE A GOOD DAY. AND GOD BLESS YOU ALL. [APPLAUSE] >> Speaker: GOOD MORNING, CITY COUNCIL. >> City Attorney: WHICH ITEM WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO? >> Speaker: I WANT TO SPEAK ABOUT FAST FOOD. >> City Attorney: YOU'LL HAVE A MINUTE. >> Speaker: I'M CAESAR LOPEZ, AND I WORK OFTEN WITHOUT PAY UP TO 12 HOURS A WEEK. I WAS NOT GIVEN BREAKS DURING THIS TIME. I LIVE PAYCHECK TO PAYCHECK. I HAVE A KAOUM DATED 21,000 IN CREDIT CARD DEBT. I AM TRYING TO SURVIVE. I DIDN'T KNOW THAT I HAD THE RIGHT TO GET PAID FOR THE MISSED BREAKS. NOUZ I KNOW THIS IS I WILL LYLE, I'M DEMANDING TO BE PAID WHAT I'M OWED THE TERMS OF TONS OF FAST FOOD WORKERS ARE STILL SUFFERING FROM WAGE THEFT AND THEY DON'T EVEN KNOW IT. LOS ANGELES COUNCILMEMBERS CAN HELP US EQUIP WITH KNOW YOUR RIGHTS TRAINING SO TOGETHER WORKERS WITH WORK AND MEANT TO PROTECT WON ASSUMERS AND BUSINESSES. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. >> Speaker: I'M PALOMA AND I'M PART OF LAYOLA LAW SCHOOL. MANY IN LOS ANGELES ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO HOST THE WORLD CUP AND OLYMPIC GAMES. THIS BRINGS BILLIONS BUT ALSO CREATE PRESSURE TO FINISH CONSTRUCTION, THEY INCREASE THE DEMAND FOR WORKERS HOSPITALITIES AND EVENT SERVICES, WE KNOW FROM PAST OLYMPIC THAT'S WHEN THERE IS PRESSURE FOR PAST AND CHEAP LABOR, INCREASES ESPECIALLY FOR IMMIGRANT AND WORKERS. IDENTIFIED IN CONNECTION WITH EVERY OLYMPIC GAMES AND WORLD CUPS OVER THE PAST DECADES. OUR OFFICE RECENTLY RELEASED A REPORT THAT CLEAR PRACTICE STEPS THAT THE CITY CAN TAKE NOW, MAKING SURE THAT CONTRACTORS ARE FOLLOWING RULES AND FUNDING SURVIVOR TO PREVENT HARM BEFORE IT HAPPENS. WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SHARE THAT REPORT WITH YOU TO MAKE SURE THAT THE CITY--SO THEY DON'T COME AT THE EXPENSE OF SAFETY AND DIGNITY. THANK YOU. >> City Attorney: THANK YOU, NEXT SPEAKER. >> City Attorney: WHICH ITEMS WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO? >> Speaker: I'M U.S. BLUM, I'M A U.S. VETERAN, HONORABLE DISCHARGED. I LIVE IN VAN NUYS AND BETWEEN 1509, I'M SORRY, 15049 AND 15105, THERE IS A WALKWAY THERE THAT NEEDS TO BE PAINTED EITHER RED OR BLUE, OR BOTH. BECAUSE THERE IS CARS PARKED THERE AND THEY PAINT IT. AND IN MY BOOK, THAT'S UNACCEPTABLE AND AND SOMEBODY TOLD ME TO TAKE A BLUE WALKWAY. I WANT IT DONE YESTERDAY. I WANT BLUE LINES SO PEOPLE WHO PARK THERE CAN GET TICKETED, CAUSE AS IT IS RIGHT NOW, WE CALL SOMEBODY TO COME AND GIVE A TICKET THAT WILL NOT GIVE A TICKET BECAUSE THERE IS NO INDICATION AS TO WHAT HE DID. >> SPEAKER YOUR TIME IS EXPIRED. BUT IF YOU YOU CAN JUST WAIT FOR A SECOND. >> I'M DONE. >> OKAY, NEXT SPEAKER. >> Speaker: GOOD DAY, I WOULD LIKE TO DO THE GENERAL COMMENT. I BELIEVE I HAVE A SUBJECT THAT AFFECTS US ALL. >> City Attorney: OKAY, YOU HAVE A MINUTE, GO AHEAD. >> Speaker: OKAY, MY I'M FREDERICK WILLIAM, I CALL A CIVILIZED AMERICAN AND CITIZEN OF THE WORLD. WE HAVE INTERNATIONAL CRISIS, WE HAVE A SITUATION THAT IS AFFECTING ALL OF US, BUSINESSES ARE CLOSING HERE IN LOS ANGELES, I SEE THAT SO I MUST, SO NUMBER MUST BE RISING TOO. THE NUMBER OF BILLIONAIRES HAS GROWN AND THE NUMBER OF DOLLARS FOR THOSE BILLIONAIRES HAS GROWN. AND THIS IS, SIMPLE ARITHMETIC. THE SIMth ARITHMETIC IN THIS EQUATION, WE HAVE A NATIONAL OR INTERNATIONAL CRISIS, WE NEED A GRADUATED TAX REFORMATION, THE SITUATION WITH THOSE AND OTHER POVERTY LINE PAY NOTHING AND THOSE ZILLIONAIRS. >> Clerk: BEFORE THE NEXT SPEAKER BEGINS, I WOULD LIKE TO CALL UP BRANDON, AUDIT L.A., GLORIA, MICHELLE SHE HAVEROF AND NICK HOLDEN. >> City Attorney: GOOD MORNING, WHICH ITEMS WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO? >> Speaker: GENERAL COMMENT AND THE TWO RELATED TO THE ICE RAIDS. >> City Attorney: SORRY, GENERAL COMMENT AND WHAT? >> Speaker: AND THE TWO RELATED TO THE ICE RAIDS. >> City Attorney: OKAY YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES FOR THE ITEMS, 29 AND 30, IF YOU CAN BEGIN WITH THOSE FIRST AND THEN YOU CAN MOVE ON TO GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. >> Speaker: MY NAME IS A ERIC I'M A PHOTOGRAPHER WHO HAS BEEN DOCUMENTING ICE. I WOULD LIKE TO THANK COUNCILMEMBER RODRIGUEZ FOR HOW YOU ADDRESSED THE YEAR TODAY. YOU SAID THE GLOVES ARE OFF, AND I HOPE THAT'S TRUE, BECAUSE WE NEED IT T.LAST NIGHT, I MARCHED FROM MARCH MARIACHI PLAZA FOR RENEE GOODE. SO VISUAL METAPHOR, THERE WAS A MOMENT WHERE WE WERE WALKING ACROSS THE BRIDGE, ACROSS THE L.A. RIVER SURROUNDED BY INDUSTRIAL WASTE LAND, THE DETENTION