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Good evening. Welcome to West Hollywood City Council meeting. Before we call the meeting to order, I would like to read the city's land acknowledgement.

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The 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, seized territory of the Gabriele Angio Tongva and the Gabriele Angio Keish peoples.

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I'm calling the October 20th, 2025 City Council meeting to order. It is 6 p.m. and we are without a student from West Hollywood Elementary School tonight to lead us in the pledge.

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So I will ask that we rise if you are able and follow me in the pledge of allegiance.

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The city clerk, may we please have a roll call. Yes, may I thank you. Council member Ericsson.

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Here. Council member, hey.

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Here. Council member, myster. Here. Vice Mayor Heilman. Here. Mayor Buyers. Here. We have a quorum. Thank you.

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We'll get a report of the closed session agenda next. The next city attorney, we please provide us with a report.

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Yes, good evening. The city council can be in the closed session meeting this evening.

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The council discussed the one item of business on the post of agenda took no reportable action and concluded at 535 p.m.

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That concludes my report. Thank you very much.

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We'll move on to the approval of the agenda. First, are there any changes from staff on tonight's agenda?

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No, Mayor, there are no changes from staff this evening.

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Okay. Oh, look to my colleagues on council for any changes. I'm going to start over here. Council member, myster.

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Yes, moving to consent E2 public private partnership.

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The broadband with the broadband.

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I have questions for staff.

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F2 addressing unpromoted and unlicensed sidewalk vendors.

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No question. I'd like to keep that one.

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F4, reconceptualization and restoration of the music festival on the sunset strip.

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No. Okay. F6 approval of the dates for the election and installation of the mayor and vice mayor.

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The easiest one.

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Well, that's will be the only one.

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How about moving F5 to consent?

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What is it?

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You're item.

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Oh, my item. Yeah, that would be good.

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Keep it.

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I would like to keep it because I think it relates to some dialogue that we're going to have later on.

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Mayor, I'd also like to request that we table item F3.

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This is my item on tall walls.

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We received a number of comments and input.

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And I think it's wise for us to hold that until we have addressed a number of the concerns.

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So I'm going to ask that we hold that.

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Thank you.

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What about item E1?

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The update to the policy.

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Concerns.

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To the flag policy.

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You want to quit. Okay.

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We'll leave that one.

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I think that E5?

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E5.

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E5, the advisory board pilot program frequency.

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Lots of questions.

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Buckle up kids.

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Here we go.

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All right.

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So we can move on from that.

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We have a motion to approve the agenda as it stands with item F3 being table F6 being moved to consent.

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Great.

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Thank you.

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We'll move to Levy and act as closures.

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Can we do a quick review of the agenda and report any disclosures that we may have for the Levy and act?

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Then?

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Then we'll move to adjournment motions this evening.

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Do any of my colleagues have adjournment motions?

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I'll look to Councilmember Maester first.

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Yes.

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Thank you, Mayor.

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First, I'd like to adjourn in memory of Carl Omkronen.

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A long time resident and chronicler of our city's evolution who passed away just recently.

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Through his insightful writings, Carl Omkronen captured the essence of West Hollywood's transformation,

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offering both residents and visitors a window into our shared history.

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His work not only documented events but also celebrated the vibrant tapestry of cultures,

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personalities and stories that define our community.

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Carl Omkronen raised his family here in West Hollywood and he spent much of his adult life working as a salesman.

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He also taught cert classes for the community community years ago, which is where I first met him.

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He was known for his kindness, generosity, and was a familiar presence at local events always eager to engage with neighbors.

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As we reflect on his numerous invaluable contributions,

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let us honor Carl Omkronen's legacy by continuing to foster the sense of community and shared history that he's so deeply valued.

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Our thoughts over Toby, his wife, his sons, his family, friends and all who had the privilege of knowing him.

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I have one more German, Jeffrey Jeff Buck, who also recently passed away.

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Jeff was a longtime resident and previously served on the city's heritage, Tree Committee.

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He was also an active member of the West Hollywood Tree Preservation Society serving as a former president.

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Jeff will be remembered as someone who generously shared his time and expertise to protect and enhance West Hollywood's green spaces.

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His commitment and his contributions leave a lasting legacy in our community.

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Thank you, Mayor.

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Thank you.

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Vice Mayor?

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Mayor, I would request that we adjourn tonight's meeting in memory of Vince Wong.

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Vince passed away, peacefully at his home on October 5th, just a month shy of his 43rd birthday.

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He earned his BS degree in public policy and management in 2003 from USC.

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He previously served as president of Lambda and was a passionate advocate for the community and inclusion.

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Vince worked hard, he played hard, he was intense, he served on several advocacy boards and committees throughout his career.

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He survived by his parents and by his sister, his brother-in-law, Dr. Brian Hoying,

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and their three children, Kylie, Ethan and Caden, whom he adored and loved like his own.

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Vince's life was cut way too short.

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We extend our condolences to all who knew him and loved him and honor his legacy tonight.

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Thank you.

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Are there others?

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Councillor Merrickson.

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Thank you very much, Madam Mayor.

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First, I'm going to adjourn memory of Diane Keaton, actress and icon many of us knew her works very well.

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And the first wife's club was probably my first gay awakening as a gay man, so I will miss her very much.

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She was a very involved resident in Los Angeles in a number of causes.

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Additionally, I would like to adjourn in memory of Dominic Joladi.

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I'm a Marine Corps veteran business man, passed away in September, 12, 20, 25.

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Dominic survived by his wife, Wilma, and his three children, Dave, Cheryl and Stephen.

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Dominic lived a rich life serving our country in the Marines and as an allied craft trade,

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pressman and printer.

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He loved donuts and coffee, and only after marrying Wilma, did he learn to eat rice and vegetables and healthy food cooked by her.

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Always with a smile on his face, he led by example and worked hard to provide for his family.

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Dominic was Italian and brought that fire to everything that he did.

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He will be missed by all in this mark on this world we forever be remembered by his friends and family.

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Additionally, I'd like to adjourn in memory of Kevin Siddell, a resident of Mediterranean village, eight years living in West Hollywood,

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formerly of Chicago.

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He worked as a barista for several years at the Starbucks in the corner of Santa Monica and Robertson and was an avid tennis player.

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Spending weekends with friends at the WeHo Park and bold and several leagues in the out loud sports and studio bowling leagues.

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He loved being a cat dad to his girls, Venus and Serena, ensuring on his favorite tennis player.

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His go-to travel destinations include a port of rare to a province town in New York.

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Sounds like a typical West Hollywood resident to me.

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With his daughter, Dr. Rachel West Bay, and his two grandsons bow, and Luke, who he gushed about at every chance he got as a proud father and grandfather.

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And his professional life, Kevin, was an English and law teacher, coach, tennis and swimming.

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Dean of discipline and vice principal, educating thousands of students with one former student sharing.

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He was a toughest, but the best he made learning fun.

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Kevin gave back our joyously to the community through his volunteer work.

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With local non-profit, handle with care, providing assistance to the unhoused and continually championed.

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Their efforts by recruiting new members to join the organization.

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When not on the tennis courts in the bowling alley, he could be found with his friends at Jambar.

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Sharing the latest of his daughter's successes, the newest things his growing grandsons accomplished,

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and simply enjoying the retired life.

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He was the epitome of what community means and West Hollywood.

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On Friday, he passed away at his home at the age of 74 after a very brief battle with cancer.

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It was surrounded by his family and friends.

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His family and friends loved him and his memory lived on through all of them.

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And I will miss him seeing him every time I walked into Jambar for a drink with friends.

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He always greeted everyone with a smile.

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Thank you all.

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We'll move forward with our presentations this evening.

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First, we are proud to be welcomed by our assembly member, Rick Chavez-Aver,

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to provide us with a legislative update to the council.

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Thank you so much.

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Thank you Mayor Byers, members of the council.

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Thank you for having me tonight.

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I want to especially thank Assemblymember Hang for inviting me tonight.

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It's been a couple of years since I was here last year.

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My mom was ill and I was ill.

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And so we missed a year.

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So it's really great to be back.

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And I also want to thank members of the community for coming out to the 20-25 community.

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Excellence awards where we were able to honor Councilmember Meister with the Distinguished Service in Government Award,

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which we extend to local government officials in my district to our completing their years of service.

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Thank you.

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Councilmember Meister for your service.

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And we also recognize Mayor Pro Tem Heilman with the Lifetime Achievement Award.

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I think bristled a little bit about that lifetime.

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You have done a lifetime of work.

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And one of the things that we recognize is that not only you went to the longest serving members of the city council,

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but you're the nation's longest serving openly gay elected officials and many of the things

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that we've accomplished in the LGBTQ civil rights arena and for HIV service,

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where things that started right here in West Hollywood under your leadership.

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And so we were very proud to recognize you.

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So with that, let's get to why I'm here tonight.

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This past year was a very difficult year with the state budget.

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We were facing billions of dollars of budget deficits.

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Because primarily because of the Trump administration, both cuts in what we should have anticipated being coming to the state anyway.

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And then because of the chaos, his tear of an economic policies are causing the amounts that we're projecting to come in through the economic output of the country and of the state are in significant decline.

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And I'm proud to say that we were able to preserve some of the key social service and social safety net programs.

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I am particular thought for more than $30 million that was proposed to be cut in the governor's initial budget in the health equity funding for a near that would have funded nearly set that fund is will continue to fund nearly 70 organizations.

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One third of which our LGBTQ plus led that was originally going to be cut from the budget.

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With a quality California is support and with the LGBT caucus is supported and we're able to keep that in the budget.

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We also fought for an additional $15 million so that health insurance companies can continue providing gender affirming care benefits in the state of California.

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That would have been a cut in the kind of benefits that we had and we were able to preserve that for an additional year.

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And then of course helped to secure funding for UCLA Center for reproductive health and policy to sort of give them some additional breathing room to sort of get their programs up and running.

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Beyond that, we were successful in preserving IHSS funding in home supported services for long-term care continuing prop 56 supplemental payments supporting plan parenthood and other women's health providers.

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Increasing state funding for affordable housing, preserving 50 million in low income housing tax credits and 120 million in multifamily in the multifamily housing program both key assembly priorities.

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We rejected cuts to our UC and CSU systems and we increased funding for KTK through 12 education.

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Unfortunately, with President Trump continuing to target California, it looks like we're going to have another tough year ahead and so we'll be looking to you to help us identify things that may be cut that you know that are residents and what's Hollywood depend on.

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And really appreciate the city's partnership and all of your partnership and helping identify those things.

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You know when you've got a budget that's this big, we don't get like a list of everything that's in the budget.

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What we get from the governor is a list of things that are going to be cut.

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And so we don't really know and some of those things are just very top line things.

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So sometimes you don't have a good sense of what that really means when you've got a line item with a cut there can be a lot of stuff embedded in that.

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So anyway, we look forward to continuing that partnership as we move to the budget process for next year.

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I also getting to legislation.

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This past year, I and Senator Allen took on the critical fight for California's economic future expanding and strengthening the film and tax credit program to keep Hollywood here in California.

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The good news is with the support of the city of West Hollywood and so many.

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The others, we did it. For those of you who are not in the industry, you may not realize the extent to which production is down in our state.

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We face an epidemic of unemployment and underemployment in the industry. One of the estimates was that in the entertainment industry, we are facing 50% levels of unemployment.

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We are facing 25% levels of unemployment during the Great Depression, so it shows you how bad off we were. The good news and that, you know, a big reason for that was because

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states, other states like Georgia and New York and countries like Canada and the UK have adopted tax credit and incentive programs that

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dwarf Californians. They see enormous benefits in this industry that provides our workers and our small businesses. And unfortunately, they've been successful in

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lowering away these jobs. That's why expanding the program and reforming it so that we change the rules with something that was so important.

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Alongside a coalition of legislators, I want to say I'm really proud that the Los Angeles delegation really

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pulled together this time because we knew that it was going to be a heavy lift to expand the program and modify it.

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And we were successful in expanding the program from 330 to 750 million. And since the program was adopted, 22 new productions have been approved through the program.

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There are already filming now. I was just on a set last week for a new 30 minute scripted program that's in production right now.

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So you can already sort of feel that coming back and that's due to that program and that was one of my one of my top priorities this year.

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One of my other major legislative priorities was AB 715. It built to combat any semitism and our K through 12 schools.

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Reports of any submitted content and incidents in our school have reached alarming proportions across the state.

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In one instance, a child was repeatedly tunted by students calling her the Jew and the murderer in another school district.

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The intentionally scheduled district task force during a major Jewish holiday. So the task force could discuss and approve material.

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That they knew the Jewish community had had rage concerns about and they wanted to do it without the participation and input from the Jewish community.

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Another school district students were told by their teacher that the school was closed on a Jewish holiday because there are too many Jews.

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I just want to be clear the overwhelming majority of teachers in our school districts are hardworking public servants and professionals and are inclusive and incredible public servants.

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But incidents of hate and bigotry in our schools always need to be addressed.

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And AB 715 will address those rising levels of antisemitism and ensure that classrooms are safe and supportive spaces in a number of ways.

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First, it will strengthen laws prohibiting discrimination and instructional materials and professional development materials.

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Second, it will create an office of civil rights, which includes an antisemitism prevention coordinator to develop guidance and education to better identify and combat any semitism.

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It will all, the companion bill will also create this non-discrimination prevention coordinators for racial and ethnic communities, the LGBTQ community for based on gender and based on religion as well.

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So, the outgrowth of this bill is one that will create much broader protections against discrimination for all communities that protected under Section 220 of the Education Code.

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Turning through to climate change, as you are aware, one of my key priorities has been addressing climate change since I've been in the legislature.

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That's why I'm proud to share that Governor do some signed AB 39, the local electrification planning act, a bill that emplowers local governments to lead in building California's energy future.

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California has set ambitious climate goals transitioning to electric vehicles on our roads and electric appliances and equipments in our home and businesses.

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But to reach those goals, we need our cities and counties to be full partners in planning how that transition is going to happen and to make sure no one is left behind.

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So, AB 39 requires cities and counties with populations of 75,000 or more to develop local plans to meet their electrification and decarbonization needs.

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These plans must prioritize disadvantaged communities, low income households and small businesses ensuring that investments in clean energy are equitable and benefit everyone.

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I'm really proud that the city of West Hollywood, even though we had to negotiate the city out of the bill, you're already well on your way to complying with it.

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You were one of the examples we used many times about the fact that this is something the cities can do because the city of smallest West Hollywood was already doing it.

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Another key bill this year on the housing front was AB 748, the streamlining student housing.

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This was a bill that was sponsored by Santa Monica College and it's turned out most of the almost all of the community colleges across the state.

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Governor News some signs AB 648 and this is a bill that helps combat housing insecurity and homelessness among community college students staff and faculty.

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One of the surprising statistics that I didn't really understand until Santa Monica College brought me to this bill was that nearly 60% of community college students base housing insecurity while they're in school and about one and four have experienced homelessness while they're in community college.

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That is an astounding, the high number.

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AB 648 gives community colleges the flexibility to build student housing and staff housing on land that they already own or lease near campus, cutting red tape while still protecting environmental and planning standards.

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And this is a right that basically the California University of California and the Cal State Systems already hold.

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Next bill, AB 1084, name and gender marker changes.

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One of my key priorities is protecting the LGBTQ civil rights and healthcare.

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That's why I'm proud that Governor News some signed AB 1184.

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I built a protect transgender and non-binary people by speeding up the process for a tending gender marker documents.

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It used to be that it took a minimum of six weeks to get documents.

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Now the new bill requires that agencies act work quickly and process these with a maximum of six weeks.

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So that will speed up getting documents for.

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And this was really inspired by parents who came to me because they were trying to plan for what they would do if they had to sort of leave the country to get healthcare for their children for the transgender children.

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It anxious about their ability to get passport documents, but having the documents they need in order to travel to get the medical care.

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I know you were all interested in AB 309, the HIV and hepatitis prevention act.

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Governor News some also signed that, which is a bill to prevent the spread of HIV and viral hepatitis by preserving access to sterile several syringes.

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This was a law that was already in place but which was sunsetting.

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It was and we were able to sort of get that extended.

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We've shown that this is an effective program to prevent HIV transition.

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And then the final bill I'll talk about is a bill that's close to I think many of your hearts, especially the heart of the city of West Hollywood, which is such a.

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It's been such a leader at assuring that the members of our family who we are guardians of are cared for and protected is AB 478, the found act.

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How many of you know?

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Now many of you know my district director Robert Oliver and well he and my chief of staff Tommy and pretty much our entire office have been after me for a number of years to work on a bill related to pet safety.

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Well we finally did it.

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The found act which stands for Friends of Oreo Uniting during Disasters was inspired by Oreo, a pomeranian who went missing during the palacates fire and somehow survived five days in the debris before being reunited with his owner.

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The bill makes sure that pets are accounted for during emergencies by requiring cities and counties to develop clear procedures to support pet owners during evacuations.

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Legally animals may be considered property but for most of us we think of them as members of our family and we'll do anything to save them.

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Of course I don't need to convince anyone here of that West Hollywood change it's municipal code way back in 2001 to refer to people with pets as guardians not owners.

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And I'm happy that's Governor Newsome sign that.

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So in closing I'd like to thank you all again for inviting me here to speak today and give you an update.

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During my first term we were able to work together on AB 1620.

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A bill that was inspired and sponsored by the city of West Hollywood that allowed tenants with permanent physical disabilities to really locate accessible units without losing red protections.

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A simple but life changing solution to help people stay in their homes.

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We also secured over a million dollars in state funding to support the restoration of the lock cabin building together with the help of Senator Allen.

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And this year we're looking forward to discussions with you to explore the possibility of expanding the speed safety camera pilot program to West Hollywood.

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That's something we're going to have to explore the viability on I'm very interested in working with you on that and so look forward to those discussions.

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And as those we start shaping our bill package for next year look forward to talking to many of you if you have other ideas open to it and for those that are watching.

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On live stream today please contact my office if you've got good bit of ideas on things you should be thinking that I should be working on.

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So with that I just want to thank you all.

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Thank you.

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We certainly appreciate you coming taking the time to share these updates with us.

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Please consider this a standing invitation at the start or at the end of any legislative section.

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I think we certainly know as a community that our cities engagement in the legislative process as you've said is very outside.

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And we really appreciate you helping make sure that our community as a whole can be a part of this.

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So thank you so much.

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And thank you to Joshua who does a tremendous job serving our community as field office.

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Yes, thank you so much.

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Any questions? Okay, we'll move on to our next presentation of the evening.

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We have councilmember Ericson to present a certificate.

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Thank you so much Madam Mayor.

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At this time I would love to present a certificate to an incredible business right here in West Hollywood.

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If you haven't had the opportunity to visit so me or are able to, I highly encourage you to do so.

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Under the visionary leadership of chef, I tour as a baller originally from Barcelona and with over 27 years of experience.

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So many has achieved the prestigious distinction of being Los Angeles's first.

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I'm sorry, West Hollywood's first three Michelin starred restaurant.

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They also kind of serve people in Los Angeles, but for right now you're ours.

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Just six months after chef resurrected his ambitious Spanish tasting menu and restaurant in West Hollywood.

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He brought this extraordinary culinary experience to life.

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The previous iterations of me located inside the SLS Beverly Hills are in two Michelin stars but closed in August 2020 amid the pandemic.

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This historic three star recognition marks the first time a restaurant in Los Angeles has received three stars since the Michelin guide arrived in the city in 2008.

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Chef's journey spans the globe from the legendary Yubuli to leadership roles at Think Food and now the creation of so many 2.0.

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The dining experience reflects chef's unwavering dedication to creativity, innovation, and culinary experience excellence.

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So many's commitment to exceptional dining experiences is not only elevated West Hollywood's local restaurant scene, but also has inspired chef's food lovers and the wider culinary community.

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This recognition celebrates artistry, passion, and perseverance that make so many a true gem in our city.

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Tonight we are honored to be enjoyed by the one the only chef at this time I would like to invite him up to come up to the day to accept this certificate and say a few words as well.

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Thank you very much.

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Good morning everyone.

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So it's a really honor to be here tonight.

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So I want to thank you to the city of West Hollywood.

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There is this recognition from somebody and our team members.

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A ring three Michelin star for us is a big dream that take years for work and sacrifice and passion from many, many people.

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And many proud of my team and pass up the present to give this everything every day to make something special happen.

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So many was born in this city and I am grateful to be part of this place, the celebrity creativity and diversity.

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So values that they are essentially with and what we do.

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We are proud to represent West Hollywood and the culinary wall and we will keep pushing to make this city know for excellence in innovation and hospitality.

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Thank you so much.

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Thank you so much.

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We will now move to public comment.

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The city council values your comments, however pursuant to the brown act, the council cannot take action on items not listed on tonight's posted agenda.

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The public comment period is limited to 20 minutes with two minutes allotted for each speaker.

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This public comment period is to address city council on consent calendar items other agenda items if the member of the public cannot be present at the time of sorry at the time the item is considered or items of general interest within the jurisdiction of the city council.

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Another period is also reserved for general comment later in the meeting for those that could not be heard at this time.

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Public hearing testimony will only be taken at the time of the hearing.

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In particular, how many speakers do we have in chambers and in zoom?

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We have 14 individuals in chambers.

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Not in zoom.

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We may be able to get through everyone.

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So we will go ahead and start calling folks up a few at a time.

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Please be ready so we can move through as many people as we can as possible tonight.

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In this public comment period.

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First, I see Michael Seldich followed by Wendy Goldman, followed by Stephanie Harker.

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I would like to thank the council for approving B8, the artist grants.

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As a filmmaker, I appreciate your support.

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That said, I must call out on the record the underhanded way the steering committee for the fountain streetscape project was formed.

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Staff working for a pro project council majority hand-picked members. There was no open call for neutral or opposing voices, and the people who live on fountain, like myself, the ones most affected, were left out.

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Instead, we got city commissioners, staff, designers, and bike advocates who were all already on board.

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Kevin Burton and others are on the record saying just that. Critics aren't imagining bias, and there are plenty of critics, with staff selecting members and council approving the roster,

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dissenting voices had no chance to be heard, and the outcome was inevitable.

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Bottom line, this committee was stacked from the start. The way this committee was formed, the lack of multiple design options,

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and the blatant dismissal of valid, logistical, and safety concerns from the public, and council members, helmet, and myster, all expose how the council majority pushes its agenda while ignoring its constituents.

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And with the shameful item F1 set to pass tonight, you'll be proving my point.

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Wendy Goldman, followed by Stephanie Herker, followed by Tom Demil.

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Good evening, council members, mayor, city staff, and residents, and members of the public. Wendy Goldman, West Hollywood.

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I'm speaking to item B5, regarding the ordinance regulating ADUs.

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In number 4A, it states no off-street parking is required, and for B, no replacement parking required.

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It begs the question of where the displaced residents are supposed to park.

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In 2019, Harret Street, laws 15 parking spaces due to development, pushing residents, gas, and delivery vehicles to park further away on Hammond Street and further east.

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The residents who park near Harret in San Vasene were also pushed, and scarcity has made us into enemies.

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This sounds like the old shell game, moving the target around so it gets lost.

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The anger and frustration of residents who live in the Cynthia Sunset Neighborhood Watch area, especially on Phyllis Avenue, with 380U projects are currently underway.

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May I have 30 seconds?

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Oh, yeah, that wasn't your title.

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We're 380U projects are underway, is spilling over into daily life.

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As the decision to allow these policies to take effect being ignored, has it just ignored the harm done to residents.

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I've heard that the owner of the ADUs have to allow the residents to rent reduction when this amenity is removed.

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Do the residents have a choice to refuse and demand a better solution.

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I do not understand the history of this item.

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The rationale of doing such harm to residents living on a dead end street, we're parking a scarce, getting calls from neighbors about damaged under their property by other vehicles.

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Going cut through, cut through traffic, side swiping parked cars on narrow streets like Phyllis.

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This should be a no brainer stop making a choice to remove off street parking for ADUs.

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Thank you.

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Stephanie Harker, followed by Tom Demil, followed by Paul Nichols.

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Good evening, Stephanie Harker, City of West Hollywood.

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I want to thank all of you who, all of the community members and staff members and more and myster for showing up to our local organic, no king's day rally.

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It was very successful, there was a lot of enthusiasm and we were especially happy to see Debbie and Lauren there as they were the ones who inspired us with their brilliant rally in June of this year.

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I want to thank you all for the approving the Arts Council's recommendations to award the grants to 12 arts organizations.

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The more our grants, the better, especially with what the National Federal Government is doing.

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And also on Saturday, I attended the Children's Halloween Party at Plumber Park.

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It was wonderful, it gets better every year.

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I especially want to thank Stephanie Martinez and staff members, Natalie and Diana, who are there every year.

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And I want to thank staff in general for putting up with us, us dashing our letters off in the last minute with Melissa handling those.

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And I want to also commend the city, David Wilson, for moving forward on safety measures for fountain, because whether or not the bike lanes are installed,

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we need that fountain to be safer for the next two years possibly with the building going on.

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So we all know the problems and the issues with that.

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And we hope that things will move along quicker for the safety measures that are being taken on their including red light cameras.

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Thank you.

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Tom Demil, followed by Paul Nichol, followed by Rooney Arantas, sorry if I'm getting me strong.

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Yes, my name is Tom Demil, I'm from the city of West Hollywood.

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I graduated from the Sheriff's Academy 2002, proud of that.

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I've also run for city council four times.

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And I intend on having my name on the ballot next November.

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Probably, and mostly, because of the fountain project, we have six bikes on that street.

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And we have 100,000 people walking on our sidewalks and boys town, rainbow district, and sunset followed by.

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Not so much sunset, we'll get to that.

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But hundreds of thousands of people walking on our sidewalks and our sidewalks are broken up.

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City Attorney stopped this city manager saved the money and spent it on the sidewalk.

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But the people walk with the people walk up on sunset.

