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All right, everyone. Nice to see you all. Thank you. If you could take your seats. I am calling the meeting of the October 21,

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2024 West Hollywood City Council meeting order. It's 6 o'clock PM. Well, Chris Samantha, please come up and say the

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pledge of allegiance for us all. Great job, Chris. You certainly know how to control a room right

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into it. Great job. Had us all jumping very quickly off of our feet. All right. Madam City Clerk, and I'm sorry I have lost my voice 13 times. I feel

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Madam City Clerk, may we have a roll call? Yes, of course, the mayor. Council member.

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Hi, I'm here. Yes, thank you. Good evening. The City Council convened a close session at 530 this evening. There

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were no members of the public here to speak on public comment. The council discussed the two items of business listed on the posted agenda.

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Took no reportable action and finished the close session at 536. Thank you. Thank you very much. Quick as close session over. All right.

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Madam City Clerk, are there any changes from staff for tonight on the agenda? No, change with me. Wonderful.

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Do my colleagues have any request to change? I'm wondering if we can move F 2 F 4 and F 5 to consent.

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I'm fine with those. F 2. I believe that was the. Oh, yeah, yeah. The grants and the schools.

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And then you said F 4. F 4 is the vibes and.

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Yep. I'd like to talk about F 5. I may just have had some questions. Sure.

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Can we move F 1 or F 3? F 1 is the.

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The study session. I can move that. I'm going to be flying back that day. So I hope I will be here on time.

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Wonderful. Do is that okay. Councilmember Mr. Great. And then F 3 is the human services commission and available social service programs that increasing visibility.

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I have questions on that sounds good. Okay. So we are going to move F 1 to consent.

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F 2 to consent. We're going to keep F 3 on the agenda. We're going to move F 4 to the consent.

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And then we're going to keep F 5 on the agenda. Sounds good. Any other changes? Yes.

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I'd like to pull B 13 from consent.

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That's request to join the supported transit card of for all advocacy coalition. Sure. All right.

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Anything else? Nope. Is there a motion? Let's check out. All right.

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Let's go ahead and vote.

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It's not working on all right. Let's do a voice vote.

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Hi. Councilmember Mister. I and I'd also like to note my no vote on B 8 on micro units.

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Thank you.

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Vice Mayor buyers. Yes. I may or Eric. Yes.

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Thank you. Do my colleagues have been able to be in act disclosure.

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Councilmember.

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Yes.

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I do not.

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But Councilmember Mister. Wonderful.

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Do my colleagues have any adjournment motions.

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I have three adjournment motions tonight.

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First I'd like to adjourn in January of amn on Agra.

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He was the husband of Halene Mishar our long time lobbyist for the city of West Hollywood.

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He died September 20th in Sacramento.

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He and Halene were married for 30 years.

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He was a graduate of Columbia University and received a PhD in sociology from Stanford University.

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Beyond his professional accomplishments he was a World War II buff.

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An expert chess player.

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A champion scrabble player and an avid bridge player.

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In there many years together he and Halene pursued their love of travel.

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Having visited many countries around the globe.

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Besides being a husband of Halene he was a father to David father and law to Kelly and a grandfather

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to their two grandchildren.

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Beyond his many accomplishments people will remember him as a genuinely kind, generous and gentle man.

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A true mench.

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We extend our sincerest condolences to Halene and her entire family during this difficult time.

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Secondly I'd request that we adjourn in memory of Eduardo Duran.

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Eduardo Duran is the father of former council member John Duran.

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Ed is he was known past away last week at the age of 90.

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He was a proud U.S. Marine and a Korean war veteran.

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He was a beloved father of four, a devoted grandfather to seven and a cherished great grandfather to four.

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He loved attending West Hollywood pride.

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Where he cheered for his favorite organizations.

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Peat flag and the gay men's chorus.

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He also proudly cast his ballot for Kamala Harris before his passing.

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We extend our deepest condolences to John and the entire Duran family during this difficult time.

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And I would request of course that we adjourn in his memory.

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And finally I'd request that we adjourn in memory of graft and tancorate Junior.

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Grafting tancorate was born in Los Angeles in 1928.

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He excelled both academically and athletically.

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He attended U.S.C. on dual scholarships and lettered in swimming and water polo.

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After earning his MBA from Harvard Business School he served in the U.S. Air Force before returning to Los Angeles

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to work at Latin industries and later electronic memories.

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Grafting was a long time resident of West Hollywood.

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He lived in a very distinctive building at Crescent Heights in Fountain.

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He was involved in the city from the earliest days representing property owners, primarily apartment owners,

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in West Hollywood during its early years.

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Although he and I spired on many occasions regarding rent control.

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Grafting was always, always, a gentleman and always concerned about the best interest of West Hollywood.

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His impact on the community was always significant and he was a dedicated resident of our community.

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On behalf of the council I'd like to extend our condolences to his family including his wife Anna, his children and his five grandchildren.

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And I would request that we adjourn in his memory as well.

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Thank you, councilmember Hyman.

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Vice Mayor Buyers, do you have any?

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Thank you, Mayor.

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I'd like to adjourn in memory of Keith H. Walker.

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Keith H. Walker was a former broadcast journalist in public relations executive passed away on September 2nd in West Hollywood at the age of 93.

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He was born in Delavan, Illinois on July 1st, 1931.

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Keith was the first in his family to attend college earning a degree in journalism from Northwestern University.

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After serving as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy, he embarked on a career in broadcast journalism before transitioning to public relations in Los Angeles.

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Keith played a key role in the Golden Era of MGM Studios working with prominent Hollywood figures.

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And later spent nearly 35 years overseeing the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize for the High Foundation, honoring global contributions to architecture.

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We extend our deepest condolences to his family and loved ones. Thank you, Mayor.

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Thank you so much.

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I have one. I would like to adjourn in memory of Esther. Esther tragically passed away earlier this month, the result of a fatal collision on Fountain Avenue.

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Her sudden loss has deeply impacted her family, friends in the entire community.

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She was a mother, a grandmother, and a wife, and we stand together in honoring her memory.

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Our thoughts and heartfelt condolences go out to all those who knew and loved Esther during this difficult time.

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And if anyone in the community has any video or any type of information that family is looking for it to help bring the individual to justice. Thank you.

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All right. I goofed and I forgot to do our land acknowledgement, so I'm going to get canceled for sure.

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But I would like to bring a assembly member Rick Shavaz Zabr who offered to do it. Thank you so much Assemblymember.

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Good evening.

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The city of West Hollywood City Council acknowledges that the land on which we gather and that is currently known as the city of West Hollywood is the occupied, unseated sea territory of the Gabriolino Tongva and Gabriolino Keach Peoples.

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Thank you so much Assemblymember.

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All right. We are now going to bring back up Chris because we have a little special some of the four years to come on up.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you very much.

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Thank you so much, Krish.

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All right, we're going to move on to public comment.

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The City Council values your comments, however,

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pursuant to the Brown Act, the Council cannot take action on items,

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not listed on the poster agenda.

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The public comment periodism is at 20 minutes with two minutes,

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a lot of for each speaker.

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This public comment period is to address the City Council

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and consent calendar items, other agenda items,

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or items of general interest within the jurisdiction

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of the City Council.

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Another period is reverse for general comment later

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in the meeting for those that could not be heard at this time.

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Public hearing testimony will only be taken

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at the time of the hearing.

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If you go over your two minutes and do not respond

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to the City Clerk's notification that your time is expired,

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your microphone will be muted.

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If you signed up to speak on both consent calendar items

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and general public comment, as well as items

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that was moved to consent calendar,

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you may take this time to speak during the public comment

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period on your consent calendar items.

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period for your general public comment.

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Lastly, speaker should not bring any items to the podium

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other than prepared written materials and or a statement.

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Madam City Clerk, how many speakers do we have?

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We have 16 in council chambers.

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I've won in Zoom for the consent calendar.

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Wonderful.

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We're going to stick to 20 minutes today.

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So we'll get that done.

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Why don't we go to our one Zoom for consent calendar

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and then we'll come to the chamber.

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And then Madam City Clerk, I'll do a timer,

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but do you want to make sure you do the 20 minute timer as well?

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Our first speaker, hon. Zoom, is Sarah White.

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Sarah, please press star six to unmute.

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You'll have two minutes.

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Sarah, go ahead.

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All right, well, if Sarah comes back,

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we'll go back.

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Let's go to our first people.

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Our thing isn't working.

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So will you call them?

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The first speaker is Jimmy,

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Tommy Ari.

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Wonderful.

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Wonderful.

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Good evening.

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It's great to see all of you.

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I just want to thank council members.

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Shine and Mayor Erickson for putting the

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Human Services visibility on the agenda.

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It's so important for us.

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And I'm not sure that everyone understands why.

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It's not about us personally.

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It's not like that we want to be on TV or we want to be this.

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It's about transparency and for the folks at home to be able to see

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what their six and a half million dollars is going towards.

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That being said, if the city sites don't get enough hits,

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I understand that.

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But some of us have very active social media pages.

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And these can be posted there.

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And lots of people will see it.

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And lots of people will access services that they just don't know

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exists.

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It's truly important.

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And each one of us comes here.

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Every meeting to let you know what's happening.

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And that's on our time.

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And it's we only get two minutes.

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And it's really rough for us to really let you know what's going on.

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And the folks at home can't possibly understand.

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Because we're speaking so fast, we nearly swallow our tongues.

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But that being said, I truly am appreciative of this.

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And I just hope that it passes without any troubles.

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Thank you.

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Thank you, Jimmy.

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Okay, great.

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Make you free.

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Follow by Ron Friedrich.

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Mikey Friedrich was Hollywood.

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At the last council meeting, the Commission and Advisory Board report

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was pulled from the consent calendar in order pretty much to discuss

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one board, rent stabilization, and one former board member, Zikia Wright.

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The mayor and CP Shine cited the unacceptable number of their absences

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and their subsequent dismissal from the board.

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Zikia, however, in an op-ed showing facts,

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disproved what these two alleged.

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to smear Zikia, who was competing with Ericsson for a seat on the city council.

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That was not only a conflict of interest, but underhanded, dishonest, and shameful.

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So, tonight, since you have put the Commission and Board report on the consent calendar,

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I'd like to pull it off and talk about the important older adults advisory board report

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because it shows that at that meeting, one public commenter and three board members all

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complained in their remarks about the hazards of delivery robots and scooters.

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Why are you sweeping this under the rug by putting their report into consent and not discussing it?

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The council majority are making a big deal out of wanting to widen sidewalks

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on fountain supposedly for ADA compliance, but are doing nothing about scooters and robots

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which endanger us and take away our access every damn day.

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You often preach one thing, but do another.

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In this case, you are touting equal access, but in truth, you're keeping us from our equal access.

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That is why both the ADA and the damn have awarded me for speaking out about your hypocrisy

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regarding this issue.

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They want your words to match your actions.

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Thanks so much, Mikey.

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Ron Friedrich to be followed by Steve Martin.

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Ron Friedrich is here.

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Hold on one second, Steve.

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No.

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Steve Martin to be followed by David Nash.

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Steve Martin, West Hollywood.

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Thank you.

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Council.

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And thank you for celebrating World's AIDS Day.

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And I hope that we can update on the valet at Bernie's venery as how his health is.

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I mean, he was a victim of violent crime in West Hollywood.

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Another victim of violent crime, because of, unfortunately, our decrease in law enforcement.

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The city is fast approaching its 48th anniversary, and this should be a time for us to be celebrating.

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But instead, there's a certain heaviness about the city.

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The city feels like it's a place that's under occupation, where there was once a vibrant civic democracy.

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What we now have is outside interest, who have really hijacked our democratic process.

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And West Hollywood, our democracy has been skewered by the amount of contributions, a quarter of a million dollars by unite here.

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Now, I supported unite here when they were interested in workers' rights and hotel workers' rights.

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But now they've taken on a whole agenda of taking over the city council and turning us into part of their political machine.

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The interest of what, of unite here, is not the interest of the residents.

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Decisions are being made outside of city hall without our participation, and local democracy is being undermined.

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The agenda of unite here is not ours.

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And where are they getting this quarter of a million dollars?

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Most of it from developers, like the Viper Room, and places like Nathan and Watkins,

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that have given seven thousand dollars to the mayor's race.

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But we were founded 40 years ago on empowering people.

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And now we seem to have a bunch of collaborators who are interested in disempowering the residents of West Hollywood.

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So I'm just asking that the residents here stand up and resist the occupation.

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Thank you.

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Thank you so much, Steve.

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David Nash, three followed by Sam Burrelli on behalf of the Human Services Commission.

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Hello, David.

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Hi.

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Thank you, David Nash.

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Most probably would resonate.

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I know it's on the consent calendar.

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There's progress being made on the Viper Room project.

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I'm sure the new London hotel will not be happy to see that the project is moving forward.

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But in my memory, it's been talked about for years that there were problems with the height of the building.

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Problems with their plans for displays and advertisements.

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But what I remember most is that it's another project that's to include affordable housing units.

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The last I heard they were up to a 14.

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I know that Mayor Erickson has posted to me that he's been able to up those numbers on occasion.

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I think this would be a good time to try it again.

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And there are places all over Sunset and Santa Monica Boulevard.

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Other Sunset seems to be moving ahead.

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That need renovation.

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The French market is sitting there empty.

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There's a lot you all thought that has the poisoning from the dry clean unit.

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It's just sitting there on a what's happening to it.

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But much of the architecture on Santa Monica Boulevard is past his prime.

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We need a lot of rebuilding here in the city.

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On a happier note, I want to say that this Wednesday night at 530 we have light refreshments served to introduce the disability advisory boards award night, which officially starts at 6 p.m.

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It's a really fun night for us where we get to honor people and organizations who do outstanding work that

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be friends people in the disabilities community.

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I'm glad that we'll see some of the council members there to help us acknowledge our winners.

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And I encourage anyone listening tonight to come join us and learn more about the disability advisory board

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and organizations that we honor.

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Thank you so much David.

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Sam Burrelli to be followed by Yola Dernray.

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Good evening Sam Burrelli representing the Human Services Commission.

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October is domestic violence and intimate partner violence awareness month.

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Domestic and intimate partner violence impacts people of all ages,

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genders, races, sexual orientations, cultures and religions.

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It occurs in all types of relationships and can involve different forms of abuse, including physical, sexual, verbal,

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economic, emotional and include intimidation as well as controlling and isolating behavior.

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Marginalized groups, including people with disabilities, members of the LGBTQ Commission.

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And people with language barriers face an increased risk of violence as perpetrators often exploit their vulnerabilities.

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There are multiple resources available to help.

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And the city's partner agencies are trained and have tools to protect the privacy and security of those in need.

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The stop violence program provides counseling advocacy and housing assistance.

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The legal advocacy project for survivors provides trauma-informed case management, safety planning, and legal representation.

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The whole program provides 24-7 multi-lingual crisis, hotline, emergency shelter, counseling, court,

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accompaniment and case management services.

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Let me be clear.

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These life-changing opportunities available to all community members.

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And our at no cost.

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If you are a loved one or someone you know is experiencing any form of violence or intimidation,

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the city is here for you. Let us help.

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Visit WeHo.org slash human services or call the city's human services division at 323-848-650.

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It is for reasons like this that my colleagues and I advocate for being televised for that one person might make a difference in your life.

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Thank you.

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Thank you so much, Sam.

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You'll let your way to be followed by Kathy Blavis.

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Good evening, Council.

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You'll adore a 30-plus-year resident of West Hollywood and proud to be.

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Love is and don't forget it.

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No more hate people.

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Let's not even turn on the TV or hear hate coming from anyone's mouth.

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Because West Hollywood, even at 40, doesn't believe in hate.

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Now that I've said that, I want to tell you the real reason I came.

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I came to say it the same thing that David did.

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This Wednesday and this whole month has been about disability.

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Whether you have a disability, whether you know someone with a disability,

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know that it's something that could happen to anyone at any given time.

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So we encourage you to join us.

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Learn more about disability.

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See our service award winners who have exemplified the best there is in the organization's businesses,

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nonprofits and individuals that have been all stores in our community.

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See you on Wednesday.

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Thanks so much, Yola.

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Kathy Blavis to be followed by David Edgar.

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Good evening, Kathy Blavis, city of West Hollywood. I spoke the other

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the other night that planning and public safety commission meetings about being heartbroken about the

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recent Trumpian hate speech and cyberbullying, ex-council member John Demaco is

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spewing. Tonight my feelings have changed to utter disappointment and sadness about someone

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I used to highly, highly, highly respect. Resorting to calling public safety commission

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leader George Nichol, a city council candidate, paranoid because he cares about public

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safety for all speaks volume about how Mr. Demaco must feel about the upcoming election.

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Many in the community are devastated by his attacks, name calling and hate speech. On another note,

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I'm really getting sick and tired of having to defend myself and the cause I represent

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opposing bike lanes on fountain. A safer fountain avenue should be a given and it's absurd to

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suggest otherwise. Proponents of bike lanes are portraying us as being against making fountain

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avenue safe and not caring about traffic accidents really. And sorry, and Mayor Erickson, you have

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called community out for spreading lies and misinformation and scaring residents. I have been told

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the are telling people both in person and in emails that the streetscapes widening

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sidewalks will happen first and could take years to be followed by bike lanes. However, the

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engage we hope website right here on vision corridor. The project will be implemented in phases.

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Phase 1 will implement protected bike lanes. Phase 2 will implement sidewalk widening and landscape

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improvements. Now, unless phase 2 is happening before phase 1, I'm afraid the missing

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information is put out exactly to be followed by Wendy Goldman. David to be followed by Wendy.

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Good evening, David Eckerd, a West Hollywood resident. I would like to speak about my experience with the

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fountain avenue streets. They streetscape projects outreach process. With Lafaca public outreach

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since 2022, I decided to take action and see what my neighbors along fountain avenue knew of this project.

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I took it upon myself to walk from La Cigna, La Cigna, La Cigna, the Crescent Heights and knock on

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people's doors. It was disharmed that nine out of ten residents were unaware of what was proposed

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or ever had received outreach with the 13,000 postcards in 2021. This comes to my point of why a rally

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was organized by we hope for the people and why I participated. The community hasn't been informed and

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concerned for traffic calming and enforcement has taken a back seat to adding protected bike lanes, which we all agree

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are deemed it, but the current ideas lack full thought. Most safety issues can be blamed on the lack of

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enforcement of J walking, speed, and unsafe lack of left turn lanes. Now, I added in the equation of cyclists and

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scooters who also don't always follow the traffic lights and laws. The stress on what the street

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requires has become too much. What I ask and want is to put a pause on adding cyclists or each scooters onto

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unsafe streets until the traffic issues are first resolved protect them as well. It is also imperative that

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the emergency service vehicles and our sheriffs have as much mobility as cyclists need.

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It is not a type of priority for all you can't keep adding new forms of mobility in the mix until

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clear path for safety is figured out. Both rallies encourage safety as priority. We just don't

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see eye on having to penalize neighborhood needs or protection for minority mobility.

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Thank you David.

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Hold on one second, Wendy. You're good. Thank you, David.

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We had a person who is speaking, we're in general public comment right now, right? Okay, we had a person

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on consent. Can we try to go hurt? You said that she's ready now.

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Sarah, here are next speaker. Press star 6 to a new. Hopefully it works as time.

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Do you want to hope you can hear me? Yes, we can. Yes.

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My name? Okay. Wonderful. I'm sorry. After all this time, I still haven't figured out how to unmute myself.

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But my name is Sarah. I know some of you but for those that I don't know.

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I'm a long time resident of West Hollywood. I have two children. One of which goes to West Hollywood Elementary.

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And I wanted to speak very briefly on behalf of the section S2, which is the grant in the school program and

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re-re-structuring re-imagining the budget and the structure.

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So it's part of West Hollywood Elementary. Our whole goal, purpose, is to raise funds for the school to be able to

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support all of the programs that we otherwise would not be supported and these include

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very essential functions for a school that is physical education, arts, and music.

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What is currently being provided is the $3,000.

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Which is just so appreciated but feels like not a meaningful impact. And so as you guys think about

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how we re-structuring these grants, I would inform you to think about the difference between

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public and private schools and how you're only public elementary school in West Hollywood

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get funded and making a meaningful impact in the way that you provide those. So as an example,

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we fund salaries to our PE teacher. We spend $150,000 every year just to support our PE program.

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Our teachers age all of these things are supported by the parents and by our fundraising.

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We appreciate you guys bringing this as an item and I hope you consider those in our future grant.

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Thank you so much, Sarah. Wendy Goldman, who will be our last speaker for this first public comment section.

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Wendy Goldman, West Hollywood resident, block captain for Cynthia Sunset, neighborhood watch,

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Good evening, Mary Erickson, council members, and residents. I'm here to speak about several issues in my area.