CENTER, SOMEWHERE AHEAD OF US. IT WAS WINDY AND COLD AND DARK BECAUSE THE STREET LIGHTS WERE ALL OUT ON THE BRIDGE BECAUSE THEY HAVE RESERVED TO STEALING COPPER WIRING. IT STRUCK ME THAT WE'RE PAST A TIPPING POINT. WE HAVE TIPPED, THE MOMENT IS HERE. WE NYED MORE WORDS THAN WHAT WE NEED HOPE. THE GENTLEMAN THAT SPOKE ON BEHALF OF KEITH PORTER'S BEHALF IS CORRECT, THIS IS GOING TO BE UNPRECEDENTED, THERE IS NO MORE TIME TO WAIT. I WAS GLAD YOU STARTED THE MEETING LIKE THAT. I KNOW YOU'RE ALL REQUIRED TO SAY IT BY THE BYLAW OR SOMETHING, I WOULD POINT OUT THAT HAD YOU STARTED BY TURNING YOUR BACK ON THE PUBLIC TO PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, PLEASE SHOW ME I'M MISINTERPRETED, IF YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING TO RAIN IN ICE, YOU NEED TO TELL US WHY. GO PUBLIC, DO SOMETHING UNPRECEDENTED. THIS IS THE MOMENT AND WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE MORE AFTER THIS. THANK YOU. >> City Attorney: GOOD MORNING, WHAT ITEM WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO? >> Speaker: GOOD MORNING, THIS IS A GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. >> City Attorney: YOU HAVE A MINUTE. >> Speaker: I WOULD LIKE TO SAY GOOD MORNING HERNANDEZ AND COUNCILMEMBER JURADO. NOW THE MATTER THAT I NEED UM, ATTENTION ON, IS SPECIFICALLY DEALING WITH COUNCILMEMBER JURADO. I LIVE IN CENTRAL CITY EAST. AND IT'S SUPER AWESOME, I'M PUTTING THE OTHER COUNCIL, LITTLE TOKYO AWESOME AS WELL. BUT PEOPLE ON SKID ROW FACE, VERY UNIQUE. I'M A MARKIST, I'M HARD LINE MARKIST AND INTERACTING WITH THE GOVERNMENT IN A MORE FLUID MANNER HAS BEEN PRODUCTIVE FOR THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE THERE. AND I THINK THE ATTENTION AND DEDICATION TO WAR IS DEVELOPING A METHOD THAT IS MORE IN LINE THAT THEY KNOW IS MORALLY RIGHT, MORALLY SOUND IN TERMS WHAT OF WHAT WE'RE ABLE TO ACHIEVE CAN BE DONE. I JUST WANTED TO SAY HELLO TO YSABEL JURADO FOR THE FIRST TIME. THANK YOU SO MUCH AND I'M HONORED TO BE IN YOUR DISTRICT. OKAY. THAT'S IT. >> City Attorney: GOOD AFTERNOON, WHAT ITEMS WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO? >> Speaker: THE ITEMS RELATED TO ICE AND GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. : >> City Attorney: OKAY, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES FOR THE ITEMS AND ONE FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. >> Speaker IN LIGHT OF THE MURDER OF RENEE GOOD, THE TWO PEOPLE SHOT LAST NIGHT, I THINK OF MY GRANDFATHER WHO STOOD UP AND FOUGHT FASCISM OVERSEAS AND ROLLING IN HIS GRAVE NOW TO SEE IT COME TO OUR SHORES. WE DON'T HAVE TIME FOR GOOD WORDS, WE NEED ACTIONS, WE NEED BOLDNESS, WE NEED COURAGE TO FACE THE MOMENT BECAUSE OUR FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS ARE UNDER THREAT. AND YOU CAN PRETEND LIKE THEY'RE NORMAL TIMES, THOSE TIMS ARE GONE. WE NEED ACTION, WE NEED PASSION, WE NEED CREATIVITY, WE NEED PEOPLE TO AT LEAST STAND UP. IF WE GO DOWN, WE AT LEAST GO DOWN SWING ISING, WE DON'T JUST ROLL OVER. I HAVE TO ADMIT, I'M AFRAID AND I CAN IMAGINE A LOT OF YOU ON COUNCIL ARE AFRAID. BUT WE NEED COURAGE AND RESOLVE BECAUSE, I HAVE SEEN THE VIDEO OF THAT WOMAN BEING SHOT IN THE FACE BY A FEDERAL THUG. I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD SEE THAT IN MY COUNTRY, WHEN I HEARD, OF LIKE THE SHOOTINGS IN PORTLAND, I GOT SCARED BECAUSE I HAD TO CALL MY FRIENDS TO MAKE SURE THEY WERE OKAY. WE KEEP SAYING, WE NEED ACTION, WE NEED A PLAN. WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU GOING TO DO? I LOVED YOUR WORDS MS. RODRIGUEZ. BUZZ WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO FOR US? HOW ARE YOU GOING TO KEEP US SAFE? HOW ARE YOU GOING TO PREVENT PEOPLE FROM DYING AND BEING KILLED AT THE HANDS OF A FEDS RAL GASTAPO? THANK YOU. >> City Attorney: OKAY, NEXT SPEAKER. GOOD AFTERNOON, WHICH ITEMS WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO? >> Speaker: DEREK, I'M GOING TO BE SPEAKING ON 29, 2 AND 30, AND WOULD I LIKE TO MAKE A GENERAL COMMENT AS WELL. >> City Attorney: SO ITEM NUMBER 2 IS NOT OPEN FOR PUBLIC COMMENT. BUT YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES FOR 29 AND 30 AND ONE MINUTE FOR GENERAL. >> Speaker: OKAY, GOOD. I SUPPORT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. I SUPPORT DONALD TRUMP I SUPPORT WHAT THEY'RE DOING TO GET THESE ILLEGAL AND UNLAWFUL INDIVIDUALS OUT OF THIS COUNTRY. WHEN YOU GET IMMIGRATION UNDER THE CONTROL. WHEN YOU GET THESE ILLEGAL ALIENS, IT CREATES JOBS AND TUNS AND PATHWAY THAT'S AMERICAN CITIZENS CAN ON AND GET OPPORTUNITIES THAT THEY'RE BEING DENIED EACH AND EVERY DAY. I ALSO WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE SITUATION THAT HAPPENED WHERE ICE HAD TO PROTECT ITSELF. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT MEN AND WOMEN WHO PUT ON UNIFORMS AND PROTECT OUR COUNTRY FOR PEOPLE WHO DON'T WANT TO BELONG HERE FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO COME HERE FREE AND DON'T WANT TO FOLLOW OUR LAWS AND GET OUR PUBLIC SERVICES FOR NOTHING AND THEY DON'T WANT TO FOLLOW THE PROCESS. BUT INSTEAD OF US SUPPORTING OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT, WE WANT TO CONDEMN THEM. BUT NONE OF YOU HAVE THE GUTS TO PUT ON THE SAME UNIFORM THAT THEY PUT EVERY DAY PUTTING THEIR LIVES AT-RISK IN HARM WHEN THEY MAY NOT RETURN TO THEIR FAMILIES. KNEW YOU CAN CALL ME CRAZY ALL YOU WANT, MY GRANDMA ALWAYS SAID, THERE IS A THIN LINE BETWEEN CRAZY AND COURAGE. MANY WHO DON'T WANT HAVE COURAGE SEE ME AS CRAZY. THE PROBLEM IS THE SYSTEM THAT WE HAVE CREATED. THE OTHER ITEM IS 29, HOW DARE YOU TRY TO MAKE PROTESTERS COLLUDE WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT TO TELL THEM WHAT THEIR MOVES ARE WHAT THEIR DEMONSTRATION AND WHAT NR ROUTES ARE. HOW DARE THIS GOVERNMENT PREVENT PEOPLE FROM EXERCISING THEIR FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS. NOW MY LAST 20 SECONDS REGARDING THESE ITEMS I WANT TO BRING ATTENTION TO THE LAPD AND CORRUPTION THAT EXIST IN THAT DEPARTMENT SINCE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT LAW ENFORCEMENT. >> City Attorney: SO YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. >> Speaker: LAPD IS A GROUP OF THUGS. THEY HAVE ACTED WITH INDECENCY AS A LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY, THEY'RE NOT A PRO FEX AL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY HAVE FAILED TO PROVIDE ME WITH RECORDS INCLUDING CRIME REPORTS, BODY WORN BODY FOOTAGE AND OTHER RECORDS THAT I REQUESTED. AND THEY NEED TO BE ACCOUNTABLE OR I'M GOING TO GO INTO THE SUPERIOR COURT OF COUNTY AND FORCE THEM TO GIVE ME THE RECORDS OF WHICH I CREATED. THEY ALSO ARRESTED ME BECAUSE OF MY ACTIVITY AS A GOVERNMENT WATCHDOG. I'VE BEEN 500 POUNDS, 400 POUNDS, I FOUGHT THE SAME BLACK BITCH THAT PRACTICED DONALD TRUMP, IF YOU THINK THEY ARE GOING TO TAKE ME DOWN, YOU BET BEHR CALL AND SEE HOW IT TOOK ME DOWN. IT IS GOING TO TAKE MORE THAN FAT SHAMING. >> City Attorney: SPEAK YOU ARE YOUR TIME IS EXPIRED. THIS IS YOUR FIRST AND FORMAL WARNING, DO NOT DISRUPT THIS MEETING. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU MR. CITY ATTORNEY. SIR, YOU'RE DISRUPTING YOUR MEETING, THIS IS YOUR FIRST AND LAST WARNING. MADAM CLERK, WHAT IS BEFORE US? >> Clerk: MR. PRESIDENT, COUNCIL MAY VOTE ON 9 THROUGH 22, 25 THROUGH 27, AS WELL AS 31 SIR. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, THOSE ITEMS ARE NOW BEFORE US. LET'S OPEN THE ROLL, CLOSE THE ROLL, TABULATE THE VOTE. >> Clerk: >> Clerk: 14 AYES. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, WHAT'S NEXT? >> Clerk: NEXT IS ITEM NUMBER 2 AND THAT ONE WAS CALLED SPECIAL BY AMENDMENT MOTION McOSKER-HERNANDEZ. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, LET'S OPEN THE ROLL ON THE ITEM AS AMENDED. CLOSE THE ROLL, TABULATE THE VOTE. >> Clerk: 14 AYES. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, WHAT'S NEXT? >> Clerk: NEXT WOULD BE ITEMS 23 AND 24 AND THOSE ITEMS WERE CALLED FOR A SEPARATE VOTE BY COUNCILMEMBER JURADO AS WELL AS HERNANDEZ. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, WE HAVE 23 AND 24 BEFORE US CALLED SPECIAL BY COUNCILMEMBER JURADO AND COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ FOR SEPARATE VOTES, LET'S OPEN THE ROLL, CLOSE THE ROLL, TABULATE THE VOTE. >> Clerk: 10 AYES, 4 NOES. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, WHAT'S NEXT? >> Clerk: NEXT WOULD BE ITEM 23 AND THAT WAS CALLED SPECIAL BY COUNCILMEMBER SOTO-MARTINEZ AS WELL AS COUNCILMEMBER RAMAN FOR COMMENTS. >> Council President: I THINK THAT'S ITEM NUMBER 29? >> Clerk: 29, CORRECT. KO*UBS COUNCILMEMBER SOTO-MARTINEZ. >> H. Soto-Martinez: GREAT, THANK YOU SO MUCH, COUNCIL PRESIDENT. IN SPANISH WE HAVE A SAYING SOLO EL PUEBLO SALVA EL PUEBLO. WHICH MEANS ONLY THE PEOPLE CAN SAVE THE PEOPLE. NOW WHEN WE THINK ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT IS HAPPENING NATIONALLY, I THINK WE CAN ALL AGREE THAT WE CAN IMPROVE ON THAT. THERE IS NEED MORE MUCH IMPROVEMENT. NOW THIS MOTION CALLSED FOR A