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I also want to fix sunset.

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It'd be very easy, there's no one there now.

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Let's put music up there.

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Let's make your calendar of events with rock music that they play the entire rock catalog of that particular artist all day long from five to like 11.

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And it'll be just a little bit louder than the traffic and the trucks.

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But not loud enough that you won't hear someone beep your horn at you.

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And that'll bring the people back there.

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We'll get businesses driving there.

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And let's, when we do the sidewalks, which I wanted you right away, all the sidewalks and rainbow district.

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They all should have our insignia and their names of people that mattered in our history.

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The same thing with Sunset Boulevard, all the rock bands in our history should be up on the sidewalk.

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So people will walk and have something to do up there and spend their money.

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It's going to pay it back.

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It'll pay us back the next 20 years.

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Why do we lose our history?

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Because of that, we lost our balance.

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We lost our city.

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If we don't remember our history, we lost everything going to the future.

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I've got 10 seconds left.

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I said enough.

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Thanks a lot.

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Thank you.

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Paul Nichols, Paul by Romeo Arantes, Paul by Kevin Burton.

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My name is Paul Nichols.

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I'm one of the partners of Beaches, Tropicana.

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I've lived in West Hollywood for 25 years.

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I'm speaking with regards to the item F2, the unlicensed sidewalk vendors.

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I want to start off by saying, I'm usually here asking for less regulations.

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But I'm never against anybody's hustle or making a living in the city.

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It's how I started handing out flyers in that same corner for my promotions.

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But there's some really, it's basically gotten out of control.

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Aside from the obvious health issue, it's still cheaper than an Olympic prescription.

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So I'm not really even here to speak to that.

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But the safety issue has really gotten really hard for us to deal with as a venue on that corner.

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So at times we have sometimes 12 to 20 hot dog vendors blocking our exits, our entrances.

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Being extremely aggressive with how they're trying to sell the hot dogs.

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I've had security who's asked them to move or get out of the way.

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Had them splash hot grease at them.

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That same grease, by the way, that gets dumped onto the sidewalk or into the trees at the end of the night, which people then slip on the next day.

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We also had a hot dog cart blow up.

407
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:04,000
It had flames going about 10 feet in the air.

408
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:06,000
The same height as the bus station.

409
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:09,000
Of course, was abandoned by the vendor who ran away.

410
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:13,000
Led to the fire department being called to our venue because it set up all our smoke alarms.

411
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:19,000
Not to mention the obviously unsafe issue of a fireball in the middle of a very busy sidewalk.

412
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:26,000
The other issue that's come up now is they are now working with or actually vending alcohol.

413
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:29,000
Both in the form of minis and bus balls.

414
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:34,000
If you don't know what a bus ball is, it's a really strong drink that's shaped like a ball.

415
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:41,000
The reason why it's shaped like a ball is so you can sneak it into a venue between your breasts or your butt cheeks.

416
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:45,000
And they're also selling them to minors who are now hanging out on the streets.

417
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:49,000
Enjoying the music which you can hear, of course, on the street from the venues which are open concept.

418
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:53,000
Just having a party which has led to fights and also to other issues.

419
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:55,000
So I have a video of all this by the way.

420
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:57,000
If any of you would like to see it, I'd be happy to send it your way.

421
00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:58,000
Thank you.

422
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:03,000
Romy Aronta is called like Kevin Burton, followed by Lynn et cetera.

423
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:07,000
Hi, good evening.

424
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:10,000
I am also talking about F2, the label.

425
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:12,000
Keep with the mic a little bit.

426
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:13,000
Yeah.

427
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:15,000
Hot dog people.

428
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:19,000
Mainly, I'm Romy, if the GM at Rocco's.

429
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:22,000
The sanitation issue is awful.

430
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:23,000
They're using vapes.

431
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:25,000
They're using their own cellular phones.

432
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:27,000
They are parking their cars.

433
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:29,000
There's kids involved.

434
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:34,000
So we know that the standards that we as operators need to uphold to the public health department.

435
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:35,000
They are not.

436
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:40,000
If someone orders a hot dog on front of my bridge, my place and they get sick.

437
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:42,000
They're going to blame it on us, which is not the case.

438
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:45,000
They also are very aggressive towards us as operators.

439
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:51,000
And as all the patriots walking by, they'd have legal trash and grease and water dumping

440
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:54,000
on the San Vicente side of Rocco's.

441
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:57,000
And they are like pulsated.

442
00:40:57,000 --> 00:41:00,000
They're just a nuisance to us.

443
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:01,000
Got this moment.

444
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:03,000
So thank you.

445
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:08,000
Kevin Burton, followed by Lynn et cetera, followed by Mito avelas.

446
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:18,000
If it pleases the mayor, I'd like to request additional 30 seconds.

447
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:22,000
So that I can add my comments, council members, myers.

448
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:26,000
Council member, myester, about Carl Cronin.

449
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:27,000
So see how we go.

450
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:28,000
Yeah.

451
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:29,000
Okay.

452
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:34,000
I just want to also mourn the loss Carl Cronin.

453
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:39,000
He was the founder along with myself of a local restaurant.

454
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:42,000
It would be a group of certain volunteers.

455
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:44,000
We all research.

456
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:47,000
And I've known him for many years.

457
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:58,000
And he was a leader of working to train people for emergency response in West Hollywood for many years.

458
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:00,000
And we're going to have a meeting.

459
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:03,000
Sirt graduate just tomorrow evening.

460
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:07,000
And so we will miss his presence.

461
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:14,000
And I certainly send my condolences to his wife, Toby, and their sons.

462
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:18,000
So now getting on to my comments that I wanted to make.

463
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:24,000
I want to draw an issue to the attention of the council.

464
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:27,000
That's been bothering me for a long time.

465
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:34,000
That is community awareness of the causes of most of the unnatural deaths in West Hollywood.

466
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:40,000
That is crashes on our streets involving motor vehicles.

467
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:45,000
And West Hollywood bicycle coalition worked with public safety commission.

468
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:48,000
And the shares are over 10 years ago.

469
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:53,000
To report collisions between cars and pedestrians, cars and bicycles.

470
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:55,000
To the public safety commission.

471
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:59,000
Every month with its location and other details.

472
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:01,000
So the community could be informed.

473
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:03,000
But most people don't look at that.

474
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:07,000
Sad thing is when there's a grass the next morning it's all cleaned up.

475
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:11,000
Most don't know anything ever happened that happened last Friday.

476
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:13,000
Somebody was killed.

477
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:17,000
So the bicycle coalition would like to request city council do.

478
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:19,000
As has done in LA.

479
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:23,000
And Pasadena erect signage at every location.

480
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:28,000
Honoring the people who are killed in crashes on West Hollywood streets.

481
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:29,000
Thank you.

482
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:30,000
Thank you.

483
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:33,000
When it's set or off all by me to a view list.

484
00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:34,000
Follow by Rick Walsh.

485
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:36,000
When it's set or off all by me to a view list.

486
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:37,000
Follow by Rick Walsh.

487
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:40,000
When it's set or off west Hollywood.

488
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:44,000
I attended the no kings rally in March Saturday down town.

489
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:46,000
There were no poor depoties.

490
00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:48,000
50,000 plus humans.

491
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:51,000
I've advertised starting at 2 p.m.

492
00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:55,000
During the Clinton Donas don't tell years.

493
00:43:55,000 --> 00:44:01,000
There became leadership requested trend to not call ourselves liberals.

494
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:03,000
Instead progresses.

495
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:08,000
I'm an FDR Eleanor Roosevelt liberal.

496
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:13,000
I find to this day progressives to be regressive.

497
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:19,000
They talk the talk but don't lock the lock.

498
00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:22,000
Senior citizens disabled women.

499
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:26,000
Mothers with children and no poor depoties.

500
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:31,000
After experiencing that a new person to rallies.

501
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:35,000
Would naturally question who and the hell approve the permit.

502
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:37,000
What log is this?

503
00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:40,000
It's called discrimination.

504
00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:42,000
The absurdity.

505
00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:44,000
I've been going to rallies for decades.

506
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:48,000
This was the worst rally I've ever been to in my entire life.

507
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:50,000
No poor depoties.

508
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:52,000
What law is there?

509
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:55,000
I'm so blown away on speechless.

510
00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:58,000
And the rally started it too.

511
00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:01,000
They advertised you could come a little bit.

512
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:16,000
In the early, at two o'clock, tons of people were still coming and they scarted the march. Like I say, I've been to tons of rallies, and this one was beyond belief, and I'm sick of progressives.

513
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:20,000
I'm fearless, followed by Rick Watts, followed by Kyle Brazil.

514
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:36,000
Hi, everyone, my name is Midovila, is resident and also commissioner of art and culture for the city of West Hollywood.

515
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:40,000
Good evening, Mayor, council members, and staff.

516
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:45,000
I am honored to serve as a commissioner of the city of West Hollywood Arts and Cultural Affairs Commission.

517
00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:56,000
First, I want to express my deep gratitude for your ongoing support for the arts. You've helped make West Hollywood a city where creativity, expression, and community truly thrive.

518
00:45:56,000 --> 00:46:00,000
And we see that energy come alive every year doing pride.

519
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:04,000
That's why I'm here tonight to strongly reaffirm item B-13.

520
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:12,000
The commission's unanimous vote to recommend an $80,000 increase to the 2026 We Hope Pride Arts Festival budget.

521
00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:21,000
This isn't just about numbers. It's about investing in our artists, our local talent, and the cultural heartbeat that defines the city.

522
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:25,000
The festival continues to grow and so to community expectations.

523
00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:33,000
To maintain the quality, diversity, and accessibility that reflect West Hollywood's values, this additional funding is essential.

524
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:45,000
I also want to highlight the trolley service mentioned in the staff report, which also was voted unanimously by the commission, a wonderful and much needed idea, but currently without a funding source.

525
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:53,000
Accessibility and safe inclusion, transportation to and from the festival must be a part of the vision, not an afterthought.

526
00:46:53,000 --> 00:47:01,000
We have something truly special here, and the arts are what connects us across generations, identities and neighborhoods.

527
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:04,000
Let's make sure our budget reflects that spirit.

528
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:08,000
Thank you for your continued leadership and for standing with the arts community.

529
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:09,000
Thank you.

530
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:14,000
Rick Watts, Hall by Kyle Brazil, Hall by Reed DeVenio.

531
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:18,000
Thank you, council. Rick Watts City of West Hollywood.

532
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:30,000
I want to invite you all on behalf of the Disabilities Advisory Board to attend the annual disabilities advisory boards.

533
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:35,000
Service award, which will be in council chambers right here.

534
00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:37,000
Wednesday night 6 p.m.

535
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:49,000
Among our honorees is no less than Stephen David Simon, who is head of the city of Los Angeles Department of Disabilities.

536
00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:58,000
Stephen has a long record of service to persons with disabilities of whatever strike.

537
00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:08,000
I'd be seen or unseen disabilities, mobility, cognitive disabilities, sight, hearing, you name it.

538
00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:16,000
I've said this before, but it bears repeating that virtually everybody in this chamber.

539
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:26,000
And virtually everyone in this city, if we live long enough, we are going to experience or suffer one or more disabilities either temporary or permanent.

540
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:30,000
And of course, we all know persons who have those disabilities.

541
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:41,000
And your disability's advisory board serves as a liaison and advocate for persons with disabilities and a voice for council to inform them of the programming and services of the city provides.

542
00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:50,000
And also to provide input and sometimes cast asment, what I said is on the scooters that continue to play us and our sidewalks.

543
00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:53,000
But you folks have done a lot of good work, too.

544
00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:58,000
And I want to give credit where creditives do on those things.

545
00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:00,000
And I hope to see all of you.

546
00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:03,000
We hope to see all of you on Wednesday night.

547
00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:07,000
And I hope to see everybody in this chamber because this is the issues that we deal with,

548
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:14,000
or at issues that matter to you and to your relatives and friends who deal with disabilities.

549
00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:16,000
Thank you.

550
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:23,000
Kyle Brazil, called by Reed DeVenio, called by David Eckert.

551
00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:29,000
When I raised the bike lane safety problems in the last council meeting, Mr. Erickson suggested I check my priorities.

552
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:34,000
Instead of addressing the problems in your plan, you invoke Blake's memorial again and a contemptible effort to distract.

553
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:38,000
But you'll continue to call you on your bullshit because you can and should improve safety.

554
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:44,000
Instead, you insist on pushing one careless plan that didn't consider a single option where traffic signals changed.

555
00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:47,000
That's not the safety effort. That's a bike lane project.

556
00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:51,000
The bike coalition similarly misled the public with Venice Boulevard's bike lane.

557
00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:55,000
The city's own review showed immediate failure to reduce speed, reduced collisions,

558
00:49:55,000 --> 00:49:58,000
but it did reduce cyclists and we called that a win.

559
00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:02,000
The acceleration of deaths after the bike lane money improves its continued failure.

560
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:08,000
You don't care about the 33 or 30 year old cyclists severely injured on that road after the bike lane was added.

561
00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:11,000
Or the 34 year old motorist killed.

562
00:50:11,000 --> 00:50:17,000
Or the 51, 71, or 40 year old pedestrians killed with the latest death just earlier this year.

563
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:22,000
How many people need to die on roads with bike lanes before you understand they don't work?

564
00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:30,000
Even bike LA admits 15% of cyclists' facilities occur on roads with bike lanes far more than their share of roadway.

565
00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:33,000
Bike lanes increase perceived safety, not real safety.

566
00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:38,000
But this council thinks replacing parked cars with planner boxes for some negligible benefit

567
00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:41,000
from this virus heat island is more important than saving lives.

568
00:50:41,000 --> 00:50:46,000
And you'll pretend this is about equity, ignoring the UCLA study that concluded, quote,

569
00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:51,000
policy makers should consider cars as basic infrastructure for low income households,

570
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:55,000
and cleaner vehicles are an equitable mitigation strategy to pollution.

571
00:50:55,000 --> 00:51:01,000
Even bike LA's executive director acknowledges autonomous shared vehicles are the key to equity

572
00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:05,000
in his surprising partnership piece with Waymo, the Google ride-hailing company,

573
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:11,000
where he references his quote, aging parents no longer able to safely ride a bike due to health challenges.

574
00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:16,000
Stop pretending this will save lives, improve the environment or improve equity.

575
00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:21,000
Mr. Erickson is in this for the campaign and fundraising machine that is the bike coalition for his state Senate bid.

576
00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:24,000
But sure, I'm the one that needs to check my priorities.

577
00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:32,000
Greed Devenio, Greed Devenio followed by David Eckert, followed by Alec White,

578
00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:34,000
and then I believe we have one speaker in Zoom.

579
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:36,000
Good evening, city council.

580
00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:39,000
My name is Anthony Deugenio, a 30 year resident.

581
00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:43,000
Congratulations to the city council members that have been recognized for their services.

582
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:48,000
And yes, Mayor Erickson anti-Semitism does not belong in West Hollywood,

583
00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:50,000
and will not be tolerated.

584
00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:53,000
There's a viral video going around claiming that I'm racist.

585
00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:55,000
My family or immigrants, we were from Italy.

586
00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:58,000
They were spit on and thrown into the water at Ellis Island.

587
00:51:58,000 --> 00:51:59,000
I get it.

588
00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:03,000
I'm not against illegal immigration or illegal immigration, whatever it may be.

589
00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:05,000
What I am against is unfair business practice.

590
00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:08,000
Every night, I watch over 30 illegal vendors,

591
00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:12,000
disrespectfully poor hot toxic flammable oil into the street,

592
00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:15,000
and sidewalk leaving food debris and trash behind them.

593
00:52:15,000 --> 00:52:18,000
It's unacceptable for us to put the public in harm's way

594
00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:22,000
with explosive devices and toxic garbage with new leadership

595
00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:24,000
like Mr. Hang.

596
00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:26,000
He will not let criminals dictate to him

597
00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:28,000
the terms of their presence.

598
00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:32,000
He's going to take swift action and amputeate this organized criminal element

599
00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:35,000
and make, we hope, safe again.

600
00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:36,000
Can I believe I have that much time left?

601
00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:37,000
My goodness.

602
00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:40,000
Congratulations, Mrs. Meister, for you being recognized

603
00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:43,000
and Mr. Halman, for your lifetime achievement.

604
00:52:43,000 --> 00:52:44,000
You are amazing.

605
00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:45,000
We love you.

606
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:46,000
You're part of the fabric.

607
00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:48,000
We love our mayor.

608
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:49,000
Thank you, Mr. Eric.

609
00:52:49,000 --> 00:52:50,000
Mr. Heng.

610
00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:51,000
Mr. Wilson.

611
00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:52,000
We're going to miss you when you leave.

612
00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:55,000
As I told you earlier today, I can't believe we're going to lose you.

613
00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:57,000
But you've been fantastic.

614
00:52:57,000 --> 00:53:00,000
And thank you, Mr. Langer, for closing the deal.

615
00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:02,000
Thank you, everyone.

616
00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:05,000
David Eckert, followed by Alex White.

617
00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:12,000
Good evening, City Council.

618
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:15,000
David Eckert, resident of West Hollywood.

619
00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:19,000
I want to just as Council Member John Erickson,

620
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:23,000
so last week there are too many accidents still happening on fountain.

621
00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:28,000
And I just want to point out that the reduced speed doesn't seem to be working

622
00:53:28,000 --> 00:53:31,000
at all from going down from 35 to 30.

623
00:53:31,000 --> 00:53:36,000
I would love the steering committee to look at studying the idea of turning

624
00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:39,000
every intersection into four way stops.

625
00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:42,000
Like Hollywood and East Hollywood,

626
00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:48,000
it's going to be very effective of reducing speeds and accidents.

627
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:50,000
And on that too, I live on fountain.

628
00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:55,000
In this morning, I watched Athens pick up our trash.

629
00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:59,000
And I watched 15 cards go over the yellow cross line into

630
00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:00,000
oncoming traffic.

631
00:54:00,000 --> 00:54:04,000
And I very concerned that this is going to happen even more

632
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:07,000
as we continue with this plan.

633
00:54:07,000 --> 00:54:11,000
I just really want the steering committee to continue to look at

634
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:13,000
how we're going to sell these issues.

635
00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:17,000
And lastly, I just want to say as we come up here a lot on the day,

636
00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:22,000
as many of you just look down and you don't make eye contact with us.

637
00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:25,000
And it's sort of a little disrespectful.

638
00:54:25,000 --> 00:54:27,000
And I'm sorry to say that.

639
00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:28,000
I respect all of you.

640
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:33,000
And I just would like the common courtesy to acknowledge that we exist.

641
00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:37,000
And our opinions are just as important as everybody else's.

642
00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:40,000
And I tell you, you always make eye contact.

643
00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:43,000
So I thank you for that and saying to Lauren and John.

644
00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:45,000
Thank you.

645
00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:49,000
I like why I believe is our last speaker.

646
00:54:49,000 --> 00:54:50,000
Anyone else wanted to speak?

647
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:51,000
Please sign up.

648
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:53,000
No, I'll go to Zoom.

649
00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:55,000
Hello.

650
00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:58,000
May or byers and vice-merhalment members of the City Council.

651
00:54:58,000 --> 00:55:01,000
So we're speaking a couple of hats today.

652
00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:04,000
First off, speaking is the President of the West Side Young Democrats.

653
00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:06,000
I just wanted to thank Council members,

654
00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:09,000
Hang, Narekson and Maribayers for speaking out.

655
00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:13,000
The yes on Prop 50 rally we had on October 11th.

656
00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:17,000
For National Coming Out Day, we were working really hard to go knock doors

657
00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:21,000
and we hope the coalition of Democratic clubs like LA Young Dems,

658
00:55:21,000 --> 00:55:23,000
Stall Young Dems and many of you community leaders.

659
00:55:23,000 --> 00:55:26,000
So if you folks in the audience want to volunteer as well,

660
00:55:26,000 --> 00:55:28,000
we're still doing it.

661
00:55:28,000 --> 00:55:30,000
I'll go to mobilize.us.

662
00:55:30,000 --> 00:55:33,000
You can find a volunteer opportunity or you to get a pass.

663
00:55:33,000 --> 00:55:36,000
And I'll just want to say all the council members.

664
00:55:36,000 --> 00:55:38,000
I'm doing great work to support it.

665
00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:41,000
And Erkson, Byers, and Hang will be more than a body.

666
00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:44,000
The thought was of Prop 50 that they're, you know,

667
00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:46,000
Jerusalem, so I don't want to make sure we say that.

668
00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:50,000
And on another note, taking off my West Side Young Dems hat.

669
00:55:50,000 --> 00:55:53,000
Just to want to speak in support of F4,

670
00:55:53,000 --> 00:55:55,000
the Sunset Strip Music Festival.

671
00:55:55,000 --> 00:55:58,000
I'm just really excited to see how we could bring a lot more revenue

672
00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:00,000
to our local small businesses.

673
00:56:00,000 --> 00:56:02,000
And also get more folks into WeHo,

674
00:56:02,000 --> 00:56:03,000
who can just, you know, again,

675
00:56:03,000 --> 00:56:07,000
to be more consumers for our small businesses and our community.

676
00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:10,000
So I am really excited about that.

677
00:56:10,000 --> 00:56:13,000
On the agenda and love to see it all get passed.

678
00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:14,000
So thanks, our buddy.

679
00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:17,000
I'm a good meeting.

680
00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:20,000
I see Adam, Erimini, and signed up.

681
00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:23,000
And I believe that concludes our in-person comments.

682
00:56:23,000 --> 00:56:26,000
And then we'll go to Zoom next.

683
00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:34,000
Good evening, Adam Eremion.

684
00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:37,000
25 year resident of West Hollywood,

685
00:56:37,000 --> 00:56:39,000
and employee of West Hollywood.

686
00:56:39,000 --> 00:56:44,000
Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, and Council members.

687
00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:47,000
Today I'm here to speak about item F2

688
00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:52,000
for the unpromoted, unlicensed side walkmenders.

689
00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:57,000
I also want to thank Council Member Denny Hang

690
00:56:57,000 --> 00:57:00,000
for bringing this in front of the council.

691
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:03,000
It's a very important topic that we need to address.

692
00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:05,000
As we all know, there are numerous hot dog vendors

693
00:57:05,000 --> 00:57:10,000
throughout West Hollywood on any busy Friday Saturday Sunday,

694
00:57:10,000 --> 00:57:17,000
or any holiday gay pride situations that may exist.

695
00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:20,000
All those numbers, hot dog vendors that we have,

696
00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:22,000
they are obstructing our sidewalks.

697
00:57:22,000 --> 00:57:24,000
There's, when I say numerous,

698
00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:28,000
there's anywhere from six to eight vendors

699
00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:30,000
who are standing outside,

700
00:57:30,000 --> 00:57:32,000
the sidewalks obstructing the sidewalks,

701
00:57:32,000 --> 00:57:34,000
obstructing our right away,

702
00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:37,000
blocking the entrance to our businesses,

703
00:57:37,000 --> 00:57:39,000
blocking wheelchair access as well.

704
00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:42,000
There have been numerous customer complaints

705
00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:45,000
where customers are being sick

706
00:57:45,000 --> 00:57:47,000
from after eating the hot dogs,

707
00:57:47,000 --> 00:57:49,000
they're overpriced.

708
00:57:49,000 --> 00:57:53,000
What is it going to take to make sure

709
00:57:53,000 --> 00:57:57,000
these illegal vendors are not on our streets?

710
00:57:57,000 --> 00:58:01,000
On top of that, we don't only have illegal hot dog vendors,

711
00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:03,000
but now we have illegal alcohol sales.

712
00:58:03,000 --> 00:58:05,000
These illegal alcohol sales are occurring

713
00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:09,000
on Friday Saturdays and Sunday evenings.

714
00:58:09,000 --> 00:58:15,000
It's a hot dog cart similar item like that.

715
00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:19,000
And you only even know she's selling alcohol.

716
00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:22,000
When you approach her, she'll feel you out

717
00:58:22,000 --> 00:58:25,000
and once she knows you're secure,

718
00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:27,000
she'll ask you if you want an alcohol.

719
00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:30,000
She'll also refer that she has a stronger drink

720
00:58:30,000 --> 00:58:32,000
than any borne West Hollywood.

721
00:58:32,000 --> 00:58:34,000
So they are not checking IDs,

722
00:58:34,000 --> 00:58:36,000
they are not being responsible,

723
00:58:36,000 --> 00:58:38,000
and I just asked if for any more deaths

724
00:58:38,000 --> 00:58:40,000
or accidents happen to us.

725
00:58:40,000 --> 00:58:42,000
That would result us.

726
00:58:42,000 --> 00:58:43,000
Thank you.

727
00:58:43,000 --> 00:58:47,000
We'll go to Zoom for any final speakers.

728
00:58:47,000 --> 00:58:48,000
We have just one.

729
00:58:48,000 --> 00:58:51,000
Okay.

730
00:58:52,000 --> 00:58:54,000
Yes, we have Genevieve Morrell.

731
00:58:57,000 --> 00:58:58,000
Can you hear me?

732
00:58:58,000 --> 00:58:59,000
Yeah.

733
00:58:59,000 --> 00:59:00,000
Go ahead.

734
00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:01,000
Good evening, Mayor.

735
00:59:01,000 --> 00:59:03,000
Vice Mayor and seat council members.

736
00:59:03,000 --> 00:59:05,000
I'll be speaking on a later on FQ and F4.

737
00:59:05,000 --> 00:59:08,000
We're really excited about having those items come forward.

738
00:59:08,000 --> 00:59:10,000
Thank you for that.

739
00:59:10,000 --> 00:59:12,000
But right now I'm wearing my hat as Executive Director

740
00:59:12,000 --> 00:59:15,000
for the Sunset Strip to invite all of you

741
00:59:15,000 --> 00:59:18,000
and community and city council to come

742
00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:20,000
through this Saturdays.