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I attended the last meeting of the older adult's advisory board and disability advisory board addressing

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mutual issues of pedestrian safety, request for repairs and improvements. The public safety commission of October 14th

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heard a report listing citations given for sidewalk scooter riders yet not one included enforcement on Sunset

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strip, where it is a daily safety problem. I spoke to the public safety commissioners about concern calls from residents

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related to an uptick in the number of home burglaries on Dohini, Cynthia, Vista Grande, Hilldale and Hammond.

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I feel that we must make all efforts to reduce the risk of similar crimes.

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I've spoken with city manager, David Wilson, Jackie Rocco, Danny Rivas, Helen Collins,

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veto out of might as Walter Davis, Steve Smith and others, regarding service requests that I have made on the app with no timeline for action.

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The quality of life issues, including a growing number of vacant properties, which number five at last count,

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beg the question of establishing a city park in a Cynthia sunset area. There is a lack of green space in this neighborhood.

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We need to provide the west side of the city with a park. It's needed to provide amenities that all other parts of the city enjoy.

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This proposed park would include a dog park and community garden, a restful urban habitat to attract wildlife.

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My dream will only become a reality with your support. Please find solutions to long standing request for my area. Thank you.

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Thank you so much, Wendy. We will move to several other public commenters to the end.

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And we are going to, it should hopefully be a quick meeting, so it should be too long. I'd say that now, cursing us, but I apologize.

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So we will now move on to the city manager's report, city manager Wilson. Will you please provide us with the city manager's report?

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Thank you, Mayor. Good evening, Mayor. Vice Mayor and city council members.

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I might do have a few announcements, but before I do that, I want to invite a simply member.

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Excuse me. Rick Ziber up to provide an update on legislation and Sacramento.

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Good evening. Thank you, city manager Wilson and her non. Good evening, Mayor Erson and members of the council.

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As you know, my name is Rick Chabba Ziber. I represent the 50 first district and I'm very proud that that includes the entire city of West Hollywood.

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As a member of the progressive environmental LGBTQ Latino, Armenian, Native American and Jewish caucuses, we had a very busy year.

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I'm also proud to report that about a year ago, Speaker Revis, appointed me to serve as chair of the Assembly Democratic caucus and in that role on part of the speakers.

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Leadership team and part of that role is assisting him in developing priorities for the caucus and achieving consensus within the caucus on chief on on chief priorities.

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With that in mind, I just wanted to give you a few key updates about what happened at the or two year legislative session.

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So first you've all read that we had to address a nearly 50 billion dollars shortfall and that meant that we had to make some very tough choices.

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I'm proud that as we did that, we were able to preserve key priorities, including preserving education funding, not really cutting vital programs like Cal Fresh and Metacal, which protect and serve our most vulnerable Californians.

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To housing and homeless programs were limited, but there were some unfortunate cuts to climate and environmental programs.

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Some of that will be made up hopefully with the passage by the voters of a climate bond which will generate billions of dollars for clean energy, coastal resilience, heat mitigation, wildfire prevention and clean water.

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This year we also had a number, we dealt with a number of bills related to artificial intelligence.

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That is something that obviously poses a great promise for people, but also great risks.

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One of the things I worry about a lot is that with artificial intelligence, we could really improve the human condition, but if it ends up with five billionaires owning everything and people without work.

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That is something that, you know, or tends for a dystopian future that we have to, that we have to work again, that we have to make sure it doesn't happen.

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And of course, that is something that is, it creates great challenges to people that are working in the entertainment industry.

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And so we have a number of bills in that front and I expect that to continue into next year.

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Closer to home, hospitals around the state have been upgrading their infrastructure to reach the 2030 seismic standards.

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One of those hospitals that needs to do more as you know is Cedar Sinai, which is partially in West Hollywood's jurisdiction.

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There was a bill to extend this time frame that I did not support because it did not have sufficient guardrails to ensure that actually the seismic standards were being upheld.

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I do think that West that Cedar needs help and we need to do something to help Cedar's meet standards because, as you know, you'd be considering their applications.

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They actually have to do a lot of work to sort of move into a swing space that got to create that.

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And so they will need longer than 2030, and I've been working closely with them.

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The bill that I did not support ultimately was vetoed by the governor for the same reasons I didn't support the bill, but hopefully we will be focusing on addressing Cedar's, which is such an important contributor to our community.

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As you know, turning to my own bills, I am very proud to share that 12 of my bills pass both the assembly and the Senate and we're signed into law by Governor Newsom this year.

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As you know, one of my key priorities, as I know, is one of every single members of this council has been to make sure that we're creating more housing, making housing more affordable and keeping people into in their homes.

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We know that is more cost effective and infinitely more humane to take a preventative approach to homelessness.

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And we also know that California needs more housing, but in ways that respect to existing neighborhoods and bring the kind of affordable, livable communities that we all want.

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With that in mind, I'm proud that the governor signed AB 2525, which was sponsored by Mayor Bass, which addresses the problem that we're facing.

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The problem that we're facing with so many people living in RVs, one of the things I didn't realize is that 22% of the folks that are unhoused in the city of Los Angeles are living in RVs.

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And so this bill actually gives the city of Los Angeles more tools to move people from RVs into permanent and temporary housing by allowing the state of California to lease unused land to store RVs as we're basically moving folks into that program.

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A second bill that was passed in a lot which I view as a homeless as bill is AB 2477.

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That bill empowers foster youth that are transitioning into adulthood from foster care to allow them to accumulate cash savings, which would have previously disqualified them from the state benefits that they are entitled to as they're moving from their youth into adulthood.

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So that bill now allows former.

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I hope you have to save more than $10,000, which is you know, with the cost of housing. People need to have those kinds of nest eggs.

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00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:12,000
And we shouldn't be discouraging that. And so that law was passed by both houses and signed into law.

431
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:16,000
And of course, you remember last year because you all suggested this.

432
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:28,000
AB 1620, a bill was introduced and recommended by the city of West Hollywood that allows people in rent stabilized upper floor units with physical disabilities to move into first floor units without having their rent reset.

433
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:40,000
And it's thanks to advocates in the community like in low, low, door A, door A that this new law will improve the lives of countless people with disabilities in a years to come.

434
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:57,000
One of the disappointments that we faced was on AB 2498, the California Housing Security Act, which was Hollywood was a sponsor and supporter of that bill provided a whole new pilot program with rent subsidies for people that are highly rented and secure.

435
00:45:57,000 --> 00:46:01,000
That bill got stalled on the Senate side, but we are going to bring that back this year.

436
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:09,000
I hopefully with more support, what happened is that got caught in sort of the interplay between the Senate and the assembly.

437
00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:14,000
We actually had found some money in the budget to fund the program, but we were competing for that.

438
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:23,000
And actually a Senate bill was competing for the money that we had sort of sort of lightly allocated in the budget for the bill.

439
00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:33,000
And so because of that the bill got stopped in Senate appropriations, but the bill that was competing for the money then got vetoed by the governor, so we're actually going to be back at the drawing board.

440
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:38,000
That other bill was a good bill too, but so we're going to take that bring that back this year.

441
00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:47,000
On retail crime as you all know and I want to thank you all for actually making this council chamber, the site of one of our hearings this year.

442
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:48,000
I want to thank you all for being able to read this.

443
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:52,000
I announced the select committee on retail theft and made name me as its chair.

444
00:46:52,000 --> 00:47:03,000
Our work led to 10 new public safety laws that governor knew some signed, including the lead bill, which was one that was authored by me and speaker.

445
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:16,000
That bill focuses on stopping organized crime rings by creating a new crime of serial retail theft with the penalty of up to three years for possession of stolen property with the intent to resell.

446
00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:24,000
It also specifies that evidence of intent can include repeated conduct or possession of a quantity of goods inconsistent with personal use.

447
00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:32,000
It also expands the tools that police officers have to arrest for shoplifting based on a witness's sworn statement or video footage of a crime.

448
00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:40,000
Importantly, it also helps to get to the root cause of theft by expanding the use of diversion and rehabilitation programs like drug courts.

449
00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:49,000
And finally, it protects businesses and retailers that report retail crime by ensuring that they will not have new transactions brought against them for doing that.

450
00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:53,000
Of course, that's not a problem here in West Hollywood, but there's other parts of the state where that has been.

451
00:47:53,000 --> 00:48:11,000
The remaining bills also crack down on the theft and sale of stolen items then increase the increase the tools to deal with smashing grabs and they try to close down the market for these bills.

452
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:22,000
I will say that we work very hard to establish consequences for retail crime without going back to the days where California was punishing too many minor crimes with extremely long prison sentences.

453
00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:30,000
Data and research tells us that the best way to deter crime is not the blunt approach of just adding more prison time.

454
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:39,000
It's really ensuring that law enforcement has the tools to apprehend people engaging in crime and that there is a real consequence for committing those crimes.

455
00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:54,000
That doesn't mean that you necessarily have to have a 20 year prison sentence when a jail time or prison sentence is a shorter amount of time is an adequate and is an adequate deterrent.

456
00:48:54,000 --> 00:49:06,000
With that on civil rights, last year the governor signed AB5, the Safe and Supporter of Schools Act, which I know so many of you supported here, which provides public school teachers and staff.

457
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:13,000
We're on the front lines of supporting California students with the training and support they need to better serve LGBTQ plus and all students.

458
00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:21,000
This year I was proud that AB, the governor signed AB 2258, the enhanced consumer protections for preventive care act.

459
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:35,000
What was happening there is that the federal affordable care act is really what requires insurance companies to cover things like prep for a lot of the federal programs.

460
00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:39,000
And for employers based programs.

461
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:42,000
And there was a challenge to that in a Texas court.

462
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:48,000
It's basically struck down the regulations and the Affordable Care Act that provided this protection.

463
00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:58,000
My bill, which we brought this year actually codifies that those hopefully, that bills on it, that cases on appeal.

464
00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:04,000
But what this is doing is it's making sure that if we lose that case we have actually put in California law,

465
00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:08,000
the preventive care requirements that were in the Affordable Care Act.

466
00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:16,000
So we can make sure that people that want mammograms covered for breast cancer, that prep is covered for people that need it,

467
00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:24,000
that all these preventive care items were going to be covered because it's required in California law if federal law doesn't require it.

468
00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:32,000
I was also a co-author and I know many of you were very active in the passage of the Safety Act, which I was a co-sponsor.

469
00:50:32,000 --> 00:50:40,000
It provides new protections to the new protections against forced outings of LGBTQ students and California schools.

470
00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:54,000
That was a proud that that was with a lot of opposition, but that was signed into law by this was passed by both houses and signed into law by Governor Newsom.

471
00:50:54,000 --> 00:51:03,000
Also on the subject of civil rights, this year we saw a massive spike in anti-Semitic hate crimes and incidents, including on college campuses.

472
00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:09,000
I've been appalled and have been using my voice and office to stand up against the anti-Semitism that we're seeing.

473
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:22,000
Following weeks of deeply disturbing events at UCLA, I called on the office of civil rights to conduct a federal investigation into potential violations of the civil rights act at UCLA.

474
00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:30,000
And was disappointed with the university's response to both protecting the rights of Jewish students.

475
00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:41,000
But then also later protecting the rights of the protesters when they failed to protect them from an outside mob coming into UCLA at the end of that episode.

476
00:51:42,000 --> 00:52:06,000
I'm also working this year to ensure that we are preserving and improving ethnic studies, making sure that ethnic studies meets the goals which is to make sure that there's windows into the lives of ethnic and racial communities for people that are not part of those communities helping people understand the challenges that those communities face.

477
00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:11,000
And also mirrors for those communities so that folks can see themselves in the curriculum.

478
00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:22,000
But we also need to make sure that basically in these very sensitive areas that the curriculum is basically resulting a safe and supportive environment for all students, including Jewish students.

479
00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:33,000
And so we are actually going to be moving a bill forward that is really intended not to undermine ethnic studies, but to strengthen it to make sure that it achieves its goals.

480
00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:38,000
But at the same time is making sure that our schools are safe for all kids.

481
00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:47,000
I'm also proud that AB 2613, the Jacqueline Marisa Burr, Rare Disease Advisory Council was signed into law by Governor Newsom.

482
00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:53,000
It will actually create a new advisory council that will give a seat at the table for people that are living with rare diseases.

483
00:52:53,000 --> 00:53:02,000
One of the things I saw in my sister's illness was that because rare diseases are rare, they don't have large lobbies that are sort of helping government agencies understand.

484
00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:05,000
The challenge is that people living with rare diseases face.

485
00:53:05,000 --> 00:53:13,000
So California was one of the few states that did not have an official rare disease advisory council that will that will change next year.

486
00:53:13,000 --> 00:53:19,000
We are looking for a home for this hopefully it will be at UCLA or one of the UC systems.

487
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:31,000
We also passed two bills on gun safety AB 2907 and 2917, 2907 enhances protections for Californians who face domestic violence, stalking and elder abuse.

488
00:53:31,000 --> 00:53:37,000
By making sure that if there's a if there's a gun violence restraining order that is actually enforced.

489
00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:44,000
These are things that were actually required in the civil restraining orders, but we're not required in the criminal or straining orders.

490
00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:51,000
So we put those same procedures to make sure that guns are confiscated from folks that are at risk in to those restraining orders.

491
00:53:51,000 --> 00:54:02,000
And then 2917 updates and refines our GVO order and draws the civil court's attention to hate based or politically motivated threats of violence.

492
00:54:02,000 --> 00:54:07,000
And this bill is sponsored by every time for gun safety in the San Francisco City Attorney's office.

493
00:54:07,000 --> 00:54:11,000
I'm coming to a close I only have a couple more pages.

494
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:16,000
Last thing I wanted to and I'm and I'm condensing them.

495
00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:33,000
Last thing I wanted to say I mentioned that we actually passed a historic climate bond AB 3 which will be on the ballot this year that will require that will result in significant funding to help us weed ourselves off of fossil fuels.

496
00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:42,000
And actually will fund clean water if there's significant funding for the Santa Monica kind of mountains in the Baldwin Baldwin Hills Conservatories in that bond.

497
00:54:42,000 --> 00:54:51,000
And so I was proud to serve on the steering committee that shaped the bond and proud that we passed that.

498
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:56,000
Looking to next year we're currently working on our package of bills for next year.

499
00:54:56,000 --> 00:55:06,000
Invite your input as you have had in other years of really valued the input of the city of West Hollywood and shaping my bill package.

500
00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:13,000
One of the issues that I will tell you that I will be focused on and will be one of my key priorities is keeping Hollywood in California.

501
00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:20,000
I think you all have been reading in the papers and I have actually been having conversations with the.

502
00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:29,000
The entertainment unions and with the studios and with just normal folks but as you have probably been hearing.

503
00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:44,000
Employment in our region is really down people are really we not only have unemployment but we have significant under employment as many productions are being recruited out of the state of California.

504
00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:53,000
And so I've spoken to the speaker about helping him spearhead a strategy to address these issues and I know that you all share.

505
00:55:53,000 --> 00:56:00,000
Shared the goal of making sure that we actually have good high paying jobs and we keep the entertainment industry here in the state of California.

506
00:56:00,000 --> 00:56:09,000
So in conclusion I will I just want to thank you all for being such a strong partner you know while we find ourselves in tumultuous times as a nation and world.

507
00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:17,000
And while there's never a dull moment in West Hollywood civic life I believe that ultimately there's more that that unites us and divides us.

508
00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:26,000
I want to thank you all for your service to the city of West Hollywood and to the assembly district 51 just know that my doors always open.

509
00:56:26,000 --> 00:56:35,000
My staff is always here to help folks that have a that are having problems with state agencies and just want to thank you for for your partnership.

510
00:56:35,000 --> 00:56:38,000
Thank you so much assembly member.

511
00:56:38,000 --> 00:56:57,000
And and thank you for being busy enough for all of us up here out in Sacramento and just big thank you to your entire staff there at all of our city events Robert Josh all of them and they represent you so well as you're up there doing so thank you so much.

512
00:56:58,000 --> 00:57:02,000
Thank you assembly members for just a few other announcements.

513
00:57:02,000 --> 00:57:12,000
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power will be replacing a water main main line on Los Yanada Boulevard between Santa Monica Boulevard in fountain Avenue.

514
00:57:12,000 --> 00:57:21,000
Work begins November 4th and will be completed in approximately three months the working hours will be Monday through Friday from 9 a.m.

515
00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:31,000
to 4 p.m. and during the weekends and holidays there will be regular access and street parking.

516
00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:41,000
The city of West Hollywood's care team behavioral health initiative is one component of Los Angeles County's alternative crisis response.

517
00:57:41,000 --> 00:57:51,000
A certain suicide in crisis life line and filled intervention teams provide free confidential support to anyone experiencing a crisis.

518
00:57:51,000 --> 00:58:00,000
They are open 24 hours a day seven days a week for more information about the West Hollywood care team pilot program.

519
00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:03,000
There are brochures in the back that look like this.

520
00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:18,000
Or you can visit we hope.org slash care team and then finally save the date we will be celebrating West Hollywood's West Hollywood day on November 21st.

521
00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:27,000
At the PDC in the silver screen theater from it's 530 p.m. to about 9 p.m.

522
00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:34,000
There will be more information available on we hope.org slash we hope day.

523
00:58:34,000 --> 00:58:39,000
I just have a few questions or I won't go first.

524
00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:54,000
Can you provide an update on the lot at Santa Monica Boulevard and Crescent Heights.

525
00:58:54,000 --> 00:59:07,000
Yes, so that lot is currently under construction there were delays due to Southern California medicine plan changes and also some slope issues on Havenhurst.

526
00:59:07,000 --> 00:59:18,000
We have been resolved construction is continuing we hope to have it paved by Halloween and full completion by the middle of November.

527
00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:19,000
Great.

528
00:59:19,000 --> 00:59:28,000
We've been I've been getting some comments regarding coyotes in our neighborhood is it possible for you and the staff of my colleagues agreed to host something similar to Beverly Hills's.

529
00:59:29,000 --> 00:59:39,000
I know we have an 18 page coyote report but it's it's a little bit long to read but maybe there's something you all could do and come back to us.

530
00:59:39,000 --> 00:59:53,000
Yeah, so we do have a coyote management plan city council directed that we established one in 2017 and that was adopted by resolution in 2018 it's available on the city's website.

531
00:59:53,000 --> 01:00:00,000
It is pretty comprehensive but it's the council does want an informational session that's something that.

532
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:05,000
Would have to be done by a council initiative, which can come back at the future meeting.

533
01:00:05,000 --> 01:00:13,000
Wonderful. And then we just got an email regarding an arrest that was made in the community. Would you mind providing an update on that?

534
01:00:13,000 --> 01:00:19,000
Yeah, and so it was a very recent arrest and very little information can be provided.

535
01:00:19,000 --> 01:00:24,000
But Lieutenant Fanny Lampkin is here and she will provide in the information that she can.

536
01:00:24,000 --> 01:00:26,000
Thank you so much, Fanny.

537
01:00:31,000 --> 01:00:35,000
Good evening, everyone. Fanny Lampkin, sort of certainly, Lieutenant was Hollywood.

538
01:00:35,000 --> 01:00:40,000
We did receive, we have great news.

539
01:00:40,000 --> 01:00:50,000
Our EPT team was out looking for our attempted murder suspect and he was arrested.

540
01:00:50,000 --> 01:00:55,000
I can't provide any further details because it is scheduled to be filed tomorrow.

541
01:00:55,000 --> 01:00:57,000
And this was the Barney's beineries.

542
01:00:57,000 --> 01:01:01,000
The Barney's beineries. So yes, it's very.

543
01:01:01,000 --> 01:01:08,000
We had many, many, many, many and thank you to the community because we had many tips on the individual.

544
01:01:08,000 --> 01:01:15,000
We had tips that he was no longer in the city, but he, he projected from Hollywood to West Hollywood.

545
01:01:15,000 --> 01:01:20,000
And the deputies were looking for him and they, they found him.

546
01:01:20,000 --> 01:01:24,000
And with the excellent work that our detectives are doing, we're, hopefully, not hopefully.

547
01:01:24,000 --> 01:01:27,000
We are, they're going to be filing charges tomorrow.

548
01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:28,000
Thank you so much.

549
01:01:28,000 --> 01:01:29,000
All right.

550
01:01:29,000 --> 01:01:31,000
If that concludes, could you keep going David, sorry?

551
01:01:31,000 --> 01:01:36,000
I would just add, there is a press conference scheduled for tomorrow at 9.30 at the sheriff station.

552
01:01:36,000 --> 01:01:37,000
Yep.

553
01:01:37,000 --> 01:01:38,000
Does that conclude your report?