FORMAL POLICY FOR LAUPTD TO COMMUNICATE AND COORDINATE WITH PROTEST ORGANIZERS AHEAD OF TIME SO WE CAN PLAN FOR SAFETY, SET CLEAR EXPECTATIONS AND MINIMIZE THE NEED FOR HEAVY LAW ENFORCEMENT PRESENCE ON THE FRONTLINES. NOW MANY OF US CAN POINT TO DIFFERENT EXAMPLES OR ACTIONS WHERE WE'VE BEEN TO WHERE WE HAVE SEEN POSITIVE OUTCOME SXZ ELEMENTS. FOR ME, ONE EXAMPLE NA IS VERY CLEAR, IS THE PROTESTS THAT HAPPEN AFTER THE ARRESTS OF DEBBIE HUERTA. I ATTENDED THAT, REALLY MASSIVE MARCH THAT WAS LEAD BY LABOR AT GRANT PARK. AND I REMEMBER NOTICING HOW FEW OFFICERS WERE WITHIN EYESIGHT. AND THAT'S BECAUSE THE L.A. FEDERATION OF LABOR HAD VOLUNTEERED MEDIC AND BUILT CLEAR COMMUNICATIONS STRUCTURE OF COMMUNICATION. AND I WANT TO BE CLEAR, THIS IS NOT ABOUT ASKING PERMISSION ABOUT HOW WE PROTEST, IT'S SIMPLY ABOUT COMMUNICATING WITH LAPD AND OUR CITY PARTNERS SO THERE ARE NO SURPRISES. THESE ARE THINGS THAT WE KNOW, THAT CAN HELP DECA LATE SITUATION SXZ REDUCE THE NEED FOR POLICE INTERVENTION. THAT EXPERIENCE REALLY STUCK TO ME AND I REALLY APPRECIATE THE CHIEF COMING HERE AND HAVING A DIALOGUE ABOUT THIS AND SAYING THAT THEY'RE OPEN TO THIS A DIFFERENT WAY OF HANDLING PROTEST. BECAUSE WHEN COMMUNICATION HAPPENS UP FRONT, WE ALLOW FOR PEOPLE TO CONTROL THE SITUATION AND KEEP THEMSELVES SAFE. WE SEE FEWER FLASH POINTS AND FEWER CONFRONTATION AND FEWER PEOPLE GETTING HURT, AGAIN THIS IS ABOUT LETTING FOLKS PROTECT THEMSELVES. TO THAT END, THIS CALLS FOR LOS ANGELES TO JOIN MAJOR CITIES LIKE NEW YORK AND BOSTON IN ADOPTING A PROTEST, UNDER THIS MODEL, THE HEAVY ARMED OFFICER WITH MIMENT REEQUIPMENT, ARE STAGED A FEW BLOCKS AWAY AND DEPLOYED ONLY IF THERE IS VIOLENCE. MANY ANGELINOS ASSUME THIS IS ALREADY THE CASE BUT RIGHT NOW, THE HEAVY ARMED OFFICER ARE OFTEN TIMES PLACED DIRECTLY ON THE FRONTLINE IN MY OPINION, PREMATURELY AND WE'VE SEEN HOW THAT HAVING THAT POLICE PRESENCE CAN CREATE ESCALATION REGARDLESS OF OFFICER INTENTIONS. I WANT TO THANK THE XHAOEF FOR ENGAGING ON THIS ISSUE AND I WANT TO THANK MY COLLEAGUES FOR NR UNANIMOUS SUPPORT OF THIS MOTION. I BELIEVE THAT IF WE DO THESE THINGS, WE CAN LESSEN LIABILITY PAY OUT, CREATE A MODEL THAT FACILITATES PEACEFUL PROTEST AND MEETS THIS UNPRECEDENTED MOMENT THAT WE'RE IN AND I RESPECTFULLY ASK FOR YOUR AYE-VOTE. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, DO WE HAVE OTHER SPEAKERS ON THIS ITEM. I HAVE COUNCILMEMBER RAMAN ON THE QUEUE? >> N. Raman: THANK YOU, I JUST WANTED TO RISE AND THANK COUNCILMEMBER SOTO-MARTINEZ FOR BRINGING FORWARD THIS MOTION. IN THESE CHAMBERS WE'VE REPEATED DOCUMENTED THE VIOLENCE OF FEDERAL ICE OFFICERS AND FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT THAT HAVE TERRORIZED COMMUNITIES IN LOS ANGELES BUT OUR COLLECTIVE OUTRAGE ABOUT ICE IS PREMISE ON UNSPOKEN PREMISE THAT WE'RE DIFFERENT, WE'RE NOT USING OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT POWERS TO TERRORIZE FAMILIES AND WORKING PEOPLE. BUT I THINK WHAT WE'VE SEEN IN SOME OF THE RESPONSE TO SEE LOCAL PROTEST AND TO ICE ACTIONS HAVE UNDERMINED THAT PREMISE, THERE IS BEEN NUMEROUS TESTIMONY AND VIDEO FOOTAGE OF LAPD USING TEAR GAS, PROTESTERS GETTING HIT BY LESS LETHALS, JOURNALIST GETTING HIT AND PROTESTERS GETTING HURT WHILE EXERCISING THEIR RIGHTS. NOW THEY HAVE OPERATED OPERATIONAL POWER OVER LAPD THAT'S BY DESIGN THAT'S HOW OUR CITY IS DESIGNED. AND AS FAR AS I CAN TELL, BY LOOKING AT OUR AGENDA BY THE BODY WHICH IS OUR POLICE COMMISSION, THEY HAVE NOT BEEN COMMISSIONED BY THESE ISSUED IN GREAT DEPTH BUT I THINK THAT IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE AS A BODY DO ENGAGE. I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WE HAVE TO TREAT THIS MOMENT DIFFERENTLY, THIS IS AMBITIOUS ON HOW WE THINK ABOUT OUR PROTEST RESPONSE. WE'RE EXPECTING MORE PROTEST TOMORROW. WILL THEY LOOK DIFFERENT? HOW QUICKLY CAN THEY MAKE CHANGE. WHEN MOTIONS COME FORWARD, THEY TAKE YEARS FOR THEM TO MOVE THROUGH OUR CREEKING SYSTEM. AND I HOPE THAT BECAUSE OF THIS MOMENT IS CALLING FOR CHANGE THAT THE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE, COUNCIL PRESIDENT'S OFFICE AND MAYOR AND OTHERS THAT HAVE DIRECT OVERSIGHT OVER OUR PD, WILL HELP MOVE WHAT IS EMBEDDED AND THAT WE CAN SEE DIFFERENCE ON THE GROUNDS. I HOPE THAT WE CAN SEE REAL ACTION AS A RESULT OF IT. THANK YOU. >> Council President: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, COUNCILMEMBER RAMAN. COUNCILMEMBER RODRIGUEZ. >> M. Rodriguez: I WANT TO THANK YOU MR. SOTO-MARTINEZ FOR THIS MOTION AND