>> Council President: IF EVERY ONE CAN TAKE THEIR SEATS, WE'LL GET THIS MEETING STARTED. SHHH. PLEASE EVERYBODY SETTLE DOWN AND TAKE YOUR SEATS. WE'RE GOING TO BEGIN THIS MEETING IN ORDER TO BEGIN THE MEETING THOUGH, OF COURSE WE NEED TO ESTABLISH A QUORUM. SO IF CLERK IF YOU CAN READ THE ROLE. >> Clerk: YES, MR. PRESIDENT. BLUMENFIELD HARRIS-DAWSON HERNANDEZ HUTT JURADO LEE MCOSKER NAZARIAN PADILLA PARK PRICE RAMAN RODRIGUEZ SOTO-MARTINEZ YAROSLAVSKY. 12 MEMBERS PRESENT AND A QUORUM, MR. PRESIDENT. >> Council President: GREAT, FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS. >> Clerk: APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF MARCH 15, 2025. >> Council President: COUNCILMEMBER MARTINEZ MOVES COUNCILMEMBER McOSKER SECONDS. NEXT. >> Clerk: COMMENDATORY RESOLUTIONS FOR APPROVAL. >> Council President: OKAY, COUNSEL KILL WOMAN HUTT MOVES COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ SECONDS NEXT. >> Clerk: IF I MAY, RUN TLUT AGENDA. >> Council President: OKAY. >> Clerk: ITEM IS AN ITEM FOR WHICH PUBLIC HEARING HAS NOT BEEN HELD. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, WITHOUT OBJECTION, THOSE ITEMS ARE NOW BEFORE US. COLLEAGUES ANY MEMBERS HAVE ANY ITEMS THAT THEY WISH TO CALL SPECIAL? LOOKING TO MY LEFT? LOOKING TO MY RIGHT? MR. PRICE. >> C. Price: THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT, OUT OF AN ABUNDANCE OF CAUTION I'M RECUSING MYSELF FROM ITEM 2 AND 3 BECAUSE IT'S UNCLEAR WHO IS PART OF THE ORGANIZATION. ITEM 2 AND . 3. >> Council President: OKAY, COLLEAGUES ANY OTHER COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS OR ITEMS TO BE CALLED SPECIAL? SEEING NO MEMBERS ON THE QUEUE. THOSE ITEMS ARE NOW BEFORE US. WELL, LET'S WHAT ITEMS CAN WE TAKE UPRIGHT NOW. >> Clerk: MR. PRESIDENT, THE COUNCIL WAY VOTE ON 1, 4, 5 AND 6. >> Council President: OKAY, THOSE ITEMS ARE BEFORE US. SEEING NO MEMBERS ON THE QUEUE, LET'S OPEN THE ROLL, CLOSELE ROLL, AND TALLY THE VOTES. >> Clerk: 12 AYES. >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, WHAT IS NEXT. >> Clerk: THE COUNCIL MAY VOTE ON 2 AND 3 MR. PRICE RECUSAL. >> Council President: LET THE RECORD SHOW THAT MR. PRICE IS OFF THE BOARD, HE'S NOW OFF THE BOARD. COLLEAGUES ANY COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS ON THESE TWO ITEMS? SEEING NO SPEAKERS ON THE QUEUE, LET'S OPEN THE ROLL, CLOSE THE ROLL, TALLY THE VOTE. >> Clerk: 11 AYES. >> Council President: OKAY, IF WE CAN INVITE MR. PRICE BACK INTO THE ROOM AND PUT HIM BACK ON THE BOARD. WHAT IS NEXT. >> Clerk: THE COUNCIL MAY NOW PROCEED TO PRESENTATION. >> Council President: GREAT, WE WILL BEGIN PRESENTATIONS WITH COUNCIL DISTRICT, LET'S SEE WHICH ONE IS THIS ONE? KATY YAROSLAVSKY WITH UCLA PRESENTATION. [APPLAUSE] >> Council President: ALL RIGHT. WE'RE GOING TO HAVE THE BRUINS MAKE THEIR WAY INTO THE FRONT OF THE ROOM. IF WE CAN ASK BATMAN IN THE BACK TO STOP DISTRACTING US. >> K. Yaroslavsky: GOOD MORNING, COLLEAGUES, GIVE ME ONE SECOND, TODAY I HAVE THE PRIVILEGE OF INTRODUCING SOMEBODY WHO NEEDS NO INTRODUCTION ON THE WORLD STAGE BUT WHO WE'RE PROUD TO WELCOME INTO THE CIVIC LIFE OF LOS ANGELES. AS THE COUNCIL MEMBER OF WESTWOOD AND UCLA AND A PROUD UCLA ALUMN, I'M HONORED TO PRESENT CHANCELLOR JULIO FRANK TO THE CITY COUNCIL. [APPLAUSE] FROM LEADING GLOBAL PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS TO SERVE ISING THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MOST RECENTLY AND NOW CHANCELLOR OF ONE OF THE MOST RESPECTED PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES IN THE WORLD. HIS LEADERSHIP HAS CONSISTENTLY ADVANCED THE GOOD. WE'RE IN LOS ANGELES, WE ARE VERY VERY LUCKY TO HAVE HIM. UCLA IS ONE OF OUR CITY'S MOST VITAL INSTITUTIONS, IT'S A GLOBAL RESEARCH POWERHOUSE, A HEALTH PROVIDER AND ECONOMIC ENGINE AND A PLACE THAT IS EDUCATED GENERATIONS OF ANGELINOS. AND UNDER CHANCELLOR FRANK'S LEADERSHIP IT WILL CONTINUE TO GROW NOT JUST IN SIZE BUT IN ITS IMPACT ACROSS THE CITY. AS UCL CONTINUES TO PARTNER WITH THE CITY ON EVERYTHING TO CLIMATE CHANGE TO WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT, THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THIS UNIVERSITY AND COUNCIL BECOMES MORE MEANINGFUL. IT'S ALSO WORTH NOTE THATING 5 MEMBERS OF THIS COUNCIL XLUG MYSELF ARE PROUD UCLA ALUMNS THAT'S A THIRD OF THE COUNCIL AND IT SPEAKS VOLUME ON THE LEADERSHIP THAT UCLA IT INSTILLS. SO CHANCELLOR, ON BEHALF OF THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES, WELCOME, WE'RE PROUD TO CALL YOU A PARTNER AND WE LOOK TO EVERYTHING THAT LIES A HEAD UNDER YOUR LEADERSHIP. I THINK YOU'RE GOING TO SPEAK NOW, I ASK EVERYBODY TO GIVE A WARM WELCOME TO UCLA'S NEW CHANCELLOR, CHANCELLOR FRANK. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] >> Speaker: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, COUNCILWOMAN I DON'T YAROSLAVSKY AND TO ALL THE COUNCILMEMBERS THANK YOU FOR ALL THE WORK YOU DO FOR THE PEOPLE OF LOS ANGELES. I WAS HAPPY TO HEAR THAT FIVE OUT OF THE 15 OF THE COUNCILMEMBERS ARE BRUIN ALUMNS. BUT ACTUALLY I WAS NOT SURPRISED THAT THAT WAS A CASE, BECAUSE UCLA IS A PUBLIC UNIVERSITY T.DESCRIBES NOT ONLY OUR MOTTO BUT THE CORE OF OUR MISSION. THE UCLA COMMUNITY AND ALUMNI ARE DRIVEN TO COMMON GOOD WHETHER THAT'S AROUND THE WORLD OR RIGHT HERE IN L.A. I OFTEN SAY THAT UCLA IS NOT A UNIVERSITY IN LOS ANGELES BUT OFF LOS ANGELES. OUR PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE ARE INTERTWINED AND TODAY I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THREE WAYS IN WHICH WE TRY TO LIFT UP THE CITY AND ITS PEOPLE. FIRST WE CONNECT WITH L.A. THROUGH SERVICE. VOLUNTEERISM IS THE LINK WE SAW THIS FIRSTHAND, DURING THE DEVASTATING WILDFIRES. BRUINS WORKED ALONG REGIONAL LEADERS, FIRST RESPONDERS AND VOLUNTEERS TO PROVIDE RELIEF. AND WE WERE ABLE TO DONATE SPACE AT OUR UCLA RESEARCH PARK FOR THE DISASTER RECOVERY CENTER. OVER 2500 MEMBERS OF THE UCLA COMMUNITY SIGNED UP TO VOLUNTEER. NOW MORE THAN 2500 ARE HELPING TO REBUILD LOS ANGELES MORE SAFELY AND MORE SUSTAINABLE. AND WE HAVE MORE PLANS IN THE WORKS NEW SPACES LIKE UCLA DOWNTOWN DOWN THE STREET AS WELL AS UCLA SOUTH BAY AND UCLA RESEARCH PARK. AND THE METRO D LINUX TENSION THAT WILL MAKE IT EASIER FOR ANGELINOS TO CONNECT WITH UCLA. SECOND, WE ARE A SIGNIFICANT ECONOMIC DRIVER IN L.A., ABOUT ONE-THIRD OF OUR UNDERGRADUATE ARE THE FIRST TO ATTEND COLLEGE. AND WE ALL KNOW OFFERING THOSE PATHWAYS OF OPPORTUNITY HAVE RIPPLE EFFECTS ACROSS GENERATIONS. UCLA IS A POWERFUL ECONOMIC ENGINE. WE ARE THE FOURTH LARGEST EMPLOYER IN THE COUNTY, OUR RESEARCH ADVANCES LEAD, ADVANCED LEAD AND HELP AND EMPOWER COMPANIES AND VENTURES, WE ACTIVELY TRANSLATE OUR DISCOVERIES INTO SOLUTIONS AND WE EDUCATE THE NEXT GENERATION OF KNOWLEDGE WORKERS, HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS AND COMMUNITY LEADERS. FINALLY, WE ARE A CULTURE AND CIVIC PARTNER. AND THE PARTNERSHIP WORKS BOTH WAYS, OUR STUDENTS BENEFIT FROM LIVING IN THE CREATIVE CAPITOL OF THE WORLD, AND WE ARE CONTRIBUTING TO THAT VIBRANTLY EVERY DAY. WE'RE HOME TO THE HAMMER AND HAMLAND MUSEUM, THE UCLA FILM ARCHIVES AND THOUSANDS OF EVENTS THAT BRING THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE TO PLACE. WE COLLABORATE WITH COMMUNITY COLLEGES TO STRENGTHEN PATHWAYS AND IN FACT IN A FEW WEEKS, STUDENTS WILL BE HERE FOR LUCEKIN WHOLE DAY. A WAY OF CONNECTING WITH CIVIC LEADERS WITH PUBLIC POLICY AND GOVERNANCE. SO TOGETHER AS A CITY AND UNIVERSITY, I AM PROUD OF ALL THAT HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED IN THE 105 YEARS OF EXISTENCE OF OUR UNIVERSITY. I BELIEVE OUR PARTNERSHIP YEARS, WITH ALL THAT WE HAVE TO BUILD ON OUR BEST YEARS STILL LIE AHEAD. AND I'M ESPECIALLY EXCITED ABOUT THE 2028 OLYMPIC GAMES. THIS WILL BE A MOMENT FOR BOTH L.A. AND UCLA TO SHINE ON THE INTERNATIONAL STAGE. WE'LL BE HONORED TO HOST THE OLYMPIC VILLAGE ON OUR CAMPUS. THANK YOU AGAIN TO THE COUNCIL FOR THIS WARM WELCOME AND FOR YOUR ON GOING PARTNERSHIP. I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU. THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE] . >> K. Yaroslavsky: THANK YOU, CHANCELLOR. AND I TOOK THINGS A LITTLE BIT OUT OF ORDER. SO BEFORE WE PRESENT YOU WITH A CERTIFICATE, FOR ADDITIONAL REMARKS, I WOULD LIKE TO ASK PACO RATANA TO SAY A FEW WORDS. >> Speaker: NO WORRIES ABOUT THE ORDER THIS IS WHY BRUINS ARE NIMBLE AND INCREDIBLY GRATEFUL. THANK YOU COUNCILWOMAN YAROSLAVSKY AND OUR HONORABLE COUNCILMEMBERS. I SERVE PRESIDENT OF THE UCLA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION. AN ESTIMATED 78 PERCENT OF THE RESIDE IN CALIFORNIA AND 24 LIVE IN THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES AND OVER 60 PERCENT CALL SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HOME. AS A DOUBLE BRUIN AND ON BEHALF OF THE BRUIN ASSOCIATION AND ENTIRE UCLA COMMUNITY I HAVE THE HONOR AND PRIVILEGE TO INTRODUCE OUR CHANCELLOR DR. JULIO FRANK AND OF COURSE HIS WONDERFUL AND BEAUTIFUL WIFE, ASSOCIATE OF THE CHANCELLOR. QUE ORGULLO. CHANCELLOR FRANK CONTINUES HIS LEGACY AS HE COMES TO UCLA WITH AN EXTRAORDINARY RECORD OF ACCOMPLISHMENT. HIS DISTINGUISH RESEARCHERS WHO HAS CHAMPIONED THE HEALTH AND PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD. THESE ARE HIS NORTH STAR. HE SERVED AS MEXICO SECRETARY OF HEALTH FROM 2000 TO 2006 AND INTRODUCED A COMPREHENSIVE COVERAGE KNOWN AS SEGURO POPULAR, WHICH EXPANDED ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE TO MORE THAN 55 MILLION PREVIOUSLY UNINSURED PERSONS. A MEMBER OF ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, U.S. ACADEMY OF MEDICINE AND NATIONAL ACADEMY OF NATION MEXICO. PRIOR TO JOINING UCLA, DR. FRANK SERVED AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI FROM 2015 TO 2024 AND AS A DEAN OF THE HARVARD SCHOOL. AND NOW, HE IS THE FIRST LATINO TO LEAD UCLA THE NATION'S NUMBER ONE RANKED, THAT'S RIGHT [APPLAUSE] UNIVERSITY FOR EIGHT CONSECUTIVE YEARS. CHANCELLOR FRANK, WE ARE THRILLED YOU MADE THE DECISION TO COME LEAD UCLA AT THIS TIME AND YOUR NEW HOME. PLEASE JOIN ME IN GIVING A WARM LOS ANGELES WELCOME TO UCLA'S NEW CHANCELLOR, DR. JULIO FRANK. BIENVENIDOS, GO BRUINS! [APPLAUSE] >> K. Yaroslavsky: SO WE HAVE THIS FOR YOU. WE'RE GOING TO MAKE SURE YOUR FACE IS IN THERE. >> Council President: WE HAVE A FEW MEMBERS ON THE QUEUE AS WELL. SO WE WILL START WITH COUNCILMEMBER JURADO. COUNCILWOMAN JURADO. >> Y. Jurado: THANK YOU SO MUCH, CHAIR AS A PROUD DOUBLE BRUIN IT'S AN HONOR TO WELCOME DR. FRANK UCLA GAVE A GIRL A CHANCE. AS A DAUGHTER OF IMMIGRANTS, AS A TRANSFER STUDENT I WAS A COMMUTER AND I GOT A AFFORDABLE WORLD CLASS EDUCATION WHERE I GOT TO LEARN TALAGOG HISTORY AND ACTIVISM AT UCLA WHICH IS JUST SO RIGHT. AND IT'S ALWAYS IMPORTANT TO BE THOUGHTFUL ABOUT WHO LEADS OUR HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS BECAUSE THEY HAVE THE IMPORTANT TASK OF HELPING MOLDING THE MINDS OF THE FUTURE GENERATIONS. AND THAT TASK IS ESPECIALLY TRUE THESE DAYS GIVEN THE ATTACKS ON OUR UNIVERSITIES AND OUR STUDENTS AND LEARNING ABOUT YOUR BACK GROUND, IT'S CLEAR THAT YOU ARE THE RIGHT PERSON FOR THIS MOMENT. YOU HAVE BEEN A CHAMPION FOR EDUCATION AND INCREDIBLE FORCE IN PUBLIC HEALTH FIGHTING FOR THE WELL BEING FOR THE PEOPLE ACROSS THE GLOBE. DR. FRANK, I APPLAUD YOU FOR RECENTLY EXPRESSING YOUR SUPPORT FOR THE INTERNATIONAL AND IMMIGRANT STUDENTS ON YOUR CAMPUS. IT'S SO IMPORTANT TO HAVE A LEADER LIKE YOU WITH AN UNSAVER COMMITMENT TO PROTECTING YOUR STUDENT BODY. I'M HAPPY TO CONGRATULATE AND IN THE MONTH OF MARCH MADNESS, GO BRUINS! [APPLAUSE] >> Council President: COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ? >> E. Hernandez: THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT. I AM NOT BRUIN I'M A CAL STATE LONG BEACH SHARK. BUT LET ME SAY THIS, I'M NOT A BRUIN YET BECAUSE THERE IS STILL A LOT OF TIME AHEAD. BUT I WANT TO SAY THAT I'M SO HAPPY FOR THIS LEADER. I WORKED CLOSELY WITH THE PEOPLE OF UCLA, THE MILLION DOLLARS HOOD PROJECT. THE WORK THAT THEY PRODUCE, THE RESEARCH THAT THEY PRODUCED, SHOWED THAT YOUS WE WERE OVER CRIMINALIZING WOMEN AND PEOPLE. AND THAT HELPED TO STOP A 3.5 MILLION DOLLARS JAIL PLAN WHEN THE COUNTY PLANNED TO BUILD TWO NEW JAILS ONE FOR WOMEN AND ONE MORE FOR MENTAL HEALTH. I WANT TO YOU KNOW THAT THE RESEARCH THAT YOU'RE PROVIDING IS NOW MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER BEFORE. WITH FASCISM TAKING OVER THE COUNTRY THIS DATA COMING OUT OF UCLA IS GOING TO HELP US TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE NOT LEAVING COMMUNITIES BEHIND AND NOT IMPACTING COMMUNITIES THAT HAVE TRADITIONAL DISPROPORTIONATELY IMPACTED. I REPRESENT DISTRICT 1, McARTHUR PARK THAT IS GOING TO BRING ECONOMIC RESILIENCY FOR OUR WORKERS. AND I HOPE THAT WE CAN TOUR IT ONE DAY TOGETHER BECAUSE THE WORK THAT IS GOING TO BE COMING OUT OF THAT AREA, IS GOING TO HELP UPLIFT SO MANY FAMILIES, SO MANY WORKERS OUT OF TERRIBLE WORKPLACES. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR STEPPING UP TO BE A LEADER AT THIS TIME. WE NEED STRONG LEADERS COMMITTED TO OUR PEOPLE AND I'M EXCITED TO PARTNER WITH YOU, THANK YOU SO MUCH. [APPLAUSE] >> Council President: THANK YOU. AND CERTAINLY LET ME ADD, AS ALSO A BRUIN, TO THE BUSINESS SCHOOL, EXECUTIVE PROGRAM THERE AND YOU CAN'T SAY UCLA WITHOUT L.A. AND YOU GUYS HAVE REALLY INTEGRATED THROUGHOUT OUR CITY. I REPRESENT THE WEST VALLEY, BUT IT'S THE PEOPLE, ALL OF US BRUINS THAT ARE SPREAD OUT. BUT YOU'RE NOT INLOR COMMUNITY, YOU ENGAGE WITH OUR CITY AND MAKE OUR CITY SO MUCH BETTER AND WE WELCOME YOUR LEADERSHIP AND WE'RE SO GLAD TO HAVE YOU HERE TODAY. THANK YOU. BACK TO COUNCILWOMAN YAROSLAVSKY TO CLOSE. >> K. Yaroslavsky: THIS IS THE BEGINNING. AND THERE IS SO MUCH THAT WE'RE GOING TO DO TOGETHER AND AT THIS MOMENT MORE THAN ANY OTHER MOMENT WE NEED THAT PARTNERSHIP WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE INTERESTED IN FACTS AND THE TRUTH AND THAT'S WHAT IS COMING OUT OF UCLA AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO TO DRIVE OUR CITY FORWARD. THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING PART OF THIS PRESENTATION TODAY. >> Council President: THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE] ALL RIGHT, WELL UCLA FOLKS ARE MAKING THEIR WAY OFF. I WOULD ASK COUNCILWOMAN PARK TO MAKE HER WAY TO THE PODIUM FOR A SPECIAL PRESENTATION. DR. GUERRA? OKAY, OKAY, CAN WE GET COUNCILWOMAN PARK. IF I CAN ASK FOLKS WHO ARE EXITING, TO EXIT QUIETLY PLEASE SO WE CAN GET TO OUR NEXT PRESENTATION. >> T. Park: HI, HI, DR. GUERRA, THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY I'M PROUD TO BE JOINED THIS MORNING BY ESTEEMED MEMBERS OF LAYOLA MARY MOUNT, MY ALMA MATER DR. GERA, CONCERNED A B.C. FROM SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY AND MASTERS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN FOR POLITICAL SCIENCE WHICH SET THE FOUNDATION FOR DISTINGUISHED CAREER IN ACADEMIA. CAMPAIGNS AND ELECTION SXZ GOVERNANCE REFORM. HIS WORK CREATED AND HISTORIC RECORD OF THE EXPERIENCE OF LOS ANGELES RESIDENTS WITH EMPHASIS ON LATINO CIVIC ENGAGEMENT, POLITICAL PREPARATION AND REPRESENTATION. DR. GERA HAS TAUGHT MORE THAN 5,000 UBD GRADUATE STUDENTS PROVIDING A TRANSFORMATIVE ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE ROOTED IN THE JESUIT AND INSPIRING MANY TO PURSUE CAREERS IN PUBLIC SERVICE. IN 1997, DR. GERA FOUNDED THE CENTER RESEARCH ORGANIZATION THAT CAPTURES THE COMPLEXITIES OF LIFE IN LOS ANGELES. UNDER HIS LEADERSHIP, STUDY L.A. HAS BECOME ONE OF THE LEADING UNDERGRAD AOUT RESEARCH CENTERS IN THE NATION AND A TRUSTED SOURCE OF INFORMATION FOR DECISION-MAKERS AND COMMUNITY SHAKES. HE WAS THE PRINCIPAL FOR LEADING POLE, THE LARGER ASSOCIATE SURVEY OF LOS ANGELES RESIDENTS WHICH SURVEYED NEARLY 50,000 RESIDENTS SINCE 2014. L.A. VOTES, THE LARGEST PER-CAPITA EXIT POLL IN THE NATION AND THE L.A. RIOTS ANNIVERSARY STUDY CONDUCTED EVERY FIVE YEARS TO CAPTURE THE LASTING IMPACTS OF THE 1992 RIOTS OF RACE RELATIONS AND QUALITY OF LIFE IN LOS ANGELES. DR. GUERRA HAS MADE AN INCREDIBLE ASSET TO THE CITY. HAS SERVED AS A MEMBER OF RENT ADJUSTMENT COMMISSIONERS, A MEMBER OF TRANSPORTATION COMMISSIONERS AND CHAIR OF THE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS REFORM COMMISSION. I NOW LIKE TO INTRODUCE MY COLLEAGUE YSABEL JURADO OF THE 14th DISTRICT TO SAY A FEW WORDS. >> Y. Jurado: DR. FERNANDO GUERRA HAS BORN MY DISTRICT. I GET TO CLAIM THAT WE GET CHANGE-MAKERS AND YOU DR. GUERRA ARE ONE OF THEM. THE STUDIES THAT YOU HAVE CONDUCTED HAVE HELPED US INSIDE INTO THE VIEWS OF ANGELINOS. AND BECAUSE OF HOW YOUR STUDIES ARE CRAFTED THEY HAVE OFTEN GIVEN A VOICE TO THE ANGELINOS THAT ARE OFTEN OVERLOOKED. BUT BEYOND THE CONTRIBUTIONS ,Z PART OF YOUR GREATER LEGACY IS THE IMPACT THAT YOU'VE HAD ON YOUR STUDENTS. YOU HAVE INSPIRED SO MANY OF THEM TO PURSUE VARIOUS CAREERS IN VARIOUS LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT, I GET FIRSTHAND BECAUSE I GET TO BENEFIT BECAUSE WE HAVE FOUR LIONS ON OUR STAFF THAT HAVE BEEN TAUGHT BY YOU AND MENTORS BY YOU, SO WE'RE SO LUCKY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR DEDICATION OVER THE PAST 40 YEARS TO LMU AND THEIR MISSION AND YOUR LOVE AND COMMITMENT TO THE GREATER LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY IS INSPIRING AND WE'RE GRATEFUL FOR ALL THAT YOU HAVE DONE IN SERVICE TO OUR CITY. CONGRATULATIONS ON THIS MAJOR MILD STONE. >> THANK YOU, I APPRECIATE IT. [APPLAUSE] . >> T. Park: THANK YOU. DR. GUERRA WILL CELEBRATE HIS 40 YEARS IN LMU'S ACADEMIC AND CULTURAL LEGACY. I NOW WANT IT TAKE A MOMENT TO INTRODUCE JOHN, WHO IS THE SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF COMMUNICATION AT LMU. COME ON UP. >> Speaker: COUNCILMEMBER TRACI PARK AND WE ARE BOTH AS YOU MENTIONED, BOTH LMU ALUMNI OF L.A.'S CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY. SO WE'RE PROUD TO BE LMU LIONS, SECOND THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP OF CD11 OF OUR CITY AND FOR CHAMPIONING THIS WELL DESERVED RECOGNITION OF MY FRIEND, DR. FERNANDO GUERRA. OUR PRESIDENT'S SENT HIS WARMEST CONGRATULATIONS TO FERN TO AND OUR COMMUNITY ITS DEEP APPRECIATION FOR FERNANDO'S FOUR DECADES OF EXTRAORDINARY SERVICE AND LEADERSHIP. LET'S BE REAL THOUGH, THE CITY OF ANGELS WOULD NOT BE THE CITY OF ANGELS WITHOUT THE PROFESSOR FERNANDO GUERRA, LMU WOULD NOT BE LMU WITHOUT DR. GUERRA, THEY'RE NOT JUST MY WORDS THEY'RE THE STUDENTS HE'S MENTORS, LEADERS HE'S ADVISED IN OUR REGION AND BEYOND AND THE MILLIONS HE'S INSPIRED THROUGH DECADES OF MEDIA APPEARANCES, RESEARCH CIVIC LEADERSHIP, THERE IS ONLY ONE FERNANDO GUERRA. IS FOR 40 YEARS HE'S BEEN A SCHOLAR OF PROFESSOR FOR ENGAGEMENT AND SOCIAL JUSTICE. HE'S HELPED US UNDERSTAND OUR CITY AND OURSELVES HIGHLIGHTING THE OF ALL BEING A DEMOGRAPHIC AND VALUES THAT HAVE SHAPED OUR REGION'S FUTURE. OUR SHARED FUTURE. BUT FERNANDO HAS NOT JUST STUDIED CIVIC LIFE, HE'S IGNITED IT. AND IF EVER GOT A CALL FROM HIM YOU'VE PROBABLY GOTTEN A FEW. AND YOU'VE VOLUNTEERED BUT VOLUNTOLD AND YOU SAY YES BECAUSE EVERY EFFORT WAS FOR OUR STUDENTS, COMMUNITY AND THE DPRAITER GOOD. HE IS SPOKEN TRUTH TO POWER WITH CONSISTENCY URGENCY AND CARE ESPECIALLY WHEN IT MATTERS MOST AND HE HELPED SHAPE A GROUP OF LEADERS NOW SERVING. FERNANDO THANK YOU FOR ELEVATING OUR CITY, FOR ADVANCING L.A.'S FAVORITE UNIVERSITY. FOR GIVING A VOICE, A WELL-INFORMED VOICE TO ALL OF US. CONGRATULATIONS ON 40 INCREDIBLE YEARS. AND HERE'S TO THE NEXT CHAPTER OF IMPACT FOR ALL LMU LIONS FOR ALL ANGELINOS. PLEASE JOIN ALL OF NEWS CELEBRATING ONE OF OUR HEROES DR. FERNANDO GUERRA. [APPLAUSE] >> T. Park: JOHN, THANK YOU SO MUCH IT'S WONDERFUL TO HAVE ALL OF OUR FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES FROM LMU IN THE HOUSE TODAY. WITH THAT, COLLEAGUES, I WOULD LIKE TO PRESENT THIS RESOLUTION ON BEHALF OF THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES TO CONGRATULATE DR. FERNANDO GUERRA FOR HIS 40 OF EXEMPLARY SERVICE AT LMU AND KNOWING THAT HIS WORK WILL CONTINUE INSTRUMENTAL IN PREPARING THE NEXT GROUP OF ORGANIZERS AND LEADERS WHO I KNOW WILL LEAD WITH A PASSION AND STEADFAST COMMITMENT TO A THRIVING AND JUST LOS ANGELES. WE EXTEND OUR DEEPEST GRATITUDE AND WISH YOU ALL THE BEST. >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. >> THANK YOU. >> Council President: THANK YOU, WE HAVE SOME MEMBERS ON THE QUEUE. I WILL START WITH COUNCILMEMBER PRICE. >> C. Price: THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. TO COUNCILMEMBERS PARK AND JURADO. THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS REAL ANGEL TO OUR TODAY. FERNANDO HAS REALLY BEEN A FORCE OF NATURE IN THE COMMUNITY. SO WE'RE SO PROUD TO CELEBRATE THIS ACHIEVEMENT. WHETHER HE'S TALKING CIVIC ENGAGEMENT, RACE RELATION, THE STUDY OF L.A. HAS BEEN A PIVOTAL POINT AND OUT REACH FOR US TO FIGURE OUT WHAT WE DO NEXT. SO THANK YOU, DR. THANK YOU FOR YOUR EFFORTS, COMMITMENT AND CONTINUED SUCCESS. >> Council President: THANK YOU. AND BACK TO YOU, COUNCILWOMAN PARK TO CLOSE. >> T. Park: ALL RIGHT, DR. GUERRA WE WOULD BE HONORED IF YOU SAID A FEW WORDS. >> Speaker: YES, I CONSIDER MYSELF A RESIDENT OF ALL LOS ANGELES BUT HAVE A SPECIAL PRIDE IN CD11 AND 14. 40 YEARS HAS BEEN PRETTY FANTASTIC. I LOVE LOS ANGELES, I LOVE STUDYING ITS, HISTORY, POLITICS, ITS CULTURE. WE HAVE CHALLENGES BUT IN MY 40 YEARS OF HAVING TAUGHT THOUSANDS OF STUDENTS AND BEEN PART OF THOUSANDS OF STUDENTS AND ADVOCATED THINGS HAVE IMPROVED AND THEY HAVE IMPROVED TREMENDOUSLY. THE POLICY SUCCESSES OF THIS COUNCIL, OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN LOS ANGELES ARE UNPRECEDENTED. WHEN YOU TAKE A LOOK AT OUR AIR QUALITY. I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS THE AGE OF THESE YOUNG PEOPLE, HOW I WOULD FEEL THE SMOG IN MY CHEST AND WE'VE CLEANED UP THE AIR TO A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT. WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT WATER, WE CONSUME ABOUT HALF THE WATER WE COULD NOT ASSUMED 40 YEARS AGO EVEN THOUGH OUR POPULATION IS OVER 40 PERCENT. WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT WASTE AND WHAT WE USED TO THROW AWAY, WE'VE DIMINISHED TO THAT TO A LARGE EXTENT. WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT A CRIME, WE'RE LESS LIKELY TO HAVE VIOLENT CRIME IN LOS ANGELES THAN ANYTIME IN ITS HISTORY. L.A. IS SAFER TODAY THAN IN ANYTIME IN THE HISTORY. STATISTICALLY, I KNOW WE HAVE CHALLENGED BUT IT'S BEEN A GREAT 40 YEARS. THE WORK THAT YOU DO AROUND THIS CHAMBER, TRULY IMPACTS THAT. WE LOSE SIGHT OF THAT, YES WE HAVE CHALLENGES, THE BUDGET DEFICIT, THE FIRES, HOMELESSNESS, HOUSING, BUT IF THE PAST 40 YEARS ARE ANY INDICATION THAT THE NEXT 40 YEARS ARE GOING TO BE FOR LOS ANGELES AND THESE YOUNG PEOPLE THAT YOU SEE AROUND HERE. I AM PROUD TO RAISE MY CHILDREN, EMILIA, RAFA AND MAYA IN LOS ANGELES. I AM PROUD OF GROWING UP IN LOS ANGELES WITH MY SISTERS CHRISTINA AND PERLA AND PROUD TO MAKE FUTURE PLANS WITH MY WIFE TO STAY IN LOS ANGELES. I'M NOT GOING TO SAY IN THE NEXT 40 YEARS BUT I'M NOT GOING AWAY IN THE NEXT FOUR OR FIVE. THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER TRACI PARK AND JURADO, I REALLY APPRECIATE THE