554
01:01:38,000 --> 01:01:39,000
Thank you.

555
01:01:39,000 --> 01:01:40,000
Thank you.

556
01:01:40,000 --> 01:01:41,000
Lieutenant.

557
01:01:41,000 --> 01:01:42,000
Yes, that concludes tomorrow.

558
01:01:42,000 --> 01:01:43,000
Thank you so much.

559
01:01:43,000 --> 01:01:44,000
All right.

560
01:01:44,000 --> 01:01:50,000
Madam City Clerk may have the impact of the fiscal impact on the next consent calendar.

561
01:01:50,000 --> 01:01:53,000
While staff comes down for the first public hearing.

562
01:01:53,000 --> 01:01:54,000
Yes, Mayor.

563
01:01:54,000 --> 01:02:05,000
The fiscal impact on consent with the addition of consent item F-1 F-2 F-4 exclusion of B-3.

564
01:02:05,000 --> 01:02:12,000
Noting no votes for Council Member Meister and Council Member Schine on B-8.

565
01:02:12,000 --> 01:02:13,000
Exclusion of B-13.

566
01:02:13,000 --> 01:02:14,000
Excuse me.

567
01:02:14,000 --> 01:02:22,000
Is $516,000 in expenditures, $1,680 in revenues, and $4,194 in waste fees?

568
01:02:22,000 --> 01:02:23,000
All right.

569
01:02:23,000 --> 01:02:32,000
There's a motion in a second.

570
01:02:32,000 --> 01:02:33,000
What?

571
01:02:33,000 --> 01:02:34,000
I think it's not working.

572
01:02:34,000 --> 01:02:40,000
So why don't we do a voice vote?

573
01:02:40,000 --> 01:02:41,000
Oh, my goodness.

574
01:02:41,000 --> 01:02:42,000
There's a delay.

575
01:02:42,000 --> 01:02:44,000
Council Member Heilman.

576
01:02:44,000 --> 01:02:46,000
Council Member Meister.

577
01:02:46,000 --> 01:02:47,000
Council Member Schine.

578
01:02:47,000 --> 01:02:49,000
Vice Mayor Byrs.

579
01:02:49,000 --> 01:02:50,000
Yes.

580
01:02:50,000 --> 01:02:51,000
And Mayor Ericsson.

581
01:02:51,000 --> 01:02:52,000
Thank you.

582
01:02:52,000 --> 01:02:53,000
Wonderful.

583
01:02:53,000 --> 01:02:54,000
Thank you so much.

584
01:02:54,000 --> 01:02:57,000
We're going to move along to our first and only public hearing tonight.

585
01:02:57,000 --> 01:03:01,000
Zone text amendment to enable the issuance of demolition permits for vacant properties.

586
01:03:01,000 --> 01:03:03,000
That post public safety risks.

587
01:03:03,000 --> 01:03:05,000
The public hearing is now open.

588
01:03:05,000 --> 01:03:07,000
Are there any disclosures from my colleagues?

589
01:03:07,000 --> 01:03:08,000
No.

590
01:03:08,000 --> 01:03:09,000
No.

591
01:03:09,000 --> 01:03:10,000
Wonderful.

592
01:03:10,000 --> 01:03:11,000
Madam City Clerk.

593
01:03:11,000 --> 01:03:13,000
How was this hearing noticed?

594
01:03:13,000 --> 01:03:14,000
As required by law.

595
01:03:14,000 --> 01:03:15,000
Wonderful.

596
01:03:15,000 --> 01:03:16,000
Staff.

597
01:03:16,000 --> 01:03:17,000
Will you please introduce yourself?

598
01:03:17,000 --> 01:03:18,000
I'm present to report.

599
01:03:18,000 --> 01:03:19,000
And I'm going to get a cough drop.

600
01:03:19,000 --> 01:03:20,000
So I'll be right back.

601
01:03:21,000 --> 01:03:22,000
Good evening, Mayor.

602
01:03:22,000 --> 01:03:23,000
Vice Mayor.

603
01:03:23,000 --> 01:03:24,000
And members of the City Council.

604
01:03:24,000 --> 01:03:25,000
And Nick Marisitch.

605
01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:26,000
Community Development Director.

606
01:03:26,000 --> 01:03:28,000
I'm joined by our long range planning manager.

607
01:03:28,000 --> 01:03:30,000
Francesco Contreras.

608
01:03:30,000 --> 01:03:31,000
And Senior Planner.

609
01:03:31,000 --> 01:03:34,000
To hear a fairest who will be giving the presentation for this item.

610
01:03:34,000 --> 01:03:39,000
Thank you.

611
01:03:39,000 --> 01:03:42,000
Good evening.

612
01:03:42,000 --> 01:03:43,000
Mayor.

613
01:03:43,000 --> 01:03:44,000
Out of the room.

614
01:03:44,000 --> 01:03:45,000
Vice Mayor.

615
01:03:45,000 --> 01:03:46,000
And City Council members.

616
01:03:46,000 --> 01:03:48,000
Again, my name is to hear a fairest.

617
01:03:48,000 --> 01:03:50,000
Senior Planner with Long Range Planning.

618
01:03:50,000 --> 01:03:52,000
And I'm going to present the Zone Text Amendment for

619
01:03:52,000 --> 01:03:56,000
Demolition Permits for vacant properties that pose in the

620
01:03:56,000 --> 01:04:00,000
imminent public safety threat.

621
01:04:00,000 --> 01:04:03,000
Next slide, please.

622
01:04:03,000 --> 01:04:04,000
I have it.

623
01:04:04,000 --> 01:04:05,000
Thank you.

624
01:04:05,000 --> 01:04:09,000
So I'll give a quick background on the Zone Text Amendment.

625
01:04:09,000 --> 01:04:13,000
And then just go straight into the proposed amendment and

626
01:04:13,000 --> 01:04:15,000
our recommendation from staff.

627
01:04:15,000 --> 01:04:20,000
So just to remind people where we are.

628
01:04:20,000 --> 01:04:25,000
They can property is defined in chapter 9.64 of the West Hollywood

629
01:04:25,000 --> 01:04:26,000
Municipal Code.

630
01:04:26,000 --> 01:04:31,000
As a property that is substantially vacant unoccupied for more than

631
01:04:31,000 --> 01:04:34,000
or abandoned for more than 45 days.

632
01:04:34,000 --> 01:04:37,000
And where construction pursuant to an active building permit has

633
01:04:37,000 --> 01:04:42,000
not be unpermit is not taking place or weren't

634
01:04:42,000 --> 01:04:46,000
in action by the building and safety division pursuant to an active

635
01:04:46,000 --> 01:04:51,000
building permit has not been conducted within the previous 90 days.

636
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The City created a vacant property restoration program in 2019,

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which provides a system for tracking and addressing vacant properties.

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These properties are classified into four different categories of

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stable at risk problematic or failed.

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There are currently 56 vacant properties within the city.

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Their categorization listed on the slide here.

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And over the past several months, there has been a growing number of

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complaints to the West Hollywood Sheriff station, as well as to

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the city's code enforcement.

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About vacant properties being broken into and used for shelter and

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having unintended or having public safety impacts to both the

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individuals that are breaking into the property as well as to the

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surrounding community members.

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It is unlikely that these types of buildings are going to be

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repaired by their owners or even reoccupied.

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And they do pose public safety concerns.

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And so therefore we are proposing a new mechanism to deal with vacant

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properties within the city that may generally fall into the

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category of failed vacant properties, but they also may fall outside of

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any of these categories and still pose an imminent public safety risk.

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So in March of this year, the city council directed staff to work with

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the city attorney and create a process which would authorize the

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demolition of vacant properties that pose risks.

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Typical safety in both commercial and residential zone properties.

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In August, the city council then issued another directive to

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the process to process a zone text amendment according to the

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following schedule going to planning commission in September and

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coming back before the city council and October.

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So that brings us to tonight.

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The zone text amendment would have a two year sunset date to allow us

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time to assess the impacts of this program and determine if we do

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want to make it a more permanent process going forward.

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So ahead of that two year sunset date, staff will return to city council

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with an update and get direction on whether to make that a more permanent

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program or amended or even repeal it at the time if that's necessary.

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Planning commission did recommend approval of the zone text amendment in

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September.

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So I'll go into a quick overview of what is in the zone text amendment.

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There are current requirements in chapter 19.50 of the municipal

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code which includes provisions for demolition permits.

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Section 19.50.2.020 states that discretionary approval of a demolition

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permit is required before any demo of a building or structure before a

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substantial remodel as well as before any structures moved from any

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site within the city.

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Additionally, the code requires could occur processing of demolition

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permits with any other required discretionary permits with just two

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exceptions.

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The first exception is when there is an imminent hazard posed by the building

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as determined by the building official.

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So this is currently a very high standard to meet.

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It refers to structural deficiencies within the building itself.

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Not necessarily hazards that are caused by unsafe use of the property or

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folks being on the property.

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So there's a specific scope for when that exception can be used.

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And then the second instance is when the planning commission improves

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an interim use that would satisfy a public need on a vacant property.

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So this is a local policy that we have to ensure that properties don't

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sit vacant and that land is used for its best intended use and

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hopefully stays occupied as long as possible.

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So now the city is considering amending its local policy to allow

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for addressing unintended consequences with vacant properties that are

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not being demolished and they may need to be demolished ahead of

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concur processing permits ahead of obtaining other discretionary permits.

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So I'm not going to read everything on the screen here, but essentially we are

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amending various sections of the code to include this new process that would

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essentially give the authority to the director of community safety in

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collaboration with the director of community development to

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authorize the demolition of big properties that are posing public safety risks.

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We do have a number of criteria that would have to be in place that a property would

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have to meet in order for the director of community safety and

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director of community development to make the determination and authorize that

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demolition.

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And we do have a number of compliance tools, tools that the city already

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utilizes when managing big and properties to ensure that regulations are followed

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and anything that needs to be addressed at that time.

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So there are a number of tools that would still be at the city's discretion.

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And then just to point out that we are still going to be in compliance with state law.

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So if any housing units are going to be demolished as part of this process,

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they would be required to be replaced.

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So there would be a data restriction place on the property to ensure that that happens.

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Additionally, if there are any historic resources, we would still have to adhere to laws

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related to historic resources.

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And just to point out that this new process is really something that is meant to be used

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on rare occasions when all other methods have failed or have not produced the results

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that are necessary to take care of these properties.

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So the consideration is again for these properties that really rise to that

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level of an imminent threat to public safety that's really a direct

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result of individuals trespassing onto the property and doing things that

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may create hazards such as fires that pose a threat to neighboring properties.

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So with that, the staff's recommendation is to adopt the

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state of 19 zoning ordinance of less Hollywood municipal code to authorize

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the issuance of demolition permits for big and properties that pose public safety risks.

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And that's the end of the presentation.

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Staff is here for questions.

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Thank you so much.

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There are no public speakers on this item.

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So I think we can go over to questions or comments.

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Council Member Hiamen.

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This has been before us on several occasions.

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I know there's some disagreement, but I'm prepared to move the

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recommendation and I've done so.

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And I have second to that.

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Do you all go down to this end question or comments of this point, sir?

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Yep.

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My only concern is if we have 42 stable, five at risk, nine problematic.

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Are the at risk the ones that are going to be, you know,

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go into this category and the prop or is it problematic or is it failed?

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And what happens if the stable ones start to move?

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I mean, is there a way that we can, we can say as of today,

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you know, if you're listed on the stable category that you don't qualify for this because,

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you know, you've let, you've let the property go is rather than rather than,

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you know, something happening that created the situation where,

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where they were already problematic.

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Yeah.

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So there are a number of criteria that staff would use to determine,

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I don't know if that's to determine if the property does rise to the level that would

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necessitate authorizing the demolition.

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So in theory, a property could be in any one of those categories,

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but probably the likelihood that it's in the failed category or problematic is probably more likely,

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because we also have to determine that the property owner has not made any effort

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to secure the property or take care of the property or address concerns by the city.

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So the city would still utilize existing mechanisms to reach out to property owners and try to get compliance.

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If compliance is not being obtained, if there's property owners unresponsive,

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then they would have, then that's potential to utilize this.

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I'm just going to add that we are joined by our colleagues from Community Safety Department,

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who would obviously play at critical role in implementing this.

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So Danny Revis, Community Safety Director and Vito Animitis are both with us.

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There's any questions that they would like to speak to as well.

764
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Yeah, and I guess I want to know if there's anything in this that would act as a disincentive

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for a property owner to let their property go.

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Is there anything that will prevent this from becoming the norm rather than the rare occasion?

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So we would see this as a disincentive for a property owner to just sit and do nothing

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because there are fines that can be imposed on the property.

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The demolition would be at the expense of property owner.

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So it would be in their best interest to be in compliance with city regulations rather than have city take action.

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Okay.

772
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Good.

773
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Yes.

774
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Thank you.

775
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I'm in the support of this.

776
01:14:49,000 --> 01:14:51,000
I do have a question.

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There was a on-paked seven of the staff report when speaking of under new subsection A2 of Section 19.

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50.020. It starts with the determination will be based on some or all of the following characteristics. That's a strange usage of words. Why not just the determination will be based on any of the following characteristics or ways out on some or all?

779
01:15:22,000 --> 01:15:30,000
So, this language was reviewed by City Attorney, so it was developed in collaboration with City Attorney, and that was where we ended.

780
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Yes. I think the factors that lead to these situations are very important to capture one scenario that covers it also. It's meant to provide flexibility and show that their factors and different things.

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01:15:46,000 --> 01:15:56,000
It could be one that is so severe, it's enough, or it might be three or four things that lead to a determination that it's risen to this level, so it's okay.

782
01:15:56,000 --> 01:16:02,000
I think it's intentionally giving flexibility because we don't know all the factors that are going to play out.

783
01:16:02,000 --> 01:16:21,000
Okay, so, could it be based on one, one factor? I just don't want this challenge if it's based on one, and then they say, well, it says summer all.

784
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Right, I mean, the way I read it is probably two. Okay, some. Okay, we could say more. I mean, there's different ways to word it. I think the point was that it's a combination of these things that lead to the public safety problem.

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And I think the code was too specific in the past and let the city not be able to utilize this when the situation really came up, so it's trying to be flexible.

786
01:16:47,000 --> 01:16:49,000
Thank you. Okay.

787
01:16:49,000 --> 01:17:01,000
Great. Seeing no more questions or comments, well, we have a motion by Council of Ohio men and a second by myself, and we will go to vote.

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Mayor, I also wanted to. Sure.

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No, that Kathy Blavis provided citizen position. And support of the set.

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Wow, okay, great. 50. I'm sorry. I'll interrupt me next time, so we can make sure we get those ahead of the vote just so we can do that. Thanks.

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All right, that has this five zero. Thank you so much, city staff, for all your hard work and quick turnaround on that.

792
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We're going to move right along to unfinished business, or we hope 40 strategic plan. Do my colleagues want a full staff report on this?

793
01:17:35,000 --> 01:17:50,000
No. Okay, great. So, Paolo and Chris, whoever is, because I took my glasses off, I know you've been prepping for months for the full staff report, but we'll, we'll take in abbreviated one if possible.

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And then we have three public commenters signed up for that. Are there any citizen positions, lips? Nope. Okay.

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And if you were on the, we hope 40 plan team from a community member, will you raise your hand in the audience so we can just congratulate you up here from behalf of us. Thank you so much.

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As, as they get set up with all their technology. Richard, you're always there. So, there you go Richard.

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Okay, we're going to load our slides and I'll get started. Welcome, good evening. Mayor, vice mayor and city council.

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My name is Christine Sabre and I'm the assistant to the city manager and the city manager's office.

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With me tonight at the staff table, or Paolo, desperate at management analyst and project manager for the we have 40 strategic plan, as well as Kevin Rosenstein and Eric Wong from Gensler.

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We also have with us tonight, Christopher Locke and Anna Shayla Victorino from designing color and Richard Bernard from FM3.

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We also have David Wilson of course on the day so if you are city man.

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He doesn't want to come down there and be with you. He does not.

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The plan we are presenting tonight builds off of the success of the city's prior strategic plan that was adopted in the early 2000s and bridges are existing plans and initiatives into a comprehensive strategy.

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We are not going to give you this whole presentation this evening but I will hit a few highlights for you.

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The we hope 40 strategic plan provides a cohesive organizing framework for the city's highest priorities over the next 15 years.

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The basic purpose of a strategic plan and particularly this plan is to build upon the strong foundation of the city's existing work plans, council director, special plans and ongoing projects and programs.

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The we hope 40 strategic plan helps to establish a common understanding of the city's existing conditions, its opportunities and its challenges.

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It synthesizes broadly representative priorities that we heard through an expansive outreach process between the city and our project team residents and stakeholders.

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It defines measurable objectives organized within a realistic roadmap for implementation and finally it describes an inclusive vision of what was Hollywood aspires to be in 2040 and beyond.

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01:20:39,000 --> 01:20:46,000
The we hope 40 strategic plan was developed through close collaboration with our consulting team and with community members.

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The office of the city manager led the project city participants were involved at numerous stages and included staff elected officials appointed officials and numerous other community members of all stripes.

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The prime consultant on the project was Gensler a global architecture design and planning firm who led the overall project management including plan development.

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Gensler strategy group has existed for more than 30 years and completed numerous strategic plans designing in color led the community organizing and outreach efforts for this project with the focus on social justice equity and intense engagement with residents and community members.

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Gensler deco and the city worked in close collaboration throughout the project to ensure that many historically and frequently underrepresented groups in our community were invited and welcomed into the planning process.

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FM3 is a frequent city partner and provided public opinion research for the project we focus groups and two statistically validated resident surveys that book ended the project to identify issues and validate the final direction of the strategic plan.

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And thank you for that suggestion council we really thought that that was a wonderful addition to our outreach and validation work.

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In terms of community engagement we had four phases in the project and three streams of community engagement.

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Those are on the slide here and they're also shown in our in our strategic planning document.

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They included community engagement with residents business owners workforce and visitors community organizing with our action team and core coalition.

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We actually have some members of the action team in the audience tonight would you guys like to raise your hand.

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Thank you very much.

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And then we also invited city leadership and staff to participate and there were multiple participation options throughout the strategic plan in all of the phases for community staff and city participation.

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This is just a brief summary of the engagement methods that we went through in the process through the various phases I'm not going to go into these in the interest of time.

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We held multiple community events there were three in person community events at all three of the cities major parks.

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There was one virtual community meeting via zoom and also live streamed.

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These various events provided strategic plan information and feedback.

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There were grio conversation circles focused on specific topics and there was also food and music to make these entertaining and inviting.

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Our team also presented at community pop ups three strategic planning pop-up events were held at the Aquatic Springfest at Mishka Festival and at the We Hope Pride Street Fair.

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Each one of these engaged between one in 2000 community members it was a way to both publicize the plan invite deeper participation at some of our events point people towards the website.

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As well as get input and take feedback on various elements of the plan depending on what stage we're at.

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So the strategy itself is divided into six focus areas and goals with 24 underlying objectives in those focus areas and more than 150 distinct actions that are specific steps that the city will take to advance the objectives and the goals.

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Each one of the following slides.

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Talks briefly about what those are.

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Our focus areas include community safety and well-being where we focus on public safety, the city's human services initiatives and developing neighborhoods specific approaches.

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The second focus area is attainable housing with the focus on creating housing opportunities for people of wide region income levels and specifically looking at emphasizing affordable housing and challenges that our residents are facing as well as future residents to the area.

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Economic development is the third focus area with the goal of advancing just an inclusive economic opportunities and really looking at ways to build and help the city maintain and develop economic prosperity over the long term.

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The fourth focus area is transparency and engagement.

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This was really responding to the feedback from constituents to help them feel welcome and empowered to participate in local governance and civic life.

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Community connection was looking at supporting and developing strong social bonds and connections within the community and then our final focus area was the climate action and sustainability focus area to adapt to the impacts of climate change while improving equity and quality of life.

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Next steps, sorry, one second.

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In terms of next steps and implementation through the community engagement process, we heard the community's desire to follow and see the progress of the plan.

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Upon approval, the city will begin implementation by incorporating the strategy into our work plans and developing an online dashboard to the community members and elected and appointed officials can track our progress in real time over time.

843
01:26:15,000 --> 01:26:27,000
The city will also create a regular community forum called the community tentatively called the community coalition to review and discuss the plan goals and objectives.

844
01:26:27,000 --> 01:26:40,000
Please note, we have 40 strategic plan is intended to be reviewed and updated regularly and that includes considering the addition of new objectives and new goals that are responsive to community need.

845
01:26:40,000 --> 01:26:48,000
And then to the council's direction, this is intended to be a living document and one that gets updated regularly and reported out on regularly.

