[0:12] Buenas noches. Muchisimas.

[0:13] Gracias por estar aqui. El

[0:15] pueblo esta presente. El pueblo

[0:18] se ve y se siente. Today we're

[0:26] celebrating El grito 2025. And

[0:28] the theme is Viva la resistencia

[0:29] . We've had over 12 weeks of

[0:31] federal immigration raids on our

[0:33] city, and we wanted to show

[0:34] today, especially what it looks

[0:36] like to resist. And that is

[0:37] through joy, through culture,

[0:38] through food, through being in

[0:40] community and particularly I

[0:41] want to uplift again, joy.

[0:43] That's what's going to refill

[0:44] our batteries so that we can

[0:45] continue this fight to protect

[0:46] our communities here in Los

[0:48] Angeles. I think now more than

[0:50] ever, it is very important for

[0:52] us to come together and be

[0:54] united as a community. We have

[0:57] been through a lot this summer,

[1:00] this year, and I feel like the

[1:03] theme of Viva La Resistencia,

[1:05] which is, you know, long live

[1:08] the resistance. It has a new

[1:10] meaning now. So I think it's

[1:11] really important to come out and

[1:14] show your support. I'm really

[1:15] proud that in spite of the

[1:18] challenges that our community is

[1:19] enduring, that we are still

[1:22] coming together to stay true to

[1:23] our cultural traditions. This El

[1:25] Grito celebration, the

[1:27] celebration of Mexican

[1:28] independence, has taken place

[1:30] here in City Hall for 87 years.

[1:32] And we're not going to let

[1:34] anything stop the traditions

[1:36] from happening at a moment in

[1:37] time when our community needs to

[1:39] continue to come together and

[1:40] celebrate authentically. Who we

[1:42] are. I'm a Mexican-American, so

[1:44] I take a lot of pride in my

[1:46] culture, and I actually moved

[1:48] out to Los Angeles and I'm away

[1:50] from my family. So it just

[1:52] connects me more to my family.

[1:53] Um, and I spent a week in Mexico

[1:56] before and so this is really

[1:58] special to get to experience it

[1:59] now in Los Angeles. Mexicanos.

[2:10] Milagro Torres nos dieron Patria

[2:12] y libertad. Viva mirada. Algo

[2:18] viva enamorados! Viva Randomly!

[2:25] Viva pasado! Viva iraq-iran!

[2:31] Viva Viva Josefa Ortiz de

[2:34] Dominguez! Eva! Eva Vicente

[2:38] Guerrero! Viva! Viva Mexico!

[2:42] Viva viva Mexico! Viva viva

[2:45] Mexico! Viva. El himno Nacional!

[2:53] El position de verbs. In

[3:02] position. Costa. Here I think

[3:04] it's a really beautiful event.

[3:05] Especially to have in the time

[3:07] right now. I know that a lot of

[3:09] people were scared to come, but

[3:10] I wanted to show that, you know,

[3:12] I can be here and represent the

[3:13] people who may not have the

[3:16] ability to have come. And so,

[3:16] yeah, I'm really glad that I was

[3:19] able to show up and that they

[3:21] had such beautiful music, such

[3:22] beautiful food and the people

[3:23] were really amazing to see

[3:24] everybody especially connected

[3:26] with the rope. That was a very

[3:28] beautiful element. And yeah,

[3:30] everybody was really friendly. I

[3:32] really liked that they put on

[3:33] this event for us. Viva méxico!

[3:37] México Viva

[4:00] ! O

[4:00] Los Angeles is the home of the

[4:03] largest concentration of people

[4:05] of Mexican origin outside Mexico

[4:08] City. So it's no surprise that

[4:11] Negrito ceremony has been taking

[4:13] place here at the beautiful City

[4:15] Hall for decades. So it is very

[4:19] exciting, incredibly incredible

[4:22] privilege. I am honored to be

[4:23] the Consul General of Mexico in

[4:26] Los Angeles and to come and

[4:28] celebrate our independence, our

[4:31] pride in our identity, our

[4:34] culture. Well, this is a great

[4:38] celebration of the fabric of Los

[4:40] Angeles. The people of Los

[4:41] Angeles, El Grito, the

[4:43] significance is that we are all

[4:44] bound by our willingness and our

[4:47] demand for freedom and

[4:50] independence. And whether you're

[4:51] Mexican, American, African

[4:54] American, Anglo American, Asian

[4:57] American, all of our peoples

[4:58] have had struggles against

[5:00] oppression and struggles to take

[5:02] away our freedoms and our people

[5:05] fight back against those, and we

[5:07] declare our independence.

[5:09] Mexican independence Day is a

[5:10] reminder that those of us who

[5:13] believe in justice, those of us

[5:15] who believe in freedom, those of

[5:17] us who believe in equality, if

[5:18] we fight, even when it's

[5:20] darkest, like it's dark today,

[5:22] we will win and we will be

[5:24] victorious. Events like this

[5:28] just really underscore the

[5:30] opportunity to come together and

[5:32] the importance of coming

[5:34] together as a community. And

[5:35] while it may be affecting

[5:37] Mexicans today, tomorrow, it may

[5:41] be another ethnic group,

[5:42] tomorrow another group after

[5:43] that, and so we know we have to

[5:45] work together. Otherwise we're

[5:46] going to all fall. It's

[5:48] important that we talk about our

[5:49] freedom, talk about what we have

[5:52] in common. I'll talk about our

[5:53] ability to work together and so

[5:55] for me, retail represents that.

[6:14] I think that's wonderful because

[6:15] I really like those colors. I

[6:18] like the energy here. It's so

[6:19] positive and so like it. Even

[6:21] despite I'm from another

[6:23] country, I don't speak Spanish,

[6:24] but I feel so cozy, like at home

[6:27] . Like I think I've definitely

[6:28] was speaking Spanish in my

[6:29] previous lives because I feel so

[6:32] good. I feel like I'm belong

[6:34] here. So thank you for this.

[6:36] Like I don't know all the

[6:38] organizations and all the people

[6:38] who made this possible. I feel

[6:41] very nice to be here. I just was

[6:44] walking around, I heard some

[6:45] music. I thought, I have to

[6:46] check it. So here I am and I'm

[6:49] glad that it's happened like

[6:50] this. Happy Mexican Independence

[6:54] Day! I wish everybody peace,

[6:56] love and all the best things and

[6:57] positive vibes.

[7:10] You know today for the city of

[7:12] Los Angeles, I think it's so

[7:13] fitting that one of our toughest

[7:16] Mexican Americans on the

[7:17] council, Eunice Hernandez, is

[7:19] running El Grito this year, a

[7:20] year where there's so much fear,

[7:23] so much uncertainty. But today

[7:24] was supposed to be a day of

[7:26] celebration, a day of happiness.

[7:28] And we're making that happen.

[7:28] The diversity of our city is

[7:31] seen in the folks that are here,

[7:32] and I'm just happy to be a part

[7:33] of it, to be able to talk about

[7:36] the importance of the Mexican

[7:39] American community and its

[7:40] impact in Los Angeles

[7:41] internationally, locally, at all

[7:44] levels, Mexican Americans have

[7:45] always shown to be good

[7:47] Americans, and by continuing to

[7:50] celebrate our culture, that's

[7:51] our way of fighting. We should

[7:54] keep fighting for our rights

[7:56] because we believe we made a

[7:59] difference in Los Angeles. We're

[8:00] here to stay, and we're going to

[8:03] continue making and building and

[8:04] making Los Angeles beautiful. I

[8:07] know that El Grito is a Mexican

[8:11] independence Day, but I think we

[8:14] shouldn't just see it as only

[8:16] that, especially in the times

[8:18] that we're living in

[8:19] independence transcends any

[8:23] nation it's supposed to be

[8:24] something we can all recognize.

[8:27] We should be celebrating any

[8:30] independence from tyranny. And I

[8:32] think that's why so many people

[8:33] have come out to support,

[8:34] because we recognize that. I

[8:39] want to remind our community

[8:40] that there is strength in

[8:42] numbers, and there are so many

[8:44] of us here in Los Angeles and

[8:46] where government isn't able to

[8:48] intervene or support. We have

[8:51] wonderful partnerships with the

[8:52] consul generals from all the

[8:55] different Latin American

[8:55] countries, from our nonprofit

[8:57] organizations, from our labor

[8:59] unions. This is what they're

[9:00] trying to erase and stop us from

[9:01] doing. They're trying to prevent

[9:03] us from being authentically who

[9:05] we are and this event with

[9:08] everyone that's turned out, is a

[9:09] reflection that we are, in fact,

[9:11] here. And we will stay here

[9:15] right now. One of the most

[9:16] powerful things we could do to

[9:17] protect our families here in Los

[9:20] Angeles is to build community,

[9:20] is to know who your neighbor is,

[9:23] is to have their phone number

[9:24] and call and can call them in

[9:26] case of an emergency. Events

[9:27] like these are what help build

[9:28] relationships with communities

[9:29] so that we can survive these

[9:30] tough moments. And that's what

[9:32] helps the government do the

[9:33] right thing. That's what

[9:34] overcomes these moments is

[9:35] community power, people power.

[10:31] Hello everyone, I'm Natalia

[10:34] Bilbao, and here's what's

[10:35] happening in LA this week.

[10:38] Keeping the lights on. Boyle

[10:39] Heights has suffered with almost

[10:42] 2000 street lights out across

[10:43] the community. Council member

[10:45] Isabel Herrera has identified $1

[10:48] million for a dedicated street

[10:50] crew to ensure that the street

[10:51] lights come back on and stay on

[10:59] . I live literally a block away

[11:00] . I could walk here and I run

[11:02] this route maybe four times to

[11:05] five times a week. I can tell

[11:07] you. I run it at night and it's

[11:09] very, very dark. I have my

[11:10] flashlight that I take with me,

[11:12] so I know it's not safe. I got

[11:22] it. When I came into office, we

[11:28] heard from Eagle Rock to

[11:30] Highland Park to Boyle Heights

[11:31] to downtown LA. People don't

[11:33] feel safe. And part of that is

[11:34] because all the lights are out.

[11:38] In Boyle Heights alone, 1900

[11:41] street lights are out, and

[11:43] that's the highest number in the

[11:44] city. And so in October of this

[11:45] year, we allocated $1.07 million

[11:49] to make sure that we have a

[11:50] dedicated street crew to make

[11:52] sure that the lighting is going

[11:53] to stay on. We have scientific

[12:02] data that proves what community

[12:03] members feel intrinsically that

[12:06] brighter lights, adequate

[12:08] lighting actually reduces crime.

[12:09] I haven't seen the lights on on

[12:11] this street. Maybe in about four

[12:13] years now. I feel like we've

[12:18] been making this known for years

[12:20] and nobody's listened. You know,

[12:22] we just get to shrug off

[12:27] communities like Boyle Heights

[12:28] deserve to have their lights on

[12:30] public safety starts with

[12:32] equitable city service delivery.

[12:34] We are a community that is often

[12:37] overlooked in favor of other

[12:39] districts in the area. Speak up.

[12:44] Being loud, we have to make our

[12:47] voices heard in order for

[12:49] government to move. In order for

[12:50] our representatives to know what

[12:52] is most important to us, the

[12:56] work can get done. I'm excited

[12:59] to see what this is going to

[13:00] look like at nighttime. Now,

[13:01] with the lights on, let's work

[13:03] and keep the lights on. In

[13:08] Pico-union, the shovels are

[13:10] poised and crews are ready to

[13:11] improve accessibility in the

[13:14] neighborhood. The project is

[13:15] tied to affordable housing, so

[13:17] living, working, walking and

[13:20] accessing Pico-union is set to

[13:21] be better than ever. Today we

[13:32] are doing the groundbreaking for

[13:34] a significant amount of street

[13:35] infrastructure being invested

[13:37] here in Pico-union. We are doing

[13:42] crosswalks, we are doing Ada

[13:43] accessibility ramps, sidewalks.

[13:45] We're doing the street, street

[13:48] lights. This is a phenomenal day

[13:53] for Pico-union. When we talk

[13:56] about the future of

[13:57] infrastructure investment in the

[13:59] city of Los Angeles, this

[14:01] project exemplifies and embodies

[14:03] the future, especially where

[14:04] affordable housing is our

[14:07] centerpiece. So this project is

[14:09] tied to an affordable housing

[14:10] development that has moved

[14:11] forward in this area.

[14:13] Recognizing that we are bringing

[14:15] more people to this area, we

[14:17] wanted to make sure that people

[14:18] could have safe street

[14:19] infrastructure so that kids can

[14:20] walk to the school safely.

[14:22] Parents can walk to work safely,

[14:22] and everybody can come back

[14:25] home. We really believe that our

[14:26] streets should be designed for

[14:27] people, and you do that by

[14:29] making sure that people feel

[14:31] safe walking in their

[14:31] neighborhoods. And so that's

[14:32] really our motivation. We as a

[14:34] city are coming through for our

[14:35] community members, for the

[14:37] voters, for the taxpayers. I'm

[14:38] just glad that we're able to

[14:40] uplift that and have this day to

[14:40] day for them. And with that,

[14:43] we're going to grab our shovels

[14:44] and we're going to break some

[14:46] ground. Two, one. Yay Let's go

[14:49] see Street infrastructure.

[14:55] Councilwoman Heather Hutt, her

[14:57] office and local volunteers

[14:58] gathered to help with food

[15:00] supplies for the holidays. The

[15:01] much needed food giveaway helped

[15:04] neighbors in need, allowing

[15:05] everyone to celebrate. Where

[15:11] we're at, Michelle and Barack

[15:14] Obama sports complex right here

[15:17] on Obama Boulevard. And what

[15:18] we're doing is a much needed

[15:21] food giveaway. We have fresh

[15:23] vegetables. Maybe you can see in

[15:26] the background we have turkey

[15:28] and we have a line that started

[15:31] really early this morning

[15:32] because people are in need.

[15:36] We're giving to the community.

[15:37] We're giving just for people who

[15:39] are just might be a little bit

[15:40] less fortunate when it comes to

[15:42] Christmas and food and making

[15:44] sure, you know, the community

[15:45] just has something to eat with

[15:46] their family. I'm helping people

[15:50] and giving back. It's the

[15:51] holiday season and times are

[15:54] hard. I've probably been here

[15:56] for like each four years and I

[15:58] come back just to help and give

[16:01] back this impacts a lot of

[16:03] people and she's impacting the

[16:05] community. Different communities

[16:06] as well. Just seeing the smiles

[16:08] on these people's faces and

[16:10] seeing how grateful they are. It

[16:11] is an amazing thing. The

[16:13] volunteers are from the

[16:15] community. Many of them are my

[16:16] family members. Everybody's here

[16:19] to give us a hand. My whole team

[16:21] has been out here since early,

[16:23] early this morning organizing.

[16:28] Food is really expensive and

[16:30] people have food insecurities.

[16:33] This should stabilize how they

[16:35] feel about what their next meal

[16:37] is, and that's what we're trying

[16:39] to satisfy. Two sides of the

[16:48] same coin are at work in South

[16:50] LA with funding for green and

[16:52] sustainable projects. Parks in

[16:53] the area are getting EV chargers

[16:56] and more tree coverage, both of

[16:58] which will help bring down

[17:00] pollution levels in the

[17:01] neighborhoods. Where Harbor Park

[17:06] in South LA were celebrating the

[17:07] installations of the South LA

[17:08] Ecolab for the EV chargers. This

[17:14] is part of a bigger program,

[17:15] universal Basic Mobility, which

[17:19] is a 30 million investment in

[17:22] South Los Angeles to bring

[17:23] mobility options, access to

[17:26] opportunity and increased

[17:28] transportation equity. While

[17:31] reducing greenhouse gas

[17:32] emissions at the same time, the

[17:36] bureau got invited to

[17:38] participate in the TCC grant

[17:39] program, and our role is to

[17:41] install 16 EV chargers across

[17:43] four different parks here in

[17:44] South LA. Our charging program

[17:45] is a little different than most

[17:47] . Um, we install chargers on

[17:49] existing infrastructure. We

[17:50] found that our existing street

[17:51] light circuits had extra

[17:53] capacity when we converted to

[17:55] LEDs. We currently have over 800

[17:57] chargers throughout the city of

[17:59] Los Angeles, so these chargers

[18:01] are going to offer a convenient

[18:03] place for people to charge close

[18:05] to home, especially for people

[18:06] who may have challenges charging

[18:08] at home like people who live in

[18:09] multi-family housing. For

[18:16] Sutherland, Ecolab, we're

[18:18] working with community

[18:19] organizations such as three

[18:21] people to increase the community

[18:23] canopy in South LA, call the

[18:24] community Canopy expansion

[18:27] Project and its main goal is to

[18:29] advance shade and tree equity by

[18:33] planting 4000 trees in city

[18:35] parkways and also distributing

[18:38] 2000 fruit or shade trees to

[18:40] residents to plant in their home

[18:44] . Both projects will help each

[18:46] other. The charging station will

[18:47] help with pollution with less

[18:51] carbon monoxide and the area and

[18:55] the tree planting will help

[18:57] absorb that. Uh carbon monoxide

[19:00] . With the events that we had in

[19:01] certain parks where we gave away

[19:04] free seeds and like he said,

[19:05] with the trees, we also was

[19:07] teaching you how to plant and

[19:09] provide and take care of the

[19:10] tree. Also. This is the first

[19:14] park that we're completing. The

[19:16] installations we are working in

[19:17] different parks in South L.A.

[19:18] where we are also installing EV

[19:21] chargers. Our next park will be

[19:23] Vermont Square, South Park and

[19:25] the Wetlands. LA sanitation

[19:36] takes in hazardous household

[19:37] waste at its safe centers. The

[19:40] Ladwp is hosting a customer

[19:43] service Saturday on January 17th

[19:45] and volunteer signups are open

[19:48] for the 2026 Greater Los Angeles

[19:50] Homeless count. These stories up

[19:52] next on City Beat. LA sanitation

[20:01] wants to let Angelenos know that

[20:03] it's safe centers are permanent

[20:04] collection sites for hazardous

[20:06] household and electronic waste.

[20:09] Safe stands for Solvents

[20:10] Automotive, Flammables and

[20:12] electronics and the Safe centers

[20:14] take in items such as aerosol

[20:16] cans, batteries, paints, and

[20:17] more. LA City Sanitation advises

[20:21] keeping items in their original

[20:23] containers if possible, and

[20:24] placing waste securely in the

[20:26] trunk. Separate from personal

[20:28] belongings. Residents are

[20:29] allowed 15 gallons or up to 125

[20:33] pounds per vehicle per visit to

[20:35] the center. For more

[20:37] information, visit Safe Center

[20:38] under new battery collection

[20:40] centers at the website.

[20:41] Sanitation LA city dot gov. The

[20:46] Los Angeles Department of Water

[20:48] and Power invites Angelenos who

[20:50] need help signing up for

[20:52] utility, financial assistance to

[20:53] attend customer support Saturday

[20:56] , Department of Water and Power

[20:58] customer service centers at

[20:59] Crenshaw North Hills and Watts

[21:02] will assist residents with their

[21:04] programs. The one on one

[21:06] consultations will provide ways

[21:07] to save water, power and money,

[21:09] along with same day enrollment

[21:11] in payment programs. Angelenos

[21:13] will need to bring a valid ID,

[21:17] proof of income, proof of

[21:18] disability if applicable, and

[21:21] their la DWP bill, gas Bill and

[21:24] phone bill. No RSVP is needed

[21:27] and bilingual representatives

[21:28] will be available at customer

[21:30] support Saturday on January 17th

[21:33] from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. for more

[21:36] information, visit ladwp dot com

[21:41] . The Los Angeles Homeless

[21:42] Services Authority, Lahsa, has

[21:44] opened volunteer registration

[21:45] for the 2026 Greater Los Angeles

[21:49] Homeless Count each January

[21:51] Lahsa staff and volunteers count

[21:53] unhoused Angelenos makeshift

[21:55] shelters, tents and vehicles,

[21:58] according to Lhasa, the 2026

[22:01] Greater Los Angeles homeless

[22:02] count will feature improvements

[22:03] in staffing support and the

[22:05] training materials have been

[22:06] simplified to ensure consistency

[22:07] across all LA regions. Lahsa is

[22:10] seeking to recruit 6500

[22:13] volunteers to assist with the

[22:15] homeless count, which is taking

[22:16] place this year on January 20th,

[22:19] 21st and 22nd. For more

[22:21] information or to register as a

[22:23] volunteer, go to countless.

[22:28] A.org. Councilwoman Heather HUD

[22:37] reviewed 2025 with improvements

[22:39] on key issues in her district

[22:41] underway. HUD's 2026 resolutions

[22:44] are for more progress in housing

[22:46] continued expansion of parks,

[22:49] and keeping the economy strong.

[22:55] I'm Councilwoman Heather HUD,

[22:58] the 10th district City of Los

[23:00] Angeles. I am proud of the work

[23:03] that we've been able to do. I'm

[23:05] proud of government and

[23:06] community working together since

[23:09] I got here in 2022. We've really

[23:13] been working on homelessness,

[23:14] and I'm proud to say we've

[23:16] successfully brought down

[23:18] homelessness in our district by

[23:21] 29, and we've gotten over 2000

[23:24] people in permanent housing. I'm

[23:27] really proud of that. And, you

[23:29] know, it's not over. There's

[23:31] more work to be done. I'm

[23:34] committed to using every city

[23:36] resource to bring more parks

[23:38] into CD ten. We're currently

[23:40] working on a plan to do a major

[23:42] expansion to Seoul International

[23:45] Park, and the past few months

[23:47] we've secured major renovations

[23:49] to be made to Chateau Park and

[23:52] Lafayette Park, and we also just

[23:53] finished renovating the football

[23:56] field here at Obama Sports

[23:58] Complex. So when we think of

[24:00] Koreatown, it's a very dense

[24:02] population. And in going outside

[24:05] the box, thinking of ways to

[24:07] make spaces usable is why we

[24:10] expanded Pio Pico Library to

[24:12] make a library park and we

[24:15] should see the completion of

[24:17] that very soon. With the World

[24:19] Cup all star weekend, Super Bowl

[24:21] and the Olympics all heading to

[24:23] Los Angeles, we're standing on

[24:25] the edge of a massive economic

[24:27] boom, but a boom only matters if

[24:29] the wealth stays in the

[24:32] neighborhood. This is why our

[24:33] office launched our small

[24:35] business Workshop series by

[24:37] giving our local businesses

[24:39] access to tools like ramp, they

[24:41] can position themselves to

[24:43] secure formal city contracts,

[24:46] transforming them from

[24:48] spectators into vendors and

[24:50] workers. That will make these

[24:52] games possible. We're going to

[24:56] celebrate all the words of

[24:58] Martin Luther King. We have the

[25:00] MLK parade coming in January.

[25:03] I'm excited. It's running all

[25:05] through the 10th district, so

[25:05] come out to King Boulevard and

[25:08] see all of the joy that comes

[25:11] with the Civil rights fight. And

[25:14] then love. Hut it is something I

[25:16] do in Women's Month to remind

[25:18] women about how important they

[25:21] are and to know that I care

[25:23] about their struggle. I can't

[25:27] believe we're almost at 26

[25:30] continuing to get our unhoused

[25:32] neighbors the housing and

[25:33] resources they need. That's

[25:35] number one. Every single day.

[25:37] Continue growing park space

[25:39] across the district. There are

[25:41] so many children and families

[25:42] who have limited access to being

[25:46] outside to be in parks in our

[25:48] district. And I feel like

[25:50] they're a necessity. So I'm

[25:51] committing to making sure we

[25:52] don't forget. I feel like we've

[25:56] had some lessons learned in 25,

[25:59] 25, showed how resilient Los

[26:01] Angeles is, and then we'll move

[26:03] on with that strength and

[26:05] resilience in. 26. All the good

[26:11] boy and girl dogs at the LA

[26:14] Animal Services shelters got

[26:15] holiday treats and toys, while

[26:18] the generous gifts are a help,

[26:19] the intention is to highlight

[26:21] the dogs and help get them into

[26:23] their forever homes. Today, the

[26:33] Karen Cooper Foundation brought

[26:35] Santa sacks for the dogs across

[26:38] our six animal services centers

[26:41] . We're actually bringing

[26:43] Christmas toys to the shelter

[26:45] here. Actually, there's 1100

[26:46] toys that we're bringing really

[26:47] wonderful toys and treats for

[26:49] all the shelter dogs that are

[26:50] here. What else can I say?

[26:52] Christmas came early for the

[26:54] shelter pets in LA city. We know

[26:59] these shelter dogs don't really

[27:00] have that much of an opportunity

[27:02] to have any joy during the

[27:03] holidays, so what we do is we

[27:04] bring them all these treats. The

[27:06] other reason that we do it is to

[27:09] draw attention to adoptions that

[27:10] are so much needed. Any animal

[27:12] that goes to a home, it's so

[27:15] important for us because it

[27:16] makes much needed space in the

[27:18] shelters. So we wanted to adopt

[27:24] a dog, so he just came and he

[27:25] fell in love. One of the dogs

[27:28] and I was at work when he told

[27:30] me he already adopted him and I

[27:31] was like, why didn't you tell

[27:33] me? And then when I came to

[27:35] visited him, I'm like, my heart

[27:36] melted too. So I'm like, so

[27:37] happy that he decided to get

[27:40] this dog. Super happy, right

[27:42] now. I know we're both super

[27:43] happy right now. That's all I

[27:45] can say. Michelle and I are here

[27:50] for this cause we're here to

[27:51] bring Christmas to them. But at

[27:54] the end of the day, what needs

[27:55] to really happen is these little

[27:57] guys and gals need to be in

[27:59] their forever homes. It's really

[28:00] helpful to adopt a dog that

[28:02] would change a life to find more

[28:05] ways to support the department,

[28:06] whether it's volunteering,

[28:08] adopting, or donating, you can

[28:09] visit LA Animal Services, dot

[28:11] com. The recent LA rains

[28:16] couldn't dent the community

[28:18] spirit on display at the annual

[28:20] Kwanzaa Festival. In fact,

[28:22] legend has it that rain on this

[28:25] parade is a sign of good luck

[28:27] and blessings to come. The

[28:34] question came up what are we

[28:36] going to do for Kwanzaa? Why

[28:39] don't we do a parade? For With

[28:50] the Kwanzaa, every day does is

[28:52] it brings in the new year. The

[28:57] theme of this year's gala day is

[29:02] kerfuffle, which is literally

[29:04] resurrection. And so we're in a

[29:07] resurrection period. I mean,

[29:11] Kwanzaa to me, is celebrating

[29:13] black pride. So just to have

[29:16] this moment for us to be able to

[29:17] gather together and do something

[29:19] meaningful with no drama, fun

[29:21] times. Leimert Park is always a

[29:23] good time. I'm excited to be out

[29:25] here getting these ladies 39 and

[29:27] over. We get out here double

[29:28] done a line dance, hula hoops,

[29:30] play games, encourage each

[29:31] other. Just bringing back

[29:31] childhood nostalgia. We get

[29:35] excited about all the fun, the

[29:40] cards and the marching and the

[29:44] walking and all the good things

[29:46] that are in this community. Just

[29:52] glad to be here and grateful at

[29:59] 77, to be able to hang with the

[30:03] young folks now. When you walk

[30:10] in the ring at Kwanzaa time, you

[30:12] got blessings. That's what the

[30:15] things you remember the more it

[30:16] rains, the greater the blessings

[30:27] .

[30:27] LA Civil Rights Department is

[30:29] firmly focused on ensuring that

[30:31] hate has no home in LA.

[30:33] Executive director Kapri Maddox

[30:35] spoke about the department's

[30:36] year of action campaigning for

[30:38] civil rights and civil society

[30:39] in a Los Angeles that lights the

[30:42] way for all. Hate has no home in

[30:51] Los Angeles. The relaunch of the

[30:58] campaign, called Just Say Hello

[31:01] , sends a strong message that

[31:02] hate has no home in Los Angeles.

[31:05] We want to build a sense of

[31:08] community, a welcoming feeling

[31:10] with Angelenos. So our

[31:15] reparations report is about 400

[31:18] pages of the African American

[31:21] experience in Los Angeles, over

[31:23] a 100 year period. There are so

[31:27] many spaces where your color

[31:29] speaks before you do. In

[31:32] America, but even in the city of

[31:35] Angels. And so we want to be

[31:37] intentional to send a strong

[31:39] message that we cannot unsee

[31:42] some of the harms of the past,

[31:44] some of the traumas, and to

[31:45] think about how we can, as a

[31:48] city, right. Those wrongs. We

[31:54] want to be a city where people

[31:57] can live their best lives

[31:58] regardless of how they identify.

[32:01] We stand with folks while

[32:04] they're going through their

[32:05] transition, while they're

[32:08] looking for jobs. And so when

[32:10] you think about the LGBTQ plus

[32:13] community being discriminated in

[32:15] the workplace, particularly the

[32:17] transgender population, we want

[32:19] to make sure we have a pathway

[32:21] for people to be self-sustaining

[32:24] in Los Angeles, making sure that

[32:26] we have housing as well as job

[32:29] fairs for this targeted

[32:31] population is a just service. I

[32:36] just want to say I love AAPI

[32:40] month, Asian American Pacific

[32:42] Islander Month is one of my

[32:44] favorite months in the city. I

[32:45] love the celebration, the food,

[32:47] the colors, the community, the

[32:50] pride. Of course, we had a

[32:51] number of elected officials,

[32:53] including our very own John Lee

[32:56] , Nithya Raman and many others.

[32:58] This is what I really love about

[33:00] our elected officials is you may

[33:02] represent a group in your

[33:04] identity, but you go out and you

[33:06] celebrate all of Los Angeles

[33:08] every Heritage Month. We call

[33:14] our service day. Tom Labonge Day

[33:15] of Service. Tom Labonge loved

[33:18] people. He oftentimes bringing

[33:20] together people from different

[33:22] backgrounds and the opportunity

[33:24] for us to do Tom Labonge day of

[33:27] service gave us a moment for

[33:28] people to work shoulder to

[33:31] shoulder with their fellow

[33:32] Angelenos and have that common

[33:35] connection of wanting to serve.

[33:38] We need to understand that it

[33:40] takes all of us to build a

[33:42] better Los Angeles. We are

[33:47] intentional here at LA Civil

[33:49] Rights to say, regardless of

[33:51] your faith, we stand with you.

[33:53] We don't have hate crime.

[33:54] Stopping at the door just based

[33:56] on your skin color or how you

[33:57] identify. We also have

[34:00] tremendous hate crimes happening

[34:02] against folks based on their

[34:03] faith. So we want to be unified

[34:06] with all faiths to say, we see

[34:09] you, we stand with you, we

[34:11] celebrate you, and we want to

[34:14] create a Los Angeles where

[34:16] people are free to worship as

[34:18] they wish and to not feel like

[34:20] they're at risk if they're going

[34:21] to temple or going to the mosque

[34:24] or going to their churches.

[34:27] We've been able to support folks

[34:30] with Know Your Rights

[34:32] information with Angelenos. We

[34:33] even had a know Your Rights fair

[34:36] at my beloved Cal State LA,

[34:38] where we had 19 service

[34:39] organizations to provide advice

[34:42] , guidance, resources for

[34:44] students at the Cal State LA

[34:46] campus during one of the

[34:49] toughest times of the Ice raids

[34:51] in the City of Angels. When I

[34:55] think about the we Belong

[34:56] campaign, it's something I'm

[34:58] super excited about because we

[35:00] wanted to send a message to our

[35:04] immigrants that you belong here.

[35:06] And so the campaign is I belong.

[35:09] You belong, we belong. You know

[35:14] , people often say in hate, go

[35:16] back to where you belong. We

[35:19] wanted to blanket the city with

[35:20] a message that everyone belongs

[35:24] . We were intentional to do this

[35:26] in a number of languages, but

[35:28] our first language out of the

[35:29] box, we did it in Spanish. Many

[35:32] of us have come from different

[35:33] places and spaces for the

[35:35] freedom and the liberties. Los

[35:37] Angeles offers us all. Our city

[35:43] is strong. We are standing with

[35:45] all communities. I want you to

[35:48] know we have your back. We are

[35:49] here for you and we are building

[35:52] a Los Angeles for all. In this

[35:58] week's Things to Do help keep

[36:01] MLK Jr's dream alive at freedom

[36:04] Festival. Enjoy a guided

[36:05] Tidepool Walk at Cabrillo and

[36:07] get those Legos clicking and a

[36:09] brick play date in Koreatown.

[36:11] All this up next on things to do

[36:20] . It's freedom Festival

[36:22] happening on MLK day Monday,

[36:25] January 19th. Join Council

[36:27] President Marquis Harris Dawson

[36:28] Council member Curren Price, and

[36:31] Councilwoman Heather Hutt in

[36:32] partnership with Community

[36:34] Coalition and Destination

[36:36] Crenshaw to celebrate the life

[36:38] and legacy of Martin Luther King

[36:40] Jr. According to Council

[36:42] President Harris Dawson, this

[36:43] yearly staple provides hundreds

[36:45] of South L.A. residents with

[36:47] resources, culture and

[36:49] connection. This year's festival

[36:51] highlights the impact and unity

[36:52] in action with the theme Still

[36:55] We Rise Keeping the Dream Alive.

[36:57] Head to Leimert Park for freedom

[37:00] Festival on the Martin Luther

[37:02] King Jr holiday Monday, January

[37:05] 19th, from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m.

[37:08] for more information, visit the

[37:10] Instagram account of Council

[37:11] President Marquis Harris Dawson

[37:13] at MDC. D eight. Enjoy a guided

[37:21] Tidepool walk with the Cabrillo

[37:22] Marine Aquarium educators on

[37:24] Saturday, January 17th as they

[37:26] interpret the various habitats

[37:28] of the Cabrillo Beach Coastal

[37:30] Park. The walk begins at the

[37:33] Aquarium courtyard and takes in

[37:34] the native gardens, salt marsh

[37:36] beaches and tide pools along the

[37:39] way, you'll see fossils, native

[37:41] plants, birds, and other

[37:42] interesting finds. Head outside,

[37:45] bring a snack, and meet at the

[37:48] aquarium for a tidepool. Walk on

[37:50] Saturday, January 17th at 1:30

[37:53] p.m. for more information, see

[37:55] the events calendar at Cabrillo

[37:56] Marine Aquarium .org. Join the

[38:00] Los Angeles Public Library for

[38:02] brick Play date at the Pico

[38:06] Koreatown Branch Library on

[38:07] January 17th. If you love to

[38:10] build things, join the playdate

[38:11] at the library. Families are

[38:14] welcome to come and use their

[38:15] imagination to build and play

[38:16] with the library's Legos. This

[38:19] activity is recommended for kids

[38:21] ages four and up. Head to the

[38:24] community room at the Pico

[38:26] Koreatown Branch Library for the

[38:28] hands on activity brick play

[38:30] date on Saturday, January 17th

[38:33] at 1:30 p.m. for more

[38:35] information, visit lapl.org.

[38:38] Slash events. And that's a look

[38:42] at some things to do. And that's

[38:49] all for this week. I'm Natalia

[38:51] Bilbao and from all of us here

[38:53] at LA this week. Thank you so

[38:54] much for joining us. Remember

[38:56] that you can watch us online

[38:58] anytime at LA Cityview. Org. And

[39:00] we're also on Instagram,

[39:02] Facebook x and YouTube. See you

[39:06] next time for more LA this week

[52:37] .