SUPPORT. THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE] >> >> T. Park: THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT. >> Council President: GREAT THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU, DR. GUERRA, OUR NEXT PRESENTATION, I'M GOING TO GO UP TO THE PODIUM MYSELF ALONG WITH COUNCILMEMBER NAZARIAN, IF I CAN ASK COUNCILMEMBER RAMAN TO TAKE THE CHAIR. >> CAN I GET ALL NOWRUZ UP AT THE PODIUM. >> Council President: I GUESS WE'LL GET STARTED BUT COUNCILMEMBER NAZARIAN WILL JOIN US. >> Council President: HE'S ON HIS WAY. >> B. Blumenfield: OKAY, COLLEAGUES, DEMONSTRATING THE COMMITMENT TO CULTURAL RICHNESS AND PRIDE IN OUR DIVERSITY. THERE HE IS, COUNCILMEMBER NAZARIAN COME ON UP. WE'RE DOING THIS BY RECOGNIZING AN IMPORTANT SYMBOL OF IMPORTANT CULTURE. THE PERSIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY IN LOS ANGELES JOINS US TODAY TO CELEBRATE NOWRUZ. THEY HAVE CELEBRATED THE FIRST DAY OF SPRING AS THE COMING OF THE NEW YEAR SIGNALING HEALTH AND PROSPERITY AND PEACE FOR ALL OF HUMANKIND. NOWRUZ IS CELEBRATED WORLDWIDE, THE EAST AFRICA, NORTH AMERICA, YOU NAME IT. NOWRUZ REPRESENTATIVES A REVIVE OF NATURE, REENFORCEMENT OF VALUES AND LIMITLESS POSSIBILITY TO DO GOOD. I ASK THE MEN AND WOMEN HERE REPRESENTING THE PERSIAN COMMUNITY TO STAND UP. I KNOW THERE ARE MANY OF YOU HERE AND STAND UP TO GO RECOGNIZED, MANY ARE STANDING HERE BESIDE ME. AS MENTIONED, I'M ALSO JOINED HERE BY COUNCILMEMBER NAZARIAN, WE'RE COPRESENTING THIS AND I WOULD LIKE TO YIELD THE FLOOR TO HIM FOR A FEW MOMENTS. >> THANK YOU, THANK YOU. >> A. Nazarian: THANK YOU, I WANT TO KEEP MY COMMENTS VERY BRIEF. THIS WAS SINCE I JOINED THE COUNCIL AND I WAS THE FIRST IRANIAN BORN TO HOLD THIS POSITION. I HAD TALKED TO BOB AND I WAS PLEASED TO HOST THIS EVENT AND MAKE IT INTO A BIG EVENT. BUT OF COURSE WITH THE FIRES, THE WIND STORMS AND ALL THE CHALLENGES THAT THE FIRST FEW MONTHS OF THIS YEAR, HAD BROUGHT, WE THOUGHT IT WOULD BE BEST TO JUST TONE IT DOWN, RECOGNIZE THE CELEBRATION, SAY OUR THANK YOUS, VOW TO A RENEWED YEAR AND HOPE AND LOOK FORWARD TO CELEBRATING FOR YEARS TO COME. I WANT TODAY TAKE THIS MOMENT AND SAY THANK YOU TO THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS THAT HAVE WORKED THAT HAVE WORKED TO BRINGING THE NOWRUZ CELEBRATION TO CITY HALL AND SACRAMENTO. WE HELD THESE CELEBRATIONS IN THE STATE CAPITOL. WITH US, IS PURIA, DR. MARRIAN, A CERBAJANI. HAMID-, ALEX, MEZ NNDS RAN. DAVID, DAVID RAHIMIN. AMERE. AND WE BOTH WISH OUR GOOD FRIEND JOHN ARDEDOLN SPEEDY RECOVERY, HE COULDN'T BE HERE TO JOIN US IN THIS CELEBRATION BUT THIS TEAM HAS BEEN WITH US AT EVERY TURN, ALWAYS HELPING, ALWAYS PROMOTING AND ALWAYS HOLDING THESE EVENTS WITH US. AND I JUST WANT TO TAKE A QUICK MINUTE AND SAY THIS IS A CELEBRATION THAT PRECEDES ANY FAITHS THAT WE NOW KNOW AND IS PRACTICED AROUND THE WORLD. THIS IS PART OF THE SARASTIAN FAITH AND IT WAS ALL ABOUT HOPE, RENEWAL, REBIRTH, AND HAVING A NEW DAY. IT'S AMAZING WHEN YOU SEE PRACTICES LIKE THIS SURVIVING MY --MILLENIA WHERE AS GOVERNMENT POLITICAL IDEALOLOGY LIVES FPT WHILE IRAN HAS BEEN HELD CAPTIVE, THINGS WILL CHANGE. THIS IS BECAUSE THIS IS A SPECK OF OF TIME. IT SEEMS LONG BUT IRAN HAS EXISTED FOR 5,000 YEARS BRINGS VERY RICH TO HISTORY TO THIS WORLD AND I LOOK TO THE DAY THAT IT GOES BACK TO THE BEING THE CONTRIBUTING WORLD PARTNER THAT IT ALWAYS BEEN AND VERY INVITING OF PEOPLE OF PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT FAILGTS. --FAITHS. ARMENIAN LIVED IN IRAN FOR A LONG TIME NEVER FEARING. I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING HERE AND FOR CELEBRATING THIS WONDERFUL DAY WITH US AND I LOOK FORWARD TO MANY MORE CELEBRATIONS WITH ALL OF YOU. >> B. Blumenfield: WE NOW HAVE SOME WORDS FROM CHIEF ENGINEER OF BUREAU OF ENGINEERING. >> Speaker: GOOD MORNING, L.A. RESIDENTS, HAPPY NOWRUZ, IT MEANS HAPPY DAY IN IRAN AND TURKISH STAN, AND OTHER COUNTRIES AND OTHER COUNTRIES. THIS IS BEEN GOING ON FOR MORE THAN 3000 YEARS. NOWRUZ SIGNIFIES THE TRUEST WAY OF LOVE COMPASSION AND NEW BEGINNING FOR A BETTER DAY. A BETTER SEASON AND A BETTER YEAR. LET US RENEW OUR LOVE, FAITH, AND CARE FOR ONE ANOTHER IN THIS DAY. MANY MAY THIS NOWRUZ AND FUTURE LEAD US TO A BETTER WORLD IN HARMONY, PEACE AND BRIGHTER FUTURE. THIS YEAR WE ARE ALL PRAYING THAT ALL THE GOOD BLESSINGS, TO COME TO OUR BEAUTIFUL CITY. WE LOVE YOU AND WE LOVE WORK THAT YOU'RE DOING FOR ALL OF US ANGELINOS. THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE] >> B. Blumenfield: THANK YOU. NEXT WE HEAR FROM DAVID NAHI, ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTANT, NO STRANGER TO THIS PLACE. DAVID. >> Speaker: THANK YOU, THANK YOU SO MUCH. >> THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER FOR RECOGNIZING NOWRUZ TODAY. AS YOU JUST HEARD, NOWRUZ LITERALLY MEANS NEW DAY FPT IT'S THE FIRST DAY OF SPRING, IT'S A HYME WHEN FLOWERS BLOOM AND WE THROW OUT OF DARK AND WARMTH OF WINTER AND WE WELCOME SPRING. A TIME OF REBIRTH IN NATURE AND HUMAN SPIRIT. THIS IS A DAY OF CELEBRATED AS A DAY OF PEACE AND COMPASSION AND THE BELIEF THAT LIFE CAN BE MADE BETTER. BUT WHILE MANY OF US IN DEED CAN SEE A BETTER TOMORROW AHEAD OF US, FAR TOO MANY OF OUR SISTERS AND BROTHERS IN LOS ANGELES INCLUDING MANY OF OUR OWN COMMUNITY, ARE STILL IN THE GRUFRJ OF WITH BURNING HOMES AND SUFFOCATING GAS AND POLLUTED AIR AND THREATENED LIFES, 29 SOULS PERISH. WE COMMEND OUR LEADERSHIP FOR ALL THAT IS DONE. OUR IRANIAN COMMUNITY GRIEVES FOR ALL ANGELINOS THAT ARE SUFFERING IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE FIRES. WE ARE ONE WITH THEM. WE ARE PART OF THIS UNIQUE COLLAGE OF COLORS AND CULTURE THIS MOSAIC OF LOS ANGELES. A MONTH SAY I --MOSAIC IS DEFINED AS A MULTI NUMBER OF PIECES XLAOUD GLAO*UD ON TO THE SURFACE, FOR US THAT SURFACE I LOS ANGELES FPT WE BELIEVE IN L.A. WE BELIEVE IN THE FUTURE OF LOS ANGELES, WE BELIEVE THAT ITS BEST DAYS ARE STILL TO COME. AND TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE SURE THAT THE COLD WINTER IS IN DEED GOING TO BE BEHIND US. LET ME FINISH BY SAYING THIS. EVERY YEAR WE HOST A RECEPTION HERE IN THE RO --ROTUNDA WITH FOOD AND CELEBRATION AND EVERY YEAR THE LAUGHTER ECHOS IN THE HALLS OF THIS CHAMBER. BUT NOT THIS YEAR, THIS YEAR AS A GESTURE OF RESPECT AND SOLIDARITY FOR THE VICTIMS OF THE FIRES, THE ROTUNDA WILL BE SIGH TENT. --SILENT. >> THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE] >> B. Blumenfield: NEXT WE'LL HEAR FROM ALEX, ENTREPRENEUR. >> Speaker: I JUST WANT TO WISH EVERYBODY HAPPY NEW YEAR AND WITH GOOD HEALTH, AND HAPPINESS FOR EVERYBODY IN THIS CITY. THANK YOU. >> B. Blumenfield: AND FINAL LINO STRANGER TO THIS INSTITUTION. >> Speaker: HONORABLE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL, DEAR GUESTS AND FRIENDS, ON BEHALF OF THE IRANIAN COMMUNITY, WE'RE HERE TO EXPRESS OUR APPRECIATION FOR THIS COUNCIL'S UNWAIVERING SUPPORT OF NOWRUZ. SINCE 2004 THROUGH THE EFFORTS OF THEN COUNCILMAN CARDENAS, CITY OF L.A. HAVE CELEBRATED NOWRUZ WITH US. LOVE AND PEACE AND 'EM PA KNEE SHOWING IN THE TRADITION OF NOWRUZ, THEY'VE BEEN JOINED BY SCIENTIST, BUSINESS FOLKS FROM WITHIN THE IRANIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY OF LOS ANGELES. THEY'VE ALL EXPRESSED THEIR CONFIDENCE IN THIS GREAT CITY TO OVERCOME CALAMITIES AND TO PEOPLE AND THE BEACON OF HOPE AND POSSIBILITY FOR SO MANY SEEKING TO SERVE AND MAKE LOS ANGELES THEIR HOME. THIS RESONATES WITH ME PERSONALLY. WHEN I LOOK AT MY OWN EXPERIENCE HAVING HAD THE HONOR TO SERVE THIS CITY, IN 1998 I WAS HONORED AND BLESSED WITH CITIZENSHIP AT THE LOS ANGELES CONVENTION CENTER. WITHIN TWO YEARS OF THAT DAY, I BECAME THE COO AND THEN THE CEO OF THE SAME CONVENTION CENTER SERVING ANGELINOS IN THAT CAPACITY FOR 12 YEARS. THERE WAS AND STILL IS NO OTHER CITY IN THE GLOBE THAT SUCH AN EXPERIENCE IS POSSIBLE EVEN AS A DREAM. SO IF NOWRUZ IS THE FINEST HOPE AND POBT FOR BRIGHTER FUTURE, I CANNOT THINK OF A BETTER PLACE TO CELEBRATE NOWRUZ THAN IN OUR VERY OWN LOS ANGELES. A CITY THAT THRIVES, AND IS DEFINED BY HOPE. MAY NOWRUZ 2025 BRING ALL OF ANGELINOS MUCH LOVE, PEACE AND HEALTH AND BRING JOY AND HOPE TO THOSE AROUND US. THANK YOU AND WITH YOUR PERMISSION, AND AS THIS PROGRAM IS BEING BROADCAST WORLDWIDE SO MANY FARSI SPEAKERS, I LIKE TO EXTEND BEST WISHES IN FARSI. >> B. Blumenfield: PLEASE. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING FARSI] THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE] >> B. Blumenfield: THANK YOU. WE HAVE A BEAUTIFUL PROCLAMATION AND THIS PROCLAMATION WAS CREATED BY DEDICATED PERSIAN AMERICAN WORKING FOR THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES. SO PLEASE ACCEPT THIS ON BEHALF OF THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES, NOWRUZ. >> THANK YOU. >> Council President: BEFORE YOU LEAVE, WE HAVE SOME SPEAKERS THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK. >> T. McOsker: THANK YOU SO MUCH COUNCILMEMBERS FOR BRINGING THIS PRESENTATION TO YOU. HAPPY NEW YEAR, WE WERE TALKING AT THE BEGINNING OF THE MEETING WHEN I CAME TO CITY HALL SO MANY YEARS AGO. THIS WAS A NEW EXPERIENCE FOR ME AND ONE THAT I ENJOYED YEAR AFTER YEAR AFTER YEAR AND HAVE COME TO KNOW AND APPRECIATE AND RESPECT DEEPLY. THANK YOU TO EVERY ONE. I WAS TELLING ONE OF MY COLLEAGUES THAT DAVID NAHI AND I GO WAY BACK. WE WERE ON THE OPPOSITE SIDES OF A AN ELECTION AND IN FRONT OF A PERSIAN-AMERICAN DEBATING ONE ANOTHER. CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW HARD THAT WAS WITH HIS BEAUTIFUL ACCENT AND HIS ARTICULATE. I WAS SO WELCOMED, MY TAKE, WAS I WAS SO WELCOMED AND RESPECTED AND APPRECIATED FOR MY DEEPLY HELD CONVICTIONS, ON BEHALF OF MY BOSS AND YOU WERE STATING YOURS. AND THAT REALLY CAPTURED THIS DEEP RESPECT THAT THE PERSIAN-AMERICANS HAVE FOR ONE ANOTHER AND FOR THIS COUNTRY AND HAVE FOR THIS COMMUNITY. AND THIS IS REALLY EMBLEMATIC OF THAT. AND EVEN THOUGH IN THE 1-5, WE DON'T HAVE A LARGE PERSIAN COMMUNITY, I HAVE DREW ON MY STAFF WHO IS A PROUD PERSIAN-AMERICAN AND NEXT WEEK SHE'S GOING TO GRACE US WITH SOME DISHES. THANK YOU. >> Council President: THANK YOU MR. McOSKER. IF THERE ARE ANY OTHER SPEAKERS, RAISE YOUR HAND. I'LL JUST SAY, THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER BLUMENFIELD AND NAZARIAN FOR BRINGING THIS TODAY AND INVITING THIS BIG COMMUNITY TO CELEBRATE WITH US. AND YOUR REMARKS ABOUT THE MEANING OF NOWRUZ PARTICULARLY THIS YEAR AFTER WHAT LOS ANGELES HAS BEEN THROUGH, REALLY STRUCK A CORD WITH ME. AND I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR SHARING THOSE REMARKS AND THAT SPACE WITH US TODAY AND ALLOWING US TO MARK THIS IMPORTANT HOLIDAY WHICH IS SO IMPORTANT FOR SO MANY ANGELINOS. THANK YOU SO MUCH. >> B. Blumenfield: THANK YOU. NOWRUZ. >> THANK YOU. >> Council President: THANK YOU. AND NOW I'D LIKE TO INVITE COUNCILMEMBER HEATHER HUTT TO THE PODIUM FOR ANOTHER PRESENTATION. WELCOME COUNCILMEMBER HUTT. >> H. Hutt: THANK YOU. GOOD MORNING, THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR. GOOD MORNING, EVERY ONE. BEFORE WE DIVE IN TODAY'S PRESENTATION, I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE A BRIEF VIDEO THAT BEAUTIFUL SETS THE STAGE FOR WHO WE'RE CELEBRATING TODAY. >> HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR STYLE? >> PEOPLE ASK ME THIS AND I SAY LONG STYLE. IT'S A MIXTURE OF DIFFERENT STYLES, I HAVE TO MAKE IT MY OWN. YOU KNOW I'VE BEEN DANCING SINCE I'VE BEEN LITTLE. I TAP INTO DANCE REALLY TOUGH, NOT ALWAYS WITH MY FEELINGS IF I SEE SOMETHING THAT MADE ME FEEL A TYPE OF WAY, YOU KNOW, I KIND OF JUST ENGAGE THAT ENERGY AND I'M LIKE