846
01:26:48,000 --> 01:27:03,000
So to recap, we are asking that you, the city council, to receive this overview of the strategic planning process as described in the we hope 40 report, which is attachment aid to the staff report and to consider approval of the goals and objectives in we hope 40.

847
01:27:03,000 --> 01:27:04,000
Thank you very much.

848
01:27:04,000 --> 01:27:05,000
Thank you so much for that.

849
01:27:05,000 --> 01:27:06,000
Great report.

850
01:27:06,000 --> 01:27:08,000
Do we have questions for staff?

851
01:27:09,000 --> 01:27:11,000
I do, but let's hear from the public.

852
01:27:11,000 --> 01:27:13,000
Are we okay with hearing from the public first great?

853
01:27:13,000 --> 01:27:18,000
We'll go to our first public commenter Kevin Burton to be followed by Caitlin McCaffordy.

854
01:27:26,000 --> 01:27:29,000
Good evening, council members Kevin Burton, President of West Hollywood.

855
01:27:29,000 --> 01:27:37,000
I just want to thank staff and the consultants for all their effort and putting together this impressive document.

856
01:27:37,000 --> 01:27:40,000
There's an amazing amount of public outreach.

857
01:27:40,000 --> 01:27:47,000
I went to a couple of the open houses and have recently looked at the strategic plan.

858
01:27:47,000 --> 01:27:55,000
I just wanted to highlight a few of the statements that I think are of great importance.

859
01:27:55,000 --> 01:28:02,000
One is that when talking about the future of the city and what's coming up.

860
01:28:02,000 --> 01:28:14,000
Two of the prominent, prominent aspirations are one that the city become a haven for pedestrians and cyclists, including a selection of bike lanes to.

861
01:28:14,000 --> 01:28:18,000
That it become a magnet for future talent.

862
01:28:18,000 --> 01:28:31,000
And that it's important to include micro ability and transit options as younger people are frequently and increasingly wanting to be able to get around without depending on cars.

863
01:28:31,000 --> 01:28:36,000
Secondly, in terms of focus areas, community safety, a couple of them.

864
01:28:36,000 --> 01:28:43,000
One is that a citywide resident survey that I think Christine mentioned,

865
01:28:43,000 --> 01:28:54,000
found that 58% ranked increasing mobility options such as increasing bike lanes are extremely or very important.

866
01:28:54,000 --> 01:28:59,000
And this is significant public outreach, it's not some sort of bias survey.

867
01:28:59,000 --> 01:29:07,000
The city should improve the experience and safety of streets and sidewalks for users.

868
01:29:07,000 --> 01:29:13,000
Micro mobility is becoming an increasingly important transportation option for residents, visitors.

869
01:29:13,000 --> 01:29:18,000
But existing infrastructure must be improved to make these options safer.

870
01:29:18,000 --> 01:29:27,000
This will require reimagining city street network so that those travel car free can benefit from high quality infrastructure that is safe.

871
01:29:27,000 --> 01:29:31,000
It's convenient and accessible. Thank you.

872
01:29:31,000 --> 01:29:38,000
Thank you Kevin. Caitlin McAfrony to be followed by our last speaker Steven Post.

873
01:29:38,000 --> 01:29:43,000
Hello, I'm Caitlin McAfrony. I'm a member of the action team.

874
01:29:43,000 --> 01:29:46,000
I'm also on the rent stabilization commission.

875
01:29:46,000 --> 01:29:52,000
I just wanted to highlight for y'all the Caitlin, can you talk into the mic?

876
01:29:53,000 --> 01:29:56,000
I saw the highlight the community engagement aspect of this.

877
01:29:56,000 --> 01:30:00,000
I'm a city planner by trade separately from a Hollywood.

878
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:08,000
They've worked on a lot of plans like this, and the city really did go above and beyond in community engagement.

879
01:30:08,000 --> 01:30:16,000
They're work with designing in color, thanks to their work with designing in color.

880
01:30:16,000 --> 01:30:22,000
The frequency, the strategy, everything really did go above and beyond, and it really went,

881
01:30:22,000 --> 01:30:28,000
except further than just checking a box off of a government requirement for a plan.

882
01:30:28,000 --> 01:30:32,000
So I hope you guys all kind of feel about when you read the plan.

883
01:30:32,000 --> 01:30:38,000
And yeah, I just want to express my support, and thank you for the opportunity to be so involved.

884
01:30:38,000 --> 01:30:40,000
That's it. Thank you.

885
01:30:42,000 --> 01:30:44,000
Steven Post.

886
01:30:44,000 --> 01:30:49,000
Hi council members.

887
01:30:49,000 --> 01:30:52,000
Mainly just wanted to come up to night and thank you all.

888
01:30:52,000 --> 01:30:56,000
I think the community for really engaging in this strategic planning process.

889
01:30:56,000 --> 01:31:04,000
I'm a three year resident now of West Hollywood and really doing this over the past year has really helped me engage and get to know you all.

890
01:31:04,000 --> 01:31:11,000
Help me get to know my community members, get to know these businesses, get to know what West Hollywood wants to look like over the next 15 years.

891
01:31:11,000 --> 01:31:16,000
And I just really think it's important to thank our community members for coming out and giving their input.

892
01:31:16,000 --> 01:31:24,000
As Caitlin talked about, I think there's a lot of issues that we've heard about that folks are concerned about in the community, whether it be from fountain, whether it be public safety.

893
01:31:24,000 --> 01:31:32,000
Different things, different initiatives that we've passed, and I know folks don't always feel that they're heard by the community in by council.

894
01:31:32,000 --> 01:31:38,000
And I think it's really great to see how comprehensive our community engagement process was for this.

895
01:31:38,000 --> 01:31:50,000
And I think it would be great for the city to continue to look at standardizing this type of process in making sure that community input is isn't put it before we make a decision on a lot of these things.

896
01:31:50,000 --> 01:31:58,000
So just want to think a few other folks like design and color and a shale and crisp specifically, thank you so much for leading us in having a great group.

897
01:31:58,000 --> 01:32:07,000
The folks like Gensler, the city. I just think it's really important to continue having some of these dialogues around public safety affordable housing.

898
01:32:07,000 --> 01:32:18,000
What businesses want and what citizens want from those businesses so that we can really tailor over the next 15 years what folks we can bring into the city and continue to diversify.

899
01:32:18,000 --> 01:32:26,000
And I think we have an opportunity to continue to be that really progressive city, but fine solutions to those problems that may arise from that progressivism.

900
01:32:26,000 --> 01:32:36,000
And so just really looking forward to continuing to engage with the community and all the citizens and I hope they continue to read this report and make sure to engage as we continue over the next 15 years.

901
01:32:36,000 --> 01:32:38,000
Thank you.

902
01:32:38,000 --> 01:32:44,000
Thank you. That concludes our public comment. Wonderful. We'll go over the questions and I'll turn it over to council.

903
01:32:45,000 --> 01:32:48,000
We're comments at this point.

904
01:32:48,000 --> 01:33:09,000
Well, I do have some comments, but first I'd like to thank everyone involved. All of our staff, all of our consultants and all of the members of the community who participated not only on the steering committee, but also the people who share their input and their ideas and suggestions.

905
01:33:09,000 --> 01:33:28,000
It's always I think very challenging to do this kind of outreach and try to make sure that we're getting the voices and the input unfiltered but also having it organized in a way that makes sense.

906
01:33:28,000 --> 01:33:37,000
There are obviously a lot of very important focus areas and goals here and I appreciate all the work.

907
01:33:37,000 --> 01:33:56,000
Having said I really appreciate all the outreach. I always am worried that we, we sometimes are not always getting the full input and that there are some areas in here where there are still disagreements within the community.

908
01:33:56,000 --> 01:34:09,000
There was a comment here of a very positive comment about block by block but I've also heard very negative comments from some of my neighbors about block by block.

909
01:34:09,000 --> 01:34:17,000
Kevin mentioned the bike lanes, which of course is a current source of controversy in the community.

910
01:34:17,000 --> 01:34:29,000
So sometimes I worry that we're not always getting accurate reflection of that disagreement within the community.

911
01:34:29,000 --> 01:34:55,000
I really appreciate the use of the non-profits but again the non-profits some of them are I presume city funded agencies who have a particular focus and sort of they're asking questions that are really related to their particular clientele and who they're served.

912
01:34:55,000 --> 01:35:08,000
But having said that I think overall the document does provide us with a great deal of information, a great deal of goals and big broad pictures.

913
01:35:08,000 --> 01:35:24,000
I think we need to have a conversation about how this ongoing advisory board is going to work and this is an advisory board that wasn't chosen by the council as I recall.

914
01:35:24,000 --> 01:35:49,000
So how do we make sure that it remains representative something Christine said about this being a living breathing document with new goals being added gave me a bit of pause because we went through a very extensive public outreach campaign to get the current priorities.

915
01:35:49,000 --> 01:36:09,000
How are those new priorities going to be added without that kind of process or is it going to be really the voices of the people on the advisory board saying these are now new priorities so I have a little bit of concern about that.

916
01:36:09,000 --> 01:36:34,000
I did have a couple of questions on page 81 and some of the pages are hard to see this because we use black at the bottom they get blacked out there's this case study of San Francisco and and then there's a small note at the end that San Francisco is a charter city so we can't do that here.

917
01:36:34,000 --> 01:36:43,000
So why are we including that so that might be something that we might want to think about eliminating from this.

918
01:36:43,000 --> 01:36:53,000
I did have a question on page 98 that's one of those pages that's hard to see.

919
01:36:53,000 --> 01:37:03,000
There was a reference to disappearance of free or low cost community activities and gatherings.

920
01:37:03,000 --> 01:37:20,000
I have no idea what that's referring to I mean we have a lot of free or low cost activities here in the park and at council chambers so do we know specifically what was being referred to there.

921
01:37:24,000 --> 01:37:28,000
There we go. Eric from Gunswork and take my question.

922
01:37:28,000 --> 01:37:47,000
That was referring more generally to something we've observed throughout the country where these social institutions and organizations that used to be a source of community for people have generally been dissipating and not specifically representing the city of West Hollywood and the programs here.

923
01:37:47,000 --> 01:38:08,000
Okay I mean it just struck me as odd because I can't think of you know low cost or free community activities that have suddenly disappeared in West Hollywood it seems to the contrary that we have more activities in West Hollywood so that was something that struck me on.

924
01:38:08,000 --> 01:38:26,000
I'm page 110 the reference to shade equity I understand what that meant but I know that Helen is in the back and I know we've planted trees on every residential street in the city of West Hollywood.

925
01:38:26,000 --> 01:38:40,000
We're talking about something other than that or trying to find other places where trees can be planted that aren't on our street trees or on our streets rather.

926
01:38:40,000 --> 01:38:51,000
Yeah so it's more a line of making sure that we're continuing with shade equity for other individuals finding spaces where we can plant additional trees and additional greenery throughout the city.

927
01:38:51,000 --> 01:39:05,000
Okay this is one of those things where I felt like you know that's a great aspiration but it seems disconnected to what we've actually done in the city in terms of.

928
01:39:05,000 --> 01:39:20,000
Every city street has been planted with street trees since we became a city so having putting that in the context of that would have been helpful to me.

929
01:39:20,000 --> 01:39:45,000
You know there's something else talking about solar power on 112 which of course I support but it seems like we have a lot of these aspirational things that we have talked about before that we've actually given direction on before and they haven't been implemented so that's one of the concerns I have here of.

930
01:39:45,000 --> 01:39:52,000
How do we make sure that previous directions actually get implemented.

931
01:39:52,000 --> 01:39:56,000
Yeah, sorry I can respond to that for a quickly.

932
01:39:56,000 --> 01:40:11,000
So with the online implementation tool a lot of these all of these goals and objectives will be tracked into that system so you'll be able to see the progress over time and the prior council initiatives or directives will also be incorporated into this as well too.

933
01:40:11,000 --> 01:40:20,000
Okay I have maybe three more comments and I apologize to my colleagues because I know we don't want to stay late tonight.

934
01:40:20,000 --> 01:40:27,000
There's a reference to supporting BIPOC and LGBT businesses which of course is fine.

935
01:40:28,000 --> 01:40:50,000
I think what I'm hearing is a concern about supporting all businesses in the city and that being a primary area with supporting particular categories of business being a subcategory of a much broader initiative so I don't know if that's fully captured here.

936
01:40:50,000 --> 01:40:57,000
One of the references to our current homeless policies.

937
01:40:57,000 --> 01:41:13,000
It's a big concern as Richard survey has indicated it's a concern of the public and what I'm hearing what I'm seeing here is let's just tell the public what we're doing.

938
01:41:13,000 --> 01:41:32,000
I'm going to bring an item but what we're doing isn't working it's working in some respects but it is certainly not working when you see the same individuals on the street repeatedly day after day you call repeatedly and they're still there and they're not receiving services.

939
01:41:32,000 --> 01:41:38,000
They're not accepting services and there doesn't seem to be a strategy to deal with that.

940
01:41:38,000 --> 01:41:48,000
So that I think is an area that as I read this it felt fairly weak in terms of what the next steps are.

941
01:41:48,000 --> 01:42:00,000
My final point is that this is a great document and thank you again to everyone even though I'm raising some concerns about it.

942
01:42:00,000 --> 01:42:05,000
It isn't really what I expect it in terms of a strategic plan.

943
01:42:05,000 --> 01:42:23,000
I think the next steps for us are to have some conversations amongst ourselves about things that we as a council and internally as a staff need to be addressing just to make some of these things happen.

944
01:42:23,000 --> 01:42:50,000
So I was talking to Helen and Steve the other day about a long range plan for our infrastructure and making sure that we have like we have a five year plan for streets and paving that we need to have a 20 to 30 year plan for all of our infrastructure and thinking about when our replacements going to be needed and things like that.

945
01:42:50,000 --> 01:43:00,000
So I'm hoping that this will be a springboard for that kind of conversation as part of we hope 40 strategic plan.

946
01:43:00,000 --> 01:43:02,000
But again thank you everyone.

947
01:43:02,000 --> 01:43:03,000
Thank you.

948
01:43:03,000 --> 01:43:05,000
Councilmember Meister.

949
01:43:05,000 --> 01:43:07,000
Yep.

950
01:43:07,000 --> 01:43:09,000
Thank you Mayor.

951
01:43:09,000 --> 01:43:17,000
So can you please explain to me again the advisory board how that's supposed to work.

952
01:43:17,000 --> 01:43:27,000
I can't remember my answer I'll take that question.

953
01:43:27,000 --> 01:43:34,000
So the we hope 40 community coalition which is the implementation phase I think that's what you're referring to.

954
01:43:34,000 --> 01:43:40,000
So that basically continues from the work that we did through the action team and core coalition.

955
01:43:40,000 --> 01:43:46,000
It's an open community forum which means you know it isn't necessarily a brown act body.

956
01:43:46,000 --> 01:43:56,000
To provide flexibility for people to attend or not attend depending on like areas they want to focus on and talk to staff or experts about in the community.

957
01:43:56,000 --> 01:44:03,000
And so how this would work it would be how we kind of outlined in the staff report is it would be held twice a year.

958
01:44:03,000 --> 01:44:12,000
And each of those meetings with focus on three focus areas outlined in the strategic plan and then we would provide a report to community members that attend.

959
01:44:12,000 --> 01:44:19,000
And then we would have like a small group conversation on areas of interest or potential solution ideas that would happen.

960
01:44:19,000 --> 01:44:21,000
And then through that we would report back.

961
01:44:21,000 --> 01:44:24,000
So would they be open to the public then or not.

962
01:44:24,000 --> 01:44:26,000
Yeah yeah 100% open to the public.

963
01:44:26,000 --> 01:44:28,000
Okay great.

964
01:44:29,000 --> 01:44:34,000
So a lot of council member homens comments I agree with.

965
01:44:34,000 --> 01:44:44,000
It's interesting because the protecting longstanding neighborhood businesses that you have we actually had a legacy business initiative that.

966
01:44:44,000 --> 01:44:53,000
Wasn't really implemented so it would be nice to revisit that to see what parts of that we are able to do.

967
01:44:53,000 --> 01:44:57,000
But we are not allowed to do because we're not that type of city.

968
01:44:57,000 --> 01:45:01,000
We also had an initiative several.

969
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:10,000
New Year's ago, then council member Horvath and I put forward about solar power to have solar power on

970
01:45:10,000 --> 01:45:24,000
roofs and or green roofs. Rather than we've actually kind of gone in the opposite direction, we keep looking for rooftop uses.

971
01:45:24,000 --> 01:45:34,000
So I guess we need to really, again, talk about that because if we are serious about some of these climate action plan goals,

972
01:45:34,000 --> 01:45:42,000
then maybe we need to look back and see what initiatives had been put forward that just weren't implemented.

973
01:45:42,000 --> 01:45:48,000
So that would be one of the ones that I would be interested in.

974
01:45:48,000 --> 01:46:08,000
And then, you know, with trees, we can always use another tree, and we do have the tree replacement policy where we are looking at canopy trees as a way of addressing extreme heat and other climate issues and just clean air and all of that.

975
01:46:08,000 --> 01:46:20,000
I think know the benefits of that and as council member Horvath and so we need to talk to discuss what is the strategy to actually, you know, make sure that that all happens.

976
01:46:20,000 --> 01:46:28,000
I was really glad that we did the quantitative survey with FM3.

977
01:46:28,000 --> 01:46:40,000
I think it's really important that we do that, you know, often not not just once every 40 years or, you know, once every five years.

978
01:46:40,000 --> 01:46:46,000
I think it's important for us to all see that, you know, the top three items.

979
01:46:47,000 --> 01:46:57,000
The highest ranked future priority by residents, at least from this group that, you know, was was talked to this effort, this project.

980
01:46:57,000 --> 01:47:07,000
You know, supporting community safety and well-being, maintaining the city's unique urban balance with emphasis on residential neighborhoods, maintaining fiscal sustainability.

981
01:47:07,000 --> 01:47:20,000
So these are all, you know, important for us to know what the priorities are, especially as we, you know, we come back and to strategize what are our next steps and what should we be focusing on.

982
01:47:20,000 --> 01:47:29,000
So I would, I would say that we need to, to do the community surveys of this type alone, you know, more often.

983
01:47:29,000 --> 01:47:48,000
And make sure that we're, we're constantly checking in with residents because we, we have residents come for our council meetings and our commission and board meetings, but, you know, it's, we maybe have 50 people show up and maybe 10 people speak.

984
01:47:48,000 --> 01:47:58,000
And it's important for us to have that perspective from a quantitative study that's, that's done properly.

985
01:47:58,000 --> 01:48:10,000
So with that, I'm, you know, I'm supportive of passing this, but I, again, I agree that we should, we have to be practical, this is all, it's, it's beautiful.

986
01:48:10,000 --> 01:48:19,000
But we have to be practical and see, how do we practically implement the priorities.

987
01:48:19,000 --> 01:48:20,000
So thank you.

988
01:48:20,000 --> 01:48:21,000
Thank you.

989
01:48:21,000 --> 01:48:22,000
Council members, I do have any comments?

990
01:48:22,000 --> 01:48:23,000
Yes.

991
01:48:23,000 --> 01:48:31,000
I want to thank the, all of the community that was involved and staff and constituents and public commenters.

992
01:48:31,000 --> 01:48:46,000
I am, I was also very happy about the, the survey that was conducted, which gives informative information.

993
01:48:46,000 --> 01:48:51,000
I'm very supportive of this strategic plan and.

994
01:48:51,000 --> 01:48:57,000
So I don't really have a, a ton to say, I think my colleagues address some things that I was going to.

995
01:48:57,000 --> 01:49:02,000
To also address, but thank you everyone for the good work.

996
01:49:02,000 --> 01:49:03,000
Thank you.

997
01:49:03,000 --> 01:49:04,000
My, thank you.

998
01:49:04,000 --> 01:49:05,000
Thank you.

999
01:49:05,000 --> 01:49:07,000
Yeah. Thank you to everyone who contributed to this.

1000
01:49:07,000 --> 01:49:13,000
I do feel the level of engagement reflected through the pages, not just in the amazing photos of our community.

1001
01:49:13,000 --> 01:49:24,000
So we reflected here, but in the language and the values expressed and it just feels like an amazing moment to sort of look forward into the city.

1002
01:49:24,000 --> 01:49:32,000
I really appreciate this document as a guide as somebody very new to council still, although I won't be the newest student.

1003
01:49:32,000 --> 01:49:33,000
So that's interesting.

1004
01:49:33,000 --> 01:49:35,000
And they're coming weeks months.