743
00:59:20,000 --> 00:59:24,000
The Sunset Strip Business Improvement District Board

744
00:59:24,000 --> 00:59:27,000
invites you to a family-friendly spooky addition

745
00:59:27,000 --> 00:59:30,000
at the Pink Dot parking lot from 12 to 6.

746
00:59:30,000 --> 00:59:33,000
We have vinyl records, spooky memorabilia, DJs,

747
00:59:33,000 --> 00:59:35,000
pumpkin painting, faith painting,

748
00:59:35,000 --> 00:59:38,000
soupy photoots, and lots of activities for the whole family.

749
00:59:38,000 --> 00:59:39,000
And we have it.

750
00:59:39,000 --> 00:59:42,000
And we have a trolling that can stop the various businesses.

751
00:59:42,000 --> 00:59:46,000
There are many, many businesses,

752
00:59:46,000 --> 00:59:50,000
special promotions, and spooky activations, and deals.

753
00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:52,000
Then the next week we're going to be calling

754
00:59:52,000 --> 00:59:55,000
at Halloween on Sunset and we have lots of events

755
00:59:55,000 --> 00:59:58,000
happening in the venues from this Saturday

756
00:59:58,000 --> 01:00:00,000
through November 2nd.

757
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:08,000
So, for more information, go to the SunsetScript.com and you can see all the activations from our businesses. Thank you.

758
01:00:08,000 --> 01:00:20,000
That will conclude our final public comment. We are now going to go to a 10-minute recess counsel to discuss a few items. We'll be back with the public shortly. Thank you.

759
01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:49,000
Thank you for your patience.

760
01:00:49,000 --> 01:00:54,000
Thank you for your patience.

761
01:00:54,000 --> 01:01:04,000
As we get started, just a note. Councilmember Meister has medical emergency. She is okay, but it is going to interfere with her ability to proceed with tonight's meeting.

762
01:01:04,000 --> 01:01:13,000
So she has left the meeting for this evening. As a result, there are a number of items that by her request we kept from consent.

763
01:01:13,000 --> 01:01:27,000
So we will discuss which of those should be tabled. We also have a public hearing that we will discuss moving to a future date.

764
01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:31,000
I believe the November 3rd Council meeting.

765
01:01:31,000 --> 01:01:46,000
I know that councilmember Meister had an item of her own on the agenda that we kept from consent. So perhaps that could also be moved to the November 3rd Council meeting.

766
01:01:46,000 --> 01:01:56,000
One was the other item. The removing infrastructure road blocks item. She requested that we tabled that to November 3rd as well.

767
01:01:56,000 --> 01:01:59,000
Is that okay with everyone here?

768
01:01:59,000 --> 01:02:00,000
Yes.

769
01:02:00,000 --> 01:02:03,000
Why don't we go through it one more time with the agenda?

770
01:02:03,000 --> 01:02:04,000
Sure. Sure.

771
01:02:04,000 --> 01:02:10,000
So starting with item C1, which was the next item that we would hear the public hearing.

772
01:02:10,000 --> 01:02:20,000
We will tabled that item. The public hearing will be tabled. Or I'm sorry, continued until November 3rd Council meeting.

773
01:02:20,000 --> 01:02:28,000
Item E1 also was requested the update to the city's flag policy. I know she had comments on that.

774
01:02:28,000 --> 01:02:35,000
So we will continue that item to the November 3rd Council meeting as well.

775
01:02:35,000 --> 01:02:47,000
The F1 will be continued to November 3rd. That was the removing infrastructure road blocks item.

776
01:02:47,000 --> 01:02:56,000
Then we have F5, which was councilmember Meister's item. So we will continue that as well.

777
01:02:56,000 --> 01:03:00,000
I'm just going to ask if we could do a motion to make sure that the members are all comfortable.

778
01:03:00,000 --> 01:03:06,000
She also had questions about E5, which was the advisory board meeting.

779
01:03:06,000 --> 01:03:08,000
That's right. Thank you.

780
01:03:08,000 --> 01:03:11,000
New there's another.

781
01:03:11,000 --> 01:03:16,000
So we'll continue that one to the third as well.

782
01:03:16,000 --> 01:03:20,000
So with that, we'll take a motion. We have a motion from Vice Mayor.

783
01:03:20,000 --> 01:03:24,000
And a second from Councilmember Erickson. Do we need to repeat that one more time?

784
01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:32,000
Before we go, can I ask the city clerk? Are there any people here who are going to speak on those items?

785
01:03:32,000 --> 01:03:37,000
That's right. There were. We had one individual signed up to speak for the public hearing.

786
01:03:37,000 --> 01:03:41,000
Brendan Zavala.

787
01:03:41,000 --> 01:03:47,000
But Brendan's fine. Brendan will be here in two weeks.

788
01:03:47,000 --> 01:03:55,000
E1. We are tabling. So we had one individual signed up for E1.

789
01:03:55,000 --> 01:04:02,000
E3. We are keeping on the agenda. The equitable building standards. That's staying.

790
01:04:02,000 --> 01:04:14,000
E4 is staying. That one's okay. F1. We had several people signed up to speak for that item.

791
01:04:14,000 --> 01:04:17,000
And that was it. And then F5. We didn't have any.

792
01:04:17,000 --> 01:04:18,000
No.

793
01:04:18,000 --> 01:04:22,000
You mentioned she didn't have any significant.

794
01:04:22,000 --> 01:04:26,000
Oh, that I confused that one of E5. I'm sorry.

795
01:04:26,000 --> 01:04:29,000
I believe E1. We'll talk with her about anything.

796
01:04:29,000 --> 01:04:30,000
Understood.

797
01:04:30,000 --> 01:04:32,000
Me adjustments. But she said it wasn't.

798
01:04:32,000 --> 01:04:34,000
It was E5. I knew that that's what it was.

799
01:04:34,000 --> 01:04:37,000
So E1 is going to stay.

800
01:04:37,000 --> 01:04:38,000
E1 can stay.

801
01:04:38,000 --> 01:04:42,000
So it's C1, E5, F1 and F5.

802
01:04:43,000 --> 01:04:44,000
We'll be.

803
01:04:44,000 --> 01:04:46,000
Double to November 3rd. Okay.

804
01:04:46,000 --> 01:04:48,000
Continue. Yep. Okay.

805
01:04:48,000 --> 01:04:51,000
And if we.

806
01:04:51,000 --> 01:04:55,000
I'm assuming we're going to vote in favor of continuing these items.

807
01:04:55,000 --> 01:05:00,000
If there are people who are unable to come back for those items.

808
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:04,000
Maybe Melissa, you can check to see many of the speakers.

809
01:05:04,000 --> 01:05:07,000
We can hear them later in the meeting.

810
01:05:07,000 --> 01:05:08,000
That's right. Okay.

811
01:05:08,000 --> 01:05:10,000
Under the second public comment period.

812
01:05:11,000 --> 01:05:13,000
Okay. So there is a motion.

813
01:05:13,000 --> 01:05:16,000
And a second motion from Vice-Marm Heilman.

814
01:05:16,000 --> 01:05:18,000
Second from Council Member Ericsson.

815
01:05:18,000 --> 01:05:20,000
To amend tonight's agenda.

816
01:05:20,000 --> 01:05:23,000
Based on Council Member Meisters Medical Emergency.

817
01:05:23,000 --> 01:05:25,000
And with that, we will take a vote.

818
01:05:30,000 --> 01:05:33,000
And the motion passes for zero.

819
01:05:33,000 --> 01:05:34,000
Thank you.

820
01:05:34,000 --> 01:05:38,000
Thank you. And thank you all so much for your patience understanding.

821
01:05:38,000 --> 01:05:42,000
We are now on item E1 unfinished business.

822
01:05:42,000 --> 01:05:44,000
The update to the city's flag policy.

823
01:05:44,000 --> 01:05:48,000
I'll turn this over to our city manager, David Wilson.

824
01:05:48,000 --> 01:05:49,000
Okay.

825
01:05:49,000 --> 01:05:51,000
City manager is coming. Oh, I'm so sorry.

826
01:05:51,000 --> 01:05:52,000
Yeah, we skipped that.

827
01:05:52,000 --> 01:05:53,000
We didn't do the consent.

828
01:05:53,000 --> 01:05:54,000
That's right.

829
01:05:54,000 --> 01:05:55,000
We're right.

830
01:05:55,000 --> 01:05:56,000
Sorry everyone.

831
01:05:56,000 --> 01:05:58,000
A little jerked around tonight.

832
01:05:58,000 --> 01:06:00,000
We're not quite into that yet.

833
01:06:00,000 --> 01:06:01,000
We.

834
01:06:01,000 --> 01:06:03,000
We've finished.

835
01:06:03,000 --> 01:06:05,000
The public comment just before we broke for recess.

836
01:06:05,000 --> 01:06:10,000
So we're coming back to our city manager's report.

837
01:06:10,000 --> 01:06:11,000
Thank you, Mayor.

838
01:06:11,000 --> 01:06:12,000
Thank you.

839
01:06:12,000 --> 01:06:14,000
Maybe Mayor Vice Mayor.

840
01:06:14,000 --> 01:06:16,000
Council members and community members.

841
01:06:16,000 --> 01:06:20,000
Just a few brief updates.

842
01:06:20,000 --> 01:06:21,000
All right.

843
01:06:21,000 --> 01:06:23,000
So Halloween.

844
01:06:23,000 --> 01:06:32,000
What's Holly will be hosting a annual Halloween carnival on Friday, October 31st from 6pm to 11pm.

845
01:06:32,000 --> 01:06:37,000
We'll come out to the Rainbow District to enjoy the costumes created festivals,

846
01:06:37,000 --> 01:06:43,000
festivities at the city businesses and special tribute to the 50th anniversary of the

847
01:06:43,000 --> 01:06:47,000
Rocky Horror Picture Show from the Main Stage.

848
01:06:47,000 --> 01:06:54,000
San Monica Boulevard will be closed from 10am on Friday, October 31st through 6am on Saturday,

849
01:06:54,000 --> 01:06:59,000
November 1st to accommodate the festivities.

850
01:06:59,000 --> 01:07:08,000
The city is now accepting nominations for the 25 Rainbow Key Awards, which recognizes

851
01:07:08,000 --> 01:07:15,000
individuals and groups who have made outstanding contributions to the LGBTQ plus community.

852
01:07:15,000 --> 01:07:25,000
Since 1993, the city has honored those who have demonstrated extraordinary dedication to advancing the LGBTQ plus visibility,

853
01:07:25,000 --> 01:07:29,000
and quality of life, locally, nationally and globally.

854
01:07:29,000 --> 01:07:36,000
We invite you to consider nominating someone who has made a meaningful impact in the LGBTQ plus community,

855
01:07:36,000 --> 01:07:41,000
or to help spread the word about this year's Awards.

856
01:07:41,000 --> 01:07:47,000
Nominations are open through Sunday, November 1st, 25 for nomination forms.

857
01:07:47,000 --> 01:07:55,000
On additional information, please visit WeHo.org slash Rainbow Key.

858
01:07:55,000 --> 01:08:03,000
Finally, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department conducted a scheduled undercover operation on Friday night

859
01:08:03,000 --> 01:08:10,000
in West Hollywood's Rainbow District in response to reports of pickpocketing and other criminal activity.

860
01:08:10,000 --> 01:08:25,000
Several arrests were made, and I'm going to ask our Captain Fannie Lapkin if she can come up and just give a brief overview of that operation.

861
01:08:25,000 --> 01:08:28,000
Good evening, Mayor Vice Mayor Council members.

862
01:08:28,000 --> 01:08:33,000
I can give limited information on the operation that occurred on Friday.

863
01:08:33,000 --> 01:08:38,000
So the operation was a pre-planned operation from complaints.

864
01:08:38,000 --> 01:08:44,000
I'm not complaints, but concerns from our businesses and our community and regards to the pickpocketing to their narcotics,

865
01:08:44,000 --> 01:08:49,000
and also to the illegal vending and some of the criminal activity during the legal vending.

866
01:08:49,000 --> 01:08:58,000
We had several arrests from a specific location where I mentioned any names, but it was not a target specific.

867
01:08:58,000 --> 01:09:02,000
The operation was meant to be in the Rainbow District.

868
01:09:02,000 --> 01:09:09,000
It was supposed to be the whole Rainbow District, so that's what it was to address those issues that have come up.

869
01:09:09,000 --> 01:09:11,000
It's not the first time we've had those operations.

870
01:09:11,000 --> 01:09:18,000
It's not going to be the last time we have those operations because when we have concerns of pickpocketing, we know that that's been a concern.

871
01:09:18,000 --> 01:09:20,000
We have concerns of illegal drug use.

872
01:09:20,000 --> 01:09:27,000
We're going to address those, and then again, as of late is the vendors, and then some of the criminal activity that the street vendors are partaking.

873
01:09:27,000 --> 01:09:32,000
Some of the social media posts indicated that it was ice.

874
01:09:32,000 --> 01:09:36,000
There was no ice involvement in this operation.

875
01:09:36,000 --> 01:09:38,000
If it's all sheriff's department personnel.

876
01:09:38,000 --> 01:09:39,000
Yeah.

877
01:09:39,000 --> 01:09:41,000
We have some questions from Councillor Barrickson.

878
01:09:41,000 --> 01:09:42,000
Thank you. Thank you, Captain.

879
01:09:42,000 --> 01:09:44,000
Thank you for that explanation.

880
01:09:44,000 --> 01:09:55,000
What is the best way in your opinion to help make sure that the message that is being put out there, which is actually inaccurate.

881
01:09:56,000 --> 01:10:07,000
It's actually getting back to the truth because on Sunday I had to tell a lot of people a lot of stuff and they refused to believe me, because I think tensions are really high right now.

882
01:10:07,000 --> 01:10:13,000
But the sheriff's department are used to waiting to fill the PIO position at the We Hostation.

883
01:10:13,000 --> 01:10:14,000
Correct.

884
01:10:14,000 --> 01:10:16,000
And again, it's part of the moratorium.

885
01:10:16,000 --> 01:10:22,000
But we did put out something early Saturday to try to dispel any of those rumors.

886
01:10:22,000 --> 01:10:23,000
Thank you.

887
01:10:23,000 --> 01:10:30,000
And then can you, because there's been some confusion around the wearing of masks given the passage of the state law.

888
01:10:30,000 --> 01:10:31,000
That just happened.

889
01:10:31,000 --> 01:10:36,000
My understanding is that state law doesn't apply until 2026 of January.

890
01:10:36,000 --> 01:10:37,000
Correct.

891
01:10:37,000 --> 01:10:43,000
And I asked one of the supervisors there and that one individual apparently was sick.

892
01:10:43,000 --> 01:10:46,000
And that's the reason why he was wearing the mask.

893
01:10:46,000 --> 01:10:48,000
There was no other individuals that were wearing.

894
01:10:48,000 --> 01:10:52,000
And for my own clarity, just to how I think I follow this process.

895
01:10:52,000 --> 01:10:57,000
These individuals wouldn't need warrants to arrest people because in a lot of the videos you say, well, where's your warrant?

896
01:10:57,000 --> 01:11:00,000
Because I thought it was ice in a lot of ways.

897
01:11:00,000 --> 01:11:09,000
But for this type of an arrest as a result of the operation, they found individuals doing certain things or selling certain things.

898
01:11:09,000 --> 01:11:11,000
And therefore they arrested them on the spot.

899
01:11:11,000 --> 01:11:12,000
Correct.

900
01:11:12,000 --> 01:11:13,000
They don't need a warrant for that.

901
01:11:13,000 --> 01:11:14,000
Thank you.

902
01:11:14,000 --> 01:11:17,000
Any other questions from the council?

903
01:11:17,000 --> 01:11:18,000
Council.

904
01:11:18,000 --> 01:11:19,000
Council.

905
01:11:19,000 --> 01:11:21,000
We're hanging.

906
01:11:21,000 --> 01:11:22,000
Thank you, Mayor.

907
01:11:22,000 --> 01:11:23,000
Thank you captain.

908
01:11:23,000 --> 01:11:28,000
Can you please clarify what illegal street bending issues were encountered?

909
01:11:28,000 --> 01:11:35,000
So we have complaints of the selling of the alcohol, selling of other.

910
01:11:35,000 --> 01:11:37,000
I want to say paraphernal, but smoking paraphernal.

911
01:11:37,000 --> 01:11:40,000
But mainly is the alcohol from some of the street vendors.

912
01:11:40,000 --> 01:11:44,000
So that was one of the things that we were going to target during this operation as well.

913
01:11:44,000 --> 01:11:49,000
So just to clarify some of the street vendors were selling alcohol, that's why they were detained.

914
01:11:49,000 --> 01:11:54,000
No, on this specific, the people that were detained were not none of them were street vendors.

915
01:11:54,000 --> 01:11:55,000
Got it.

916
01:11:55,000 --> 01:11:59,000
That was the point of the operation is to do that, but we didn't get to that point.

917
01:11:59,000 --> 01:12:00,000
Great.

918
01:12:00,000 --> 01:12:01,000
Thank you.

919
01:12:01,000 --> 01:12:02,000
Thank you very much.

920
01:12:02,000 --> 01:12:03,000
I don't have any other questions.

921
01:12:03,000 --> 01:12:04,000
Okay.

922
01:12:04,000 --> 01:12:05,000
Thank you so much.

923
01:12:08,000 --> 01:12:09,000
Okay.

924
01:12:09,000 --> 01:12:10,000
Thank you.

925
01:12:10,000 --> 01:12:11,000
That concludes your report then.

926
01:12:11,000 --> 01:12:12,000
Thank you for your report.

927
01:12:12,000 --> 01:12:15,000
We'll go to the fiscal impact on consent calendar.

928
01:12:15,000 --> 01:12:17,000
Maybe please have the fiscal impact.

929
01:12:17,000 --> 01:12:18,000
Yeah.

930
01:12:18,000 --> 01:12:19,000
Thank you, Mayor.

931
01:12:19,000 --> 01:12:28,000
The fiscal impact on tonight's consent calendar with the addition of item F6 is $429,500 in expenditures,

932
01:12:28,000 --> 01:12:35,000
$5,000 in revenue and $15,760 in waived fees.

933
01:12:35,000 --> 01:12:42,000
There is a motion from Vice Mayor Heilman in a second from Mayor Buyers to approve tonight's consent calendar.

934
01:12:42,000 --> 01:12:46,000
And just for the record, I'm re-cusing myself from item B8.

935
01:12:46,000 --> 01:12:47,000
B8.

936
01:12:47,000 --> 01:12:48,000
Yeah.

937
01:12:48,000 --> 01:12:49,000
The funding grants.

938
01:12:49,000 --> 01:12:50,000
Okay.

939
01:12:50,000 --> 01:12:51,000
Thank you.

940
01:12:51,000 --> 01:12:52,000
Thank you so much.

941
01:12:52,000 --> 01:12:56,000
And we will start voting.

942
01:12:56,000 --> 01:13:00,000
And the motion process for zero.

943
01:13:00,000 --> 01:13:01,000
Thank you.

944
01:13:01,000 --> 01:13:02,000
Okay.

945
01:13:02,000 --> 01:13:09,000
Now, on to unfinished business, item E1, the update to the city's flag policy.

946
01:13:09,000 --> 01:13:12,000
I see we have our staff representatives in place.

947
01:13:12,000 --> 01:13:17,000
I know this was held from consent for some questions that I think we have since addressed,

948
01:13:17,000 --> 01:13:22,000
but we can maybe do a quick overview unless my colleagues have any deeper questions.

949
01:13:22,000 --> 01:13:23,000
Okay.

950
01:13:23,000 --> 01:13:26,000
We'll hand it to city manager.

951
01:13:26,000 --> 01:13:31,000
So this item is a resolution to update the city's flag policy,

952
01:13:31,000 --> 01:13:39,000
which outlines the requirements for outdoor public display for the outdoor public display of governmental and non-governmental flags.

953
01:13:39,000 --> 01:13:46,000
And the procedures for flying the flag of the United States at half-staff at city hall and other city properties.

954
01:13:46,000 --> 01:13:58,000
On Wednesday, September 10th, 2025, all flags and what's Hollywood's were lower to half-staff in accordance with the presidential proclamation following the killing of Charity Kirk.

955
01:13:58,000 --> 01:14:03,000
flags continue to fly half-staff through sundown on Sundays of September 14th.

956
01:14:03,000 --> 01:14:10,000
Many community members expressed deep concern about the city's decision to comply with the presidential directive.

957
01:14:10,000 --> 01:14:17,000
In particular, there were significant outrage regarding the lowering of the LGBTQ plus flags,

958
01:14:17,000 --> 01:14:24,000
which are prominently flown in West Hollywood as a symbol of pride, inclusion, and community identity.

959
01:14:24,000 --> 01:14:32,000
Under the US flag code, when flags of the states or cities are flown from adjacent steps,

960
01:14:32,000 --> 01:14:37,000
no such flag should be placed above the flag of the United States.

961
01:14:37,000 --> 01:14:45,000
From accordance with flag protocol, the act of lowering the flag of the United States required that all the other flags be lowered,

962
01:14:45,000 --> 01:14:48,000
including the LGBTQ plus flags.

963
01:14:48,000 --> 01:15:00,000
Historically, the city has followed such presidential protocols to honor the symbolic unity represented by the American flag and to demonstrate.

964
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:15,000
Distract respect for the institution of government. However, these are complex and unprecedented times, especially in regard to traditional customs and the actions of the current federal administration.

965
01:15:15,000 --> 01:15:27,000
In this context, the city reviewed the existing black policy to ensure it appropriately reflects the core values of West Hollywood and allows the city to adequately

966
01:15:27,000 --> 01:15:42,000
the adequate discretion in when the flags may be lowered. The proposed resolution and policy consolidate the procedures regarding the display of flags and have that protocols into one policy.

967
01:15:42,000 --> 01:15:54,000
The data flag policy maintains the city's existing policy that the city of West Hollywood will follow flag protocols in accordance with the US flag code.

968
01:15:54,000 --> 01:16:00,000
This includes key guidelines for displaying the flag properly and with reference.

969
01:16:00,000 --> 01:16:19,000
The US flag code provides specific instances when the flag shall be flying and shall be flown at half-step upon the death of principal figures such as the president or former president or former president or former officials of the government.

970
01:16:19,000 --> 01:16:27,000
Chief justices, members of the armed forces who die while serving unactive duty and foreign dignitaries.

971
01:16:27,000 --> 01:16:44,000
The city's updated flag policy provides some discretion to the city manager in consultation with the mayor and vice mayor to make local decisions regarding lowering the flag to have staff on occasions that are not specifically identified in the US flag code,

972
01:16:44,000 --> 01:16:51,000
such as the recent occasion of the president or former flag floor to have staff after the death of Charlie Clark.

973
01:16:51,000 --> 01:17:02,000
In addition to the occasions outlined in the US flag code, the city of West Hollywood shall lower flags to have staff upon the death of current or former city council members.

974
01:17:02,000 --> 01:17:14,000
The city manager in consultation with the mayor and vice mayor may also direct staff to flag flags of half-step following the death of certain prominent community members.

975
01:17:14,000 --> 01:17:25,000
However, it is important to note that the flag shall should be displayed at half-step on rare occasions in order to maintain the honor and reference of the solemn act.

976
01:17:25,000 --> 01:17:39,000
When the flag is displayed the half-step, the city will share information about who is being honored for how long and for how long on the city's website and social media platforms.

977
01:17:39,000 --> 01:17:43,000
I do see that we have one member of the public signed up to speak.

978
01:17:43,000 --> 01:17:47,000
I don't see as Allen's crossburg still here.

979
01:17:48,000 --> 01:17:51,000
I don't see him either.

980
01:17:51,000 --> 01:17:56,000
Okay, so maybe if there's anybody else who wishes to comment now is the time.

981
01:17:56,000 --> 01:17:58,000
Do we have any questions?

982
01:17:58,000 --> 01:18:00,000
Comments from the council?

983
01:18:00,000 --> 01:18:01,000
Okay?

984
01:18:01,000 --> 01:18:03,000
Not seeing.

985
01:18:03,000 --> 01:18:04,000
Okay.

986
01:18:04,000 --> 01:18:06,000
Thank you very much, Mayor.

987
01:18:06,000 --> 01:18:07,000
Thank you, City Manager.

988
01:18:08,000 --> 01:18:13,000
I know this issue really troubled a lot of people during this horrific time.

989
01:18:13,000 --> 01:18:19,000
I know Vice Mayor Heilman probably when we did these policies way back when.

990
01:18:19,000 --> 01:18:27,000
For the city, never imagined a time where we would have an individual like Charlie Kirk having the flag lowered for him.

991
01:18:27,000 --> 01:18:33,000
It's a gorgeous and horrible and everything and I just know that it really rattled a lot of people.

992
01:18:33,000 --> 01:18:42,000
And that was never the intention of the city and I want to think the comms department for putting out their statement as quickly as possible to get it out there for the community.

993
01:18:42,000 --> 01:18:47,000
But those feelings have to be acknowledged and recognized because it really did a list of a lot of hurt.

994
01:18:47,000 --> 01:18:48,000
And rightfully so.

995
01:18:48,000 --> 01:18:51,000
So I'm really glad the city acted so quickly.

996
01:18:51,000 --> 01:18:56,000
I know might the mayor and I were away at a conference getting a lot of messages and trying to deal with communities.

997
01:18:56,000 --> 01:19:04,000
So thank you very much and thank you David for moving fast and you know at a time when reverence has to be held in the same way you did a really great job.

998
01:19:04,000 --> 01:19:06,000
So thank you very much.

999
01:19:06,000 --> 01:19:08,000
Council number hang.

1000
01:19:08,000 --> 01:19:09,000
Thank you, Mayor.

1001
01:19:09,000 --> 01:19:10,000
Thank you City Manager.

1002
01:19:10,000 --> 01:19:11,000
Thank you staff.