[52:37] And welcome to the regularly

[52:39] scheduled meeting of your Losl

[52:43] TO THE REGULAR SCHEDULED

[52:44] MEETING OF YOUR LOS ANGELES

[52:46] CITY COUNCIL.

[52:47] TODAY IS FRIZ, THE 9th DAY OF

[52:50] JANUARY, THE YEAR 2026.

[52:52] THE BIRTHDAY OF MY MOST BELOVED

[52:59] ANGELINO, MS. CARRY

[53:03] HARRIS-DAWSON.

[53:04] PUBLIC COMMENT WILL BE TAKEN

[53:05] IN-PERSON FOR THIS MEETING.

[53:10] MS. MADAM CLERK, LET'S BEGIN BY

[53:12] CALLING THE ROLL.

[53:13] >> Clerk: YES, SIR.

[53:25] » Clerk: YES, SIR.

[53:25] BLUMENFIELD, HARRIS-DAWSON,

[53:26] HERNANDEZ, HUTT, JURADO, LEE,

[53:27] MCOSKER, NAZARIAN, PADILLA,

[53:27] PARK, PRICE, RAMAN, RODRIGUEZ,

[53:28] SOTO-MARTINEZ, YAROSLAVSKY.

[53:28] >> Council President: ALL RIGHT

[53:29] » Council President: ALL RIGHT

[53:29] NEXT.

[53:30] >> Clerk: APPROVAL OF MINUTES.

[53:31] » Clerk: APPROVAL OF MINUTES.

[53:31] >> Council President:er

[53:33] » Council President:er

[53:33] COUNCILMEMBER RODRIGUEZ MOVES

[53:35] COUNCILMEMBER McOSKER SECONDS,

[53:35] NEXT.

[53:36] >> Clerk: COMMENDATORY

[53:37] » Clerk: COMMENDATORY

[53:38] RESOLUTIONS FOR APPROVAL.

[53:38] >> Council President:

[53:40] » Council President:

[53:40] COUNCILMEMBER PARK MOVES

[53:41] COUNCILMEMBER LEE SECONDS.

[53:41] TODAY IS FRIDAY, BUT I BELIEVE,

[53:44] THE "PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE" IS

[53:47] IN ORDER AS THIS IS OUR FIRST

[53:49] MEETING OF THE YEAR.

[53:50] ALL RIGHT, DO WE HAVE A

[53:52] VOLUNTEER TO LEAD US IN THE

[53:52] "PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE"?

[53:54] COUNCILMEMBER PA*RK?

[53:58] >> T. Park: PLEASE RISE IF

[54:00] » T. Park: PLEASE RISE IF

[54:01] YOU'RE ABLE, PLEASE YOUR HAND

[54:02] OVER YOUR HEART.

[54:03] READY BEGIN.

[54:04] I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG

[54:05] OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

[54:06] AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH

[54:08] IT STANDS, ONE NATION, UNDER

[54:09] GOD INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY

[54:11] AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.

[54:18] >> Council President: ALL

[54:24] » Council President: ALL

[54:24] RIGHT, MADAM CLERK, WHAT'S NEXT?

[54:29] >> Clerk: MR. PRESIDENT--

[54:32] » Clerk: MR. PRESIDENT--

[54:32] >> Council President: I KNOW I

[54:33] » Council President: I KNOW I

[54:33] KNEW YOU OFF WITH THE "PLEDGE

[54:34] OF ALLEGIANCE", MY APOLOGIES.

[54:37] >> Clerk: NO, IT'S OKAY, MAY I

[54:38] » Clerk: NO, IT'S OKAY, MAY I

[54:38] RUN THROUGH THE AGENDA?

[54:40] >> Council President: YES,

[54:41] » Council President: YES,

[54:41] PLEASE.

[54:42] >> Clerk: 1 THROUGH 8 ITEMS FOR

[54:45] » Clerk: 1 THROUGH 8 ITEMS FOR

[54:46] WHICH PUBLIC HEARINGS HAVE BEEN

[54:46] HELD.

[54:48] 9 THROUGH 11 ARE ITEMS FOR

[54:50] WHICH PUBLIC HEARINGS HAVE NOT

[54:51] BEEN HELD.

[54:51] >> Council President: ALL

[54:52] » Council President: ALL

[54:52] RIGHT, THOSE ITEMS ARE BEFORE

[54:54] US WITHOUT OBJECTIONS.

[54:55] DO WE HAVE SPECIALS FOR THIS

[54:58] MORNING'S MEETING?

[54:58] MEMBERS?

[54:59] TO MY LEFT?

[55:00] LOOKS LIKE MR. McOSKER?

[55:01] >> T. McOsker: THANK YOU, THANK

[55:03] » T. McOsker: THANK YOU, THANK

[55:03] YOU VERY MUCH, MR. PRESIDENT.

[55:04] I WOULD LIKE TO CALL ITEM 2

[55:07] SPECIAL FOR AN AMENDMENT WHICH

[55:08] IS BEING CIRCULATED NOW.

[55:09] >> CouncilPresident: ALL RIGHT.

[55:12] » CouncilPresident: ALL RIGHT.

[55:12] COUNCILMEMBER JURADO?

[55:14] ARE YOU STANDING FOR A SPECIAL?

[55:16] >> Y. Jurado: YES, COUNCIL

[55:18] » Y. Jurado: YES, COUNCIL

[55:18] PESIDENT I WOULD LIKE TO CALL

[55:20] 23 AND 24 SPECIAL FOR A

[55:22] SEPARATE VOTE.

[55:22] >> Council President: ALL

[55:23] » Council President: ALL

[55:23] RIGHT, COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ.

[55:24] >> E. Hernandez: YES, GOOD

[55:27] » E. Hernandez: YES, GOOD

[55:27] MORNING, COUNCIL PRESIDENT, CAN

[55:29] I CALL ITEMS 23 AND 24 SPECIAL

[55:31] FOR SEPARATE VOTE AND ITEM 30

[55:33] FOR COMMENT SXZ CONTINU 28 FOR

[55:34] ONE MONTH.

[55:35] >> Council President: ALL RIGHT.

[55:38] » Council President: ALL RIGHT.

[55:38] WE HAVE A DATE, MADAM CLERK FOR

[55:41] ONE MONTH.

[55:42] >> Clerk: SO 28 IS CONTINUED

[55:44] » Clerk: SO 28 IS CONTINUED

[55:44] FOR ONE MONTH AND THAT WOULD BE

[55:48] FRIDAY FEBRUARY 6, 2026.

[55:50] >> Council President: ALL

[55:51] » Council President: ALL

[55:51] RIGHT, COUNCILMEMBER

[55:52] SOTO-MARTINEZ.

[55:53] >> H. Soto-Martinez: YES, I

[55:54] » H. Soto-Martinez: YES, I

[55:54] WOULD LIKE TO CALL ITEM 29 FOR

[55:56] COMMENTS, PLEASE.

[55:57] >> Council President: ALL RIGHT.

[55:59] » Council President: ALL RIGHT.

[55:59] COUNCILMEMBER RAMAN.

[55:59] >> N. Raman: I ALSO WANTED TO

[56:01] » N. Raman: I ALSO WANTED TO

[56:01] MAKE A COMMENT ON ITEM 29.

[56:03] >> Council President: ANY

[56:03] » Council President: ANY

[56:03] OTHERS TO MY RIGHT?

[56:06] TO THE LEFT OF THE CHAMBER?

[56:09] ALL RIGHT, SEEING NO OTHER

[56:12] SPECIALS, MADAM CLERK, WHAT

[56:13] ITEMS ARE WE ABLE TO CAST VOTES

[56:16] ON AT THIS TIME?

[56:17] >> Clerk: MR. PRESIDENT,

[56:19] » Clerk: MR. PRESIDENT,

[56:19] COUNCIL MAY VOTE ON ITEMS 1 AS

[56:22] WELL AS 3 THROUGH 8, SIR.

[56:23] >> Council President: ALL RIGHT.

[56:24] » Council President: ALL RIGHT.

[56:24] .

[56:25] LET'S OPEN THE ROLL ON THOSE

[56:27] ITEMS, CLOSE THE ROLL, TABULATE

[56:28] THE VOTE.

[56:29] >> Clerk: 14 AYES.

[56:30] » Clerk: 14 AYES.

[56:30] >> CouncilPresident: ALL RIGHT.

[56:31] » CouncilPresident: ALL RIGHT.

[56:31] WHAT'S NEXT?

[56:35] >> Clerk: MR. PRESIDENT, WOULD

[56:37] » Clerk: MR. PRESIDENT, WOULD

[56:37] COUNCIL LIKE TO GO INTO

[56:42] TESTIMONIALS OR PRESENTATIONS?

[56:43] >> Council President: ALL

[56:44] » Council President: ALL

[56:44] RIGHT, WE'LL GO TO TESTIMONIALS

[56:46] AND THEN WE'LL GO TO

[56:47] PRESENTATIONS.

[56:52] AND THIS TESTIMONIAL WILL BE

[56:53] LEAD BY COUNCILMEMBER RODRIGUEZ

[56:55] BY OF THE 7th DISTRICT.

[57:00] >> M. Rodriguez: THANK YOU FOR

[57:02] » M. Rodriguez: THANK YOU FOR

[57:02] JOINING US.

[57:05] SADLY, 2026 HAS STARTED WITH NO

[57:08] SHORT OF CHAOS WITH

[57:12] ADMINISTRATION LEADER NA

[57:13] CONTINUES TO INSULT.

[57:14] SADLY WE JUST SAW A WOMAN LOSE

[57:17] HER LIFE, WHEN RENEE GOODE, AT

[57:24] THE HANDS OF ICE.

[57:25] THIS IS THE 5th LOSS OF LIFE

[57:27] THAT HAS RESULTED FROM THE

[57:29] ASSAULTS LEAD BY ICE AGENTS

[57:30] ACROSS THE COUNTRY.

[57:32] BUT WHAT IS MORE INFURIATING IS

[57:36] THAT ASIDE FROM THE ASSAULTS

[57:37] THAT HAVE BEEN LEVEED TOWARDS

[57:40] THSE THAT ARE EITHER

[57:42] PROTESTING OR HELPING TO

[57:45] DOCUMENT THE ACTIONS THAT ARE

[57:47] TAKING PLACE IN COMMUNITIES

[57:50] ACROSS THIS COUNTRY, WE KNOW

[57:52] THE HARM THAT IS BEING

[57:55] INFLICTED ON MEMBERS OF OUR

[57:58] COMMUNITY WHO'S VOICES ARE

[57:59] BEING IGNORED.

[58:01] WHO'S FAMILIES ARE GETTING TORN

[58:04] APART.

[58:09] THIS CHAOS CONTINUES TO INFLICT

[58:12] SUCH TREMENDOUS HARM ACROSS

[58:13] AMERICA.

[58:14] YOU KNOW, IT WAS JUST AT THE

[58:17] END OF THE YEAR THAT WE BROUGHT

[58:19] IN A NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS

[58:21] INCLUDING MEMO TORRES TO TALK

[58:23] ABOUT ALL THE CATALOGUING OF

[58:27] THE INCIDENTS TAKING PLACE JUST

[58:29] HERE IN THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

[58:31] REGION.

[58:32] BUT WHEN I LOOK AT THE FOOTAGE

[58:34] OF WHAT OCCURED TO RENEE, A

[58:37] WOMAN WHO HAD JUST DROPPED OFF

[58:40] HER SIX-YEAR-OLD SON AT SCHOOL,

[58:41] THERE IS NO WAY THAT IT DOESN'T

[58:43] TOUCH AND AFFECT EVERY SINGLE

[58:45] ONE OF US BUT MAKE, MAKE NO

[58:49] MAKE NO MISTAKE, THIS IS ALL

[58:51] INTENDED TO INFLICT FEAR AND

[58:54] SILENCE OUR COMMUNITIES.

[58:58] TO BECOME COMPLICITY AND ENABLE

[59:01] THE ASSAULTS THAT ARE HAPPENING

[59:03] TO IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES ACROSS

[59:05] THIS COUNTRY.

[59:06] AND FRANKLY EVEN CITIZENS

[59:08] ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND WE SAW

[59:10] THAT HAPPEN WITH RENEE GOODE.

[59:12] I WANTED TO TAKE A MOMENT TO

[59:15] REMIND US ALL THAT WHILE WE

[59:17] DON'T HAVE THE DIRECT AUTHORITY

[59:21] TO SUPERCEDE WHAT THIS

[59:23] PRESIDENT IS DOING, AND WHAT IS

[59:26] BEING ENABLED BY FEDERAL

[59:27] LEADERS THAT HAVE BEEN ELECTED

[59:30] TO REPRESENT US, WE DO HAVE THE

[59:33] OPPORTUNITY TO DOCUMENT, TRACK

[59:35] AND PROTECT OUR RESIDENTS AND

[59:39] DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THE

[59:40] ACTIONS THAT TAKE PLACE IN THIS

[59:41] CITY.

[59:43] AND I WANT TO ASSURE THE PUBLIC

[59:47] THAT THE SILENCE IN THE REPORT

[59:49] BACKS THAT WE HAVE SOUGHT, TO

[59:51] ENSURE THAT THERE ARE ACTIONS

[59:53] THAT WE CAN BE TAKING TO MAKE

[59:55] THE MOST TO PROTECT MEMBERS OF

[59:58] OUR COMMUNITIES WHETHER THEY

[1:00:00] ARE PROTESTING OR WHETHER THEY

[1:00:02] ARE MERELY DOCUMENTING WHAT HAS

[1:00:04] TRANSPIRED HERE ON THE ASSAULTS

[1:00:07] AGAINST MEMBERS OF OUR

[1:00:08] COMMUNITY.

[1:00:10] GLOVES ARE OFF.

[1:00:11] IT'S HAPPENING NOW, AND IT'S

[1:00:12] HAPPENING THIS YEAR.

[1:00:15] SO, IN HONOR OF RENEE GOODE AND

[1:00:18] SADLY ALL THE OTHER INDIVIDUALS

[1:00:20] THAT HAVE BEEN TORN APART AND

[1:00:22] AFFECTED DIRECTLY BY THE

[1:00:25] ACTIONS OF ICE, I JUST WANTED

[1:00:27] TO START THIS, THIS COUNCIL

[1:00:29] MEETING IN RECOGNITION OF WHAT

[1:00:33] CONTINUES TO HAPPEN ACROSS THE

[1:00:36] COUNTRY AND ACROSS OUR CITY.

[1:00:37] AND TO ENSURE THAT EVERYONE

[1:00:39] RECOGNIZES THAT ALL ANGELINOS

[1:00:43] UNDERSTAND, THAT AT LEAST FOR

[1:00:45] MYSELF AND SPEAKING FOR MYSELF,

[1:00:47] AS A LEADER, ELECTED TO

[1:00:49] REPRESENT TO BE 115th OF THE

[1:00:52] LEGISLATIVE BODY OF THIS CITY,

[1:00:55] I'M NOT HERE TO SUGGEST OR

[1:00:59] PRETEND NOR SHOULD YOU BE UNDER

[1:01:04] ANY MISUNDERSTANDING THAT THEIR

[1:01:06] ACTIONS HAVE SLOWED, THEY HAVE

[1:01:06] NOT.

[1:01:10] DON'T NORMALIZE THE ACTION,

[1:01:12] DON'T TURN AWAY, CONTINUE TO BE

[1:01:14] A VOICE FOR CHANGE, AND I WANT

[1:01:17] TO INVITE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC

[1:01:18] TO CONTINUE AND I THANK THEM

[1:01:20] FOR SHOWING UP FOR BEING THAT

[1:01:21] VOICE AND THAT ADVOCACY.

[1:01:27] BUT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE SOME

[1:01:32] ELECTIONS COMING UP AND I THINK

[1:01:36] IT'S IMPORTANT THAT EVERYONE

[1:01:38] REMEMBER THEIR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT

[1:01:40] AND WHAT THIS KOUPT REIS

[1:01:42] SUPPOSE TO STAND FOR AND

[1:01:43] REPRESENTS.

[1:01:45] THANK YOU.

[1:01:46] >> Council President: THANK YOU

[1:01:48] » Council President: THANK YOU

[1:01:48] VERY MUCH, COUNCILMEMBER

[1:01:49] RODRIGUEZ.

[1:01:49] IT'S AN APPROPRIATE START TO

[1:01:51] OUR WORK HERE IN THE COUNCIL

[1:01:54] GIVEN THE GRAVITY OF WHAT IS

[1:01:55] HAPPENING IN OUR COUNTRY AND IN

[1:01:57] OUR COMMUNITY.

[1:01:58] OUR NEXT PRESENTATION WILL BE

[1:01:59] BROUGHT TO US BY COUNCILMEMBER

[1:02:01] HERNANDEZ OF THE FIRST DISTRICT.

[1:02:04] >> E. Hernandez: THANK YOU,

[1:02:05] » E. Hernandez: THANK YOU,

[1:02:05] COUNCIL PRESIDENT.

[1:02:06] WE HAVE A FEW GUESTS WITH US

[1:02:10] HERE TODAY.

[1:02:11] I'LL GIVE THEM SOME TIME TO

[1:02:13] JOIN US.

[1:02:33] THANK YOU, COUNCILWOMAN

[1:02:35] RODRIGUEZ FOR YOUR WORDS AND

[1:02:40] UPLIFTING RENEE NICOLE GOODE.

[1:02:43] THIS WEEK SHE WAS GOOD, SHE,

[1:02:45] RENEE WAS SHOT AND KILLED BY

[1:02:46] ICE.

[1:02:47] HER DEATH DESERVES OUTRAGE,

[1:02:50] CARE AND JUSTICE BUT IF WE ONLY

[1:02:52] SHOW UP SOMETIMES, THEN WE'RE

[1:02:54] NOT ACTUALLY COMMITTED TO

[1:02:56] JUSTICE, WE'RE COMMIT TODAY

[1:02:57] CONVENIENCE.

[1:02:58] WHAT HAPPENED TO KEITH PORTER

[1:03:00] ALSO DESERVES OUR ATTENTION,

[1:03:02] ESPECIALLY WHEN IT INVOLVES

[1:03:04] FEDERAL ICE AGENTS WHO OPERATES

[1:03:08] WITH NO OVERSIGHT AND VIOLENCE

[1:03:12] WITHOUT DENIAL.

[1:03:12] THIS HAPPENED IN OUR OWN BACK

[1:03:15] YARD AND SILENCE IS NOT AN

[1:03:17] OPTION TO GROUND AND YOUS AT

[1:03:18] THAT TO* TALK ABOUT KEITH, I'M

[1:03:20] GOING TO BE INVITING COURTA WHO

[1:03:23] IS A FAMILY MEMBER OF KEITH

[1:03:25] PORTER.

[1:03:26] KEITH PORTER WAS A FATHER, A

[1:03:28] NEIGHBOR AND A BELOVED MEMBER

[1:03:29] OF OUR COMMUNITY THAT IS

[1:03:31] GRIEVING AND DEMANDING ANSWERS.

[1:03:34] AN OFF DUTY ICE AGENTS DOES NOT

[1:03:36] GET TO DECIDE WHO LIVES AND WHO

[1:03:38] DIES PERIOD.

[1:03:39] HE CAN'T BE THE JUDGE AND ALL

[1:03:41] THE OTHER PARTS OF THIS SYSTEM.

[1:03:44] IT TAKES COURAGE FOR FAMILIES

[1:03:47] TO SHOW UP IN THE MIDDLE OF

[1:03:49] GREETING AND DEMAND TRUTH.

[1:03:53] --GRIEF AND DEMAND TRUTH.

[1:03:55] THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.

[1:04:00] PLEASE WELCOME HIS FAMILY.

[1:04:02] OKAY, I'LL BE INVITING HIS

[1:04:04] MOTHER TO TALK AND SHARE A FEW

[1:04:05] WORDS.

[1:04:06] THANK YOU.

[1:04:10] >> Speaker: MY SON KEITH DID

[1:04:13] » Speaker: MY SON KEITH DID

[1:04:13] NOT DESERVE THIS.

[1:04:16] KEITH PORTER WAS A WONDERFUL

[1:04:18] SOUL.

[1:04:20] HIS HEART WAS BIG.

[1:04:21] HE HAD A BIG HEART, HE LOVED SO

[1:04:24] HARD AND SO LOVED SO DEEP.

[1:04:26] ANYONE WHO CAME IN CONTACT WITH

[1:04:28] KEITH, LOVED HIM.

[1:04:29] HE WAS A JOY, HE WAS A

[1:04:32] JOKESTER, HE WAS MY BABY.

[1:04:34] HE WAS A FATHER, A COUSIN, AN

[1:04:37] UNCLE, AND HE ALWAYS SAID,

[1:04:40] FAMILY OVER EVERYTHING MEANT

[1:04:41] THE MOST TO HIM.

[1:04:43] MY BABY CALLED ME EVERY MORNING

[1:04:45] TO SAY GOOD MORNING, MOM I LOVE

[1:04:46] YOU.

[1:04:48] EVERY DAY BEFORE HE WENT TO

[1:04:50] WORK JUST TO SAY MOM I LOVE

[1:04:52] YOU, HOW IS YOUR DAY?

[1:04:54] HE LOVED HIS DAUGHTER, HE LOVED

[1:04:56] ME SO MUCH I MISS MY CHILD, HE

[1:04:59] DOES NOT DESERVE THIS.

[1:05:02] HIS FAMILY, I'M SO GRATEFUL FOR

[1:05:03] HIM.

[1:05:08] HE LOVED UNCONDITIONALLY, HE

[1:05:10] NEVER ARGUED, HE WAS THE ONE

[1:05:11] THAT BROUGHT PEOPLE TOGETHER

[1:05:12] WITH LOVE AND UNIT.

[1:05:13] HE WAS THE TYPE OF PERSON THAT

[1:05:15] THERE WAS NO ANGER, HE ALWAYS

[1:05:20] BROUGHT JOY INTO THE ROOM AND

[1:05:22] HE MADE YOU FEEL SPECIAL.

[1:05:23] EVERYBODY HAD A NAME.

[1:05:24] AND IT WAS FROM LOVE, JOY.

[1:05:28] HE LOVED TO COOK, HE WOULD COME

[1:05:31] TO YOUR HOUSE AND JUST RAM YOUR

[1:05:33] REFRIGERATOR AND COOK A MEAL.

[1:05:35] HE JUST WANTED HAPPINESS.

[1:05:37] HE WANTED EVERYBODY TO JUST BE

[1:05:38] FILLED WITH JOY.

[1:05:39] HE WOULD SAY, I DON'T CARE MOM

[1:05:41] IF I HAVE A DOLLAR IN MY

[1:05:43] POCKET, YOU WOULD NOT KNOW IT,

[1:05:45] BECAUSE I'M A MILLIONAIRE, I'M

[1:05:47] GOING TO WALK JUST LIKE THAT.

[1:05:48] I AM GOING TO LET EVERYBODY

[1:05:49] KNOW.

[1:05:50] I'M THAT PERSON.

[1:05:51] I'M GOING TO PUT MY CLOTHES ON

[1:05:53] AND I'M JUST GOING TO LOVE.

[1:05:56] I'M PIR ACTUAL, AND I LOVE.

[1:05:57] AND THERE IS A LOT OF PEOPLE

[1:05:59] OUT THAT LOVE ME AND I KNOW IT.

[1:06:00] SO I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW,

[1:06:02] PLEASE.

[1:06:04] JUSTICE FOR MY BABY, HE DOES

[1:06:06] NOT DESERVE THIS, PLEASE.

[1:06:10] THIS PERSON HURT MY CHILD AND

[1:06:13] HE WOULD NEVER HURT ANYBODY, HE

[1:06:16] LOVED SO HARD, HE RESCUED

[1:06:18] ANIMALS, HE WORKED WITH

[1:06:21] DISABLED FAMILY.

[1:06:23] HIS HEART WAS SO BIG.

[1:06:25] HIS HEART WAS SO BIG, HE DIDN'T

[1:06:28] DESERVE THIS.

[1:06:31] HE WAS ON HIS WAY BACK TO SAY

[1:06:33] MOMMY I LOVE YOU, HAPPY NEW

[1:06:35] YEAR, HE DIDN'T EVEN GET A

[1:06:37] CHANCE TO POP THE CHAMPAGNE.

[1:06:39] HE DIDN'T GET A CHANCE TO SAY

[1:06:40] GOODBYE.

[1:06:41] I JUST WANT TO TOUCH MY BABY

[1:06:43] ONE MORE TIME AND KISS HIS FACE

[1:06:47] AND HOLD HIM.

[1:06:48] HE WAS SNATCHED FROM US, LORD,

[1:06:50] PLEASE, I JUST WISH YOU COULD

[1:06:55] GET JUSTICE FOR MY CHILD.

[1:06:57] OH PLEASE, GET JUSTICE FOR MY

[1:06:59] BABY.

[1:07:02] >> SAY HIS NAME!

[1:07:04] » SAY HIS NAME!

[1:07:04] >> KEITH PORTER.

[1:07:05] » KEITH PORTER.

[1:07:05] >> SAY HIS NAME?

[1:07:09] » SAY HIS NAME?

[1:07:09] >> KEITH PORTER.

[1:07:10] » KEITH PORTER.

[1:07:10] >> SAY HIS NAME?

[1:07:12] » SAY HIS NAME?

[1:07:12] >> KEITH PORTER.

[1:07:13] » KEITH PORTER.

[1:07:14] >> I'M JAMAL, I AM THE ATTORNEY

[1:07:15] » I'M JAMAL, I AM THE ATTORNEY

[1:07:15] ON BEHALF OF THE FAMILY.

[1:07:18] ECHOING WHAT WE HEARD FROM HIS

[1:07:21] MOM, KEITH IS MORE THAN A

[1:07:23] HEADLINE.

[1:07:24] KEITH IS A HUMAN WHO LOVED, WHO

[1:07:27] GAVE LOVE AND DESERVES JUSTICE

[1:07:30] AND ACCOUNTABILITY.

[1:07:32] WHAT DOES JUSTICE LOOK LIKE?

[1:07:34] WHAT JUSTICE STARTS BY

[1:07:35] RELEASING THE NAME OF THE ICE

[1:07:37] OFFICER.

[1:07:37] WE DON'T KNOW HIS NAME.

[1:07:40] CERTAINLY, WE KNOW HE WAS NOT

[1:07:43] ACTING UNDER ANY SORT OF DUTY.

[1:07:45] THIS WAS NOT A TRAINED LAW

[1:07:49] ENFORCEMENT OFFICER RESPONDING

[1:07:50] TO A CRIME.

[1:07:52] LAPD WAS UNDER WAY.

[1:07:53] AND WHAT WE'RE SEEING WITH THE

[1:07:55] KILLING OF KEITH IS JUST A

[1:07:58] MICRO CAUSE UM IS GOING ON

[1:08:02] ACROSS THE COUNTRY, WHAT WE'RE

[1:08:04] SEEING IN MINNEAPOLIS AND

[1:08:05] ACROSS OUR COMMUNITIES, WITH

[1:08:06] BLACK AND BROWN AND UNDER

[1:08:08] SERVED COMMUNITIES, OUR ICE

[1:08:11] OFFICERS REEKING HAVOC,

[1:08:12] COMMITTING CRIME.

[1:08:13] : WITH LITTLE TO NO

[1:08:15] ACCOUNTABILITY AND TODAY WE'RE

[1:08:17] ASKING FOR THAT ACCOUNTABILITY.

[1:08:18] THANK YOU.

[1:08:21] >> Speaker: GOOD MORNING, I'M

[1:08:23] » Speaker: GOOD MORNING, I'M

[1:08:23] JOSEPH WILLIAMS I'M WITH BLACK

[1:08:25] LIVES MATTER LOS ANGELES AND

[1:08:28] EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF STUDENTS

[1:08:29] DESERVE AND I WORK DIRECTLY

[1:08:33] WITH KEITH'S COUSIN WHO LET US

[1:08:35] KNOW WHEN KEITH WAS MURDERED.

[1:08:38] WHEN THIS HAPPENED, WHEN WE HAD

[1:08:40] A VIGIL ON SUNDAY NIGHT IN

[1:08:42] HONOR OF HIS KEITH.

[1:08:44] HIS CO-WORKERS FROM HOME DEPOT

[1:08:46] WERE ALREADY THERE.

[1:08:48] HE HAS WORKED AT HOME DEPOT FOR

[1:08:50] JUST ABOUT A YEAR AND ALREADY

[1:08:54] HAS A BIG IMPACT THAT DOZENS

[1:08:56] SHOWED UP, EVEN BEFORE ACTIVIST

[1:08:58] OR COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS SHOWED

[1:08:59] UP TO SHOW THEIR LOVE, TO SHOW

[1:09:02] HOW DEEPLY THEY HAD IMPACTED

[1:09:05] HIM.

[1:09:05] LIKE HIS FATHER SAID, HE WAS A

[1:09:06] FATHER.

[1:09:07] IF YOU LOOK AT HIS INSTAGRAM,

[1:09:11] HIS SOCIAL MEDIA, SO MUCH WAS

[1:09:13] LOVING ON HIS CHILD, HIS FAMILY

[1:09:15] AND HIS COMMUNITY.

[1:09:15] AND I ALSO WANT TO SAY THAT YES

[1:09:17] THIS IS A SYMPTOM OF WHAT IS

[1:09:20] HAPPENING FROM THE NATIONAL

[1:09:21] LEVEL ON DOWN WITH THE UNJUST

[1:09:25] IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT THAT IS

[1:09:27] HARMING IMMIGRANTS AND ALSO

[1:09:28] MANY OTHER FOLKS IN OUR

[1:09:29] COMMUNITIES AND IT'S NOT

[1:09:31] SEPARATE FROM WHAT IS HAPPENING

[1:09:32] IN THIS CITY.

[1:09:32] WE KNOW THAT IN THIS CITY, LAW

[1:09:35] ENFORCEMENT SHOOTING, BY LAPD,

[1:09:37] HAVE INCREASED WHAT 70 PERCENT

[1:09:40] LAST YEAR, AND HAS BEEN VERY

[1:09:42] LITTLE ACCOUNTABILITY IN ANY OF

[1:09:43] THOSE CASES.

[1:09:45] THE FACT THAT KEITH PORTER'S

[1:09:48] MURDERER WAS NOT ARREST ASKED

[1:09:49] MADE TO GIVE UP HIS SERVICE

[1:09:51] WEAPON ON THAT NIGHT IS

[1:09:53] UNACCEPTABLE!

[1:09:56] THIS MAN MURDERED SOMEBODY IN

[1:09:58] COLD BLOOD WHO IS CELEBRATING

[1:10:01] NEW YEAR'S EVE, WHO WAS WAITING

[1:10:02] FOR HIS FAMILY TO COME JOIN HIM

[1:10:06] IN CELEBRATION, WHO WAS A

[1:10:08] BELOVED FATHER AND COMMUNITY

[1:10:10] MEMBER AND WORKER.

[1:10:11] AND THIS IS SOMETHING THAT

[1:10:12] ABSOLUTELY CITY COUNCIL AND

[1:10:15] THIS ENTIRE CITY MUST LOOK AT

[1:10:16] AND SAY THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE,

[1:10:19] IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT WE CAN

[1:10:22] POINT FINGERS AND SAY THIS IS

[1:10:25] DONALD TRUMP'S FAULT, WE

[1:10:26] FWHAOED TO LOOK AT OURSELVES,

[1:10:29] WHAIN VESTMENTS ARE WE MAKING

[1:10:31] WITH OUR BUDGET THAT IS

[1:10:32] ALLOWING THIS TO CONTINUE NOT

[1:10:34] ONLY FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT BUT

[1:10:36] LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT FROM OUR

[1:10:37] COMMUNITY.

[1:10:38] AND WE ALSO KNOW THAT

[1:10:40] IMMIGRATION IS A BLACK ISSUE,

[1:10:41] RIGHT, THAT THE HARMS THAT ARE

[1:10:43] HAPPENING, IN OUR COMMUNITY ARE

[1:10:46] NOT AFFECTING FOLKS WHO ARE

[1:10:49] COMING FROM CENTRAL OR SOUTH

[1:10:51] AMERICA, WE KNOW THE LARGEST

[1:10:53] LAW ENFORCEMENT OPERATION IS

[1:10:54] HAPPENING IN MINNEAPOLIS

[1:10:56] TARGETING BLACK SOMALI

[1:10:58] IMMIGRANTS.

[1:10:58] AND WE KNOW THAT THIS SYSTEM OF

[1:11:02] WHITE SUPREMACY, RELIES ON ANTI

[1:11:05] BLACKNESS AND SEIZURE OF

[1:11:07] INDIGENOUS LAND TO ENRICH THE

[1:11:17] CAPITALIST CLASS.

[1:11:18] SO WE'RE ASKING TO YOU USE THE

[1:11:19] POWER THAT YOU ALL HAVE TO SET

[1:11:21] THE BUDGETS IN THE CITY TO HOLD

[1:11:23] THE MAYOR ACCOUNTABILITY

[1:11:26] --ACCOUNTABLE IN. CITY TO SAY

[1:11:28] WE MUST INVEST IN THE

[1:11:30] ACCOUNTABILITY AND TEAR AND

[1:11:31] RESOURCES AND SUPPORTS FOR OUR

[1:11:32] COMMUNITY AND WE MUST DIVEST,

[1:11:36] WE MUST MOVE MONEY AWAY FROM

[1:11:38] LAW ENFORCEMENT THAT IS HARMING

[1:11:40] FROM OUR COMMUNITY REPEATEDLY.

[1:11:43] KEITH PORTER'S LIFE MATTERS.

[1:11:45] KEITH PORTER'S LIFE MATTERS!

[1:11:50] AND HE DESERVES ACCOUNTABILITY.

[1:11:53] HIS MOM SHOULD NOT BE HERE, SHE

[1:11:55] SHOULD NOT HAVE TO COME HERE,

[1:11:57] WHILE SHE IS GRIEVING TO SAY

[1:11:59] PLEASE, PLEASE, DIRECT YOUR

[1:12:01] OFFICERS TO ARREST THE PERSON

[1:12:02] WHO MURDERED MY SON!

[1:12:04] THAT SHOULDN'T BE HER

[1:12:07] RESPONSIBILITY.

[1:12:07] IT IS YOU ALL, YOU ALL HAVE

[1:12:09] POWER, TO SAY OUR CITY

[1:12:13] EMPLOYEES, LAPD SHOULD BE

[1:12:15] ARRESTING ANY OFFICERS WHO ARE

[1:12:16] CAUSING HARM IN OUR COMMUNITY.

[1:12:19] SO WE HAVE GOT TO STOP POINTING

[1:12:22] THE FINGER ONLY AT DONALD

[1:12:24] TRUMP, AND SAY WHAT IS WITHIN

[1:12:26] OUR POWER?