LET'S CHANGE THIS NEGATIVE ENERGY TO POSITIVE LET ME GET IT OUT AND FEEL IT THROUGH MY BODY. WE DO GO THROUGH A LOT OF TRIAL AND TRIBULATIONS WITH THINGS LIKE MURDERS AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE. THERE IS NOBODY LIKE US. I FEEL LIKE I'M DOING A JOB TO REDIRECT THE ENERGY AND THE STORY LINE OF L.A. SO PEOPLE CAN SEE IT AND FEEL GOOD ABOUT IT AND SEEING JUST GET A FAIR CHANCE IN LIFE. LOSING PEOPLE ALL THE TIME IT MADE ME, FIGURE IT OUT. LIKE WE DON'T GET THESE DAYS BACK, SO I'M SATISFIED, AS LONG AS I GET TO WAKE UP AND DANCE, I'M GOOD. MY NAME IS THONDA AND A PROFESSIONAL FREESTYLE DANCER. DANCE IS ME, I AM DANCE. [APPLAUSE] >> H. Hutt: THAT WAS AWESOME, VERY INSPIRATIONAL. AS WE CONTINUE TO HONOR THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF WOMEN DURING WOMEN'S MONTH. A CHANGE MAKER WHO IS ACTIVELY SHAPING OUR CITY'S CULTURAL LANDSCAPE. PLEASE JOIN ME IN WARMLY WELCOMING STORM DEBARGE TO OUR CHAMBERS. [APPLAUSE] SO AS YOU CAN SEE, STORM IS A STORM, DID WE SEE HER? SHE DOING WITH, I STILL GOT IT. OH SHE'S CRACKING UP. STORM DEBARGE IS THE DYNAMIC ARTIST WHO INFLUENCES PULSES THROUGH THE HEART OF DANCE AND ENTERTAINMENT. SHE'S COLLABORATED WITH INDUSTRY GIANTS LIKE NIKE, RED BULL, BT, NFL AND LIQUID IV. SHE IS ALSO CAP VAITED MILLIONS IN KENDRICK LAMAR'S "NOT LIKE US" AND THAT'S WHAT WE'VE PRACTICED. AND SHE HAS ELECTRIC FRIESED STAGES ALONG WITH SIERRA, MEGHAN THE GREAT NIECE STALLION AND BUSTA RHYMES. STORMS PERFORMANCE ARE AN EXPERIENCE AND AS WELL AS A CULTURAL MOVEMENT SOMETHING THAT WE'RE VERY PROUD OF. HER WORK RESONATES GLOBALLY PROVIDING HER ARTISTIC VISION. BUT STORM'S I AM PACK EXTENDS FAR BEYOND THE SPOTLIGHT. A DEDICATED NURTURE EMPOWERING OUR YOUTH. HER COMMITMENT TO COMMUNITY IS A TESTAMENT TO HER BELIEF THAT TRUE SUCCESS IS MEASURED BY THE LIFES WE LIVE. ALSO MY NEXT PRESENTATION IS TO DANCE TEAM AND CHEERLEADER TEAM FROM MY DISTRICT, BALDWIN AND YOU CAN SEE WHAT YOU ARE STARTING AND GETTING AWARDS FOR WHAT IT CAN TURN INTO GLOBALLY AND IT'S BEAUTIFUL WHAT THIS SUCCESS CAN LOOK LIKE. STORM HAS DEDICATED HER LIFE TO HER CRAFT AND OUR COMMUNITY, YOUR VILLAGE WE'RE ALL SO PROUD OF YOU. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE TODAY. >> THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE] >> OH FLOWERS. >> H. Hutt: WE HAVE FLOWERS AND A CERTIFICATE. >> Council President: AND MS. HUTT, AGAIN, I CANNOT SEE IF THERE IS ANY SPEAKERS ON THE QUEUE. BUT I WANT TO SAY YOUR MOVEMENT IS INCREDIBLE AND INSPIRING. I'M EXCITED TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE WORK THAT YOU DO. I HAVE SEEN YOUR WORK WITHOUT KNOWING IT WAS YOU AND IT'S REALLY REALLY BEAUTIFUL. SO THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER HUTT FOR BRINGING STORM TO COUNCIL CHAMBERS AND FOR HONORING HER BECAUSE THAT JOYOUS DANCE IS HOW WE WANT LOS ANGELES TO BE REPRESENTED ACROSS THE EN STIER WORLD. SO THANK YOU FOR THAT. [APPLAUSE] >> H. Hutt: THANK YOU, COUNCIL CHAIR. IT IS REALLY EXCITING I AM MOTIVATED, I'M GOING TO LEARN THE LITTLE STEPS FROM THEM. PLEASE DON'T LEAVE CAUSE THEY GOT A LITTLE SOMETHING TO DO NEXT. I DO WANT TO GIVE YOU A CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION SIGNED BY ALL MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL. >> THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE] >> I CAN'T BELIEVE WE DON'T HAVE "FAME" MUSIC. THE THEY NOT LIKE US. WE'LL DO THE NEXT PRESENTATION. I'M ON TO MY NEXT ONE. >> Council President: WONDERFUL, THANK YOU. >> H. Hutt: COME ON, DANCE TEAM, COME AROUND, THIS WAY. HI. GOOD MORNING, WHILE THEY'RE GETTING SETTLED I'LL MOVE ON TO THE NEXT ONE. WE WITH US TODAY, SOME SERIOUS TALENT. NOT LIKE YOU WERE NOT SERIOUS, STORM, PLEASE WELCOME THE INCREDIBLE BALDWIN CHEER AND DANCE TEAM. THESE YOUNG WOMEN ARE NOT JUST TALENTED. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] THEY ARE CHAMPIONS AND THEY'RE HERE TO CELEBRATE SOMETHING TRULY AMAZING. THREE OF THEIR DIVISIONS HAVE TAKEN THEIR 2025, JAMS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP. THANK YOU BELIEVE IT! OH SORRY, FOUR! LET'S GIVE THEM A HUGE ROUND OF APPLAUSE. THROUGH THEIR HARD WORK AND DEDICATION, THESE YOUNG WOMEN ARE ROLE MODELS WHO ARE CREATING THE FUTURE OF SOUTH LOS ANGELES, THEIR JOURNEY IS A TESTAMENT TO THE POWER OF BELIEVING IN YOURSELVES. THEY'RE SHOWING US THAT WITH HARD WORK, DREAMS CAN BECOME A REALITY. TO THE BALDWIN HILLS, BRUINS, I WANT TO SHARE THAT YOU'RE ALL MORE THAN JUST A CHEER AND DANCE TEAM, BUT AMBASSADORS FOR OUR CITY, FOR THE COMMUNITY FOR THE TENTH DISTRICT. YOUR STORY IS ONE OF HOPE, INSPIRATION AND RESILIENCE. LOS ANGELES IS CHEERING YOU ON NOW AND FOR YOUR FUTURE, SO WE'RE HAPPY TO SEE THE SUCCESS THAT YOU'RE MAKING. AND WE CAN'T WAIT TO SEE WHAT Y'ALL ARE GOING TO DO NEXT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AND LET'S GIVE THEM ANOTHER ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR WINNING A NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP! [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] WE HAVE A LITTLE SOMETHING SPECIAL, TELL ME WHEN WE'RE READY. AFTER THE WEEK WE'VE HAD HERE IN COUNCIL, I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE FITTING TO GET EXCITED AND REMEMBER HOW GREAT LOS ANGELES IS. >> BRUINS! >> BALDWIN! >> BRUINS! >> BBRU,. >> IINS. >> B.R.U.I. N.S., GO BRUINS! BBBRU, IINS, BRU, INS, GO BRUINS! [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] >> Council President: AWESOME. >> H. Hutt: SO I HAVE A CERTIFICATE. P FOR THE BALDWIN BRUINS CHEER NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP. AND THIS TOO IS SIGNED BY ALL MEMBERS OF CITY COUNCIL. >> Council President: THANK YOU SO MUCH. COUNCILMEMBER HUTT. NOW WE'RE GOING TO TRANSITION FROM BRUINS TO TROJANS. AND IF I CAN ASK COUNCILMEMBER PRICE TO COME FORWARD. FOR A SPECIAL PRESENTATION ON USC GOOD NEIGHBORS CAMPAIGN. WELL THAT'S A TOUGH ACT TO FOLLOW, I DON'T EN VIEW YOU COUNCILMEMBER PRICE. >> C. Price: COLLEAGUES, FRIENDS, WE HAVE A SPECIAL RECOGNITION. I'M GLAD TO RECOGNIZE THE 30-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF USC GOOD NEIGHBORS CAMPAIGN. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] FOR THREE DECADES THEY'VE BEEN ACORNER STONE OF COMMUNITY ACTIVISM. AND MEANT TO MAKE A POSITIVE IMPACT. THE COLLABORATION BETWEEN SC ACADEMIC COMMUNITY AND SURROUNDING NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS HAVE RAISED OVER 30 MILLION DOLLARS WHICH HAVE BENEFITS TO GRANTS GOING DIRECTLY TO NEIGHBORHOODS THEY SERVE. NOT ONLY DO THE LARGEST SUPPORT THROUGHOUT DISTRICT 9, THEIR EFFORTS ALSO STRETCH ACROSS L.A. INTO DISTRICT 1, 8, 10 AND 14. THESE GRANTS FOCUS ON THE AREAS ALIGNED WITH USC'S VALUES OF DIVERSITY, INCLUSION YES, I SAID IT. AND WITH THE STAFF AND VOLUNTEERS WE HAVE A TREMENDOUS OPPORTUNITY TO REACH THE COMMUNITY. SC IS ABLE TO BRING THEIR COMMUNITY SERVICE TO FRUITION. SO WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, LET ME BRING UP SC'S M.P. TO CIVIC ENGAGEMENT. >> Speaker: THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE] THANK YOU. THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBERS. IT IS WONDERFUL TO BE HERE TODAY. I'M EFFI AND VICE PRESIDENT FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT AND ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIPS. I ALSO WANT TO CONGRATULATE CHANCELLOR FRANK, EVEN THOUGH HE'S FROM THE OTHER SIDE, I'M A DOUBLE BRUIN. FIGHT ON. WE'RE HERE TO HONOR THE PROGRAM AS A DAUGHTER OF A SINGLE-PARENT WHO WENT TO SCHOOL, ON A COLLEGE CAMPUS AND SOMEBODY WHO TOOK ADVANTAGE OF EVERY OPPORTUNITY ON THAT COLLEGE CAMPUS, I KNOW THE POWER PERSONALLY OF WHAT IT MEANS TO HAVE AN INSTITUTION THAT IS AN ANCHOR INSTITUTION THAT OPENS ITS DOORS TO THE COMMUNITY AND WORKS TO HELP OPPORTUNITIES FOR SUPPORTING THOSE MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY THAT UPLIFT US, THAT ALSO HOLDUP THE SOCIAL SAFETY NET THAT IS SO IMPORTANT DURING THESE TIMES. WE'RE REALLY EXCITED TO HAVE THIS HONOR TODAY AND I WOULD LIKE TO TURN IT OVER TO DR. CAROLINA CASTILLO WHO HAS LEAD THIS PROGRAM FOR OVER 13 YEARS AND DEDICATED HER LIFE TO HELPING TO SERVE THE COMMUNITY FPT WE'RE HONORED TO HAVE HER LEADERSHIP AND THE GRANTEES HERE WHO HAVE BENEFITED AND TOGETHER WERE ABLE TO FIGHT ON. THANK YOU EFFY, THANK YOU FOR THIS INCREDIBLE HONOR. I'M TRULY HONORED TO ACCEPT THIS SPECIAL RECOGNITION ON OUR TEAM. I WOULD LIKE TO RECOGNIZE AQITA AND WE HAVE STAFF HERE WHO HAVE BEEN DOING THIS FOR MANY MANY YEARS AS WELL. AND THE INCREDIBLE LONG TIME GRANT PARTNERS WHO HAVE BEEN WITH US FOR DECADES AS PARTNERS SERVING THE COMMUNITY. THEY MAKE GOOD NEIGHBORS POSSIBLE. AS AN ALUMNI AND FIRST GENERATIONAL COLLEGE STUDENT AS A SINGLE MOM AS A DAUGHTER OF IMMIGRANTS, THIS PROGRAM IS VERY VERY DEAR TO ME. I'M PROUD TO WORK AT USC AN INSTITUTION THAT IS DOING THIS TYPE OF WORK AND WITH GOOD JAIBZ JOB INITIATIVE. I KNOW FIRSTHAND SIMILAR TO EFFY HOW TRANSFORMATIVE IT IS TO HAVE PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE IN YOU, SUPPORT YOU, AND THAT'S WHAT GOOD NEIGHBORS DOES FOR THE YOUTH AND FAMILIES IN OUR COMMUNITIES AND IT'S A COMMUNITY THAT STANDS BESIDES YOU. I'VE WORKED ALONG HUNDREDS OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION, UNIVERSITY PARTNERS WHO I TRULY ADMIRE. I WOULD LIKE THEM TO STAND HERE, STAND SUSAN. I ADMIRE THEM. YES, LET'S GIVE THEM A HAND. [APPLAUSE] I HAVE THE HONOR AND PRIVILEGE TO WORK WITH AN INCREDIBLE COMMUNITY LEADERS, USC LEADERS IN THIS PROGRAM. AND I THANK YOU FOR YOUR DEDICATION AND YOUR COMMITMENT TO THIS IMPORTANT WORK. THIS INITIATIVE IS SO MUCH MORE THAN FUNDING, IT BUILDS A NETWORK OF TRUST, IT CREATES SPACES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE LIKE I SAW MYSELF YEARS AGO AND OTHERS THAT ARE HERE WHO CAN SEE THEIR POTENTIAL. WHERE FAMILIES KNOW THEY'RE SUPPORTED AND WHERE COMMUNITY LEADERS HAVE THE RESOURCES TO DRIVE MEANINGFUL CHANGE. THANK YOU ALL FOR BELIEVING IN THIS WORK IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS AND IN THE POWER OF LIFTING EACH OTHER UP. I WOULD LIKE TO GIVE A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO CAROLINA FOR THE EARLY YEARS AND FOR BEING A CATALYST WHO SET THIS INITIATIVE FORWARD. AND OF COURSE TO THANK MY PARENTS MY MOTHER AND FATHER WHO ARE WITH ME TODAY. MY SISTER, MY SON, THEY ARE MY ROCK AND MY SUPPORT AND THEY ALLOW ME TO BE ABLE TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN. AND I'M ALSO NOW A PROUD MOM OF A GRADUATE BECAUSE MY SON WAS ALSO ABLE TO GRADUATE FROM USC. AND THANK YOU ALL TO ALL OF OUR SUPPORTERS, THIS WOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE WITHOUT YOU. WE LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU CITY COUNCILMEMBERS, AS WELL WE SERVE FIVE DISTRICTS IN THE CITY COUNCIL. WE WOULD LIKE TO SERVE TO TO SERVE ALL OF THEM. I'M VERY EXCITED THAT YOU'LL BE HEARING FROM THREE INDIVIDUALS HERE WHO ARE WORKING ON THE PROGRAM WHO HAVE BENEFITED FROM THE PROGRAMS AND THEY'RE MOVING THOSE PROGRAMS FORWARD. SO I'D LIKE TO TURN IT OVER TO NANCY STARTING. >> Speaker: THANK YOU, MY NAME IS NANCY PEREZ AND I'M REALLY HAPPY TO BE HERE TODAY. THANK YOU SO EVERY ONE, USC AND THE CITY COUNCIL FOR CONTRIBUTING TO THESE PROGRAMS. I'D LIKE TO SHARE HOW THIS HAS HAD AN INFLUENCE ON ANY LIFE. I'M AN INSTRUCTOR AT THE ARTS PROGRAM AT THE OMSON CENTER. AND I'M ALSO A SOCCER COACH FOR THREE TEAMS OVER AT EXPO CENTER. I'M A FIRST-GENERATION LATINA GRADUATED MAGNA CUM LAUDE FROM CAL STATE L.A. WHERE I GRADUATE CRIMINAL JUSTICE. MY FATHER ARE PAINTERS SPECIALIZING IN COMMERCIAL SIGNS, FROM