1003
01:19:11,000 --> 01:19:14,000
I wanted to thank you for your expeditious work on the item.

1004
01:19:14,000 --> 01:19:16,000
I'm certainly in favor of it.

1005
01:19:16,000 --> 01:19:19,000
It aligns with West Hollywood's core values.

1006
01:19:19,000 --> 01:19:22,000
It this update ensures that our flag policies reflects who we are.

1007
01:19:22,000 --> 01:19:25,000
The city that champions inclusion diversity community identity.

1008
01:19:25,000 --> 01:19:30,000
It also gives us the power to avoid symbolic actions that clash with our values.

1009
01:19:30,000 --> 01:19:33,000
That also for me it balances tradition with modern realities.

1010
01:19:33,000 --> 01:19:38,000
We continue to honor the U.S. flag code while adopting today's political and social context.

1011
01:19:38,000 --> 01:19:43,000
Ensuring our actions reflect both national tradition and our local principles here at home.

1012
01:19:43,000 --> 01:19:46,000
It also includes improved transparency and trust.

1013
01:19:46,000 --> 01:19:52,000
Publicly sharing wine when the flag is lowered build accountability and strength and community trust with our community members.

1014
01:19:52,000 --> 01:19:55,000
It also stream lives and clarifies the policy.

1015
01:19:55,000 --> 01:20:01,000
As council member council member it's just said our flag policy was in multitude.

1016
01:20:01,000 --> 01:20:12,000
Combined these various flag policies into one document makes the process clear cleaner more accessible and easier to follow for staff and members of the public and residents.

1017
01:20:12,000 --> 01:20:13,000
Thank you.

1018
01:20:14,000 --> 01:20:18,000
Thank you both. All right. We have a motion to adopt the resolution.

1019
01:20:18,000 --> 01:20:21,000
Do you have a second.

1020
01:20:26,000 --> 01:20:34,000
Thank you. And as council member Eric said, I appreciate the communities engagement over the last several weeks on this issue as well.

1021
01:20:34,000 --> 01:20:42,000
We'll move to item E to our public private partnership with plenary broadband infrastructure.

1022
01:20:42,000 --> 01:20:52,000
Thank you.

1023
01:20:52,000 --> 01:20:56,000
Thank you.

1024
01:21:07,000 --> 01:21:09,000
Good evening mayor.

1025
01:21:09,000 --> 01:21:11,000
Please mayor city council members.

1026
01:21:11,000 --> 01:21:12,000
My name is Eugene Sipis.

1027
01:21:12,000 --> 01:21:15,000
I'm the IT manager for the city with me.

1028
01:21:15,000 --> 01:21:19,000
I have our telecommunication consultants.

1029
01:21:19,000 --> 01:21:26,000
I have our representative from Plenary.

1030
01:21:26,000 --> 01:21:29,000
Area Jamieson vice president.

1031
01:21:29,000 --> 01:21:39,000
Tonight the city council will consider taking staff's recommendation to end exclusive negotiation agreement with Plenary to construct and operate a city wide broadband network.

1032
01:21:39,000 --> 01:21:47,000
Additionally staff is looking for city council direction on next steps to advance cities goals of expanding access to high speed.

1033
01:21:47,000 --> 01:21:51,000
We have a second.

1034
01:21:51,000 --> 01:21:55,000
And prepare what's held with future smart city initiatives.

1035
01:21:55,000 --> 01:22:00,000
Some of the background in 2016 city council dot the fabric network infrastructure and services.

1036
01:22:00,000 --> 01:22:06,000
The strategic plan of my advantages of establishing a fast and affordable broadband network including economic growth.

1037
01:22:06,000 --> 01:22:12,000
Improve services support public safety, telehealth and other smart city initiatives.

1038
01:22:12,000 --> 01:22:17,000
The city release city wide broadband infrastructure services RFP.

1039
01:22:17,000 --> 01:22:23,000
There are fielded for responses and after thorough evaluation staff identified.

1040
01:22:23,000 --> 01:22:25,000
Plenary as the preferred partner.

1041
01:22:25,000 --> 01:22:37,000
Plenary's original proposal was to form a public private partnership or a P3 to build a city wide network to meet municipal and community goals with minimal city financial contribution.

1042
01:22:37,000 --> 01:22:48,000
So in October of 2023 city council authorized the city to enter into exclusive negotiation agreement or ENA with Plenary to pursue the proposal.

1043
01:22:48,000 --> 01:22:57,000
As part of the ENA, Plenary conducted market analysis, city wide survey, feasibility design and financial modeling.

1044
01:22:57,000 --> 01:23:05,000
And the finding from the ENA determined the city would need to contribute between 25 and 28 million dollars for project to be viable.

1045
01:23:05,000 --> 01:23:20,000
So in April of 2025 city council provided direction to proceed with formal negotiation for the implementation of city wide broadband network supported by projected city investment of 25 to 28 million dollars.

1046
01:23:20,000 --> 01:23:38,000
Since council direction in April city staff and Plenary work to finalize the business terms paying detailed cost estimates for the outside plan for outside plan construction via the request for called managed by Plenary.

1047
01:23:38,000 --> 01:23:45,000
The RFQ thought competitive proposals for select most two select most qualified contractor for the project.

1048
01:23:45,000 --> 01:23:52,000
More than 20 pre qualified firms were invited with six completed proposals were received and evaluated.

1049
01:23:52,000 --> 01:23:57,000
The contract the RFQ revealed significant challenges.

1050
01:23:57,000 --> 01:24:12,000
Several qualified contractors declined to bid citing difficulties complying with city's project labor agreement their PLA, particularly given the project's reliance on specialized construction technique of micro-trenching.

1051
01:24:12,000 --> 01:24:22,000
The contractor's the DIT submit proposals provided estimates that were significantly higher than anticipated and had an extended timeline to comply with the PLA requirements.

1052
01:24:22,000 --> 01:24:41,000
The latest estimates places the city required contribution at 40 to 42 million dollars with estimated construction timelift of 30 months, which is significantly above previously estimated 25 to 28 million dollars and 14, 18 to 24 months to complete the construction.

1053
01:24:41,000 --> 01:24:55,000
He factors the contributed to this escalation include uncertainty related to multi-dwelling unit access, construction cost uncertainty due to absence of a low level design.

1054
01:24:55,000 --> 01:25:07,000
Limited contractor interests attributed to PLA requirements and increased construction timeline due to PLA training requirements to certify micro-trenching technicians.

1055
01:25:08,000 --> 01:25:22,000
Given the substantial cost escalation and higher city contribution on the current terms staff recommends ending exclusive negotiation of PLA for the construction of the network and recalivating its city's efforts to improve broadband and city.

1056
01:25:22,000 --> 01:25:32,000
Leveraging deliverables produced during the NA, city now has the strategic opportunity to refocus the tool and relaunch its efforts to improve broadband and community.

1057
01:25:32,000 --> 01:25:35,000
More specifically staff recommends the following steps.

1058
01:25:35,000 --> 01:25:39,000
Clareify and optimize the project soap and delivery model.

1059
01:25:39,000 --> 01:25:51,000
Reassess the public-private partnership structure and ownership model and hence RFP design and expand marketing engagement to attract better range of proposals.

1060
01:25:51,000 --> 01:25:55,000
And last continue to strategically invest into fibre infrastructure.

1061
01:25:55,000 --> 01:26:04,000
To wrap this things up, staff remains committed to advancing cities goals of equitable access promoting stronger, more diverse local economy.

1062
01:26:04,000 --> 01:26:11,000
And providing city was held for future smart city advancements and that concludes my presentation.

1063
01:26:11,000 --> 01:26:13,000
I'll be happy to answer questions.

1064
01:26:13,000 --> 01:26:14,000
Thank you so much.

1065
01:26:14,000 --> 01:26:20,000
I don't see any members of the public signed up to speak on this so we can come to the council for questions or discussion.

1066
01:26:20,000 --> 01:26:22,000
Comforters.

1067
01:26:22,000 --> 01:26:33,000
Don't we already have these capabilities based on the conversation we had a few months ago with spectrum being able to provide most of this.

1068
01:26:33,000 --> 01:26:40,000
As mentioned, I believe in previous staff report, so spectrum and AT&T certainly has presence in the city.

1069
01:26:40,000 --> 01:26:49,000
But certainly the coverage is not ubiquitous and coverage does not always mean quality of service.

1070
01:26:49,000 --> 01:27:02,000
And so it's a yes, there's a lot of coverage by these incumbents, but it's not ubiquitous and the quality of their service is something that could be improved.

1071
01:27:02,000 --> 01:27:06,000
But they already have the infrastructure to do it now.

1072
01:27:06,000 --> 01:27:09,000
Do you want to kind of take that?

1073
01:27:09,000 --> 01:27:12,000
Let's do that.

1074
01:27:16,000 --> 01:27:17,000
Thank you.

1075
01:27:17,000 --> 01:27:18,000
Good evening.

1076
01:27:18,000 --> 01:27:25,000
Both spectrum and AT&T have considerable infrastructure in the city as they do in the entire metro area.

1077
01:27:25,000 --> 01:27:28,000
What they don't have is fiber to the premises.

1078
01:27:28,000 --> 01:27:31,000
So they have a much older infrastructure.

1079
01:27:31,000 --> 01:27:39,000
In AT&T's case, primarily copper wiring, twisted pair copper that was originally designed for telephone service.

1080
01:27:39,000 --> 01:27:49,000
And then in spectrum, charter case, a hybrid fiber coaxial cable that was originally designed for cable television.

1081
01:27:49,000 --> 01:27:51,000
They're both very capable networks.

1082
01:27:51,000 --> 01:27:53,000
They both offer good services.

1083
01:27:53,000 --> 01:27:57,000
I'm sure they have many satisfied customers, but it's not state of the art.

1084
01:27:57,000 --> 01:27:59,000
It's not fiber to the premises.

1085
01:27:59,000 --> 01:28:06,000
It's not comparable to what your neighbors in many other communities throughout California and LA County have.

1086
01:28:06,000 --> 01:28:13,000
And it's certainly not the standard for best and class communications infrastructure.

1087
01:28:13,000 --> 01:28:19,000
Now, either one of those companies could upgrade their networks and they probably will incrementally.

1088
01:28:19,000 --> 01:28:23,000
But it is not at the stage.

1089
01:28:23,000 --> 01:28:27,000
You ubiquitous best and class infrastructure.

1090
01:28:27,000 --> 01:28:28,000
Thank you.

1091
01:28:28,000 --> 01:28:35,000
So when you came here before you all, I voted against it for reasons made true now.

1092
01:28:35,000 --> 01:28:41,000
Why you bet it on plenary to be able to step in, do the stuff, get it done.

1093
01:28:41,000 --> 01:28:43,000
There were the bees knees of what we need to do.

1094
01:28:43,000 --> 01:28:45,000
And here we are with them saying, nope.

1095
01:28:45,000 --> 01:28:47,000
I'm pretty sure they were here, weren't they?

1096
01:28:47,000 --> 01:28:51,000
And they said the same exact thing and now they're gone and out the door.

1097
01:28:51,000 --> 01:28:57,000
How much money have we spent on this, David?

1098
01:28:57,000 --> 01:29:01,000
So we're going to pay for deliverables, that planary.

1099
01:29:01,000 --> 01:29:07,000
I'm going to produce for us as part of this extra strategy in amount of $350,000.

1100
01:29:07,000 --> 01:29:13,000
Which includes the study, all the low level designs or high level designs.

1101
01:29:13,000 --> 01:29:19,000
So we also spend some money on consulting services from Joanne's team.

1102
01:29:19,000 --> 01:29:21,000
Okay.

1103
01:29:21,000 --> 01:29:23,000
I am done with questions.

1104
01:29:23,000 --> 01:29:25,000
I'll just move into my comments.

1105
01:29:25,000 --> 01:29:27,000
I told you so.

1106
01:29:27,000 --> 01:29:29,000
I hate to be here again, where we're at.

1107
01:29:29,000 --> 01:29:33,000
But this is the type of process where we are just wasting public dollars.

1108
01:29:33,000 --> 01:29:37,000
I'm processes that already exist in the infrastructure that's there in order to do it.

1109
01:29:37,000 --> 01:29:42,000
I wish we would have listened to these other corporations that actually had been telling us this whole time.

1110
01:29:42,000 --> 01:29:45,000
That they could do these things, not just certain levels.

1111
01:29:45,000 --> 01:29:47,000
I understand we all need to upgrade our infrastructure.

1112
01:29:47,000 --> 01:29:49,000
That's what I say about all the time.

1113
01:29:49,000 --> 01:29:54,000
But this process has been going on for a long time.

1114
01:29:54,000 --> 01:29:57,000
And we continue to throw money out the door.

1115
01:29:57,000 --> 01:29:58,000
It's not our money.

1116
01:29:58,000 --> 01:29:59,000
It's taxpayer money.

1117
01:29:59,000 --> 01:30:00,000
It's people.

1118
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:30,000
Money that could go to social services, that's money that could go to other funding, that needs to get done. And here we are, I think I was an intern when they started talking broadband, even probably before then. And we have another corporation that everyone bet it and said, oh, they're going to do it. It's going to happen. It's going to get done. We're here. We're finally moving the needle and bup guess. It's like, I just have to say my extreme disappointment, my extreme disappointment with how much money we are wasting on this

1119
01:30:30,000 --> 01:30:59,000
in order to go back to the table with the people that can provide it on day one. And they're willing partners. When I had to send this item to people to say, look at where we are now, I mean it was kind of like one of those faded companies, because here we're going to continue to move this forward because two of us are in the minority and three of us in the majority. And it's fine. But I hate to say it was right. And I wish we could do better on this and stop wasting money.

1120
01:30:59,000 --> 01:31:11,000
Councilmember Hang? Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, manager, Sipsis. When plenary, first approach to the city was Hollywood, how much was the amount?

1121
01:31:11,000 --> 01:31:23,000
So the original proposal was at no cost, maybe some permitting support and stuff like that. So the original proposal was zero.

1122
01:31:23,000 --> 01:31:33,000
And then it ballooned up to what cost from zero. Today we're talking, no, no, no, no, the first balloon.

1123
01:31:33,000 --> 01:31:43,000
25 to 28 million dollars. So from zero, it went to 25 to 28 million dollars. And then what's the third third increase? Today we're reporting 40 to 42 million dollars.

1124
01:31:43,000 --> 01:31:58,000
So we're going from zero and 23 to 48 to 42 million dollars of our cities money. That's what it ballooned up to. And the initial cost was I want to say zero, right? Are you confirming it's zero initially?

1125
01:31:58,000 --> 01:32:14,000
It was, but there were some assumptions that the city didn't meet that equated to do money, right? We, the original proposal was assumed we had fiber and sunset fountain.

1126
01:32:14,000 --> 01:32:21,000
That project didn't didn't go. And so that was going to be a city's contribution towards planaries. So that's why it was zero initially.

1127
01:32:21,000 --> 01:32:33,000
I mean, I understand the spirit of the item, but so it ballooned up from zero to 42 million. So it's actually going to be 42 million 350,000 because we're adding in the studies that were committed.

1128
01:32:33,000 --> 01:32:42,000
If the city decides to move forward with it, which is not what I'm recommending that $350,000 would not be paid to planary.

1129
01:32:42,000 --> 01:33:02,000
If we end the, the materials that they will produce for us, which will be useful if we choose to proceed in a different and a different way will still be useful. So it's 42 million if we move forward and 3050,000 if you choose not to.

1130
01:33:02,000 --> 01:33:20,000
So would it have a, just peer speculation, wouldn't happen cheaper for spectrum just to update their infrastructure slowly and continue to provide service without any type of city involvement?

1131
01:33:20,000 --> 01:33:43,000
Yes, for either spectrum or AT&T, there is a more cost-effective way for them to upgrade their infrastructure than any other entity because they don't have to get onto utility poles into underground conduit, negotiate rights of way, et cetera. They have the most cost-effective path.

1132
01:33:43,000 --> 01:33:51,000
Just one note though, that is not something that happens all the time without some kind of competitive pressure.

1133
01:33:51,000 --> 01:34:12,000
The places where we see the large incumbents upgrading their infrastructure and investing to their credit is where they face competition or they face some kind of other disruptive activities such as a city thinking about its own network that leads them to pay a different level of attention and invest.

1134
01:34:12,000 --> 01:34:34,000
Otherwise happens only incrementally. It doesn't happen on a ubiquitous basis and that tends to be the biggest public policy concern that I observe around the country is cities that want to be sure that the entire community has access to the new best in class infrastructure and not only select neighborhoods.

1135
01:34:34,000 --> 01:34:52,000
Part of this came from the council initiative that wanted just that there was concerns that we had for the large monopolies with spectrum and with AT&T and they wanted others to get in so the city could provide affordable internet services to those who couldn't afford it.

1136
01:34:52,000 --> 01:34:56,000
This is what this affordable cost $42 million through $50,000.

1137
01:34:56,000 --> 01:35:01,000
I just wanted to highlight that my colleague and I were in the minority and we were proven right.

1138
01:35:01,000 --> 01:35:08,000
Is this what other city has Plenary been successful in implementing this type of program?

1139
01:35:08,000 --> 01:35:17,000
So Plenary has not done fiber with the home project so we would be the first giddy pig city to make to go through that process with Plenary.

1140
01:35:17,000 --> 01:35:23,000
Plenary is a investor and they've done many public partnerships in other cities.

1141
01:35:23,000 --> 01:35:27,000
I think they built a Long Beach Civic Center in a partnership.

1142
01:35:27,000 --> 01:35:31,000
They've done some middle-mile projects in North Carolina.

1143
01:35:31,000 --> 01:35:35,000
The specific fiber in the home is they haven't done in the city.

1144
01:35:35,000 --> 01:35:45,000
And part of the reason why things went the way they are is because of that and experience in this specific type of project.

1145
01:35:45,000 --> 01:35:55,000
Well, thank you, Manager. Thank you. So this for me is a reason why we should leave technological updates to the professionals out there who know what they're doing.

1146
01:35:55,000 --> 01:35:57,000
Thank you.

1147
01:35:57,000 --> 01:35:59,000
Vice Mayor Halman.

1148
01:35:59,000 --> 01:36:00,000
Thank you.

1149
01:36:00,000 --> 01:36:14,000
I just want to clarify your recommendation is that we end all negotiations with broadband, Plenary broadband that we not enter into any contract with them.

1150
01:36:14,000 --> 01:36:32,000
For 10 million, 20 million or 40 million that as a result of the negotiations you've had with them, you've concluded that it isn't financially feasible for us to move forward with a contract with them.

1151
01:36:32,000 --> 01:36:33,000
Is that correct?

1152
01:36:33,000 --> 01:36:34,000
That is correct.

1153
01:36:34,000 --> 01:36:51,000
I just wanted to clarify because my colleagues did throw out numbers and I think members of the public could get frightened that we are in a contract with this entity and that there's been substantial escalation of the contract.

1154
01:36:51,000 --> 01:37:05,000
In fact, we have an entered into a contract with them at all and you're recommending that we not do so because of the escalating costs that have arisen during the negotiations.

1155
01:37:05,000 --> 01:37:06,000
That is correct.

1156
01:37:06,000 --> 01:37:15,000
Based on that, I'm prepared to make a motion to approve your recommendation that we end all negotiations.

1157
01:37:15,000 --> 01:37:37,000
The work that has been done I think has been important work and it will guide us hopefully as we look at other ways that we can expand broadband for the community, whether that's through spectrum or AT&T or whether it's not doing anything and allowing the private sector to move forward.

1158
01:37:37,000 --> 01:37:42,000
I think it's certainly, I'll second the motion.

1159
01:37:42,000 --> 01:37:50,000
I think it's good information that we had but clearly this is not the entity that we need to move forward with.

1160
01:37:50,000 --> 01:37:51,000
Thank you.

1161
01:37:51,000 --> 01:37:59,000
I would also like to add in so that the city's goal which I think is a valiant goal of ensuring that access is.

1162
01:37:59,000 --> 01:38:03,000
As you've been saying ubiquitous, it's available to everyone.

1163
01:38:03,000 --> 01:38:14,000
There's an equity component to that that people can have dependable coverage dependable quality at a reasonable cost, which isn't something that the city has control over when it comes to the private market.

1164
01:38:14,000 --> 01:38:23,000
This was an effort to ensure that the city itself as cities across this country are doing could make internet a utility provided through the city services.

1165
01:38:23,000 --> 01:38:31,000
And I think that is a vision that we should sell hold on to and work towards as I know you'll continue to and I appreciate the lessons you've learned through this process.

1166
01:38:31,000 --> 01:38:37,000
I know the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee has done this work, it's incredible important work that their community has been transformed by.

1167
01:38:37,000 --> 01:38:45,000
And a city like West Hollywood should absolutely continue its work and making sure that we can unleash this capacity for our residents as well.

1168
01:38:45,000 --> 01:38:47,000
So I appreciate that this may not be the vendor.

1169
01:38:47,000 --> 01:38:53,000
We have made vendor choices that have not ended up in the products that we want to see as a city many times.

1170
01:38:53,000 --> 01:39:01,000
This is not a sort of parent concern or an agree just moment. It's something that happens throughout process and so I just want to say that to the community as well.

1171
01:39:01,000 --> 01:39:06,000
Since there's been some quite a long raised and I just appreciate the work moving forward.

1172
01:39:06,000 --> 01:39:08,000
We have a motion to adopt in a second.

1173
01:39:08,000 --> 01:39:09,000
May I ask a quick question.

1174
01:39:09,000 --> 01:39:11,000
Councilmember Erickson spoke first.

1175
01:39:11,000 --> 01:39:12,000
Oh sorry.

1176
01:39:12,000 --> 01:39:13,000
Yeah.

1177
01:39:13,000 --> 01:39:20,000
Did charter tell you that they hadn't upgrade ready when this whole process started.

1178
01:39:20,000 --> 01:39:30,000
Charter was one of the four responders to the RFP and their proposal was what is called a bulk agreement.

1179
01:39:30,000 --> 01:39:43,000
So what bulk agreement meant is in the terms they provided include every single non current spectrum customer will be covered under that.

1180
01:39:43,000 --> 01:39:49,000
So net new customers that required no construction for spectrum.

1181
01:39:49,000 --> 01:39:54,000
So only where they had service so if a one covered area they wouldn't construct under that.

1182
01:39:54,000 --> 01:40:06,000
Then they would agree to a certain rate that will be locked in for five years that the city would have to pay for and then charge back the end customer.

1183
01:40:06,000 --> 01:40:11,000
It didn't matter whether the customers using service or not once you're in the contract.

1184
01:40:11,000 --> 01:40:14,000
The city was on the hook to pay for that.

1185
01:40:14,000 --> 01:40:21,000
So they did not commit to any construction and their service improvements in the proposal.

1186
01:40:21,000 --> 01:40:22,000
Great.

1187
01:40:22,000 --> 01:40:23,000
Thank you.

1188
01:40:23,000 --> 01:40:26,000
And you said something really important right away at the beginning.

1189
01:40:26,000 --> 01:40:28,000
You say many things because you're very smart.

1190
01:40:28,000 --> 01:40:30,000
But you've been with us for a very long time.

1191
01:40:30,000 --> 01:40:39,000
However, you said that planetary did not want to abide by the city's PLA.

1192
01:40:40,000 --> 01:40:42,000
You said, what did you say we got a PLA?

1193
01:40:42,000 --> 01:40:44,000
No, that that's not.

1194
01:40:44,000 --> 01:40:55,000
Can you rephrase then so chart so well planary as they as the construction companies started exploring was you know construction proposals.

1195
01:40:55,000 --> 01:41:01,000
They they obviously looked into the PLA requirement and so the 40 to 42 million dollar.

1196
01:41:01,000 --> 01:41:07,000
That includes what was approved by council as far as scope, including the PLA.

1197
01:41:07,000 --> 01:41:12,000
So to comply with the PLA requirements, that's what it would cost.

1198
01:41:12,000 --> 01:41:25,000
The planary did create a scenario where the PLA would be modified and what they wanted to modify is they wanted all these companies the construction companies.

1199
01:41:25,000 --> 01:41:32,000
They want to use their own microchrenching crews because that is a very specific trait.

1200
01:41:32,000 --> 01:41:46,000
It's relatively new and to in order to train labor hall microchrench crews that would take it significant amount of time.

1201
01:41:46,000 --> 01:41:50,000
That makes the project longer and more expensive.

1202
01:41:50,000 --> 01:42:00,000
So they're not against the PLA, they're fully ready to to comply with the PLA is just to cost balloon more than they even dissipator.

1203
01:42:00,000 --> 01:42:03,000
Thank you for clarifying council.

1204
01:42:03,000 --> 01:42:06,000
Thank you mayor my apologies earlier.

1205
01:42:06,000 --> 01:42:12,000
Would planary consider reimbursing the city back $350,000 for leading us down this.

1206
01:42:12,000 --> 01:42:14,000
No construction.

1207
01:42:15,000 --> 01:42:22,000
The $250,000 was committed contractually and approved by council.

1208
01:42:22,000 --> 01:42:28,000
So I don't know, they produce a lot of work on our behalf, a lot of valuable work.

1209
01:42:28,000 --> 01:42:32,000
So I don't know, I can certainly raise it to that, but I don't know if that's appropriate.

1210
01:42:32,000 --> 01:42:38,000
I just feel like it went from zero to 2828 million to 48 to 42 million.

1211
01:42:39,000 --> 01:42:41,000
So they produce.

1212
01:42:41,000 --> 01:42:45,000
Let's not get those costs weren't cost incurred by the city to be clear.

1213
01:42:45,000 --> 01:42:54,000
The cost incurred by the city were the $350,000 which was the work that allowed us to come forward with the recommendations today that say there is a series of next steps.

1214
01:42:54,000 --> 01:42:56,000
But not with plenary.

1215
01:42:56,000 --> 01:43:03,000
And then the $250,000 was city share of the expenses, which is up to 50%.