FOR HAVING THE CONVERSATION AND I WANT TO THANK MR. LEE FOR ALLOWING THAT COME FORWARD FROM PUBLIC SAFETY. THIS IS JUST A REMINDER AND A NOTICE TO EVERYBODY IN EACH OF THEIR RESPECTIVE COMMITTEES WHEN WE HAVE ISSUES OF CONCERN, WHETHER IT IS PUBLIC SAFETY RELATED, WHETHER IT IS AROUND REFORM FOR CHARTER REFORM, CONVERSATIONS, WHETHER IT'S ON HOMELESSNESS, IT'S IMPORTANT THAT EVERYONE SCHEDULES THE MOTIONS SO THAT THIS BODY HAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO CONSIDER WHAT OUR DEPARTMENTS ARE ACTING ON OR WHAT THEY'RE NOT. AND SO WHEN YOU'RE SITTING ON MOTION SXZ AB TRUKTING THAT OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO ENGAGE IN A MORE COMPREHENSIVE CONVERSATION, YOU'RE IN FACT A AIDING AND ABETTING. I WANT TO MAKE THAT CLEAR. WE'VE WATCHED ITCIOUS WHERE CONVERSATIONS ARE OBSTRUCT ASKED POLICIES ARE NOT ADVANCING. BECAUSE THERE IS THIS, I DON'T KNW, FEAR INHIBITION. SO EITHER EVERYONE IS GOING TO HELP ENSURE LIKE WE STILL HAVE A CONVERSATION OR INTERACTIVE REPORT THAT STILL HAS NOT BEEN SCHEDULED. WE STILL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE A CONVERSATION AROUND HOMELESS SPENDING IS HAPPENING IN IN CITY OR WHETHER OR NOT EX-PARTE COMMUNICATIONS WILL ACTUALLY BE DOCUMENTED ON A CHARTER REFORM COMMISSION THAT IS HOLDING CONVERSATION ON WHAT THE FUTURE OF THE CITY IS GOING TO LOOK LIKE. THERE IS ACTIVE OBSTRUCTION HAPPENING AND ACTIVE OBSTRUCTIONS OF MOTIONS COMING FORWARD. SO I'M GLAD IN MOTION IS COMING FORWARD BUT YOU KNOW WHAT, FOLKS, THERE IS A REASON WHY THE PUBLIC IS UPSET AND THEY HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO BE UPSET. BUT MAKE NO MISTAKE, THES SILENCE THAT ENABLEMENT THAT A LAWS PEOPLE P NOT SCHEDULING MOTIONS FOR US TO START MOVING THE NEEDLE ON THESE *ISHZ, YOU'RE COMPLICITY. NOT --I REALLY HOPE THAT THIS MARKS A TREMENDOUS SHIFT NOT JUST ON THIS PARTICULAR ISSUE BUT ON SEVERAL ISSUES. WHERE THERE IS BEEN A FAILURE AND OBSTRUCTION TO HAVING THE ACTUAL CONVERSATIONS THAT THIS BODY NEEDS TO HAVE. BECAUSE THE PUBLIC HAS EVERY RIGHT TO BE PISSED OFF. AND SO, THERE IS PLENTY, THERE IS ENOUGH TIME FOR US TO HAVE MEETINGS IN COUNCIL OR TO ADVANCE THESE IN THEIR RESPECTIVE COMMITTEES BUT ENOUGH DELAY, ENOUGH EXCUSES. EVERYONE NEEDS TO UPPED THE ROLE THAT THEY SIGNED UP FOR AND IF YOU WANT TO VOTE SOMETHING VOTE AGAINST IT. BUT TO BURY IT IN YOUR COMMITTEE THAT NEEDS TO STOP AND I HOPE IT STOPS IN THIS NEW YEAR. SO I LOOK FORWARD TO THIS BEING MORE OF THE MODEL UNTIL EXAMPLE OF CONVERSATIONS THAT WE WILL HAVE SO THAT THE PUBLIC ACTUALLY SEES VERY CLEARLY WHERE EVERYONE STANDS. THANK YOU. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT. THIS ITEM IS--COUNCILMEMBER McOSKER, YOU'RE ON THIS ITEM. >> T. McOsker: I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER FOR ADVANCING THIS MOTION. IT OCCURS TO ME WHEN WE FAUK ABOUT THE PUBLIC, WORK WITHING LAPD WORK WITHING US TO COME UP WITH WAYS TO CREATE PUBLIC SAFETY. WHETHER WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE HARBOR PEACE PATROL OR INTERVENTION ALIST, I VERY OFTEN QUOTE A GUY AND I NEVER GIVE HIM CREDIT, BUT I SAY VERY WISE MAN WHO SAYS THERE IS NO REASON TO TAKE THE PUBLIC OUT OF PUBLIC SAFETY. THERE IS NO REASON TO TAKE THE PUBLIC OUT OF PUBLIC SAFETY. THANK YOU FOR THIS MOTION. COUNSELS THANK YOU VERY MUCH. LET'S OPEN THE ROLL ON THIS ITEM, CLOSE THE ROLL, TABULATE THE VOTE. >> Clerk: 14 AYES. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT. WHAT'S NEXT? >> Clerk: NEXT WOULD BE ITEM 30 AND THAT WAS CALLED SPECIAL BY COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ FOR COMMENTS. >> Council President: COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ. >> E. Hernandez: THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT. ACROSS THE UNITED STATES WE'RE SEEING A COORDINATED EROSION OF PUBLIC COST IN THE IMMIGRANT ENFORCEMENT. HUNDREDS OF MILLION OF ICE AND FEDERAL AGENTS, UNMASKED, AND ANONYMOUS ARE OPERATING WITHOUT TRANSPARENCY. BY REMAINING MASKED AND NAMELESS, THEY'RE HANDING A TOOL KIT TO EVERY KIDNAPER. THIS LACK OF ACCOUNTABILITY HAS OPENED THE DOOR FOR COPY CATS TO WEAR THE GEAR AND CARRY THE GUNS. A MOTHER IN SAN PEDRO OR RESEDA IS SUPPOSE TO TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A LEGIT OFFICER AND SOMEBODY WHO MAY BE IMPERSONATING A POLICE OFFICER WHEN NEITHER SHOWS A BADGE OR ID. OUR COMMUNITY IS ASKING FOR TO US ACT SO LET'S DO IT. IDENTIFYING EVERY POSSIBLE AMENDMENT TO OUR MUNICIPAL TO MAXIMIZE ENFORCEMENT. ALSO SEEKS A LEGAL ROAD MAP TO GUARANTEE THAT ANYONE DETAINED CAN DEMAND VERIFIABLE IDENTIFICATION AND LEGAL AUTHORITY. THANK YOU TO COUNCILMEMBER BLUMENFIELD FOR COULD INTRODUCING AND COUNCILMEMBER McOSKER FOR CO--AND PUBLIC SAFETY FOR MOVING IT THROUGH. AND IT'S NOT A LICENSE TO TERRORIZE AND THIS COUNCIL SHOULD MAKE THAT CLEAR. LET'S USE EVERY TOOL WE CAN TO HOLD IMPERSONATORS ACCOUNTABLE. LET'S DO OUR POWER TO PROTECT LIVES OF ALL ANGELINO FRZ FROM THESE EN BOLD EN FOLKS. >> Council President: THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ, LET'S OPEN THE ROLL ON THIS ITEM, CLOSE THE ROLL, TABULATE THE VOTE. >> Clerk: 14 AYES. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, WHAT'S NEXT? >> Clerk: COUNCIL HAS MOTIONS FOR POSTING AND REFERRAL. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, THEY'RE POSTED AND REFERRED. MR. McOSKER, YOU HAD COMMENTS? ANIMAL SHELTER? >> T. McOsker: NO ON ITEM NUMBER 2 WHICH PASSED, I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU VERY MUCH. ITEM 2 CAME FROM WHAT VERY OFTEN DO IN OUR DISTRICT, WHETHER IT'S SANITATION YARD OR FIRE STATION OR ANIMAL SHELTER, WE GO AND VISIT AND WE CHECK OUT THE OPERATIONS AND WE ARE BEING RESPONSIVE TO OUR CONSTITUENTS AND DOING THE JOB TO WORK WITH THE MAYOR'S OFFICE WHOEVER IS RUNNING THAT OPERATION AND IN THIS CASE, I VISITED ANIMAL SHELTER AND DISCOVERED THAT THERE WERE RESTRICTIONS ON COUNCILMEMBERS BEING ABLE TO GO INTO PORTIONS OF THE ANIMAL SHELTER. YEAH, AND SO IN THESE U.STAIS IT'S EASIER FOR OUR CONGRESSMAN TO GET INTO A DETENTION MEMBER THAN IT IS FOR COUNCILMEMBER TO GET INTO A ANIMAL SHELTER WHICH IS IS NOT RIGHT. SO WE INTRODUCED A MOTION TO GET THE THRUST, WHAT IS THE RULE, WHAT ARE THE STANDING RULES ACCORD TO GO ANIMAL SERVICES, A DRAFT RULE CAME BACK AND THE AMENDMENTS TODAY WERE TO SAY WHAT ARE THE UNDER PINNING FROM WHEN DOES THIS COME? WHAT AUTHORITY ARE YOU RELYING ON? AND HOW CAN WE COME WUP A POLICY WHERE COUNCILMEMBERS CAN VISIT A ANIMAL SHELTER AND DO OUR JOBS WITHOUT MAKING AN APPOINTMENT 48 HOURS IN ADVANCE AND BEING TOLD THAT WE CAN'T GO IN. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR APPROVING THAT MOTION, I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO COMING BACK BECAUSE JUST LIKE A FIRE STATION, WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO GO INTO AN ANIMAL SHELTER AND SEE THE OPERATION, THANK YOU. >> Council President: THANK YOU, MR. McOSKER, THE MOTIONS HAVE BEEN POSTED AND REFERRED. ANNOUNCEMENTS MEMBERS? COUNCILMEMBER RAMAN? >> N. Raman: JUST ON A LIGHTER NOTE TODAY, COLLEAGUES, I DID WAT TO SHARE THAT WE WERE DELIGHTED TO RECEIVE A NOTE FICK FROM THE GRIFFITH OBSERVATION HAS BEEN A CARDED THE 2026 EDUCATION PRIZE BY THE AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL ASSOCIATION, ONE OF THE FIELD'S MOST ESTEEMED AWARDS. AND IT CELEBRATES THE DOCTOR'S COSMO AND INSPIRING FOR ALL. WE HAD HAD THE PLEASURE FOR CELEBRATING THE 90th ANNIVERSARY HERE LAST YEAR WITH DR. KRUPP AND HE SPOKE BEAUTIFULLY AS HE ALWAYS DONE. WE WISH YOU A HARDY CONGRATULATION. >> Council President: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, COUNCILMEMBER RAMAN. COUNCILMEMBER McOSKER. >> T. McOsker: BEFORE WE GET TO ADJOURNMENTS, I DO HAVE AN ANNOUNCEMENT, IF I MAY. THIS WEEK IN OUR DISTRICTS WE CELEBRATED DIA DEL REYES. THE THEE KINGS DAY. IN THE 1-5, WE CELEBRATED JUST AS YOU DID, WE CELEBRATED THIS LONGSTANDING TRADITION WITH SWEET CAKES AND SMALL DOLLS NOD OF THE ROSCA. ON MONDAY, I JOINED THE WILMINGTON SIN FRONTERAS FOR THEIR DIA DE LOS REYES. THE ROSCAS WAS DISTRIBUTED ALONG WITH ENTERTAINMENT IN THE COMMUNITY OF WILMINGTON IS NOT QUITE YET DONE, EITHER THOUGH JANUARY 6th HAS COME AND GONE. I WANT TO INVITE TO YOU JOIN ME FOR THE FIRST DIA DEL REYES, TOMORROW FROM 2:00 AM TO 4:00 AM. WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A SCENIC BOAT TOUR AND FIRST 500 FAMILIES IN ATTENDANCE WILL RECEIVE THE TRADITIONAL ROSCA AND PLEASE GET THE WORD OUT AND BRING THE FAMILY. I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU ON THE WILMINGTON WATER FRONT. I WANT TO THANK ALL OUR SPONSORS FOR ACTIVATING THE WILMINGTON PROMENADE IN THIS WAY. THANK YOU. >> Council President: THANK YOU, MR. McOSKER, ANY OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS? SEEING NONE, I'LL ASK EVERYBODY IN THE CHAMBER TO RISE FOR ADJOURNING MOTIONS. AISLES LOOK FOR ADJOURNING MOTION TO SEE MY LEFT. ALL RIGHT AND COUNCILMEMBER RODRIGUEZ? >> M. Rodriguez: THANK YOU. COLLEAGUES I RISE TODAY TO ADJOURN IN THE MEMORY OF