[1:12:27] WHAT IS WITHIN THE POWER OF

[1:12:29] CITY COUNCIL HERE TO MOVE

[1:12:32] TOWARDS REAL JUSTICE FOR THE

[1:12:34] FAMILY OF KEITH PORTER AND TENS

[1:12:36] OF THOUSANDS OF OTHER FAMILIES

[1:12:37] IN OUR COMMUNITIES WHO ARE

[1:12:39] BEING CONSTANTLY HARMED BY LAW

[1:12:41] ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS FM BOTH FAD

[1:12:42] RAL LAW AND LOCAL LAW

[1:12:44] ENFORCEMENT.

[1:12:44] SO WE WILL BE HERE, CONTINUING

[1:12:48] TO DEMAND JUSTICE FOR KEITH

[1:12:49] PORTER AND FOR ALL THE OTHER

[1:12:52] FOLKS WHO HAVE BEEN STOLEN BY

[1:12:54] LAW ENFORCEMENT, KIDNAPPED BY

[1:12:55] LAW ENFORCEMENT, WHO HAVE BEEN

[1:12:56] HARMED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT

[1:12:57] BECAUSE THERE ARE MANY.

[1:12:59] KEITH PORTER'S DAUGHTER IS 9

[1:13:03] YEARS OLD AND A 20-YEAR-OLD

[1:13:05] DAUGHTER.

[1:13:06] AND THEY WILL LIFT REST OF

[1:13:08] THEIR LIVES WITHOUT THEIR

[1:13:09] FATHER.

[1:13:10] THERE IS NOTHING THAT ANYONE IN

[1:13:11] THIS ROOM CAN DO TO GET JUSTICE

[1:13:13] FOR KEITH PORTER BECAUSE THAT

[1:13:16] WOULD MEAN HE WOULD BE HERE FOR

[1:13:17] HIS FAMILY.

[1:13:18] BUT WHAT WE CAN DO, IS TO MOVE

[1:13:20] FORWARD AND GET ACCOUNTABILITY

[1:13:22] FOR THE FOLKS THAT STOLE HIS

[1:13:27] LIFE UNJUSTLY.

[1:13:27] HE SHOULD NOT BE WALKING FREE,

[1:13:30] HE SHOULD STILL NOT BE

[1:13:31] ANONYMOUS.

[1:13:32] EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW WHAT IN

[1:13:34] MAN IS, WHAT HIS NAME IS, WHAT

[1:13:35] HE LOOKS LIKE AND HE SHOULD BE

[1:13:36] IN JAIL.

[1:13:37] HE SHOULD BE FACING CHARGES?

[1:13:40] SO HE CALL ON YOU ALL TO USE

[1:13:41] THE POWER THAT YOU HAVE, AS THE

[1:13:44] CITY COUNCIL OF THE SECOND

[1:13:46] LARGEST CITY IN THE COUNTRY, AS

[1:13:51] FASCISM IS ADVANCING AROUND THE

[1:13:52] COUNTRY.

[1:13:53] AS LAW ENFORCEMENT TERROR IS

[1:13:55] ENFORCING AROUND THE COUNTRY,

[1:13:57] WHAT WILL YOU DO?

[1:14:00] NOT IN STATEMENTS, BEFOREHAND

[1:14:02] OR LETTERS OR ASSOCIATE MEDIA

[1:14:04] POST?

[1:14:05] WHAT WILL YOU DO WITH THE POWER

[1:14:07] OF THE POSITIONS TO DEMAND REAL

[1:14:08] JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY AND

[1:14:10] A DIFFERENT FUTURE AND A

[1:14:11] DIFFERENT WORLD FOR KEITH

[1:14:14] PORTER'S FAMILY, FOR BLACK

[1:14:15] FAMILIES, FOR IMMIGRANT

[1:14:17] FAMILIES ALL AROUND OUR CITY!

[1:14:19] SO WE'LL CONTINUE TO FIGHT FOR

[1:14:21] JUSTICE IN THE NAME OF KEITH

[1:14:23] PORTER AND WHO FOR HIS FAMILY

[1:14:25] AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO DEMAND

[1:14:27] THAT YOU ALL IN POSITIONS OF

[1:14:28] POWER WHO HAVE BEEN ELECTED BY

[1:14:30] THE PEOPLE OF THIS CITY, DO

[1:14:32] WHAT YOU MUST DO WITH THE POWER

[1:14:36] AND POSITIONALITY THAT YOU HAVE

[1:14:37] TO FIGHT AGAINST THE FASCIST

[1:14:46] REGIME NA IS ADVANCING.

[1:14:48] THIS IS UNPRECEDENTED TIMES AND

[1:14:49] YOU ALL MUST TAKE UNPRECEDENTED

[1:14:52] MEASURES TO DEMAND

[1:14:54] ACCOUNTABILITY TO DEMAND

[1:14:55] TRANSPRENCY AND TO DO

[1:14:57] SOMETHING DIFFERENT WITH THE

[1:14:58] RESOURCE THAT'S WE AT OUR DIS

[1:15:00] POTION AL HERE.

[1:15:02] PRESIDENT TRUMP IS DEFUNDING

[1:15:04] EDUCATION, THE VERY PUBLIC

[1:15:05] SERVICE THAT'S OUR COMMUNITIES

[1:15:07] RELY ON, AND AS CREATED THE

[1:15:09] LARGEST LAW ENFORCEMENT ENTITY

[1:15:11] IN THE HISTORY OF THIS COUNTRY.

[1:15:13] IN THE HISTORY OF THIS COUNTRY!

[1:15:16] SO WHAT IS UNACCEPTABLE THAT

[1:15:18] THIS COUNCIL ALSO VOTED TO

[1:15:20] INCREASE FUNDING FOR LAW

[1:15:22] ENFORCEMENT, FOR LAPD, THESE

[1:15:23] THINGS ARE ARE NOT DISCONNECTED.

[1:15:26] THESE ARE ABSOLUTE CONNECTED.

[1:15:28] SO WE STAND HERE IN DEEP

[1:15:30] SOLIDARITY WITH THE FAMILY OF

[1:15:33] KEITH PORTER IN SOLIDARITY WITH

[1:15:37] THE FAMILY OF RENEE GOODE WITH

[1:15:39] THE FOLKS SHOT YESTERDAY IN

[1:15:41] PORTLAND OREGON AND ALL THE

[1:15:42] FOLKS SHOT AND KILLED AND

[1:15:45] STOLEN FROM THEIR FAMILY BY LAW

[1:15:47] ENFORCEMENT THAT YOU ALL IN

[1:15:49] CITY COUNCIL HAVE THE POWER AND

[1:15:51] RESPONSIBILITY TO TAKE ACTION

[1:15:52] AROUND.

[1:15:52] THANK YOU.

[1:15:55] [APPLAUSE]

[1:15:58] >> I WANT TO GIVE MY DEEPEST

[1:16:02] » I WANT TO GIVE MY DEEPEST

[1:16:03] CONDOLENCES TO KEITH PORT PER'S

[1:16:04] MOM, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR

[1:16:06] BEING HERE FOR YOUR WORDS.

[1:16:07] THANK YOU EVERYBODY FOR BEING

[1:16:08] OUT HERE FROM THE COMMUNITY.

[1:16:09] AND THANK YOU FOR EVERYONE FOR

[1:16:11] YOUR WORDS.

[1:16:12] THANK YOU COUNCIL PRESIDENT FOR

[1:16:13] YOUR TIME AND FOR ALLOWING US

[1:16:14] TO SHARE.

[1:16:14] THANK YOU.

[1:16:16] >> SAY HIS NAME.

[1:16:19] » SAY HIS NAME.

[1:16:19] >> KEITH PORTER.

[1:16:20] » KEITH PORTER.

[1:16:20] >> SAY HIS NAME.

[1:16:20] » SAY HIS NAME.

[1:16:21] >> KEITH PORTER.

[1:16:21] » KEITH PORTER.

[1:16:21] >> SAY HIS NAME!

[1:16:23] » SAY HIS NAME!

[1:16:23] >> KEITH PORTER!

[1:16:25] » KEITH PORTER!

[1:16:25] >> Council President: ALL

[1:16:26] » Council President: ALL

[1:16:26] RIGHT, THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER

[1:16:29] RODRIGUEZ AND HERNANDEZ FOR

[1:16:32] STARTING US OFF WITH THOSE

[1:16:35] IMPORTANT TESTIMONIALS AND TO

[1:16:40] COUNCILMEMBER'S RODRIGUEZ'S

[1:16:45] POINT, THE TESTIMONIAL IS

[1:16:48] GETTING WORSE NOT BETTER, WE

[1:16:52] STARTED WITH SOMEBODY BEING

[1:16:54] CHASED AND AND NOW WE'RE AT

[1:16:57] PEOPLE GETTING SHOT IN COLD

[1:16:58] BLOOD AROUND THE COUNTRY.

[1:17:00] SO THIS COUNCIL WILL CONTINUE

[1:17:02] TO PRESS THE POINT AND SHINE A

[1:17:04] LIGHT ON THAT ISSUE.

[1:17:06] SO AGAIN, THANK YOU AGAIN TO

[1:17:08] COUNCILMEMBER RODRIGUEZ AND

[1:17:09] HERNANDEZ AND THE FAMILY OF

[1:17:11] KEITH PORTER THAT JOINED US

[1:17:12] TODAY.

[1:17:15] ALL RIGHT, MEMBERS, TODAY IS

[1:17:19] OUR FIRST MEETING OF THE YEAR

[1:17:22] 2026 AND MANY OF YOU WILL

[1:17:24] REMEMBER OUR FIRST MEETING OF

[1:17:26] THE YEAR 2025, IT IS A DAY THAT

[1:17:30] WILL BE REMEMBERED FOR EVER

[1:17:32] HERE IN THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES

[1:17:34] WHEN WE WERE VISITED WITH ONE

[1:17:37] OF THE MOST TRAGIC DAYS THAT

[1:17:39] WE'VE SEEN IN OUR HISTORY AND

[1:17:42] SOME OF THE GREATEST DAMAGE TO

[1:17:46] PROPERTY AND TO THE TAKING OF

[1:17:49] HUMAN LIFE BY NATURE THAT WE

[1:17:51] HAVE SEEN IN THE HISTORY OF OUR

[1:17:52] CITY.

[1:17:54] AND SO, TO COMMEMORATE AND TO

[1:17:57] MARK AND TO REMEMBER, THE FIRES

[1:18:03] OF 2025 THAT AFFECTED US HERE

[1:18:07] IN LOS ANGELES AND IN THE

[1:18:10] PALISADES AND SAN FERNANDO

[1:18:12] VALLEY AND MALIBU AND ALTADENA

[1:18:14] AND THE COUNTY, I WANT TO CALL

[1:18:16] TO THIS DESK TO LEAD US IN A

[1:18:19] COMMEMORATION, OUR

[1:18:20] REPRESENTATIVE FROM PALISADES

[1:18:21] AND THE WEST SIDE, OUR OWN

[1:18:24] COUNCILMEMBER TRACI PARK.

[1:18:33] MRO*UZ

[1:18:34] --[APPLAUSE]

[1:18:47] >> T. Park: GOOD MORNING,

[1:18:50] » T. Park: GOOD MORNING,

[1:18:50] EVERYONE.

[1:18:53] AND THANK YOU COUNCIL PRESIDENT

[1:18:56] FOR LETTING ME TAKE THE CHAIR

[1:18:59] FOR THIS SPECIAL PRESENTATION.

[1:19:01] ON JANUARY 7, 2025, HORRIFIC

[1:19:05] FIRES DECIMATED THE COMMUNITIES

[1:19:06] OF THE PACIFIC PALISADES AND

[1:19:09] ALTADENA.

[1:19:11] IN THE PACIFIC PALISADES, 12

[1:19:14] LIVES WERE LOST.

[1:19:17] IN ALTADENA, ANOTHER 19 TRAGIC

[1:19:20] DEATHS.

[1:19:22] ACROSS LOS ANGELES, WE CONTINUE

[1:19:25] HOLDING THEIR FAMILIES CLOSE IN

[1:19:27] OUR HEARTS.

[1:19:30] PLEASE JOIN ME IN A MOMENT OF

[1:19:31] SILENCE TO REMEMBER THOSE WHO

[1:19:34] DIED THAT DAY.

[1:19:48] THANK YOU.

[1:19:51] ONE YEAR AGO ON WEDNESDAY, OUR

[1:19:57] CITY EXPERIENCED THE WORSE

[1:19:59] DISASTER IN ITS 240-YEAR

[1:20:02] HISTORY.

[1:20:04] THE DAY STARTED LIKE SO MANY

[1:20:07] OTHERS.

[1:20:08] FOR US, IT WAS A COUNCIL DAY, A

[1:20:11] LONG COMMUTE FROM OUR VARIOUS

[1:20:13] PARTS OF THE CITY TO THESE

[1:20:15] CHAMBERS.

[1:20:16] COLLEAGUES YOU PROBABLY ALL DID

[1:20:18] WHAT I DID ON THE DRIVE IN THAT

[1:20:22] DAY, A FEW MINUTES OF KNX, A

[1:20:25] FEW PHONE CALLS, WONDERING WHAT

[1:20:29] DRAMA WOULD UNFOLD RIGHT HERE.

[1:20:31] FOR THOUSANDS OF OTHERS, IT WAS

[1:20:33] THE SAME.

[1:20:35] SCOOCHING THE KIDS OFF TO

[1:20:37] SCHOOL, DRAGGING THE TRASH BINS

[1:20:40] TO THE CURB, PETTING THE DOG

[1:20:43] GOODBYE AND RUSHING OFF TO WORK.

[1:20:46] NEVER KNOWING THAT IT WOULD BE

[1:20:49] THE LAST TIME THAT THERE WOULD

[1:20:53] BE NO FORMAL GOOD-BYE.

[1:20:59] CHIEF CROWLEY CALLED ME DURING

[1:21:01] OUR COUNCIL MEETING TO LET ME

[1:21:02] KNOW THAT THERE WAS A BURNING

[1:21:06] IN THE PALISADES AND THAT IT

[1:21:08] WAS GROWING QUICKLY.

[1:21:09] SHE WAS CALM BUT URGENT WHEN

[1:21:11] SHE SUGGESTED THAT I GET BACK

[1:21:12] TO THE WEST SIDE AS SOON AS

[1:21:15] POSSIBLE.

[1:21:18] COUNCILMEMBER RAMAN, YOU

[1:21:19] ALREADY HAD A FIRE BURNING IN

[1:21:23] COUNCIL DISTRICT 4.

[1:21:24] WE WERE BOTH WORRIED WONDERING,

[1:21:27] HOW BAD THINGS WOULD GET.

[1:21:31] I ALSO REMEMBER COUNCIL

[1:21:34] PRESIDENT, YOU SO KINDLY

[1:21:37] OFFERING TO ALLOW ME TO BE

[1:21:40] EXCUSED SO I CAN GET TO THE

[1:21:41] WEST SIDE TO BE WITH MY

[1:21:46] CONSTITUENTS.

[1:21:48] WHEN I ARRIVED TO THE

[1:21:51] PALISADES, THE CHAOTIC FIRE

[1:21:52] STORM WAS ALREADY UNDER WAY.

[1:21:53] THE AIR WAS ALREADY CHOCKED

[1:21:55] WITH SMOKE, WE CAN BARELY

[1:21:57] BREATHE.

[1:21:58] THE WIND WAS RAGING FROM ALL

[1:22:01] DIRECTIONS, THICK ASH AND

[1:22:04] AMBERS WERE WHIZING THROUGH THE

[1:22:06] AIR LIKE BULLETS, SIRENS CUT

[1:22:09] THROUGH NEIGHBORHOODS THAT ONLY

[1:22:10] HOURS BEFORE WERE QUIET AND

[1:22:13] FAMILIAR.

[1:22:15] OUR OWN FIREFIGHTERS WERE

[1:22:16] RUSHING IN PUTTING THEIR LIVES

[1:22:18] AT-RISK TRYING TO FIGHT A FIRE

[1:22:21] THAT OVERWHELMED OUR SYSTEMS

[1:22:23] AND RESOURCES FASTER THAN

[1:22:24] ANYTHING WE HAD EVER SEEN

[1:22:25] BEFORE.

[1:22:27] IN FACT, THOUSANDS OF

[1:22:29] FIREFIGHTERS FROM OVER 400

[1:22:32] DEPARTMENTS ACROSS L.A. COUNTY,

[1:22:35] CALIFORNIA, THE ENTIRE U.S. AND

[1:22:38] MEXICO AND CANADA CAME TO THE

[1:22:40] AID OF LOS ANGELES.

[1:22:42] AT THE SAME TIME, EVACUATIONS

[1:22:45] WERE ALREADY BREAKING DOWN.

[1:22:50] COMMUNICATION SYSTEM SYSTEMS

[1:22:51] WERE OFF LINE, THE POWER WERE

[1:22:52] OUT AND SO WERE THE TRAFFIC

[1:22:54] LIGHTS WITH AN ENDLESS STREAM

[1:22:58] OF CARS INCHING THEIR WAY OUT

[1:23:00] OF MALIBU AND PACIFIC PALISADES

[1:23:03] ON TO PCH.

[1:23:06] UP STREAM, TRAFFIC CAME TO A

[1:23:10] STANDSTILL AS FIRE JUMPED THE

[1:23:14] HILL SIDES, HUNDREDS FLED ON

[1:23:15] FOOT.

[1:23:17] I'LL NEVER FORGET THE SITE OF

[1:23:18] SO MANY PEOPLE WALKING OUT OF

[1:23:22] THE PALISADES TOWARDS THE

[1:23:24] BEACH, SO MANY FOR THE LAST

[1:23:26] TIME CARRYING ONLY WHAT THEY

[1:23:28] COULD.

[1:23:31] AS THEY LEFT, THE FIRE RACED

[1:23:35] DOWN THE HILL SIDES AND THEIR

[1:23:39] ENTIRE TOWN BURNED.

[1:23:42] ONE BY ONE, THEIR HOMES, THEIR

[1:23:45] CHURCHES, THEIR SCHOOLS, THEIR

[1:23:49] BUSINESSES ALL THE THINGS THAT

[1:23:52] DEFINE A PLACE THAT CREATED

[1:23:57] NEIGHBORHOOD, IN JUST A FEW

[1:23:59] SHORT HOURS WERE GONE.

[1:24:03] ALL TOLD LOSSES TOO STAGGERING

[1:24:07] TO COUNT, DEVASTATION TOO GREAT

[1:24:11] TO QUANTIFY, AND HEART BREAK

[1:24:14] THAT WILL NEVER HEAL.

[1:24:17] FOR MOST, THERE WAS NOTHING TO

[1:24:20] RETURN TO, AND NOTHING PREPARES

[1:24:23] ANYONE FOR A DAY LIKE THAT.

[1:24:27] BUT THE STORY OF WHAT HAPPENED

[1:24:30] AFTER THE FIRE IS SOMETHING

[1:24:32] REMARKABLE TOO.

[1:24:34] WHAT CARRIED THE PACIFIC

[1:24:36] PALISADES THROUGH THAT DAY, AND

[1:24:38] THROUGH THE VERY LONG YEAR THAT

[1:24:41] FOLLOWED, WAS NOT A SINGLE ACT

[1:24:46] OR INSTITUTION, IT WAS PEOPLE.

[1:24:48] WHILE THE ROADS WERE CLOSED AND

[1:24:51] THE UTILITIES WERE OUT AND

[1:24:53] FAMILIES WERE SCATTERED BEYOND

[1:24:55] THE CITY AND BEYOND,

[1:24:58] PALISADESIANS DID WHAT THEY

[1:24:59] HAVE ALWAYS DONE, THEY SHOWED

[1:25:03] UP FOR EACH:00 NOT BECAUSE THEY

[1:25:05] WERE TOLD TO, NOT BECAUSE THERE

[1:25:07] WAS A PLAN BOW BECAUSE THEY

[1:25:12] UNDERSTOOD INSTINCTIVELY THAT

[1:25:13] COMMUNITY WOULD BE THE FIRST

[1:25:15] LINE OF SURVIVAL AND THE

[1:25:16] FOUNDATION FOR RECOVERY.

[1:25:19] NEIGHBORS CHECKED ON NEIGHBORS

[1:25:20] WITHOUT EVEN KNOW IF THEY'RE

[1:25:23] OWN HOMES WERE STILL STANDING,

[1:25:25] PEOPLE SHARED INFORMATION WITH

[1:25:26] EACH OTHER WHEN OFFICIAL

[1:25:29] CHANNELS WERE OVERWHELMED, THEY

[1:25:33] OPENED THEIR PHONES, THEIR

[1:25:35] LIVING ROOMS AND THEY BEGAN

[1:25:40] REBUILDING HUMAN CONNECTIONS

[1:25:43] LONG BEFORE REBUILDING

[1:25:46] STRUCTURES WAS EVEN IMAGINABLE.

[1:25:48] AND WHEN THE SHOCK GAVE WAVE TO

[1:25:52] REALITY THAT BECAME LEADERSHIP.

[1:25:54] ORGANIZED BLOCK BY BLOCK WHEN

[1:25:55] THERE WAS NO ROAD MAP THE,

[1:25:59] CONVENED MEETINGS TO UNDERSTAND

[1:26:01] DEBRIS REMOVAL AND INSURANCE

[1:26:03] TIME LINES AND BUREAUCRATIC

[1:26:05] PROCESSES THAT FELT IMPOSSIBLE

[1:26:06] TO NAVIGATE ALONE.

[1:26:07] THEY WORKED TOGETHER TO

[1:26:10] COORDINATE DEBRIS REMOVAL

[1:26:11] HELPING ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOODS

[1:26:13] MOVE FORWARD TOGETHER, RATHER

[1:26:15] THAN PARCEL BY PARCEL.

[1:26:18] WHEN FRUSTRATION AND FEAR TOOK

[1:26:20] HOLD AND IT DID, RESIDENTS

[1:26:23] CREATED SPACES TO TALK, TO

[1:26:25] LISTEN AND TO KEEP EACH OTHER

[1:26:28] MOVING FORWARD EVEN AT TIMES

[1:26:30] WHEN IT MIGHT HAVE JUST BEEN

[1:26:32] EASIER TO GIVE UP.

[1:26:35] THERE WERE SHREDS ENVISIONING

[1:26:37] HOW REBUILDING COULD HAPPEN

[1:26:41] BETTER AND SAFER, POP UP MEET

[1:26:44] TO GO ADDRESS INSURANCE GAPS

[1:26:47] AND FINANCIAL CHALLENGES EARLY

[1:26:49] MORNING EMAILS AND LATE CALLS

[1:26:50] AND COUNTLESS HOURS OF

[1:26:53] VOLUNTEER LABOR THAT WILL NEVER

[1:26:55] BE CAPTURED NAYS REPORT OR

[1:26:57] PRESS RELEASE BUT WITHOUT WHICH

[1:26:59] THIS RECOVERY WOULD HAVE

[1:27:00] STALLED.

[1:27:04] THIS ORGANIZED COORDINATION

[1:27:05] LASTED NOT FOR DAYS BUT FOR

[1:27:08] MONTHS AND THAT WORK CONTINUES

[1:27:10] TODAY.

[1:27:11] THERE ARE COUNTLESS

[1:27:16] PALISADESIANS THAT CARRY THIS

[1:27:17] AND I CANNOT NAME THEM TODAY

[1:27:19] BUT MANY OF THEM ARE HERE, SUE

[1:27:24] COAL, JESSICA ROGERS, KIM

[1:27:27] FEDER, SAM LAGANA, ALLISON

[1:27:30] POLLHILL, SIR LOCK, HERSCHMAN,

[1:27:36] CAROLYN DAVID-ROSS, DAPHNE,

[1:27:40] LARRY VAIN, PASTOR MATT HARDEN,

[1:27:43] NORA, SHERRI MANDEL, ROSEANNE

[1:27:48] LANDA, LEANNE SANDERSON, MARK

[1:27:51] SMITH, MICHELLE EVAN HALL,

[1:27:53] CAMERON BROWN, PAUL NAIGLE.

[1:27:57] AND THIS COMMUNITY DIDN'T DO IT

[1:28:00] ALONE, IN THE HOURS AND DAYS

[1:28:03] THAT FOLLOWED, COMMUNITIES

[1:28:04] ACROSS LOS ANGELES OPENED THEIR

[1:28:07] NEIGHBORHOODS, THEIR SCHOOLS,

[1:28:09] THEIR HOMES AND THEIR HEARTS TO

[1:28:13] SO MANY DISPLACED FAMILIES.

[1:28:17] VOLUNTEERS FED FIRST RESPONDERS

[1:28:19] AND DONATION CENTERS, ESSENTIAL

[1:28:21] AND EMERGENCIES SUPPLIES

[1:28:22] ARRIVED BY THE PALLET-LOAD.

[1:28:28] ANGELINOS FROM ACROSS THE CITY,

[1:28:30] OFFERED HELP WITHOUT CONDITION,

[1:28:33] FAITH GROUPS, NONPROFITS

[1:28:36] STEPPED IN TO FILL THE GAPS

[1:28:38] BEFORE GOVERNMENT SYSTEMS CAN

[1:28:39] EVEN CATCH UP.

[1:28:41] THE CALIFORNIA NATIONAL GUARD

[1:28:43] ARRIVED AND PROVIDED SECURITY

[1:28:45] AND STABILITY FOR MONTHS AFTER

[1:28:46] THE FIRE.

[1:28:48] FEMA AND THE RED CROSS STEPPED

[1:28:50] IN WITH EMERGENCY RELIEF FOR

[1:28:52] FAMILIES AND BUSINESSES AND

[1:28:54] UNDER THE EXTRAORDINARILY

[1:28:57] LEADERSHIP OF COLONEL ERIC

[1:29:03] SWANSON DID NOT ONLY CLEAR

[1:29:06] DEBRIS WITHIN RECORD TIME THEY

[1:29:08] CLEARED A PATH HOME.

[1:29:09] AT THIS TIME I WOULD LIKE TO

[1:29:12] TAKE A MOMENT AND PLAY A

[1:29:14] TRIBUTE VIDEO TO LOOK BACK AT

[1:29:15] JANUARY 7th AND THE WEEKS AND

[1:29:18] MONTHS THAT FOLLOWED.

[1:29:22] >> WHAT WAS LOST IN THESE

[1:29:24] » WHAT WAS LOST IN THESE

[1:29:24] FIRES, WASN'T JUST PROPERTY,

[1:29:26] THIS WERE PLACES, HOMES THAT

[1:29:31] WERE FILLED WITH HISTORY,

[1:29:34] GIFTS, FROM GRANDPARENTS,

[1:29:38] MEMORIES, BY PARENTS, AND

[1:29:40] DREAMS CARRIED BY CHILDREN.

[1:29:44] THIS FIRE TOOK TOO MUCH MORE

[1:29:46] THAN STRUCTURES, IT TOOK PIECES

[1:29:50] OF YOUR COLLECTED HISTORY.

[1:29:52] >> ONE YEAR AGO, L.A.

[1:29:55] » ONE YEAR AGO, L.A.

[1:29:55] EXPERIENCED THE WORSE DISASTER

[1:29:57] IN ITS 240-YEAR HISTORY.

[1:30:01] IN A MATTER OF FEW SHORT HOURS,

[1:30:05] AN ENTIRE COMMUNITY WAS

[1:30:06] DESIGNATED.

[1:30:08] --DECIMATED.

[1:30:09] 12 PEOPLE LOST THEIR LIVES, SO

[1:30:12] MANY KHOIFZ LOST, YMCA,

[1:30:14] SCHOOLS, THE LIB REHUNDREDS OF

[1:30:16] BUSINESSES, THE HISTORIC SUNSET

[1:30:20] CORRIDOR, LANDMARKS, REDUCED TO

[1:30:22] ASH.

[1:30:23] AND YET EVEN IN THE APOCALYPTIC

[1:30:32] AFTERMATH, L.A. SHOWED UP.

[1:30:34] IN THE MONTHS THAT FOLLOWED,

[1:30:36] OUR CITY DEPARTMENT WORKED

[1:30:38] AROUND THE CLOCK, RESTORING

[1:30:41] REAOULT, REOPENING ROADS, FEMA

[1:30:42] AND THE ARMY CORPS CARRIED OUT

[1:30:45] AN EXTRAORDINARY MISSION,

[1:30:46] CLEARING NOT JUST THOUSANDS OF

[1:30:48] PARCELS IN RECORD TIME BUT

[1:30:51] CLEARING THE FIRST STEP FORWARD

[1:30:52] FOR A COMMUNITY DESPERATE TO

[1:30:54] COME HOME.

[1:30:55] THIS WAS AN ABSTRACT WORKCIOUS

[1:30:58] IT WAS URGENT, IT WAS HUMAN AND

[1:31:00] IT WAS ABOUT STABILIZING AN

[1:31:02] ENTIRE COMMUNITY WHILE THE

[1:31:04] GROUND WAS STILL SHIFTING

[1:31:06] BENEATH US.

[1:31:07] >> IT IS TT ALPHABET AREA IN

[1:31:13] » IT IS TT ALPHABET AREA IN

[1:31:13] THE PACIFIC PALISADES THAT WAS

[1:31:15] RECEIVED THE MOST BECAUSE THE

[1:31:16] FIRE.

[1:31:19] DEVASTATING FIRE TOOK MOST

[1:31:21] HOMES IN THE ALPHABET AREA.

[1:31:24] I WAS HERE ON JANUARY 7,

[1:31:28] MEETING SOME CONSTITUENTS.

[1:31:29] >> WE KNEW THAT, WE DIDN'T KNOW

[1:31:31] » WE KNEW THAT, WE DIDN'T KNOW

[1:31:31] A LOT OF WHAT WAS GOING ON, IT

[1:31:34] SEEMS TO BE CHAOS AND THE

[1:31:36] REPORTS WERE COMING IN,

[1:31:37] OBVIOUSLY, BUT WE DIDN'T THINK

[1:31:38] THAT WE HAD ANOTHER OPTION.

[1:31:40] WE HAVE A TEAM MEMBER, THIS IS

[1:31:43] A COMMUNITY, THIS IS A PLACE

[1:31:45] THAT WE KNOW AND LOVE.

[1:31:47] THERE WERE STILL PEOPLE AND

[1:31:51] LINGERING, OKAY LET'S JUMP INTO

[1:31:52] ACTION JUST LIKE WE DO

[1:31:54] EVERYTHING ELSE.

[1:31:55] SO WE SPENT THE NEXT COUPLE OF

[1:31:56] HOURS, WE WERE KNOCKING ON

[1:31:58] DOORS, HELPING PEOPLE LOAD

[1:32:00] THEIR CARS, HELPING PEOPLE GET

[1:32:01] DOWN THE HILL AND I'LL NEVER

[1:32:03] FORGET THE FIRST NIGHT, WE CAME

[1:32:05] DOWN WE WERE ALL COVERED IN ASH

[1:32:09] AND SMOKE AND COUNCILWOMAN

[1:32:11] HUGGED EACH OF US AND IT WAS,

[1:32:13] IT WAS OVERWHELMING TO REALIZE

[1:32:15] WHAT WE WERE IN.

[1:32:17] >> I WANT TO GO BACK IN THE

[1:32:19] » I WANT TO GO BACK IN THE

[1:32:19] ORIGINAL FIRE, WE HAVE SUE AND

[1:32:21] SHE HAS BEEN EVACUATED.

[1:32:24] CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT THOSE

[1:32:25] MOMENTS WHEN YOU REALIZED IT

[1:32:29] WAS RAVAGING YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD

[1:32:29] AND YOU NEED TO GET OUT.

[1:32:31] YOU THINK ABOUT THOSE MOMENTS

[1:32:33] OF HAVING TO CHOOSE WHAT TO

[1:32:39] TAKE WITH YOU.

[1:32:40] >> I'VE BEEN EVACUATED BEFORE

[1:32:42] » I'VE BEEN EVACUATED BEFORE

[1:32:42] AND IT'S 24 HOURS, IT'S A PANIC

[1:32:45] MODE YOU TRY TO TAKE A DEEP

[1:32:48] BREATHE AND YOU GO TO ROOM TO

[1:32:50] ROOM AND DECIDE WHAT TO TAKE.

[1:32:53] THAT'S WHAT WE DID FOR ABOUT AN

[1:32:56] HOUR AND AT SOME POINT, YOU

[1:32:57] JUST HAVE TO GO.

[1:32:58] >> WE LEFT THE HOUSE, I WOULD

[1:33:00] » WE LEFT THE HOUSE, I WOULD

[1:33:00] SAY ON THAT DAY ABOUT 12:30 IN

[1:33:06] THE AFTERNOON.

[1:33:07] THE FIRE CAME AROUND 7:00 THE

[1:33:11] ALPHABET STREETS.

[1:33:13] SO ALL OF THESE MONTHS, PART OF

[1:33:16] ME WISH I DIDN'T RUN OUT SO

[1:33:18] QUICKLY AND INSTEAD WISH THAT I

[1:33:21] HAD STUCK AROUND, BECAUSE AS

[1:33:23] EVERYONE KNOWS, WHEN YOU LOSE

[1:33:26] YOUR HOUSE, IN A HORRIBLE

[1:33:29] DISASTER LIKE WHAT WE HAD, IT

[1:33:32] IS NOT JUST THE HOUSE, IT'S ALL

[1:33:33] THE THINGS THAT YOU HAVE

[1:33:36] COLLECTED, YOUR KIDS MEMORY

[1:33:38] BOOKS, YOUR CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS.

[1:33:41] EVERYONE I KNOW IN THE

[1:33:43] PALISADES, WAS TRAUMA EYESED

[1:33:45] WHETHER THEIR HOUSE WAS LEFT

[1:33:49] STANDING, IT'S A CLOSE KNIT

[1:33:52] TOWN TO TO HAVE WHAT FELT LIKE

[1:33:55] YOUR BIG EXTENDED FAMILY

[1:33:57] SCATTERED ALL OVER CREATION,

[1:33:59] WAS YOU KNOW, VERY WAS VERY

[1:34:02] DIFFICULT AND VERY SAD.

[1:34:08] >> THE ASIAN TERRACE IS A

[1:34:11] » THE ASIAN TERRACE IS A

[1:34:11] MOBILE HOME PARK IN THE

[1:34:12] PALISADES THAT DATES BACK TO

[1:34:15] THE 1950s, WHEN I WAS A KIDS IT

[1:34:18] WAS A RETIREMENT PARK, THAT WE

[1:34:20] WERE GRANDFATHERED INTO BECAUSE

[1:34:22] M GRANDFATHER OWNED HIS PLACE.

[1:34:24] BUT THE COMMUNITY WOULD VOTE TO

[1:34:28] BECOME AN ALL-AGES PARK AGAIN.

[1:34:29] MY SON WAS THE FIRST BABY BORN

[1:34:31] IN THE PARK.

[1:34:32] THERE IS NOT A SINGLE PERSON

[1:34:37] WHO LIVED THERE THAT DIDN'T

[1:34:41] UNDERSTAND HOW LUCKY THEY WERE

[1:34:43] TO CALL THAT PLACE HOME.

[1:34:46] >> I'M WALKING YOU WALKING

[1:34:50] » I'M WALKING YOU WALKING

[1:34:51] THROUGH THE BURN ZONE.

[1:34:54] I'M WALKING YOU THROUGH THIS

[1:34:55] POST, THIS IS A SPECIAL PLACE.