1216
01:43:03,000 --> 01:43:08,000
So planary spend probably as much as not more than $350,000 in their own.

1217
01:43:08,000 --> 01:43:12,000
Yeah, none of us up here are suggesting we enter into this agreement.

1218
01:43:12,000 --> 01:43:14,000
There are two of us that want to move forward.

1219
01:43:14,000 --> 01:43:15,000
Four of us want to get broadband.

1220
01:43:15,000 --> 01:43:18,000
Two of us disagree in a different way.

1221
01:43:18,000 --> 01:43:21,000
So to vice mayor and the mayor's right point.

1222
01:43:21,000 --> 01:43:25,000
Not of us are trying to, well, that's not my intent to alarm people with numbers.

1223
01:43:25,000 --> 01:43:27,000
I know it's not my colleagues intent either.

1224
01:43:27,000 --> 01:43:32,000
But the fact that again, we said this was never going to work out.

1225
01:43:32,000 --> 01:43:34,000
And here we are.

1226
01:43:34,000 --> 01:43:35,000
It's alarming.

1227
01:43:35,000 --> 01:43:41,000
So come back and hopefully we don't spend more money on this for another program that's going to die.

1228
01:43:44,000 --> 01:43:46,000
Thank you for your work on this.

1229
01:43:46,000 --> 01:43:51,000
I remain excited about the broadband opportunities in the city and thank you for your work to continue pursuing it.

1230
01:43:51,000 --> 01:43:56,000
So we have a motion and a second on the table to end this negotiation.

1231
01:44:00,000 --> 01:44:01,000
Thank you.

1232
01:44:02,000 --> 01:44:16,000
We'll move to item E3, the update on proposed equitable building performance standards and consideration of extension of benchmarking deadlines and exclusion of condominiums from benchmarking requirements.

1233
01:44:16,000 --> 01:44:19,000
Thank you to our team of staff representatives.

1234
01:44:19,000 --> 01:44:20,000
We're joining us now.

1235
01:44:20,000 --> 01:44:24,000
We'll allow you to get seated and prepared and then take it over whenever you're ready.

1236
01:44:24,000 --> 01:44:26,000
Good evening mayor.

1237
01:44:26,000 --> 01:44:28,000
Vice mayor and council members.

1238
01:44:28,000 --> 01:44:30,000
Nick mayor is a director of community development.

1239
01:44:30,000 --> 01:44:31,000
Join by friends.

1240
01:44:31,000 --> 01:44:34,000
Go contraris our language planning manager and senior planner.

1241
01:44:34,000 --> 01:44:39,000
Christine Shen, who will be giving a brief presentation on the report that's before you.

1242
01:44:39,000 --> 01:44:41,000
We know this item came to the council.

1243
01:44:41,000 --> 01:44:48,000
Previously was considered and approved on first reading with some additional items that staff will request to investigate.

1244
01:44:48,000 --> 01:44:53,000
And so we're coming back to you as a follow up and I will hand it off to Christine.

1245
01:44:53,000 --> 01:44:54,000
Thank you.

1246
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:10,000
Sorry, you've been one minute.

1247
01:45:10,000 --> 01:45:17,360
All right. Good evening, Mayor. Vice Mayor and council members. I'll be giving a five minute presentation

1248
01:45:17,360 --> 01:45:23,040
on updates on the equitable building performance standards, which aim to improve the energy

1249
01:45:23,040 --> 01:45:29,120
performance of existing buildings in West Hollywood and is a critical program needed to reach

1250
01:45:29,120 --> 01:45:34,480
the city's carbon neutrality goal, while also meeting other city-wide goals for the maintenance

1251
01:45:34,480 --> 01:45:41,920
of aging housing stock and public health. On August 4, City Council passed the first reading

1252
01:45:41,920 --> 01:45:48,800
of the ordinance and requested staff to provide building cost, prototypes, financial assistance,

1253
01:45:48,800 --> 01:45:53,200
considerations for rent-stabilized housing and conduct additional outreach.

1254
01:46:04,400 --> 01:46:10,880
Thanks. The presentation has paused for those at home watching and wondering.

1255
01:46:11,600 --> 01:46:14,640
Give us just a second to address the tech and we'll be right back.

1256
01:46:18,800 --> 01:46:48,560
All right. A quick recap of the ordinance, it would require buildings over 20,000 square

1257
01:46:48,560 --> 01:46:54,320
feet to submit their energy data annually, also known as benchmarking. Down the line,

1258
01:46:54,320 --> 01:46:59,920
these covered buildings would need to meet and maintain interim and final performance targets.

1259
01:47:00,480 --> 01:47:06,880
If those targets can't be achieved, buildings have the option to complete a building performance action plan,

1260
01:47:06,880 --> 01:47:11,120
which is a long-term plan on how they will eventually meet the next performance target.

1261
01:47:11,840 --> 01:47:19,440
City Council requested cost prototypes and real-world outcomes. The team use results from the

1262
01:47:19,440 --> 01:47:26,080
statewide cost effectiveness study, which provides the incremental costs of replacing systems at burnout

1263
01:47:26,080 --> 01:47:31,680
for high efficiency and electric options. We applied the incremental cost from the study to

1264
01:47:31,680 --> 01:47:36,560
two hypothetical building scenarios of what we would see in West Hollywood, which can be found in

1265
01:47:36,560 --> 01:47:43,440
attachment B. The team also found case studies of comprehensive decarbonization projects in the

1266
01:47:43,440 --> 01:47:52,160
LA region, which can be found in attachment C. City Council also raised concerns about the potential

1267
01:47:52,160 --> 01:47:58,560
of the equitable building performance standard, also known as EBPS, leading to the corporate consolidation

1268
01:47:58,560 --> 01:48:04,960
of rent-stabilized housing. To prevent displacement and protect our smaller landlords in the city,

1269
01:48:05,440 --> 01:48:12,560
we've spoke to for an equity priority building program, which will offer targeted at reach

1270
01:48:12,560 --> 01:48:19,360
technical assistance and financial assistance, specifically to our SO at affordable housing buildings.

1271
01:48:19,360 --> 01:48:26,240
And this will be on top of the regular outreach and services the city plans to offer all covered buildings.

1272
01:48:27,280 --> 01:48:33,280
In addition, the city is engaging with the following organizations that offer financial and

1273
01:48:33,280 --> 01:48:38,800
technical assistance that our rent-stabilized buildings could stack on top of the programming that

1274
01:48:38,800 --> 01:48:47,920
we will directly offer to them. Council also directed staff to conduct additional outreach specifically

1275
01:48:47,920 --> 01:48:54,640
to condo owners and HOA management companies. In response staff mailed postcards to over

1276
01:48:54,640 --> 01:49:02,560
3,800 condo owners and emailed close to 80 HOA management companies. This spurred more dialogue with

1277
01:49:02,560 --> 01:49:10,400
new and existing condo stakeholders. From our conversations, the condo owners dress the challenges

1278
01:49:10,400 --> 01:49:16,800
they face as a building with multiple owners and financing that's dependent on all owners in the building

1279
01:49:16,800 --> 01:49:23,120
being able to pay their dues. Many condo owners, including older adults on fixed incomes,

1280
01:49:23,120 --> 01:49:30,640
may face difficulty absorbing increase assessments, especially as some are already in a rears and struggling

1281
01:49:30,640 --> 01:49:38,480
to afford their current HOA assessments. Given these unique circumstances, staff has identified

1282
01:49:38,480 --> 01:49:45,520
another policy option for how to approach condos. Council could move forward with the draft ordinance

1283
01:49:45,520 --> 01:49:52,640
as is, which requires condos common areas to meet performance targets or city council could direct

1284
01:49:52,640 --> 01:49:59,760
staff to exclude condos from meeting performance targets, requiring them only to benchmark, which is

1285
01:49:59,760 --> 01:50:06,320
reporting their energy usage and addressing condos significant impact with other policies and programs.

1286
01:50:08,720 --> 01:50:15,360
Given the significant impacts that greenhouse gas impacts that condos have, the city's approach will

1287
01:50:15,360 --> 01:50:20,400
have impacts on its climate goals, which will need to be balanced with the needs of the community.

1288
01:50:21,360 --> 01:50:27,920
Here is the policy's greenhouse gas reduction potential under two condos scenarios.

1289
01:50:28,880 --> 01:50:34,080
Based on input from the condos, the ordinance that we brought to city council in August

1290
01:50:34,080 --> 01:50:39,680
regulated only the common areas of condos. This reduced the policy's greenhouse gas reduction

1291
01:50:39,680 --> 01:50:47,040
potential from 45% to 30%. If council would like to remove condos from meeting performance targets

1292
01:50:47,040 --> 01:50:52,640
all together, the greenhouse gas impact of the policy would be further reduced to 25%.

1293
01:50:53,040 --> 01:51:01,440
To help close the gap in greenhouse gas emissions, the city would explore other policies like

1294
01:51:01,440 --> 01:51:11,200
reach codes to meet our goals. In addition to the discussion on condos, staff requests a minor

1295
01:51:11,200 --> 01:51:16,960
revision to the ordinance that would allow impacted building owners more time to complete their first

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01:51:16,960 --> 01:51:21,920
benchmark, and also for the city to support initial compliance efforts.

1297
01:51:24,480 --> 01:51:31,760
Here are the recommendations and based on city council's direction on condos, staff may bring back a

1298
01:51:31,760 --> 01:51:38,560
revised ordinance for public hearing. That concludes the presentation. Thank you. Thank you very much.

1299
01:51:38,560 --> 01:51:43,120
I know we have one member of the public signed up to speak in chambers, so why don't we go there first

1300
01:51:43,120 --> 01:51:47,680
and then we'll come back to council discussion deliberation? Kevin Burton, I'm glad you knew it was you.

1301
01:51:54,400 --> 01:51:58,480
Kevin Burton, resident of West. Hollywood, I'll have to say that I'm

1302
01:51:59,600 --> 01:52:06,000
firstly thankful to staff for all the work they've done on the building performance standards ordinance

1303
01:52:06,000 --> 01:52:13,040
and taking into account council's concerns, but I'm a little discouraged by the

1304
01:52:13,440 --> 01:52:21,520
wittling away of the positive benefits of the building performance standards ordinance. First,

1305
01:52:21,520 --> 01:52:28,400
single family homes were removed. Then condo owners were removed. Now the common areas are being removed.

1306
01:52:28,400 --> 01:52:34,480
So it's all being put on rentals, much of which are rent stabilized. The idea that

1307
01:52:34,480 --> 01:52:40,800
somehow the renters aren't going to have to pay as absurd because the owners will figure that

1308
01:52:40,800 --> 01:52:46,720
at the end of the cost of the market rates that they charge when the units turn over.

1309
01:52:46,720 --> 01:52:52,320
Red stabilized buildings, of course the renters are going to pay. So I think it's completely

1310
01:52:52,320 --> 01:52:59,520
at the medical to adding this adjective equitable to say only renters and a permanent owner

1311
01:53:00,240 --> 01:53:06,400
owners should be paying to help reduce city's carbon emissions through their buildings.

1312
01:53:07,120 --> 01:53:14,320
Condo owners should do it. Single family home owners should do it. That would be equitable. And the

1313
01:53:14,320 --> 01:53:21,520
city is making admirable efforts to help the financially needy mom and pop a burden owner buildings.

1314
01:53:21,520 --> 01:53:27,120
I've witnessed such a building. They deserve help. Absolutely. Those owners, they could do the same

1315
01:53:27,120 --> 01:53:34,080
for individual condo owners in a building who need assistance. They could do the same for

1316
01:53:34,080 --> 01:53:39,920
single family home owners who need assistance. There are many of the other condos are homes for

1317
01:53:39,920 --> 01:53:46,400
decades. Now I'm fixed income for need assistance. But it should apply to everybody to really have

1318
01:53:46,400 --> 01:53:51,840
teeth to this program to help the city reach its carbon neutrality goals. Thank you.

1319
01:53:52,480 --> 01:53:57,120
Thank you. Come back to the council for discussion. Vice Mayor, were you ready?

1320
01:53:58,320 --> 01:54:06,160
I'm sorry. I thought you put your name on. Sure. Thank you. Thank you to Christine and the team for

1321
01:54:06,160 --> 01:54:17,040
bringing this forward. I'm wondering if we have looked at some of the items that generate greenhouse

1322
01:54:17,040 --> 01:54:28,640
gas like boilers. Some of the condos and some of the apartment buildings have gas powered boilers.

1323
01:54:29,840 --> 01:54:36,400
Wouldn't it make sense for us to just adopt new regulations that say if you're replacing the boiler,

1324
01:54:36,400 --> 01:54:46,000
it has to be electric. And rather than imposing this, just have new standards for any kind of replacement.

1325
01:54:46,080 --> 01:54:52,320
Have you looked at that? Yes. So that would be the policy that we would most likely

1326
01:54:52,880 --> 01:55:00,320
bring to council is an existing building reach code that will target the high impact appliances

1327
01:55:00,320 --> 01:55:07,760
at the time of replacement. Because I think as Kevin pointed out, somebody pays for this.

1328
01:55:09,120 --> 01:55:15,120
Actually existing tenants won't pay because the landlords can't raise the rents on the existing

1329
01:55:15,120 --> 01:55:21,520
tenants, but new tenants would have to pay. Condo owners would have to pay. If we extend this to

1330
01:55:21,520 --> 01:55:30,400
single family home owners, they would have to pay. And it is expensive. Some of the upgrades that need to be

1331
01:55:30,400 --> 01:55:39,600
done. I appreciate that you've removed or you're recommending that we look at removing condos from

1332
01:55:40,320 --> 01:55:46,080
this because most condo owners are like single family home owners that they're just in a big building.

1333
01:55:49,520 --> 01:55:59,120
And some of the information in the report still seems problematic to me because it seems like they're

1334
01:55:59,120 --> 01:56:09,200
still a lack of awareness of how condos actually operate. HVAC systems, for instance,

1335
01:56:09,760 --> 01:56:16,800
at least in most buildings, I'm aware of it isn't a building wide system. It may be for hallways,

1336
01:56:16,800 --> 01:56:24,880
but individual units have their own individual HVAC systems. So each individual homeowner may

1337
01:56:25,440 --> 01:56:34,640
end up replacing their system or upgrading it. I think it makes at least if we are going to

1338
01:56:34,640 --> 01:56:45,440
exempt condos, which I support because I've heard the concerns raised, I think we need to update our

1339
01:56:45,440 --> 01:56:54,080
standards for replacement equipment so that when new equipment does have to be brought into a building,

1340
01:56:54,240 --> 01:57:01,840
it's energy efficient. That was my comment. I'm sure I'll have more after we have discussion.

1341
01:57:02,480 --> 01:57:07,120
Vice Mayor, to the point you're making, because I can appreciate the challenge around condominiums.

1342
01:57:07,120 --> 01:57:11,360
And that's why I sort of easier to hear from you, somebody who lives this experience,

1343
01:57:11,360 --> 01:57:18,560
how often are those appliance upgrades made, though? They're typically made as needed. And all condos

1344
01:57:18,640 --> 01:57:26,400
are required to have a, you know, a capital improvement plan that we update every couple of years to

1345
01:57:26,400 --> 01:57:34,880
make sure we are putting aside enough money so that if the doors need to be replaced, we have adequate

1346
01:57:34,880 --> 01:57:44,640
resources there. If the boiler or the... The room, for the elevator, we just... I was in charge of

1347
01:57:44,640 --> 01:57:52,160
that project in my building, we had to replace all of the elevator operating equipment. It was a

1348
01:57:52,160 --> 01:57:58,800
more than a million dollar project, but we had been setting aside money each year from our dues to do

1349
01:57:58,800 --> 01:58:07,200
that. And we have the same thing in our program for the boiler replacement, because usually the useful

1350
01:58:07,200 --> 01:58:13,600
life of that kind of equipment would probably be about 20 years and you put aside a certain amount of

1351
01:58:13,600 --> 01:58:21,600
money for that kind of capital replacement. So all of the buildings are likely going to have to update

1352
01:58:21,600 --> 01:58:28,160
most of the major equipment. They may not be doing it on the time of the frame that was originally

1353
01:58:28,160 --> 01:58:33,200
recommended here. That's helpful information. Are there questions on this council emergency?

1354
01:58:33,920 --> 01:58:38,080
Thank you so much for this hard work. I know it seems very well it is very challenging.

1355
01:58:38,160 --> 01:58:44,560
I know we have gotten a lot of public correspondence about this and Jennifer sent me a really

1356
01:58:44,560 --> 01:58:50,960
nice email about single family homes and why they are excluded, but for the edification of what we have to

1357
01:58:50,960 --> 01:58:59,280
do tonight. I know that's a next step in this process. Could you just explain to the public why not now

1358
01:58:59,280 --> 01:59:05,040
they're not included in kind of what the process is for that moving forward. So we can tell individuals

1359
01:59:05,040 --> 01:59:11,920
who are concerned about the economic aspect about this, but the reasons why it's moving in a certain

1360
01:59:11,920 --> 01:59:19,520
direction. Yes. So building performance standards, they target the largest buildings in a city

1361
01:59:19,520 --> 01:59:26,320
so that since these buildings have the most greenhouse gas impacts. So typically for single family homes

1362
01:59:26,320 --> 01:59:33,040
and other smaller buildings, there are other policies that other cities that cities adopt in order to

1363
01:59:33,040 --> 01:59:39,760
decarbonize those buildings. One example is existing building reach codes which would target the

1364
01:59:39,760 --> 01:59:49,440
replacement of appliances. So we would in the future bring forward reach codes that would target the

1365
01:59:49,440 --> 01:59:54,960
single family as well as building smaller than 20,000 square feet and not regulated by the building

1366
01:59:54,960 --> 02:00:01,680
performance standard. Thank you, but it's just a question.

1367
02:00:00,000 --> 02:00:12,000
Can some more hang to your questions? No. I tend to agree with the comments from the member of the public that this is about reaching equity.

1368
02:00:12,000 --> 02:00:24,000
And this program was one of the hallmarks of the climate action plan that the city approved in 2021, which meant it went through a large amount of community outreach before its passage.

1369
02:00:24,000 --> 02:00:35,000
And so this conversation has been a part of the city's dialogue for many years now that we would get to a place where we would be looking at performance standards across buildings of a certain size.

1370
02:00:35,000 --> 02:00:50,000
So while I know we've had this sort of last minute outreach from many condominium owners about the concerns, I feel like it is important step that we take in the direction of moving forward towards the city's goals and we include these condos.

1371
02:00:50,000 --> 02:01:00,000
I certainly understand the complications of that, and I think the extension of timelines is helpful to continue on going education.

1372
02:01:00,000 --> 02:01:05,000
I appreciate Vice Mayor Haileman's suggestion of appliance upgrades.

1373
02:01:05,000 --> 02:01:19,000
And I'm not certain that that would be a significant, you know, reach towards our goals, especially without knowing the sort of timelines that the many buildings are operating and perhaps otherwise imposing a certain different timeline.

1374
02:01:19,000 --> 02:01:28,000
You know, if that was the route we were going maybe instead we say by this date that has to happen regardless of what else would have been happening, other maintenance schedules.

1375
02:01:28,000 --> 02:01:39,000
And I think either one of those challenges is going to impose a certain cost challenge onto condominium owners that we've already named as a city we feel responsible for stepping up in many ways.

1376
02:01:39,000 --> 02:01:46,000
So there's a financial burden that building owners at large are going to be dealing with as they wrap their heads around these changes.

1377
02:01:46,000 --> 02:01:51,000
And we are recognizing the way that we as a city may need to play a role in that.

1378
02:01:51,000 --> 02:02:01,000
So both routes, I think, come back to the place that financial need as we address the climate concerns we have as a city and the way that we are working to address them.

1379
02:02:01,000 --> 02:02:16,000
So I'm not certain that the maintenance, you know, component updates is the best way I do think the route that you've put on the table for us tonight is the the best way to reach this equitable climate goal that we share as a city.

1380
02:02:16,000 --> 02:02:20,000
So I'm in support of the ordinance that you brought forward to us tonight.

1381
02:02:20,000 --> 02:02:26,000
Are there any other comments or questions from the council? Vice Mayor.

1382
02:02:26,000 --> 02:02:36,000
Yeah, I'd ask staff to clarify the ordinance that they're bringing forward to us tonight.

1383
02:02:36,000 --> 02:02:42,000
Yeah, thank you. Vice Mayor. So yeah, there is no ordinance before you tonight.

1384
02:02:42,000 --> 02:02:54,000
Yeah, we're asking for a direction and the first reading of the ordinance does include excluding individual condo units themselves, but regulating the condo open space.

1385
02:02:54,000 --> 02:03:04,000
So if there be no change directed tonight, we would bring back that ordinance on second reading at the next available council meeting.

1386
02:03:04,000 --> 02:03:15,000
Along with if you agree to an extension of the deadlines because it's taken us a little bit of time for it to actually get to the second reading of the ordinance itself.

1387
02:03:15,000 --> 02:03:31,000
I just wanted to respond to the mayor. I think we are all in agreement that implementing the climate action program is important and reducing greenhouse gases is important.

1388
02:03:31,000 --> 02:04:00,000
And we can get there by imposing a mandate on buildings and face a fair amount of resistance or we can get there by working with our building owners and trying to provide incentives trying to provide guidance and financial assistance.

1389
02:04:00,000 --> 02:04:14,000
And I would prefer to do it that way rather than imposing something on building owners who are going to then find ways to resist what we're trying to impose.

1390
02:04:14,000 --> 02:04:24,000
I think most condo owners want to make sure that they're contributing in the same way that everyone else is to our climate action goals.

1391
02:04:24,000 --> 02:04:38,000
But it makes no sense to me to require a condominium that may have just replaced their water heater or their boiler to now replace it yet again.

1392
02:04:38,000 --> 02:05:04,000
Or to upgrade a roof that they have recently replaced or to change ducks if they've already done that in the last three years and it just that to me seems like it's imposing a burden on building owners that seems unfair and not equitable to me.

1393
02:05:04,000 --> 02:05:15,000
The plan that they brought forward of removing the individual units maintaining the open space requirement. Does that find that balance for you.

1394
02:05:15,000 --> 02:05:30,000
No, because the individual owners are still responsible for the common areas so that boiler that has to be replaced or if all of the ducked work in the building now has to be.

1395
02:05:30,000 --> 02:05:46,000
That's going to be a burden on all of the individual owners there is no other entity that entity the HOA is all of the homeowners and we have to fund it.

1396
02:05:46,000 --> 02:05:53,000
So, maybe for clarity sake. Vicemer home. What are you recommending that we do right now?

1397
02:05:53,000 --> 02:06:13,000
I would recommend that we do the total exemption which was the alternative that staff recommended of condo owners but instead exclude condo owners entirely from the ordinance.

1398
02:06:13,000 --> 02:06:35,000
But direct staff to come up with programs that would change our building standards and our replacement standards so new items would have to be energy efficient and also direct staff to work at voluntary programs with condos to implement the goals.

1399
02:06:35,000 --> 02:06:45,000
Maybe this question but I think I know where you're headed to are there statewide programs available for rebates that people can get.

1400
02:06:45,000 --> 02:06:56,000
I'm pretty sure SE and others like SoCal gas have a number clean power our friends with clean power lines have a number of programs that they can get to help homeowners.

1401
02:06:56,000 --> 02:07:08,000
I mean I condo owners because I understand there was some numbers that emails via the emails that were coming in and it did seem like a large impact to some of what they were doing.

1402
02:07:08,000 --> 02:07:14,000
But we do need to meet our climate goals at the same time so.

1403
02:07:14,000 --> 02:07:18,000
I'm just thinking if that's additional direction for the city to come up with.

1404
02:07:18,000 --> 02:07:38,000
And I'm also thinking that maybe doing those kind of voluntary programs for the next three or four years with the idea that we could look at doing a mandate after that if we haven't moved forward or condos haven't moved forward with upgrading.

1405
02:07:38,000 --> 02:07:41,000
I want to just go to the city clerk.

1406
02:07:41,000 --> 02:07:49,000
Yes so the item the recommendation is to receive and file an update on the proposed ordinance.

1407
02:07:49,000 --> 02:07:56,000
We if we're making an update to the ordinance this item would have to be reintroduced on first reading.

1408
02:07:56,000 --> 02:08:05,000
And so is the intent from staff I'm sorry for asking this question at this late hour obviously to come back and reintroduce this on first reading.

1409
02:08:05,000 --> 02:08:14,000
If there are changes to the ordinance yes if there are no changes and there'd be no changes we could bring back a second words.

1410
02:08:14,000 --> 02:08:21,000
Actually we are requesting for that extension of time which if the city attorney believes that's.

1411
02:08:21,000 --> 02:08:24,000
You know enough to bring it back on first reading.

1412
02:08:24,000 --> 02:08:32,000
Can you show me where that I was literally just looking for those time limits in the ordinance I can't find them in the ordinance so that would help us make that determination.

1413
02:08:32,000 --> 02:08:41,000
Typically any changes after first reading would require a reintroduction that's a typical rule.

1414
02:08:41,000 --> 02:08:48,000
So it's not in the current ordinance because it wasn't it wasn't in the first that was adopted or past.

1415
02:08:48,000 --> 02:08:56,000
I had clarified with the other city attorney that it's a non substantial edit to the ordinance since.

1416
02:08:56,000 --> 02:09:06,000
And the question is that through our administrative guidelines we could extend the deadlines but we wanted to make that explicit in the ordinance.

1417
02:09:06,000 --> 02:09:11,000
So it doesn't have a timeline in here now and you want to add a timeline.

1418
02:09:11,000 --> 02:09:16,000
Sorry so the deadline is May 2026 for the first benchmarking.

1419
02:09:16,000 --> 02:09:24,000
We're requesting that we allow up to an extension up to 120 days.