1005
01:49:35,000 --> 01:49:45,000
But I think as people are, you know, sort of shaking off the pandemic still re acclimating to public life, getting back engaged and things that matter deeply to them.

1006
01:49:45,000 --> 01:49:52,000
The way this tool in this plan, we've together all existing tools and plans is extremely valuable.

1007
01:49:52,000 --> 01:50:00,000
And seeing all these different goals and priorities laid out as they are with these action steps, this sort of list of ideas.

1008
01:50:00,000 --> 01:50:08,000
Things that are, you know, things that have already been put into sort of motion and maybe need reflection and some further work now.

1009
01:50:08,000 --> 01:50:15,000
Things that are new ideas and things that are rooted back into existing work that has a deeper history to it as well.

1010
01:50:15,000 --> 01:50:17,000
So that's really meaningful.

1011
01:50:17,000 --> 01:50:25,000
That I feel, as was said by a public commenter, the level of engagement here is really, it feels really meaningful.

1012
01:50:25,000 --> 01:50:29,000
And I know we have community members who are feeling unheard and unseen.

1013
01:50:29,000 --> 01:50:32,000
And I think in this guide we find our place.

1014
01:50:32,000 --> 01:50:35,000
So just thank you to everyone who worked so deeply on this.

1015
01:50:35,000 --> 01:50:37,000
I don't have any specific comments.

1016
01:50:37,000 --> 01:50:40,000
I just have a lot of eagerness and excitement to get to work.

1017
01:50:40,000 --> 01:50:45,000
This feels like a really strong declaration from our community about the future they want to see.

1018
01:50:45,000 --> 01:50:47,000
And we have 15 years to get moving on it.

1019
01:50:47,000 --> 01:50:49,000
So really excited for that.

1020
01:50:49,000 --> 01:50:50,000
Thank you so much.

1021
01:50:50,000 --> 01:50:55,000
I want to thank everyone who was involved in this from our city staff.

1022
01:50:55,000 --> 01:51:02,000
To the consultant teams to all of the members of the community who put in a lot of hard work and Saturdays.

1023
01:51:02,000 --> 01:51:06,000
I know the first one was during a rainstorm if I'm not mistaken.

1024
01:51:06,000 --> 01:51:09,000
So that was fun.

1025
01:51:09,000 --> 01:51:12,000
But you know, people still came out and I think that's really admirable.

1026
01:51:12,000 --> 01:51:15,000
So I want to thank when it rains of shines, right?

1027
01:51:15,000 --> 01:51:19,000
So wonderful time and it was great to see different groups there.

1028
01:51:19,000 --> 01:51:22,000
A lot of what's been said.

1029
01:51:22,000 --> 01:51:24,000
I concur with.

1030
01:51:24,000 --> 01:51:27,000
I'm fine with however we want to call it.

1031
01:51:27,000 --> 01:51:31,000
I think we like to call things advisory boards when they're not advisory boards.

1032
01:51:31,000 --> 01:51:35,000
I think we have like 57 advisory boards in the city of what's Hollywood at this point.

1033
01:51:35,000 --> 01:51:38,000
So maybe we don't need another one.

1034
01:51:38,000 --> 01:51:48,000
However, I think it is important to keep this space once twice a year for people to be engaged.

1035
01:51:48,000 --> 01:51:54,000
No bring a friend like us as Steven said, you know, he's been here for three years and he brings a friend.

1036
01:51:54,000 --> 01:51:57,000
You know, it's all the ways in which you can get more engaged, right?

1037
01:51:57,000 --> 01:51:59,000
And that's really important.

1038
01:51:59,000 --> 01:52:03,000
I also agree with how we can continue to promote the good work of the city.

1039
01:52:03,000 --> 01:52:09,000
When I looked at the survey, you know, some people like to like to say that, you know, the sky is falling.

1040
01:52:09,000 --> 01:52:13,000
But two thirds rate, the quality of life and what's Hollywood favorably.

1041
01:52:13,000 --> 01:52:23,000
I mean, I have was talking to a number of my city colleagues and other cities and I said, how how do you rate or survey your residents?

1042
01:52:23,000 --> 01:52:27,000
And I think the last time we surveyed our residents was 10 years ago.

1043
01:52:27,000 --> 01:52:32,000
So, you know, some of them don't do this or don't engage in this level of survey.

1044
01:52:32,000 --> 01:52:38,000
So, I think what councilmember Maester said was really important for how we can continue to gauge these aspects, right?

1045
01:52:38,000 --> 01:52:40,000
Because 13% said excellent.

1046
01:52:40,000 --> 01:52:42,000
And then 25% said fair.

1047
01:52:42,000 --> 01:52:45,000
And there are cities that would kill a lot to have a fair rating.

1048
01:52:45,000 --> 01:52:50,000
I'm looking at our city that borders three sides of us called the city of LA.

1049
01:52:50,000 --> 01:52:55,000
Our ugly step sister to the north east and south sometimes.

1050
01:52:55,000 --> 01:53:01,000
Because we often see the issues that Los Angeles has impact West Hollywood.

1051
01:53:01,000 --> 01:53:03,000
And that's that's an issue we're trying to do.

1052
01:53:03,000 --> 01:53:09,000
Additionally, some of the top issues here are something that we can help continue to set up priorities around.

1053
01:53:09,000 --> 01:53:13,000
And while things like to be, you know, politicized in whatever way,

1054
01:53:13,000 --> 01:53:20,000
the way that we can have these top five always as staple points for core values,

1055
01:53:20,000 --> 01:53:22,000
how we implement them into our staff reports.

1056
01:53:22,000 --> 01:53:26,000
What are they meeting at the mood and the time that we're looking at?

1057
01:53:26,000 --> 01:53:29,000
Homelessness is not should shock anyone.

1058
01:53:29,000 --> 01:53:32,000
That should be the number one issue everyone is talking about.

1059
01:53:32,000 --> 01:53:38,000
But the city of West Hollywood does as we know more than many other cities for homelessness.

1060
01:53:38,000 --> 01:53:40,000
Bar not.

1061
01:53:40,000 --> 01:53:42,000
And we can set our watches to that.

1062
01:53:42,000 --> 01:53:44,000
The cost of housing is high everywhere.

1063
01:53:44,000 --> 01:53:46,000
But we're continuing to build affordable housing.

1064
01:53:46,000 --> 01:53:54,000
So, how do we promote successes to the community in these buy animal meetings versus a place for them to come.

1065
01:53:54,000 --> 01:53:57,000
Not complain, but to really air grievances.

1066
01:53:57,000 --> 01:54:00,000
Because we want to also share the good work, right?

1067
01:54:00,000 --> 01:54:07,000
And what do we look at in terms of what are those next steps look like and how do we do it?

1068
01:54:07,000 --> 01:54:11,000
So, I just want to again thank you all for everything that you're doing.

1069
01:54:11,000 --> 01:54:17,000
I believe this is in more ways than one or a receive and file and continue next steps.

1070
01:54:17,000 --> 01:54:23,000
If I'm getting the mood of my colleagues and you'll come back with next steps.

1071
01:54:23,000 --> 01:54:26,000
Moving forward in whatever way you will.

1072
01:54:26,000 --> 01:54:27,000
Yes.

1073
01:54:27,000 --> 01:54:29,000
David.

1074
01:54:29,000 --> 01:54:34,000
And so, I don't think there's a plan to come back to actually adopt anything.

1075
01:54:34,000 --> 01:54:36,000
I think we'll take all the input.

1076
01:54:36,000 --> 01:54:43,000
We'll make adjustments to what this final document looks like because you're not adopting this document tonight.

1077
01:54:43,000 --> 01:54:50,000
But there are certainly comments that will make some minor adjustments within the document for a printed document.

1078
01:54:50,000 --> 01:55:07,000
But ultimately, what you're overall adopting is the focus areas and the goals which there seems to be a agreement on and then we'll develop an implementation plan which will be available to the public in the dashboard that Paula was talking about.

1079
01:55:07,000 --> 01:55:16,000
And I think that's a little comeback in future discussions with the council is the ongoing implementation to achieve these goals.

1080
01:55:16,000 --> 01:55:17,000
Wonderful.

1081
01:55:18,000 --> 01:55:19,000
How's it going?

1082
01:55:19,000 --> 01:55:20,000
Yes.

1083
01:55:20,000 --> 01:55:27,000
And just, you know, noting that there is still some disagreement in the community on some of the implementation measures.

1084
01:55:27,000 --> 01:55:30,000
But the big goals I don't think there's any disagreement on.

1085
01:55:30,000 --> 01:55:32,000
So, yeah.

1086
01:55:32,000 --> 01:55:33,000
Thank you.

1087
01:55:33,000 --> 01:55:34,000
That's a great point.

1088
01:55:34,000 --> 01:55:35,000
Thank you.

1089
01:55:35,000 --> 01:55:36,000
All right.

1090
01:55:36,000 --> 01:55:39,000
We're going to move.

1091
01:55:39,000 --> 01:55:40,000
And five zero.

1092
01:55:40,000 --> 01:55:42,000
Thank you very much, everyone.

1093
01:55:42,000 --> 01:55:43,000
All right.

1094
01:55:43,000 --> 01:55:44,000
Mayor.

1095
01:55:44,000 --> 01:55:45,000
What?

1096
01:55:45,000 --> 01:55:46,000
No.

1097
01:55:46,000 --> 01:55:47,000
All right.

1098
01:55:47,000 --> 01:55:48,000
We're going to move right along.

1099
01:55:48,000 --> 01:55:51,000
F1 was moved to consent.

1100
01:55:51,000 --> 01:55:53,000
F2 was moved to consent.

1101
01:55:53,000 --> 01:55:54,000
The grants and schools.

1102
01:55:54,000 --> 01:55:57,000
We're going to move right along to F3.

1103
01:55:57,000 --> 01:55:59,000
I don't believe we need a staff report on this.

1104
01:55:59,000 --> 01:56:01,000
I'll just go right to council member.

1105
01:56:01,000 --> 01:56:06,000
I want to thank my colleagues for bringing this.

1106
01:56:06,000 --> 01:56:12,000
And this is an item that increased the visibility of the city's human services.

1107
01:56:12,000 --> 01:56:16,000
Commission and the social services program.

1108
01:56:16,000 --> 01:56:24,000
I know that this really focuses on broadcasting the commission meetings.

1109
01:56:24,000 --> 01:56:25,000
I don't.

1110
01:56:25,000 --> 01:56:32,000
I'm okay with broadcasting one a year, but I don't think broadcasting commission meetings is the way that we really

1111
01:56:33,000 --> 01:56:42,000
inform the public about the programs that are available for and are funded through our human services

1112
01:56:42,000 --> 01:56:43,000
Commission.

1113
01:56:43,000 --> 01:56:47,000
I think there are much more effective ways of communicating.

1114
01:56:47,000 --> 01:56:54,000
I feel bad when Sam comes here when Jimmy comes here and they try to comment at the two minutes.

1115
01:56:54,000 --> 01:57:01,000
It rarely captures anything and having a commission meeting where there are votes back and forth.

1116
01:57:01,000 --> 01:57:05,000
I don't think that necessarily highlights the programs.

1117
01:57:05,000 --> 01:57:13,000
I think we should be looking at doing interviews with the actual service providers and programs that

1118
01:57:13,000 --> 01:57:23,000
talk about the actual programs and what are the resources available rather than having people sit through a commission meeting

1119
01:57:23,000 --> 01:57:28,000
to try to clean that information from random comments that are made.

1120
01:57:28,000 --> 01:57:32,000
I think there's better ways to publicize our programs.

1121
01:57:32,000 --> 01:57:37,000
I don't have a problem with having the commission.

1122
01:57:37,000 --> 01:57:44,000
Maybe the funding meeting telecast, but I think if we.

1123
01:57:44,000 --> 01:57:47,000
If the goal is transparency.

1124
01:57:47,000 --> 01:57:51,000
Why this commission and why not all the other commissions and boards.

1125
01:57:51,000 --> 01:57:55,000
And then we don't have the resources and staffing to do it.

1126
01:57:55,000 --> 01:58:00,000
I support aspects of this, but not the entirety of it.

1127
01:58:00,000 --> 01:58:01,000
Thank you.

1128
01:58:01,000 --> 01:58:03,000
Tell us where my sir.

1129
01:58:03,000 --> 01:58:05,000
Thank you Mayor.

1130
01:58:05,000 --> 01:58:11,000
So back in 2015, 2016 we actually voted to.

1131
01:58:11,000 --> 01:58:22,000
To have more visibility of all of our commissions and boards by either either you know showing them on cable or podcasting.

1132
01:58:22,000 --> 01:58:30,000
Because we felt that that would be a modern way of you know letting people.

1133
01:58:30,000 --> 01:58:35,000
Listen to you know whatever commission or board they're they're interested in.

1134
01:58:35,000 --> 01:58:40,000
So I'm hoping that we didn't give up on that and I probably should have looked for that in that.

1135
01:58:40,000 --> 01:58:48,000
That's strategic plan, but I would say that we should we need to relook at that and make sure that that gets implemented.

1136
01:58:48,000 --> 01:58:50,000
And I think.

1137
01:58:50,000 --> 01:58:53,000
The idea of maybe having.

1138
01:58:53,000 --> 01:58:56,000
On cable.

1139
01:58:56,000 --> 01:59:02,000
What Councilmember Hileman suggested about having service providers go on our cable.

1140
01:59:02,000 --> 01:59:13,000
TV to talk about what you know what they're doing and and how people can get services in whichever area they're looking to get services.

1141
01:59:13,000 --> 01:59:18,000
And marketing materials as well which I know we have some of.

1142
01:59:18,000 --> 01:59:24,000
But you know I'm all for podcasting or or somehow.

1143
01:59:24,000 --> 01:59:29,000
Letting people making it easier for people to access.

1144
01:59:29,000 --> 01:59:38,000
You know our commission and board meetings we have a situation now where we have public safety commission on the same night as historic preservation commission.

1145
01:59:38,000 --> 01:59:47,000
Which I think we shouldn't have we should figure out there was this another day so that people don't have to make that choice.

1146
01:59:47,000 --> 01:59:55,000
But until we do it would be great for someone to be able to go and listen to whatever meeting they missed because they were at the other meeting.

1147
01:59:55,000 --> 02:00:00,000
And as we've talked about in the past we have so many events go.

1148
02:00:00,000 --> 02:00:07,440
Going on, and sometimes two or three happening in one evening, it would be nice to have, at least, for the commission

1149
02:00:07,440 --> 02:00:15,880
in board meetings, to have that ability to go back and listen to it without having to do a public

1150
02:00:15,880 --> 02:00:26,160
records request for an audio tape. So, you know, I'm supportive of this. I think we need to look at expanding,

1151
02:00:26,160 --> 02:00:32,160
you know, how we do it, and also going back to 2015-2016 to the ideas that were already passed.

1152
02:00:32,160 --> 02:00:34,160
I make sure that they happen.

1153
02:00:34,160 --> 02:00:37,160
Thank you, Council Member, Mr. President, I'm sorry. Do you have any questions?

1154
02:00:37,160 --> 02:00:41,160
I do. Well, I'm also a little bit concerned about the equity piece of this.

1155
02:00:41,160 --> 02:00:47,160
I served on the Human Services Commission. I understand the importance of the work, but have been struggling

1156
02:00:47,160 --> 02:00:54,160
to figure out how to navigate the challenge of having that very important information not shared in a bigger way.

1157
02:00:54,160 --> 02:00:58,160
So, I'm really appreciative of many aspects of this. And I appreciate it.

1158
02:00:58,160 --> 02:01:03,160
Staff's recommendation of a video recording alternative in the interim of a live broadcast.

1159
02:01:03,160 --> 02:01:08,160
I do think the live broadcast piece is where the staff capacity has the biggest challenge,

1160
02:01:08,160 --> 02:01:13,160
and it seems like even in this report they're asking for time to figure out what that could look like.

1161
02:01:13,160 --> 02:01:20,160
So, in hearing about Council Member Meisters, suggesting that there's a bigger question about how we give more airtime

1162
02:01:20,160 --> 02:01:30,160
to all of our advisory boards and commissions, the piece of asking staff to really look at capacity around broadcasting is a piece I'm interested in.

1163
02:01:30,160 --> 02:01:37,160
I'm interested in the video recording alternative to get started with the Human Services Commission now,

1164
02:01:37,160 --> 02:01:44,160
because it sounds like it's a low barrier way to make sure each meeting is recorded and then posted at a later date.

1165
02:01:44,160 --> 02:01:51,160
And I think that is an appropriate way to share information that isn't totally pressing and has been waiting for the community for some time

1166
02:01:51,160 --> 02:01:55,160
while staff figures out the larger equity piece that is a real concern.

1167
02:01:55,160 --> 02:02:01,160
Because once we allow this to happen, then other boards and commissions rightfully so we're going to be asking for the same sort of thing

1168
02:02:01,160 --> 02:02:03,160
because all of that information is very important.

1169
02:02:03,160 --> 02:02:12,160
The other aspect of this that I think is sort of pressing and now is the creativity that we can best our com's team in thinking through ways

1170
02:02:12,160 --> 02:02:16,160
that can uplift the many different service providers and the work that they do.

1171
02:02:16,160 --> 02:02:23,160
And I appreciate Council Member Heillman's suggestions on what that could look like, the interviews and I know our com's team will come up with a lot of other things.

1172
02:02:23,160 --> 02:02:32,160
But it's the live broadcast now that I'm sort of tangled up with because I don't want to fold staff's capacity around that specific need.

1173
02:02:32,160 --> 02:02:36,160
So, there's some room to wiggle with this and I'm open to figuring out how we move forward.

1174
02:02:37,160 --> 02:02:39,160
Thank you.

1175
02:02:39,160 --> 02:02:41,160
Are there any public comments?

1176
02:02:41,160 --> 02:02:42,160
Anymore?

1177
02:02:42,160 --> 02:02:43,160
Okay.

1178
02:02:43,160 --> 02:02:46,160
Well, I want to thank my colleagues for your comments.

1179
02:02:46,160 --> 02:03:03,160
I will say that as part of the marketing campaign component, this is where the mayor and I are hoping that our communications department would go out to social service providers

1180
02:03:03,160 --> 02:03:17,160
and interview them and a whole slew of other creative ideas dedicated to getting the word out about our human services, commissions, good work and the social services.

1181
02:03:17,160 --> 02:03:32,160
Because over the years, the folks that are using the social services that we offer are the same folks over and over and over again, which means we have a communication issue.

1182
02:03:33,160 --> 02:03:46,160
We have in our strategic plan, 35,000 residents and a small number that are using the amount of services that we're putting a lot of funding towards.

1183
02:03:46,160 --> 02:03:51,160
So, we want to get the word out and that's the second part of this.

1184
02:03:51,160 --> 02:04:00,160
The reason human and human services does, by the way, have a lot of these social service providers that come and do reports at the meetings is not just comments here and there.

1185
02:04:00,160 --> 02:04:06,160
They actually focus on every each different meeting has a service provider come.

1186
02:04:06,160 --> 02:04:11,160
So, that would actually help the communications department to by having a broadcast.

1187
02:04:11,160 --> 02:04:19,160
And I hear my colleagues, council member, myster and vice mayor, buyers, you made a really good point.

1188
02:04:19,160 --> 02:04:29,160
And what I've been told is that we actually have the capability to videotape all of our commissions at this point videotape them.

1189
02:04:29,160 --> 02:04:47,160
So, what I will propose, what we would like to propose to get support for this item is to go ahead and not just to the alternative for human services commission, but go ahead and address the equity issue and have every single.

1190
02:04:47,160 --> 02:04:56,160
Commission, and if I don't know if the boards are available too, but to have those be videotaped and then we don't have an equity issue anymore.

1191
02:04:56,160 --> 02:05:07,160
And they will go online and as Commissioner Jimmy Palmieri stated, that could be shared with the with the public.

1192
02:05:07,160 --> 02:05:12,160
And this is the 2015, the podcast is not going to happen.

1193
02:05:12,160 --> 02:05:18,160
The podcast is somewhere and we don't know, so we need the videotape site.

1194
02:05:18,160 --> 02:05:22,160
I believe, am I a city manager?

1195
02:05:22,160 --> 02:05:25,160
We have the ability to videotape, right?

1196
02:05:25,160 --> 02:05:26,160
We do.

1197
02:05:26,160 --> 02:05:35,160
That's still going to take some time and training to videotape them and have them available, but because of COVID and the pandemic.

1198
02:05:35,160 --> 02:05:44,160
All of our rooms have the capability of videon, so it'd be similar to like a zoom meeting that would be posted.

1199
02:05:44,160 --> 02:05:53,160
I didn't want to clarify that the audio recordings are happening with all the boards and commissions, the podcasts that you all talked about.