[1:34:57] >> WE FORMED A LONG TERM

[1:35:00] » WE FORMED A LONG TERM

[1:35:00] RECOVERY GROUP TO SUPPORT THE

[1:35:03] ROSTER OF CITIZENS HERE.

[1:35:05] MY ROSTER IS 10,460 FAMILIES

[1:35:09] AND IT'S MY ROLE TO CONNECT

[1:35:12] WITH THOSE PEOPLE WHETHER

[1:35:15] THEY'RE, THEIR WELL INSURED AND

[1:35:21] ON THEIR WAY TO RECOVERY OR

[1:35:24] WHETHER EVERYTHING WAS

[1:35:25] DESTROYED IN THE FIRE AND

[1:35:26] NOTHING LEFT.

[1:35:27] THE HARDEST PART FOR ME IS

[1:35:29] UNDERSTANDING THAT I HAVE TO

[1:35:31] STOP AND ADD A PSYCHOLOGICAL

[1:35:34] COMPONENT TO EVERY CONVERSATION

[1:35:35] TO EVERY FAMILY THAT COMES

[1:35:37] THROUGH MY DOOR BEFORE WE CAN

[1:35:39] EVEN MOVE INTO ON WORKING ON

[1:35:41] REBUILDING ON DEALING WITH

[1:35:42] THEIR INSURANCE ON DEALING WITH

[1:35:44] ALL OF THOSE STRUGGLES.

[1:35:47] WE HAVE TO GET THEM GROUNDED.

[1:36:02] >> MANY LOTS HAVE BEEN CLEARED

[1:36:03] » MANY LOTS HAVE BEEN CLEARED

[1:36:03] THANKS TO THE EXTENSIVE WORK OF

[1:36:08] ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS.

[1:36:11] WE HAVE SEEN A LOT OF ACTIVITY

[1:36:15] IN THE ALPHABET.

[1:36:17] WE HAVE SEEN TRUCKED GOING IN

[1:36:19] AND OUT OF PALISADES.

[1:36:20] >> WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO SEE

[1:36:22] » WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO SEE

[1:36:22] LATER TODAY IS US GOING THROUGH

[1:36:26] THESE PROPERTIES MAKING AN

[1:36:27] ASSESSMENT AND GOING ON.

[1:36:29] >> WHAT REALLY AMAZED ME WAS

[1:36:33] » WHAT REALLY AMAZED ME WAS

[1:36:33] ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS, THEY

[1:36:35] CAME IN AND PERFORMED MIRACLES.

[1:36:38] >> ULTIMATELY THAT CLEAN UP

[1:36:40] » ULTIMATELY THAT CLEAN UP

[1:36:40] REMOVED A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF

[1:36:44] HURDLES BOTH AS OUR ABILITY TO

[1:36:45] MOVE FORWARD BUT ALSO THAT WE

[1:36:47] CAN START LOOKING TO THE FUTURE

[1:36:48] FOR THE POTENTIAL TO REBUILD

[1:36:50] AND TO RETURN.

[1:36:53] >> BELOW PACIFIC PALISADES AND

[1:36:55] » BELOW PACIFIC PALISADES AND

[1:36:55] IMPACTED BY THE WILDFIRES THAT

[1:36:58] STRUCK YOUR COMMUNITY IN THE

[1:36:59] EARLY DAYS OF JANUARY 2025.

[1:37:01] I MISS ALL OF YOU AND THINK OF

[1:37:02] YOU OFTEN.

[1:37:04] DAILY I SAY MY PRAYERS FOR THE

[1:37:08] SURVIVORS THAT YOU WILL GET

[1:37:10] BACK ON TO YOUR LAND AND

[1:37:15] OVERCOME DIVERSITY.

[1:37:15] I WITNESSED FIRSTHAND JUST HOW

[1:37:17] RESILIENT YOUR COMMUNITY IS.

[1:37:18] THE SOUND OF CONSTRUCTION

[1:37:20] EVERYWHERE, WARMS MY HEART.

[1:37:21] I WOULD LIKE TO THANK EVERY

[1:37:22] MEMER OF THE COMMUNITY FOR

[1:37:25] MAKING MY SIX MONTHS IN YOUR

[1:37:26] COMMUNITY SPECIAL.

[1:37:28] IS TRULY FELT LIKE I WAS PART

[1:37:29] OF THE COMMUNITY UNITED UNDER A

[1:37:31] COMMON GOAL OF GETTING EACH

[1:37:34] SURVIVOR BACK ON THEIR FEET.

[1:37:35] >> YOU KNOW, JESSICA, AS WE ARE

[1:37:37] » YOU KNOW, JESSICA, AS WE ARE

[1:37:37] ALMOST AT A YEAR FROM ALL OF

[1:37:41] THIS HAPPENED, AS I THINK BACK

[1:37:43] TO THOSE EARLY DAYS IN THE

[1:37:47] AFTERMATH AND THE FEAR OF

[1:37:49] LOOTERS.

[1:37:50] >> IN THE FIRST THREE WEEKS

[1:37:52] » IN THE FIRST THREE WEEKS

[1:37:52] AFTER THE FIRE, MY HOUSE, MY

[1:37:54] LOT, MY LAND, MY REMAINS WERE

[1:37:58] SWIFTED THROUGH FIVE TIMES FOR

[1:38:03] COPPER.

[1:38:04] IT'S A FEELING OF BEING

[1:38:06] VIOLATED AT YOUR MOST

[1:38:07] VULNERABLE.

[1:38:09] SO WE APPRECIATED THAT YOUR

[1:38:10] OFFICE HAS SPOKEN UP FOR THIS

[1:38:12] COMMUNITY WHEN WE NEEDED THE

[1:38:14] NATIONAL GUARD FOR LONGER.

[1:38:15] >> WE WORKED VERY CLOSELY TO

[1:38:18] » WE WORKED VERY CLOSELY TO

[1:38:18] GET HOMES LEJD WITH LAPD FOR NO

[1:38:22] TRESPASSING DIRECTIONS, YOU'VE

[1:38:24] GOT NEIGHBORHOOD WATCHES

[1:38:24] ORGANIZED.

[1:38:25] WE'VE GOT THE CAMERA SYSTEMS

[1:38:27] ALREADY IN PLACE AND WE'RE

[1:38:29] BUILDING OUT MORE.

[1:38:30] >> LET'S CONTINUE TO HAVE OPEN

[1:38:32] » LET'S CONTINUE TO HAVE OPEN

[1:38:32] MINDS AND BEING AS CREATIVE AS

[1:38:33] E CAN.

[1:38:35] TOGETHER, WE CAN GET THROUGH

[1:38:36] THIS.

[1:38:37] >> I'M STILL OPTIMISTIC ABOUT

[1:38:38] » I'M STILL OPTIMISTIC ABOUT

[1:38:38] THE FUTURE OF THE PALISADES.

[1:38:41] ALTHOUGH WE HAVE BEEN TESTED,

[1:38:42] WE ARE COMING THROUGH THOSE

[1:38:44] TESTS TOGETHER.

[1:38:46] WE'RE RESILIENT AND WE CARE FOR

[1:38:48] EACH OTHER.

[1:38:49] OUR COMMUNITY IS STRONG AND

[1:38:51] COMMITTED TO GETTING BACK IN

[1:38:53] OUR HOMES.

[1:38:54] >> PRIOR TO THE FIRE MY

[1:38:56] » PRIOR TO THE FIRE MY

[1:38:56] YOUNGEST SON WAS INTO

[1:38:59] GARDENING, STILL IS, IN THE

[1:39:00] FRONT OF OUR HOME WE HAD A

[1:39:03] SMALL PIECE OF DIRT THAT WOULD

[1:39:05] EVENTUALLY BECOME HIS GARDEN.

[1:39:07] AND HE BECAME FAMOUS FOR THE

[1:39:11] TOMATOS THAT HE GREW.

[1:39:13] AFTER THE FIRE, WE RAN INTO ONE

[1:39:15] OF OUR NEIGHBORS AND SHE HAD

[1:39:16] THE DAY OF THE FIRE, HAD

[1:39:18] COLLECTED PURCHASED THREE OF

[1:39:23] HIS TOMATOS AND SHE STILL HAD

[1:39:26] THEM IN HER PURSE.

[1:39:28] AND FROM THERE, SHE GAVE ME THE

[1:39:32] TOMATOS AND WE PLANTED THE

[1:39:33] SEEDS.

[1:39:34] >> WE'RE COMING BACK.

[1:39:35] » WE'RE COMING BACK.

[1:39:35] THIS IS GOING TO BE A DAY OF, A

[1:39:38] LOT OF HOPE, AND A LOT OF FAITH

[1:39:42] AND THAT IS WHAT THIS

[1:39:45] REPRESENTS FOR ME.

[1:39:46] >> THE PACIFIC PALISADES

[1:39:47] » THE PACIFIC PALISADES

[1:39:47] REFUSED TO BE DEFINED BY ITS

[1:39:49] WORSE DAY.

[1:39:50] BUT THIS COMMUNITY IS STILL

[1:39:52] HEALING, AND THEY STILL NEED

[1:39:53] OUR HELP.

[1:39:55] AS THE CITY, WE REMAIN

[1:39:57] COMMITTED TO HONORING WHAT WAS

[1:40:00] LOST, PROTECTING WHAT REMAINS

[1:40:01] AND DOING THE HARD WORK

[1:40:03] REQUIRED TO PREPARE FOR

[1:40:06] WHATEVER COMES NEXT.

[1:40:20] THE VIDEO SUMS THE INCREDIBLE

[1:40:23] WORK AND BRAVERY THAT PEOPLE

[1:40:25] SHOWED IN THE IMMENSE SORROW

[1:40:31] AND OVERWHELMING DEVASTATATION.

[1:40:33] MUCH OF THAT WORK WAS DONE BY

[1:40:35] HUNDREDS OF DEDICATED CITY

[1:40:37] WORKERS, COUNTLESS DEPARTMENTS

[1:40:38] WORKED AROUND THE CLOCK TO

[1:40:42] RESTORE ORDER, SAFETY AND BASIC

[1:40:44] SERVICES.

[1:40:47] EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

[1:40:48] COORDINATED RESPONSE UNDER

[1:40:50] EXTREME PRESSURE AND DURING AN

[1:40:52] EXTRAORDINARY DEPLOYMENT LAPD

[1:40:54] MAINTAINED SAFETY AND OFFERED

[1:40:57] REA TOUR ANS TO A COMMUNITY ON

[1:40:59] THE EDGE.

[1:41:00] FROM DAMAGED ROADS AND HILL

[1:41:02] SIDES, THE BUREAU OF

[1:41:05] ENGINEERING HAS ALREADY

[1:41:07] STABLELIZED INFRASTRUCTURE AND

[1:41:08] BUILDING AND SAFETY IS WORKING

[1:41:10] THROUGH UNPRECEDENTED DEMAND.

[1:41:14] L.A. SAN AND STREETS L.A.

[1:41:16] HELPED CLEAN UP TRASH AND

[1:41:19] REMOVED CHARED TREES AND BRUSH

[1:41:21] AND SWEPT AWAY THE MILLIONS OF

[1:41:24] NAILS THAT SOMEHOW ENDED UP IN

[1:41:28] OUR ROADWAYS.

[1:41:29] A AS WE FACE STORMS, LANDSLIDES

[1:41:31] AND FLOODING AND MORE, THEIR

[1:41:34] WORK HELPED PREVENT EVEN MORE

[1:41:36] DAMAGE AND LOSS.

[1:41:39] THEREFORE COLLEAGUES ON BEHALF

[1:41:40] OF A GREATFUL DISTRICT AND

[1:41:41] CITY, I WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND MY

[1:41:45] SINCERE THANKS AND APPRECIATION

[1:41:47] TO OUR INCREDIBLE CITY FAMILY

[1:41:49] FOR THEIR DEDICATION AND

[1:41:50] SERVING OUR RESIDENTS IN THE

[1:41:52] AFTERMATH OF THIS TRAGEDY.

[1:41:54] ON THE SCREEN YOU'LL SEE THE

[1:41:55] NAMES OF SOME OF THE CITY STAFF

[1:41:59] WHO WERE PART OF THE FIRE

[1:42:00] RESPONSE AND I WOULD LIKE TO

[1:42:01] READ THE NAMES OF THE

[1:42:02] DEPARTMENT WHO AT THE REQUEST

[1:42:05] OF MAYOR BASS WORKED DIRECTLY

[1:42:06] ON THE GROUND OR SENT THEIR

[1:42:09] STAFF TO ASSIST WITH THE

[1:42:11] DISASTER RECOVERY CENTER, AND

[1:42:12] IN SO MANY OTHER CAPACITIES.

[1:42:16] DEPARTMENT OF AGING, DEPARTMENT

[1:42:17] OF BUILDING AND SAFETY,

[1:42:19] DEPARTMENT OF CANNABIS

[1:42:21] REGULATION, OFFICE OF THE CITY

[1:42:24] ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER,

[1:42:25] DEPARTMENT OF CITY TOURISM, LOS

[1:42:29] ANGELES WORLD AIRPORTS,

[1:42:30] DEPARTMENT OF ANIMAL SERVICES,

[1:42:32] OFFICE OF THE CHIEF LEGISLATIVE

[1:42:36] ANALYST, OFFICE OF THE CITY

[1:42:38] ATTORNEY, CIVIL AND HUMAN

[1:42:40] RIGHTS AND EQUITY DEPARTMENT,

[1:42:43] OFFICE OF THE CITY CONTROLLER,

[1:42:44] DEPARTMENT OF CULTURE AFFAIRS,

[1:42:48] DEPARTMENT OF DISABILITY, EL

[1:42:51] PUEBLO DE LOS ANGELES.

[1:42:59] DEPARTMENT OF POLICE PENSIONS,

[1:43:01] CITY ETHICS COMMISSION, OFFICE

[1:43:04] OF FINANCE, LAFD, LOS ANGELES

[1:43:06] PUBLIC LIBRARY, LAHSA, THE

[1:43:09] HOUSING AUTHORITY, INFORMATION

[1:43:12] TECHNOLOGY AGENCY, L.A. CITY

[1:43:16] EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

[1:43:18] L.A. HOUSING DEPARTMENT, OFFICE

[1:43:20] OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY,

[1:43:23] PERSONNEL DEPARTMENT, LAPD,

[1:43:24] BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS, OFFICE

[1:43:27] OF THE MAYOR, DEPARTMENT OF

[1:43:29] NEIGHBORHOOD EMPOWERMENT,

[1:43:30] DEPARTMENT OF CITY PLANNING,

[1:43:32] BUREAU OF CONTRACT

[1:43:34] ADMINISTRATION, BUREAU OF

[1:43:35] ENGINEERING, BUREAU OF STREET

[1:43:38] SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF

[1:43:39] RECREATION AND PARKS,

[1:43:40] DEPARTMENT OF WATER AND POWER,

[1:43:45] YOUTH DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT,

[1:43:48] BUREAU OF SANITATION, BUREAU OF

[1:43:50] STREET LIGHTING, DEPARTMENT OF

[1:43:54] TRANSPORTATION, OFFICE OF THE

[1:43:56] CITY CLERK, COMMUNITY

[1:43:58] INVESTMENT FOR FAMILIES

[1:44:01] DEPARTMENT, ECONOMIC AND

[1:44:03] WORKFORCE DEPARTMENT PORT OF

[1:44:04] LOS ANGELES AND THE L.A. ZOO.

[1:44:07] COLLEAGUES THAT VERY WELL MAY

[1:44:10] HAVE BEEN EVERY DEPARTMENT IN

[1:44:10] THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES WHO

[1:44:14] HELPED, WHO HAS DEDICATED STAFF

[1:44:17] AND TIME AND GRIT AND HEART.

[1:44:20] I ALSO WANT TO TAKE A MINUTE

[1:44:23] COLLEAGUES AND THANK EACH OF

[1:44:25] YOU, SOME OF YOU JOINED ME IN

[1:44:27] THE PALISADES ON THE DAY OF THE

[1:44:30] FIRE AND MANY OF YOU CAME ALONG

[1:44:33] TO BEAR WITNESS TO WHAT

[1:44:35] HAPPENED.

[1:44:37] OTHERS OF YOU LOANED YOUR

[1:44:39] BEAUTIFICATION TEAMS, YOUR OUT

[1:44:40] REACH TEAMS AND YOUR STAFF TO

[1:44:42] ANSWER OUR PHONES AND RESPOND

[1:44:44] TO EMAILS TO GREET PEOPLE AT

[1:44:46] OUR DOORS, AND TO STAFF OUR

[1:44:49] DONATION CENTER SO THAT MY TEAM

[1:44:51] CAN FOCUS ON THE DEVASTATION IN

[1:44:53] FRONT OF US.

[1:44:55] THOSE EARLY DAYS WERE THE

[1:44:57] TOUGHEST OF MY CAREER, OF MY

[1:45:00] LIFE REALLY, BUT COLLEAGUES

[1:45:03] YOUR GENEROSITY AND SUPPORT

[1:45:05] LIGHTENED MY LOAD AND ALLOWED

[1:45:07] ME TEAM AND I TO DO ALL THAT

[1:45:10] WAS NECESSARY TO HELP STABILIZE

[1:45:16] A TRAUMATIZED DISPLACED

[1:45:17] COMMUNITY.

[1:45:20] SO COUNCIL PRESIDENT

[1:45:23] HARRIS-DAWSON, COUNCILMEMBER

[1:45:26] LEE, COUNCILWOMAN RODRIGUEZ,

[1:45:27] COUNCILMEMBER YAROSLAVSKY,

[1:45:31] COUNCILMEMBER HUTT,

[1:45:34] COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ,

[1:45:34] COUNCILMEMBER RAMAN,

[1:45:36] COUNCILMEMBER PADILLA,

[1:45:38] COUNCILMEMBER PRICE,

[1:45:40] COUNCILMEMBER SOTO-MARTINEZ,

[1:45:41] AND COUNCILMEMBER

[1:45:42] >> T. McOSKER AND HOW MANY

[1:45:47] » T. McOSKER AND HOW MANY

[1:45:47] JURADO, ON BEHALF OF COUNCIL

[1:45:49] DISTRICT 11, THANK YOU FOR YOUR

[1:45:50] SUPPORT THEN AND NOW TOO.

[1:45:54] THAT BRINGS ME TO MY INCREDIBLE

[1:45:57] TEAM.

[1:45:58] I AM IN AWE, OF THE WAYS YOU

[1:46:03] ALL HAVE SHOWED UP FOR OUR

[1:46:06] RESIDENTS OVER THE LAST YEAR.

[1:46:11] AFTER THE FIRE YOU ALL WORKED

[1:46:14] PACTICALLY AROUND THE CLOCK

[1:46:20] EVERY SINGLE DAY FOR WEEKS

[1:46:21] WITHOUT A BREAK OR A DAY OFF.

[1:46:23] YOU PUT YOUR LIVES ON HOLD TO

[1:46:27] SERVE OUR RESIDENTS AND OUR

[1:46:29] CITY.

[1:46:33] YOUR ACTIONS WERE NOTHING SHORT

[1:46:35] OF HEROIC AND THANK YOU WILL

[1:46:37] NEVER BE ENOUGH.

[1:46:45] SEVERAL OF MY TEAM MEMBERS, ON

[1:46:51] THE GROUND DURING THE FIRE,

[1:46:55] WORKING HER SECOND DAY IN MY

[1:46:57] OFFICE AS THE NEWS DEPUTY

[1:47:02] FOERLT PALISADES, HAVING HER

[1:47:04] FIRST CONSTITUENT COFFEE IN THE

[1:47:06] PALISADES WHEN THE FIRE BROKE

[1:47:08] OUT.

[1:47:18] ARUSE, YOU DIDN'T WAIT FOR

[1:47:20] ANYONE TO DIRECT YOU OR TO TELL

[1:47:24] YOU WHAT TO DO, YOU JUST WENT

[1:47:28] RIGHT INTO THE MIDDLE OF IT ALL.

[1:47:32] YOU WALKED RIGHT INTO THE

[1:47:35] NEIGHBORHOOD AND YOU STARTED

[1:47:38] SAVING LIVES AS YOU ESCORTED

[1:47:41] RESIDENTS OUT WHO NEEDED HELP.

[1:47:50] LA*UZ

[1:47:51] [APPLAUSE]

[1:48:07] I DON'T SEE JUAN, THERE HE IS,

[1:48:12] MY DISTRICT DIRECTOR PULLED

[1:48:14] TOGETHER AND INCREDIBLE FIELD

[1:48:16] TEAM THAT MORNING AND RUSHED

[1:48:20] FROM WESTCHESTER ON TO THE FIRE

[1:48:21] ZONE.

[1:48:22] AND ON THAT DAY, JUAN LEAD,

[1:48:25] SEAN AND TRAY AND ALSO JULIO

[1:48:29] TORRES AND MARTIN PEREZ BOTH OF

[1:48:32] WHO WERE ALSO ON THEIR SECOND

[1:48:34] DAY ON THE JOB ON CD11 ON A

[1:48:38] MISSION ACROSS THE PALISADES.

[1:48:41] TOGETHER, THOSE SIX INCREDIBLY

[1:48:45] BRAVE PEOPLE WENT DOOR TO DOOR

[1:48:48] EVACUATED RESIDENTS, RECUING

[1:48:50] AND LOADING PETS, RECOVERING

[1:48:51] LOST ITEMS AND WATERING DOWN

[1:48:53] ROOF TOPS AND BURNING BUSHES

[1:48:57] LITERALLY SAVING HOMES, AND

[1:49:00] LIVES.

[1:49:02] TEAM CD11, YOU ALL LITERALLY

[1:49:04] PUT YOUR OWN LIVES AT-RISK TO

[1:49:07] SAVE AND PROTECT OTHERS.

[1:49:13] YOUR BRAVERY IS NOTHING SHORT

[1:49:14] OF REMARKABLE.

[1:49:16] I WAS AT THE COMMAND POST.

[1:49:34] DURING THE FIRE BUT

[1:49:36] COMMUNICATION WERE DOWN AND I

[1:49:37] WAS WORRIED SICK ABOUT YOU ALL

[1:49:39] BECAUSE I COULDN'T GET AHOLD OF

[1:49:42] ANY OF YOU ON THE PHONES.

[1:49:44] AND AS THE HOURS DRUG ON, THE

[1:49:46] MORE WORRIED I GOT.

[1:49:47] AND I WILL NEVER FORGET HOW

[1:49:49] RELIEVED I WAS WHEN YOU ALL

[1:49:54] FINALLY EMERGED HUDDLED

[1:49:55] TOGETHER AS A GROUP WALKING OUT

[1:49:57] OF THE PALISADES ON FOOT DOWN

[1:50:00] TO PCH.

[1:50:02] THOSE HUGS WE SHARED, CAME FROM

[1:50:05] THE DEPTH OF MY SOUL.

[1:50:10] AS THE FIRE BURNED, FOR DAYS

[1:50:14] AFTER, THIS TEAM RETURNED TO

[1:50:16] THE BURN ZONE ALL DAY, EVERY

[1:50:18] DAY CHECKING ON HOMES, LOOKING

[1:50:21] FOR ANIMALS, PUTTING OUT FIRES,

[1:50:25] MOSTLY WITH DIRT, CHECKING IN

[1:50:27] WITH SURVIVORS WHO HAD ACTUALLY

[1:50:28] NEVER LEFT THE PALISADES AND

[1:50:30] BRINGING SUPPLIES TO FIRST

[1:50:31] RESPONDERS AND SO MUCH MORE.

[1:50:34] WITHOUT BEING ASKED, THEY WENT

[1:50:36] LOOKING FOR THINGS THAT NEEDED

[1:50:37] TO BE DONE AND THEY DID THOSE

[1:50:39] THINGS.

[1:50:42] MEANWHILE BACK AT CITY HALL, MY

[1:50:45] LEGISLATIVE TEAM, LEAD BY KEVIN

[1:50:50] BRUNKY AND SARAH AND CRAIG AND

[1:50:53] BY THE WAY CRAIG AND SARAH WERE

[1:50:56] ALSO BOTH ON THEIR SECOND DAY

[1:50:58] ON THE JOB ON CD11, THEY SPRANG

[1:51:03] INTO ACTION TALKING TO OTHER

[1:51:05] CITIES AND MEETING WITH

[1:51:07] LEGISLATIVE TO COORDINATE

[1:51:08] RELIEF EFFORTS AND DETERMINE

[1:51:10] NEXT STEPS, THEY WROTE THE

[1:51:13] DOZENS OF MOTIONS THAT KICKED

[1:51:15] OFF THE RESPONSE AND LAID THE

[1:51:16] FOUNDATION FOR THE RECOVERY WE

[1:51:18] ARE NOW AMIDST.

[1:51:23] MY SENIOR ADVISOR, STAFFED THE

[1:51:27] COMMAND POST FOR MANY WEEKS

[1:51:28] BRINGING US THE MOST CURRENT

[1:51:30] INFORMATION SO WE CAN KEEP THE

[1:51:32] RESIDENTS UPDATED AS THE

[1:51:34] CIRCUMSTANCES CHANGED DAY BY

[1:51:35] DAY.

[1:51:37] MICHAEL AM STER, MATT, CAROL

[1:51:39] WILLIAMS, CASEY PRATTS AND GREG

[1:51:42] HELPED SET UP STAFF AND SUPPLY

[1:51:45] EVACUATION CENTERS, AND THEY

[1:51:46] SET UP A MASSIVE DONATION

[1:51:49] CENTER AT OUR WESTCHESTER

[1:51:51] OFFICE WHILE ALYSSA BARREL AND

[1:51:55] WILLIAM FIELDED HUNDREDS OF

[1:51:56] CALLS AT OUR CITY HALL OFFICE

[1:51:58] AND OUR WESTCHESTER OFFICE.

[1:52:03] DAVE CA NO WORKED DAY AND NIGHT

[1:52:06] COORDINATING DOZENS OF HE

[1:52:09] MEETINGS AND EVENTS THAT

[1:52:12] SUDDENLY FLOODED OUR CALENDAR.

[1:52:14] MY COMMUNICATION PEOPLE PETE

[1:52:16] BROWN AND JONATHAN WORKED

[1:52:17] AROUND THE CLOCK TO KEEP THE

[1:52:19] RESIDENTS UPDATED AND INFORMED.

[1:52:22] AND MY INCREDIBLE CHIEF OF

[1:52:27] STAFF, SIR, YOU LEAD US THROUGH

[1:52:35] IT ALL.

[1:52:39] YOU KEPT US MOVING AS A UNITED

[1:52:48] TEAM, MANAGING THE

[1:52:53] CONSTITUENTS, MANAGING ME AND

[1:52:54] DOING IT ALL WITH INCREDIBLE

[1:53:00] GRACE AND HUMILITY UNDER

[1:53:03] INCREDIBLY CHALLENGING AND

[1:53:07] PERSONALLY DIFFICULT

[1:53:07] CIRCUMSTANCES.

[1:53:12] I COULDN'T PICK MORE IMPORTANT

[1:53:15] ANGEL IN A CITY OF ANGELS TO

[1:53:18] HAVE ON MY SIDE.

[1:53:19] [APPLAUSE]

[1:53:36] COLLEAGUES IT HAS BEEN A FULL

[1:53:39] COURT PRESS THAT HAS NOT LET UP

[1:53:41] FOR MONTHS IT DIDN'T LET UP ALL

[1:53:44] YEAR AND STILL HASN'T.

[1:53:46] TEAM YOU MAKE SO INCREDIBLY

[1:53:48] PROUD, PROUD TO SERVE OUR CITY,

[1:53:49] PROUD OF OUR WORK TOGETHER AND

[1:53:51] PROUD OF EACH OF YOU FOR DOING

[1:53:56] YOUR INCREDIBLE ROLES

[1:53:57] THROUGHOUT ALL OF THIS AND THE

[1:53:58] DEDICATION AND THE UNIQUE

[1:54:00] CONTRIBUTIONS THAT EACH OF YOU

[1:54:01] HAVE MADE.

[1:54:04] YOU GUYS INSPIRE ME TO DO ALL

[1:54:06] THAT I DO AND I COULDN'T DO THE

[1:54:08] WORK WITHOUT YOU AND I WOULDN'T

[1:54:12] WANT TO ANYWAY.

[1:54:13] SO XLAOEGZ AND FRIENDS, WE KNOW

[1:54:16] THAT RECOVERY DOES NOT HAPPEN

[1:54:18] IN A YEAR AND WHILE THE

[1:54:20] PROGRESS IS UNDENIABLE, THE

[1:54:21] HARDEST PART IS STILL

[1:54:22] UNFOLDING, THOUSANDS ARE STILL

[1:54:24] NAVIGATING INSURANCE AND

[1:54:27] FINANCE CHALLENGES, ALI,

[1:54:30] MORTGAGE FORBEARANCE IS

[1:54:39] EXPIRING.

[1:54:40] EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD, IN LOS

[1:54:43] ANGELES IS JUST ONE DISASTER

[1:54:49] FROM DEVASTATION.

[1:54:50] BEING READY IS NOT A DUBSING

[1:54:52] REAND INVESTING IN RECOVERY

[1:54:54] CAN'T BE OPTIONAL.

[1:54:55] THE LESSON IN THIS TRAGEDY

[1:54:58] CAN'T JUST BE ABOUT WHAT WENT

[1:55:00] WRONG, IT MUST BE ABOUT WHAT WE

[1:55:02] DO TO MAKE IT RIGHT.

[1:55:12] AND MOVE FORWARD TOGETHER WITH

[1:55:14] PURPOSE, INTENTION AND RESOLVE.

[1:55:16] THANK YOU COUNCIL PRESIDENT.

[1:55:18] [APPLAUSE]

[1:55:36] » Council President: THANK YOU

[1:55:37] SO MUCH, COUNCILMEMBER PARK AND

[1:55:40] TEAM CITY 11, IS KNOW WE'VE

[1:55:42] BEEN JOINED BY SOME ANGELINOS

[1:55:45] FROM THE PALISADES

[1:55:46] NEIGHBORHOOD, SO THANK YOU FOR

[1:55:50] SHARING THIS MORNING.

[1:56:02] AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT IF

[1:56:05] MEMBERS WANT TO MAKE A COMMENT

[1:56:08] CAN DO SO AT THIS TIME.

[1:56:09] IF NOT WE CAN PREPARE FOR

[1:56:11] PUBLIC COMMENT.

[1:56:11] ALL RIGHT.

[1:56:39] WE'RE ALSO JOINED BY SEVERAL

[1:56:42] GENERAL MANAGERS, I WANT TO

[1:56:44] THANK THEM FOR THEIR PRESENCE

[1:56:45] AS WELL.

[1:57:23] » E. Hernandez: ALL RIGHT,

[1:57:24] WE'RE GOING TO GO AHEAD AND GET

[1:57:26] STARTED.

[1:57:27] GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE.

[1:57:31] WE'RE GATHERED TO CELEBRATE A

[1:57:33] CAREER THAT HAS QUITE LITERALLY

[1:57:36] CHANGE THE FACE OF LOS ANGELES.

[1:57:39] AFTER 25 YEARS, CHIEF DEPUTY

[1:57:43] CITY ENGINEER IS GEARING UP FOR

[1:57:45] A WELL DESERVED RETIREMENT.

[1:57:47] BORN IN MEXICO CITY AND

[1:57:48] EDUCATED AT PRINCETON AND

[1:57:50] BERKELEY, JOINED THE BUREAU OF

[1:57:54] ENGINEERING IN 2001, SHE HAS

[1:57:55] SEFSHDS AS THE FIRST WOMAN TO

[1:57:58] LEAD THE ARCHITECTURE DIVISION

[1:57:58] AND FIRST WOMAN AND ARCHITECT

[1:58:00] TO SERVE AS CHIEF DEPUTY CITY

[1:58:04] ENGINEER.

[1:58:06] YOU ARE LITERALLY BREAKING

[1:58:08] CONCRETE CEILINGS.

[1:58:09] IF YOU HAVE WALKED ACROSS THE

[1:58:13] NEWS SIXTH STREET BRIDGE, YOU

[1:58:15] HAVE WALKED THROUGH DEBRA'S

[1:58:16] VISION.

[1:58:17] FOR TOO LONG OUR COMMITTEE

[1:58:19] MEMBERS WATCHED AS OTHERS

[1:58:22] ENJOYED ACCESS TO PARKS WHILE

[1:58:24] OURS WAITED.

[1:58:25] DEBRA HELPED US BRIDGE NA GAP

[1:58:28] FOR THROWING DOWN BY TAYLOR

[1:58:30] YARDS.

[1:58:30] IF YOU HAVE NOT BEEN THERE,

[1:58:33] DON'T WORRY THERE IS A LOT OF

[1:58:34] WORK TO MAKE IT DONE.

[1:58:36] IT'S BEAUTIFUL.

[1:58:38] LEADING OUR INTERIM HOUSING,

[1:58:40] NEW BEGININGS AND BEING A HUGE

[1:58:41] PART OF OUR 11 MILLION DOLLARS

[1:58:45] REINVITATION OF REAL DE LOS

[1:58:50] ANGELES PARK.

[1:58:53] THE JOY SHE FELT SEEING

[1:58:54] COMMUNITIES GET WHAT THEY WERE

[1:58:55] FIGHTING FOR.

[1:58:57] BUZZ YOU'RE A FIGHTER AND GET

[1:58:59] THINGS DONE.

[1:59:01] WE'VE BEEN THROUGH SEVERAL

[1:59:02] RIBBON CUTTING.

[1:59:03] THIS IS THE KIND OF SPIRIT

[1:59:05] DEBRA BROUGHT TO THIS WORK

[1:59:07] EVERY SINGLE DAY AND THIS IS

[1:59:08] THE PRESENCE THAT WILL BE

[1:59:09] DEEPLY MISSED IN THIS BUILDING

[1:59:11] ACROSS THE CITY AND AT

[1:59:14] PARTICULAR COUNCIL DISTRICT 1.

[1:59:15] WE'RE HAPPY SHE WILL BE MORE,

[1:59:16] SHE WILL HAVE MORE TIME FOR HER

[1:59:19] FAMILY, HER HUSBAND DAVID, HER

[1:59:21] CHILDREN, NICKA, HOW DO YOU

[1:59:23] PRONOUNCE THIS, AARON AND HER

[1:59:27] GRANDSON OATIS.

[1:59:29] DEBRA YOU'RE A LIVING LEGEND,

[1:59:35] AND YOUR WORK WILL OUTLAST US

[1:59:37] ALL.

[1:59:37] THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE.

[1:59:39] I HOPE YOU GET TO ENJOY AND

[1:59:41] HAVE THE MOST FUN AND BUILD THE

[1:59:44] BEST MEMORIES BUT DON'T FORGET

[1:59:47] US, BECAUSE WE MIGHT NEED YOU,

[1:59:51] BUT PLEASE REST AND ENJOY.

[1:59:53] NOW I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE

[1:59:58] DAVID MATA OUR CURRENT CHIEF OF

[2:00:00] ENGINEER TO SHARE A FEW WORDS

[2:00:01] WITH US.

[2:00:01] THANK YOU.