DR. A KEELE BASHIR, A VISIONARY LEADER AND TEACHER AND ONE OF THE MOST RESPECTED VOICES IN COMMUNITY INTERVENTION WHO PASSED AWAY. DR. BASHIR DEDICATED HIS LIFE TO BUILDING, GROWING UP IN AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE SURVIVAL WAS HARD EARN AND DIGNITY WAS OFTEN DENIED. AND HOW THESE EXPERIENCED SHAPED HIS VISION TO BRING STRUCTURE, DISCIPLINE AND PEACE WHERE TOO OFTEN THERE HAD ONLY BEEN CHAOS. DR. BASHIR FOUNDED THE BROTHERHOOD THROUGH DISCIPLINE KNOWN AS BUILD AND LATER ESTABLISHED THE INNOVATION TRAINING INSTITUTE. THROUGH THESE ORGANIZATIONS, HE TRAINED AND CERTIFIED COUNTLESS INTERVENTIONIST, MEN AND WOMEN WHO STAND ON THE FRONTLINES IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, IMMEDIATE ATING CON MEDIATING CONFLICTS. HIS WORK WAS ROOTED IN THE POWERFUL BELIEVE THAT THOSE CLOSEST TO THE PAIN ARE CLOSEST TO THE SOLUTION. HE UNDERSTOOD, THAT ADDRESSING VIOLENCE REQUIRES MORE THAN POLICING BUT COMMUNITIES. BUILDING CREDIBILITY AND RESTORING TRUST NR WITHIN. DR. BASHIR'S INTEREST REACHED FAR BEYOND LOS ANGELES. HIS TRAINING MODELS WERE ADOPTED IN COUNTRIES ACROSS THE WORLD FROM SOUTH AMERICA, TO AFRICA AND ASIA. HE ADVISED NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES AND AUTHORED PEACE IN THE HOOD FOR WORKING WITH GANG INVOLVED YOUTH. HE WAS HONORED WITH NUMEROUS AWARDS INCLUDING THE CALIFORNIA PEACE PRICE AND RECEIVED HONORARY DOCTORATE FOR HIS GLOBAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO PEACE BUILDING. YET REHE MAINED HUMBLE OFTEN SAYING, DON'T JUDGE THE POSSIBILITY OF WHAT CAN BE BASED ON CIRCUMSTANCES. TO THE END, DR. BASHIR STOOD AS A MENTOR AND MIRROR TO OUR CITY. REMINDING US THAT PUBLIC SAFETY CANNOT EXIST WITHOUT TRUST AND THAT REAL PEACE IS NOT ENFORCED, IT IS BUILT. HIS PASSING IS A TREMENDOUS LOSS NOT ONLY TO THE FIELD HE HELPED TO DEFINE BUT TO THE COMMUNITIES THAT HE SERVED AND EVERY ANGELINO WHO BENEFITED FROM HIS UNBAIFSH WAIVERING PEACE AND RESPECT AND LOVE. TODAY WE HONOR HIS LEGACY LEADER SON AND BOUNDARY TO THE PEOPLE. MAY HE REST IN POWER AND IN PEACE. >> Council President: THANK YOU SO MUCH. >> M. Rodriguez: er I'M JOINED TODAY FROM SO MANY OF THE MEMBERS FROM B.C. PI WHO HAVE BEEN INSTRUMENTAL IN TRAINING, DURING COVID I HAD SECURED ABOUT A MILLION AND A HALF DOLLARS SO THAT TRAINING OF GRIT INTERVENTIONIST WAS CONSISTENT ACROSS THIS CITY. BECAUSE WHAT WE NEED, IS THE ABILITY TO GIVE PEOPLE THE TOOLS NOT JUST THE JOB BUT THE TOOLS THAT THEY NEED TO BE AFFECTIVE IN THOSE ROLES AND AKEELE ALONG WITH A KILLA AND EVERYONE BEHIND ME, THAT WALKED THE WALK. THEY GAME THE NATIONAL EXAMPLES FOR HOW TO TRAIN INTERVENTIONIST AND GIVE PEOPLE THE TOOLS TO DEAL WITH THE TRAUMAS THAT THEY WERE CONFRONT INING NEIGHBORHOODS ACROSS OUR CITY. THAT WAS THE IMPORTANT WORK. YOU CAN'T GIVE THESE ROLES TO INDIVIDUALS WITHOUT THE TOOLS FOR THEM TO BE AFFECTIVE, CONSISTENT AND AFFECTIVE ACROSS THE CITY. WE LOST A TRUE HERO AND A TRUE FRIEND. IT'S REAL DIFFICULT TO DO THIS WORK, TO BE IN OUR COMMUNITIES, TO HELP OBSTRUCT THE VIOLENCE OF WHAT WILL CONTINUE TO ENSUE FOR NOT THE WORK OF THE VINCING AND MANY PEOPLE I KNOW ARE SUPPORTIVE OF THE WORK OF THE INTERVENTIONIST THAT ARE OUT IN THE STREETS DOING THIS IMPORTANT WORK. BUT OUR JOB IS TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY HAVE THE TOOLS THAT THEY NEED TO BE AFFECTIVE AND TO NOT TURN OUR HEADS WHEN THOSE RESOURCES ARE NOT BEING PROVIDED TO THEM, TO ACTUALLY LEARN HOW TO DO IT CORRECTLY. SO COLLEAGUES I WANT TO TAKE THIS MOMENT TO SAY, YOU KNOW, I APPRECIATE THE WORK AND THE FRIENDSHIP THAT AND LESSONS THAT I LEARNED FROM AQUILL AND THE COUNTLESS TEXT MESS ANLZ THAT--MESSAGES WITH THE AFFIRMATION WHEN I TOOK POSITION THAT'S DREW CRITICISM FROM PEOPLE DOWN THE HALL, IT WAS DOING WHAT WAS RIGHT. HE WAS A MAN WHO STOOD IN DOING WHAT WAS RIGHT. AND EXEMPLIFIED THAT WITH EVERY OUNCE OF HIS WORK AND HIS LIFE LIVED AND WE ARE BETTER FOR IT. THERE IS INTERVENTION ALIST THAT WITH BETTER FOR IT AND SAFER NOW BECAUSE OF THE EXAMPLE OF HIS LEADERSHIP AND FOR THAT I'M REALLY GRATEFUL AND I KNOW HIS WORK AND LEGACY WILL CONTINUE IN THE INDIVIDUALS THAT DID THAT WORK ALONGSIDE HIM. AND I'M REALLY GRATEFUL TO EACH AND EVERYONE OF YOU. THEY WORKOUT OF A STEN TORIAN BUILDING. I SPENT MUCH, I REMEMBER AQUILA TELLING ME, I DON'T KNOW HOW THEY'RE HERE IN THESE MEETING AND GOING INTO JERSEY AND MODELS ON HOW WE CAN DO IT RIGHT AND BETTER. THESE ARE THE VINCING THAT WERE HELPING LEAD THAT SHIFT. AND I HOPE THAT IN HIS MEMORY, THAT