GUATEMALA AND THEY HAD TO LEARN TO DO THIS TO PUT FOOD ON THEIR TABLE. BEFORE COLLEGE I NEVER SAW TO FURTHER DEVELOP THOSE SKILLS. I'M AN ALUMNUS OF YOUTH TEAMS IN A PROJECT WE WORKED WITH A PROFESSIONAL ARTIST ALFONSO ALCEVES TO DESIGN THESE INTO DESIGNS FOR MANY MURALS THAT WERE INSTALLED. WITH EYE-CATCHING ART WHERE COMMUNITY MEMBERS CAN FIND OUT ABOUT THE CLINIC AND FEEL WELCOME INSIDE. WE ALSO PAINTED A PATH FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS TO FIND THEIR WAY TO THE CLINIC. WORK ONING THIS ART REMINDS ME OF WHO I WAS AND WHO I AM NOW. ALL THESE EXPERIENCES BROUGHT ME TO WHERE I AM NOW AND GIVING BACK TO THE COMMUNITY HAS BEEN AND CONTINUES TO BE GOOD TO ME. ON BEHALF OF L.A. COMMON --COMMONS WE WARRANT TO THANK YOU AND ALL THE L.A. EMPLOYEES WHO CONTRIBUTED TO THIS FUND TO SERVE THE COMMUNITY. L.A. COMMONS HAS BEEN ABLE TO REACH HUNDREDS OF COMMUNITY MEMBERS THROUGH OUR STORY GATHERING AND ENGAGE OVER 100 ARTIST AND EMPLOY OVER A DOZEN LOCAL PROFESSIONAL ARTIST TO CREATE PUBLIC ART THAT SHARES OUR COMMUNITY TO USE ART AND CONTRIBUTE TO WELL BEING. CONGRATULATIONS AND THANK YOU, USC GOOD NEIGHBORS, WE WISH YOU MANY MORE YEARS AHEAD. THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE] >> Council President: I MENTIONED THAT PROGRAM EXTENDS BEYOND CD9. A LOT OF ACTIVITY GOES ON IN CD1 AND I'M GOING TO BRING UP COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ TO SPEAK ABOUT THE IMPACT ON CD1. >> E. Hernandez: THANK YOU, THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER FOR ALLOWING ME TO JOIN ME. COLLEAGUES, JONATHAN, I BROUGHT MY WRONG DOCUMENTS. THANK YOU. BUT, I JUST WANT TO START SAYING I REALLY THINK THIS PROGRAM, ESPECIALLY THE SUPPORT THAT Y'ALL GIVING OUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, IT'S BONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND MANY OTHER PROGRAMS THAT YOU HAVE SUPPORTED AND I HOPE THAT WE CAN EXPAND THOSE PROGRAMS BECAUSE WE'RE SEEING HOW THOSE IMPACTS ARE INTER GENERATIONAL. THERE ARE 17 GRANTEES THAT ARE THROWING DOWN IN DISTRICT 1. TWO OF WHICH ARE HERE, USC, SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND OPPORTUNITIES WITH TEACHERS AND SCHOOLS, THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING OUR TEACHERS FOR OUR STUDENTS AT NOMA ELEMENTARY. AND THEN WE HAVE UCS SCHOOL OF LETTERS ARTS AND SCIENCES AND JAP READERS PROGRAM. SUSAN HARRIS YOUR WORK MAKING SURE THAT YOUR STUDENTS HAVE THE LITERACY THAT THEY NEED TO SUCCEED. ESPECIALLY HOWE SEEING HOW THE FEDERAL DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION IS BEING DISMANTLED THIS MORE THAN EVER CRITICAL. I ALSO WANT TO RECOGNIZE THAT TIMES ARE UNCERTAIN AND I KNOW THAT THE MOST VULNERABLE ARE WORKING FAMILIES. THIS IS WHY THIS CAMPAIGN IS MORE IMPORTANT NOW THAN EVER AND THIS IS WHY YOUR WORK TO ACCESS, HEALTH AND WELLNESS AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT DESERVES TO BE CELEBRATED AND SUPPORTED. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE, FOR INVESTING IN OUR COMMUNITIES, FOR STEPPING UP AND FOR BEING CONSISTENT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. CONGRATULATIONS ON 30 YEARS OF IMPACT. THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE] >> Council President: THANK YOU COUNCILWOMAN. NEXT LET'S HEAR FROM KEVIN, THE COMMUNITY DIRECTOR. KEVIN? >> Speaker: GOOD MORNING, EVEN THOUGH I JOINED AS A STAFF ABOUT TWO YEARS AGO, I'M A PRODUCT OF BOYLE HEIGHTS BEAT. I JOINED IN 2011 WHEN I WAS A JUNIOR IN HIGH SCHOOL. AND SO BECAUSE OF BOYLE HEIGHTS BEAT, I WAS ABLE TO LEARN NOT JUST HOW TO WRITE A STORY OR DESCRIBE AND DO ALL OF THAT FUN STUFF BUT IT PROPELLED ME TO PURSUE COLLEGE AND BEYOND. I ENDED UP GETTING A BACHELOR IN SOCIOLOGY, MASTERS IN EDUCATION AND I HEAVILY INVESTED MY TIME IN RESEARCH ALL BECAUSE BOYLE HEIGHTS BEAT INSPIRED ME AS A YOUNG KID WHO THEN MADE HIS WAY THROUGH BOYLE HEIGHTS THROUGH THE MAGNET ROOSEVELT PROGRAM. IT'S BEEN A FULL CIRCLE TO COME BACK AS A STAFF MEMBER. AND WE'RE EXCITED TO BE PART OF THIS LOCAL INITIATIVE WHERE WE'RE GOING TO BE USING BOYLE HEIGHTS BEATS MODEL. I'M EXCITED TO BE PART OF THIS AND THIS WAS ALL POSSIBLE BECAUSE OF THE GOOD NEIGHBORS GRANT THAT WE'RE RECEIVING. THANK YOU SO MUCH. [APPLAUSE] >> Council President: WE MENTIONED THAT THIS PROGRAM EXTENDS THROUGHOUT THE CITY, ACTIVITIES TAKE PLACE IN DISTRICT 10 THAT ARE VERY IMPORTANT AND COUNCIL HEATHER HUTT IS HERE TO SPEAK TO THAT. COUNCILWOMAN. >> H. Hutt: THANK YOU, THANK YOU MR. CHAIR, THANK YOU MR. PRICE FOR BRINGING IN A COMMUNITY PARTNER. USC, DON'T LOCK THEIR DOORS SO THAT PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY CAN'T COME IN. YOU'RE AN INSTITUTION THAT BRINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORS. AND WE JUST HEARD FROM KIDS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. I THINK THAT GOES TO SHOW YOU THAT YOU NAMED IT RIGHT, REAL NEIGHBOR CAMPAIGN. AND THE MILLIONS THAT YOU INVEST ANNUALLY. I CAN REMEMBER DURING A CRITICAL TIME DURING COVID-19 AND THE CAMPAIGN'S I AM PACK WAS PROFOUND. I ACTUALLY TALKED TO STEVE WESSON AT THE TIME AND WORKED FOR SENATOR HARRIS. AND USC WAS TRYING TO DECIDE WHERE WE GO TO PARTNER WITH TO PROVIDE FOOD. AND IT WAS GRAND LAR THAT YOU WANTED TO BE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. YOU EMPOWERED TEACHERS TO VIRTUAL LEARNING, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU REMEMBER THAT, BECAUSE IT WAS FIVE YEARS AGO, BUT I DO. YOU ENSURED THAT OUR YOUTH THAT WERE ESPECIALLY VULNERABLE, DURING THAT PERIOD HAD TOOLS TO PERSEVERE AND TO THRIVE. YOUR DEDICATION EXTENDS BEHIND CRISIS RESPONSE. THE CAMPAIGN ON GOING SUPPORT FOR PERFORMING ARTS AND SCIENCES PROVIDES EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES. THESE INITIATIVE EMPOWER THEM TO EXPLORE THEIR POTENTIAL AND DEVELOPED SKILLS THAT WILL SERVE THEM FOR A LIFETIME AND WE JUST HEARD ABOUT THAT. AS WE STRIVE TO BUILD A BETTER LOS ANGELES, I WANT TO EXPRESS MY GRATITUDE TO THE ENTIRE USC COMMUNITY, YOUR UNWAIVERING DEDICATION IS A BEACON OF HOPE. AND YOUR WORK INSPIRES US ALL TO DREAM BIGGER AND INSPIRATION IS VITAL IN SHAPING OUR LEADERS FOR TOMORROW. THANK YOU. >> C. Price: ANOTHER ORGANIZATION IS THE 24th STREET THEATER SO LET'S BRING UP JAY McADAMS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR. JAY? >> Speaker: THANK YOU, JAY McADAMS 24th STREET THEATER, GOOD TO SEE YOU, >> COUNCILMEMBER PRICE AND COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ WITHOUT THE PAINT, WE SPONSOR DIA DE LOS MUERTOS. CAROLYN WAS THERE AND STEVEN SAMPLE WAS THERE. AND THEY TOOK OUR RIGHT AWAY, IN FACT WE'RE THERE BECAUSE THE DEAN OF THEATER WANTED A PROFESSIONAL THEATER IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. SO WE OWE OUR WHOLE EXISTENCE TO USC, AND RIGHT AWAY WHAT IS NOW THE GOOD NEIGHBORS CAMPAIGN, STEPPED UP AND FUNDED SOME LIGHTING INSTRUMENTS, SINCE THEN IT'S BEEN NEARLY 30 YEARS, THEY'VE NOT ONLY BEEN GOOD NEIGHBORS, THEY'VE BEEN EXCELLENT NEIGHBORS. MUYMUY GOOD NEIGHBORS. THEY'VE HELPED US GIVE THOUSANDS. SO WE HAVE ONLY BEEN ABLE TO DO WHAT WE'VE DONE AS A, GREAT LITTLE ARTS ORGANIZATION. BECAUSE OF USC. SO THANKS TO THE GOOD NEIGHBORS, THE EXCELLENT NEIGHBORS AND CONGRATS DR. CASTILLO. >> C. Price: IT UNDER SCORES THE FACT THAT WHETHER IT IS AT USC, OR UCLA OR CAL STATE OR STANFORD IT'S IMPORTANT TO HAVE GOOD RELATIONSHIPS. AND SO ON BEHALF OF COUNCILWOMAN HERNANDEZ, COUNCILMEMBER HUTT, WE WOULD LIKE TO PRESENT A CERT TO UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA A GOOD NEIGHBORS CAMPAIGN. [APPLAUSE] [APPLAUSE] >> Council President: ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU, THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER PRICING AND HERNANDEZ FPT THANK YOU USC FOR BEING A GREAT UNIVERSITY AND A GREAT NEIGHBORS, FIGHT ON. AND THAT CONCLUDES OUR PRESENTATIONS FOR TODAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND LET'S SEE, WHAT IS THAT? WHAT IS NEXT BEFORE US? >> Clerk: MR. PRESIDENT, THE COUNCIL MAY PROCEED TO PUBLIC COMMENT. >> Council President: OKAY, IF YOU CAN READ THE INSTRUCTIONS IN FOR PUBLIC COMMENT. >> City Attorney: TO PEOPLE PROVIDING PUBLIC COMMENT WHEN IT IS YOUR TURN TO SPEAK AT THE PODIUM PLEASE STATE WHICH OF THE AGENDA ITEMS, YOU'LL ONLY WITH ONE MINUTE FOR TODAY FOR THE ITEM AVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC COMMENT. MEMBERS MAY ALSO SPEAK FOR UP TO ONE MINUTE FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. DURING GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT, MEMBERS MAY SPEAK TO THE JURISDICTION. WE WILL TELL YOU WHEN YOUR TIME IS UP. WHEN SPEAKING ON THE AGENDA ITEM, 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'LL GET A BRIEF WARNING FROM ME OR THE PRESIDENT. IF YOU AGAIN STRAY OFF TOPIC, YOU WILL FORFEIT THE REST OF YOUR SPEAKING TIME AND WE WILL MOVE ON TO THE NEXT SPEAKER. THE ITEM OPEN FOR PUBLIC COMMENT IS ITEM NUMBER 7 AND FINALLY IF I GET THE TRANSLATOR TO TRANSLATE THIS. TO SPEAKERS REQUIRING SPANISH TRANSLATION, WE ASK THAT YOU PAUSE AFTER EVERY FEW SENTENCES SO THAT THE TRANSLATOR CAN TRANSLATE YOUR SPEECH. WE WILL HOLD YOUR TIME AND YOU WILL RECEIVE THE SAME AMOUNT OF TIME AS THE OTHER SPEAKERS. >> Translator: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Council President: OKAY, IF WE CAN CALL THE NAMES. >> Clerk: MS. NICOLE PARKER AUDIT L.A., BRIDGET BARLOW. SEBA, CAMILLE SAMUELS. >> Council President: OKAY, IF YOUR NAME HAS BEEN CALLED PLEASE MAKE YOUR WAY TO THE PODIUM. >> Council President: READ MORE NAMES. >> Clerk: RICHARD SERRANO, EMMA, GUADALUPE, JORDAN HUNTER, JOSH HOCKEY. LUPITA RIVAS. >> City Attorney: SPEAKERS WHICH ITEMS WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO? >> Council President: THERE IS ONLY ONE ITEM. >> Speaker:GOOD MORNING MY NAME IS CAMILLE A Ph.d RESEARCHER WITHSTAND L.A. TODAY. WE ARE SPEAKING IN RESPONSE TO THE ASSET MAINTENANCE BEING SHUT DOWN AND I JUST WANT TO EMPHASIZE THE ISSUE OF OIL OPERATORS TAKING ADVANTAGE OF LACK OF OPERATIONS AROUND ACID MAINTENANCE HIGHLIGHTING THE NEED FOR CITY COUNCIL TO RESINNED THE OLD ORDINANCE AND--RESCIND THE OLD ORDINANCE AND PLACE A NEW ONE. OUR COMMUNITIES CANNOT WAIT ANY LONGER FOR THE HEALTH AND SAFETY FOR PRIORITIZED AND WE ASK COUNCILMEMBER NAZARIAN TO AGENDIZE THE OLD SYSTEM. THANK YOU. >> Council President: THANK YOU VERY MUCH NEXT SPEAKER. >> Speaker: HELLO HELLO. BOTH JUST ONE MINUTE? CAUSE IT'S ONLY ONE ITEM? >> Council President: YES. >> Speaker: WHO IS THE CITY ATTORNEY TODAY? >> City Attorney: SPEAKER, YOUR TIME IS RUNNING. >> Speaker: I KNOW MY TIME IS RUNNING, I WANT TO KNOW BECAUSE MR. GROAT OWES ME AN APOLOGY. AND WELL IF HE'S NOT, Y'ALL OWE US AN APOLOGY FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS FPT BUT NUMBER 7 IS THERE IS A STATE OF ENERGY, YES, THERE IS MANY STATES OF EMERGENCY IN THE CITY. THE FACT THAT WE'RE BANKRUPT, THE FACT THAT YOU OWN THE CHURCH, THE SCIENTOLOGY TO RUN AND CONTROL YOU, THAT'S AN EMERGENCY. YOU KNOW, THE FACT THAT THERE IS, NO BUDGET AND THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE TO CUT THE CITY, WHATEVER WE HAVE TO DO IS AN EMERGENCY. THE FACT THAT FREE SPEECH IS UNDER ATTACK IS AN EMERGENCY. THE FACT THAT YOU WILDFIRES THAT YOU MISMANAGED EVERYTHING FROM START TO FINISH TO ADD AN ITEM IS AN EMERGENCY. >> City Attorney: YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. >> Speaker: THANK YOU, MR. GROAT, WHERE EVER YOU ARE. YOU OWE ME AN APOLOGY. YOU CALLED ME OFF TOPIC, BECAUSE YOU DID NOT DO YOUR HOMEWORK. YOU DID NOT KNOW YOUR AGENDA, I WAS NOT OFF TOPIC AND YOU THREW ME OFF AND THAT'S NOT