1420
02:09:24,000 --> 02:09:28,000
That first benchmark deadline.

1421
02:09:28,000 --> 02:09:31,000
Okay which is written into the ordinance.

1422
02:09:31,000 --> 02:09:36,000
Yes explicitly written into the ordinance even though it is.

1423
02:09:36,000 --> 02:09:41,000
And the ordinance doesn't say that we can make changes to the ordinance through a resolution.

1424
02:09:41,000 --> 02:09:48,000
Because that's typically how we would make an administrative change in an ordinance.

1425
02:09:48,000 --> 02:09:50,000
This is getting a little murky.

1426
02:09:50,000 --> 02:09:57,000
So why don't we figure out all the changes that the council wants and then we can figure out the best way to process it.

1427
02:09:57,000 --> 02:09:59,000
Moving forward.

1428
02:09:59,000 --> 02:10:07,000
Okay so I see a motion on the table from Vice Mayor Heilman and that is to fully exclude the condominiums.

1429
02:10:07,000 --> 02:10:12,000
Yes I would be going back on the ordinance and having to look just to be clear.

1430
02:10:12,000 --> 02:10:23,000
Yeah I would recommend that we bring this back on first reading that condos be excluded both common areas and individual units.

1431
02:10:23,000 --> 02:10:36,000
That staff work to develop updated standards for replacement equipment, not just in condos but all buildings in the city.

1432
02:10:36,000 --> 02:10:55,000
And that we try to address the issue of condos by targeting them for some of the grant programs and encouraging voluntary updates to help us meet our climate goals.

1433
02:10:55,000 --> 02:11:00,000
And there's a second on the table for that.

1434
02:11:00,000 --> 02:11:02,000
Is that enough?

1435
02:11:02,000 --> 02:11:14,000
Yes and if we can clarify we we had added an element in their regarding benchmarking for condominiums would that be permitted.

1436
02:11:14,000 --> 02:11:17,000
Yes I think the benchmarking is fine.

1437
02:11:17,000 --> 02:11:23,000
And also in the motion it would include the extension of time.

1438
02:11:23,000 --> 02:11:25,000
Okay okay thank you.

1439
02:11:26,000 --> 02:11:37,000
We have a motion in the second I I do believe it's important that we keep those condos included in the open space so we'll be voting against it but I'm very overall supportive of this program and very grateful to staff's time for bringing it.

1440
02:11:37,000 --> 02:11:42,000
Thank you so much.

1441
02:11:44,000 --> 02:11:51,000
And the motion passes three to one so we will return with a first reading of that.

1442
02:11:51,000 --> 02:11:56,000
We'll go to item e4 the city playhouse update on site opportunities.

1443
02:12:21,000 --> 02:12:33,000
Thank you to our staff representatives we'll have you take it away when you're ready.

1444
02:12:51,000 --> 02:13:03,000
Good evening Mayor vice mayor council members.

1445
02:13:03,000 --> 02:13:07,000
Reca Abramson manager of the urban design in our texture studio I'm here with.

1446
02:13:07,000 --> 02:13:14,000
Steve Campbell who's our deputy city manager and Ryan Kristen from the coming group who's.

1447
02:13:14,000 --> 02:13:24,000
Our owner's rep project management on the project tonight before you is city playhouse update.

1448
02:13:24,000 --> 02:13:35,000
Looking at site opportunities that have now arisen based on council's direction to enter into negotiations on the.

1449
02:13:35,000 --> 02:13:46,000
I guess we can say former basics restaurant site council originally approved a.

1450
02:13:46,000 --> 02:13:54,000
Design on the former coast playhouse site to story plus mezzanine.

1451
02:13:54,000 --> 02:14:02,000
Structure for a 99 seed playhouse.

1452
02:14:03,000 --> 02:14:15,000
The negotiations to acquire the proper lease and eventually purchase the property next door opens up a few opportunities that we were asked to study.

1453
02:14:15,000 --> 02:14:20,000
Moving forward would it be possible to shift and.

1454
02:14:20,000 --> 02:14:25,000
Locate the new playhouse on the corner property.

1455
02:14:25,000 --> 02:14:40,000
The current design urbanistically sits in an info condition between buildings and yet the design sort of tries to have a sort of iconic presence that speaks to a corner.

1456
02:14:40,000 --> 02:14:47,000
So moving the design over actually could have some positive benefits to consider.

1457
02:14:47,000 --> 02:15:00,000
The current property which is recalling option A there would be some modifications that are needed to go forward just you know minor modifications to.

1458
02:15:00,000 --> 02:15:13,000
Interior and next year's stair. But if the council leaks, we could look at moving the playhouse over to the corner, which we're calling option be the corner playhouse option.

1459
02:15:13,000 --> 02:15:22,000
The big difference would be the location of the elevators in some of the circulation to make a more corner appropriate design.

1460
02:15:22,000 --> 02:15:41,000
In terms of looking at the massing, the original design had a very articulated frame in the front with a sculptural massing to move to the corner, some of those elements ideally would be retained.

1461
02:15:41,000 --> 02:15:50,000
So we had this initial study look at the key elements and moving it to the corner, what would happen.

1462
02:15:50,000 --> 02:16:08,000
And basically it's the same interior layout of the major spaces, the only difference being there would be more of a prominent corner element and now a fourth exposure that does not exist right now, which would be on florist street.

1463
02:16:08,000 --> 02:16:24,000
It would also allow for potentially a service or freight elevator to move over to florist, which would change how the servicing of the building would take place in terms of loading things like costumes and sets.

1464
02:16:24,000 --> 02:16:32,000
But also the everyday maintenance and janitorial, it would be very helpful to explore that on florist.

1465
02:16:32,000 --> 02:16:45,000
But I think in looking at that the design team and staff agreed that the way florist is currently configured, it would be difficult to load, so there would have to be some adjustments made it made.

1466
02:16:45,000 --> 02:17:02,000
And so the thought is that we could create a bit wider public right of way and integrate a loading or drop zone, which could be valuable not only for the servicing of the facilities say in the morning,

1467
02:17:02,000 --> 02:17:13,000
but then during performances could also be very useful for especially seniors or the disabled who might.

1468
02:17:13,000 --> 02:17:20,000
Right share or be dropped off, so there would be value in that as well.

1469
02:17:20,000 --> 02:17:41,000
So we recognize that florist is a very tight street and this is just one option that was raised, I know you did receive some correspondence that was concerned about this, but I don't think there was an understanding of this notched condition.

1470
02:17:41,000 --> 02:17:49,000
So the staff report sort of lays out some of the pros and cons, some of the implications.

1471
02:17:49,000 --> 02:18:03,000
It would take a little bit longer, most likely to move the place to the corner there's going to be some public public works effort needed and a new facade to be designed.

1472
02:18:03,000 --> 02:18:15,000
But not significant in terms of the overall timeframe and perhaps some additional cost as well again because you have another face of the building and public works primarily.

1473
02:18:15,000 --> 02:18:26,000
So we're happy to take council's direction tonight about whether there is a desire to move the place to the corner or leave it where it is and we're happy to answer questions.

1474
02:18:26,000 --> 02:18:27,000
Thank you.

1475
02:18:27,000 --> 02:18:38,000
We do have one member of the public here to speak in chambers, I don't know that we have anyone online in zoom, so we'll just have Ed please join us at home in.

1476
02:18:38,000 --> 02:18:46,000
And then we'll come to the council for discussions deliberations.

1477
02:18:46,000 --> 02:18:50,000
You wanted the image on the screen, without you asking for.

1478
02:18:50,000 --> 02:18:53,000
I just can't run the timer.

1479
02:18:54,000 --> 02:18:55,000
We'll time him.

1480
02:18:55,000 --> 02:18:56,000
But I can time you.

1481
02:18:56,000 --> 02:18:57,000
Okay, we'll switch back.

1482
02:18:57,000 --> 02:18:59,000
You want it for your reference in your comments.

1483
02:18:59,000 --> 02:19:00,000
Yes, that's understandable.

1484
02:19:00,000 --> 02:19:01,000
We'll time you.

1485
02:19:01,000 --> 02:19:03,000
We can do that.

1486
02:19:03,000 --> 02:19:04,000
As you're ready, Ed.

1487
02:19:04,000 --> 02:19:05,000
Good evening, council members.

1488
02:19:05,000 --> 02:19:10,000
Initially, this was not in the staff report that I saw, so I had reservations.

1489
02:19:10,000 --> 02:19:13,000
I literally live on the street just above 118 here.

1490
02:19:13,000 --> 02:19:20,000
I had concerns that the floor is as too narrow for what you're advised about the drop off and loading and unloading.

1491
02:19:20,000 --> 02:19:25,000
I literally measured between the double yellow line and the total surface of the black top.

1492
02:19:25,000 --> 02:19:26,000
It was 12 feet.

1493
02:19:26,000 --> 02:19:28,000
Delivery trucks are about eight feet.

1494
02:19:28,000 --> 02:19:29,000
I measured one.

1495
02:19:29,000 --> 02:19:30,000
That's not counting the mirrors.

1496
02:19:30,000 --> 02:19:32,000
So you're leaving about four.

1497
02:19:32,000 --> 02:19:33,000
Yeah, it's a little.

1498
02:19:33,000 --> 02:19:35,000
Oh, I'm sorry.

1499
02:19:35,000 --> 02:19:39,000
I'm leaving about four feet for vehicles to try and get by.

1500
02:19:39,000 --> 02:19:48,000
And what's not in this image, it doesn't show the entrance to the little strip model that has the robé and the cleaners and what else is there.

1501
02:19:48,000 --> 02:19:50,000
Earth bar.

1502
02:19:50,000 --> 02:19:54,000
There's traffic concerns for that because everyone's always trying to turn left into that.

1503
02:19:54,000 --> 02:19:57,000
With the curb cutout, I think that would be good.

1504
02:19:57,000 --> 02:20:02,000
I was again, concerned because that wasn't any images that I saw to begin with.

1505
02:20:02,000 --> 02:20:06,000
So if the curb cutout is added to this, I think I would be okay with it.

1506
02:20:06,000 --> 02:20:11,000
If it's not, you've got a big problem with traffic on the street.

1507
02:20:11,000 --> 02:20:15,000
I spoke with staff earlier and there is suggesting maybe at the.

1508
02:20:15,000 --> 02:20:18,000
I'm not exactly sure if it's on here, but a bump out.

1509
02:20:18,000 --> 02:20:19,000
Is that what it's called?

1510
02:20:19,000 --> 02:20:20,000
A bump out bump out.

1511
02:20:20,000 --> 02:20:29,000
Curb extension for to separate the commercial part of Florida is from the residential part of Florida is because we do have parking issues on the street.

1512
02:20:29,000 --> 02:20:39,000
I'm doing study right now to try and get to our daytime parking permit exempt on the street because of the employees parking from the business there.

1513
02:20:39,000 --> 02:20:47,000
And what's now coming on the other end of the the bike lane fiasco project is going to put a ton of parking on Florida street.

1514
02:20:47,000 --> 02:20:51,000
So those are my concerns about this project moving it to there without that notch.

1515
02:20:51,000 --> 02:20:52,000
I don't think it's a very good idea.

1516
02:20:52,000 --> 02:20:55,000
Thank you very much.

1517
02:20:55,000 --> 02:20:56,000
All right.

1518
02:20:56,000 --> 02:21:01,000
No other members of the public signed up to speak will come to council for discussion.

1519
02:21:01,000 --> 02:21:04,000
Seeing no one ready to jump in.

1520
02:21:04,000 --> 02:21:06,000
Is anyone ready?

1521
02:21:06,000 --> 02:21:07,000
No.

1522
02:21:07,000 --> 02:21:08,000
Okay.

1523
02:21:08,000 --> 02:21:13,000
I was really proud to serve on the sub committee at task force whatever we called it.

1524
02:21:13,000 --> 02:21:17,000
It was a joy to be a part of the project planning.

1525
02:21:17,000 --> 02:21:20,000
And I think had the site been available.

1526
02:21:20,000 --> 02:21:22,000
We even be more excited to have discussed it.

1527
02:21:22,000 --> 02:21:28,000
It feels like such an obvious move for this project to make as you said it is a big feature project.

1528
02:21:28,000 --> 02:21:33,000
It'll be such a hallmark of the city and our arts functions as we move forward.

1529
02:21:33,000 --> 02:21:37,000
And I think the corner makes sense and I was concerned.

1530
02:21:37,000 --> 02:21:46,000
But I'm very pleased that a member of the street has now seen it and understands the vision for traffic flow as we would not once that to become a problem.

1531
02:21:46,000 --> 02:21:54,000
And those community meetings were certainly a part of sort of configuring how all the drop off and pickups and all those things would function for that playhouse space.

1532
02:21:54,000 --> 02:22:00,000
So I'm really pleased with this design and how it came out speaking from the sub committee or committee itself.

1533
02:22:00,000 --> 02:22:03,000
To really see it get to this place is very exciting.

1534
02:22:03,000 --> 02:22:11,000
And as far as the time it will take, I think the work that's drafted to recognize this opportunity and ensure we weren't moving forward with a project.

1535
02:22:11,000 --> 02:22:14,000
That would miss this opportunity was certainly the right move.

1536
02:22:14,000 --> 02:22:16,000
I'm very appreciative of that.

1537
02:22:16,000 --> 02:22:18,000
Vice Mayor Halman.

1538
02:22:18,000 --> 02:22:20,000
Yes.

1539
02:22:20,000 --> 02:22:29,000
You know, I've expressed concerns before about how this was originally the rehab of an existing theatre and it then morphed into a

1540
02:22:29,000 --> 02:22:35,000
complete new construction and now we're looking at relocating it down the street.

1541
02:22:35,000 --> 02:22:39,000
I do think this is the right thing to do though.

1542
02:22:39,000 --> 02:22:53,000
It frees up the rest of that block for something in the future and this seems to be a better location for the theatre and I agree with the public speaker.

1543
02:22:53,000 --> 02:23:00,000
We can't do this without that cut out because the traffic there is.

1544
02:23:00,000 --> 02:23:12,000
It's difficult going to Holloway cleaners the that parking lot often backs up and then if there are also people coming to the theatre it's going to be a nightmare at that corner.

1545
02:23:12,000 --> 02:23:15,000
So I fully support this.

1546
02:23:15,000 --> 02:23:20,000
I think it's the right thing to do now that we own that corner.

1547
02:23:21,000 --> 02:23:23,000
Councilmember Hang.

1548
02:23:23,000 --> 02:23:29,000
Thank you, Mayor and thank you staff for the hard work and presentation and I want to thank members of the subcommittee.

1549
02:23:29,000 --> 02:23:32,000
I am in support of option B.

1550
02:23:32,000 --> 02:23:39,000
It positions the playhouse as a cultural landmark in a more visible spot on that corner.

1551
02:23:39,000 --> 02:23:46,000
That's me will lead to enhancements of the visitor experience to our cultural landmark in our city.

1552
02:23:46,000 --> 02:23:58,000
And, you know, it's it reminds me of how we shape our cultural and economic and economic future in our community by building this place moving into a more visible corner.

1553
02:23:58,000 --> 02:24:03,000
Highlights that and I do kind of I do sort of.

1554
02:24:03,000 --> 02:24:08,000
Understand where Mr. Holman is coming from with regards to the left turning left into else.

1555
02:24:08,000 --> 02:24:15,000
So I can see how that can bring challenges but I'm fully supportive of bringing moving that to the corner option B.

1556
02:24:15,000 --> 02:24:16,000
Thank you.

1557
02:24:16,000 --> 02:24:17,000
Councilmember Alexander.

1558
02:24:17,000 --> 02:24:18,000
Thank you.

1559
02:24:18,000 --> 02:24:25,000
And I agree with that area is very tight and you can get very it's I thought it was less than 12 feet.

1560
02:24:25,000 --> 02:24:28,000
So thank you for measuring it.

1561
02:24:28,000 --> 02:24:31,000
And I hope you did it very safely to say the least at me.

1562
02:24:31,000 --> 02:24:32,000
Don't watch.

1563
02:24:32,000 --> 02:24:38,000
You weren't in your clown outfit from Sunday so we would not be able to spot you in your Tampa Bay.

1564
02:24:38,000 --> 02:24:41,000
Buck in years off at which we love.

1565
02:24:41,000 --> 02:24:42,000
But.

1566
02:24:42,000 --> 02:24:43,000
Never that's sorry.

1567
02:24:43,000 --> 02:24:51,000
I think it's really important because I believe that area also does some valet at night too.

1568
02:24:51,000 --> 02:24:54,000
So there's a lot of traffic that goes in and out of there.

1569
02:24:54,000 --> 02:24:57,000
Hopefully they'll be using or automated lot or something else.

1570
02:24:57,000 --> 02:25:00,000
But I agree with my colleagues and moving this over.

1571
02:25:00,000 --> 02:25:05,000
This is a dream that all cities can engage in with the playhouse.

1572
02:25:05,000 --> 02:25:08,000
We need to be able to do this at a time right now.

1573
02:25:08,000 --> 02:25:11,000
And I want to thank the mayor for her service on that subcommittee.

1574
02:25:11,000 --> 02:25:15,000
And if she says it's good to go and she's set through all those meetings and did all of that.

1575
02:25:15,000 --> 02:25:17,000
And I'm going to be in full concurrence with that.

1576
02:25:17,000 --> 02:25:21,000
And thank you Ed for making sure that that those points were made up to the public.

1577
02:25:21,000 --> 02:25:23,000
So I'm in full support as well.

1578
02:25:23,000 --> 02:25:24,000
I'm happy to make a motion.

1579
02:25:24,000 --> 02:25:25,000
Second.

1580
02:25:25,000 --> 02:25:28,000
Thank you.

1581
02:25:28,000 --> 02:25:31,000
Give a motion in a second.

1582
02:25:31,000 --> 02:25:38,000
And just to clarify the record, this is for option B.

1583
02:25:38,000 --> 02:25:39,000
Option B.

1584
02:25:39,000 --> 02:25:40,000
Perfect.

1585
02:25:40,000 --> 02:25:41,000
Thank you.

1586
02:25:41,000 --> 02:25:43,000
See, Ed had the same question.

1587
02:25:43,000 --> 02:25:46,000
That's right.

1588
02:25:46,000 --> 02:25:47,000
That's fine.

1589
02:25:47,000 --> 02:25:48,000
Thank you.

1590
02:25:48,000 --> 02:25:50,000
Thank you all very much.

1591
02:25:50,000 --> 02:25:54,000
We can move on to new business.

1592
02:25:54,000 --> 02:25:57,000
We have a few items that have been continued.

1593
02:25:57,000 --> 02:26:00,000
If not F-1.

1594
02:26:00,000 --> 02:26:01,000
Tabled.

1595
02:26:01,000 --> 02:26:03,000
F-2.

1596
02:26:03,000 --> 02:26:05,000
That's correct.

1597
02:26:05,000 --> 02:26:09,000
The addressing unpermitted and unlicensed side walk vendors.

1598
02:26:09,000 --> 02:26:15,000
Do you see that we had one member of the public signed up to speak although I no longer see him here in council chambers.

1599
02:26:15,000 --> 02:26:16,000
So councilmember hang.

1600
02:26:16,000 --> 02:26:18,000
We'll turn this over to you to present your item.

1601
02:26:18,000 --> 02:26:19,000
Thank you.

1602
02:26:19,000 --> 02:26:20,000
Thank you.

1603
02:26:20,000 --> 02:26:21,000
Thank you.

1604
02:26:21,000 --> 02:26:31,000
I'm here to present item F-2 addressing unpermitted and unlicensed side walk vendors.

1605
02:26:31,000 --> 02:26:36,000
This item colleagues this item is about something pretty simple but deeply important.

1606
02:26:36,000 --> 02:26:44,000
Keeping our community safe, protecting public health and ensuring fairness for everyone who does business in West Hollywood.

1607
02:26:44,000 --> 02:26:58,000
For the past year, the city has received numerous complaints of unpermitted unlicensed side walk food vendors, causing public health, safety and other concerns when operating on the side walks of our community.

1608
02:26:58,000 --> 02:27:13,000
As we are all aware, every permitted food business is required to go through a process to obtain their business license, which includes passing the Los Angeles County Public Health inspections to ensure sanitation and safety protocols are followed.

1609
02:27:14,000 --> 02:27:23,000
These requirements exist to protect people from getting sick, to prevent food contamination, and to also make sure that the food being served is safe to consume.

1610
02:27:23,000 --> 02:27:37,000
When a sidewalk vendor operates without a help permit or city license, that poses very real health and safety risks, not just to the people who buy the food, but also to the broader public.

1611
02:27:37,000 --> 02:27:49,000
On top of that, unpermitted side walk vendors have been observed and complained about setting up and prohibited areas and blocking sideways side walks, which create pedestrian safety hazards.

1612
02:27:49,000 --> 02:28:02,000
And I believe our own Captain Fanny Latkins at the night that some of our, you know, have been seeing selling alcohol illegally to people in the community, including one public commenters said to minors.

1613
02:28:02,000 --> 02:28:14,000
Right now, the city's enforcement tools are limited due to changes made in state law, which only allow for civil fines to be issued, which are often ignored by unpermitted street vendors.

1614
02:28:14,000 --> 02:28:31,000
This item simply asks staff to come back with options that might include impounding unpermitted food carts, restricting certain locations, or other legal tools that strengthen our ability to protect public health, public safety and the fairness of our business environment.

1615
02:28:31,000 --> 02:28:42,000
This is not about criminalizing, bending or punishing people. It is about creating a level playing field and ensuring that everyone operates under the same standards that keep our communities safe.

1616
02:28:42,000 --> 02:28:51,000
West Hollywood prides itself on being welcoming, inclusive, and entrepreneurial, but those values have to be paired with accountability and public safety.

1617
02:28:51,000 --> 02:29:06,000
I respectfully ask for your support on this item, so we can take a thoughtful, balanced approach that our residents, supporters of our businesses, support our businesses and keeps our public spaces safe and accessible for everyone.

1618
02:29:06,000 --> 02:29:11,000
And colleagues, staff is here to answer any questions.

1619
02:29:11,000 --> 02:29:20,000
Thank you. I know we have one member of the public signed up in Zoom, so why don't we go there and then we'll come back to you questions here.

1620
02:29:20,000 --> 02:29:30,000
Chair, if you go ahead.

1621
02:29:30,000 --> 02:29:35,000
Thank you, Madam Clerk. Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor and Council members.

1622
02:29:35,000 --> 02:29:42,000
I want to thank you so much for bringing this item forward.

1623
02:29:42,000 --> 02:29:50,000
We're here tonight to express our support for both the Council members, items, explore the amendments, the municipal code,

1624
02:29:50,000 --> 02:29:54,000
to address the unpermanent, unlicensed sidewalk vendors.

1625
02:29:54,000 --> 02:30:00,000
We recognize the support of the role that life inside the vendors has in the community.

1626
02:30:00,000 --> 02:30:08,000
And the economy, but the growing number of unlawful and uncompetitive vendors, especially during weekend and even access creative real challenges.

1627
02:30:08,000 --> 02:30:15,000
You know, even though we have a state law, we still need to require health permits, business license says,

1628
02:30:15,000 --> 02:30:26,000
and make sure that 80 is 88 issues, and having that breadth of the sidewalk available, and all the health risks that are happening.

1629
02:30:26,000 --> 02:30:35,000
We really are appreciative of you looking at the fairness and the community standards, the justice that you looking into this would allow.

1630
02:30:35,000 --> 02:30:44,000
We need to thoughtful approach when the both protect the public safety and supports compliance, businesses, while still respecting the state law.

1631
02:30:44,000 --> 02:30:55,000
Providing staff and additional tools for enforcement, such as ability to compound equipment or risk preventing in certain areas, will help maintain a safe and vibrant and equitable environment for everyone.

1632
02:30:55,000 --> 02:31:01,000
We've seen the video with these vendors. It's quite a process. What's happening out there?

1633
02:31:01,000 --> 02:31:19,000
We do know after talking to our ambassador program, then our sheriff, and co-compliance that when our co-compliance officers walk by, they do recognize the law enforcement is coming.

1634
02:31:19,000 --> 02:31:31,000
We also have heard this with a lot of gang activity going on with these vendors, and so we're very very very concerned about what it is imposing in terms of a health issue and public safety issues to our community.

1635
02:31:31,000 --> 02:31:38,000
And not just that, but our economic vibrance in our percent more of it, which is that are there in the community.

1636
02:31:38,000 --> 02:31:43,000
So we really thank you for addressing this. It couldn't come sooner. Thank you so much.

1637
02:31:43,000 --> 02:31:51,000
Thank you. I see I don't think we have any other commenters signed up to speak, so we'll come back to council for discussion vice mayor.

1638
02:31:51,000 --> 02:31:57,000
I wanted to thank council member Hank for bringing this forward. I fully support it.

1639
02:31:57,000 --> 02:32:04,000
The only thing I might want to add is that this is a problem that state law has created.

1640
02:32:04,000 --> 02:32:17,000
And we might want to engage our representatives in Sacramento and let them know the problems that we're facing, and I'm sure other communities are facing too.

1641
02:32:17,000 --> 02:32:27,000
So that they could look at perhaps revising or amending state law to make it easier for us to do our job.

1642
02:32:28,000 --> 02:32:40,000
Thank you. Danny, could you come on down and maybe fan you just for the fun of it because I love you so much. I always love having you.

1643
02:32:40,000 --> 02:32:49,000
A couple of my first questions are while you sit down and and Paul apparently we did this before Paul Nichols.

1644
02:32:49,000 --> 02:32:54,000
When do you stop serving food at beaches?

1645
02:32:54,000 --> 02:33:01,000
So you serve until four.

1646
02:33:01,000 --> 02:33:04,000
Okay. Thank you.

1647
02:33:04,000 --> 02:33:13,000
Hi Danny. So can you walk me through kind of average incident with a street car vendor?