1200
02:05:53,160 --> 02:06:01,160
They are available on the city's website, we're working on making them easier to find because they're not easy to find, but they're also.

1201
02:06:01,160 --> 02:06:12,160
There are audio recordings that I think people are as interested now days in going back and listening to audio recordings as they may with the video recordings.

1202
02:06:12,160 --> 02:06:14,160
So I think we can certainly do that.

1203
02:06:14,160 --> 02:06:26,160
We'll continue to look at other ways for public awareness of not only our social services programs and human services commission, but all the boards and commissions, that's what I'm hearing from you all.

1204
02:06:26,160 --> 02:06:33,160
And so we can look at long return strategies for all of them, but starting with the Human Services Commission.

1205
02:06:33,160 --> 02:06:38,160
And then work on having video available of all the boards and commissions.

1206
02:06:38,160 --> 02:06:52,160
Yeah, I think what I think what actually I'm suggesting is we do the taping of all the other commissions, because apparently there's other commissions that have been wanting to be videotape.

1207
02:06:52,160 --> 02:06:55,160
So then that takes care of the equity issue.

1208
02:06:55,160 --> 02:07:04,160
With regard to this, I can part of this, which is the marketing is focused on the Human Services Commission because that really is what we need to get out to the public.

1209
02:07:04,160 --> 02:07:07,160
All of the services that we offer.

1210
02:07:07,160 --> 02:07:10,160
So keep that limited human services commission.

1211
02:07:10,160 --> 02:07:17,160
And what the mayor and I are offering is to expand this.

1212
02:07:17,160 --> 02:07:29,160
Instead of alternative one, our alternative is to have you all do whatever needs to be done to have the Human Services Commission and the other commissions be videotape.

1213
02:07:29,160 --> 02:07:32,160
Not live, so we're not straining resources.

1214
02:07:32,160 --> 02:07:42,160
But if there's agreement from Council Member Meister and buyers and hopefully Council Member Hyalman, then we could.

1215
02:07:42,160 --> 02:07:44,160
That's the motion I'm putting forward.

1216
02:07:44,160 --> 02:07:46,160
Is that clear? Yes.

1217
02:07:46,160 --> 02:07:54,160
Yeah, it looked also that in the staff analysis that the video recording alternative could begin as soon as Q1 of 2025.

1218
02:07:54,160 --> 02:07:55,160
Yeah.

1219
02:07:55,160 --> 02:07:58,160
So that was in progress, which is great.

1220
02:07:58,160 --> 02:08:04,160
And February, my understanding is that there's the new sort of appointment period for boards and commissions.

1221
02:08:04,160 --> 02:08:09,160
So, you know, at least they'll that new realm will be starting with that.

1222
02:08:09,160 --> 02:08:13,160
And then, okay, that's all I had to say.

1223
02:08:13,160 --> 02:08:19,160
Yes, I would like to make this motion if the mayor wants to second.

1224
02:08:19,160 --> 02:08:20,160
Was the motion clear?

1225
02:08:20,160 --> 02:08:22,160
Why don't we clarify it just for?

1226
02:08:22,160 --> 02:08:32,160
Sure. The motion is that we're going to, by quarter, went one, have our commissions and boards.

1227
02:08:32,160 --> 02:08:40,160
Video recorded and do the training, whatever needs to be done or is it a budget that needs to happen?

1228
02:08:40,160 --> 02:08:44,160
It's more training than anything.

1229
02:08:44,160 --> 02:08:45,160
Okay.

1230
02:08:45,160 --> 02:08:48,160
If, by quarter one, you're saying by January?

1231
02:08:48,160 --> 02:08:56,160
No, after it would be after the appointments, I think they happen in February, after the new appointments are made.

1232
02:08:56,160 --> 02:08:57,160
Okay.

1233
02:08:57,160 --> 02:08:58,160
Maybe March?

1234
02:08:58,160 --> 02:08:59,160
Yeah.

1235
02:08:59,160 --> 02:09:00,160
That gives an option.

1236
02:09:00,160 --> 02:09:01,160
Excellent.

1237
02:09:01,160 --> 02:09:04,160
And then the marketing plan is for the Human Services Commission.

1238
02:09:04,160 --> 02:09:05,160
Yes.

1239
02:09:05,160 --> 02:09:06,160
Good.

1240
02:09:06,160 --> 02:09:07,160
That's in my motion.

1241
02:09:07,160 --> 02:09:08,160
Okay.

1242
02:09:08,160 --> 02:09:14,160
And just to clarify that I did get information on how to find the auto audio recordings.

1243
02:09:14,160 --> 02:09:16,160
So the public knows.

1244
02:09:16,160 --> 02:09:21,160
If you go to go. We host slash meeting recordings.

1245
02:09:21,160 --> 02:09:23,160
The recordings of the boards and commissions.

1246
02:09:23,160 --> 02:09:26,160
The audio recordings are they aren't available currently.

1247
02:09:26,160 --> 02:09:27,160
Okay.

1248
02:09:27,160 --> 02:09:28,160
Let's move on.

1249
02:09:28,160 --> 02:09:29,160
Hello.

1250
02:09:29,160 --> 02:09:30,160
Hello.

1251
02:09:30,160 --> 02:09:31,160
Hello.

1252
02:09:31,160 --> 02:09:37,160
Do you have any indication or any knowledge?

1253
02:09:37,160 --> 02:09:43,160
Knowledge of how many people actually access the current audio recordings?

1254
02:09:43,160 --> 02:09:47,160
I mean, part of it is that they're difficult to find, but.

1255
02:09:47,160 --> 02:09:51,160
We don't have any actual numbers, but it's not a lot.

1256
02:09:51,160 --> 02:09:53,160
We do know that.

1257
02:09:53,160 --> 02:09:54,160
Yeah.

1258
02:09:54,160 --> 02:09:59,160
I mean, that's part of my concern about now elevating to video recordings.

1259
02:09:59,160 --> 02:10:03,160
When people aren't really going to access them.

1260
02:10:03,160 --> 02:10:07,160
And I don't know what the cost is.

1261
02:10:07,160 --> 02:10:12,160
It sounds like there's not much of a cost, but there's time and training involved.

1262
02:10:12,160 --> 02:10:19,160
I'd like to have you provide us with more information on that before we definitely commit to it.

1263
02:10:19,160 --> 02:10:21,160
At least that's how I'm thinking.

1264
02:10:21,160 --> 02:10:31,160
I'm definitely obviously in support of marketing or social service programs and the work that the Human Services Commission is doing.

1265
02:10:31,160 --> 02:10:42,160
But I'm not sure that we necessarily need video recordings in lieu of the current audio recordings of all of our meeting.

1266
02:10:42,160 --> 02:10:43,160
Yeah.

1267
02:10:43,160 --> 02:10:51,160
And maybe we start with a pilot program of the Human Services Commission because it'll be easier to train for one commission.

1268
02:10:51,160 --> 02:10:53,160
Make those available.

1269
02:10:53,160 --> 02:10:59,160
We'll be able to track how many people are actually reviewing the recordings and then make a decision from there.

1270
02:10:59,160 --> 02:11:03,160
And three to six months or however long we think.

1271
02:11:03,160 --> 02:11:05,160
And because meetings don't happen that frequently.

1272
02:11:05,160 --> 02:11:09,160
I would say six months would we need that to at least.

1273
02:11:09,160 --> 02:11:10,160
I would question them.

1274
02:11:10,160 --> 02:11:14,160
I'm not prepared to change my motion yet for that.

1275
02:11:14,160 --> 02:11:18,160
When we have the pandemic, all of our boards and commissions were.

1276
02:11:18,160 --> 02:11:20,160
The recordings are offered correct.

1277
02:11:20,160 --> 02:11:21,160
Yes.

1278
02:11:21,160 --> 02:11:23,160
That's why we have the capability.

1279
02:11:23,160 --> 02:11:26,160
Yes, but those were fully Zoom meetings.

1280
02:11:26,160 --> 02:11:30,160
And so as we've seen here having.

1281
02:11:30,160 --> 02:11:36,160
Meeting that's not fully Zoom is a little harder to record than a fully Zoom meeting.

1282
02:11:36,160 --> 02:11:38,160
So I think that's a difference.

1283
02:11:38,160 --> 02:11:44,160
And I think we've seen those challenges with our council meetings.

1284
02:11:44,160 --> 02:11:47,160
Well, I just want to add on.

1285
02:11:47,160 --> 02:11:51,160
You know, I think the reason why I do support this and I agree to co-op it.

1286
02:11:51,160 --> 02:11:57,160
That's what comes from our shine is, you know, we get to discuss.

1287
02:11:57,160 --> 02:12:01,160
We discuss up here with members of the public how things are done.

1288
02:12:01,160 --> 02:12:04,160
Maybe like, allegedly in darkness, right?

1289
02:12:04,160 --> 02:12:07,160
And there's public meetings or it's outreach.

1290
02:12:07,160 --> 02:12:09,160
There's all of these availabilitys.

1291
02:12:09,160 --> 02:12:14,160
And I support this item because I can easily say to a resident, which I do.

1292
02:12:14,160 --> 02:12:17,160
Well, this was actually discussed at this meeting.

1293
02:12:17,160 --> 02:12:23,160
This is how government works and therefore go watch this meeting and get involved, right?

1294
02:12:23,160 --> 02:12:26,160
If you weren't able to attend, it's okay.

1295
02:12:26,160 --> 02:12:32,160
But people need to know that we've done every tool and this is every tool doing it.

1296
02:12:32,160 --> 02:12:38,160
I am growing more concerned over the, I don't know if it's just information,

1297
02:12:38,160 --> 02:12:42,160
but the idea of that, the city operates in darkness in some ways.

1298
02:12:42,160 --> 02:12:44,160
And this is the opposite of that.

1299
02:12:44,160 --> 02:12:48,160
And so that's why I support this notion and moving forward.

1300
02:12:48,160 --> 02:12:50,160
Thank you. Yeah. Same.

1301
02:12:50,160 --> 02:12:56,160
And also the reason the podcast doesn't have a lot of people listening to it is because we don't even know where it is.

1302
02:12:56,160 --> 02:13:03,160
And now we have our city manager telling us this is the, this is the website to go to.

1303
02:13:03,160 --> 02:13:06,160
So we can't really use that as a way to say, well, there aren't enough people.

1304
02:13:06,160 --> 02:13:11,160
But during the pandemic, the reason I brought that up is people who are watching.

1305
02:13:11,160 --> 02:13:17,160
And people watch, there might not be a ton of people live watching us tonight.

1306
02:13:17,160 --> 02:13:22,160
But as a week's go on, we can see the numbers increase for city council meetings.

1307
02:13:22,160 --> 02:13:26,160
So people do go and watch and transparency is incredibly important.

1308
02:13:26,160 --> 02:13:33,160
So I would like to keep the motion as is in the interest of transparency.

1309
02:13:33,160 --> 02:13:38,160
And as far as the budgeting, I don't, we're talking about training.

1310
02:13:38,160 --> 02:13:41,160
We're not talking about the capabilities there. We're the creative city.

1311
02:13:41,160 --> 02:13:42,160
We have the technology.

1312
02:13:42,160 --> 02:13:47,160
This has been happening since 2015, 2016 and now we're 2024.

1313
02:13:47,160 --> 02:13:53,160
So I think the bigger budget issue was the live broadcasts, not the video.

1314
02:13:53,160 --> 02:13:55,160
So we're not talking about live broadcasts.

1315
02:13:55,160 --> 02:14:00,160
Yeah. So the budget issue was related more to the live broadcasts.

1316
02:14:00,160 --> 02:14:05,160
The videoing still requires training and more money, but it's not as much of a budget issue.

1317
02:14:05,160 --> 02:14:09,160
And just to clarify on your other question regarding the video.

1318
02:14:09,160 --> 02:14:13,160
So we were having full zoom meetings on video.

1319
02:14:13,160 --> 02:14:17,160
We set up the rooms to all have video capability.

1320
02:14:17,160 --> 02:14:25,160
But we haven't broadcast or recorded the meetings for them to be viewed.

1321
02:14:25,160 --> 02:14:28,160
So we haven't done that yet.

1322
02:14:28,160 --> 02:14:32,160
We just went from zoom meetings to end person meetings.

1323
02:14:32,160 --> 02:14:34,160
But set up the rooms with the kids.

1324
02:14:34,160 --> 02:14:35,160
We have the capability.

1325
02:14:35,160 --> 02:14:36,160
Okay.

1326
02:14:36,160 --> 02:14:38,160
Tell them we're home to do so.

1327
02:14:38,160 --> 02:14:41,160
Yeah. I'm going to make a substitute motion.

1328
02:14:41,160 --> 02:14:49,160
And my substitute motion would be that we do a full marketing campaign for the human services programming.

1329
02:14:49,160 --> 02:14:55,160
That we do a pilot project with video recording of the human services commission.

1330
02:14:55,160 --> 02:15:00,160
And then we evaluate the effectiveness of that after six months.

1331
02:15:00,000 --> 02:15:09,000
And look at whether we should implement that for other boards and commissions. So that would be my substitute.

1332
02:15:09,000 --> 02:15:13,000
But I don't think there's a second.

1333
02:15:13,000 --> 02:15:29,000
I just think that whether we do one commissioner, we do all of our commissions and maybe we stick to commissions and not do boards and advisory boards and so we have this until we figure out if this is effective or not.

1334
02:15:29,000 --> 02:15:41,000
And then we, let's say in six months or a year, whatever that timing is, that we make sure that we do have metrics to see what the interest is.

1335
02:15:41,000 --> 02:15:50,000
Counts of motion, would you be okay with the marketing campaign, the pilot for the HSC and all other commissions and then the evaluation after six to nine months?

1336
02:15:50,000 --> 02:15:56,000
That's fine as long as we got our commissions in this and then we can have metrics after six months.

1337
02:15:56,000 --> 02:16:04,000
So commissions, sounds good. Okay, so just to reiterate the motion for the public city attorney when she wakes or finger at a look.

1338
02:16:04,000 --> 02:16:06,000
Sure, the full marketing campaign.

1339
02:16:06,000 --> 02:16:07,000
Yes.

1340
02:16:07,000 --> 02:16:11,000
The video alternative for all commissions, no boards.

1341
02:16:11,000 --> 02:16:19,000
And then to revisit it in about six months, look at the metrics and see how it's working to see whether boards would be added or make sure the program is working.

1342
02:16:19,000 --> 02:16:23,000
Yes, and currently 35 people are watching us on YouTube. So there you go.

1343
02:16:23,000 --> 02:16:24,000
Start the metrics now.

1344
02:16:24,000 --> 02:16:29,000
All right, that's well.

1345
02:16:29,000 --> 02:16:32,000
All right, that passes five to zero. Thank you so much colleagues.

1346
02:16:32,000 --> 02:16:36,000
We're going to move on to our last item before it's included consent.

1347
02:16:36,000 --> 02:16:40,000
And that was the resolution and support of the plant-based treaty.

1348
02:16:40,000 --> 02:16:46,000
I don't think we need a staff report, but I do believe we have some of our friends in the chambers and public commenters.

1349
02:16:46,000 --> 02:16:48,000
We have two people.

1350
02:16:49,000 --> 02:16:56,000
And also, the reason I didn't, that I asked for that, it's stay on rather than putting it on consensus.

1351
02:16:56,000 --> 02:17:08,000
I guess we have gotten some comments from people about this concern that we are telling people how to eat, what to eat.

1352
02:17:08,000 --> 02:17:12,000
And I, and I know that, you know, I eat meat.

1353
02:17:12,000 --> 02:17:17,000
I think Vice Mayor Bias eats meat.

1354
02:17:17,000 --> 02:17:19,000
You know, some of us eat meat.

1355
02:17:19,000 --> 02:17:26,000
And I want to, I want to, I want to make sure that it's clear to the public what the point of this treaty is.

1356
02:17:26,000 --> 02:17:37,000
And that there is no expectation that you have on changing our habits, but that hopefully it changes because we learn more.

1357
02:17:37,000 --> 02:17:41,000
That's my question.

1358
02:17:41,000 --> 02:17:42,000
So that was.

1359
02:17:42,000 --> 02:17:43,000
Okay.

1360
02:17:43,000 --> 02:17:47,000
Why don't we go to the public comment first because we have a few of them?

1361
02:17:47,000 --> 02:17:48,000
So why don't we end the move?

1362
02:17:48,000 --> 02:17:49,000
We'll go back.

1363
02:17:49,000 --> 02:17:55,000
So I'm going to, I'm sorry, Caesar, a spadoe to be followed by Kevin Frey.

1364
02:17:55,000 --> 02:18:10,000
Hello Mayor, Vice Mayor, council, thank you for your time.

1365
02:18:10,000 --> 02:18:13,000
Thank you for having us on the agenda.

1366
02:18:13,000 --> 02:18:17,000
We really appreciate everything that you do here being such a progressive city.

1367
02:18:17,000 --> 02:18:20,000
It's amazing to be here and we appreciate everything.

1368
02:18:20,000 --> 02:18:26,000
And we love the fact that you're addressing the plant-based treaty because we're in a climate crisis now.

1369
02:18:26,000 --> 02:18:34,000
And we can really impact with changing food systems and everyday lifestyles with each and every meal.

1370
02:18:34,000 --> 02:18:40,000
We're so excited to have the LA Climate Week, town hall is great.

1371
02:18:40,000 --> 02:18:49,000
So we just really want to show the impact of relinquishing factory farms, redirecting and then restoring ecosystems to the wildlife and

1372
02:18:49,000 --> 02:18:50,000
indigenous.

1373
02:18:50,000 --> 02:18:52,000
So we really appreciate you.

1374
02:18:52,000 --> 02:18:53,000
We appreciate your time.

1375
02:18:53,000 --> 02:18:54,000
I want to take up all the time.

1376
02:18:54,000 --> 02:18:57,000
I know we have some other speakers, but thank you so much.

1377
02:18:57,000 --> 02:18:58,000
Thank you.

1378
02:18:58,000 --> 02:19:05,000
Cameron Frey to be followed by Samantha Lau.

1379
02:19:05,000 --> 02:19:07,000
Are there any on Zoom?

1380
02:19:07,000 --> 02:19:12,000
Okay, okay.

1381
02:19:12,000 --> 02:19:14,000
Good evening, council members.

1382
02:19:14,000 --> 02:19:15,000
My name is Cameron Frey.

1383
02:19:15,000 --> 02:19:16,000
I'm 26.

1384
02:19:16,000 --> 02:19:22,000
A member of Gen Z. I'm a part of the plant-based treaty and I have climate anxiety.

1385
02:19:22,000 --> 02:19:28,000
Among many initiatives we at the plant-based treaty aim to highlight the immense levels of environmental harm,

1386
02:19:28,000 --> 02:19:31,000
caused and encouraged by factory farming.

1387
02:19:31,000 --> 02:19:41,000
We also work to promote plant-based alternatives and land reclamation for indigenous peoples, land conservation, and we're applicable rewilding.

1388
02:19:41,000 --> 02:19:49,000
I volunteered with plant-based treaty because I believe in this message and that we can fight against climate change first hand through changing our food systems.

1389
02:19:49,000 --> 02:19:56,000
I'm so glad that the city of West Hollywood has passed policy requiring that all city sanctioned events serve plant-based food as a default.

1390
02:19:56,000 --> 02:20:06,000
I think this policy is great for raising awareness about the importance of plant-based food systems and aids in normalizing the presence of plant-based food in our communities as well.

1391
02:20:06,000 --> 02:20:18,000
I'm grateful that the city of West Hollywood is considering endorsing the plant-based treaty to implement more plant-based initiatives because we need more sustainable food systems as the climate and environment continues to transform.

1392
02:20:18,000 --> 02:20:29,000
Cities that endorse the plant-based treaty are not legally bound by the 40 proposals and it does not mean that there are obliged or able to fulfill the treaty demands.

1393
02:20:29,000 --> 02:20:43,000
However, cities that endorse the plant-based treaty are encouraged to make meaningful changes and implement good practices in plant-based food policies and rewilding within their own jurisdiction and priorities.

1394
02:20:43,000 --> 02:20:50,000
I think it would be amazing to have the city of West Hollywood's endorsements of the proposals of the plant-based treaty.

1395
02:20:50,000 --> 02:20:53,000
Thank you for listening Council members.

1396
02:20:53,000 --> 02:20:54,000
Thank you so much, Samantha.

1397
02:20:54,000 --> 02:20:55,000
Allow it to be followed by page.

1398
02:20:55,000 --> 02:20:57,000
Parts and throws.

1399
02:21:02,000 --> 02:21:08,000
I get even in council members, vice mayor and mayor in the city of West Hollywood.