RIGHT. I SHOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DO MY ENTIRE THING BECAUSE YOU WERE IN THE WRONG AND YOU HAVE TO HOLD YOURSELF ACCOUNTABLE. MR. McOSKER WOULD NOT HAVE DONE THAT HE GETS IT AND MR. NAZARIAN GETS IT. I APPRECIATE HIM, EVEN THOUGH HE'S NOT LISTENING RIGHT NOW, COME ON. I ASKED HIM TO DO TWO THINGS IN OUR COMMUNITY AND TWO THINGS ARE DONE. THANK YOU. WHERE IS EVERY ONE ELSE? WHO ELSE DO I CALL OUT TO NOT PAYING ATTENTION. SHOUT OUT TO SMOKING SCAN. SMOKING SCAN WOULD APPRECIATE YOU PAYING ATTENTION. CAN YOU WAVE BOB SO I KNOW YOU'RE PAYING ATTENTION. HI, TO YOU TOO. THANK YOU. >> Council President: OKAY, NEXT SPEAKER. >> Speaker: NUMBER 7 AND GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. >> Council President: GO AHEAD SIR. >> Speaker: WHEN I RAN FOR OPPOSITE IN 2022, I HOLD BLUMENFIELD ABOUT BUDGET THAT. HE SHOOK HIS HEAD AND HE SAID HOW DO YOU NO. I SAID--KNOW. I SAID GET YOUR PRIORITIES STRAIGHT. YOU WANT TO MAKE REFORM ON HOW WE SPEAK. HOW ABOUT LISTEN? THAT IS SOMETHING THAT YOU SHOULD DO. YOU'RE WASTING OUR MONEY TO LISTEN. I DON'T GET WHAT YOU GUYS ARE DOING. WHEN YOU SHOULD BE DOING YOUR JOB LISTENING TO THE PUBLIC. IT TAKES TIME. SURE AS HECK, THAT I DON'T HAVE OTHER THINGS TO DO. I TOLD YOU THIS THING WAS HAPPENING. YOU WONDER WHO SMOKING SCAN IS, AT LEAST HE LISTENS TO EVERY ONE'S COMMENTS. I WOULD LIKE TO ASK SPEAKERS IF YOU'RE SPEAKING TO ITEM 7 COVER THE ITEM AGAIN. >> City Attorney: YOU CAN SPEAK TO ITEM 7 NOW. >> Speaker: YOU HAVE AN EMERGENCY BUDGET COMMITTEE. WHAT ARE YOU ON YOUR REFORM FOR? I DON'T GET WHAT YOU GUYS ARE DOING? THE MAYOR IS ABOUT TO DECLARE LAYOFF FURLOUGH WHEN SHE SAID THAT WAS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. BUT YET WE'RE BUILDING A PARK AT McARTHUR PARK, WE'RE GOING TO USE THE MONEY THERE? THE FIRE DEPARTMENT NEEDS THAT MONEY, YOU KNOW THEY DO. YOU DON'T GOT YOUR PRIORITIES STRAIGHT. YOU STILL NEED THE WORKER. GIVE THE PRIORITY TO THE PEOPLE. GET THE WORK DONE, GET THE EMPLOYEES BACK. IF YOU'RE GOING TO FURLOUGH, GIVE THEM 3-90. IF YOU'RE GOING TO TAKE EIGHT HOURS AWAY, THAT'S WHAT WE WERE TRYING TO DO 7-21 LAST GO AROUND. IF YOU HAVE TO FURLOUGH, I HOPE YOU DON'T BUT IT LOOKS INEVITABLE NOW. YOU GUYS DON'T LISTEN. ENOUGH. >> Speaker: GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. GOOD MORNING I'M EMMA I'M THE CLIMATE FOR ASSOCIATE RESPONSIBILITY LOS ANGELES AND A PART OF STAND L.A. COALITION STAND TOGETHER AGAINST DRILLING IN LOS ANGELES. WE'RE HERE BECAUSE WE'RE CONCERNED SINCE THE OIL ORDINANCE WAS OVERTURNED LAST SEPTEMBER THERE HAVE BEEN A NUMBER OF ACID MAINTENANCE. AND THESE PROJECTS ARE HIGHLY TOXIC WITH LOTS OF NEGATIVE HEALTH IMPACTS AND WE ARE HERE TO URGE THE CITY COUNCIL AND SPECIFICALLY COUNCILMEMBER NAZARIAN TO AGENDIZE THE ACID MAINTENANCE MOTION. YOU'RE COMMUNITIES CANNOT WAIT ANY LONG FOR THESE PROJECTS TO STOP. THEY'RE IMPACTING THEIR HEALTH AND SAFETY AND CITY COUNCIL MUST HEAR THIS MOTION TO PROTECT ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME. [APPLAUSE]. >> Clerk: BEFORE THE NEXT SPEAKER BEGINS, I WILL CALL A FEW MORE NAMES. RICHARD PARKS, ZOE CONLIFE. WENDY MIRANDA, ARETHA WARMSLY, STACY CIGAR BOWLINGER. >> City Attorney: SPEAKER WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO ITEM 7 GENERAL COMMENT OR BOTH? >> Speaker: GENERAL COMMENT. >> City Attorney: YOU HAVE A MINUTE. >> Speaker: I'M YOUTH INTERN AND A STUDENT MOVED TO CALIFORNIA. I LIVE--I KNOW HOW CLEAN UP PROCESS CAN BE AND THE TOLL IT CAN TAKE ON FAMILIES. I WOULDN'T BE HERE TODAY MISSING SCHOOL IF YOU HAD WORKED WITH US. LAST YEAR IN DECEMBER 2024, I WENT AROUND THE WILMINGTON COMMUNITY TO INFORM RESIDENTS ABOUT THE ACID ORDINANCE IN THE FEAR THAT THEY DEAL WITH LIVING NEXT TO IT. REGARDING THE HIGH AND HYDRO FORIC ACID IN THEIR COMMUNITIES. I URGE THE CITY TO WORK WITH US TO PRIORITIZE FRONTLINE RESIDENTS PUBLIC HEALTH AND ORGANIZE AGENDIZE ON THE ENE COMMITTEE. THANK YOU. >> City Attorney: SPEAKER WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 7 OR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Translator: MY NAME IS GUADALUPE I NEED A TRANSLATOR AND I WOULD LIKE TO DO GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. >> City Attorney: YOU'LL HAVE ONE MINUTE. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Translator: HELLO MY NAME IS GUADALUPE I'M PART OF STAND L.A. AND I'M ASKING THE ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE TO LISTEN TO THE AMENDMENT THE COUNCIL AMENDMENT 24-150 AND TO EXPEDITE IT WITHOUT FURTHER DELAY. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Translator: BECAUSE OF THE REVERSAL IN THE FIGHT TO ELIMINATE OIL DRILLING. AND WE SHOULD TAKE ALL POSSIBLE MEASURES TO AVOID FURTHER DAMAGE TO THE COMMUNITIES. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] AND FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF ACID, IN THE IN THE FOLLOWING COMMITTEE. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Translator: AND THE HEALTH AND SECURITY OF OUR RESIDENTS SHOULD NOT BE SACRIFICED FOR THE BENEFIT OF FOSSIL FUEL COMPANIES. >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH] >> Translator: COMMUNITIES OF COLOR ARE IN THE FRONTLINES OF THIS CRISIS AND WE HAVE ALWAYS SUPPORTED THE CONTAMINATION, THE TOXIC CONTAMINATION FOR A LONG TIME. >> City Attorney: OKAY, SPEAKER YOUR TIME IS UP. >> City Attorney: SPEAKER WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 7 OR PUBLIC COMMENT? YOU'LL HAVE A MINUTE FOR BOTH. >> Speaker: ITEM 7 BY GENOCIDE BLUMENFIELD AND INCOMPETENT MAYOR BASS ALONG WITH A BILLION DOLLARS DEFICIT, THE HOMELESS STATE OF EMERGENCY, THIS FIRE STATE OF EMERGENCY IS JUST ANOTHER EMERGENCY BROUGHT ON BY THE INCOMPETENT CITY COUNCIL. FIRE EMERGENCY AND OTHERS ARE SIMPLY A FACT OF L.A. COUNCIL BEING THE MOST INCOME PETENT CORRUPT IS THE ACTUAL CAUSE OF THE ON GOING STATE OF AFFAIRS OF EMERGENCY. REMEMBER THESE KLAUNZ GAVE --CLOWNS GAVE A BILLION DOLLARS INCREASE TO THE LAPD AND CUT THE FIRE BUDGET. THESE CLOWNS SITTING HERE ARE DOING NOTHING BUT COLLECTING THEIR HUGE CHECKS EACH MONTH. BY THE NUMBERS, OKAY, GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. BY THE NUMBERS THE L.A. COUNCIL IS THE MOST CORRUPT COUNCIL IN THE HISTORY OF U.S. ANOTHER AGENDA WITH NEAR ZERO ITEMS FOR PUBLIC COMMENT. THESE CLOWNS ARE NOTHING VIA THEIR INCOMPETENCE. WERE EATEN TIRE PLATES OF FOOD AT THE LAST COUNCIL MEETINGS. UNPROFESSIONAL, FIRE DAMAGES 6,000 HOMES, RAGING HOMELESSNESS IS EPIDEMIC, THE CITY IS OVER ONE BILLION DOLLARS BROKE FROM CORRUPTION. THERE IS NOTHING TO COMMENT ON BECAUSE THESE CLOWNS ARE DOING NOTHING. TRIAL RESUMES ON THE 25th BECAUSE THERE ARE NOW TWO GRAND JURIES AND MORE ON GOING--WHAT A TOTAL DISGRACE. >> Speaker: MORNING SIR. >> City Attorney: SPEAKER WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO ITEM 7 OR 3B COME OR BOTH. >> Speaker: PUBLIC COMMENT. POINT OF ORDER, MR. BLUMENFIELD. >> City Attorney: YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES. >> Speaker: MR. DAWSON REFERRED TO HIMSELF AS CHAIRPERSON. >> City Attorney: START WITH NUMBER 7. >> Speaker: ARE YOU THE CHAIR OR PRESIDENT? >> City Attorney: SPEAKER YOU CAN SPEAK ON ITEM OR WE CAN MOVE YOU TO GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. >> Speaker: MAYBE SOMEBODY WILL EXPLAIN IT TO ME ONE DAY. EMERGENCIES, THE BIGGEST EMERGENCY IN THIS ROOM IS ON BOTH SIDES, AND THAT'S INTEGRITY. IT'S GOTTEN TO THE POINT AFTER 36 YEARS, I'M SOMETIMES SICKENED BY THIS ITEM AND SICKENED BY THESE ITEMS. THESE GUYS ARE MY FRIENDS. >> City Attorney: YOU CAN GO TO THE NUMBER 7 OR PUBLIC COMMENT. LET'S MOVE HIM TO PUBLIC COMMENT. >> Speaker: THE EMERGENCY THING, THE THING THAT IS LACKING IS INTEGRITY HOW WE HANDLE THE BUDGET AND HANDLE OURSELVES IN HERE. IF YOU DON'T FIND THAT IMPORTANT, MA'AM I DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO SAY. BUT, AGAIN I WOULD HOPE THOSE OF YOU WHO STOOD AROUND AND WATCHED MS. MARTINEZ DESTROY THIS COUNCIL, SHAME ON YOU. EVERYBODY KNEW WHAT MS. MARTINEZ WAS DOING AND YET NOBODY DID ANYTHING. THAT'S CALLED, INTEGRITY, AND THAT'S CALLED STATE OF EMERGENCY. ALL RIGHT, LET'S GO INTO PUBLIC COMMENT MA'AM. MAY I? >> City Attorney: YOU'RE IN GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT NOW. >> Speaker: THANK YOU, MADAM CITY ATTORNEY. I WANT TO THANK THE CITY WORKERS UP IN PORTER RANCH BECAUSE THEY WERE THERE, SPEEDING WAS SLOWING DOWN, CARS WEREN'T GOING FAST. PEOPLE WERE ABLE TO WALK UP THERE AND EXERCISE BECAUSE, JOHN LEE HASN'T DONE ANYTHING. WHERE ARE YOU MR. LEE? WHERE ARE YOU? >> City Attorney: SPEAKER, YOUR TIME IS UP. SPEAKER WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO ITEM OR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT OR BOTH? >> Speaker: MY NAME IS RICHARD PARKS AND I SERVE IN SOUTH L.A. THE CITY COUNCIL HAS RECOGNIZED THAT OIL AND NEIGHBORHOODS DO NOT MIX. ONE OF THE ACID MAINTENANCE IS ONE OF THE REASON WHY. ACID JOBS BRING TENS OF THOUSANDS OF TOXIC CAR SI NO GENIC CHEMICALS. WE HAVE SEEN AMBIENT FUMES KILL PLANTS ON THE OUTSIDE. THE ORDINANCE PUT INTO THIS PRACTICE, NOW OIL COMPANIES ARE FLOODING OUR COMMUNITIES WITH ACID WORK. WE NEED THE ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE TO AGENDIZE COUNCIL FILE 24-18 AND COST THE CITY NOTHING. MR. NAZARIAN, I HOPE THAT YOU WILL AGENDIZE THIS ITEM IMMEDIATELY. THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE] >> City Attorney: GOOD MORNING, WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO ITEM 7 OR GENERAL COMMENT OR BOTH. >> Speaker: BOTH. I'M HERE AS REPRESENTATIVE OF STAND L.A. A BLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS, WE WANT TO UPHOLD THE BLACK AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS OF BLACK WOMEN AND UNACCEPTABLE TOXICITY. INCLUDING REPRODUCTIVE HARMS LIKE BIRTH DEFECTS. THIS ACIDIZING WORK DISPROPORTIONATELY AFFECT THE COMMUNITIES OF COLOR. AND TOXIC OPERATIONS OVER THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF OUR COMMUNITIES AND RACISM AND FUELS THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS THAT MADE THE WILDFIRE POSSIBLE. I URGE CITY COUNCIL TO PHASE OUT ORDINANCE AND PASS A NEW ONE AND AS A CONSTITUENT OF CD2, I URGE COUNCILMEMBER NAZARIAN TO AGENDIZE THE ITEM. THANK YOU. >> City Attorney: SPEAKER WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO ITEM OR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT OR BOTH. >> Speaker: GENERAL PUBLIC COME. I'M A MEMBER OF SCOPE L.A. AND STAND L.A. I'M URGING THE ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE TO HEAR THE COUNSEL MOTION OF. HE URGE YOU TO END THE AGENDIZE THE ACID MAINTENANCE MOTION AT THE NEXT COMMITTEE HEARING. OUR RESIDENTS HEALTH AND SAFETY SHOULD NOT BE SACRIFICED FOR FOSSIL FUEL. THEY'VE BEEN BEARING THE BURDEN OF TOXIC POLLUTION FOR A LONG LAST WEEK. WE SENT A LETTER TO COUNCILMEMBER NAZARIAN, REQUESTING THIS MOTION TO BE AGENDIZED AND NOTHING SO FAR. WE CANNOT AFFORD TO TAX, WE CANNOT AFFORD IT. COUNCILMEMBER NAZARIAN AND COUNCILMEMBER NAZARIAN AND THIS COMMITTEE MUST ACT NOW. THANK YOU. >> Clerk: BEFORE THE NEXT SPEAKER BEGINS I WILL CALL MORE NAMES, ASHLEY HERNANDEZ, MATT TOWERY, AMELIA GUZMAN, MARIA DOGE, TONYA BORJA. >> City Attorney: SPEAKER WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO ITEM 7 OR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT OR BOTH. >> Speaker: GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. >> City Attorney: YOU'LL HAVE ONE MINUTE. >> Speaker: MY NAME IS WENDY AND I'M WITH HE ESPERANZA HOUSING AND STAND L.A. COALITION. I URGE YOU TO TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION TO AGENDIZE THE TOXIC--PHASING OUT OIL DRILLING WE MUST DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO PROTECT OUR COMMUNES. BIPOC COMMUNITIES SHOULD NOT BE LEFT BEHIND AND OUR SAFETY SHOULD NOT BE COMPROMISED FOR THE BENEFIT OF COMMUNITIES. LAST WEEK WE SENT A LET TORE COUNCILMEMBER NAZARIAN, BUT WE HAVE NOT HEARD BACK FROM HIM AND THE ITEM HAS NOT BEEN AGENDIZED. WE CANNOT WAIT LONGER AND WE URGE COUNCILMEMBER NAZARIAN TO AGENDIZE THE ACID MAINTENANCE MOTION ON THE NEXT HEARING AND PHASE OUT ORDINANCE AND PASS A NEW ORDINANCE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. THANK YOU. >> Speaker: PUBLIC COMMENT, THANK YOU COUNCIL. >> City Attorney: YOU'LL HAVE ONE MINUTE. >> Speaker: DAWSON WAS SUPPOSE TO FILE A MOTION TODAY REGARDING CORRECTION OF PUBLIC SPEECH AND I STILL DON'T SEE IT POSTED. ALSO I REQUESTED ACCOMMODATION FOR IT TO BE DONE IN BRAILLE AND I CANNOT GET ANYBODY TO SAY HOW THEY'RE GOING TO ACCOMMODATE ME. THEY'RE GOING TO SAY TO GO TO THE CLERK'S OFFICE BUT THEY HAVEN'T YET. DO I JUST STAND HERE, SAYING OH WELL? WHO DO I SPEAK TO TO GET A COPY OF THE MOTION RIGHT NOW? IF SOMEBODY CAN TELL ME WHAT THE LOGITICS IS, THAT'S ALL I ASK FOR. I'M THOUGH I'M A WHITE REPUBLICAN, TRUMP SUPPORTER, PLEASE DON'T DISCRIMINATE AGAINST ME LIKE THAT. THANK YOU. >> Speaker: GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. >> City Attorney: YOU'LL HAVE ONE MINUTE. >> Speaker: HELLO I'M IMELDA GUZMAN I'M PART OF CBE ENVIRONMENT AS A YOUTH LEADER. I AM ALSO A RESIDENT AND STUDENT IN WILMINGTON. GROWING UP IN WILMINGTON MY FRIENDS AND PEERS HAD A LOT OF BREATHING ISSUES. PASSING ESSENTIAL PUBLIC HEALTH ORDINANCE IN 2022. OUR COMMUNITIES HAVE BEEN TOLD TO WAIT AND GET IN LINE BECAUSE THERE ARE OTHER PUBLIC HEALTH PRIORITIES WHERE WE ARE GETTING SICK BECAUSE NEIGHBORHOOD OIL DRILLING. I URGE THE CITY COUNCIL TO RESCIND THE ORDINANCE. THAT'S ALL. >> City Attorney: YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE FOR THE ITEM AND ONE MINUTE FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. PLEASE START YOUR TIME NOW. >> Speaker: HAIL TO THE HINGE TRUMP. THE EMERGENCY AND FURTHER PREVENTION THAT CAUSED THE HARM TO LIFE HEALTH PROPERTY, IS A RESULT OF THIS FRIDAY'S MOTION TO SEEK AND REIGN AGAINST THE WORD OF GOD, DONALD TRUMP. TO OBTAIN WHATEVER STATE AND FEDERAL ASSISTANCE, DONALD TRUMP DO NOT GIVE LOS ANGELES A GOD DAMN DIME! FOR THE POPE WILL GO TO HELL. SLIDER VERSUS PHELPS ACCOUNTABILITY ON THIS. NOW IT'S QUIET NOW I CAN HEAR MYSELF. I'M THE ENFORCER. YOU NEED ME! YOU DESIRE ME. JUST LIKE GOD WHEN YOU PRAY EVERY NIGHT TO ALLOW THAT CRIMINAL PRICE TO SIT THERE, TO MY GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. IT IS MY UNDERSTANDING THAT THE RULES OF QUORUM VIOLATE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS? I DON'T BELIEVE SO. NOW THAT YOU HAVE THIS STORY OUT, EXCLUSIVE COUNCIL PRESIDENT NEGRO SET TO TARGET FILES SLURS, WELL THIS IS NOT VIAL, THIS IS FOR THE RECORD, BRANDONBERGH VERSUS HI, A DIRTY NIGGER SEND THE JEWS BACK TO ISRAEL, SAVE AMERICA. LET'S GO BACK TO CONSTITUTIONAL BETTERMENT, BURY THE THE NIGGERS. GAVE US OUR FREEDOM. FREEDOM FOR THE WHITES, NIGGER WILL HAVE TO FIGHT FOR EVERY INCH HE GETS FROM NOW ON. NOW THAT'S PROTECTED SPEECH. AND IF IT IS NOT, NOODLE NOODLE NOODLE NOODLE SHOULD LISTEN, I AM GOD. TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP! TRUMP! >> Council President: GOODBYE. NEXT SPEAKER. EXCUSE ME, BOB. >> City Attorney: SPEAKER, WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO ITEM NUMBER 7 OR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT? >> Speaker: GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. SO MY NAME IS ASHLEY HERNANDEZ I'M A WILMINGTON RESIDENT AND ALSO A ORGANIZER AND I'M A PARTNER WITHSTAND L.A. OUR CITY HAS BEEN IN A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS FOR YEARS FPT WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS FOR YEARS IN CITY COUNCIL. SO IT'S GREAT THAT WE'RE HEARING SO MANY COUNCILMEMBERS BRINGING UP THE FACT THAT THE CITY IS IN CRISIS BUT COMMUNITIES LIKE MY HAVE BEEN SUBJECTED TO LIVE WITH TERRIBLE AIR QUALITY EVEN ON TOP OF THESE FIRES, I APPRECIATE THE L.A. CITY COUNCIL WORKING WITH US AND PASSION AN ORDINANCE FROM BACK IN 2022 BUT A JUDGE IS THE REASON WHY WE'RE HERE. IT'S NOT BECAUSE WE HAD TIMEOUT OF OUR DAY. IT'S BECAUSE PEOPLE IN OUR CITY ARE SICK AND DYING FOR MANY YEARS BECAUSE OF OUR TERRIBLE AIR QUALITY. THE OIL INDUSTRY, OBVIOUSLY SUED OUR CITY AND WE STAND BEHIND OUR CITY IN THE ORDINANCE THAT WE PASSED IN 2022, WE HAVE TO RESCIND THIS OLD LAWSUIT. OTHER >> City Attorney: SPEAKER WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO ITEM 7 OR GENERAL PUBLIC COME. >> Speaker: GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. I'M TONY I'M A STAFF MEMBER AT SCOPE AND L.A. I'M A MEMBER OF STAND L.A. WHERE I WORK ALONGSIDE RESIDENTS FIGHTING FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE. THOUSANDS OF GALLONS ARE PUMPED INTO AGING WELLS IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD. THESE CHEMICALS ARE LINKED TO CANCER, BIRTH DEFECTS, RESPIRATORY DISEASES AND YET THEY CONTINUE TO RECUSE. USE. SOUTH L.A. ALREADY FACES HIGH RATES OF ASTHMA DUE TO DECADES OF ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM AND THIS ONLY MAKES IT WORSE. OUR COMMUNITIES CANNOT WAIT ANY LONGER. I URGE COUNCILMEMBER NAZARIAN TO AGENDIZE THE MOTION AT THE NEXEN VIERMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AND I URGE THE REST OF THE COUNCIL TO PASS STRONGER PHASE OUT ORDINANCE NOW. OUR HEALTH MUST BECOME BEFORE CORPORATE PROFITS. THANK YOU. >> City Attorney: SPEAKER YOU'LL HAVE ONE MINUTE FOR ITEM 7 AND ONE MINUTE FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. >> Speaker: LET'S SEE HERE, YOU GOT THE SET UP TODAY. I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO DO BOB, I KNOW YOU GOT AN EMERGENCY. I HIRED A LAWYER THIS MORNING, I GOT IT ALL DOWN. I GOT IT ALL DOWN, MAN. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT, YOU GOT A SCANDAL COMING. BIG SCANDAL COMING THAT I FUCKEN FOUND OUT ABOUT YESTERDAY AND YOU KNOW WHAT, IT INVOLVES ALL KINDS OF SHIT. ATTEMPTED MURDER, EXTORTION. >> City Attorney: SPEAKER YOU NEED TO SPEAK TO THE ITEMS. >> Speaker: YOU HAVE A STATE OF EMERGENCY, YOU WANT TO EXTEND I AGREE, THE CITY IS IN CRISIS. IT'S IN A MAFIA RICO CRISIS, I TOTALLY AGREE BOB AND I'M GLAD YOU BROUGHT THIS MOTION. I THINK YOU SHOULD FILE IMMEDIATELY FOR BANKRUPTCY. NOW FOR GENERAL COMMENT, NO MORE PUPPET, YES, SIR! YES SIR! WE WILL USE PROPER LANGUAGE SIR! NO "N" WORD SIR, NO "C" WORD SIR, YOU TELL ME WHAT TO SAY AND I'LL SAY IT. YOU TELL ME HOW TO SAY IT AND WHAT TO FUCKEN SAY, YOU TELL ME HOW TO DRESS, YOU TELL ME HOW TO WALK AND YOU TELL ME WHAT LANGUAGE TO LISTEN TO, YOU TELL ME WHAT MUSIC I CAN'T LISTEN TO AND LISTEN TO. YES SIR! YES SIR! 'CAUSE YOU GOT YOUR BLACKMAIL READY TO BLACKMAIL MY ASS, YES, SIR! BECAUSE RIGHT NOW I'M IN A VERY IMPORTANT NEGOTIATION AND I'M NOT GOING TO LET THIS FUCKEN BULLSHIT INTERFERE WITH IT T.SO POST YOUR ILLEGAL GOD DAMN MOTION, WE'RE HERE AND READY TO GO. YOU TELL ME HOW TO SPEAK, SIR! >> City Attorney: SPEAKER YOUR TIME IS UP. >> Council President: EDDIES, YES SIR. AT EASE, DISMISSED, SIR. DISMISSED. YOU'RE DISMISSED. NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE. NEXT SPEAKER. >> City Attorney: SPEAKER, YOU'RE DISTURBING THIS MEETING. PLEASE REFRAME FROM SHOUTING. >> Council President: YOU'RE DISRUPTING THE MEETING, THAT'S YOUR ONLY WARNING. OKAY, WE DON'T NEED TO, YOU ARE OFFICIALLY REMOVED FROM THE MEETING. RULE 7, RULE 12, YOU'RE NOT REMOVED NOT BECAUSE OF THE CONTENT OF THE COMMENT BUT BECAUSE YOU'RE DISRUPTING THE MEETING. GET OUT. RULE 7, RULE 12, EVERYTHING. GET OUT. YOU'RE AGAIN, IT'S NOT THE CONTENT IT IS THAT YOU ARE DISRUPTING. PLEASE REMOVE THIS DISRUPTIVE GOAT PUPPET HANDLER. LET RECORD REFLECT THAT THIS MEETING IS STILL BEING DISRUPTED BY A PERSON WHO IS DISRUPTING AND YELLING AND SCREAMING. >> Speaker: I LIKE WHAT SPINDLER TOLD ME BEFORE THE MEETING THAT,--. >> Council President: GO AHEAD, DO YOU WISH TO SPEAK ON PUBLIC COMMENT. >> City Attorney: YOU HAVE A MINUTE. MR. SPINEDER IS CONTINUE TO GO DISRUPT THIS MEETING AND YELLING IN THE BACK OF THE ROOM. >> Speaker: HE ALSO SAID THAT, THE JEW-->> City Attorney: SPEAKER ONE MOMENT PLEASE. >> Speaker: STARTED WILDFIRES. I TAKE THAT SERIOUSLY. >> Council President: MA'AM, CAN YOU HOLD. WE'RE STILL WAITING FOR THE DISRUPTION TO BE REMOVED. >> Speaker: A HALF JEWISH, AND I DON'T LIKE ANTI-SEMITISM. >> Council President: YOU CAN CONTINUE YOUR PUBLIC COMMENT. GO AHEAD. >> Speaker: I SENT A LETTER TO BLUMTHOL YESTERDAY THAT I WAS JIPED THREE DOLLARS FPT I'M A VICTIM OF POLICE AND CIA, OKAY. SPINDLER IS THE ONE BEING A RIGHT-WINGER, HE SAID THAT THIS COUNCIL IS SICK OF TRANSFER POLICE. I WAS TRYING TO EXPLAIN THAT TO MY LETTER TO BLUMTHOL. I VISITED INTERNAL AFFAIRS AND THEY SAID MY SON'S CASE IS CLOSED BUT IT'S NOT. YOU KNOW, THAT MICHAEL CONNOLLY SAID IN A BOOK RECENTLY IN L.A. THEY CLOSED A COLD CASE, IT'S ILLEGAL. AND THIS IS ILLEGAL TOO. THEY STOPPED ME FROM HAVING A RECEIPT FROM ROBERT DUNCAN. >> Council President: THANK YOU VERY MUCH. OKAY, NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE. >> City Attorney: MR. PRESIDENT, I JUST WANT TO LET MEMBERS OF THE AUDIENCE THAT THIS BODY DOES NOT CONDONE SOME OF THE SPEECH THAT WE HAVE FROM SOME OF THE SPEAKERS, THEY'RE EXERCISING THEIR FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT BUT THIS BODY DOES NOT CONDONE THE OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE THAT YOU HEAR HERE. SPEAKER WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO ITEM GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT OR BOTH? >> Speaker: GOOD AFTERNOON, WITH HE ESPERANZA HOUSING AND STAND L.A. COALITION ALONG WITH OTHER COLLEAGUES AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO HAVE ALREADY SPOKEN. WE'RE HERE TO URGE COUNCILMEMBER NAZARIAN TO PLEASE AGENDIZE THE NEXT ACID MOTION AND CALL ON CITY COUNCIL TO RESCIND AND PASS A NEW ORDINANCE POSSIBLE. WE UNDERSTAND THAT IT TAKES A LOT OF TO DO ALL OF THOSE, WE HOPE THAT YOU UNDERSTAND THAT AS ORGANIZERS AS IMPACTED COMMUNITY MEMBERS, WE ARE GOING TO KEEP COMING AND TELLING YOU ABOUT YOUR EXPERIENCES AND ASKING THAT YOU PLEASE TAKE ACTION ON THIS. YOU ARE OUR ELECTED MEMBERS. THIS IS A PUBLIC FORUM SO WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUING THAT. YOU KNOW, AS I SAID, YOU'VE ALREADY HEARD FROM OTHERS THAT WE REALLY NEED TO DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO PROTECT PUBLIC COMMENT. AND ESPECIALLY OUR FRONTLINE COMMUNITIES. WE CAN NO LONGER ALLOW THE FOSSIL FUEL TO KEEP DESIGNATED OUR COMMUNITIES AS SACRIFICE ZONES. THANK YOU. >> Speaker: I AM THE REV. CHOOSE AT THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH. AND A PROUD MEMBER OF STAND L.A. A FEW YEARS AGO, WE COMMENDED CITY COUNCIL ON TAKING OLD AND URGENT STEPS TO PHASE OUT ALL DRILLING IN THE CITY. OIL EXTRACTION CONTINUE TO BE INTEREST TO THE HEALTH SAFETY AND SECURITY AND, AND HEALTH OF OUR COMMUNITIES. AS YOU KNOW, THE CHEMICALS USED IN ACID MAINTENANCE, CONTRIBUTES TO WORSENING AIR QUALITY, ENDANGERING RESIDENTS WHO LIVE AND WORK AND GO TO SCHOOL IN THE ADAMS AREA. OUR COMMUNITIES CANNOT WAIT ANY LONGER FOR THEIR HEALTH AND SAFETY TO PRIORITIZE OVER TOXIC ACID MAINTENANCE OPERATIONS. >> City Attorney: SPEAKER YOUR TIME IS UP. >> Speaker: WE URGE COUNCILMEMBER NAZARIAN TO AGENDIZE THE ACID MAINTENANCE MOTION AT THE NEXT ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL COMMITTEE. >> City Attorney: I'M SORRY SPEAKER, YOUR TIME IS UP. WE HAVE TO MOVE ON TO THE NEXT SPEAKER. >> IN REGARDS TO NUMBER 7, MY NAME IS JOHN SCUTER, VET ANDY TAIL EXPRESS CONSTRUCTION. IN REGARDS TO ITEM 7 AND THE CLEAN UP AND THE QUALITY OF AIR, YOU KNOW, TO ME THIS IS AN MOTION. WITH THE FIRES THAT YOU GUYS ARE CLEANING UP AND SCRAPING AND REMOVING YOU'RE ONLY TAKING OFF THE COUPLE OF INCHES AND DECLARING THE OIL IS SAFE. I'VE GOT A CLIENT RIGHT NOW WHEN THEY WENT DOWN TEN INCHES, IT'S STILL BAD. SO, I'M BRINGING THIS TO CITY COUNCIL'S ATTENTION BECAUSE, EVEN THOUGH YOU'RE TAKING OFF SOME OF THE TOP STUFF AND YOU'RE ARGUING WHERE IT NEEDS TO BE DUMPED, YOU NEED HAZ-MAT OFFICIAL DUMP YARD TO BE ABLE TO TAKE ALL OF THIS STUFF AND IT NEEDS TO BE AWAY FROM CITIES, AWAY FROM SCHOOLS .D I'M GOING TO GO TO GENERAL COMMENT NOW AND ON MY GENERAL I'M GOING TO ALSO SPEAK ABOUT ITEM 6 WHICH HAS TO DO WITH THE HOMELESSNESS. YOU KNOW, WE ARE NOT SEEING RESULTS THAT SHOULD HAPPEN FROM ALL THE MONEY GETTING SPENT HERE WITH HOMELESSNESS AND, THEY SAID THEY DROPPED BY 5 PERCENT. I SEE MORE HOMELE PEOPLE ALL OVER. THE HOMELESS PEOPLE ARE BURNING DOWN CHINA TOWN. THEY BURN DOWN THE CONSTRUCTION SITE. NOBODY DID NOTHING, THE SITE BURNED, IT DESTROYED A SENIOR BUILDING, I GOT 95 DISPLACED SENIOR CITIZENS IN MY COMMUNITY. AND I'M SPEAKING TO YOU AGAIN MS. HERNANDEZ. I'VE GOT HOMELESS PEOPLE SITTING BY CVS, ROBBING IT EVERY DAY. ACROSS THE STREET, THREE VACANT HOUSES, I HAD TO BID IN THE HOUSING, THEY BURNED THEM ALL TO THE GROUND. NOW IT'S JUST VACANT LAND. THEY BURNED TWO CARS 50 FEET FROM MY APARTMENT FPT ERADICATE THIS, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT PLEASE. >> Council President: THANK YOU, I BELIEVE THAT'S THE LAST SPEAKER. OKAY. PUBLIC COMMENT IS OFFICIALLY CLOSED. WHAT IS NEXT. >> Clerk: THE COUNCIL MAY NOW CONSIDER ITEM . >> Council President: OKAY, ITEM 7 IS NOW BEFORE US. SEEING NO MEMBER ON THE QUEUE, LET'S OPEN THE ROLL, CLOSE THE ROLL, TALLY THE VOTES. >> Clerk: 11 AYES. >> Council President: OKAY, MEASURE IS ADOPTED. NEXT ITEM. >> Clerk: COUNCIL HAS ITEMS FOR POSTED AND REFERRED. >> Council President: POSTED AND REFERRED. >> Clerk: DESK IS CLEAR, MR. PRESIDENT. >> Council President: OKAY, COLLEAGUES ARE THERE ANY ANNOUNCEMENTS? SEEING NO OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS. I BELIEVE WE HAVE SOME ADJOURNING MOTIONS. IF I CAN ASK ALL MEMBERS TO RISE, AND COLLEAGUES IF YOU CAN PRESS QUEUE. BUT I'LL START WITH COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ. >> E. Hernandez: COLLEAGUES I RISE TO ADJOURN IN HONOR OF STEPHEN SKENSIC JUNIOR. STEVEN WAS RAISED IN GLENDALE CALIFORNIA AND SPENT 15 YEARS @ WATER VILLAGE. STEVEN UNDERSTOOD WHAT IT MEANT TO BUILD NOT JUST WITH HIS HANDS AS HE DID THROUGH HIS OWN CONSTRUCTION BUSINESS BUT THROUGH THE BONDS OF FAMILY. STEVEN WORKED IN THE DEPARTMENT OF WATER AND POWER IN THE LAST THREE YEARS AND LET TELL YOU HE LOVED THAT JOB. HE WORKED LONG HARD HOURS BECAUSE THAT'S WHO HE WAS. HE WOULD SAY, I CANNOT LET MY BOYS DOWN. HIS CREW WAS YOUNGER THAN HE WAS. HE WAS A 57-YEAR-OLD MAN. AND THE GREAT HE VALUED MOST WAS BEING A FAMILIAR MAN. HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN WERE A WORLD, RIDING DIRT BIKES AND LAUGHTER AROUND THE FIRE, HE MADE EVERY MOME COUNT. HE LEAVES BEHIND A NETWORK OF FAMILY, CO-WORKERS FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS ALL OF WHO WILL MISS HIS WITTY JOKES. TODAY, MY OFFICE MOURNS WITH HIS FAMILY, MY COUNCIL STAFF MEMBER DAVID DURAN AND ALL WHO WERE LUCKY ENOUGH TO KNOW HIM. THANK YOU, STEVEN FOR YOUR SERVICE TO THE CITY AND FOR YOUR EXAMPLE OF WHAT IT TRULY MEANS WHAT IT MEANS TO PUT FAMILY FIRST. MAY YOU BE LIVING IN THE WARMTH OF OUR ANCESTORS. THANK YOU. >> Council President: THANK YOU. NEXT MR. McOSKER. >> T. McOsker: THANK YOU VERY MUCH. MR. PRESIDENT. TODAY I RISE TO ADJOURN IN THE MEMORY OF MICHAEL GEORGE MARCHCULUS WHO PASSED AWAY PEACEFULLY. MIKE WAS BORN ON OCTOBER 18, 1931 IN MUTUAL UTAH RAISED BY MIZ FATHER GEORGE AND HIS MOTHER, ALONG WITH BROTHERSES, JOHN, NICK AND CHUCK AND JIMMY. HIS FATHER HAD A SURGE TO REMOVE AN EYE WHEN HIS FATHER SAW THE HARBOR OF SAN PEDRO IT REMINDED HIM THE ISLAND OF GREECE. MIKE BREW UP IN BARTON HILL WHICH IS IN SAN PEDRO UNTIL HIS PASSING. DANA MIDDLE SCHOOL AND SAN PEDRO HIGH WHILE HE EXCELED IN STUDENT GOVERNMENT. AND GIFTED ATHLETES THAT SO MUCH FIVE BROTHERS WERE INDUCTED IN THE HALL OF FAME. SERVED IN KOREA. HE WAS INCREDIBLY PROUD OF THE COUNTRY. AFTER THE WAR HE JOINED LAPD AND GRADUATED NUMBER ONE IN HIS CLASS AND SERVED WITH THE LAPD FOR OVER 36 YEARS OLD WHERE HE RETURNED AS LIEUTENANT TWO, LEAD BY EXAMPLE AND SET THE BAR HIGH. ALSO TAUGHT ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE FOR 30 YEARS AT HARBOR COLLEGE AND EAST L.A., ELAC. WHILE HE WAS ALSO THE DIRECTOR OF DID I DELINQUENCY. MIKE RETIRED IN 1992 TO SPEND TIME WITH HIS WIFE AND FAMILY, HE MARRIED HIS HIGH SCHOOL SWEETHEART AND MARRIED UNTIL ALICIA'S PASSING IN OCTOBER OF 09. ALICIA WAS EVERYTHING TO HIM. HE IS PRECEDE BY HIS MOTHER, FATHER, BROTHER CHUCK AND IN LAWS BROTHERS IN LAWS AND SISTER YOU JULIA AND ANA SANCHEZ, VERY LOVING FAMILY. MIKE LIVED IN A PARK RIGHT AT THE ENTRANCE OF SAN PEED RA AND IN THAT PARK WE HAD A NUMBER OF FLAGS REPRESENTING OUR SISTER CITIES AROUND THE WORLD ONE OF WHICH WAS GREECE. AND WHEN MIKE WAS GETTING OLDER AND SICK, HIS DAUGHTER ELAINE CALLED ME AND SAID, WOULD YOU MIND MOVING THE FLAG SO THAT MIKE CAN SEE IT FROM OUR PORCH. AND I PUT THE GREEK FLAG RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PARK SO MIKE CAN SEE IT AND NEXT WEEK WE'LL BE DELIVERING TO ELAINE THAT VERY SAME FLAG SO THAT SHE CAN HAVE HAD AS A MEMORY OF HER FATHER AND HIS LOVE OF HIS NATIVE LAND OF GREECE AND THIS COUNTRY. MAY MIKE REST IN PEACE. >> Council President: VERY TOUCHING. NEXT, COUNCILMEMBER HUTT. >> H. Hutt: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR. COLLEAGUES I RISE TODAY IN HONOR OF LIFE OF A REMARKABLE DR. LUDLOW CRAYERY DEDICATE TODAY MINORITY HEALTHCARE IN LOS ANGELES. HE FOUNDED THE HISTORIC WEST ADAMS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL IN 1971, THE FIRST BLACK OWNED HOSPITAL OF ITS SCALE IN CALIFORNIA. FOR OAR TWO DECADES SERVED AS CHAIR OF FAMILY MEDAL MLK JUNIOR HOSPITAL WHERE HE OVERSAW DEPARTMENTAL ACCREDITATION AND FA SIL DATE--FACILITATED THE THOUSANDS OF PROFESSIONAL. INSTRUMENTAL IN ESTABLISHING THE PHYSICAL ASSISTANT PROGRAM, A LEADING INITIATIVE. BEYOND HIS PROFESSIONAL ROLES, HE WAS A DEDICATED MENTOR AND EDUCATOR CONTRIBUTING TO NUMEROUS BOARDS IN COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION. DR. QUAERY CONTRIBUTIONS WERE RECOGNIZED WITH NUMEROUS AWARDS INCLUDING THE MEDICAL PRACTITIONER OF THE YEAR AND INDUCTION OF THE UCLA ALUMNI HALL OF FAME, EARNED DEGREESING FROM LONG ISLAND, HEART UNIVERSITY AND UCLA AND ALSO COFOUNDED THE DR. LUDLOW FAMILY FOUNDATION AND CHERISHED TIME WITH HIS FAMILY LEAVING ENDURING LEGACY. SURVIVED BY HIS BELOVED WIFE YOUTH, HIS CHILDREN, LISA, STEVEN, LUDLOW, LAWRENCE AS WELL AS HIS BONUS DAUGHTERS, BRIDGET AND TRUDY. HE WAS PROFOUND AND PROUD GRANDFATHER TO STEVEN JUNIOR ANTHONY, OATIS, GABRIELA, JAMES THEODORE AND A LOVING GREAT FATHER TO HIS GREAT GRANDDAUGHTER NOEL. HIS EXTRAORDINARY CONTRIBUTION TO SEE MEDICINE, EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY SERVICE AND HIS CHURCH, WE'RE CHURCH MEMBERS HAVE LEFT A ENDURING LEGACY THAT CONTINUE TO INSPIRE GENERATIONS TO COME. MAY HE REST IN POWER. THANK YOU. >> Council President: THANK YOU. COUNCILMEMBER HUTT. NEXT I'LL TURN TO COUNCILMEMBER HARRIS-DAWSON. OH MR. PRICE, YES. >> C. Price: THAT ADJOURNMENT, HE WAS A POWERFUL SPIRIT IN THE COMMUNITY AND A GENTLE MAN WE'RE HONORED TO JOIN. >> OKAY, WITHOUT OBJECTION. OF COURSE. >> M. Harris-Dawson: AND I WOULD LIKE TO BE ADDED AS WELL TO THE ADJOURNING MOTION TO DOCTOR QUAERY THANK YOU FOR YOUR FAMILY TO SHARE WITH US. MEMBERS I ASK THAT WE ADJOURN TODAY'S MEETING IN THE MEMORY OF ONE MS. BELMA CLAY BORN WHO PASSED AWAY THIS PAST DECEMBER. CAME TO US AT THE AGE, AT A VERY YOUNG AGE FROM LOUISIANA, AFTER HER OLDER SISTER ENVISIONED A BETTER LIFE AND BERT EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE FAMILY. AND SHE HAS BEEN AN ANGELINO EVERY DAY SINCE. SHE ATTENDED JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL WHERE SHE AS A GRADUATING SENIOR SERVED AS EDITOR CHIEF, HER WORK AT THE NEWSPAPER WAS RECOGNIZED BY THE JEFFERSON SPONSOR, JOHN WHO CONSIDERED HER WORK AS A EXAMPLE OF DEDICATION AND INTEGRITY AND CHARACTER. SHE WENT ON TO EL CAMINO COLLEGE IN GARDENA WHERE SHE RECEIVED AN SOCIAL OF ARTS DEGREE. SHE WAS INTRODUCED TO HER HUSBAND MR. SOLOMAN CLAYBORNE A KOREAN WAR UFM STATES VETERAN. THEIR ROMANCE BLOSSOMED INTO MARRIAGE IN 1956 TWO CHILDREN MITCHEL AND MARIE, MITCHELL AND LONI FOLLOWING IN THE FOOTPRINTS OF HER PARENT BECAME A VERY ACTIVE MEMBER AND THE LEADER OF A CHRISTIAN HOME. AS A TRAINING, BAPTIST UNION DIRECTOR, WOMEN'S MISSIONARY UNION PRESIDENT. AND HER FAVORITE ROLE, OF A SUNDAY DAY SCHOOL TEACHER WEEK TO WEEK. SHE ALWAYS LOOKED FOR OPPORTUNITIES TO HELP AND SERVE OTHERS IN HER PROFESSIONAL CAREER. SPENT HER LIFE WORKING ON BEHALF OF LOS ANGELES, TEN YEARS IN PRIVATE INDUSTRY, TEN YEARS FOR OUR OWN UNIFIED DISTRICT. SELF YEARS WORKING FOR OUR CHIEF ANALYST OFFICE THAT SUPPORTED THIS COUNCIL AND 14 YEARS IN OUR DEPARTMENT OF WATER AND POWER AS A SENIOR CLERK. SHE INTENDED TO WORK THROUGH HER RETIREMENT LEFT BUT LEFT EARLY TO PROVIDE A FAMILY CARE. SHE LEAVES BEHIND A LOVING COMMUNITY, A LOVING CHURCH COMMUNITY MANY OF HER WITH US, HER BROTHER DR. WILLIE SIMPSONS HER--SIMMONS. AND DR. BJ CLAYBORNE AND GRANDCHILDREN. AND HIS WIFE LATRISSINGER, GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, AREA, EXCUSE ME IF I GOT THAT WRONG. MANY OF THOSE WHO ARE WITH US THIS MORNING. WE JOIN THIS FAMILY AND HER NEIGHBORHOOD AND HER CHURCH COMMUNITY ON BEHALF OF ALL THE PEOPLE IN WISHING HER REST IN THE PEACE THAT SHE BROUGHT SO MANY OF US DURING HER TIME HERE. >> Council President: THANK YOU, SEEING NO OTHER ADJOURNING. COUNCILMEMBER JURADO. >> Y. Jurado: TODAY I WOULD LIKE TO ADJOURN IN THE MEMORY OF DR. PAULA. SHE WAS A MENTOR TO ME AND MANY OTHER FILIPINO-AMERICANS TO SEE THE POSSIBILITY OF WORKING IN GOVERNMENT. PAULA WAS BORN IN SANTA MONICA TO A FILIPINO FATHER AND A PA LACIAN MOTHER. SHE GREW UP HER SIBLINGS IN A COMMUNITY OF M ANONS AND THEIR LIFES FPT BEGAN HER Ph.d AT UCLA AND BEGAN HER CAREER AT BELL HIGH. A FEW OF HER CAREER HIGHLIGHTS, BEING PART OF THE FIRST U.S. PART OF EDUCATION UNDER PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER GOING ON THE SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT IN THE UNITED NATIONS IN THE PHILIPPINES. FOLLOWING CLINTON'S ELECTION SHE JOINED THE PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION TEAM AND LATER SERVED AS A SENIOR ADVISOR. EDUCATIONAL FOCUSING ON LOW INCOME STUDENTS, FILIPINO-AMERICANS AND LATINOS. SHE WAS ALSO EARLY ADVOCATE FOR DIGITAL EQUITY. BEYOND HER WORK, PAULA WAS A COMMUNITY LEADER, ORGANIZER A FOUNDER MEMBER OF THE PAULA THE FILIPINO-AMERICANS AND HE ELECTRIC TO THE GLASAL PARK. ALONGSIDE HER HUSBAND, ENCOURAGED FILIPINOS TO ENTER POLITICS. SHE'S SEEN A MOVE RICK, A VALUED FRIEND AND NEIGHBOR AND MENTOR IS A CHAMPION FOR J*UFTIS AND REPRESENTATION, SHE WILL, SHE IS DEEPLY MISSED. REST IN POWER. THANK YOU. >> Council President: ANY OTHER ADJOURNING MOTIONS? SEEING NONE, GO FORTH, FIND REVENUES, FIND SAVINGS, SERVE THE CITY.