[2:00:07] >> GOOD MORNING, THIS IS A DAY

[2:00:09] » GOOD MORNING, THIS IS A DAY

[2:00:09] OF CONFLICTING EMOTIONS AS WE

[2:00:11] COULD NOT GRAD LATE DEBRA AND

[2:00:13] HONOR HER IN A GREAT CAREER AND

[2:00:16] WISH HER OUR BEST.

[2:00:18] NR MY EARLY DAYS, I FELT

[2:00:21] FORTUNATE TO WORK WITH GOOD

[2:00:22] QUALITY FAOEM AND THE MENTORS

[2:00:24] AND DEBRA IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE

[2:00:27] OF THAT DESCRIPTION.

[2:00:28] WE AT THE PUBLIC WORKS

[2:00:30] ENGINEERS HAVE ALL BEEN BLESSED

[2:00:33] FOR THE PAST 25 YEARS OF

[2:00:34] DEBRA'S SERVICE TO THE CITY.

[2:00:36] AS A COUNCILMEMBER JUST

[2:00:37] MENTIONED SHE CAME TO WORK FOR

[2:00:41] THE CITY WITH A DEGREE FROM

[2:00:43] PRINCIPLE PRINCETON AND

[2:00:48] BERKELEY.

[2:00:52] HAS HAD MANY PROJECTS IN

[2:00:55] ADDITION TO PROJECTS, SHE LEAD

[2:00:58] THE L.A. RIVER MASTER PLANNING.

[2:01:01] WITHOUT A DOUBT, DEBRA HAS

[2:01:03] FINGERPRINTS ALL ACROSS THE

[2:01:04] CITY AND DURING HER RETIREMENT

[2:01:06] AS SHE MOVES ABOUT THE CITY,

[2:01:08] SHE CAN SEE MANY OF THE

[2:01:10] PROJECTS THAT SHE HAS OVERSEEN,

[2:01:12] INCLUDING NEIGHBORHOOD CITY

[2:01:14] HALLS, COMMUNITY CENTERS,

[2:01:19] LIBRARIES, STATIONS, RECREATION

[2:01:21] CENTERS, GYMNASIUM AND EVEN

[2:01:23] RETAINING WALLS.

[2:01:25] ON A PERSONAL NOTE I HAD THE

[2:01:27] PLEASURE TO WORKING WITH DEBRA

[2:01:29] AND HAD A UP CLOSE VIEW TO

[2:01:32] APPRECIATE ALL THAT SHE DOES.

[2:01:36] ESPECIALLY THE MENTORSHIP THAT

[2:01:38] SHE HAS PROVIDED US.

[2:01:39] SHE TAKES TIME TO LISTEN, AND

[2:01:42] PROVIDE THOUGHTFUL FEEDBACK

[2:01:43] WHETHER IT IS A CHALLENGE OR

[2:01:44] WITH A PERSON FACING A CAREER

[2:01:48] CHOICE, SHE ALWAYS GIVES GREAT

[2:01:49] ADVISE.

[2:01:50] DEB RA, IT'S HARD TO SEE YOU

[2:01:52] GO, YOU'VE BEEN A GREAT FRIEND

[2:01:54] AND COLLEAGUE.

[2:01:55] ALONG WITH THE ENTIRE ENGINEER

[2:01:59] TEAM, ARE SAD TO LEAVE YOU.

[2:02:04] AND YOUR SON AND DAUGHTER.

[2:02:07] I AM FOREVER GRATEFUL FOR ALL

[2:02:10] THAT YOU'VE DONE FOR THE CITY

[2:02:12] OF ENGINEERS AND THE CITY OF

[2:02:13] LOS ANGELES.

[2:02:14] I WISH YOU ALL THE BEST.

[2:02:16] CONGRATULATIONS.

[2:02:17] [APPLAUSE]

[2:02:17] >> Speaker: THANK YOU.

[2:02:18] » Speaker: THANK YOU.

[2:02:18] >> E. Hernandez: NOW LET'S HEAR

[2:02:20] » E. Hernandez: NOW LET'S HEAR

[2:02:20] FROM. PERSON OF THE HOUR, I

[2:02:22] WOULD LIKE TO INVITE DEBRA TO

[2:02:24] SHARE A FEW WORDS WITH US.

[2:02:26] >> Speaker: SO IT'S A SOMBER

[2:02:28] » Speaker: SO IT'S A SOMBER

[2:02:28] DAY FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS.

[2:02:30] AND FOR ME, I HAVE VERY MIXED

[2:02:34] FEELINGS ABOUT THIS RETIREMENT.

[2:02:35] I HAVE LOVED WORKING FOR THE

[2:02:37] CITY, THE PROJECTS WITH ALL OF

[2:02:39] YOU ACROSS THE CITY, EACH ONE

[2:02:41] IS SPECIAL.

[2:02:44] MY KIND OF CLEARING CRY IS THAT

[2:02:47] DESIGN MATTERS AND I THINK I

[2:02:48] BROUGHT THAT TO EVERY PROJECT I

[2:02:51] WORK, WHETHER IT WAS A

[2:02:53] RETAINING WALL OR SMALL PARK.

[2:02:55] AND I HOPE THAT THE CITY

[2:02:58] CONTINUES TO SEE THE VALUE IN

[2:03:00] DESIGN, BECAUSE EVERY

[2:03:01] INVESTMENT IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO

[2:03:02] IMPROVE OUR COMMUNITIES.

[2:03:04] I THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR

[2:03:07] COLLABORATION, THIS COUNCIL HAS

[2:03:08] BEEN GREAT TO WORK WITH ALL OF

[2:03:10] CITY HALL HAS BEEN GREAT TO

[2:03:11] WORK WITH AND I LOOK FORWARD TO

[2:03:16] SEEING MORE GREAT WORK.

[2:03:19] WHEN I STARTED, IT WAS LIKE MY

[2:03:21] 5th CAREER AND IF YOU HAD TOLD

[2:03:25] ME AS AN ARCHITECT THAT I LOVED

[2:03:28] WORKING FOR THE BOOR OFF

[2:03:30] ENGINEERING IT WOULD SURPRISE

[2:03:32] ME BUT IT HAS BEEN FANTASTIC.

[2:03:34] THANK YOU VERY MUCH,

[2:03:34] COUNCILMEMBERS.

[2:03:36] >> E. Hernandez: THANK YOU SO

[2:03:37] » E. Hernandez: THANK YOU SO

[2:03:37] MUCH.

[2:03:38] I WANT TO OFFER MY COLLEAGUES A

[2:03:41] FEW MOMENTS TO SAY A FEW WORDS.

[2:03:43] >> Council President: THANK YOU

[2:03:44] » Council President: THANK YOU

[2:03:44] WE'LL GIVE WITH COUNCILMEMBER

[2:03:45] NAZARIAN.

[2:03:46] >> A. Nazarian: THANK YOU,

[2:03:47] » A. Nazarian: THANK YOU,

[2:03:47] COUNCIL PRESIDENT.

[2:03:47] THANK YOU VERY MUCH,

[2:03:50] COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ FOR

[2:03:51] BRINGING UP THIS IMPORTANT

[2:03:52] RECOGNITION.

[2:03:54] OF A FELLOW VALLEY RESIDENT AND

[2:03:58] SOMEBODY WHO HAS INSPIRED ME,

[2:04:00] GUIDED ME AS A YOUNG STAFFER

[2:04:01] WHO HAD A LOT OF QUESTIONS TO

[2:04:06] AN ADULT INDIVIDUAL AND ELECTED

[2:04:08] WHO STILL HAS A LOT MORE

[2:04:09] QUESTIONS NOW.

[2:04:10] THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ALL OF

[2:04:12] OUR CONTRIBUTIONS I LOOK

[2:04:13] FORWARD TO SEEING YOU OUT ABOUT

[2:04:17] AROUND COYOTE CAFE AND MANY

[2:04:21] MORE BLESSINGS AND WISHES TO

[2:04:22] YOUR FAMILY AS WELL AS YOU GET

[2:04:25] TO NOW SPEND MUCH NEEDED TIME

[2:04:26] TOGETHER.

[2:04:27] CONGRATULATIONS AND THANK YOU

[2:04:28] FOR YOUR HONORABLE SERVICE.

[2:04:29] >> Council President: THANK YOU

[2:04:31] » Council President: THANK YOU

[2:04:31] SO MUCH, COUNCILMEMBER

[2:04:32] RODRIGUEZ?

[2:04:32] >> M. Rodriguez: THANK YOU,

[2:04:35] » M. Rodriguez: THANK YOU,

[2:04:35] COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ FOR

[2:04:36] BRINGING IN DEBRA.

[2:04:38] DEBRA, YOU KNOW, WE'VE HAD,

[2:04:40] I'VE HAD THE BENEFIT OF BEING

[2:04:41] ABLE TO WORK WITH YOU FOR NOW

[2:04:43] MORE THAN A DECADE.

[2:04:45] I DIDN'T REALIZE HOW QUICKLY

[2:04:46] TIME FLEW.

[2:04:47] BUT YOU KNOW, YOU DO CARE

[2:04:50] DEEPLY ABOUT DESIGN AND I THINK

[2:04:51] ONE OF THE THINGS I APPRECIATED

[2:04:53] ABOUT YOU MOST, WAS THAT YOU

[2:04:56] UNDERSTOOD THAT IT MATTERED FOR

[2:04:58] EVERY PART OF THE CITY.

[2:04:59] IT DIDN'T MATTER WHAT ZIP CODE

[2:05:01] YOU LIVED IN.

[2:05:02] SO I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THAT

[2:05:05] EQUITY LENS AND MAKING SURE

[2:05:06] THAT ALL OF OUR COMMUNITIES GOT

[2:05:09] TYPE OF QUALITY INVESTMENT THAT

[2:05:11] THEY WERE DESERVING OF.

[2:05:12] I WANT TO THANK YOU, WE HAD, I

[2:05:14] WE HAD MANY CONVERSATIONS WHEN

[2:05:16] I WAS ON THE BOARD OF PUBLIC

[2:05:17] WORKS AND YOU TALKED ABOUT YOUR

[2:05:19] SON AND FAMILY AND JUST, YOU

[2:05:21] KNOW, ALL THE REMARKABLE LIVES

[2:05:23] YOU'VE HAD.

[2:05:24] AND I JUST WANT TO WISH YOU

[2:05:26] VERY BEST.

[2:05:28] THANK YOU YOUR SERVICE HERE IN

[2:05:29] THE CITY AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR

[2:05:31] FRIENDSHIP.

[2:05:32] CONGRATULATIONS ON A WELL

[2:05:35] EARNED AND DESERVED RETIREMENT.

[2:05:38] I KNOW BOE IS GOING TO MISS YOU

[2:05:43] TREMENDOUSLY.

[2:05:45] BUT IS WHAT I DO KNOW IS YOU

[2:05:46] HAVE DONE A REMARKABLE JOB AS

[2:05:49] HAS ALL THE LEADERSHIP THAT I

[2:05:51] CAN THINK OF AT BOE TO ENSURE

[2:05:54] THAT THERE IS A SUCCESSION PLAN

[2:05:58] THAT THERE ARE TALENTED PEOPLE

[2:06:01] THAT WILL FALL BEHIND YOU AND

[2:06:02] HELP MAINTAIN THE SAME LEVEL OF

[2:06:04] PRESENCE AND COMMITMENT THAT

[2:06:05] YOU HAVE FOR YOUR LEVEL OF

[2:06:06] SERVICE.

[2:06:07] SO I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU

[2:06:10] SO MUCH, IT'S BEEN AN HONOR AND

[2:06:13] PLEASURE TO WORK WITH YOU.

[2:06:14] >> Speaker: THANK YOU.

[2:06:15] » Speaker: THANK YOU.

[2:06:15] >> Council President: THANK YOU.

[2:06:16] » Council President: THANK YOU.

[2:06:16] COUNCILMEMBER PRICE?

[2:06:17] >>

[2:06:17] » >> C. Price: THANK YOU

[2:06:20] » C. Price: THANK YOU

[2:06:20] COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ FOR

[2:06:22] BRINGING A REAL ANGEL IN TO SEE

[2:06:24] US.

[2:06:25] IT'S BEEN BITTERSWEET TO SAY

[2:06:26] GOODBYE.

[2:06:27] YOU'VE BEEN A FRIEND ALL OVER

[2:06:29] THE CITY, PROJECTS THAT YOU'VE

[2:06:31] HELPED ON IN CD9 AND I'M JUST I

[2:06:34] AM KRESSED BECAUSE YOU'RE

[2:06:37] CONCERNED NOT ONLY WITH THE

[2:06:39] ARCHITECTURE INTEGRITY AND

[2:06:40] APPROPRIATENESS OF THIS BUT THE

[2:06:41] BUILDING OF THE STRUCTURE, BUT

[2:06:43] ALSO THE COMMUNITY IMPACT AND

[2:06:45] PARTICIPATION.

[2:06:46] SO YOU'VE ALWAYS MAINTAINED AN

[2:06:50] EYE AND I APPRECIATE YOUR

[2:06:51] SERVICE.

[2:06:52] THANK YOU, KEEP UP THE GOOD

[2:06:53] WORK.

[2:06:54] >> Council President:

[2:06:55] » Council President:

[2:06:55] COUNCILMEMBER RAMAN?

[2:06:55] >> N. Raman: I JUST WANTED TO

[2:06:59] » N. Raman: I JUST WANTED TO

[2:06:59] RISE ALSO AND THANK YOU DEBRA

[2:07:01] FOR YOUR MANY YEARS OF SERVICE

[2:07:03] AND TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT I KNOW

[2:07:06] OUR STAFF HAS WORKED CLOSELY

[2:07:07] WITH YOU DURING YOUR TIME.

[2:07:11] AND YOUR VOICE AND YOUR

[2:07:12] FEEDBACK ON OUR PRIORITIES IN

[2:07:16] MY OFFICE WERE VIEWED WITH THE

[2:07:19] GREATEST OF RESPECT AND

[2:07:21] GREATEST OF GRATITUDE BECAUSE

[2:07:22] WE KNEW THAT YOUR INPUT INTO

[2:07:24] ANYTHING THAT WE WERE WORKING

[2:07:26] ON WOULD MEAN THAT IT WOULD GET

[2:07:28] DONE AND GET DONE THE RIGHT WAY.

[2:07:30] AND I'M JUST GRATEFUL THAT WE

[2:07:33] HAD THAT PARTNERSHIP AS I'VE

[2:07:35] SAID AT ANY OF THE RETIREMENT

[2:07:36] THAT'S WE'VE HAD RECENTLY,

[2:07:39] YEAH, WE'RE LOSING AN

[2:07:42] INCREDIBLE FONT OF EXPERIENCE

[2:07:43] AND KNOWLEDGE ABOUT HOW THIS

[2:07:48] VERY COMPLICATED AND OFTEN

[2:07:50] CONFUSING CITY WORKS.

[2:07:50] AND WE'RE GOING TO FEEL THAT

[2:07:52] GAP.

[2:07:52] AND I JUST, I KNOW, IS HOPE

[2:07:54] THAT WE CAN MAKE IT OUT, BUT

[2:07:56] JUST KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, YOUR

[2:07:58] PRESENCE IS GOING TO BE DEEPLY

[2:08:00] DEEPLY MISSED AND I'M JUST SO

[2:08:03] GRATEFUL FOR WHAT YOU'VE

[2:08:04] ALREADY GIVEN TO THE CITY AND

[2:08:05] THE CITY IS VERY GRATEFUL FOR

[2:08:06] YOU.

[2:08:06] THANK YOU.

[2:08:07] >> THANK YOU.

[2:08:08] » THANK YOU.

[2:08:08] >> Council President:

[2:08:08] » Council President:

[2:08:08] COUNCILMEMBER LEE?

[2:08:09] >> J. Lee: YEAH, DEBRA

[2:08:13] » J. Lee: YEAH, DEBRA

[2:08:13] SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN SAID

[2:08:15] MORE THAN ONCE OVER THE LAST

[2:08:17] COUPLE OF YEARS, WE'VE LOST KEY

[2:08:20] MEMBERS FROM THE BUREAU OF

[2:08:23] ENGINEERING, WAS, WELL DEBRA IS

[2:08:24] STILL THERE.

[2:08:26] AND THIS RETIREMENT IS SO WELL

[2:08:28] EARNED BECAUSE I KNOW HOW HARD

[2:08:31] YOU'VE WORKED, BECAUSE YIZ OF A

[2:08:33] PROJECT IN MY DISTRICT THAT YOU

[2:08:34] WERE NOT PART OF.

[2:08:37] YOU ALWAYS HAD YOUR HANDS-ON.

[2:08:39] SO I JUST WANT TO STAND UP AND

[2:08:41] SAY ON BEHALF OF CD12, THANK

[2:08:43] YOU FOR EVERYTHING THAT YOU'VE

[2:08:44] DONE FOR OUR CITY AND THANK YOU

[2:08:46] FOR EVERYTHING YOU'VE DONE FOR

[2:08:48] THE NORTHWEST SAN FERNANDO

[2:08:50] VALLEY.

[2:08:51] >> THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER

[2:08:54] » THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER

[2:08:54] JURADO?

[2:08:54] >>

[2:08:55] » >> Y. Jurado: THANK YOU, MR.

[2:08:56] » Y. Jurado: THANK YOU, MR.

[2:08:56] PRESIDENT.

[2:08:58] THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER

[2:08:58] HERNANDEZ FOR BRINGING THIS

[2:09:01] FORWARD.

[2:09:02] DEBRA, CD14 WOULD NOT LOOK THE

[2:09:03] WAY IT DOES RIGHT NOW WITHOUT

[2:09:04] YOU.

[2:09:06] I HOPE YOU'LL COME AND

[2:09:07] CELEBRATE THE PARK WITH US.

[2:09:09] COME THIS SUMMER AND ALSO,

[2:09:11] THANK YOU FOR INTRODUCING US TO

[2:09:16] HEIDI DUCKLER, WE HAVE SOME

[2:09:18] GREAT IDEAS ON HOW TO WORK

[2:09:19] TOGETHER IN THE DAM COMPANY.

[2:09:21] BUT THE CITY, YOU CAN

[2:09:22] DRIVE-THRU IT AND SEE ALL YOUR

[2:09:26] FINGERPRINTS, LITERAL AND

[2:09:27] FIGURATIVE LEON IT.

[2:09:28] THANK YOU FOR YOUR YEARS OF

[2:09:31] DEDICATION.

[2:09:32] >> Council President: THANK YOU

[2:09:33] » Council President: THANK YOU

[2:09:34] COUNCILMEMBER JURADO.

[2:09:34] THANK YOU VERY MUCH DEBRA, I

[2:09:41] CONCUR CAN EVERYTHING THAT

[2:09:43] OTHERS HAVE SAID.

[2:09:44] I WANT TO TALK ABOUT A PROJECT

[2:09:47] THAT HAD YOU MAY NOT REMEMBER.

[2:09:49] IN MY FIRST YEARS I TOOK YOU

[2:09:53] AND OSAMA AND OTHERS IN

[2:09:55] LEADERSHIP TO A BUILDING AND I

[2:09:56] SAID THIS IS WHAT OUR DISTRICT

[2:09:58] OFFICE HAS TO LOOK LIKE.

[2:10:00] YOU REMEMBER THAT.

[2:10:02] AND IN MY MIND I THOUGHT THERE

[2:10:04] IS NO WAY THAT WE CAN DO IT.

[2:10:07] AND YOU LOOKED AT ME AND SAID

[2:10:10] WE CAN DO IT AND DO IT UNDER

[2:10:10] BUDGET.

[2:10:11] THAT PROJECT TURNED OUT SO

[2:10:14] WELL, THAT OFTEN SOMETIMES WHEN

[2:10:16] THE CONSTITUENTS WALK IN, THEY

[2:10:19] OFTEN SAY HOW CAN HOW IN THE

[2:10:23] WORLD AFFORD A NICE BUILDING IN

[2:10:26] COMMUNITY.

[2:10:28] SO I ALWAYS REMEMBER YOU FOR

[2:10:28] THAT.

[2:10:30] I ALWAYS INVOKE YOUR NAME

[2:10:32] WHENEVER RESIDENTS BRING THAT

[2:10:33] HUP.

[2:10:33] THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR

[2:10:34] SERVICE AND THANK YOU FOR

[2:10:38] THINKING ENOUGH OF THE PEOPLE

[2:10:39] IN LOS ANGELES TO DEDICATE THIS

[2:10:42] PART OF YOUR LIFE TO MAKE IT A

[2:10:45] BEAUTIFUL PLACE FOR EVERYONE.

[2:10:46] [APPLAUSE]

[2:10:47] >> THANK YOU.

[2:10:48] » THANK YOU.

[2:10:48] >> E. Hernandez: THANK YOU,

[2:10:50] » E. Hernandez: THANK YOU,

[2:10:50] COLLEAGUES, THANK YOU COUNCIL

[2:10:51] PRESIDENT.

[2:10:51] TO ALL THE FAMILY, FRIENDS AND

[2:10:53] COLLEAGUES WHO JOINED US TODAY,

[2:10:56] MY DEEPEST GRATITUDE FOR BEING

[2:10:59] HERE AND GIVING DEBRA A PROPER

[2:11:00] SEND OFF.

[2:11:01] WE HAVE A RESOLUTION SIGNED BY

[2:11:03] THE ENTIRE CITY COUNCIL

[2:11:05] CEMENTING YOUR LEGACY HERE IN

[2:11:06] LOS ANGELES.

[2:11:07] PLEASE JOIN ME IN GIVING HER A

[2:11:09] ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR HER

[2:11:12] DECADES OF SERVICE TO THE CITY.

[2:11:13] [APPLAUSE]

[2:11:29] >> ALL RIGHTCIOUS THANK YOU SO

[2:11:29] » ALL RIGHTCIOUS THANK YOU SO

[2:11:29] MUCH.

[2:11:31] COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ SUCH A

[2:11:32] GREAT PRESENTATION, I'M NOW ASK

[2:11:34] THE CLERK AND CITY ATTORNEY TO

[2:11:35] PREPARE US FOR PUBLIC COMMENT.

[2:11:39] >> YES, MR. PRESIDENT.

[2:11:41] » YES, MR. PRESIDENT.

[2:11:41] TO PEOPLE PROVIDING PUBLIC

[2:11:42] COMMENT WHEN IT'S YOUR TURN TO

[2:11:43] SPEAK, PLEASE STATE WHICH OF

[2:11:45] THE AGENDA ITEMS YOU WOULD LIKE

[2:11:46] TO SPEAK TO.

[2:11:47] YOU'LL HAVE ONE MINUTE PER UP

[2:11:50] TO THREE MINUTES TOTAL FOR THE

[2:11:51] ITEMS OPEN FOR PUBLIC COMMENT.

[2:11:53] WE WILL TELL YOU WHEN YOUR TIME

[2:11:54] IS UP.

[2:11:55] WHEN SPEAKING ON THE AGENDA

[2:11:56] ITEMS, YOU MUST BE ON TOPIC.

[2:11:58] OUR GOAL IS TO GET THROUGH AS

[2:12:01] MANY SPEAKERS AS WE CAN.

[2:12:02] IF YOU ARE NOT ON TOPIC OR IF

[2:12:04] WE CANNOT TELL WHETHER YOU'RE

[2:12:05] ON TOPIC, YOU WILL GET ONE

[2:12:08] BRIEF WARNING FROM ME OR THE

[2:12:09] COUNCIL PRESIDENT.

[2:12:10] AT THAT POINT, YOU NEED TO GET

[2:12:11] IMMEDIATELY AND CLEAR LEON

[2:12:12] TOPIC.

[2:12:13] IF YOU DO NOT SO, WE WILL MOVE

[2:12:18] ON TO THE NEXT SPEAKER.

[2:12:20] THE ITEMS OPEN FOR PUBLIC

[2:12:21] COMMENT ON THE AGENDA, ARE

[2:12:25] ITEMS 9 THROUGH 27 AND ITEMS 29

[2:12:27] THROUGH 31.

[2:12:29] SO AGAIN, THE ITEMS OPEN FOR

[2:12:31] PUBLIC COMMENT ON THE AGENDA,

[2:12:32] ARE ITEMS 9 THROUGH 27 AND 29

[2:12:36] THROUGH 31.

[2:12:37] ITEM NUMBER 28 HAS BEEN

[2:12:39] CONTINUED TO FEBRUARY AND AS

[2:12:40] THUS NOT OPEN FOR PUBLIC

[2:12:41] COMMENT.

[2:12:42] MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC MAY ALSO

[2:12:44] SPEAK FOR UP TO ONE MINUTE FOR

[2:12:46] GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT.

[2:12:48] DURING GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT,

[2:12:49] MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC MAY SPEAK

[2:12:51] TO ANY OF THE ITEMS OR ANYTHING

[2:12:53] ELSE IN THE CITY JURISDICTION.

[2:12:55] I HAVE A COUPLE MORE

[2:12:57] ANNOUNCEMENTS IF I CAN HAVE THE

[2:12:59] INTERPRETERS MAKE THIS ONE

[2:13:01] ALLOWED TO THE ROOM PLEASE, IF

[2:13:02] YOU REQUIRE A SPANISH LANGUAGE

[2:13:04] INTERPRETER, PLEASE MAKE SURE

[2:13:06] TO PAUSE EVERY FEW SENTENCES SO

[2:13:08] THE INTERPRETERS CAN INTERPRET.

[2:13:10] >> Interpreter: [SPEAKING

[2:13:11] » Interpreter: [SPEAKING

[2:13:11] SPANISH]

[2:13:24] >> City Attorney: DON'T WORRY

[2:13:25] » City Attorney: DON'T WORRY

[2:13:25] WE WILL PAUSE YOUR TIME WHILE

[2:13:27] THE INTERPRETERS ARE

[2:13:29] INTERPRETING SO GET THE SAME

[2:13:32] AMOUNT OF TIME.

[2:13:32] >> Interpreter: [SPEAKING

[2:13:33] » Interpreter: [SPEAKING

[2:13:33] SPANISH]

[2:13:40] >> City Attorney: ADDITIONALLY

[2:13:42] » City Attorney: ADDITIONALLY

[2:13:42] IF YOU HAVE MADE A REQUEST

[2:13:43] UNDER THE ADA IN ORDER TO MAKE

[2:13:47] USE OF HAND HELD MICROPHONE,

[2:13:49] PLEASE LET THE SERGEANT KNOW

[2:13:50] WHEN YOU HEAR YOUR NAME CALLED

[2:13:51] OUT WHEN IT'S YOUR TURN TO

[2:13:53] SPEAK.

[2:13:54] SO ONCE YOU HEAR YOUR NAME

[2:13:58] CALLED ALOUD, THEN YOU CAN

[2:13:59] RAISE YOUR HAND AND THE

[2:14:00] SERGEANTS CAN BRING YOU THE

[2:14:03] WIRELESS HAND HELD MICROPHONE.

[2:14:05] IF YOU MADE THAT REQUEST.

[2:14:07] FINALLY THE ORDER THAT WE CALL

[2:14:09] THE NAMES IS RANDOMLY GENERATED.

[2:14:11] SO IN ORDER TO ACCOMMODATE AS

[2:14:14] MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE, YOU

[2:14:17] PLEASE WAIT UNTIL YOU HEAR THE

[2:14:18] NAME YOU SIGNED UP UNDER BEFORE

[2:14:20] LINING UP ON YOUR LEFT HAND

[2:14:21] SIDE.

[2:14:21] AFTER YOU HEAR YOUR NAME CALLED

[2:14:24] ALLOWED, YOU CAN LINE UP ON ANY

[2:14:26] ORDER ON YOUR LEFT HAND SIDE OF

[2:14:28] THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS, THANK YOU.

[2:14:30] >> Clerk: I'LL BEGIN BY CALLING

[2:14:31] » Clerk: I'LL BEGIN BY CALLING

[2:14:31] THE FOLLOWING NAMES, KARINA R,

[2:14:36] LARA, ANDREA FONG AND DAN GUS.

[2:14:59] » City Attorney: I SEE ONE

[2:15:00] PERSON COMING UP.

[2:15:02] MR. HERMAN, TO THE EXTEND THAT

[2:15:05] YOU ASK FOR THE MICROPHONE, I

[2:15:07] ASK THAT YOU ADHERE TO THE

[2:15:16] INSTRUCTIONS I'VE GIVEN.

[2:15:18] PLEASE ABIDE BY THE PROCEDURES.

[2:15:20] GO AHEAD.

[2:15:21] WE'LL TAKE THE FIRST SPEAKER AT

[2:15:22] THE PODIUM FIRST.

[2:15:28] >> Speaker: OKAY.

[2:15:28] » Speaker: OKAY.

[2:15:28] OKAY.

[2:15:29] I'LL GO.

[2:15:30] >> City Attorney: GOOD MORNING,

[2:15:31] » City Attorney: GOOD MORNING,

[2:15:31] GO AHEAD.

[2:15:32] >> Speaker: GENERAL COMMENT.

[2:15:32] » Speaker: GENERAL COMMENT.

[2:15:32] >> City Attorney: YOU HAVE ONE

[2:15:33] » City Attorney: YOU HAVE ONE

[2:15:33] MINUTE.

[2:15:34] >> Speaker: ELECTED OFFICIALS

[2:15:35] » Speaker: ELECTED OFFICIALS

[2:15:35] MAY ASSUME NA PEOPLE WILL MAKE

[2:15:37] THE MOST NOISE ABOUT WHAT IS

[2:15:39] MOST IMPORTANT TO THEM.

[2:15:41] UNFORTUNATELY, THIS ASSUMPTION

[2:15:45] BREAKS DOWN WHEN IT COMES TO

[2:15:47] EXTORTATION.

[2:15:48] PEOPLE THREAT END WITH VIOLENCE

[2:15:50] WHEN THEY GO TO THE POLICE,

[2:15:52] WILL NOT GO TO POLICE.

[2:15:54] PEOPLE KNOW THAT THEY'RE BEING

[2:15:56] VICTIMIZED AND THEY KNOW THAT

[2:15:58] THEY'RE REFUSE TO GO LIFT A

[2:15:59] FINGER.

[2:16:00] YOU NEED TO WRITE A LETTER TO

[2:16:02] THE GOVERNOR ASKING FOR A

[2:16:04] MILITARY INVESTIGATION OF

[2:16:05] POLICE MISCONDUCT.

[2:16:07] HE WOULDN'T RISK STEPPING ON

[2:16:08] THE TOES OF LOCAL OFFICIALS SO

[2:16:11] IT REALLY IS YOUR

[2:16:12] RESPONSIBILITY.

[2:16:12] I DON'T KNOW WHAT NONSENSE YOUR

[2:16:16] BEING FED IN CLOSED SESSION BUT

[2:16:18] I SUSPECT YOU'RE BEING TOLD NOT

[2:16:19] TO HELP.

[2:16:20] ANYONE WHO TOLD YOU THIS IS

[2:16:25] DELUSIONAL AND JUST PLAIN BAD.

[2:16:28] >> Clerk: I WOULD LIKE TO CALL

[2:16:30] » Clerk: I WOULD LIKE TO CALL

[2:16:30] UP STEVE HORWITNESSES, INDICATE

[2:16:33] TEE WILL AFOON.

[2:16:35] M ADU RO NICK SIMON AND

[2:16:43] HARRIETTE ELLIOT.

[2:16:44] >> Speaker: TEST, TEST, TEST.

[2:16:51] » Speaker: TEST, TEST, TEST.

[2:16:51] SMOKING SCAN, I WANT TO SPEAK

[2:16:52] ON ALL ITEMS AND PUBLIC COMMENT.

[2:16:56] WHAT IS MY TIME SIR, ALL RIGHT,

[2:16:58] ASSHOLE, I GUESS IT'S THREE

[2:17:01] MINUTES, PLUS ONE.

[2:17:01] GOT IT.

[2:17:07] TODOS CABRONES Y PUTAS.

[2:17:11] >> Interpreter: ALL OF YOU

[2:17:14] » Interpreter: ALL OF YOU

[2:17:14] MOTHER FUCKERS, WELCOME TO MY

[2:17:17] HOUSE, 2026.

[2:17:19] >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH]

[2:17:24] » Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH]

[2:17:24] >> Interpreter: I AM THINKING

[2:17:26] » Interpreter: I AM THINKING

[2:17:26] OF ALL THE ELDERS IN COUNCIL

[2:17:29] DISTRICT 14, MOTHER FUCKERS.

[2:17:32] >> Speaker: WHICH IS ITEM

[2:17:34] » Speaker: WHICH IS ITEM

[2:17:34] NUMBER 3.

[2:17:34] >> City Attorney: ITEM 3 IS NOT

[2:17:36] » City Attorney: ITEM 3 IS NOT

[2:17:36] OPEN FOR PUBLIC COMMENT.

[2:17:38] ITEM 3 IS NOT OPEN FOR PUBLIC

[2:17:40] COMMENT.

[2:17:41] IF YOU WERE LISTENING EARLIER,

[2:17:43] THE ITEMS ARE 9 THROUGH 27 AND

[2:17:46] 29 THROUGH 31.

[2:17:47] SO THIS IS YOUR ONLY WARNING.

[2:17:51] PLEASE SPEAK TO THE ITEMS IN

[2:17:54] THE REMAINING 2 MINUTES AND 14

[2:17:56] SECONDS OR I'M GOING MOVE TO

[2:17:58] YOU GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT.

[2:17:58] >> Speaker: SO SMOKING SCAN ON

[2:18:04] » Speaker: SO SMOKING SCAN ON

[2:18:04] ITEM NUMBER 30, CIVIL RIGHTS

[2:18:08] IMMIGRATION, THANK YOU DONALD

[2:18:10] TRUMP FOR AGING AND DISABILITY

[2:18:13] AND PUBLIC SAFETY ON BEHALF OF

[2:18:16] DAVID O CARTER WHO JUST GAVE

[2:18:18] THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES A NICE

[2:18:22] BEAUTIFUL FINE IN THE MILLIONS

[2:18:24] OF DOLLARS FOR DOING NOTHING.

[2:18:26] YES.

[2:18:29] THE ASSOCIATED IMPERSONATING OF

[2:18:33] FEDERAL STATE AND LOCAL LAW

[2:18:35] ENFORCEMENT BY YOUR SO-CALLED

[2:18:36] GROUPS CALLED AS LAHSA.

[2:18:38] WE KNOW THAT, PERSONS UNDER THE

[2:18:41] FALSE PRETENSE OF BEING PUBLIC

[2:18:44] SAFETY OFFICERS, HAVE DONE

[2:18:47] NOTHING, NOT ONE GOD DAMN THING

[2:18:50] FOR HOUSING.

[2:18:52] AND THAT ONE--.

[2:18:53] >> City Attorney: THIS IS NOT

[2:18:54] » City Attorney: THIS IS NOT

[2:18:54] RELATED TO ITEM 30.

[2:18:56] SO YOUR FINAL WARNING, STICK TO

[2:18:57] THE ITEM OR LET US KNOW WHAT

[2:18:59] ITEM YOU WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK TO.

[2:19:00] >> Speaker: SO YOU'RE SAYING

[2:19:03] » Speaker: SO YOU'RE SAYING

[2:19:03] DISABILITY AND PUBLIC SAFETY IS

[2:19:05] NOT WHAT I'M SPEAKING ABOUT.