1648
02:33:13,000 --> 02:33:20,000
They're set up outside. Let's just say mother load, right? So you go there and you notice something happening.

1649
02:33:20,000 --> 02:33:27,000
And can you kind of walk me through because I read about it and I hear your reports and I read emails from business members in the public.

1650
02:33:27,000 --> 02:33:30,000
But can you kind of.

1651
02:33:30,000 --> 02:33:36,000
I've said this five times walk us through what you can do now maybe versus what you could have done before with the state law?

1652
02:33:36,000 --> 02:33:38,000
Sure absolutely.

1653
02:33:38,000 --> 02:33:49,000
So before we would attempt to make contact with the sidewalk vendor if we were able to acquire their identification or some.

1654
02:33:49,000 --> 02:33:53,000
Form of identification then we would issue a warning notice.

1655
02:33:53,000 --> 02:34:02,000
And then we would keep track of that and then if there was a subsequent issue with that same vendor after we provided a warning.

1656
02:34:02,000 --> 02:34:06,000
Then we would issue a notice to appear in court.

1657
02:34:06,000 --> 02:34:14,000
So it's essentially a misdemeanor citation and then that individual would have to appear in court and kind of go through that process.

1658
02:34:14,000 --> 02:34:22,000
Currently as a result of state law that removed the ability to issue notice to appear citations.

1659
02:34:22,000 --> 02:34:30,000
And now it only allows code enforcement officers the ability to issue administrative citations which are civil fines.

1660
02:34:30,000 --> 02:34:43,000
But in addition to that, you know, it's very difficult for the code enforcement officers to even make contact with with sidewalk vendors that are unpermitted because when they do see folks in a uniform.

1661
02:34:44,000 --> 02:35:02,000
Code enforcement staff or sheriff's deputies and they will evade they know because there is an inability to kind of address that from a court perspective that you're you're pretty limited in terms of being able to hold anybody accountable for not being able to produce some form of identification.

1662
02:35:02,000 --> 02:35:12,000
And do most of the individuals that you encounter are the English speaking or is English their second language or is there a communication barrier.

1663
02:35:12,000 --> 02:35:35,000
It varies. It depends on the code enforcement officer if you have somebody that is bilingual and they know that then typically it's been my personal experience that the individual will be able to convert and communicate in English, but you do have a number of individuals that will only speak in Spanish.

1664
02:35:35,000 --> 02:35:38,000
Great.

1665
02:35:38,000 --> 02:35:42,000
So this was the state law passed in 2019.

1666
02:35:42,000 --> 02:35:45,000
2018 and when it went into effect in January.

1667
02:35:45,000 --> 02:35:50,000
I remember councilmember, vice mayor, Highellman, when you adopted the update. So I'm trying to go back.

1668
02:35:50,000 --> 02:35:53,000
And then Fanny and Danny.

1669
02:35:53,000 --> 02:35:55,000
Grimes.

1670
02:35:55,000 --> 02:35:59,000
How many complaints or actual?

1671
02:35:59,000 --> 02:36:03,000
I don't want to say criminal, but like acts are you getting?

1672
02:36:03,000 --> 02:36:09,000
I mean, I know that we get the one email from that guy all the time, which is what it is.

1673
02:36:09,000 --> 02:36:13,000
But how many on an average basis?

1674
02:36:13,000 --> 02:36:16,000
Code is a complaint based system, right?

1675
02:36:16,000 --> 02:36:19,000
So when code gets a complaint, they have to go out.

1676
02:36:19,000 --> 02:36:29,000
So how often average, of course, are you saying like weekly you have to go out and deal with hot dog or sorry, whatever street vendors is mostly hot dogs.

1677
02:36:29,000 --> 02:36:31,000
But like, well, it smells like hot dogs.

1678
02:36:31,000 --> 02:36:33,000
You know, what do you have to get, do?

1679
02:36:33,000 --> 02:36:35,000
I mean, how many do you get?

1680
02:36:35,000 --> 02:36:37,000
I'd say it's every weekend.

1681
02:36:37,000 --> 02:36:43,000
Every weekend we are having reports of unpromoted street bending that is occurring.

1682
02:36:43,000 --> 02:36:55,000
You know, it could be from anywhere up to five different individuals that are reporting to code enforcement that has kind of taper off a little bit.

1683
02:36:55,000 --> 02:37:05,000
Recently, I'd say within the last three months and that is due to the fact that we've been scheduling code enforcement operations, right, on overtime.

1684
02:37:05,000 --> 02:37:11,000
So just adding additional officers that are coming in in the evening, working with sheriff's deputies, etc.

1685
02:37:11,000 --> 02:37:19,000
So that's kind of curtailed a little bit of that because I know the folks that are reporting that are within the rainbow district are seeing that presence.

1686
02:37:19,000 --> 02:37:23,000
But it's really not effective.

1687
02:37:23,000 --> 02:37:29,000
You know, the tools that the code enforcement had are very limited.

1688
02:37:29,000 --> 02:37:31,000
And Fanny, are they selling drugs?

1689
02:37:31,000 --> 02:37:33,000
Are they selling booze?

1690
02:37:33,000 --> 02:37:34,000
Are they knifeing people?

1691
02:37:34,000 --> 02:37:38,000
Are they engaging in criminal activity that is being led to believe?

1692
02:37:38,000 --> 02:37:41,000
Are there serious criminal reports from street vendors?

1693
02:37:41,000 --> 02:37:46,000
Because every time I see someone go up to a street vendor, they're drunk and they want to buy a hot dog.

1694
02:37:46,000 --> 02:37:48,000
And then they walk along their merry way.

1695
02:37:48,000 --> 02:37:50,000
They can pay in Venmo, all of these things.

1696
02:37:50,000 --> 02:37:57,000
So I'm just wondering, like, is there some big rain of crime happening around street vendors that we're not tracking to appear?

1697
02:37:57,000 --> 02:38:08,000
No, the only complaint has been the illegal selling of alcohol and that's been the only criminal aspect attached to that that we've received.

1698
02:38:08,000 --> 02:38:12,000
But like Daddy mentioned, we do get the complaints of street vendors every weekend.

1699
02:38:12,000 --> 02:38:14,000
Okay, those are my questions for it.

1700
02:38:14,000 --> 02:38:17,000
Oh, I have one for you before you go sit down though.

1701
02:38:17,000 --> 02:38:24,000
You mentioned earlier tonight that this weekend, the rate, you know, the operation at the app or outside in the rainbow district,

1702
02:38:24,000 --> 02:38:28,000
was in response to some concerns related to street vending.

1703
02:38:28,000 --> 02:38:31,000
You said you didn't detain or arrest any street vendors.

1704
02:38:31,000 --> 02:38:43,000
So what I'm hearing though is that there's already tools that allow for LASD to go out and engage with street vendors in a way that would address illegal concerns.

1705
02:38:43,000 --> 02:38:45,000
To that extent.

1706
02:38:45,000 --> 02:38:53,000
And it isn't it's all based on on complaint base because any time that we do arrest, it would be dependent on the crime and it's the deputies actually see it.

1707
02:38:53,000 --> 02:38:58,000
So the one of the biggest complaints that we received is of somebody selling alcohol.

1708
02:38:58,000 --> 02:39:01,000
So and other crimes that we have not seen.

1709
02:39:01,000 --> 02:39:10,000
So that's why on Friday that was part of the operation to try and identify with the undercover use to see what other illegal activity was happening.

1710
02:39:10,000 --> 02:39:16,000
And I mean selling crime or selling alcohol in the streets, especially to minors is certainly something we don't want to see happen.

1711
02:39:16,000 --> 02:39:23,000
So I appreciate that on a complaint basis you've responded in that way and lucky we didn't see anything happening that night.

1712
02:39:23,000 --> 02:39:26,000
What I think you both, I think that's the question you have any questions.

1713
02:39:26,000 --> 02:39:27,000
I'm sorry, mate.

1714
02:39:27,000 --> 02:39:37,000
So one of the options in the staff report besides impounding the cards is to create a zone if I'm not mistaken or a zones where they can't sell stuff.

1715
02:39:37,000 --> 02:39:45,000
Is that in violation of state law or maybe the author of the item can talk are we allowed to do that?

1716
02:39:45,000 --> 02:39:50,000
We are currently you can regulate time, place and manner.

1717
02:39:50,000 --> 02:40:02,000
As it relates to sidewalk bending to be in compliance with state law, we do have existing limitations in areas that would preclude folks right from being able to street bend.

1718
02:40:02,000 --> 02:40:14,000
I'll use major events as an example so we've established currently in our ordinance so like during Pride and Halloween that's just around the corner within that street closure you're not allowed to street bend at all.

1719
02:40:14,000 --> 02:40:19,000
And so anything that you see that's operating in there is actually prohibited.

1720
02:40:19,000 --> 02:40:28,000
So I think what the item is suggesting is for staff to revisit that, take a look at that there have been some additional amendments that have been made to state law.

1721
02:40:28,000 --> 02:40:31,000
And so just kind of revisiting that and seeing where that goes.

1722
02:40:31,000 --> 02:40:35,000
What is the staff time related to this? So let's say we pass this right.

1723
02:40:35,000 --> 02:40:48,000
How I mean I you know I enjoy going out and having a drink with friends you know friends on the council all the things I love it and go my friend you know and I understand this is a really important issue.

1724
02:40:48,000 --> 02:40:58,000
But I have seen you actually talk to people they go away and then an hour later I should not be out that late there should be at home and bed you know praying or whatever I should do my spare time.

1725
02:40:58,000 --> 02:41:11,000
But they're back and so I'm just like what is this like real commitment of staff time when code is already on weekends and the share of some course really stretched.

1726
02:41:11,000 --> 02:41:21,000
I mean in terms of addressing if that's something that the city right considered I think the first step would be for us to work with the city attorney's office.

1727
02:41:21,000 --> 02:41:33,000
For us to take a look at if there are any sort of alternative options from a legal perspective again to make sure that we're in compliance with state law and then returning back to city council for any considerations.

1728
02:41:33,000 --> 02:41:36,000
If there were potential amendments to the code etc.

1729
02:41:36,000 --> 02:41:47,000
And then kind of going from there but right now we are I'd say exhausting at least we have two code enforcement officers that are working about eight hour shifts.

1730
02:41:48,000 --> 02:41:59,000
Late into the evening hours and so you have about 16 hours just as past weekend 32 or so that we're spent and so we've been doing that almost every weekend.

1731
02:41:59,000 --> 02:42:05,000
You know for the past three months so there is a considerable amount of time that's being exhausted currently.

1732
02:42:05,000 --> 02:42:20,000
But if there are ways as a part of the benchmarking and working with the city attorney's office to make potential amendments then we would have to take a look at that and more than likely schedule an operation in conjunction with the share of departments similar to what we're doing now.

1733
02:42:20,000 --> 02:42:21,000
Thank you.

1734
02:42:21,000 --> 02:42:22,000
Sure.

1735
02:42:22,000 --> 02:42:23,000
Councilmember Hang.

1736
02:42:23,000 --> 02:42:24,000
Thank you.

1737
02:42:24,000 --> 02:42:25,000
Councilmember Hang.

1738
02:42:25,000 --> 02:42:27,000
You put your name up to see.

1739
02:42:28,000 --> 02:42:39,000
My apologies Mayor you know I think I would like to see this item table for the full council since councilmember my sir's not here.

1740
02:42:39,000 --> 02:42:43,000
So that would be what I would like to request thank you.

1741
02:42:44,000 --> 02:42:46,000
Or can.

1742
02:42:46,000 --> 02:42:48,000
Sure.

1743
02:42:48,000 --> 02:42:50,000
Vice Mayor howling you'll set some comments.

1744
02:42:50,000 --> 02:43:09,000
Well I was just going to clarify because you had asked about illegal activity and I think the intention of the item was to target those who were unlicensed and unpermitted that by itself is illegal activity.

1745
02:43:09,000 --> 02:43:13,000
I think you were referring to other illegal activity as part of it.

1746
02:43:13,000 --> 02:43:20,000
If councilmember Hang wants to continue this item until councilmember my sir is back.

1747
02:43:20,000 --> 02:43:21,000
I'm fine with that.

1748
02:43:21,000 --> 02:43:30,000
What I want to say before that the county has suspended its enforcement of public health in light of the immigration rates.

1749
02:43:30,000 --> 02:43:38,000
Because it feels like an unnecessary expenditure of resources at a time when the predominant operators who are among the immigrant community are already.

1750
02:43:38,000 --> 02:43:52,000
In extreme circumstances so I would ask for some consideration around the timing of bringing this back of tabling is what is requested.

1751
02:43:52,000 --> 02:43:58,000
Given the county's acknowledgement of the extreme circumstances that the immigrant community is already living in.

1752
02:43:58,000 --> 02:44:03,000
And what message this is in fact signaling to that community.

1753
02:44:03,000 --> 02:44:11,000
I mean more measures more of staff time more of staff resources to put something out to the immigrant community behind this.

1754
02:44:11,000 --> 02:44:18,000
I think is a message that I certainly heard in this item and I wanted to make sure it was addressed tonight as it's a conversation that was started.

1755
02:44:18,000 --> 02:44:23,000
And if we're going to consider continuing it for a future date then we can do that.

1756
02:44:23,000 --> 02:44:25,000
Councilmember Hang.

1757
02:44:25,000 --> 02:44:36,000
Thank you well you know as a child of immigrants as a child of refugee immigrants I completely understand but this isn't about immigration all this is about public health and public safety.

1758
02:44:36,000 --> 02:44:40,000
This is this is exactly what this is only what this is about.

1759
02:44:40,000 --> 02:44:48,000
If we have operators under city who are paying lots of money and fees to follow the rules why should they be burdened.

1760
02:44:48,000 --> 02:44:52,000
Why should they be over burdened with the rules when other people aren't following them.

1761
02:44:52,000 --> 02:44:54,000
You know that's kind of where I'm coming from.

1762
02:44:54,000 --> 02:45:00,000
So we have operators here that they got their permits.

1763
02:45:00,000 --> 02:45:04,640
They're doing what they're supposed to do, but yet other people are not able to do it.

1764
02:45:04,640 --> 02:45:10,400
Perhaps this item could come back with a pathway for permitting fee reduction in cost because this

1765
02:45:10,400 --> 02:45:17,120
doesn't include anything about pathways for equitable operation. It includes enforcement mechanisms,

1766
02:45:17,120 --> 02:45:21,920
which is what the immigrant community is facing and why the county has pulled back. So I

1767
02:45:21,920 --> 02:45:28,400
appreciate where you're coming from with this and that clarity and intent. But I do think that if there

1768
02:45:28,400 --> 02:45:35,200
are issues around fairness, we could pursue that through a different pathway through city process

1769
02:45:35,200 --> 02:45:40,720
that would include reduction of permit fees, education for these vendors to be able to move

1770
02:45:40,720 --> 02:45:45,680
through those city pathways. There's a lot of other outreach that could be explored and that's not

1771
02:45:45,680 --> 02:45:51,680
what was the intent of this item. I believe the intent of this item was to direct staff to explore

1772
02:45:51,680 --> 02:45:57,360
options to come back. Nothing is being decided tonight. What will be decided is when the five of us

1773
02:45:57,360 --> 02:46:02,720
look at what staff come back with for this item. So that is the intent of this. There was beyond that.

1774
02:46:02,720 --> 02:46:06,560
There was no other intent. Terrific. So we'll table this tonight.

1775
02:46:07,600 --> 02:46:12,160
Oh, sure. Councilmember Erickson and then Vice Mayor Helman, you're good. Okay. Councilmember Erickson will be the final

1776
02:46:12,160 --> 02:46:17,200
word. Thank you. And I want to thank my colleague. I understand this is a big issue that people are trying

1777
02:46:17,200 --> 02:46:24,000
to really get an understanding and a better handle on. I don't believe the argument that businesses on

1778
02:46:24,000 --> 02:46:31,200
the strip are losing millions of dollars to hot dog vendors. If you are losing that amount of money

1779
02:46:31,200 --> 02:46:36,720
to hot dog vendors and street vendors then we have to talk about a lot of other stuff. However,

1780
02:46:38,000 --> 02:46:44,400
working for a Latino immigration organization, I am good conscious cannot vote for this and it's current

1781
02:46:44,400 --> 02:46:49,920
form. Because and I would share what my colleague is saying and I know that I think the intent is

1782
02:46:49,920 --> 02:46:54,720
trying to get to the good space and I'm happy to continue the conversation. It's to ultimately

1783
02:46:54,720 --> 02:47:00,320
try to get us to a place where we could maybe be a model city for this policy. Because I think we want to

1784
02:47:00,320 --> 02:47:07,440
be a part of a solution and not continue to a problem. We all agree that it isn't issue but I think

1785
02:47:07,440 --> 02:47:12,720
when you look at the idea of impounding someone's cart as a potential issue that's their livelihood.

1786
02:47:13,280 --> 02:47:19,360
I don't know what the cost is to get something out of impounding maybe that could come back with that

1787
02:47:19,360 --> 02:47:25,200
information and the county did take away those rules and declare a state of emergency because of

1788
02:47:25,200 --> 02:47:34,400
some of the issues and I know first hand that people who do have street vending businesses, this is

1789
02:47:34,400 --> 02:47:40,720
their only livelihood right now and they're going out with their livelihoods of risk. I don't think

1790
02:47:40,720 --> 02:47:47,200
that was your and I get it. I'm not trying to go there with you but I think I would like to find a solution

1791
02:47:47,280 --> 02:47:52,800
but I would like to find a pathway to a solution that decrams the idea of taking away livelihood

1792
02:47:52,800 --> 02:48:00,000
and promotes education, accountability and for the better part of what is a model policy that we can use

1793
02:48:00,000 --> 02:48:05,520
and statewide action. I think that we can get to a place where the city can put out the message

1794
02:48:05,520 --> 02:48:12,400
like you want to be a sidewalk vendor. I'm sorry. A street vendor. My bad. You can be a sidewalk vendor too.

1795
02:48:12,480 --> 02:48:17,040
A street vendor in this way do it the right way and what's Hollywood. I think it's the same thing

1796
02:48:17,040 --> 02:48:23,280
that we did with the massage worker ordinance many, many years ago going into and rolling up our sleeves

1797
02:48:23,280 --> 02:48:28,000
and doing that hard work and so I'm willing to work with you on that. I'm willing to make sure that we have

1798
02:48:28,880 --> 02:48:35,440
the organizations that represent and make sure street vendors are equitably heard and I'm happy to help in

1799
02:48:35,440 --> 02:48:40,400
any way with that as well. Thank you councilmember Hank. Well you have the final word on your item.

1800
02:48:41,440 --> 02:48:48,320
Thank you. I think my colleagues up here I appreciate what you're saying but you're expressing

1801
02:48:49,760 --> 02:48:55,680
kind of concerns without any actual answers and sight. You don't know what staff's going to come back with

1802
02:48:56,320 --> 02:49:01,680
for all you know staff can come back with a solution saying after 30 citations then we will

1803
02:49:01,680 --> 02:49:07,600
impound the cart or maybe impound the cart may not even be an option just because it'll listen to

1804
02:49:07,600 --> 02:49:12,160
staff report it doesn't mean that that would be what staff is recommending. This is to just

1805
02:49:12,880 --> 02:49:19,200
direct staff to come back with options for the full council to decide not just me it's going to be five

1806
02:49:19,200 --> 02:49:28,320
people to decide what we feel is fair what we feel is right and with what staff brings back to us.

1807
02:49:29,200 --> 02:49:37,360
Thank you. Thank you. Okay thank we should probably do a motion to table if that's what we'd like.

1808
02:49:37,360 --> 02:49:44,720
Do you want to are we tabling it to a date certain councilmember Hank do you want it to come back at the next meeting or

1809
02:49:48,160 --> 02:49:55,120
may I ask councilmember Hank because I hear what you're trying to say could staff work to get you some

1810
02:49:55,760 --> 02:50:02,000
we've done this in the past for items like this that require code fixes could staff come with some

1811
02:50:02,800 --> 02:50:08,640
high level ideas versus getting into the I mean if they're not going to need to hire consultants and get a study

1812
02:50:09,280 --> 02:50:15,360
you know get I won't make a broad ban joke it's too soon but like you know there won't have to do that I can

1813
02:50:15,360 --> 02:50:21,040
I feel like the staff report and I feel like we're all trying to say like how can we make sure the information is provided

1814
02:50:21,040 --> 02:50:28,480
if that was possible I know it's table but I would love to see other pathways of things mentioned up here in that way.

1815
02:50:28,480 --> 02:50:36,240
Don't only make the staff report better. Yeah based on the comments tonight we could do some very high level looking at what

1816
02:50:36,240 --> 02:50:41,680
options are out there now if the councilmember wants to include that in the staff report becomes back

1817
02:50:42,400 --> 02:50:49,360
but we because it hasn't been approved I don't want to have assessment a lot of time getting that type of detail

1818
02:50:50,000 --> 02:50:54,960
but we can get some high level options and would you be able to bring that back on the third as the council

1819
02:50:54,960 --> 02:51:04,080
members that we're going to be a little bit more time so probably the 17th the second meeting I would go ahead and move to

1820
02:51:04,080 --> 02:51:12,480
table with the direction that David has suggested and I'll leave it to councilmember hang to determine when

1821
02:51:13,120 --> 02:51:18,800
he feels it's appropriate to bring it back. Thank you.

1822
02:51:18,800 --> 02:51:24,880
Colleagues I'm a couple of that thank you. Great. Okay so there is a motion from vice-mer-high

1823
02:51:24,880 --> 02:51:31,840
men second to from their buyers table the item with direction to staff to do some preliminary

1824
02:51:32,560 --> 02:51:37,840
looks into this in return on November 17th or date the councilmember hang is comfortable with.

1825
02:51:38,960 --> 02:51:40,560
Thank you so much will start voting.

1826
02:51:40,560 --> 02:51:58,080
And the motion passes for zero. We have one more item we are on item F4 our final item on the agenda

1827
02:51:58,480 --> 02:52:04,480
the reconceptualization and restoration of a music festival on the sunset strip this is vice-mer-high

1828
02:52:04,800 --> 02:52:10,320
councilmember hang is item alternate to vice-mer-high women first. Thank you mayor and thank you to

1829
02:52:10,320 --> 02:52:18,880
everyone who stayed this late. This item is recommending that we bring back the sunset strip music festival.

1830
02:52:19,840 --> 02:52:27,520
The idea is that it would be different from the previous festival in that there would be a series of events

1831
02:52:27,520 --> 02:52:39,680
along sunset to reactivate the sunset's vibrancy that we would culminate the program with a music festival

1832
02:52:39,680 --> 02:52:51,520
that would involve a street closure. The idea behind the festival is that we did have a very successful

1833
02:52:51,520 --> 02:53:00,960
music festival up there previously but unfortunately financial difficulties caused us to end that festival.

1834
02:53:02,560 --> 02:53:10,720
Unlike Christopher Street West or the Pride celebration or Halloween the city really didn't put

1835
02:53:10,720 --> 02:53:19,200
substantial resources into the music festival on sunset. So this item is recommending that we ask our staff

1836
02:53:19,200 --> 02:53:28,480
to look at providing resources using funding from our arts and advertising program up on sunset.

1837
02:53:30,640 --> 02:53:42,560
It also recommends that staff negotiate with a festival producer somebody who has experience with the sunset

1838
02:53:42,560 --> 02:53:50,160
strip it could be the previous producer or somebody similar who has experience with the sunset strip.

1839
02:53:52,000 --> 02:53:58,800
And I'm available to answer any questions because I have the cold tonight and I don't know what I'm talking about.

1840
02:53:58,800 --> 02:54:05,520
No, I'm great. Thank you. Councilmember hang, did you want to jump in and add anything? Is it a co-sponsor?

1841
02:54:05,520 --> 02:54:14,560
Thank you. Yeah, I jumped at the chance to co-sponsor this with our vice mayor because I believe that

1842
02:54:15,280 --> 02:54:23,520
this is a chance to revitalize a sunset strip. For many years a sunset strip has what I feel has been neglected.

1843
02:54:24,320 --> 02:54:31,920
Pride every year, Pride last year had $7.5 million commitment from the city. Halloween had 1.5 million

1844
02:54:32,080 --> 02:54:36,240
commitment from the city. The sunset strip really hasn't had any commitment to the city.

1845
02:54:36,240 --> 02:54:40,160
If we're going to talk about equity across all districts of the city,

1846
02:54:40,960 --> 02:54:47,280
and if we're going to talk about saving our businesses, our hotels, our restaurants, our retail,

1847
02:54:47,280 --> 02:54:54,320
on sunset Boulevard, I believe that I whole Harley believe this festival is the vessel is the vehicle to begin to

1848
02:54:54,320 --> 02:55:01,200
make that happen. We have an opportunity to seize the moment right now and bring back to West Hollywood

1849
02:55:01,200 --> 02:55:10,240
what sunset Boulevard once was. I'm tired of seeing news articles about closed restaurants, about failed

1850
02:55:10,240 --> 02:55:17,440
businesses on sunset, and this is a chance for us to rewrite that narrative. So this is a chance for us as

1851
02:55:17,440 --> 02:55:23,760
a council to invest into the sunset strip and to make this city a continued success.

1852
02:55:26,720 --> 02:55:31,840
We have one speaker signed up in Zoom. I don't think we have anybody in council chambers.

1853
02:55:37,840 --> 02:55:44,000
Jennifer, go ahead. Thank you, Madam Clerk. What do you mean mayor? Vice Mayor,

1854
02:55:44,000 --> 02:55:49,280
should you councilmember? It's going to be more all serving these right now and be executive director

1855
02:55:49,280 --> 02:55:54,880
for the sunset strip business improvement district. We are in strong support of this. I cannot

1856
02:55:54,880 --> 02:56:00,080
saying councilmember Harlan and hanging off for this item, and we hope the rest of you support this.