1400
02:21:08,000 --> 02:21:17,000
My name is Samantha and I am an elected member of the LACDP Los Angeles County Democratic Party for district 49.

1401
02:21:17,000 --> 02:21:23,000
And I'm also an environmentalist and animal advocate and a campaigner at Plant-based treaty.

1402
02:21:23,000 --> 02:21:28,000
Thank you so much for your time today and the opportunity to speak tonight.

1403
02:21:28,000 --> 02:21:33,000
We really appreciate the Council for putting plant-based treaty on the agenda tonight.

1404
02:21:33,000 --> 02:21:38,000
Thank you vice mayor, buyers for supporting our efforts in fighting climate change.

1405
02:21:38,000 --> 02:21:42,000
I want to commend the city of West Hollywood for the WeHo 40.

1406
02:21:42,000 --> 02:21:50,000
It is a very comprehensive roadmap that focuses on improving the quality of life for the community.

1407
02:21:50,000 --> 02:21:56,000
Furthermore, your climate action and sustainability plan has a very achievable goal.

1408
02:21:56,000 --> 02:21:58,000
Hold on.

1409
02:21:58,000 --> 02:22:00,000
Hold on.

1410
02:22:00,000 --> 02:22:01,000
Hold on.

1411
02:22:01,000 --> 02:22:02,000
Hold on.

1412
02:22:02,000 --> 02:22:06,000
Are we still alive?

1413
02:22:06,000 --> 02:22:09,000
Thank you.

1414
02:22:09,000 --> 02:22:16,000
You had about a minute and 19 left us hold on for a second and we're just confirming that our feed is still alive.

1415
02:22:16,000 --> 02:22:26,000
Are we still legally allowed to continue the meeting because technically this is the posted site versus the YouTube or does the YouTube have to work as well?

1416
02:22:26,000 --> 02:22:28,000
Okay.

1417
02:22:28,000 --> 02:22:31,000
Let's take a five minute break.

1418
02:22:31,000 --> 02:22:35,000
We're going to come back and just a quick comment-based treaty people.

1419
02:22:35,000 --> 02:22:39,000
You all really turn out it doesn't matter if it's 12 o'clock at night or one of the morning.

1420
02:22:39,000 --> 02:22:40,000
Congratulations.

1421
02:22:40,000 --> 02:22:41,000
We'll be back in five minutes.

1422
02:22:41,000 --> 02:22:42,000
Thank you.

1423
02:22:42,000 --> 02:22:43,000
Thank you, Mayor.

1424
02:23:05,000 --> 02:23:07,000
Thank you.

1425
02:23:35,000 --> 02:23:37,000
Thank you.

1426
02:24:05,000 --> 02:24:07,000
Thank you.

1427
02:24:35,000 --> 02:24:37,000
Thank you.

1428
02:25:05,000 --> 02:25:15,000
Thank you.

1429
02:25:15,000 --> 02:25:17,000
Our colleague will be back from the restroom in a second.

1430
02:25:17,000 --> 02:25:19,000
You have a minute and a 19 seconds and page.

1431
02:25:19,000 --> 02:25:21,000
What you'll be followed next.

1432
02:25:21,000 --> 02:25:22,000
Okay.

1433
02:25:22,000 --> 02:25:23,000
Can I start over?

1434
02:25:23,000 --> 02:25:24,000
No.

1435
02:25:24,000 --> 02:25:25,000
You know what?

1436
02:25:25,000 --> 02:25:26,000
Sure.

1437
02:25:26,000 --> 02:25:27,000
That's fine.

1438
02:25:27,000 --> 02:25:28,000
Just start where you are.

1439
02:25:28,000 --> 02:25:30,000
Well, you only were 30 seconds in.

1440
02:25:30,000 --> 02:25:31,000
So you're fine.

1441
02:25:31,000 --> 02:25:32,000
Okay.

1442
02:25:32,000 --> 02:25:33,000
Great.

1443
02:25:33,000 --> 02:25:34,000
No.

1444
02:25:34,000 --> 02:25:35,000
Go ahead.

1445
02:25:35,000 --> 02:25:36,000
Thank you.

1446
02:25:36,000 --> 02:25:37,000
Good evening council members.

1447
02:25:37,000 --> 02:25:40,000
Vice Mayor Mayor and the city of West Hollywood.

1448
02:25:40,000 --> 02:25:48,000
My name is Samantha and I'm an elected member of Los Angeles County Democratic Party for District 49 and also an environmentalist.

1449
02:25:48,000 --> 02:25:52,000
An animal advocate and a campaigner at Plant Base Treaty.

1450
02:25:52,000 --> 02:25:56,000
Thank you so much for your time and opportunity to speak tonight.

1451
02:25:56,000 --> 02:26:01,000
We really appreciate the council for putting plant base treaty on the agenda tonight.

1452
02:26:01,000 --> 02:26:02,000
Thank you, Vice Mayor.

1453
02:26:02,000 --> 02:26:05,000
Buyers for supporting our efforts in fighting climate change.

1454
02:26:05,000 --> 02:26:09,000
I want to commend the city of West Hollywood for we hope 40.

1455
02:26:09,000 --> 02:26:16,000
It is a very comprehensive roadmap that focuses on improving the quality of life for the community.

1456
02:26:16,000 --> 02:26:26,000
Furthermore, your climate action and sustainability plant has a very achievable goal of reaching city carbon neutrality by 2035.

1457
02:26:27,000 --> 02:26:34,000
And bolster resilience of city operations by considering climate resilience goals and policy decisions.

1458
02:26:34,000 --> 02:26:44,000
The carbon neutrality goal is especially attainable if you support the plant base treaty, which helps reduce dramatically carbon.

1459
02:26:44,000 --> 02:26:47,000
Nitrous oxide and methane emissions.

1460
02:26:47,000 --> 02:27:03,000
The city also calls upon local state and national governments to restore key ecosystems through rewilding and prioritizing native ecology to create more sustainable communities, which will help to shore up resiliency.

1461
02:27:03,000 --> 02:27:08,000
To put it simply, plant base treaty can help we hope reach your climate goals.

1462
02:27:08,000 --> 02:27:12,000
Again, I appreciate the city council and the city of West Hollywood.

1463
02:27:12,000 --> 02:27:20,000
The world actions that they have taken and continue to build on and urge the city to adopt this resolution to help meet these goals.

1464
02:27:20,000 --> 02:27:21,000
Thank you for your time.

1465
02:27:21,000 --> 02:27:22,000
Thank you so much.

1466
02:27:22,000 --> 02:27:23,000
Page.

1467
02:27:23,000 --> 02:27:30,000
Parsons Rose to be followed by Chris Tucker.

1468
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Good evening.

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Thank you elected officials for the opportunity to share about the plant base treaty.

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I brought some education up because I am an educator and I joined this campaign several months ago to bring forth the message of the importance of plant-based foods on our place for our climate crisis mitigation and solutions.

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I'm a mom.

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My daughter came home at 13 years old nine years ago.

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Saying she was vegan.

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I didn't quite understand what all that meant.

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But being an activist already, I got interested and learned about our climate crisis solutions being add more plants onto our plates.

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So with the plant base treaty being here in Hollywood, West Hollywood.

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The plant happens here.

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Very progressive city.

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And their ripple effect.

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The possibility is just immense around the world.

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So thank you very much for considering this.

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We appreciate your time.

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Thank you so much.

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Chris Tucker to be followed by just team block.

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Hi everyone.

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Thanks for putting this on the agenda tonight and hearing some public comments.

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I'm actually here to say thank you.

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On behalf of myself and my husband who have lived in the city for a combined 30 years, we appreciate your actions towards a cleaner and healthier community.

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By endorsing the plant-based treaty, you'll only be furthering the eco-impact.

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I'm a vegan chef here in the city of West Hollywood.

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That's provided food for events like the Elton John Oscar party that happens annually in West Hollywood Park.

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And I look forward to working closely with the city as a liaison to our local restaurants and bars to help implement more plant forward dishes and their establishments.

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From delicious plant-based stakes to traditional bar food, the plant-based market has truly transformed in the last several years.

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Expanding menus and having more inclusive options will only expand businesses capacity for new guests all while making healthier climate conscious options.

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The plant-based treaty and being vegan by default doesn't restrict or limit people's options.

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It actually does the complete opposite.

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It's not about taking away people's options to have a stake. It's about giving people the choice to enjoy a

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plant-based option as well. It's my hope that the city of West Hollywood will continue to move the

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goalpost forward when it comes to sustainability efforts as they relate to food. Being plant-based by default,

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at all city events is a great start, but my hope would be that we can expand the groundwork into all local

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businesses and make them as inclusive as the rest of our city is. With 62 percent of our residents

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considering environmental sustainability and extreme urgent issue, I hope the city will continue to

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mitigate its greenhouse gases through the leading climate, suffocator, animal agriculture. Thank you.

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Justine Black and then we'll go to our two speakers on Zoom.

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Good evening. I'm justine Black and environmental law attorney and long-time resident of our

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wonderful city of West Hollywood. I served on the former East Side working group as well as

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the general plan update advisory committee many years ago. So I'm here to support the

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city's adoption of a resolution urging the United States to support a plant-based treaty.

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I am just adding to some of the information that the plant-based treaty folks are already provided,

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which I hope addressed Council Member Myster's concerns from the residents.

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Research shows that plant-based meals have a 63 percent lower carbon footprint than animal-based

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meals. Adoption of this resolution would support shifting to a plant-based food system to combat climate change,

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deforestation, loss of biodiversity, and reduce other harms of animal agriculture. I appreciate the

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atmosphere for initiating this resolution and for all of you to be considering it tonight. Thank you.

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Thank you so much, Justine. I'd love to hear from you. We're going to move to our speakers on Zoom.

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Our first speaker is Ellen Den. Ellen, you'll have two minutes. Please press star six to

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one be.

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Thank you very much. And thank you. Thank you. Let's probably go to the council members.

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Mayor Ericson, Mike Mayer-Buyers. I want to express my guidance to your council for considering

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adopting the plant-based treaty by solution today that will encourage that our national government

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to endorse and enact plant-based food policies. I'm special thanks to Mike Mayer,

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Merci vice, for your support to the committee. This is Michael Measure,

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along with a director of Delta's Forum and Andy Lovano for helping us to feel the resolution.

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And I'll report to our national committee for a global greenhouse gas emissions.

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The need to transition to plant-based food system has never been more necessary to lessen our

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contribution to the private crisis we are facing.

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By passing this with BC, West Hollywood will help lead the way for residents to

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empower and educate themselves about the benefits of plant-based life-sales while supporting

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a disease efforts to reduce emissions and continue carbon neutrality under climate

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action under the kind of action and adaptation plan by 2030 by its

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innovation as this endorsement will appease the way for other municipalities around the world

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to put truly sustainable solutions at the forefront of solutions to preventing the worst

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mean environmental impact.

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I hope that you will choose to pass their resolution and in doing so, leave a like

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this for future generations to follow as we do our best to live in a harmony with our

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ecosystem.

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I'm so grateful for your time, I want you to address a council member, my sister, students,

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30% of the people who have endorsed the plant-based PDs that respond to other guys are

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actually on the board, and it is not equally binding like Cameron's side, it's just

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acknowledging that plant-based systems are a great opportunity to thank you so much, Alan.

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Thank you, Alan.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Our next speaker is Joey Gabor, Joey, go ahead, press star 6 to one mute.

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Hello, members of the City Council, the mayor and vice mayor, I just so much for bringing

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forward this resolution to call on the United States the support of plant-based treaty.

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First of all, I want to thank the City of West Hollywood for bank leaders, the post-dustanability

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and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

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I also appreciate City staff for putting together their report highlighting office resolution.

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We'll support and reinforce City goals to adapt to the current climate crisis.

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They highlighted that this resolution is consistent with the efforts for producing greenhouse

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gas emissions, as well as their currently adopted policies.

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One of the most important parts of the plant-based treaty is how it addresses land-use changes,

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given that the beef industry has accounted for 80% or more of the geforce station and the

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Amazon brand.

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Rainforest.

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It also calls for the restoration of heat, ecosystem, and generally creating a global boost

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system that is sustainable and equitable to everyone.

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I also want to specifically address the concerned citizen communicated to Council Member

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Leicester, which are very valid concerns that this would mandate anyone to eat plant-based.

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It's much more about creating a system change to educate people, fight for food justice, and

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combat climate change.

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Even in the event of the world adopting a plant-based treaty, absolutely nobody would be compelled

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to give up meat, rather it is demanding both ecological and food justice as a plant-based

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food system will give access to whole plant foods for all people, while fighting to restore

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a important resource in the fight against climate change, or natural ecology.

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By calling on the U.S. to endorse the plant-based treaty, what's Hollywood has the opportunity

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to once again continue the city's leadership in fighting for sustainable food system and ultimately

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fighting to prevent climate change.

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Again, I just want to thank the entirety of its detail for the opportunity to speak today and

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are future adopters resolution.

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Thank you.

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That concludes public comment.

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Vice Mayor Myers?

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Thank you.

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Thank you all so much for taking the time to come out and share.

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We all know this education and awareness is what leads to the inspiration for people to make

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these changes in their lives, and so I'm really grateful to you all for paving the way, and

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Council Member Meister just as a director's response, as you've heard, not about forcing anyone,

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but truly motivating and inspiring that personal level action, while we as Council members

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make decisions to scale that impact.

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As we did with the plant-based default policy, we're making another decision tonight that's

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deeply in alignment with our climate action and adaptation plan.

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What I learned by doing that plant-based default menu work with mercy for animals is that we're

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one of the few cities that has named food systems and agriculture systems as part of the work

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to undo and eliminate carbon emissions from the planet, so that we are a city that is that

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we're thinking and understanding the way food systems and agriculture have contributed

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to the harm and degradation of our planet is incredible, and it's our work as a council to continue

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finding ways to bring that information to light and ensure that we're advancing ideas around

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that.

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That's why I wanted to bring the plant-based treaty forward.

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We have incredible community members who have been advocating for this for a very long time,

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and they mentioned along with it there are 40 actionable steps, many of which we are already

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on our way to doing and others we have work to do, so I'm really grateful to be in partnership

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with you all and helping us as a city think more deeply about how we can keep on focus when

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it comes to this hearing folks who live with climate anxiety.

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I share that too, it's what's motivated a lot of my work, and I know future generations are

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desperate in doing everything we can to get ahead of this race to protect our planet, so I

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really appreciate you all being here tonight, and I appreciate the council for considering

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this.

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Thank you, I would like to make a motion.

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One motion says the port.

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Sure, make a comment.

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Sure, yes, of course.

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Thank you, so I'm really glad that it didn't go on consent, because I think it's really important

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for people to understand why this is being done rather than going on consent, and then nobody

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hears about it, they just have concerns, and they don't know the answers to the concerns.

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So for me, hearing all of you actually saying, you know, it's not about taking away options,

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it's about increasing options, and it's about education, and that's why I support this item.

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So thank you, thank you for coming.

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All right, well both.

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All right, five, zero.

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All right, we're going to move, thank you so much, everyone.

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We're going to move on to.

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Sorry, before you move on to included consent may have the floor to read the title of the ordinance.

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Thank you, this is for item C1, the title is an ordinance of the City Council of the City of

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West Hollywood adopting an amendment to title 19, the zoning ordinance of the West Hollywood

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Municipal Code to authorize the issuance of demolition permits for vacant properties that post public

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safety risks, thank you, Mayor.

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Thank you, I don't think we need a briefing for this one, but to stay tuned, why don't we go,

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do we have public commenters on this?

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No, great, why don't we go right to, we have Kevin, where?

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Oh, I don't see public comments on my things, so.

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I know, I'm just, the things not working, okay.

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Now we see we have a public commenter.

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Let's go to the comments or questions from councilmember Maester first.

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Sorry, I was waiting for one after the other.

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So the reason that I actually asked for this to be pulled from consent is because when I first

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got elected to City Council, and I was the representative on the West side city's cog,

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there was controversy about this project, about the Sepulveda Transit Carter, a lot of controversy.

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So I just want to make sure that everybody understands the background before we move forward and, you know,

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approve or don't approve, and so that would be very helpful.

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David, if you could do that, if you could provide that information or whoever.

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Sure, good evening Mayor, Vice Mayor, and as members, my name is David Fenz in your

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planner in the Long Range Planning Division.

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So the item before you tonight came from a request to the West side city's cog to take action

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individually, supporting two of the priorities that the cog has already endorsed for the Sepulveda project.

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Those are a station directly on the UCLA campus and a seamless connection to the purple line,

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which is the way that our residents have accessed the project.

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In terms of the background on the Sepulveda project and the controversy that councilmember Maester

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referring to that dates back to before the passage of measure M when the West side cities were largely

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in agreement with the E-line extension to Santa Monica and the D-line extension to UCLA and the West

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would that the other cities were fairly well served by rail service and that K-line north and service to West

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Hollywood should be the next priority. At that time there was pressure from elected officials

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representing Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley, you know, councilmember Maekbannon,

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Supervisor Cule, Mayor Carcetti at the time that we're interested in moving Sepulveda up in the

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prioritization of the West side priorities and that prioritization ultimately resulted in pressure being

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placed on the other cities, which moved Sepulveda forward in the timeline at the expense of K-line

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north, which obviously, as you all know, we've been working for several years to kind of come up with

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additional funds to make up for that. But all that, with all that, the item before tonight does not

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imply any kind of change in the preference of the city of West Hollywood towards one project of the other.

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Obviously our priority would still be the K-line or the next extension. We would simply be kind of stating

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we are supporting the actions of the West side caucus taken on those two specific design elements of the

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Sepulveda project. It wouldn't be changing our preference or indicating, you know, undoing that

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that unfortunate history anyway. Thank you. We have one public comitter Kevin Burton.

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Do we have citizen positions? Great.

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Good evening. Again, Council, Kevin Burton, city of West Hollywood. I just want to do indicate my

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support for this item. I've been to a couple of the in-person meetings in Westwood about the

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Spulveda Transacord or Project. There's a lot of discussion back and forth. It's currently

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discussion about whether or not a branch to go to UCLA. I think that would be a very good idea.

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And would ultimately serve West Hollywood. And I just wanted to quote statement from Fox area three

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economic development. From your just past, we owe 2040 strategic land that the city shall

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advocate for expansion of transit options as strengthened with Hollywood's connectivity to

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the broader region. And I think that having a voice in this coalition, which I haven't memorized

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the whole thing, Spulveda Transacord or for all STC for all advocacy coalition will help the city to

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implement that part of the strategic plan or whatever the current proposal is about to have your

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in that coalition. Along with the West Side Cities, Council of Governments, cities of Beverly Hills

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and Santa Monica. Thank you. Thank you so much, Kevin. Seeing no other comments, there is a motion in a second.

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All right. All right, that passes 5-0. We're going to move on to our last public comment for the evening.

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Thank you, city staff.

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All right, is Katie, our novella, Crespo, still here? I'll come on down, King. To be followed by Scott Schmidt, who's not here,

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is Brian Hibbard here? Oh, hello.

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Hello. Oh, hi, everyone. My name is Katie Arovela Crespo.

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I am the community engagement coordinator for the nonprofit of the Phoenix, the national organization that provides free activities of events for the sober and recovery community.

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For some of y'all, you hopefully remember me? Thank you, adorable.

1676
02:45:53,000 --> 02:45:59,000
I know. Last time I was here was to thank y'all for our 2023 New Year's Eve party.

1677
02:45:59,000 --> 02:46:03,000
I guess what y'all is about every 20, 20, 40 years Eve.

1678
02:46:03,000 --> 02:46:10,000
So I just wanted to talk a little bit about how this is not just a party, but it's the party.

1679
02:46:10,000 --> 02:46:17,000
Last year, we had about 650 people in attendance. We had salinas, titties, perform, which is dragcreen royalty.

1680
02:46:17,000 --> 02:46:24,000
And then most beautiful part about it all was that we were able to ring in the new year with love, community, and sobriety.

1681
02:46:24,000 --> 02:46:29,000
So that was so important for us. And this year we wanted to be just as big, if not bigger.

1682
02:46:29,000 --> 02:46:37,000
One of the things that we learned last year was, unfortunately, we had to turn people away because of the fire, codes, and capacity, and stuff like that.

1683
02:46:37,000 --> 02:46:44,000
And that's something really hard to turn someone away. At a regular club, it's okay. They can go to another club.

1684
02:46:44,000 --> 02:46:58,000
We had a sober event. It's kind of fun to find another one, at least nearby. And so we would love love love. There is a possibility for consideration in an increase in the budget that we can maybe find a venue that would be able to afford more people.

1685
02:46:58,000 --> 02:47:03,000
That's just a consideration. In general, though, we are so excited to be able to have this event again.