[2:19:08] CAN YOU REFINE ME WITH THE

[2:19:09] ANSWER.

[2:19:09] >> City Attorney: IT DOES NOT

[2:19:11] » City Attorney: IT DOES NOT

[2:19:11] MATCH THE DESCRIPTION OF THE

[2:19:12] ITEM.

[2:19:13] >> Speaker: OKAY, FUCK THE

[2:19:16] » Speaker: OKAY, FUCK THE

[2:19:16] LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENT TO

[2:19:19] THE IMMEDIATE AND HARASSED

[2:19:23] THREATENED PERSONS OR PROPERTY

[2:19:25] OF ANY OTHER FUCKEN METHOD THAT

[2:19:28] COULD BE UNDERSTOOD.

[2:19:31] 40 USC POLITELY, FUCK YOU, BIG

[2:19:34] HEAD!

[2:19:35] THANK YOU, SMOKING SCAN FOR

[2:19:36] THAT.

[2:19:36] >> City Attorney: THANK YOU

[2:19:38] » City Attorney: THANK YOU

[2:19:38] YOU'RE WELCOME TO TALK ABOUT MY

[2:19:40] BIG HEAD DURING PUBLIC COMMENT.

[2:19:41] >> Speaker: OH I GOT 3 MINUTES

[2:19:44] » Speaker: OH I GOT 3 MINUTES

[2:19:44] PLUS ONE, WHAT HAPPENED FOO.

[2:19:46] >> City Attorney: WE GAVE YOU

[2:19:50] » City Attorney: WE GAVE YOU

[2:19:50] MULTIPLE CHANCES.

[2:19:52] >> Speaker: GAVIN NEWSOM LADIES

[2:19:56] » Speaker: GAVIN NEWSOM LADIES

[2:19:56] AND GENTLEMEN, HAS ANNOUNCED NA

[2:19:58] IT'S TIME TO CLEAN UP THE

[2:19:59] HOMELESS CRISIS.

[2:20:01] IF YOU BELIEVE THAT, THAT'S

[2:20:03] LIKE SAYING, I HAVE A BIG DICK

[2:20:07] IN MY HAND, WHICH YOU SEE I

[2:20:08] DON'T.

[2:20:09] THE ONLY DICK IS THIS ONE, IS

[2:20:13] POINTING AT YOU, TO CREATE A

[2:20:16] CRISIS THAT DAVID O CARTER A

[2:20:19] FEDERAL JUDGE HAS ANNOUNCE IN

[2:20:21] ADDITION YOUR INCOMPETENT

[2:20:24] STUPID LAWS HAVE MADE THE

[2:20:26] SITUATION WORSE LIKE THAT

[2:20:29] JACKASS GOVERN WHO MADE HIS

[2:20:31] STATEMENTS AGAINST TRUMP.

[2:20:32] THANK YOU DONALD TRUMP FOR

[2:20:34] SAVING AMERICA.

[2:20:35] DONALD TRUMP HAS DONE AN

[2:20:36] EXCELLENT JOB AT PROVIDING US

[2:20:39] ALL THE SAFETY FROM ALL THE

[2:20:41] DRUGS THAT THIS CITY HAS

[2:20:43] ALLOWED AT THE AIRPORT AND THE

[2:20:44] PORTS.

[2:20:45] >> City Attorney: MR. HERMAN

[2:20:47] » City Attorney: MR. HERMAN

[2:20:47] YOUR TIME IS EXPIRED.

[2:20:49] NEXT SPEAKER.

[2:20:54] GOOD MORNING, WHICH ITEMS WOULD

[2:20:55] YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO?

[2:20:56] >> Speaker: NO ITEM, JUST

[2:20:57] » Speaker: NO ITEM, JUST

[2:20:58] PUBLIC COMMENT.

[2:20:58] >> City Attorney: YOU HAVE A

[2:21:00] » City Attorney: YOU HAVE A

[2:21:00] MINUTE.

[2:21:00] >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH]

[2:21:13] » Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH]

[2:21:13] COUNSELS HOLD ON.

[2:21:15] GIVE TIME FOR TRANSLATION.

[2:21:17] >> Interpreter: I LIVE CLOSE TO

[2:21:19] » Interpreter: I LIVE CLOSE TO

[2:21:19] 7th AND WILSHIRE AND THERE

[2:21:23] THERE IS A NEIGHBOR WHO HAS AN

[2:21:26] APARTMENT, WHO HAS AN, HOW DO I

[2:21:28] SAY THIS?

[2:21:29] >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH]

[2:21:46] » Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH]

[2:21:46] >> Interpreter: HE HAS A HIGH

[2:21:48] » Interpreter: HE HAS A HIGH

[2:21:48] AMOUNT OF MAIL ACCUMULATED IN

[2:21:51] HIS FRONT DOOR AND BECAUSE HE

[2:21:53] HAS NOT PICKED IT UP IN A

[2:21:55] WHILE, MEANS KNOWING IS LIVING

[2:21:56] THERE.

[2:21:57] >> Speaker: GRACIAS.

[2:21:58] » Speaker: GRACIAS.

[2:21:58] >> Interpreter: THANK YOU.

[2:22:00] » Interpreter: THANK YOU.

[2:22:00] >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH]

[2:22:14] » Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH]

[2:22:14] >> Interpreter: IN THE BOOK OF

[2:22:16] » Interpreter: IN THE BOOK OF

[2:22:16] JOHN DEAN HE SAYS THAT THERE IS

[2:22:19] CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANTS.

[2:22:22] >> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH]

[2:22:30] » Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH]

[2:22:30] >> Interpreter: HE HAS ERASED

[2:22:33] » Interpreter: HE HAS ERASED

[2:22:33] PREVIOUS CRIMINAL RECORDS WITH

[2:22:34] HELP FROM THE GOVERNMENT 6789

[2:22:37] >> Speaker: SI.

[2:22:39] » Speaker: SI.

[2:22:39] [SPEAKING SPANISH]

[2:22:41] AND UNDER BUSH TOO.

[2:22:42] >> Interpreter: IT WAS FIXED BY

[2:22:45] » Interpreter: IT WAS FIXED BY

[2:22:45] THE GOVERNMENT UNDER BUSH ALSO.

[2:22:50] >> Clerk: BEFORE THE NEXT

[2:22:52] » Clerk: BEFORE THE NEXT

[2:22:52] SPEAKER, I WOULD LIKE TO CALL

[2:22:54] JESSICA ROGERS, LITTLE WAYNE,

[2:22:56] EDGAR, JIM G AND CAESAR LOPEZ.

[2:22:58] >> City Attorney: GOOD MORNING,

[2:22:59] » City Attorney: GOOD MORNING,

[2:22:59] WHICH ITEMS WOULD YOU LIKE TO

[2:23:01] SPEAK TO?

[2:23:02] >> Speaker: GENERAL COMMENT.

[2:23:02] » Speaker: GENERAL COMMENT.

[2:23:03] >> City Attorney: OKAY, YOU

[2:23:03] » City Attorney: OKAY, YOU

[2:23:03] HAVE ONE MINUTE.

[2:23:06] >> Speaker: [BLOWING WHISTLE]

[2:23:08] » Speaker: [BLOWING WHISTLE]

[2:23:08] THIS IS PUBLIC TIME, NOT PUBLIC

[2:23:12] TIME.

[2:23:15] HALF THE REPS ARE DONE, CLOSE

[2:23:17] THE LOS ANGELES CENTRAL JAIL,

[2:23:20] MEN CENTRAL NEEDS TO BE CLOSED.

[2:23:24] >> City Attorney: OKAY AND

[2:23:26] » City Attorney: OKAY AND

[2:23:26] BEFORE I MOVE TO THE NEXT

[2:23:27] SPEAKER, PLEASE DO NOT BLOW A

[2:23:31] WHISTLE OR LOUD MICROPHONE AS

[2:23:34] IT GOES THROUGH THE SPEAKERS

[2:23:35] AND WE HAVE STAFF THAT WEAR

[2:23:38] HEADPHONES AND IT COULD DAMAGE

[2:23:41] THEIR EAR DRUMS, NOT TO MENTION

[2:23:44] IT'S A WHISTLE WE CAN HEAR IT.

[2:23:45] >> Speaker: I'M KATIE, I HAVE A

[2:23:47] » Speaker: I'M KATIE, I HAVE A

[2:23:47] GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT.

[2:23:48] >> City Attorney: OKAY YOU HAVE

[2:23:49] » City Attorney: OKAY YOU HAVE

[2:23:49] ONE MINUTE.

[2:23:50] GO AHEAD.

[2:23:50] >> Speaker: A YEAR AGO, WE WERE

[2:23:52] » Speaker: A YEAR AGO, WE WERE

[2:23:52] ON FIRE AND I SAW THE CITY COME

[2:23:56] TOGETHER IN A WAY THAT STILL

[2:23:58] MAKES ME EMOTIONAL.

[2:24:00] NONE OF YOU TOLD YOU THE PEOPLE

[2:24:02] ON THE GROUND TO DO IT BETTER,

[2:24:05] DOING THEIR BEST TO HELP

[2:24:07] NEIGHBORS AND WHEN WE WERE

[2:24:09] STILL WIPING CASH FROM OUR

[2:24:13] CARS, I CAME HERE BEGGING FOR

[2:24:14] HELP.

[2:24:15] I ASKED YOU TO SHOW UP TO THOSE

[2:24:18] BEING TERRORIZED BY ICE AND YOU

[2:24:20] IGNORED ME AND ALL OF US.

[2:24:22] THE MESSAGE HAS BEEN TO PUT THE

[2:24:24] BLAME ON PEOPLE, TO PUT THE

[2:24:26] RESPONSIBILITY ON US TO BE

[2:24:27] PEACEFUL WHICH WE ALWAYS BEEN

[2:24:30] NOT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OR

[2:24:31] LAPD WHICH HAS BEEN VIOLENT.

[2:24:35] ROBERTO WAS KILLED BY ICE, YOU

[2:24:36] SAID AND DID NOTHING.

[2:24:39] IT HAS THE FAULT IS ON HIM.

[2:24:42] LEAVING TERMINAL ISLAND, YOU

[2:24:44] DID NOTHING.

[2:24:46] THE MESSAGE SAID TO DOCUMENT

[2:24:48] THEM FROM A DISTANCE.

[2:24:50] EVERYONE LOVES TO SAY THAT L.A.

[2:24:53] IS THE TESTING GROUND.

[2:24:54] GIVE ME A MINUTE, I'M BEGGING

[2:24:56] YOU.

[2:24:57] >> City Attorney: HOLD ON, YOUR

[2:24:58] » City Attorney: HOLD ON, YOUR

[2:24:58] TIME IS NOT RUNNING RIGHT NOW.

[2:25:00] YOUR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT IS

[2:25:02] EXPIRED.

[2:25:04] IF YOU CONTINUE ABOUT THE ICE

[2:25:05] RAIDS, YOU CAN SPEAK TO ITEMS

[2:25:08] 29 AND 30, SO YOU HAVE TWO

[2:25:10] MINUTES FOR THE ITEMS, GO AHEAD.

[2:25:14] >> Speaker: YES, PLEASE.

[2:25:16] » Speaker: YES, PLEASE.

[2:25:16] EVERYBODY LOVES TO SAY THAT

[2:25:18] L.A. IS TESTING GROUND AND WE

[2:25:20] ARE.

[2:25:23] RENEE GOODE DIED BECAUSE OF THE

[2:25:25] ACTIONS THAT HAVE HAPPENED HERE.

[2:25:27] WE'VE WARNED EVERYBODY THAT

[2:25:28] THIS WOULD HAPPEN.

[2:25:29] WE TOLD EVERYBODY THAT WAS

[2:25:30] HAPPENED.

[2:25:31] KEITH PORTER WAS KILLED ON NEW

[2:25:34] YEAR'S EVE AND NOBODY HAS SAID

[2:25:36] ANYTHING.

[2:25:37] THERE HAS BEEN BEEN A SFAIMENT

[2:25:40] FROM THE MAYOR, NOBODY HAS SAID

[2:25:43] SHIT, GIVE US SOMETHING TO

[2:25:45] BELIEVE IN SXWLAIM.

[2:25:48] WE NEED SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN.

[2:25:50] THE CITY HAS A WHOLE HAS BEEN

[2:25:52] CONTINUED TO STAY HOME AND NOT

[2:25:54] TO STAND UP, YOU GUYS HAVE

[2:25:56] HELPED DO THAT.

[2:25:57] PLEASE DON'T POST ON SOCIAL

[2:25:59] MAOEDS I CAN'T ABOUT WHERE IS

[2:26:00] THE PLUS?

[2:26:02] PLEASE I AM BEGGING YOU, I AM

[2:26:04] BEGGING YOU, DO IT DIFFERENTLY.

[2:26:06] WE NEED YOU.

[2:26:07] WE NEED SOMEBODY TO DO

[2:26:08] SOMETHING.

[2:26:09] LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENED IN

[2:26:10] CHICAGO LAST NIGHT.

[2:26:11] PEOPLE ARE HERE, THEY'RE READY

[2:26:13] TO STAND BEHIND YOU BUT WE'VE

[2:26:16] BEEN CONTINUED THAT IF WE SHOW

[2:26:17] UP, THEY WILL BE GET SHOT.

[2:26:20] THEY WILL BE BEATEN.

[2:26:22] OUR OWN LAW ENFORCEMENT.

[2:26:24] WE NEED SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN.

[2:26:25] WE NEED YOU GUYS.

[2:26:26] WE NEED TO BELIEVE IN YOU.

[2:26:28] GIVE US SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN.

[2:26:30] THIS IS THE TESTING GROUND,

[2:26:33] IT'S STILL BEING TESTED.

[2:26:34] YOU GUYS CAN LIKE CHANGE THAT

[2:26:36] AND I'M BEGGING YOU TO HELP US.

[2:26:38] PLEASE.

[2:26:40] >> City Attorney: NEXT SPEAKER.

[2:26:47] » City Attorney: NEXT SPEAKER.

[2:26:47] GOOD MORNING, WHICH ITEMS WOULD

[2:26:48] YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO?

[2:26:49] >> Speaker: GOOD MORNING, SIR

[2:26:50] » Speaker: GOOD MORNING, SIR

[2:26:51] AND HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE.

[2:26:53] ALL ITEMS, YOU SAID 29 AND 30

[2:26:57] WERE ABOUT PUBLIC SAFETY AND

[2:26:59] ICE AND ANYTHING THAT HAS TO DO

[2:27:02] WITH PALISADES, MAY I FINISH

[2:27:03] SIR.

[2:27:03] >> City Attorney: YOU HAVE

[2:27:05] » City Attorney: YOU HAVE

[2:27:05] THREE MINUTES FOR THE ITEMS AND

[2:27:06] THAT'S 9 THROUGH 27 AND 29

[2:27:09] THROUGH 31.

[2:27:10] >> Speaker: SO GIVE ME ALL OF

[2:27:11] » Speaker: SO GIVE ME ALL OF

[2:27:11] THEM, SIR.

[2:27:12] LET'S START WITH PUBLIC SAFETY

[2:27:14] OFFICERS.

[2:27:16] YOU KNOW, I'VE MENTIONED IT

[2:27:17] BEFORE, WE HAVE THE FINEST

[2:27:20] POLICE CHIEF IN THE CITY,

[2:27:21] McDONNELL.

[2:27:22] A LOT OF YOU MAY NOT LIKE HIM,

[2:27:24] BUT WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT

[2:27:26] SOMEBODY WHO IS PREPARED FOR A

[2:27:27] JOB TO KEEP THIS CITY SAFE,

[2:27:31] CHIEF McDONNELL IS THAT PERSON!

[2:27:33] BUT I PERSONALLY HAVE TO SAY,

[2:27:38] SIR, MR. McOFK DONNELL WHAT

[2:27:40] HAPPENED?

[2:27:41] GOD GAVE YOU THE OPPORTUNITY TO

[2:27:43] MAKE IN CITY SAFER.

[2:27:45] HE GAVE YOU THE OPPORTUNITY TO

[2:27:46] DO GOOD WHEN YOU SEE ICE PEOPLE

[2:27:49] IN THE CITY WHO ARE DOING WRONG!

[2:27:53] THAT'S NOT LAW, THAT'S CRIME!

[2:27:56] SO I'M NOT BEING DISRESPECTFUL

[2:27:58] AND I'M NOT AFRAID OF YOU SIR,

[2:28:01] I RESPECTFULLY JUST ASK YOU TO

[2:28:04] PLEASE, PLEASE, MAKE THIS CITY

[2:28:06] SAFER AND DO WHATEVER YOU CAN

[2:28:07] TO PROTECT OUR CITIZENS.

[2:28:10] IN REGARDS TO, CAN I TALK ABOUT

[2:28:13] THE PALISADES FIRES WAS THAT AN

[2:28:15] ITEM.

[2:28:16] I'LL TALK ABOUT IT, HE'S NOT

[2:28:18] LISTENING.

[2:28:18] IT'S NICE TO HEAR YOU ALL, TALK

[2:28:20] ABOUT OH MY GOD, PALISADES, THE

[2:28:23] OTHER FIRE, I APOLOGIZE, I'M

[2:28:25] OLD, I CAN'T REMEMBER AND

[2:28:26] EVERYBODY WANTS TO DO SOMETHING!

[2:28:28] WHERE WERE YOU BEFORE!

[2:28:32] THIS MORNING WHEN I HAD TO WAKE

[2:28:34] UP EARLY, BECAUSE THE TREES

[2:28:36] FELL DOWN, BECAUSE THERE WERE

[2:28:37] 65 MILES PER HOUR WINDS

[2:28:40] KNOCKING DOWN MY TREES IN THE

[2:28:42] BACK YARD, CAN'T DO ANYTHING

[2:28:44] ABOUT THE WINTD OR RAIN?

[2:28:46] BUT WHAT DO YOU GUYS DO?

[2:28:48] YOU GIVE THE MATCH THAT WILL

[2:28:51] LIGHT PORTER RANCH.

[2:28:51] YOU FOLKS.

[2:28:52] >> City Attorney: WHAT ITEM ARE

[2:28:55] » City Attorney: WHAT ITEM ARE

[2:28:55] YOU SPEAKING TO?

[2:29:00] MR. CANDIDO, WHICH ITEM ARE YOU

[2:29:02] SPEAKING TO.

[2:29:04] YOU WANT TO MOVE TO GENERAL

[2:29:05] PUBLIC COMMENT.

[2:29:05] OKAY, YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE.

[2:29:07] >> Speaker: SIR, I WANT TO BE

[2:29:08] » Speaker: SIR, I WANT TO BE

[2:29:08] RESPECTFUL.

[2:29:10] WOULD YOU CUT THAT OUT.

[2:29:11] THIS IS REALLY RIDICULOUS,

[2:29:15] YOU'RE ACTING LIKE.

[2:29:16] SO WHAT IS HAPPENING IN PORTER

[2:29:19] RANCH, WORRIED ABOUT THE TREES

[2:29:21] FALLING, AND YET I'M WORRIED

[2:29:22] ABOUT THE FIRE THAT TAKE PLACE.

[2:29:24] AND THEN YOU COME HERE,

[2:29:26] PALISADES, OH WE'RE HERE, I'M

[2:29:28] REALLY SORRY, I CAN'T REMEMBER

[2:29:29] THE OTHER NAME.

[2:29:30] AGAIN, HERE YOU ARE, YOU HAVE A

[2:29:32] CHANCE TO DO SOMETHING.

[2:29:34] BUT YET YOU STILL ALLOW ILLEGAL

[2:29:38] PARKING IN PORTER RANCH WHERE

[2:29:40] THEY'RE TEARING UP THE AREA

[2:29:42] WITH SPEEDING.

[2:29:43] YOU KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE

[2:29:44] CRASHED?

[2:29:44] I MAY HAVE 60 MILES PER HOUR

[2:29:48] WINDS BUT I HAVE 80 MILES PER

[2:29:50] HOUR CARS GOING UP RESEDA.

[2:29:54] AND WHAT ARE YOU DOING ABOUT IT?

[2:29:56] JOHN LEE, YOU'RE LOOKING DOWN,

[2:29:57] I'VE BEEN A CONSTITUENT UP

[2:30:00] THERE FOR YEARS!

[2:30:01] AND YET YOU CANNOT LOOK ME IN

[2:30:02] THE FACE, RIGHT?

[2:30:04] YOU KEEP THAT NICE SUIT BUT I

[2:30:06] WORKED HARD FOR MY HOUSE.

[2:30:08] I WORKED HARD, I WENT FROM THE

[2:30:11] STREETS OF VAN NUYS TO PORTER

[2:30:13] RANCH AND I NEVER FORGOT WHERE

[2:30:16] I CAME FROM.

[2:30:17] >> City Attorney: MR. CANDIDO

[2:30:21] » City Attorney: MR. CANDIDO

[2:30:21] YOU'RE NOW DISRUPTING THIS

[2:30:23] MEETING, BECAUSE WE CANNOT MOVE

[2:30:24] ON TO THE NEXT SPEAKER.

[2:30:28] YOU'RE TIME IS EXPIRED, WE NEED

[2:30:30] TO MOVE ON TO THE NEXT SPEAKER.

[2:30:31] >> Speaker: DO SOMETHING ABOUT

[2:30:32] » Speaker: DO SOMETHING ABOUT

[2:30:32] IT.

[2:30:33] >> City Attorney: I'M GOING TO

[2:30:34] » City Attorney: I'M GOING TO

[2:30:34] ASK THE GENTLEMAN WITH THE

[2:30:36] BEARD AND WHISTLE ON MY LEFT

[2:30:38] HAND SIDE, DO NOT BLOW THAT

[2:30:40] WHISTLE AGAIN, IF YOU DO IT

[2:30:42] AGAIN, YOU'LL BE SUBJECT TO

[2:30:44] REMOVAL PURSUANT TO RULE 7 AND

[2:30:46] 12.

[2:30:50] MR. KANDIDO, YOU'VE ALREADY

[2:30:51] RECEIVED YOUR FIRST AND FINAL

[2:30:53] WARNING.

[2:30:54] NEXT SPEAKER.

[2:30:54] >> Speaker: HI GOOD MORNING.

[2:30:56] » Speaker: HI GOOD MORNING.

[2:30:56] IT HAS TO DO FOR ME FOR BEING

[2:31:02] HANDICAP, NOT JUST ME BUT FOR

[2:31:05] ALL PEOPLE WHO ARE HANDICAP.

[2:31:07] >> City Attorney: YOU HAVE A

[2:31:08] » City Attorney: YOU HAVE A

[2:31:08] MINUTE.

[2:31:09] >> Speaker: FOR VAN NUYS AREA,

[2:31:12] » Speaker: FOR VAN NUYS AREA,

[2:31:12] WE REALLY NEED TO HAVE SAFETY

[2:31:15] FOR US BECAUSE I WAS HIT BY A

[2:31:18] CAR AND THIS WAS BACK IN

[2:31:24] 20--JANUARY OF 23.

[2:31:26] AND IT WAS ON MY BIRTHDAY, IT

[2:31:29] WAS ON THE 26th AND I ENDED UP

[2:31:32] GOING TO EMERGENCY HOSPITAL.

[2:31:34] BUT THAT'S AS FAR AS IT WENT,

[2:31:37] THANK GOODNESS FOR THAT.

[2:31:38] BUT IT WAS THE IDEA STILL WHERE

[2:31:43] I LIVE IS BETWEEN TWO BUILDINGS

[2:31:46] AND THERE IS ONLY A LITTLE

[2:31:51] SMALL LITTLE RED CURVE AND

[2:31:53] THAT'S ALL THEY DID.

[2:31:55] THERE WAS ONCE ABOUT A TIME, A

[2:32:00] WHOLE, THE WHOLE ENTIRE AREA

[2:32:03] WHERE THE BETWEEN TWO BUILDINGS

[2:32:06] WERE.

[2:32:08] THEY WAS A--RED.

[2:32:10] >> City Attorney: SPEAKER YOUR

[2:32:11] » City Attorney: SPEAKER YOUR

[2:32:11] TIME IS EXPIRED.

[2:32:12] BUT IF YOU CAN GO TO THE SIDE

[2:32:15] OR THE BACK, JUST FOR A FEW

[2:32:17] MINUTES PLEASE.

[2:32:18] WE NEED TO GO TO THE NEXT

[2:32:19] SPEAKER.

[2:32:20] >> Clerk: BEFORE THE NEXT

[2:32:22] » Clerk: BEFORE THE NEXT

[2:32:22] SPEAKER, I WOULD LIKE TO CALL

[2:32:25] RM, LORI, MIKE W, ERIC ANDERS,

[2:32:31] THAI FORMAN, JARED AND PALOMA

[2:32:34] BUSTOs.

[2:32:35] >> City Attorney: GOOD MORNING,

[2:32:37] » City Attorney: GOOD MORNING,

[2:32:37] WHAT ITEM.

[2:32:38] >> Speaker: PUBLIC COMMENT.

[2:32:39] » Speaker: PUBLIC COMMENT.

[2:32:39] ?AOUF A MINUTE.

[2:32:39] >> Speaker: GOOD MORNING,

[2:32:42] » Speaker: GOOD MORNING,

[2:32:42] EVERYONE, COUNCILMEMBERS.

[2:32:43] I'M EDGAR AND I'M A FAST FOOD

[2:32:46] WORKER.

[2:32:48] I'VE BEEN WORKING IN THE FAST

[2:32:51] FOOD INDUSTRY FOR SOME YEARS

[2:32:52] AND I'M HERE TODAY TO ASK YOU

[2:32:55] TO SUPPORT THE FAST FOOD FAIR

[2:32:59] WORK ORDINANCE AND THESE

[2:33:00] ORDINANCE IS GOING TO BENEFIT

[2:33:02] MANY OF FAST FOOD WORKERS OF

[2:33:04] THEIRS.

[2:33:05] MANY FAST FOOD WORKERS LIKE ME

[2:33:07] WHO NEED TO GET PAID VACATIONS,

[2:33:14] FAIR SCHEDULING, AND KNOW ABOUT

[2:33:15] THEIR RIGHTS.

[2:33:16] THANK YOU FOR LISTENING TO ME.

[2:33:18] HAVE A GOOD DAY.

[2:33:19] AND GOD BLESS YOU ALL.

[2:33:21] [APPLAUSE]

[2:33:35] >> Speaker: GOOD MORNING, CITY

[2:33:37] » Speaker: GOOD MORNING, CITY

[2:33:37] COUNCIL.

[2:33:38] >> City Attorney: WHICH ITEM

[2:33:40] » City Attorney: WHICH ITEM

[2:33:40] WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO?

[2:33:42] >> Speaker: I WANT TO SPEAK

[2:33:43] » Speaker: I WANT TO SPEAK

[2:33:43] ABOUT FAST FOOD.

[2:33:44] >> City Attorney: YOU'LL HAVE A

[2:33:45] » City Attorney: YOU'LL HAVE A

[2:33:45] MINUTE.

[2:33:46] >> Speaker: I'M CAESAR LOPEZ,

[2:33:50] » Speaker: I'M CAESAR LOPEZ,

[2:33:50] AND I WORK OFTEN WITHOUT PAY UP

[2:33:53] TO 12 HOURS A WEEK.

[2:33:54] I WAS NOT GIVEN BREAKS DURING

[2:33:56] THIS TIME.

[2:33:58] I LIVE PAYCHECK TO PAYCHECK.

[2:33:59] I HAVE A KAOUM DATED 21,000 IN

[2:34:03] CREDIT CARD DEBT.

[2:34:05] I AM TRYING TO SURVIVE.

[2:34:07] I DIDN'T KNOW THAT I HAD THE

[2:34:09] RIGHT TO GET PAID FOR THE

[2:34:12] MISSED BREAKS.

[2:34:13] NOUZ I KNOW THIS IS I WILL

[2:34:15] LYLE, I'M DEMANDING TO BE PAID

[2:34:16] WHAT I'M OWED THE TERMS OF TONS

[2:34:19] OF FAST FOOD WORKERS ARE STILL

[2:34:22] SUFFERING FROM WAGE THEFT AND

[2:34:23] THEY DON'T EVEN KNOW IT.

[2:34:27] LOS ANGELES COUNCILMEMBERS CAN

[2:34:28] HELP US EQUIP WITH KNOW YOUR

[2:34:31] RIGHTS TRAINING SO TOGETHER

[2:34:34] WORKERS WITH WORK AND MEANT TO

[2:34:36] PROTECT WON ASSUMERS AND

[2:34:37] BUSINESSES.

[2:34:37] THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

[2:34:50] >> Speaker: I'M PALOMA AND I'M

[2:34:53] » Speaker: I'M PALOMA AND I'M

[2:34:53] PART OF LAYOLA LAW SCHOOL.

[2:34:55] MANY IN LOS ANGELES ARE LOOKING

[2:34:58] FORWARD TO HOST THE WORLD CUP

[2:35:01] AND OLYMPIC GAMES.

[2:35:02] THIS BRINGS BILLIONS BUT ALSO

[2:35:06] CREATE PRESSURE TO FINISH

[2:35:09] CONSTRUCTION, THEY INCREASE THE

[2:35:10] DEMAND FOR WORKERS

[2:35:12] HOSPITALITIES AND EVENT

[2:35:13] SERVICES, WE KNOW FROM PAST

[2:35:16] OLYMPIC THAT'S WHEN THERE IS

[2:35:17] PRESSURE FOR PAST AND CHEAP

[2:35:19] LABOR, INCREASES ESPECIALLY FOR

[2:35:24] IMMIGRANT AND WORKERS.

[2:35:25] IDENTIFIED IN CONNECTION WITH

[2:35:26] EVERY OLYMPIC GAMES AND WORLD

[2:35:28] CUPS OVER THE PAST DECADES.

[2:35:30] OUR OFFICE RECENTLY RELEASED A

[2:35:33] REPORT THAT CLEAR PRACTICE

[2:35:34] STEPS THAT THE CITY CAN TAKE

[2:35:36] NOW, MAKING SURE THAT

[2:35:37] CONTRACTORS ARE FOLLOWING RULES

[2:35:39] AND FUNDING SURVIVOR TO PREVENT

[2:35:40] HARM BEFORE IT HAPPENS.

[2:35:42] WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SHARE THAT

[2:35:44] REPORT WITH YOU TO MAKE SURE

[2:35:47] THAT THE CITY--SO THEY DON'T

[2:35:48] COME AT THE EXPENSE OF SAFETY

[2:35:51] AND DIGNITY.

[2:35:52] THANK YOU.

[2:35:52] >> City Attorney: THANK YOU,

[2:35:53] » City Attorney: THANK YOU,

[2:35:53] NEXT SPEAKER.

[2:36:00] >> City Attorney: WHICH ITEMS

[2:36:01] » City Attorney: WHICH ITEMS

[2:36:01] WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO?

[2:36:03] >> Speaker: I'M U.S. BLUM, I'M

[2:36:08] » Speaker: I'M U.S. BLUM, I'M

[2:36:08] A U.S. VETERAN, HONORABLE

[2:36:11] DISCHARGED.

[2:36:12] I LIVE IN VAN NUYS AND BETWEEN

[2:36:18] 1509, I'M SORRY, 15049 AND

[2:36:22] 15105, THERE IS A WALKWAY THERE

[2:36:25] THAT NEEDS TO BE PAINTED EITHER

[2:36:28] RED OR BLUE, OR BOTH.

[2:36:35] BECAUSE THERE IS CARS PARKED

[2:36:37] THERE AND THEY PAINT IT.

[2:36:39] AND IN MY BOOK, THAT'S

[2:36:44] UNACCEPTABLE AND AND SOMEBODY

[2:36:47] TOLD ME TO TAKE A BLUE WALKWAY.

[2:36:53] I WANT IT DONE YESTERDAY.

[2:36:56] I WANT BLUE LINES SO PEOPLE WHO

[2:37:00] PARK THERE CAN GET TICKETED,

[2:37:03] CAUSE AS IT IS RIGHT NOW, WE

[2:37:05] CALL SOMEBODY TO COME AND GIVE

[2:37:08] A TICKET THAT WILL NOT GIVE A

[2:37:09] TICKET BECAUSE THERE IS NO

[2:37:11] INDICATION AS TO WHAT HE DID.

[2:37:13] >> SPEAKER YOUR TIME IS EXPIRED.

[2:37:16] » SPEAKER YOUR TIME IS EXPIRED.

[2:37:16] BUT IF YOU YOU CAN JUST WAIT

[2:37:18] FOR A SECOND.

[2:37:19] >> I'M DONE.

[2:37:20] » I'M DONE.

[2:37:20] >> OKAY, NEXT SPEAKER.

[2:37:29] » OKAY, NEXT SPEAKER.

[2:37:29] >> Speaker: GOOD DAY, I WOULD

[2:37:30] » Speaker: GOOD DAY, I WOULD

[2:37:30] LIKE TO DO THE GENERAL COMMENT.

[2:37:32] I BELIEVE I HAVE A SUBJECT THAT

[2:37:35] AFFECTS US ALL.

[2:37:36] >> City Attorney: OKAY, YOU

[2:37:36] » City Attorney: OKAY, YOU

[2:37:36] HAVE A MINUTE, GO AHEAD.

[2:37:37] >> Speaker: OKAY, MY I'M

[2:37:40] » Speaker: OKAY, MY I'M

[2:37:40] FREDERICK WILLIAM, I CALL A

[2:37:42] CIVILIZED AMERICAN AND CITIZEN

[2:37:44] OF THE WORLD.

[2:37:46] WE HAVE INTERNATIONAL CRISIS,

[2:37:48] WE HAVE A SITUATION THAT IS

[2:37:50] AFFECTING ALL OF US, BUSINESSES

[2:37:52] ARE CLOSING HERE IN LOS

[2:37:54] ANGELES, I SEE THAT SO I MUST,

[2:38:05] SO NUMBER MUST BE RISING TOO.

[2:38:07] THE NUMBER OF BILLIONAIRES HAS

[2:38:10] GROWN AND THE NUMBER OF DOLLARS

[2:38:13] FOR THOSE BILLIONAIRES HAS

[2:38:14] GROWN.

[2:38:17] AND THIS IS, SIMPLE ARITHMETIC.

[2:38:22] THE SIMth ARITHMETIC IN THIS

[2:38:26] EQUATION, WE HAVE A NATIONAL OR

[2:38:30] INTERNATIONAL CRISIS, WE NEED A

[2:38:34] GRADUATED TAX REFORMATION, THE

[2:38:36] SITUATION WITH THOSE AND OTHER

[2:38:40] POVERTY LINE PAY NOTHING AND

[2:38:46] THOSE ZILLIONAIRS.

[2:38:47] >> Clerk: BEFORE THE NEXT

[2:38:48] » Clerk: BEFORE THE NEXT

[2:38:48] SPEAKER BEGINS, I WOULD LIKE TO

[2:38:52] CALL UP BRANDON, AUDIT L.A.,

[2:38:55] GLORIA, MICHELLE SHE HAVEROF

[2:38:57] AND NICK HOLDEN.

[2:38:59] >> City Attorney: GOOD MORNING,

[2:39:00] » City Attorney: GOOD MORNING,

[2:39:00] WHICH ITEMS WOULD YOU LIKE TO

[2:39:01] SPEAK TO?