WE WILL CONTINUE TO HOLD THAUP COMMITMENT TO MAKING SURE THAT WE DO IT BETTER AND THAT WE DO IT RIGHT AND THAT WE TAKE NO SHORTCUTS, MAY HE REST IN POWER AND IN PEACE. [APPLAUSE] >> Council President: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, COUNCILMEMBER RODRIGUEZ AND TO THE COMMUNITY OF FRIENDS OF AQUILL ONE OF OUR MOST ICONIC WARRIORS FOR PEACE. JUST THIS WEEK, WE GOT THE NEWS THAT LOS ANGELES HAD FEWER HOMICIDES THIS YEAR SINCE ANYTIME SINCE 1965. AND THE BIGGEST DROP WAS IN GANG-RELATED HOMICIDES. THAT IS THE BEST TESTIMONY THAT WHEN IT AQUILL START THISED WEEK, WE HAD OVER 1,000 HOMICIDES WHEN HE STARTED THIS WORK. THERE IS A LOT OF CREDIT TO GO AROUND BUT YOU CANNOT OVERLOOK THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF AQUILL AND ALL THE INTERVENTIONIST. WITH YOUR PERMISSION, COUNCILMEMBER RODRIGUEZ, I WOULD LIKE TO BE ADDED TO THIS ADJOURNMENT. MR. PRICE. >> C. Price: I WOULD LIKE TO JOIN AS WELL. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, ALL MEMBERS ON THIS ADJOURNING MOTION. ALL RIGHT, ANY OTHER ADJOURNMENTS? ALL RIGHT, WITH THAT, WE ARE ADJOURNED. THANK YOU, EVERYBODY. My whole team has been out here since early early this morning organizing. Food is really expensive and people have food insecurities. This should stabilize how they feel about what their next meal is. And that's what we're trying to satisfy. Two sides of the same coin are at work in South LA with funding for Green and sustainable projects. Parks in the area are getting EV chargers and more tree coverage, both of which will help bring down pollution levels in the neighborhoods. Where Harbor Park in South LA were celebrating the installations of the South LA Ecolab for the EV chargers. This is part of a bigger program, universal Basic Mobility, which is a 30 million investment in South Los Angeles to bring mobility options, access to opportunity and increased transportation equity. While reducing greenhouse gas emissions at the same time. The bureau got invited to participate in the TCC grant program, and our role is to install 16 EV chargers across four different parks here in South LA. Our charging program is a little different than most. Um, we install chargers on existing infrastructure. Uh, we found that our existing street light circuits had extra capacity when we converted to LEDs. We currently have over 800 chargers throughout the city of Los Angeles. So these chargers are going to offer a convenient place for people to charge close to home, especially for people who may have challenges charging at home, like people who live in multi-family housing. For South L.A. Ecolab, we're working with community organizations such as Three People to increase the community canopy in South LA, call the community Canopy expansion Project and its main goal is to advance shade and tree equity by planting 4000 trees in city parkways and also distributing 2000 fruit or shade trees to residents to plant in their home. Both projects will help each other. The charging station will help with pollution with less carbon monoxide in the area and the tree planting will help absorb that, uh, carbon monoxide with the events that we had in certain parks where we gave away free seeds and like you said, with the trees, we also was teaching you how to plant and provide and take care of the tree. Also. This is the first park that we're completing. The installations. We are working in different parks in South L.A. where we are also installing EV chargers. Our next park will be Vermont Square, South Park and the Wetlands. La sanitation takes in hazardous household waste at its safe centers. The Ladwp is hosting a customer service Saturday on January 17th and volunteer signups are open for the 2026 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count. These stories up next on City Beat. La sanitation wants to let Angelenos know that it's safe. Centers are permanent collection sites for hazardous household and electronic waste. Safe stands for Solvents, Automotive Flammables and electronics. And the Safe centers take in items such as aerosol cans, batteries, paints and more. La City Sanitation advises keeping items in their original containers if possible , and placing waste securely in the trunk, separate from personal belongings. Residents are allowed 15 gallons or up to 125 pounds per vehicle per visit to the center. For more information, visit Safe Center under New battery collection centers at the website. Sanitation dot L.A. city dot gov