1686
02:47:03,000 --> 02:47:08,000
Some holidays are really hard to be sober. Some of them are super easy, like Arbor Day.

1687
02:47:08,000 --> 02:47:15,000
National bake and day. Those are pretty easy to say sober. But New Year's Eve is a little bit of a tough E1.

1688
02:47:15,000 --> 02:47:23,000
And so we want to make sure that we still continue to provide this event for people to always have a safe place within the community.

1689
02:47:23,000 --> 02:47:31,000
On that note, I just want to let you guys know the theme. Last year's theme was Alien Superstar, so very sparkly, very alienish.

1690
02:47:31,000 --> 02:47:40,000
This year is hot, towel girl rodeo, pink, towel girl, sparkly boots. All that stuff. So we hope to see you there on the dance floor.

1691
02:47:40,000 --> 02:48:00,000
Thank you. Salina, as today's otherwise notice my neighbor. So literally, we're going to move right along, Brian, to be followed by Richard Eastman.

1692
02:48:00,000 --> 02:48:10,000
Hi, I'm Brian, and I work in West Hollywood, and you can see I have my hairstyle and pick-tills, but I promise not to yell at anybody.

1693
02:48:10,000 --> 02:48:20,000
Inside joke. I'm here to warn you all, and everyone in the city about Larry Black. Larry works hard.

1694
02:48:20,000 --> 02:48:29,000
And when he takes on a project, he's tireless and monomaniacol. If you've ever worked with Larry, you'll know that except for sleeping 68 hours a night.

1695
02:48:29,000 --> 02:48:35,000
He never stops thinking about his work. Whether it's Black Party, we ho-on-line, we hope pride-guiders, community activism.

1696
02:48:35,000 --> 02:48:45,000
While most people go home and work and relax with the book or TV series, Larry goes home and continues pouring over details, making lists, and strategizing for the next day.

1697
02:48:45,000 --> 02:48:51,000
So be aware, because it's sometimes difficult to keep up with someone twice my age who was also vision impaired.

1698
02:48:51,000 --> 02:48:56,000
Larry gives a hundred percent to absolutely everything he does, and I can see what confidence that he will bring the same,

1699
02:48:56,000 --> 02:49:03,000
to nature's work ethic to the city council. But drive his only part of the equation. How well does Larry work with others? What God's is thinking?

1700
02:49:03,000 --> 02:49:10,000
Larry treats people he works with like family. He'll buy and deliver you lunch. Ask how you're doing. Ask if you're happy.

1701
02:49:10,000 --> 02:49:18,000
How many people in your life, even your friends, ask you that regularly? He understands that humans make mistakes, and so he never holds a grudge.

1702
02:49:18,000 --> 02:49:22,000
I know this because I've had my share of gaps during our endeavors.

1703
02:49:22,000 --> 02:49:27,000
His attention to our seniors, disabled residents, and pedestrians shows he's a caring person.

1704
02:49:27,000 --> 02:49:33,000
I've watched Larry meeting with other politicians, business owners, and residents. He knows how to listen more than talk.

1705
02:49:33,000 --> 02:49:42,000
He knows when to seek advice from others who have greater knowledge on a subject than he does. He possesses the most important skill one can have the ability to take new information, learn, and evolve.

1706
02:49:42,000 --> 02:49:48,000
Larry stands apart from the other candidates. He'll add a much-needed balance to the city council when we should give him a chance to try his ideas,

1707
02:49:48,000 --> 02:49:58,000
because the old ideas don't seem to be working. Many of you have probably heard the definition of insanity is repeating the same action and trying and expecting a different result.

1708
02:49:58,000 --> 02:50:04,000
Larry has concrete goals and actionable plans to uninsight accumulated for over 30 years living and running a business system for this time.

1709
02:50:04,000 --> 02:50:11,000
Thank you very much. You know, good job. Richard Eastman, to be all by Phil Smith.

1710
02:50:11,000 --> 02:50:15,000
Yassia Tia, Lola Cajani.

1711
02:50:15,000 --> 02:50:23,000
Oh my God, here I am, the old gay white man with AIDS in the city that I came to in 1965.

1712
02:50:23,000 --> 02:50:32,000
To help three or four other women add a shift for United States Senate, Larry blocked for West Hollywood City Council.

1713
02:50:32,000 --> 02:50:42,000
And my dear friend at former DA of the hometown that I immigrated to Hollywood East Hollywood, even though I changed America from West Hollywood.

1714
02:50:42,000 --> 02:51:00,000
You know, 71 years ago, was 1953, and when I worked at Paramount Pictures with Anne Robinson, for the 25th anniversary of war in the world, that's long before I rebuilt the Hollywood sign in 1977 and 78 or maybe before I got AIDS.

1715
02:51:00,000 --> 02:51:15,000
And I want to thank the city for helping AIDS walk for 40 years and it's been walking for 30 years and the great work my grandmother did to educate a little kid to work with John F. Kennedy.

1716
02:51:15,000 --> 02:51:20,000
And I like to say, I work for Kennedy and Kamala.

1717
02:51:21,000 --> 02:51:25,000
And the other K is that knucklehead and the one that retired.

1718
02:51:25,000 --> 02:51:31,000
And if we need to retire somebody up there, we need to give Larry block a chance.

1719
02:51:31,000 --> 02:51:39,000
Because if I had to move to West Hollywood from the shadow I live in Hollywood for 36 years and run for mayor, not governor.

1720
02:51:39,000 --> 02:51:44,000
And Tony of here goes to do that after he took a legal money from that man.

1721
02:51:44,000 --> 02:51:49,000
If she's elected the United States Justice Department on my friends.

1722
02:51:49,000 --> 02:51:52,000
People think I got the FBI high. Maybe I did.

1723
02:51:52,000 --> 02:51:54,000
Washington DC, mushrooms illegal.

1724
02:51:54,000 --> 02:51:57,000
Dennis, throw a home legacy project.

1725
02:51:57,000 --> 02:52:02,000
A lot of crops going on with the homeless and your streets and the crime.

1726
02:52:02,000 --> 02:52:07,000
And I still don't got a TV camera in front of the bus station.

1727
02:52:07,000 --> 02:52:09,000
But I want you to know one thing.

1728
02:52:09,000 --> 02:52:13,000
That's not what your country can do for you.

1729
02:52:13,000 --> 02:52:16,000
But how you can change your country vote.

1730
02:52:17,000 --> 02:52:19,000
Thank you, Richard.

1731
02:52:19,000 --> 02:52:22,000
Phil, Yasi, and Lola are not here.

1732
02:52:22,000 --> 02:52:26,000
Do we have any money? We have Jamie Francis on zoom.

1733
02:52:26,000 --> 02:52:31,000
That's a lot of money.

1734
02:52:31,000 --> 02:52:35,000
Good evening council. I appreciate you taking this time.

1735
02:52:35,000 --> 02:52:42,000
I just wanted to give you some insight of what I've had to go through the last 13 years of the residence.

1736
02:52:42,000 --> 02:52:48,000
Why say this is that I've been on your affordable housing that's poor over 11 years.

1737
02:52:48,000 --> 02:52:51,000
So not reach people in your division.

1738
02:52:51,000 --> 02:52:53,000
People changing the passage.

1739
02:52:53,000 --> 02:52:57,000
And it was hard for me to find available housing options.

1740
02:52:57,000 --> 02:52:58,000
And I had to go through the West.

1741
02:52:58,000 --> 02:53:00,000
How can you help them corporation?

1742
02:53:00,000 --> 02:53:04,000
Even to this degree where I was offered a unit on a braille.

1743
02:53:04,000 --> 02:53:08,000
When I said to them, it is not compatible because I'm a victim of crime.

1744
02:53:08,000 --> 02:53:14,000
And yet no one's listened to certain issues that residents may have.

1745
02:53:14,000 --> 02:53:16,000
Certain medical conditions.

1746
02:53:16,000 --> 02:53:18,000
And here I am.

1747
02:53:18,000 --> 02:53:23,000
Over 13 years, I'm going to be stuck in the same unit as I did want to be in.

1748
02:53:23,000 --> 02:53:25,000
And wanted to live on from said corridor.

1749
02:53:25,000 --> 02:53:28,000
And that all I have an opportunity to live in Marina Del Rey.

1750
02:53:28,000 --> 02:53:33,000
Because I waited so long for West College to act and give me housing opportunities.

1751
02:53:33,000 --> 02:53:43,000
Speaking to, you know, Mr. Schroeder as well as Ms. Planger or somebody in the rent stabilization department.

1752
02:53:43,000 --> 02:53:46,000
I never got any feedback when it was worthwhile.

1753
02:53:46,000 --> 02:53:50,000
And it's disappointing because I've waited and waited.

1754
02:53:50,000 --> 02:53:51,000
And now here I am.

1755
02:53:51,000 --> 02:53:54,000
I am my last two months residing in this city.

1756
02:53:54,000 --> 02:53:56,000
And I'm just, I'm bitter about it.

1757
02:53:56,000 --> 02:53:57,000
I really am.

1758
02:53:57,000 --> 02:54:00,000
And I wanted to speak about, you know, certain micro units.

1759
02:54:00,000 --> 02:54:06,000
And available housing that the city is now required by the state because of main numbers.

1760
02:54:06,000 --> 02:54:11,000
For mandate to include housing that's not already available.

1761
02:54:11,000 --> 02:54:14,000
Because you didn't achieve the goal.

1762
02:54:14,000 --> 02:54:17,000
And as well as, they will housing that shouldn't have been provided.

1763
02:54:17,000 --> 02:54:19,000
And options for us city residents.

1764
02:54:19,000 --> 02:54:25,000
Instead of nothing offered to remain in the neighborhood or getting housing up to me to bar choice.

1765
02:54:25,000 --> 02:54:28,000
But being told to your faith, well, you're not homeless.

1766
02:54:28,000 --> 02:54:30,000
You're not without housing.

1767
02:54:30,000 --> 02:54:32,000
What about expenses?

1768
02:54:32,000 --> 02:54:34,000
And I'm just a little disgusted.

1769
02:54:34,000 --> 02:54:36,000
I have to be honest.

1770
02:54:36,000 --> 02:54:38,000
I've been active here.

1771
02:54:38,000 --> 02:54:39,000
I've been vocal here.

1772
02:54:39,000 --> 02:54:40,000
I've done this.

1773
02:54:40,000 --> 02:54:41,000
And yes, I can't live.

1774
02:54:41,000 --> 02:54:42,000
Thank you so much.

1775
02:54:42,000 --> 02:54:43,000
Thank you.

1776
02:54:43,000 --> 02:54:44,000
Thank you.

1777
02:54:44,000 --> 02:54:45,000
Thank you.

1778
02:54:45,000 --> 02:54:46,000
Thank you.

1779
02:54:46,000 --> 02:54:47,000
Thank you.

1780
02:54:47,000 --> 02:54:48,000
Thank you.

1781
02:54:48,000 --> 02:54:49,000
Thank you.

1782
02:54:49,000 --> 02:54:50,000
Thank you.

1783
02:54:50,000 --> 02:54:51,000
Thank you.

1784
02:54:51,000 --> 02:54:52,000
Thank you.

1785
02:54:52,000 --> 02:54:53,000
Thank you.

1786
02:54:53,000 --> 02:54:54,000
Thank you.

1787
02:54:54,000 --> 02:54:55,000
Thank you.

1788
02:54:55,000 --> 02:54:56,000
Thank you.

1789
02:54:56,000 --> 02:54:58,000
I just on the consent calendar.

1790
02:54:58,000 --> 02:55:02,000
I just want to repeat again to note my no vote on item B-8.

1791
02:55:02,000 --> 02:55:04,000
The ordinance on micro units.

1792
02:55:04,000 --> 02:55:05,000
Attendance.

1793
02:55:05,000 --> 02:55:09,000
I attended the AIDS walk 40th anniversary opening ceremony.

1794
02:55:09,000 --> 02:55:12,000
And I believe several people already announced it.

1795
02:55:12,000 --> 02:55:13,000
But I'll announce it again.

1796
02:55:13,000 --> 02:55:17,000
The disability service awards will be held October 23rd.

1797
02:55:17,000 --> 02:55:19,000
Right here at Council Chambers at 6 p.m.

1798
02:55:19,000 --> 02:55:23,000
And a reception will begin earlier at 530.

1799
02:55:23,000 --> 02:55:24,000
Hope to see you there.

1800
02:55:24,000 --> 02:55:25,000
Thank you.

1801
02:55:25,000 --> 02:55:26,000
Thank you.

1802
02:55:26,000 --> 02:55:27,000
Thank you.

1803
02:55:27,000 --> 02:55:32,000
Thank you to everyone who came in spoke and called in to speak.

1804
02:55:32,000 --> 02:55:37,000
I attended the Westside Council of Governments Board meeting.

1805
02:55:37,000 --> 02:55:41,000
The Cal City's League of California City's annual conference.

1806
02:55:41,000 --> 02:55:48,000
During which I presided over the LGBTQ Caucus meeting as outgoing president.

1807
02:55:48,000 --> 02:55:52,000
We had our LGBTQ Caucus Taco Party.

1808
02:55:53,000 --> 02:55:56,000
Congratulations to Vice Mayor Chelsea Buyers.

1809
02:55:56,000 --> 02:56:05,000
I had the privilege of nominating her and her and as vice president of the Cal City's LGBTQ Caucus.

1810
02:56:05,000 --> 02:56:07,000
Went to the B-B-K reception.

1811
02:56:07,000 --> 02:56:10,000
And I was a part of the Resolutions Committee.

1812
02:56:10,000 --> 02:56:19,000
And we voted yes on a resolution requesting that when the state senate and assembly members create legislation.

1813
02:56:19,000 --> 02:56:30,000
That the senators and assembly members not exempt themselves from the legislation that they present.

1814
02:56:30,000 --> 02:56:37,000
And enjoy a safe and happy Halloween and Santa.

1815
02:56:37,000 --> 02:56:38,000
Thank you.

1816
02:56:38,000 --> 02:56:39,000
Council member.

1817
02:56:39,000 --> 02:56:42,000
I also attended the AIDS walk.

1818
02:56:42,000 --> 02:56:47,000
I want to thank everyone who participated and came out and support the walk.

1819
02:56:47,000 --> 02:56:51,000
I also want to make sure we invite everyone to Halloween.

1820
02:56:51,000 --> 02:56:57,000
And remind people that it's probably not a good idea to bring your pets.

1821
02:56:57,000 --> 02:56:59,000
Particularly small dogs.

1822
02:56:59,000 --> 02:57:02,000
It's very challenging for them.

1823
02:57:02,000 --> 02:57:10,000
Probably also not a good idea to bring young children and strollers because of the congestion of people there.

1824
02:57:10,000 --> 02:57:15,000
But hopefully everyone will come out and celebrate and look forward to seeing you.

1825
02:57:15,000 --> 02:57:16,000
Vice Mayor Buyers.

1826
02:57:16,000 --> 02:57:17,000
Thank you.

1827
02:57:17,000 --> 02:57:18,000
Do my attendance.

1828
02:57:18,000 --> 02:57:19,000
It was a busy couple of weeks.

1829
02:57:19,000 --> 02:57:20,000
So apologies.

1830
02:57:20,000 --> 02:57:24,000
I attended the California City's conference where I also had the opportunity to tour the future

1831
02:57:24,000 --> 02:57:28,000
site of offshore wind production in the port of Long Beach.

1832
02:57:28,000 --> 02:57:31,000
I sat in on the LA County Selection Committee.

1833
02:57:31,000 --> 02:57:35,000
The Los Angeles County Affordable Housing Solutions Board meeting.

1834
02:57:35,000 --> 02:57:39,000
And the local city coordination and tenant protections ad hoc committees.

1835
02:57:39,000 --> 02:57:41,000
The clean power alliance meeting.

1836
02:57:41,000 --> 02:57:45,000
And I was also sworn into the West Side Central Service Council for Metro.

1837
02:57:45,000 --> 02:57:47,000
Which I'm very excited about.

1838
02:57:47,000 --> 02:57:49,000
I will say, dido.

1839
02:57:49,000 --> 02:57:51,000
Hope to see everyone at Halloween Carnival.

1840
02:57:51,000 --> 02:57:54,000
And appreciate Councilmember Halman's reminders.

1841
02:57:54,000 --> 02:57:59,000
On that note, we had a fabulous youth Halloween carnival and a hall low.

1842
02:57:59,000 --> 02:58:02,000
Well, a dog festival for Halloween.

1843
02:58:02,000 --> 02:58:04,000
I won't even try to get the name right.

1844
02:58:04,000 --> 02:58:08,000
And just want to give major kudos to our recreation team for pulling off just such fabulous warm events.

1845
02:58:08,000 --> 02:58:12,000
It was a really great way to start the fall and get Halloween going in the city.

1846
02:58:12,000 --> 02:58:13,000
That's all.

1847
02:58:14,000 --> 02:58:16,000
Thank you so much.

1848
02:58:16,000 --> 02:58:19,000
In terms of meeting attendance reports, I attended the being alive.

1849
02:58:19,000 --> 02:58:23,000
Ribbon cutting ceremony where I'm still nursing my thumb from cutting the ribbon.

1850
02:58:23,000 --> 02:58:25,000
Yes, that is an occupational.

1851
02:58:25,000 --> 02:58:28,000
Because that's is really hurt.

1852
02:58:28,000 --> 02:58:30,000
The Cal City's conference.

1853
02:58:30,000 --> 02:58:34,000
The show her the money event, which was so well attended here.

1854
02:58:34,000 --> 02:58:36,000
The Williams Institute, Unity event.

1855
02:58:36,000 --> 02:58:39,000
And today we did the AIDS Monument groundbreaking up the street.

1856
02:58:39,000 --> 02:58:40,000
And I'm really excited for that.

1857
02:58:40,000 --> 02:58:44,000
And additionally, I too just want to echo Vice Mayor Biers.

1858
02:58:44,000 --> 02:58:46,000
The youth Halloween carnival is always lit.

1859
02:58:46,000 --> 02:58:50,000
Like, but this year, it was off the charts.

1860
02:58:50,000 --> 02:58:54,000
There was so, there were so many families, so many smiles.

1861
02:58:54,000 --> 02:58:57,000
I mean, the costumes, the dogs.

1862
02:58:57,000 --> 02:58:59,000
I think I saw a cat at one point.

1863
02:58:59,000 --> 02:59:02,000
But it was truly just incredible.

1864
02:59:02,000 --> 02:59:07,000
And our recreation staff went above and beyond all city staff involved.

1865
02:59:07,000 --> 02:59:09,000
Went above and beyond and pickle.

1866
02:59:09,000 --> 02:59:13,000
I think named every child for like two and a half hours.

1867
02:59:13,000 --> 02:59:15,000
As they stood it across that stage.

1868
02:59:15,000 --> 02:59:17,000
So it was, it was pretty amazing to see.

1869
02:59:17,000 --> 02:59:21,000
And I just, we, I had so many people come up to me and they said,

1870
02:59:21,000 --> 02:59:23,000
I live just right north of Fountain.

1871
02:59:23,000 --> 02:59:26,000
I don't live in Wehoe, but like you're the park I come to.

1872
02:59:26,000 --> 02:59:30,000
And thank you for doing this for us and our families and our cities.

1873
02:59:30,000 --> 02:59:34,000
It was just so wonderful to see all the beauty in our park that day.

1874
02:59:34,000 --> 02:59:36,000
So truly, truly, truly thankful.

1875
02:59:36,000 --> 02:59:41,000
Additionally, I just really want to thank our sheriff's department and our EPT team.

1876
02:59:41,000 --> 02:59:46,000
For bringing hopefully some justice to the individual at Barney's Beanery,

1877
02:59:46,000 --> 02:59:49,000
who was senselessly attacked by an individual.

1878
02:59:49,000 --> 02:59:53,000
I will be at the press conference tomorrow to show support for the sheriff's department.

1879
02:59:53,000 --> 02:59:56,000
I know that has been some cause for consternation in the community,

1880
02:59:56,000 --> 02:59:59,000
because it's scary when that happens, of course.

1881
02:59:59,000 --> 03:00:00,000
Bye-bye.

1882
03:00:00,000 --> 03:00:26,000
Thank you for searching, never giving up and continuing to do all of that work. It's really important to know that you're working really hard and I know the community's already been texting me and responding as a result of this news because they're glad to see that something has been done and it's good news and I hope the individual is still recovering. I have been in touch with the staff of Barney's Binary since this happened, as I know you have and truly have a ball of us. Thank you so much.

1883
03:00:26,000 --> 03:00:37,000
With that, we will adjourn this meeting at 857 until Monday, November 4th at 6 p.m., thanks everyone.