[2:39:02] >> Speaker: GENERAL COMMENT AND

[2:39:03] » Speaker: GENERAL COMMENT AND

[2:39:03] THE TWO RELATED TO THE ICE

[2:39:04] RAIDS.

[2:39:04] >> City Attorney: SORRY,

[2:39:06] » City Attorney: SORRY,

[2:39:06] GENERAL COMMENT AND WHAT?

[2:39:07] >> Speaker: AND THE TWO RELATED

[2:39:09] » Speaker: AND THE TWO RELATED

[2:39:09] TO THE ICE RAIDS.

[2:39:09] >> City Attorney: OKAY YOU HAVE

[2:39:10] » City Attorney: OKAY YOU HAVE

[2:39:11] TWO MINUTES FOR THE ITEMS, 29

[2:39:12] AND 30, IF YOU CAN BEGIN WITH

[2:39:15] THOSE FIRST AND THEN YOU CAN

[2:39:16] MOVE ON TO GENERAL PUBLIC

[2:39:17] COMMENT.

[2:39:17] >> Speaker: MY NAME IS A ERIC

[2:39:20] » Speaker: MY NAME IS A ERIC

[2:39:20] I'M A PHOTOGRAPHER WHO HAS BEEN

[2:39:22] DOCUMENTING ICE.

[2:39:23] I WOULD LIKE TO THANK

[2:39:26] COUNCILMEMBER RODRIGUEZ FOR HOW

[2:39:27] YOU ADDRESSED THE YEAR TODAY.

[2:39:29] YOU SAID THE GLOVES ARE OFF,

[2:39:31] AND I HOPE THAT'S TRUE, BECAUSE

[2:39:34] WE NEED IT T.LAST NIGHT, I

[2:39:37] MARCHED FROM MARCH MARIACHI

[2:39:46] PLAZA FOR RENEE GOODE.

[2:39:51] SO VISUAL METAPHOR, THERE WAS A

[2:39:52] MOMENT WHERE WE WERE WALKING

[2:39:53] ACROSS THE BRIDGE, ACROSS THE

[2:39:56] L.A. RIVER SURROUNDED BY

[2:39:59] INDUSTRIAL WASTE LAND, THE

[2:40:00] DETENTION CENTER, SOMEWHERE

[2:40:02] AHEAD OF US.

[2:40:03] IT WAS WINDY AND COLD AND DARK

[2:40:05] BECAUSE THE STREET LIGHTS WERE

[2:40:07] ALL OUT ON THE BRIDGE BECAUSE

[2:40:09] THEY HAVE RESERVED TO STEALING

[2:40:12] COPPER WIRING.

[2:40:13] IT STRUCK ME THAT WE'RE PAST A

[2:40:15] TIPPING POINT.

[2:40:17] WE HAVE TIPPED, THE MOMENT IS

[2:40:18] HERE.

[2:40:19] WE NYED MORE WORDS THAN WHAT WE

[2:40:22] NEED HOPE.

[2:40:24] THE GENTLEMAN THAT SPOKE ON

[2:40:25] BEHALF OF KEITH PORTER'S BEHALF

[2:40:28] IS CORRECT, THIS IS GOING TO BE

[2:40:31] UNPRECEDENTED, THERE IS NO MORE

[2:40:33] TIME TO WAIT.

[2:40:35] I WAS GLAD YOU STARTED THE

[2:40:38] MEETING LIKE THAT.

[2:40:39] I KNOW YOU'RE ALL REQUIRED TO

[2:40:40] SAY IT BY THE BYLAW OR

[2:40:43] SOMETHING, I WOULD POINT OUT

[2:40:44] THAT HAD YOU STARTED BY TURNING

[2:40:46] YOUR BACK ON THE PUBLIC TO

[2:40:48] PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE

[2:40:52] FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, PLEASE SHOW

[2:40:56] ME I'M MISINTERPRETED, IF YOU

[2:40:57] CAN'T DO ANYTHING TO RAIN IN

[2:41:00] ICE, YOU NEED TO TELL US WHY.

[2:41:02] GO PUBLIC, DO SOMETHING

[2:41:04] UNPRECEDENTED.

[2:41:04] THIS IS THE MOMENT AND WE NEED

[2:41:05] TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE MORE

[2:41:07] AFTER THIS.

[2:41:07] THANK YOU.

[2:41:15] >> City Attorney: GOOD MORNING,

[2:41:17] » City Attorney: GOOD MORNING,

[2:41:17] WHAT ITEM WOULD YOU LIKE TO

[2:41:18] SPEAK TO?

[2:41:19] >> Speaker: GOOD MORNING, THIS

[2:41:20] » Speaker: GOOD MORNING, THIS

[2:41:20] IS A GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT.

[2:41:22] >> City Attorney: YOU HAVE A

[2:41:24] » City Attorney: YOU HAVE A

[2:41:24] MINUTE.

[2:41:24] >> Speaker: I WOULD LIKE TO SAY

[2:41:26] » Speaker: I WOULD LIKE TO SAY

[2:41:26] GOOD MORNING HERNANDEZ AND

[2:41:29] COUNCILMEMBER JURADO.

[2:41:30] NOW THE MATTER THAT I NEED UM,

[2:41:34] ATTENTION ON, IS SPECIFICALLY

[2:41:36] DEALING WITH COUNCILMEMBER

[2:41:37] JURADO.

[2:41:37] I LIVE IN CENTRAL CITY EAST.

[2:41:41] AND IT'S SUPER AWESOME, I'M

[2:41:45] PUTTING THE OTHER COUNCIL,

[2:41:47] LITTLE TOKYO AWESOME AS WELL.

[2:41:48] BUT PEOPLE ON SKID ROW FACE,

[2:41:51] VERY UNIQUE.

[2:41:52] I'M A MARKIST, I'M HARD LINE

[2:41:55] MARKIST AND INTERACTING WITH

[2:41:57] THE GOVERNMENT IN A MORE FLUID

[2:41:59] MANNER HAS BEEN PRODUCTIVE FOR

[2:42:01] THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE THERE.

[2:42:02] AND I THINK THE ATTENTION AND

[2:42:05] DEDICATION TO WAR IS DEVELOPING

[2:42:06] A METHOD THAT IS MORE IN LINE

[2:42:08] THAT THEY KNOW IS MORALLY

[2:42:11] RIGHT, MORALLY SOUND IN TERMS

[2:42:14] WHAT OF WHAT WE'RE ABLE TO

[2:42:15] ACHIEVE CAN BE DONE.

[2:42:16] I JUST WANTED TO SAY HELLO TO

[2:42:19] YSABEL JURADO FOR THE FIRST

[2:42:20] TIME.

[2:42:21] THANK YOU SO MUCH AND I'M

[2:42:22] HONORED TO BE IN YOUR DISTRICT.

[2:42:24] OKAY.

[2:42:25] THAT'S IT.

[2:42:31] >> City Attorney: GOOD

[2:42:32] » City Attorney: GOOD

[2:42:32] AFTERNOON, WHAT ITEMS WOULD YOU

[2:42:33] LIKE TO SPEAK TO?

[2:42:34] >> Speaker: THE ITEMS RELATED

[2:42:35] » Speaker: THE ITEMS RELATED

[2:42:35] TO ICE AND GENERAL PUBLIC

[2:42:36] COMMENT.

[2:42:37] : >> City Attorney: OKAY, YOU

[2:42:39] HAVE TWO MINUTES FOR THE ITEMS

[2:42:41] AND ONE FOR GENERAL PUBLIC

[2:42:42] COMMENT.

[2:42:42] >> Speaker IN LIGHT OF THE

[2:42:44] » Speaker IN LIGHT OF THE

[2:42:44] MURDER OF RENEE GOOD, THE TWO

[2:42:46] PEOPLE SHOT LAST NIGHT, I THINK

[2:42:48] OF MY GRANDFATHER WHO STOOD UP

[2:42:52] AND FOUGHT FASCISM OVERSEAS AND

[2:42:55] ROLLING IN HIS GRAVE NOW TO SEE

[2:42:57] IT COME TO OUR SHORES.

[2:42:58] WE DON'T HAVE TIME FOR GOOD

[2:43:01] WORDS, WE NEED ACTIONS, WE NEED

[2:43:05] BOLDNESS, WE NEED COURAGE TO

[2:43:07] FACE THE MOMENT BECAUSE OUR

[2:43:09] FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS ARE UNDER

[2:43:10] THREAT.

[2:43:10] AND YOU CAN PRETEND LIKE

[2:43:13] THEY'RE NORMAL TIMES, THOSE

[2:43:15] TIMS ARE GONE.

[2:43:16] WE NEED ACTION, WE NEED

[2:43:19] PASSION, WE NEED CREATIVITY, WE

[2:43:21] NEED PEOPLE TO AT LEAST STAND

[2:43:24] UP.

[2:43:24] IF WE GO DOWN, WE AT LEAST GO

[2:43:26] DOWN SWING ISING, WE DON'T JUST

[2:43:30] ROLL OVER.

[2:43:31] I HAVE TO ADMIT, I'M AFRAID AND

[2:43:34] I CAN IMAGINE A LOT OF YOU ON

[2:43:38] COUNCIL ARE AFRAID.

[2:43:39] BUT WE NEED COURAGE AND RESOLVE

[2:43:43] BECAUSE, I HAVE SEEN THE VIDEO

[2:43:45] OF THAT WOMAN BEING SHOT IN THE

[2:43:47] FACE BY A FEDERAL THUG.

[2:43:50] I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD SEE

[2:43:51] THAT IN MY COUNTRY, WHEN I

[2:43:54] HEARD, OF LIKE THE SHOOTINGS IN

[2:43:57] PORTLAND, I GOT SCARED BECAUSE

[2:43:58] I HAD TO CALL MY FRIENDS TO

[2:44:00] MAKE SURE THEY WERE OKAY.

[2:44:11] WE KEEP SAYING, WE NEED ACTION,

[2:44:13] WE NEED A PLAN.

[2:44:15] WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU GOING TO

[2:44:16] DO?

[2:44:17] I LOVED YOUR WORDS MS.

[2:44:19] RODRIGUEZ.

[2:44:20] BUZZ WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO

[2:44:21] FOR US?

[2:44:22] HOW ARE YOU GOING TO KEEP US

[2:44:24] SAFE?

[2:44:25] HOW ARE YOU GOING TO PREVENT

[2:44:26] PEOPLE FROM DYING AND BEING

[2:44:28] KILLED AT THE HANDS OF A FEDS

[2:44:30] RAL GASTAPO?

[2:44:32] THANK YOU.

[2:44:35] >> City Attorney: OKAY, NEXT

[2:44:37] » City Attorney: OKAY, NEXT

[2:44:37] SPEAKER.

[2:44:39] GOOD AFTERNOON, WHICH ITEMS

[2:44:40] WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO?

[2:44:42] >> Speaker: DEREK, I'M GOING TO

[2:44:44] » Speaker: DEREK, I'M GOING TO

[2:44:44] BE SPEAKING ON 29, 2 AND 30,

[2:44:47] AND WOULD I LIKE TO MAKE A

[2:44:49] GENERAL COMMENT AS WELL.

[2:44:50] >> City Attorney: SO ITEM

[2:44:51] » City Attorney: SO ITEM

[2:44:51] NUMBER 2 IS NOT OPEN FOR PUBLIC

[2:44:52] COMMENT.

[2:44:53] BUT YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES FOR 29

[2:44:55] AND 30 AND ONE MINUTE FOR

[2:44:56] GENERAL.

[2:44:58] >> Speaker: OKAY, GOOD.

[2:44:59] » Speaker: OKAY, GOOD.

[2:44:59] I SUPPORT THE FEDERAL

[2:45:00] GOVERNMENT.

[2:45:01] I SUPPORT DONALD TRUMP I

[2:45:02] SUPPORT WHAT THEY'RE DOING TO

[2:45:03] GET THESE ILLEGAL AND UNLAWFUL

[2:45:06] INDIVIDUALS OUT OF THIS COUNTRY.

[2:45:07] WHEN YOU GET IMMIGRATION UNDER

[2:45:10] THE CONTROL.

[2:45:11] WHEN YOU GET THESE ILLEGAL

[2:45:14] ALIENS, IT CREATES JOBS AND

[2:45:15] TUNS AND PATHWAY THAT'S

[2:45:17] AMERICAN CITIZENS CAN ON AND

[2:45:19] GET OPPORTUNITIES THAT THEY'RE

[2:45:20] BEING DENIED EACH AND EVERY DAY.

[2:45:22] I ALSO WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE

[2:45:24] SITUATION THAT HAPPENED WHERE

[2:45:25] ICE HAD TO PROTECT ITSELF.

[2:45:27] WE'RE TALKING ABOUT MEN AND

[2:45:28] WOMEN WHO PUT ON UNIFORMS AND

[2:45:31] PROTECT OUR COUNTRY FOR PEOPLE

[2:45:33] WHO DON'T WANT TO BELONG HERE

[2:45:35] FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO COME

[2:45:37] HERE FREE AND DON'T WANT TO

[2:45:38] FOLLOW OUR LAWS AND GET OUR

[2:45:40] PUBLIC SERVICES FOR NOTHING AND

[2:45:41] THEY DON'T WANT TO FOLLOW THE

[2:45:42] PROCESS.

[2:45:43] BUT INSTEAD OF US SUPPORTING

[2:45:45] OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT, WE WANT TO

[2:45:46] CONDEMN THEM.

[2:45:47] BUT NONE OF YOU HAVE THE GUTS

[2:45:49] TO PUT ON THE SAME UNIFORM THAT

[2:45:51] THEY PUT EVERY DAY PUTTING

[2:45:53] THEIR LIVES AT-RISK IN HARM

[2:45:56] WHEN THEY MAY NOT RETURN TO

[2:45:57] THEIR FAMILIES.

[2:45:59] KNEW YOU CAN CALL ME CRAZY ALL

[2:46:02] YOU WANT, MY GRANDMA ALWAYS

[2:46:05] SAID, THERE IS A THIN LINE

[2:46:07] BETWEEN CRAZY AND COURAGE.

[2:46:09] MANY WHO DON'T WANT HAVE

[2:46:10] COURAGE SEE ME AS CRAZY.

[2:46:12] THE PROBLEM IS THE SYSTEM THAT

[2:46:15] WE HAVE CREATED.

[2:46:16] THE OTHER ITEM IS 29, HOW DARE

[2:46:18] YOU TRY TO MAKE PROTESTERS

[2:46:21] COLLUDE WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT TO

[2:46:23] TELL THEM WHAT THEIR MOVES ARE

[2:46:26] WHAT THEIR DEMONSTRATION AND

[2:46:27] WHAT NR ROUTES ARE.

[2:46:29] HOW DARE THIS GOVERNMENT

[2:46:31] PREVENT PEOPLE FROM EXERCISING

[2:46:33] THEIR FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS.

[2:46:36] NOW MY LAST 20 SECONDS

[2:46:38] REGARDING THESE ITEMS I WANT TO

[2:46:40] BRING ATTENTION TO THE LAPD AND

[2:46:41] CORRUPTION THAT EXIST IN THAT

[2:46:43] DEPARTMENT SINCE WE'RE TALKING

[2:46:45] ABOUT LAW ENFORCEMENT.

[2:46:46] >> City Attorney: SO YOU HAVE

[2:46:47] » City Attorney: SO YOU HAVE

[2:46:47] ONE MINUTE FOR GENERAL PUBLIC

[2:46:49] COMMENT.

[2:46:49] >> Speaker: LAPD IS A GROUP OF

[2:46:50] » Speaker: LAPD IS A GROUP OF

[2:46:51] THUGS.

[2:46:52] THEY HAVE ACTED WITH INDECENCY

[2:46:55] AS A LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY,

[2:46:57] THEY'RE NOT A PRO FEX AL LAW

[2:47:00] ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.

[2:47:01] THEY HAVE FAILED TO PROVIDE ME

[2:47:05] WITH RECORDS INCLUDING CRIME

[2:47:08] REPORTS, BODY WORN BODY FOOTAGE

[2:47:09] AND OTHER RECORDS THAT I

[2:47:10] REQUESTED.

[2:47:11] AND THEY NEED TO BE ACCOUNTABLE

[2:47:13] OR I'M GOING TO GO INTO THE

[2:47:17] SUPERIOR COURT OF COUNTY AND

[2:47:19] FORCE THEM TO GIVE ME THE

[2:47:20] RECORDS OF WHICH I CREATED.

[2:47:22] THEY ALSO ARRESTED ME BECAUSE

[2:47:24] OF MY ACTIVITY AS A GOVERNMENT

[2:47:26] WATCHDOG.

[2:47:28] I'VE BEEN 500 POUNDS, 400

[2:47:30] POUNDS, I FOUGHT THE SAME BLACK

[2:47:41] BITCH THAT PRACTICED DONALD

[2:47:42] TRUMP, IF YOU THINK THEY ARE

[2:47:44] GOING TO TAKE ME DOWN, YOU BET

[2:47:47] BEHR CALL AND SEE HOW IT TOOK

[2:47:49] ME DOWN.

[2:47:50] IT IS GOING TO TAKE MORE THAN

[2:47:52] FAT SHAMING.

[2:47:59] >> City Attorney: SPEAK YOU ARE

[2:48:00] » City Attorney: SPEAK YOU ARE

[2:48:00] YOUR TIME IS EXPIRED.

[2:48:02] THIS IS YOUR FIRST AND FORMAL

[2:48:04] WARNING, DO NOT DISRUPT THIS

[2:48:05] MEETING.

[2:48:06] >> Council President: ALL

[2:48:06] » Council President: ALL

[2:48:06] RIGHT, THANK YOU MR. CITY

[2:48:07] ATTORNEY.

[2:48:09] SIR, YOU'RE DISRUPTING YOUR

[2:48:12] MEETING, THIS IS YOUR FIRST AND

[2:48:13] LAST WARNING.

[2:48:15] MADAM CLERK, WHAT IS BEFORE US?

[2:48:17] >> Clerk: MR. PRESIDENT,

[2:48:19] » Clerk: MR. PRESIDENT,

[2:48:19] COUNCIL MAY VOTE ON 9 THROUGH

[2:48:23] 22, 25 THROUGH 27, AS WELL AS

[2:48:26] 31, SIR.

[2:48:27] >> Council President: ALL

[2:48:28] » Council President: ALL

[2:48:28] RIGHT, THOSE ITEMS ARE NOW

[2:48:29] BEFORE US.

[2:48:30] LET'S OPEN THE ROLL, CLOSE THE

[2:48:32] ROLL, TABULATE THE VOTE.

[2:48:36] >> Clerk:

[2:48:45] » Clerk:

[2:48:45] >> Clerk: 14 AYES.

[2:48:46] » Clerk: 14 AYES.

[2:48:46] >> Council President: ALL

[2:48:46] » Council President: ALL

[2:48:46] RIGHT, WHAT'S NEXT?

[2:48:47] >> Clerk: NEXT IS ITEM NUMBER 2

[2:48:50] » Clerk: NEXT IS ITEM NUMBER 2

[2:48:50] AND THAT ONE WAS CALLED SPECIAL

[2:48:53] BY AMENDMENT MOTION

[2:48:56] McOSKER-HERNANDEZ.

[2:48:57] >> Council President: ALL

[2:48:58] » Council President: ALL

[2:48:58] RIGHT, LET'S OPEN THE ROLL ON

[2:49:00] THE ITEM AS AMENDED.

[2:49:02] CLOSE THE ROLL, TABULATE THE

[2:49:03] VOTE.

[2:49:03] >> Clerk: 14 AYES.

[2:49:08] » Clerk: 14 AYES.

[2:49:08] >> Council President: ALL

[2:49:08] » Council President: ALL

[2:49:08] RIGHT, WHAT'S NEXT?

[2:49:10] >> Clerk: NEXT WOULD BE ITEMS

[2:49:11] » Clerk: NEXT WOULD BE ITEMS

[2:49:11] 23 AND 24 AND THOSE ITEMS WERE

[2:49:14] CALLED FOR A SEPARATE VOTE BY

[2:49:17] COUNCILMEMBER JURADO AS WELL AS

[2:49:18] HERNANDEZ.

[2:49:19] >> Council President: ALL

[2:49:20] » Council President: ALL

[2:49:20] RIGHT, WE HAVE 23 AND 24 BEFORE

[2:49:23] US CALLED SPECIAL BY

[2:49:25] COUNCILMEMBER JURADO AND

[2:49:28] COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ FOR

[2:49:29] SEPARATE VOTES, LET'S OPEN THE

[2:49:31] ROLL, CLOSE THE ROLL, TABULATE

[2:49:32] THE VOTE.

[2:49:33] >> Clerk: 10 AYES, 4 NOES.

[2:49:36] » Clerk: 10 AYES, 4 NOES.

[2:49:36] >> Council President: ALL

[2:49:38] » Council President: ALL

[2:49:38] RIGHT, WHAT'S NEXT?

[2:49:39] >> Clerk: NEXT WOULD BE ITEM 23

[2:49:41] » Clerk: NEXT WOULD BE ITEM 23

[2:49:41] AND THAT WAS CALLED SPECIAL BY

[2:49:44] COUNCILMEMBER SOTO-MARTINEZ AS

[2:49:45] WELL AS COUNCILMEMBER RAMAN FOR

[2:49:46] COMMENTS.

[2:49:47] >> Council President: I THINK

[2:49:49] » Council President: I THINK

[2:49:49] THAT'S ITEM NUMBER 29?

[2:49:51] >> Clerk: 29, CORRECT.

[2:49:53] » Clerk: 29, CORRECT.

[2:49:53] KO*UBS COUNCILMEMBER

[2:49:53] SOTO-MARTINEZ.

[2:49:54] >> H. Soto-Martinez: GREAT,

[2:49:55] » H. Soto-Martinez: GREAT,

[2:49:55] THANK YOU SO MUCH, COUNCIL

[2:49:56] PRESIDENT.

[2:49:57] IN SPANISH WE HAVE A SAYING

[2:50:00] SOLO EL PUEBLO SALVA EL PUEBLO.

[2:50:05] WHICH MEANS ONLY THE PEOPLE CAN

[2:50:07] SAVE THE PEOPLE.

[2:50:08] NOW WHEN WE THINK ABOUT

[2:50:10] EVERYTHING THAT IS HAPPENING

[2:50:11] NATIONALLY, I THINK WE CAN ALL

[2:50:12] AGREE THAT WE CAN IMPROVE ON

[2:50:14] THAT.

[2:50:16] THERE IS NEED MORE MUCH

[2:50:18] IMPROVEMENT.

[2:50:19] NOW THIS MOTION CALLSED FOR A

[2:50:20] FORMAL POLICY FOR LAUPTD TO

[2:50:23] COMMUNICATE AND COORDINATE WITH

[2:50:25] PROTEST ORGANIZERS AHEAD OF

[2:50:26] TIME SO WE CAN PLAN FOR SAFETY,

[2:50:29] SET CLEAR EXPECTATIONS AND

[2:50:30] MINIMIZE THE NEED FOR HEAVY LAW

[2:50:33] ENFORCEMENT PRESENCE ON THE

[2:50:33] FRONTLINES.

[2:50:34] NOW MANY OF US CAN POINT TO

[2:50:37] DIFFERENT EXAMPLES OR ACTIONS

[2:50:39] WHERE WE'VE BEEN TO WHERE WE

[2:50:41] HAVE SEEN POSITIVE OUTCOME SXZ

[2:50:43] ELEMENTS.

[2:50:43] FOR ME, ONE EXAMPLE NA IS VERY

[2:50:47] CLEAR, IS THE PROTESTS THAT

[2:50:49] HAPPEN AFTER THE ARRESTS OF

[2:50:54] DEBBIE HUERTA.

[2:50:55] I ATTENDED THAT, REALLY MASSIVE

[2:50:58] MARCH THAT WAS LEAD BY LABOR AT

[2:51:01] GRANT PARK.

[2:51:02] AND I REMEMBER NOTICING HOW FEW

[2:51:05] OFFICERS WERE WITHIN EYESIGHT.

[2:51:07] AND THAT'S BECAUSE THE L.A.

[2:51:11] FEDERATION OF LABOR HAD

[2:51:13] VOLUNTEERED MEDIC AND BUILT

[2:51:16] CLEAR COMMUNICATIONS STRUCTURE

[2:51:17] OF COMMUNICATION.

[2:51:18] AND I WANT TO BE CLEAR, THIS IS

[2:51:20] NOT ABOUT ASKING PERMISSION

[2:51:22] ABOUT HOW WE PROTEST, IT'S

[2:51:25] SIMPLY ABOUT COMMUNICATING WITH

[2:51:26] LAPD AND OUR CITY PARTNERS SO

[2:51:28] THERE ARE NO SURPRISES.

[2:51:30] THESE ARE THINGS THAT WE KNOW,

[2:51:33] THAT CAN HELP DECA LATE

[2:51:36] SITUATION SXZ REDUCE THE NEED

[2:51:37] FOR POLICE INTERVENTION.

[2:51:39] THAT EXPERIENCE REALLY STUCK TO

[2:51:40] ME AND I REALLY APPRECIATE THE

[2:51:42] CHIEF COMING HERE AND HAVING A

[2:51:43] DIALOGUE ABOUT THIS AND SAYING

[2:51:45] THAT THEY'RE OPEN TO THIS A

[2:51:48] DIFFERENT WAY OF HANDLING

[2:51:49] PROTEST.

[2:51:50] BECAUSE WHEN COMMUNICATION

[2:51:52] HAPPENS UP FRONT, WE ALLOW FOR

[2:51:54] PEOPLE TO CONTROL THE SITUATION

[2:51:55] AND KEEP THEMSELVES SAFE.

[2:51:58] WE SEE FEWER FLASH POINTS AND

[2:52:00] FEWER CONFRONTATION AND FEWER

[2:52:03] PEOPLE GETTING HURT, AGAIN THIS

[2:52:04] IS ABOUT LETTING FOLKS PROTECT

[2:52:06] THEMSELVES.

[2:52:07] TO THAT END, THIS CALLS FOR LOS

[2:52:09] ANGELES TO JOIN MAJOR CITIES

[2:52:11] LIKE NEW YORK AND BOSTON IN

[2:52:14] ADOPTING A PROTEST, UNDER THIS

[2:52:15] MODEL, THE HEAVY ARMED OFFICER

[2:52:18] WITH MIMENT REEQUIPMENT, ARE

[2:52:20] STAGED A FEW BLOCKS AWAY AND

[2:52:25] DEPLOYED ONLY IF THERE IS

[2:52:25] VIOLENCE.

[2:52:27] MANY ANGELINOS ASSUME THIS IS

[2:52:28] ALREADY THE CASE BUT RIGHT NOW,

[2:52:30] THE HEAVY ARMED OFFICER ARE

[2:52:32] OFTEN TIMES PLACED DIRECTLY ON

[2:52:33] THE FRONTLINE IN MY OPINION,

[2:52:37] PREMATURELY AND WE'VE SEEN HOW

[2:52:38] THAT HAVING THAT POLICE

[2:52:41] PRESENCE CAN CREATE ESCALATION

[2:52:46] REGARDLESS OF OFFICER

[2:52:46] INTENTIONS.

[2:52:47] I WANT TO THANK THE XHAOEF FOR

[2:52:50] ENGAGING ON THIS ISSUE AND I

[2:52:51] WANT TO THANK MY COLLEAGUES FOR

[2:52:54] NR UNANIMOUS SUPPORT OF THIS

[2:52:55] MOTION.

[2:52:56] I BELIEVE THAT IF WE DO THESE

[2:52:58] THINGS, WE CAN LESSEN LIABILITY

[2:53:00] PAY OUT, CREATE A MODEL THAT

[2:53:03] FACILITATES PEACEFUL PROTEST

[2:53:04] AND MEETS THIS UNPRECEDENTED

[2:53:06] MOMENT THAT WE'RE IN AND I

[2:53:09] RESPECTFULLY ASK FOR YOUR

[2:53:11] AYE-VOTE.

[2:53:13] >> Council President: ALL

[2:53:14] » Council President: ALL

[2:53:14] RIGHT, DO WE HAVE OTHER

[2:53:15] SPEAKERS ON THIS ITEM.

[2:53:16] I HAVE COUNCILMEMBER RAMAN ON

[2:53:18] THE QUEUE?

[2:53:19] >> N. Raman: THANK YOU, I JUST

[2:53:21] » N. Raman: THANK YOU, I JUST

[2:53:21] WANTED TO RISE AND THANK

[2:53:25] COUNCILMEMBER SOTO-MARTINEZ FOR

[2:53:27] BRINGING FORWARD THIS MOTION.

[2:53:29] IN THESE CHAMBERS WE'VE

[2:53:31] REPEATED DOCUMENTED THE

[2:53:33] VIOLENCE OF FEDERAL ICE

[2:53:35] OFFICERS AND FEDERAL LAW

[2:53:36] ENFORCEMENT THAT HAVE

[2:53:38] TERRORIZED COMMUNITIES IN LOS

[2:53:39] ANGELES BUT OUR COLLECTIVE

[2:53:42] OUTRAGE ABOUT ICE IS PREMISE ON

[2:53:47] UNSPOKEN PREMISE THAT WE'RE

[2:53:48] DIFFERENT, WE'RE NOT USING OUR

[2:53:50] LAW ENFORCEMENT POWERS TO

[2:53:52] TERRORIZE FAMILIES AND WORKING

[2:53:53] PEOPLE.

[2:53:53] BUT I THINK WHAT WE'VE SEEN IN

[2:53:55] SOME OF THE RESPONSE TO SEE

[2:53:57] LOCAL PROTEST AND TO ICE

[2:53:59] ACTIONS HAVE UNDERMINED THAT

[2:54:00] PREMISE, THERE IS BEEN NUMEROUS

[2:54:04] TESTIMONY AND VIDEO FOOTAGE OF

[2:54:07] LAPD USING TEAR GAS, PROTESTERS

[2:54:09] GETTING HIT BY LESS LETHALS,

[2:54:14] JOURNALIST GETTING HIT AND

[2:54:17] PROTESTERS GETTING HURT WHILE

[2:54:20] EXERCISING THEIR RIGHTS.

[2:54:21] NOW THEY HAVE OPERATED

[2:54:23] OPERATIONAL POWER OVER LAPD

[2:54:26] THAT'S BY DESIGN THAT'S HOW OUR

[2:54:28] CITY IS DESIGNED.

[2:54:28] AND AS FAR AS I CAN TELL, BY

[2:54:31] LOOKING AT OUR AGENDA BY THE

[2:54:33] BODY WHICH IS OUR POLICE

[2:54:35] COMMISSION, THEY HAVE NOT BEEN

[2:54:38] COMMISSIONED BY THESE ISSUED IN

[2:54:40] GREAT DEPTH BUT I THINK THAT

[2:54:41] IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE AS A

[2:54:43] BODY DO ENGAGE.

[2:54:44] I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WE

[2:54:45] HAVE TO TREAT THIS MOMENT

[2:54:47] DIFFERENTLY, THIS IS AMBITIOUS

[2:54:51] ON HOW WE THINK ABOUT OUR

[2:54:53] PROTEST RESPONSE.

[2:54:54] WE'RE EXPECTING MORE PROTEST

[2:54:56] TOMORROW.

[2:54:57] WILL THEY LOOK DIFFERENT?

[2:54:59] HOW QUICKLY CAN THEY MAKE

[2:55:00] CHANGE.

[2:55:02] WHEN MOTIONS COME FORWARD, THEY

[2:55:04] TAKE YEARS FOR THEM TO MOVE

[2:55:05] THROUGH OUR CREEKING SYSTEM.

[2:55:08] AND I HOPE THAT BECAUSE OF THIS

[2:55:10] MOMENT IS CALLING FOR CHANGE

[2:55:11] THAT THE PUBLIC SAFETY

[2:55:14] COMMITTEE, COUNCIL PRESIDENT'S

[2:55:15] OFFICE AND MAYOR AND OTHERS

[2:55:16] THAT HAVE DIRECT OVERSIGHT OVER

[2:55:21] OUR PD, WILL HELP MOVE WHAT IS

[2:55:25] EMBEDDED AND THAT WE CAN SEE

[2:55:28] DIFFERENCE ON THE GROUNDS.

[2:55:29] I HOPE THAT WE CAN SEE REAL

[2:55:31] ACTION AS A RESULT OF IT.

[2:55:33] THANK YOU.

[2:55:34] >> Council President: THANK YOU

[2:55:35] » Council President: THANK YOU

[2:55:35] VERY MUCH, COUNCILMEMBER RAMAN.

[2:55:37] COUNCILMEMBER RODRIGUEZ.

[2:55:38] >> M. Rodriguez: I WANT TO

[2:55:39] » M. Rodriguez: I WANT TO

[2:55:39] THANK YOU MR. SOTO-MARTINEZ FOR

[2:55:41] THIS MOTION AND FOR HAVING THE

[2:55:43] CONVERSATION AND I WANT TO

[2:55:44] THANK MR. LEE FOR ALLOWING THAT

[2:55:47] COME FORWARD FROM PUBLIC SAFETY.

[2:55:49] THIS IS JUST A REMINDER AND A

[2:55:52] NOTICE TO EVERYBODY IN EACH OF

[2:55:54] THEIR RESPECTIVE COMMITTEES

[2:55:55] WHEN WE HAVE ISSUES OF CONCERN,

[2:55:58] WHETHER IT IS PUBLIC SAFETY

[2:56:01] RELATED, WHETHER IT IS AROUND

[2:56:05] REFORM FOR CHARTER REFORM,

[2:56:09] CONVERSATIONS, WHETHER IT'S ON

[2:56:10] HOMELESSNESS, IT'S IMPORTANT

[2:56:12] THAT EVERYONE SCHEDULES THE

[2:56:14] MOTIONS SO THAT THIS BODY HAS

[2:56:16] AN OPPORTUNITY TO CONSIDER WHAT

[2:56:19] OUR DEPARTMENTS ARE ACTING ON

[2:56:20] OR WHAT THEY'RE NOT.

[2:56:22] AND SO WHEN YOU'RE SITTING ON

[2:56:24] MOTION SXZ AB TRUKTING THAT

[2:56:26] OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO ENGAGE IN

[2:56:28] A MORE COMPREHENSIVE

[2:56:32] CONVERSATION, YOU'RE IN FACT A

[2:56:38] AIDING AND ABETTING.

[2:56:40] I WANT TO MAKE THAT CLEAR.

[2:56:43] WE'VE WATCHED ITCIOUS WHERE

[2:56:45] CONVERSATIONS ARE OBSTRUCT

[2:56:46] ASKED POLICIES ARE NOT

[2:56:47] ADVANCING.

[2:56:48] BECAUSE THERE IS THIS, I DON'T

[2:56:53] KNW, FEAR INHIBITION.

[2:57:00] SO EITHER EVERYONE IS GOING TO

[2:57:01] HELP ENSURE LIKE WE STILL HAVE

[2:57:04] A CONVERSATION OR INTERACTIVE

[2:57:06] REPORT THAT STILL HAS NOT BEEN

[2:57:07] SCHEDULED.

[2:57:08] WE STILL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO

[2:57:09] HAVE A CONVERSATION AROUND

[2:57:11] HOMELESS SPENDING IS HAPPENING

[2:57:12] IN IN CITY OR WHETHER OR NOT

[2:57:15] EX-PARTE COMMUNICATIONS WILL

[2:57:17] ACTUALLY BE DOCUMENTED ON A

[2:57:22] CHARTER REFORM COMMISSION THAT

[2:57:23] IS HOLDING CONVERSATION ON WHAT

[2:57:24] THE FUTURE OF THE CITY IS GOING

[2:57:26] TO LOOK LIKE.

[2:57:27] THERE IS ACTIVE OBSTRUCTION

[2:57:31] HAPPENING AND ACTIVE

[2:57:33] OBSTRUCTIONS OF MOTIONS COMING

[2:57:33] FORWARD.

[2:57:34] SO I'M GLAD IN MOTION IS COMING

[2:57:36] FORWARD BUT YOU KNOW WHAT,

[2:57:37] FOLKS, THERE IS A REASON WHY

[2:57:39] THE PUBLIC IS UPSET AND THEY

[2:57:41] HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO BE UPSET.

[2:57:43] BUT MAKE NO MISTAKE, THES

[2:57:52] SILENCE THAT ENABLEMENT THAT A

[2:57:54] LAWS PEOPLE P NOT SCHEDULING

[2:57:58] MOTIONS FOR US TO START MOVING

[2:58:00] THE NEEDLE ON THESE *ISHZ,

[2:58:03] YOU'RE COMPLICITY.

[2:58:18] NOT --I REALLY HOPE THAT THIS

[2:58:24] MARKS A TREMENDOUS SHIFT NOT

[2:58:25] JUST ON THIS PARTICULAR ISSUE

[2:58:27] BUT ON SEVERAL ISSUES.

[2:58:29] WHERE THERE IS BEEN A FAILURE

[2:58:31] AND OBSTRUCTION TO HAVING THE

[2:58:33] ACTUAL CONVERSATIONS THAT THIS

[2:58:35] BODY NEEDS TO HAVE.

[2:58:36] BECAUSE THE PUBLIC HAS EVERY

[2:58:37] RIGHT TO BE PISSED OFF.

[2:58:39] AND SO, THERE IS PLENTY, THERE

[2:58:42] IS ENOUGH TIME FOR US TO HAVE

[2:58:44] MEETINGS IN COUNCIL OR TO

[2:58:46] ADVANCE THESE IN THEIR

[2:58:48] RESPECTIVE COMMITTEES BUT

[2:58:50] ENOUGH DELAY, ENOUGH EXCUSES.

[2:58:56] EVERYONE NEEDS TO UPPED THE

[2:58:58] ROLE THAT THEY SIGNED UP FOR

[2:58:59] AND IF YOU WANT TO VOTE

[2:59:03] SOMETHING VOTE AGAINST IT.

[2:59:04] BUT TO BURY IT IN YOUR

[2:59:06] COMMITTEE THAT NEEDS TO STOP

[2:59:07] AND I HOPE IT STOPS IN THIS NEW

[2:59:09] YEAR.

[2:59:11] SO I LOOK FORWARD TO THIS BEING

[2:59:11] MORE OF THE MODEL UNTIL EXAMPLE

[2:59:15] OF CONVERSATIONS THAT WE WILL

[2:59:17] HAVE SO THAT THE PUBLIC

[2:59:19] ACTUALLY SEES VERY CLEARLY

[2:59:20] WHERE EVERYONE STANDS.

[2:59:21] THANK YOU.

[2:59:24] >> Council President: ALL RIGHT.

[2:59:27] » Council President: ALL RIGHT.

[2:59:27] THIS ITEM IS--COUNCILMEMBER

[2:59:29] McOSKER, YOU'RE ON THIS ITEM.

[2:59:30] >> T. McOsker: I WANT TO SAY

[2:59:32] » T. McOsker: I WANT TO SAY

[2:59:32] THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER FOR

[2:59:34] ADVANCING THIS MOTION.

[2:59:36] IT OCCURS TO ME WHEN WE FAUK

[2:59:38] ABOUT THE PUBLIC, WORK WITHING

[2:59:39] LAPD WORK WITHING US TO COME UP

[2:59:41] WITH WAYS TO CREATE PUBLIC

[2:59:43] SAFETY.

[2:59:44] WHETHER WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE

[2:59:47] HARBOR PEACE PATROL OR

[2:59:50] INTERVENTION ALIST, I VERY

[2:59:51] OFTEN QUOTE A GUY AND I NEVER

[2:59:54] GIVE HIM CREDIT, BUT I SAY VERY

[2:59:56] WISE MAN WHO SAYS THERE IS NO

[2:59:59] REASON TO TAKE THE PUBLIC OUT

[3:00:01] OF PUBLIC SAFETY.

[3:00:01] THERE IS NO REASON TO TAKE THE

[3:00:03] PUBLIC OUT OF PUBLIC SAFETY.

[3:00:06] THANK YOU FOR THIS MOTION.

[3:00:07] COUNSELS THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

[3:00:08] LET'S OPEN THE ROLL ON THIS

[3:00:10] ITEM, CLOSE THE ROLL, TABULATE

[3:00:11] THE VOTE.

[3:00:12] >> Clerk: 14 AYES.

[3:00:13] » Clerk: 14 AYES.

[3:00:13] >> Council President: ALL RIGHT.

[3:00:14] » Council President: ALL RIGHT.

[3:00:14] WHAT'S NEXT?

[3:00:15] >> Clerk: NEXT WOULD BE ITEM 30

[3:00:17] » Clerk: NEXT WOULD BE ITEM 30

[3:00:17] AND THAT WAS CALLED SPECIAL BY

[3:00:19] COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ FOR

[3:00:20] COMMENTS.

[3:00:23] >> Council President:

[3:00:24] » Council President:

[3:00:24] COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ.

[3:00:25] >> E. Hernandez: THANK YOU,

[3:00:26] » E. Hernandez: THANK YOU,

[3:00:26] COUNCIL PRESIDENT.

[3:00:27] ACROSS THE UNITED STATES WE'RE

[3:00:29] SEEING A COORDINATED EROSION OF

[3:00:32] PUBLIC COST IN THE IMMIGRANT

[3:00:34] ENFORCEMENT.

[3:00:34] HUNDREDS OF MILLION OF ICE AND

[3:00:38] FEDERAL AGENTS, UNMASKED, AND

[3:00:41] ANONYMOUS ARE OPERATING WITHOUT

[3:00:44] TRANSPARENCY.

[3:00:47] BY REMAINING MASKED AND

[3:00:49] NAMELESS, THEY'RE HANDING A

[3:00:50] TOOL KIT TO EVERY KIDNAPER.

[3:00:53] THIS LACK OF ACCOUNTABILITY HAS

[3:00:55] OPENED THE DOOR FOR COPY CATS

[3:00:58] TO WEAR THE GEAR AND CARRY THE

[3:01:00] GUNS.

[3:01:02] A MOTHER IN SAN PEDRO OR RESEDA

[3:01:05] IS SUPPOSE TO TELL THE

[3:01:06] DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A LEGIT

[3:01:08] OFFICER AND SOMEBODY WHO MAY BE

[3:01:11] IMPERSONATING A POLICE OFFICER

[3:01:13] WHEN NEITHER SHOWS A BADGE OR

[3:01:15] ID.

[3:01:16] OUR COMMUNITY IS ASKING FOR TO

[3:01:18] US ACT SO LET'S DO IT.

[3:01:21] IDENTIFYING EVERY POSSIBLE

[3:01:21] AMENDMENT TO OUR MUNICIPAL TO

[3:01:25] MAXIMIZE ENFORCEMENT.

[3:01:26] ALSO SEEKS A LEGAL ROAD MAP TO

[3:01:30] GUARANTEE THAT ANYONE DETAINED

[3:01:34] CAN DEMAND VERIFIABLE

[3:01:36] IDENTIFICATION AND LEGAL

[3:01:36] AUTHORITY.

[3:01:36] THANK YOU TO COUNCILMEMBER

[3:01:39] BLUMENFIELD FOR COULD

[3:01:41] INTRODUCING AND COUNCILMEMBER

[3:01:45] McOSKER FOR CO--AND PUBLIC

[3:01:46] SAFETY FOR MOVING IT THROUGH.

[3:01:49] AND IT'S NOT A LICENSE TO

[3:01:52] TERRORIZE AND THIS COUNCIL

[3:01:55] SHOULD MAKE THAT CLEAR.

[3:01:57] LET'S USE EVERY TOOL WE CAN TO

[3:01:59] HOLD IMPERSONATORS ACCOUNTABLE.

[3:02:04] LET'S DO OUR POWER TO PROTECT

[3:02:05] LIVES OF ALL ANGELINO FRZ FROM

[3:02:12] THESE EN BOLD EN FOLKS.

[3:02:14] >> Council President: THANK YOU

[3:02:16] » Council President: THANK YOU

[3:02:17] COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ, LET'S

[3:02:17] OPEN THE ROLL ON THIS ITEM,

[3:02:18] CLOSE THE ROLL, TABULATE THE

[3:02:19] VOTE.

[3:02:20] >> Clerk: 14 AYES.

[3:02:21] » Clerk: 14 AYES.

[3:02:21] >> Council President: ALL

[3:02:22] » Council President: ALL

[3:02:22] RIGHT, WHAT'S NEXT?

[3:02:23] >> Clerk: COUNCIL HAS MOTIONS

[3:02:25] » Clerk: COUNCIL HAS MOTIONS

[3:02:25] FOR POSTING AND REFERRAL.

[3:02:26] >> Council President: ALL

[3:02:27] » Council President: ALL

[3:02:27] RIGHT, THEY'RE POSTED AND

[3:02:29] REFERRED.

[3:02:31] MR. McOSKER, YOU HAD COMMENTS?

[3:02:33] ANIMAL SHELTER?

[3:02:34] >> T. McOsker: NO ON ITEM

[3:02:36] » T. McOsker: NO ON ITEM

[3:02:36] NUMBER 2 WHICH PASSED, I JUST

[3:02:38] WANT TO SAY THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

[3:02:41] ITEM 2 CAME FROM WHAT VERY

[3:02:43] OFTEN DO IN OUR DISTRICT,

[3:02:47] WHETHER IT'S SANITATION YARD OR

[3:02:51] FIRE STATION OR ANIMAL SHELTER,

[3:02:53] WE GO AND VISIT AND WE CHECK

[3:02:55] OUT THE OPERATIONS AND WE ARE

[3:02:57] BEING RESPONSIVE TO OUR

[3:02:59] CONSTITUENTS AND DOING THE JOB

[3:03:01] TO WORK WITH THE MAYOR'S OFFICE

[3:03:04] WHOEVER IS RUNNING THAT

[3:03:05] OPERATION AND IN THIS CASE, I

[3:03:07] VISITED ANIMAL SHELTER AND

[3:03:08] DISCOVERED THAT THERE WERE

[3:03:10] RESTRICTIONS ON COUNCILMEMBERS

[3:03:11] BEING ABLE TO GO INTO PORTIONS

[3:03:13] OF THE ANIMAL SHELTER.

[3:03:15] YEAH, AND SO IN THESE U.STAIS

[3:03:17] IT'S EASIER FOR OUR CONGRESSMAN

[3:03:19] TO GET INTO A DETENTION MEMBER

[3:03:22] THAN IT IS FOR COUNCILMEMBER TO

[3:03:23] GET INTO A ANIMAL SHELTER WHICH

[3:03:26] IS IS NOT RIGHT.

[3:03:27] SO WE INTRODUCED A MOTION TO

[3:03:29] GET THE THRUST, WHAT IS THE

[3:03:31] RULE, WHAT ARE THE STANDING

[3:03:33] RULES ACCORD TO GO ANIMAL

[3:03:35] SERVICES, A DRAFT RULE CAME

[3:03:36] BACK AND THE AMENDMENTS TODAY

[3:03:39] WERE TO SAY WHAT ARE THE UNDER

[3:03:41] PINNING FROM WHEN DOES THIS

[3:03:42] COME?

[3:03:44] WHAT AUTHORITY ARE YOU RELYING

[3:03:45] ON?

[3:03:46] AND HOW CAN WE COME WUP A

[3:03:48] POLICY WHERE COUNCILMEMBERS CAN

[3:03:49] VISIT A ANIMAL SHELTER AND DO

[3:03:51] OUR JOBS WITHOUT MAKING AN

[3:03:53] APPOINTMENT 48 HOURS IN ADVANCE

[3:03:55] AND BEING TOLD THAT WE CAN'T GO

[3:03:57] IN.

[3:03:58] SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR

[3:04:00] APPROVING THAT MOTION, I'M

[3:04:01] LOOKING FORWARD TO COMING BACK

[3:04:04] BECAUSE JUST LIKE A FIRE

[3:04:06] STATION, WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO

[3:04:07] GO INTO AN ANIMAL SHELTER AND

[3:04:09] SEE THE OPERATION, THANK YOU.

[3:04:12] >> Council President: THANK

[3:04:13] » Council President: THANK

[3:04:13] YOU, MR. McOSKER, THE MOTIONS

[3:04:15] HAVE BEEN POSTED AND REFERRED.

[3:04:17] ANNOUNCEMENTS, MEMBERS?

[3:04:18] COUNCILMEMBER RAMAN?

[3:04:19] >> N. Raman: JUST ON A LIGHTER

[3:04:21] » N. Raman: JUST ON A LIGHTER

[3:04:21] NOTE TODAY, COLLEAGUES, I DID

[3:04:25] WAT TO SHARE THAT WE WERE

[3:04:25] DELIGHTED TO RECEIVE A NOTE

[3:04:27] FICK FROM THE GRIFFITH

[3:04:32] OBSERVATION HAS BEEN A CARDED

[3:04:35] THE 2026 EDUCATION PRIZE BY THE

[3:04:41] AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL

[3:04:41] ASSOCIATION, ONE OF THE FIELD'S

[3:04:45] MOST ESTEEMED AWARDS.

[3:04:48] AND IT CELEBRATES THE DOCTOR'S

[3:04:51] COSMO AND INSPIRING FOR ALL.

[3:04:52] WE HAD HAD THE PLEASURE FOR

[3:04:55] CELEBRATING THE 90th

[3:04:56] ANNIVERSARY HERE LAST YEAR WITH

[3:04:59] DR. KRUPP AND HE SPOKE

[3:05:02] BEAUTIFULLY AS HE ALWAYS DONE.

[3:05:05] WE WISH YOU A HARDY

[3:05:13] CONGRATULATION.

[3:05:14] >> Council President: THANK YOU

[3:05:16] » Council President: THANK YOU

[3:05:16] VERY MUCH, COUNCILMEMBER RAMAN.

[3:05:18] COUNCILMEMBER McOSKER.

[3:05:18] >> T. McOsker: BEFORE WE GET TO

[3:05:21] » T. McOsker: BEFORE WE GET TO

[3:05:21] ADJOURNMENTS, I DO HAVE AN

[3:05:22] ANNOUNCEMENT, IF I MAY.

[3:05:23] THIS WEEK IN OUR DISTRICTS WE

[3:05:27] CELEBRATED DIA DEL REYES.

[3:05:31] THE THEE KINGS DAY.

[3:05:32] IN THE 1-5, WE CELEBRATED JUST

[3:05:34] AS YOU DID, WE CELEBRATED THIS

[3:05:38] LONGSTANDING TRADITION WITH

[3:05:39] SWEET CAKES AND SMALL DOLLS NOD

[3:05:42] OF THE ROSCA.

[3:05:46] ON MONDAY, I JOINED THE

[3:05:52] WILMINGTON SIN FRONTERAS FOR

[3:05:54] THEIR DIA DE LOS REYES.

[3:05:59] THE ROSCAS WAS DISTRIBUTED

[3:06:01] ALONG WITH ENTERTAINMENT IN THE

[3:06:03] COMMUNITY OF WILMINGTON IS NOT

[3:06:06] QUITE YET DONE, EITHER THOUGH

[3:06:08] JANUARY 6th HAS COME AND GONE.

[3:06:09] I WANT TO INVITE TO YOU JOIN ME

[3:06:11] FOR THE FIRST DIA DEL REYES,

[3:06:17] TOMORROW FROM 2:00 AM TO 4:00

[3:06:20] AM.

[3:06:21] WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A SCENIC

[3:06:23] BOAT TOUR AND FIRST 500

[3:06:26] FAMILIES IN ATTENDANCE WILL

[3:06:27] RECEIVE THE TRADITIONAL ROSCA

[3:06:29] AND PLEASE GET THE WORD OUT AND

[3:06:31] BRING THE FAMILY.

[3:06:32] I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU ON

[3:06:36] THE WILMINGTON WATER FRONT.

[3:06:38] I WANT TO THANK ALL OUR

[3:06:40] SPONSORS FOR ACTIVATING THE

[3:06:43] WILMINGTON PROMENADE IN THIS

[3:06:44] WAY.

[3:06:45] THANK YOU.

[3:06:46] >> Council President: THANK

[3:06:48] » Council President: THANK

[3:06:48] YOU, MR. McOSKER, ANY OTHER

[3:06:49] ANNOUNCEMENTS?

[3:06:51] SEEING NONE, I'LL ASK EVERYBODY

[3:06:52] IN THE CHAMBER TO RISE FOR

[3:06:55] ADJOURNING MOTIONS.

[3:06:56] AISLES LOOK FOR ADJOURNING

[3:06:57] MOTION TO SEE MY LEFT.

[3:06:59] ALL RIGHT AND COUNCILMEMBER

[3:07:00] RODRIGUEZ?

[3:07:01] >> M. Rodriguez: THANK YOU.

[3:07:04] » M. Rodriguez: THANK YOU.

[3:07:04] COLLEAGUES I RISE TODAY TO

[3:07:05] ADJOURN IN THE MEMORY OF DR. A

[3:07:12] KEELE BASHIR, A VISIONARY

[3:07:14] LEADER AND TEACHER AND ONE OF

[3:07:15] THE MOST RESPECTED VOICES IN

[3:07:18] COMMUNITY INTERVENTION WHO

[3:07:19] PASSED AWAY.

[3:07:21] DR. BASHIR DEDICATED HIS LIFE

[3:07:26] TO BUILDING, GROWING UP IN AN

[3:07:31] ENVIRONMENT WHERE SURVIVAL WAS

[3:07:33] HARD EARN AND DIGNITY WAS OFTEN

[3:07:35] DENIED.

[3:07:36] AND HOW THESE EXPERIENCED

[3:07:38] SHAPED HIS VISION TO BRING

[3:07:40] STRUCTURE, DISCIPLINE AND PEACE

[3:07:41] WHERE TOO OFTEN THERE HAD ONLY

[3:07:44] BEEN CHAOS.

[3:07:46] DR. BASHIR FOUNDED THE

[3:07:49] BROTHERHOOD THROUGH DISCIPLINE

[3:07:50] KNOWN AS BUILD AND LATER

[3:07:54] ESTABLISHED THE INNOVATION

[3:07:57] TRAINING INSTITUTE.

[3:07:58] THROUGH THESE ORGANIZATIONS, HE

[3:08:00] TRAINED AND CERTIFIED COUNTLESS

[3:08:03] INTERVENTIONIST, MEN AND WOMEN

[3:08:04] WHO STAND ON THE FRONTLINES IN

[3:08:06] THE NEIGHBORHOOD, IMMEDIATE

[3:08:11] ATING CON MEDIATING CONFLICTS.

[3:08:14] HIS WORK WAS ROOTED IN THE

[3:08:16] POWERFUL BELIEVE THAT THOSE

[3:08:17] CLOSEST TO THE PAIN ARE CLOSEST

[3:08:19] TO THE SOLUTION.

[3:08:20] HE UNDERSTOOD, THAT ADDRESSING

[3:08:24] VIOLENCE REQUIRES MORE THAN

[3:08:27] POLICING BUT COMMUNITIES.

[3:08:29] BUILDING CREDIBILITY AND

[3:08:31] RESTORING TRUST NR WITHIN.

[3:08:34] DR. BASHIR'S INTEREST REACHED

[3:08:35] FAR BEYOND LOS ANGELES.

[3:08:37] HIS TRAINING MODELS WERE

[3:08:38] ADOPTED IN COUNTRIES ACROSS THE

[3:08:40] WORLD FROM SOUTH AMERICA, TO

[3:08:43] AFRICA AND ASIA.

[3:08:45] HE ADVISED NATIONAL AND

[3:08:47] INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES AND

[3:08:49] AUTHORED PEACE IN THE HOOD FOR

[3:08:52] WORKING WITH GANG INVOLVED

[3:08:52] YOUTH.

[3:08:53] HE WAS HONORED WITH NUMEROUS

[3:08:55] AWARDS INCLUDING THE CALIFORNIA

[3:08:57] PEACE PRICE AND RECEIVED

[3:09:00] HONORARY DOCTORATE FOR HIS

[3:09:03] GLOBAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO PEACE

[3:09:04] BUILDING.

[3:09:06] YET REHE MAINED HUMBLE OFTEN

[3:09:09] SAYING, DON'T JUDGE THE

[3:09:10] POSSIBILITY OF WHAT CAN BE

[3:09:12] BASED ON CIRCUMSTANCES.

[3:09:13] TO THE END, DR. BASHIR STOOD AS

[3:09:15] A MENTOR AND MIRROR TO OUR CITY.

[3:09:18] REMINDING US THAT PUBLIC SAFETY

[3:09:21] CANNOT EXIST WITHOUT TRUST AND

[3:09:25] THAT REAL PEACE IS NOT

[3:09:26] ENFORCED, IT IS BUILT.

[3:09:29] HIS PASSING IS A TREMENDOUS

[3:09:30] LOSS NOT ONLY TO THE FIELD HE

[3:09:32] HELPED TO DEFINE BUT TO THE

[3:09:35] COMMUNITIES THAT HE SERVED AND

[3:09:38] EVERY ANGELINO WHO BENEFITED

[3:09:41] FROM HIS UNBAIFSH WAIVERING

[3:09:42] PEACE AND RESPECT AND LOVE.

[3:09:44] TODAY WE HONOR HIS LEGACY

[3:09:48] LEADER SON AND BOUNDARY TO THE

[3:09:50] PEOPLE.

[3:09:51] MAY HE REST IN POWER AND IN

[3:09:52] PEACE.

[3:09:53] >> Council President: THANK YOU

[3:09:53] » Council President: THANK YOU

[3:09:53] SO MUCH.

[3:09:55] >> M. Rodriguez: er I'M JOINED

[3:09:57] » M. Rodriguez: er I'M JOINED

[3:09:57] TODAY FROM SO MANY OF THE

[3:09:59] MEMBERS FROM B.C. PI WHO HAVE

[3:10:02] BEEN INSTRUMENTAL IN TRAINING,

[3:10:05] DURING COVID I HAD SECURED

[3:10:07] ABOUT A MILLION AND A HALF

[3:10:12] DOLLARS SO THAT TRAINING OF

[3:10:16] GRIT INTERVENTIONIST WAS

[3:10:18] CONSISTENT ACROSS THIS CITY.

[3:10:20] BECAUSE WHAT WE NEED, IS THE

[3:10:22] ABILITY TO GIVE PEOPLE THE

[3:10:23] TOOLS NOT JUST THE JOB BUT THE

[3:10:25] TOOLS THAT THEY NEED TO BE

[3:10:27] AFFECTIVE IN THOSE ROLES AND

[3:10:31] AKEELE ALONG WITH A KILLA AND

[3:10:34] EVERYONE BEHIND ME, THAT WALKED

[3:10:37] THE WALK.

[3:10:38] THEY GAME THE NATIONAL EXAMPLES

[3:10:40] FOR HOW TO TRAIN

[3:10:43] INTERVENTIONIST AND GIVE PEOPLE

[3:10:44] THE TOOLS TO DEAL WITH THE

[3:10:46] TRAUMAS THAT THEY WERE CONFRONT

[3:10:50] INING NEIGHBORHOODS ACROSS OUR

[3:10:50] CITY.

[3:10:51] THAT WAS THE IMPORTANT WORK.

[3:10:53] YOU CAN'T GIVE THESE ROLES TO

[3:10:56] INDIVIDUALS WITHOUT THE TOOLS

[3:10:56] FOR THEM TO BE AFFECTIVE,

[3:11:01] CONSISTENT AND AFFECTIVE ACROSS

[3:11:02] THE CITY.

[3:11:04] WE LOST A TRUE HERO AND A TRUE

[3:11:08] FRIEND.

[3:11:10] IT'S REAL DIFFICULT TO DO THIS

[3:11:13] WORK, TO BE IN OUR COMMUNITIES,

[3:11:17] TO HELP OBSTRUCT THE VIOLENCE

[3:11:19] OF WHAT WILL CONTINUE TO ENSUE

[3:11:22] FOR NOT THE WORK OF THE VINCING

[3:11:24] AND MANY PEOPLE I KNOW ARE

[3:11:26] SUPPORTIVE OF THE WORK OF THE

[3:11:28] INTERVENTIONIST THAT ARE OUT IN

[3:11:29] THE STREETS DOING THIS

[3:11:31] IMPORTANT WORK.

[3:11:34] BUT OUR JOB IS TO MAKE SURE

[3:11:36] THAT THEY HAVE THE TOOLS THAT

[3:11:38] THEY NEED TO BE AFFECTIVE AND

[3:11:40] TO NOT TURN OUR HEADS WHEN

[3:11:42] THOSE RESOURCES ARE NOT BEING

[3:11:44] PROVIDED TO THEM, TO ACTUALLY

[3:11:45] LEARN HOW TO DO IT CORRECTLY.

[3:11:47] SO COLLEAGUES I WANT TO TAKE

[3:11:49] THIS MOMENT TO SAY, YOU KNOW, I

[3:11:52] APPRECIATE THE WORK AND THE

[3:11:56] FRIENDSHIP THAT AND LESSONS

[3:11:58] THAT I LEARNED FROM AQUILL AND

[3:12:02] THE COUNTLESS TEXT MESS ANLZ

[3:12:08] THAT--MESSAGES WITH THE

[3:12:09] AFFIRMATION WHEN I TOOK

[3:12:12] POSITION THAT'S DREW CRITICISM

[3:12:13] FROM PEOPLE DOWN THE HALL, IT

[3:12:15] WAS DOING WHAT WAS RIGHT.

[3:12:17] HE WAS A MAN WHO STOOD IN DOING

[3:12:21] WHAT WAS RIGHT.

[3:12:23] AND EXEMPLIFIED THAT WITH EVERY

[3:12:26] OUNCE OF HIS WORK AND HIS LIFE

[3:12:28] LIVED AND WE ARE BETTER FOR IT.

[3:12:31] THERE IS INTERVENTION ALIST

[3:12:33] THAT WITH BETTER FOR IT AND

[3:12:35] SAFER NOW BECAUSE OF THE

[3:12:36] EXAMPLE OF HIS LEADERSHIP AND

[3:12:38] FOR THAT I'M REALLY GRATEFUL

[3:12:40] AND I KNOW HIS WORK AND LEGACY

[3:12:43] WILL CONTINUE IN THE

[3:12:45] INDIVIDUALS THAT DID THAT WORK

[3:12:47] ALONGSIDE HIM.

[3:12:49] AND I'M REALLY GRATEFUL TO EACH

[3:12:50] AND EVERYONE OF YOU.

[3:12:52] THEY WORKOUT OF A STEN TORIAN

[3:12:55] BUILDING.

[3:12:57] I SPENT MUCH, I REMEMBER

[3:13:05] AQUILA TELLING ME, I DON'T KNOW

[3:13:07] HOW THEY'RE HERE IN THESE

[3:13:08] MEETING AND GOING INTO JERSEY

[3:13:11] AND MODELS ON HOW WE CAN DO IT

[3:13:13] RIGHT AND BETTER.

[3:13:14] THESE ARE THE VINCING THAT WERE

[3:13:16] HELPING LEAD THAT SHIFT.

[3:13:17] AND I HOPE THAT IN HIS MEMORY,

[3:13:20] THAT WE WILL CONTINUE TO HOLD

[3:13:22] THAUP COMMITMENT TO MAKING SURE

[3:13:23] THAT WE DO IT BETTER AND THAT

[3:13:25] WE DO IT RIGHT AND THAT WE TAKE

[3:13:29] NO SHORTCUTS, MAY HE REST IN

[3:13:31] POWER AND IN PEACE.

[3:13:32] [APPLAUSE]

[3:13:41] >> Council President: THANK YOU

[3:13:42] » Council President: THANK YOU

[3:13:42] VERY MUCH, COUNCILMEMBER

[3:13:43] RODRIGUEZ AND TO THE COMMUNITY

[3:13:46] OF FRIENDS OF AQUILL ONE OF OUR

[3:13:50] MOST ICONIC WARRIORS FOR PEACE.

[3:13:56] JUST THIS WEEK, WE GOT THE NEWS

[3:13:58] THAT LOS ANGELES HAD FEWER

[3:14:01] HOMICIDES THIS YEAR SINCE

[3:14:04] ANYTIME SINCE 1965.

[3:14:05] AND THE BIGGEST DROP WAS IN

[3:14:09] GANG-RELATED HOMICIDES.

[3:14:10] THAT IS THE BEST TESTIMONY THAT

[3:14:20] WHEN IT AQUILL START THISED

[3:14:24] WEEK, WE HAD OVER 1,000

[3:14:26] HOMICIDES WHEN HE STARTED THIS

[3:14:27] WORK.

[3:14:27] THERE IS A LOT OF CREDIT TO GO

[3:14:30] AROUND BUT YOU CANNOT OVERLOOK

[3:14:32] THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF AQUILL AND

[3:14:34] ALL THE INTERVENTIONIST.

[3:14:36] WITH YOUR PERMISSION,

[3:14:38] COUNCILMEMBER RODRIGUEZ, I

[3:14:38] WOULD LIKE TO BE ADDED TO THIS

[3:14:41] ADJOURNMENT.

[3:14:42] MR. PRICE.

[3:14:43] >> C. Price: I WOULD LIKE TO

[3:14:46] » C. Price: I WOULD LIKE TO

[3:14:46] JOIN AS WELL.

[3:14:50] >> Council President: ALL

[3:14:52] » Council President: ALL

[3:14:52] RIGHT, ALL MEMBERS ON THIS

[3:14:55] ADJOURNING MOTION.

[3:14:56] ALL RIGHT, ANY OTHER

[3:14:57] ADJOURNMENTS?

[3:14:59] ALL RIGHT, WITH THAT, WE ARE

[3:15:00] ADJOURNED.

[3:15:03] THANK YOU, EVERYBODY.

[3:16:15] My whole team has been out here

[3:16:17] since early early this morning

[3:16:19] organizing. Food is really

[3:16:24] expensive and people have food

[3:16:26] insecurities. This should

[3:16:28] stabilize how they feel about

[3:16:31] what their next meal is. And

[3:16:33] that's what we're trying to

[3:16:34] satisfy. Two sides of the same

[3:16:43] coin are at work in South LA

[3:16:45] with funding for Green and

[3:16:46] sustainable projects. Parks in

[3:16:48] the area are getting EV chargers

[3:16:51] and more tree coverage, both of

[3:16:52] which will help bring down

[3:16:54] pollution levels in the

[3:16:55] neighborhoods. Where Harbor Park

[3:17:00] in South LA were celebrating the

[3:17:01] installations of the South LA

[3:17:02] Ecolab for the EV chargers. This

[3:17:08] is part of a bigger program,

[3:17:10] universal Basic Mobility, which

[3:17:13] is a 30 million investment in

[3:17:16] South Los Angeles to bring

[3:17:17] mobility options, access to

[3:17:21] opportunity and increased

[3:17:22] transportation equity. While

[3:17:25] reducing greenhouse gas

[3:17:26] emissions at the same time. The

[3:17:30] bureau got invited to

[3:17:32] participate in the TCC grant

[3:17:34] program, and our role is to

[3:17:35] install 16 EV chargers across

[3:17:37] four different parks here in

[3:17:38] South LA. Our charging program

[3:17:40] is a little different than most.

[3:17:41] Um, we install chargers on

[3:17:43] existing infrastructure. Uh, we

[3:17:44] found that our existing street

[3:17:46] light circuits had extra

[3:17:48] capacity when we converted to

[3:17:49] LEDs. We currently have over 800

[3:17:52] chargers throughout the city of

[3:17:53] Los Angeles. So these chargers

[3:17:55] are going to offer a convenient

[3:17:57] place for people to charge close

[3:17:59] to home, especially for people

[3:18:00] who may have challenges charging

[3:18:02] at home, like people who live in

[3:18:04] multi-family housing. For South

[3:18:11] L.A. Ecolab, we're working with

[3:18:13] community organizations such as

[3:18:15] Three People to increase the

[3:18:16] community canopy in South LA,

[3:18:18] call the community Canopy

[3:18:20] expansion Project and its main

[3:18:23] goal is to advance shade and

[3:18:25] tree equity by planting 4000

[3:18:28] trees in city parkways and also

[3:18:32] distributing 2000 fruit or shade

[3:18:34] trees to residents to plant in

[3:18:36] their home. Both projects will

[3:18:39] help each other. The charging

[3:18:41] station will help with pollution

[3:18:44] with less carbon monoxide in the

[3:18:47] area and the tree planting will

[3:18:51] help absorb that, uh, carbon

[3:18:53] monoxide with the events that we

[3:18:55] had in certain parks where we

[3:18:57] gave away free seeds and like

[3:18:59] you said, with the trees, we

[3:19:01] also was teaching you how to

[3:19:02] plant and provide and take care

[3:19:04] of the tree. Also. This is the

[3:19:08] first park that we're

[3:19:09] completing. The installations.

[3:19:10] We are working in different

[3:19:12] parks in South L.A. where we are

[3:19:14] also installing EV chargers. Our

[3:19:17] next park will be Vermont

[3:19:18] Square, South Park and the

[3:19:20] Wetlands. La sanitation takes in

[3:19:31] hazardous household waste at its

[3:19:33] safe centers. The Ladwp is

[3:19:36] hosting a customer service

[3:19:38] Saturday on January 17th and

[3:19:40] volunteer signups are open for

[3:19:42] the 2026 Greater Los Angeles

[3:19:45] Homeless Count. These stories up

[3:19:46] next on City Beat. La sanitation

[3:19:55] wants to let Angelenos know that

[3:19:56] it's safe. Centers are permanent

[3:19:59] collection sites for hazardous

[3:20:01] household and electronic waste.

[3:20:02] Safe stands for Solvents,

[3:20:05] Automotive Flammables and

[3:20:06] electronics. And the Safe

[3:20:08] centers take in items such as

[3:20:10] aerosol cans, batteries, paints

[3:20:11] and more. La City Sanitation

[3:20:14] advises keeping items in their

[3:20:17] original containers if possible

[3:20:18] , and placing waste securely in

[3:20:20] the trunk, separate from

[3:20:21] personal belongings. Residents

[3:20:23] are allowed 15 gallons or up to

[3:20:27] 125 pounds per vehicle per visit

[3:20:29] to the center. For more

[3:20:31] information, visit Safe Center

[3:20:32] under New battery collection

[3:20:34] centers at the website.

[3:20:35] Sanitation dot L.A. city dot gov

Regular City Council - 1/9/26

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