1857
02:56:00,960 --> 02:56:08,320
It is frankly about time. I served with the sunset strip on their board, the previous board, during

1858
02:56:08,320 --> 02:56:14,880
the music festival. It was a significant frustration that the city never really significantly

1859
02:56:14,880 --> 02:56:25,120
invested in the festival. But as I come from the hang said, invested in pride and Halloween

1860
02:56:25,120 --> 02:56:32,160
significantly. We are just over the moon. We had a board meeting today with the sunster bid and we

1861
02:56:32,160 --> 02:56:38,000
talked about this and just in great support. I know our chair, the chair is in a letter in

1862
02:56:38,000 --> 02:56:46,720
of support. This is going to really go far. I agree with how many of the councilmen's assessment

1863
02:56:46,720 --> 02:56:55,280
of reimagining it, of what it would look like in terms of a street sort of festival of music and song and

1864
02:56:55,280 --> 02:57:02,720
food and festivities on the sunset strip. This is our local economy and returns not only the

1865
02:57:02,720 --> 02:57:08,960
honor of the past to help us reignite the energy and foot traffic along the strip. We are especially

1866
02:57:08,960 --> 02:57:14,400
pleased to see the recommendation of partner with the qualified promoters who have tried to our

1867
02:57:14,400 --> 02:57:20,640
legendary venues. The rock theater was seen in the go-go and the bike room and to leverage existing

1868
02:57:20,640 --> 02:57:26,480
city resources creatively, such as the arts and advertising program. I also want to just mention

1869
02:57:26,480 --> 02:57:32,720
that for years we hosted the Sunset Strip bill bill board award and might be a significant

1870
02:57:32,720 --> 02:57:38,720
addition to recognize the creative bill board policy that you created up there on Sunset that might

1871
02:57:38,720 --> 02:57:44,480
tie in nicely with this. But it's exactly the kind of collaboration that strengthens our business community

1872
02:57:44,480 --> 02:57:50,560
to spread Hollywood at the forefront of culture and creativity and innovation and thank you for

1873
02:57:50,560 --> 02:57:57,520
your return. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Vice Mayor.

1874
02:57:57,520 --> 02:58:07,440
Mayor, I apologize. I also wanted to note we did get a valuable comment from a Lisaisenberg

1875
02:58:07,440 --> 02:58:15,920
about ensuring that we have the residential community involved in the planning and I took that

1876
02:58:15,920 --> 02:58:22,480
very much to heart and I think Lisa is absolutely right. We need to make sure that the neighborhood around

1877
02:58:22,480 --> 02:58:31,120
is involved in the planning and execution of any festival. So I'm available and Council Member Hang is

1878
02:58:31,120 --> 02:58:36,560
available to answer any questions or concerns you might have. Perfect. Thank you both.

1879
02:58:37,600 --> 02:58:43,600
Council Member Erickson. Laura Nick, friends from Development and Economic Development. Come on down.

1880
02:58:43,600 --> 02:58:49,120
You're on the prices right. Cleo, come on down for fun too. Just because I love you. I made

1881
02:58:49,120 --> 02:58:58,160
many do it. I just love seeing you too. Meg can stay. We love Meg. Yvonne, we'll give you a pass tonight.

1882
02:59:01,760 --> 02:59:09,440
Thank you so much. I'm generally in support of this item. I just have a couple of questions and concerns

1883
02:59:09,440 --> 02:59:15,920
regarding funding mechanisms for it. Of course, we want to see the Sunset strip revitalize in whatever

1884
02:59:15,920 --> 02:59:20,400
way. And Cleo, you were here when we were doing the Sunset strip. That's why I made you come down.

1885
02:59:20,400 --> 02:59:27,440
You were in events at that time, still. I just transitioned to an instrumentation. 2009 was the start.

1886
02:59:27,440 --> 02:59:34,720
So yeah, thank you. Laura, I think you might recall two or so months ago. I sent you an email

1887
02:59:34,720 --> 02:59:38,400
of sending. I'd like to do the Sunset strip music festival again and you told me no.

1888
02:59:40,640 --> 02:59:44,640
It was nicer than that but you essentially said the bid doesn't want to do it and we're pursuing

1889
02:59:44,640 --> 02:59:51,440
other opportunities. Now, because of our records retention law 30 days, I no longer have access

1890
02:59:51,440 --> 02:59:58,240
to set email. That's actually true. So people can understand that I did try to try to start doing

1891
02:59:58,240 --> 03:00:00,240
something like this.

1892
03:00:00,000 --> 03:00:08,000
Can you to walk me through a little bit more of your much more eloquent, nicer answer than just no, have a great day, council member, Eric, sir?

1893
03:00:08,000 --> 03:00:15,000
Certainly. So, good evening, Mayor, council members, Laura Byre director of economic development for the city of West Hollywood.

1894
03:00:15,000 --> 03:00:19,000
And ironically, I too was here during the days of the census stress.

1895
03:00:19,000 --> 03:00:20,000
That's right, that's right.

1896
03:00:20,000 --> 03:00:24,000
I know it was so many years ago. It's hard to remember, here we are again.

1897
03:00:24,000 --> 03:00:32,000
The sunset strip business improvement district that is currently the entity that serves the sunset strip businesses up on sunset.

1898
03:00:32,000 --> 03:00:37,000
They have recently hired JJLA as an event production company.

1899
03:00:37,000 --> 03:00:43,000
And they are working on various events to create excitement and energy along the census strip.

1900
03:00:43,000 --> 03:00:47,000
They also hired a lucky break PR as their public relation firm.

1901
03:00:47,000 --> 03:00:57,000
And so when we were beginning those conversations prior to those were the entities that they had hired to start really creating that energy and excitement.

1902
03:00:57,000 --> 03:01:02,000
At the time they did not have funding mechanisms to do a large scale music festival.

1903
03:01:02,000 --> 03:01:10,000
As you recall from the times of the music festival when it happened in its final year, it found itself in a very precarious financial situation.

1904
03:01:10,000 --> 03:01:11,000
And we'll just leave it at that.

1905
03:01:11,000 --> 03:01:12,000
That's a nice way to put it.

1906
03:01:12,000 --> 03:01:13,000
Thank you.

1907
03:01:13,000 --> 03:01:14,000
Thank you.

1908
03:01:14,000 --> 03:01:17,000
So Nick.

1909
03:01:17,000 --> 03:01:18,000
Hello.

1910
03:01:18,000 --> 03:01:22,000
Also it's lovely meeting your family on Saturday.

1911
03:01:22,000 --> 03:01:23,000
By the way.

1912
03:01:23,000 --> 03:01:32,000
And so my big concern with this is that it wants to take, I'm going to say it wrong.

1913
03:01:32,000 --> 03:01:33,000
Meema funds.

1914
03:01:33,000 --> 03:01:35,000
But the billboard.

1915
03:01:35,000 --> 03:01:36,000
Moving image.

1916
03:01:36,000 --> 03:01:37,000
Moving image.

1917
03:01:37,000 --> 03:01:38,000
Media arts.

1918
03:01:38,000 --> 03:01:39,000
Media arts.

1919
03:01:39,000 --> 03:01:41,000
But it's like moving image.

1920
03:01:42,000 --> 03:01:43,000
Correct.

1921
03:01:43,000 --> 03:01:44,000
Thank you.

1922
03:01:44,000 --> 03:01:45,000
Okay.

1923
03:01:45,000 --> 03:01:46,000
My hearing.

1924
03:01:46,000 --> 03:01:47,000
Am I seeing acronyms?

1925
03:01:47,000 --> 03:01:49,000
I'm seeing a lot of things.

1926
03:01:49,000 --> 03:01:51,000
But the use of meema funds in a different way.

1927
03:01:51,000 --> 03:01:53,000
Can you walk me through.

1928
03:01:53,000 --> 03:01:55,000
The larger implications for that.

1929
03:01:55,000 --> 03:01:59,000
Does that have implications on development agreements moving forward?

1930
03:01:59,000 --> 03:02:04,000
And what's the actual impact to the arts budget as a result if you take away these funds?

1931
03:02:04,000 --> 03:02:06,000
Or take not take away these funds.

1932
03:02:06,000 --> 03:02:07,000
I'm sorry.

1933
03:02:07,000 --> 03:02:09,000
Use portions of these funds.

1934
03:02:09,000 --> 03:02:11,000
I would love to respond to that.

1935
03:02:11,000 --> 03:02:12,000
Actually, I think my colleague Laura.

1936
03:02:12,000 --> 03:02:13,000
Well, then Laura.

1937
03:02:13,000 --> 03:02:14,000
Back at it.

1938
03:02:14,000 --> 03:02:15,000
See that since her.

1939
03:02:15,000 --> 03:02:16,000
She walked in.

1940
03:02:16,000 --> 03:02:17,000
Right.

1941
03:02:17,000 --> 03:02:18,000
A couple of hours ago.

1942
03:02:18,000 --> 03:02:19,000
She knew what she was going to be here for.

1943
03:02:19,000 --> 03:02:21,000
So there we go.

1944
03:02:21,000 --> 03:02:22,000
Good evening.

1945
03:02:22,000 --> 03:02:23,000
Again.

1946
03:02:23,000 --> 03:02:24,000
All right.

1947
03:02:24,000 --> 03:02:25,000
I got it.

1948
03:02:25,000 --> 03:02:26,000
Here we go.

1949
03:02:26,000 --> 03:02:27,000
So with regard to the moving image.

1950
03:02:27,000 --> 03:02:28,000
Media arts.

1951
03:02:28,000 --> 03:02:31,000
So that is part of the sunset arts and advertising program.

1952
03:02:31,000 --> 03:02:35,000
Our billboard operators that are part of the sunset arts and advertising programs.

1953
03:02:35,000 --> 03:02:37,000
So all the different acronyms that we know of.

1954
03:02:37,000 --> 03:02:38,000
On a sap.

1955
03:02:38,000 --> 03:02:42,000
They participate in development agreements and in those development agreements.

1956
03:02:42,000 --> 03:02:50,000
It identifies a percentage of time in which they are dedicating to producing and exhibiting digital art.

1957
03:02:50,000 --> 03:02:54,000
That's known as the moving image media art program also known as Mima.

1958
03:02:54,000 --> 03:03:01,000
Those development agreements do have a caveat in them in that we can make other recommendations for use of that time.

1959
03:03:01,000 --> 03:03:06,000
However, the program and its intent was known as the sunset arts.

1960
03:03:07,000 --> 03:03:20,000
An advertising program and we have committed contracts through that program into 2026 already with artists that have been identified and committed to being able to exhibit their art.

1961
03:03:20,000 --> 03:03:21,000
Great.

1962
03:03:21,000 --> 03:03:29,000
So how much are we talking in this item specifically would be reallocated to help pay for this.

1963
03:03:29,000 --> 03:03:33,000
I mean, it's a significant investment to do a festival.

1964
03:03:33,000 --> 03:03:40,000
I don't think we want to take away a million dollars of these funds and I know it calls for private sponsorships.

1965
03:03:40,000 --> 03:03:43,000
But what is the skit?

1966
03:03:43,000 --> 03:03:50,000
I don't have the numbers for me on this in terms of a scale for Mima funds or city attorney or some vicinity management.

1967
03:03:50,000 --> 03:03:52,000
And I try to answer this.

1968
03:03:52,000 --> 03:03:56,000
First of all, we don't get funds from the Nima program.

1969
03:03:56,000 --> 03:03:57,000
We get time.

1970
03:03:58,000 --> 03:04:12,000
And so the concept was we could talk to the companies to see rather than taking the full 10 minutes an hour that we're entitled to, we only take eight.

1971
03:04:12,000 --> 03:04:16,000
And we allow them to sell the additional two.

1972
03:04:16,000 --> 03:04:21,000
But that's not the only source of funds we could use for this.

1973
03:04:21,000 --> 03:04:25,000
I'm not committed to that component of it.

1974
03:04:25,000 --> 03:04:32,000
If we can find funds from our our reserves to support this, I'm fine with that.

1975
03:04:32,000 --> 03:04:36,000
I just thought since most of those billboards are unsuncept.

1976
03:04:36,000 --> 03:04:40,000
This is a sunset music and cultural program.

1977
03:04:40,000 --> 03:04:46,000
Wouldn't it be a great idea to use the revenue from those sunset billboards,

1978
03:04:46,000 --> 03:04:52,000
I'm not the revenues, but potential revenues from them to to support this.

1979
03:04:52,000 --> 03:04:53,000
Thank you.

1980
03:04:53,000 --> 03:04:54,000
Thank you.

1981
03:04:54,000 --> 03:04:55,000
That helps.

1982
03:04:55,000 --> 03:04:56,000
Did you want to add anything?

1983
03:04:56,000 --> 03:04:57,000
Okay.

1984
03:04:57,000 --> 03:04:59,000
Did David's like, no, I do not.

1985
03:04:59,000 --> 03:05:01,000
So I want to go back to 2014.

1986
03:05:01,000 --> 03:05:04,000
So I've worked all these events as an intern as many remember.

1987
03:05:04,000 --> 03:05:06,000
The Lincoln Park one was quite lovely.

1988
03:05:06,000 --> 03:05:07,000
What year was that?

1989
03:05:07,000 --> 03:05:09,000
2013, 2014?

1990
03:05:09,000 --> 03:05:10,000
I don't know.

1991
03:05:10,000 --> 03:05:11,000
Was it John right now?

1992
03:05:11,000 --> 03:05:12,000
But anyways.

1993
03:05:12,000 --> 03:05:16,000
We had 19,000 people in 2014.

1994
03:05:16,000 --> 03:05:18,000
Why did, why did the event go by?

1995
03:05:18,000 --> 03:05:20,000
That's a good number.

1996
03:05:20,000 --> 03:05:25,000
I mean, and I did not ask Priests, you any of these questions.

1997
03:05:25,000 --> 03:05:27,000
So you're being put on the spot, so I apologize.

1998
03:05:27,000 --> 03:05:28,000
Yes.

1999
03:05:28,000 --> 03:05:31,000
And I'm just going to defer to Laura.

2000
03:05:31,000 --> 03:05:34,000
As my review is, you know, it's truly related to it.

2001
03:05:34,000 --> 03:05:36,000
Just by saying if you want to.

2002
03:05:36,000 --> 03:05:37,000
Yeah.

2003
03:05:37,000 --> 03:05:38,000
Thank you.

2004
03:05:38,000 --> 03:05:39,000
Yeah.

2005
03:05:39,000 --> 03:05:43,000
I would just add the reason that they weren't financially successful.

2006
03:05:43,000 --> 03:05:44,000
They sold a lot of tickets.

2007
03:05:44,000 --> 03:05:48,000
There was no problem with ticket sales.

2008
03:05:48,000 --> 03:05:55,000
But the cost of putting on the festival and the cost of getting sort of world-class talent there,

2009
03:05:55,000 --> 03:06:01,000
exceeded the revenues that were being generated from sponsorship and ticket sales.

2010
03:06:01,000 --> 03:06:03,000
They did get sponsorship.

2011
03:06:03,000 --> 03:06:06,000
But it wasn't enough to cover all of the costs.

2012
03:06:06,000 --> 03:06:07,000
Great.

2013
03:06:07,000 --> 03:06:09,000
The question is actually for Cleo now.

2014
03:06:09,000 --> 03:06:13,000
We do not have a direct sponsorship type of policy, right?

2015
03:06:13,000 --> 03:06:17,000
Like alcohol, stuff like that, that they couldn't go after.

2016
03:06:17,000 --> 03:06:19,000
First sponsorships for this type of festival?

2017
03:06:19,000 --> 03:06:26,000
They, the producer or I remember we had this conversation about pride a few months ago.

2018
03:06:26,000 --> 03:06:33,000
And one of the, I'm sorry, it was an ice ring conversation about sponsorships and how we could get long-term sponsorship deals.

2019
03:06:33,000 --> 03:06:37,000
We don't have a policy that really allows invent producers to do that.

2020
03:06:37,000 --> 03:06:39,000
Or we, we have more restrictions on them.

2021
03:06:39,000 --> 03:06:41,000
And if I'm wrong, just tell me about that.

2022
03:06:41,000 --> 03:06:48,000
I think they were trying to get a sort of a global sponsorship for a series of events rather than an individual event.

2023
03:06:48,000 --> 03:06:52,000
That's what we don't particularly allow that self.

2024
03:06:52,000 --> 03:06:55,000
The individual producers related to both pride and Halloween.

2025
03:06:55,000 --> 03:06:58,000
They are able to seek sponsorship.

2026
03:06:58,000 --> 03:07:06,000
If the city itself, it's my understanding, doesn't have a full sponsorship policy or a division that focuses solely on sponsorship.

2027
03:07:06,000 --> 03:07:09,000
But it is possible outside of the city at this moment.

2028
03:07:09,000 --> 03:07:13,000
And yes, Laura might be able to speak more to that as well.

2029
03:07:13,000 --> 03:07:14,000
Yeah, I was just going to add.

2030
03:07:14,000 --> 03:07:20,000
So I think the relationship that is being suggested here is different than pride in Halloween.

2031
03:07:20,000 --> 03:07:24,000
And those events we hire the producer, so it is a city event.

2032
03:07:24,000 --> 03:07:27,000
And then sponsorship starts split between us and the producer.

2033
03:07:27,000 --> 03:07:36,000
I believe the intention of this item is we would work some on with someone who has experience doing music festivals and they would put on the music festival.

2034
03:07:36,000 --> 03:07:38,000
We wouldn't be hiring them.

2035
03:07:38,000 --> 03:07:40,000
We'd be partnering with them.

2036
03:07:40,000 --> 03:07:50,000
And so they would get their own sponsors and do that in the city's portion would be the infrastructure closing the streets and all the things public safety, all those things that go with it.

2037
03:07:50,000 --> 03:07:51,000
Great.

2038
03:07:51,000 --> 03:07:54,000
So I'll just add my comments and I'll let the mayor go.

2039
03:07:54,000 --> 03:07:56,000
So I've been taking up a lot of time.

2040
03:07:56,000 --> 03:07:58,000
I'm sure we're going to public comment that.

2041
03:07:58,000 --> 03:07:59,000
I always do that.

2042
03:07:59,000 --> 03:08:02,000
So looking forward to those comments tomorrow.

2043
03:08:02,000 --> 03:08:05,000
I guess I generally support this item.

2044
03:08:05,000 --> 03:08:07,000
I don't want to use mema funds for it.

2045
03:08:07,000 --> 03:08:16,000
So if my colleagues are willing to remove that off the table or be flexible, but we're doing I'm actually willing to actually make investments from city funds because we do have that capability.

2046
03:08:16,000 --> 03:08:24,000
And I want to see this event or the sunset strip thrive in this way and it was nice to see some of the hotels and other places on sunset actually support it.

2047
03:08:24,000 --> 03:08:29,000
The addition being one of them because it's right there in the corner where a lot of this high impact was.

2048
03:08:29,000 --> 03:08:32,000
But I can't take away money from the arts.

2049
03:08:32,000 --> 03:08:34,000
Not saying we're doing that.

2050
03:08:34,000 --> 03:08:37,000
I know it's a it's a rhetoric thing.

2051
03:08:37,000 --> 03:08:42,000
But at this moment if we're not moving in that direction, I will fully support this.

2052
03:08:43,000 --> 03:08:53,000
But for the time being and I want to support this because I think it's a really great item and I would love to see this come back because I wanted to come back to and I have months ago but Laura told me no.

2053
03:08:53,000 --> 03:09:00,000
And so I, but that's kind of where I'm at currently right now and I'll shut up and turn it to the mirror.

2054
03:09:00,000 --> 03:09:02,000
Thank you.

2055
03:09:02,000 --> 03:09:05,000
This is a really exciting concept and idea.

2056
03:09:05,000 --> 03:09:10,000
I think there's been a lot of thinking about how to revitalize sunset strip.

2057
03:09:11,000 --> 03:09:17,000
This feels like an obvious way to go back in time something that worked bring it back in a better stronger way.

2058
03:09:17,000 --> 03:09:25,000
I have some concerns though not just regarding what would feel like a departure from our commitment to that.

2059
03:09:25,000 --> 03:09:30,000
Meema program and the full time that we would give to artists.

2060
03:09:30,000 --> 03:09:34,000
So I do also think that this requires a different sort of funding stream.

2061
03:09:35,000 --> 03:09:42,000
My concern is over timing fall 2026 is aggressive we're already in fall 2025.

2062
03:09:42,000 --> 03:09:54,000
This council has tried our best to ensure that the priorities going forward are bound to a budget commitment that we are working in a time that makes sense.

2063
03:09:54,000 --> 03:10:02,000
And fall 2026 in my mind doesn't just does not make sense for something and I think there's something painful about realizing it may take some more time to get there.

2064
03:10:02,000 --> 03:10:11,000
When there's a lot of urgency and excitement around this, but next summer already we have a number of commitments related to the world games coming with a world cup.

2065
03:10:11,000 --> 03:10:20,000
We're moving through a three year plan through the Arts and Economic Division around a number of really incredible programming that will activate the city as a whole.

2066
03:10:20,000 --> 03:10:29,000
We already have a commitment this year to move forward with the ice rank and I know that that was about a three year commitment to really ensure that things could go off.

2067
03:10:29,000 --> 03:10:36,000
Next year that would be happening fall 2026 is already the timeline that the city is opening up and thinking about Halloween.

2068
03:10:36,000 --> 03:10:46,000
So there's some concern I have about not only ensuring it happens in 2026, but in that season of fall specifically.

2069
03:10:46,000 --> 03:10:58,000
I'll say I have been having discussions and also trying to think about what could activate the sunset strip and there are a number of different points of consideration that I've been trying to make.

2070
03:10:58,000 --> 03:11:09,000
That would look past the 28 games leveraging this sort of excitement that we're having as a city with bringing the world stage here and making sure that something.

2071
03:11:09,000 --> 03:11:17,000
Could happen on the other side of those games that would revitalize the strip that would really connect all the dots between some of our missing economic engines.

2072
03:11:17,000 --> 03:11:28,000
What I know is that in the winter time on the strip there are the hotels right there lower points, so there is sort of a down point in the hotel capacity.

2073
03:11:28,000 --> 03:11:38,000
So something not in the fall, but rather winter timeline could make more sense on the strip and bring out more visitors to that time.

2074
03:11:38,000 --> 03:11:47,000
So that was one point of consideration and then I think the idea that the sunset strip is not only known for its music history, but also its billboards.

2075
03:11:47,000 --> 03:11:49,000
There is some sort of interplay here.

2076
03:11:49,000 --> 03:12:01,000
So I like where we're going with the music and the festival, the activation of the venues, the use of the pocket spaces that exist along the strip, shutting down the street as a whole.

2077
03:12:01,000 --> 03:12:09,000
And this isn't a surprise or a secret, many folks know, but I've been asking around about the concept of a new year's Eve on sunset strip.

2078
03:12:09,000 --> 03:12:24,000
Something that would fully activate the billboards, activate a pedestrian plaza, utilize this feeling of activity in a different way and I think an anchor like a music festival that revitalizes that rock and roll history and really brings it all together.

2079
03:12:24,000 --> 03:12:28,000
It could be displayed and powered through the night is where I would lean.

2080
03:12:28,000 --> 03:12:35,000
So rather than having competing items, I know I've also been talking to this for a while, I thought I would just sort of throw out there that idea.

2081
03:12:35,000 --> 03:12:41,000
But there's just no way we should ask the next year to think about a new year's Eve on the sunset strip.

2082
03:12:41,000 --> 03:12:51,000
I do think it's a multi multi year plan that we would start needing to put in place in order to do it well and safely and in the full, you know, less Hollywood way.

2083
03:12:51,000 --> 03:13:00,000
So that's where I would want to go. I couldn't support this plan as it currently is for the reason that council member Eric some laid out around the funding not being totally clear.

2084
03:13:00,000 --> 03:13:06,000
The timing is truly my bigger concern with how much we're already taking on as a city and wanting to do this well.

2085
03:13:06,000 --> 03:13:15,000
And I recognize that this was about sort of partnering and handing off, but we know we want to stay involved and it really comes back down to the resources we have to give to do things well.

2086
03:13:15,000 --> 03:13:25,000
So that's the direction I want to head, but I know this isn't my item and I don't want to completely be real us now.

2087
03:13:25,000 --> 03:13:43,000
It sounds like there is support for the concept generally that there are concerns about the funding, which again I'm perfectly fine with other source of funding and directing our staff to look at other sources of funding.

2088
03:13:43,000 --> 03:13:58,000
And the other concern I'm hearing is around the timing and whether we can do this in a time that that we can get it done and done properly, which I believe we can if we start now.

2089
03:13:58,000 --> 03:14:06,000
But whether the right time slot is in the fall or maybe later in the year.

2090
03:14:06,000 --> 03:14:26,000
And again I think we can give that direction to our city staff to look at identifying a qualified producer look at other sources of funding and look at what the appropriate timeframe is for this to happen.

2091
03:14:26,000 --> 03:14:43,000
And I also agree with the idea of activating the billboards and I've had conversations with one of them about possibly being a sponsor of the festival and they were they were certainly interested in having that conversation.

2092
03:14:43,000 --> 03:15:00,000
So I'm comfortable with all of those concerns that have been addressed. So if you're comfortable I can make a motion to direct our staff to move forward with looking at this with.

2093
03:15:00,000 --> 03:15:15,000
Looking at identifying a qualified producer, looking at options for funding and looking at the appropriate timing for this event.

2094
03:15:15,000 --> 03:15:21,000
My concern that wasn't addressed in your list, which I appreciate, was the timing of it happening next year.

2095
03:15:21,000 --> 03:15:31,000
And part of what we've made a commitment as a council is that items that come forward would be included in staff's work plans for the next budget cycle.

2096
03:15:31,000 --> 03:15:40,000
So feasibly we couldn't be bringing back something that would move a fall 2026 festival forward until the next budget update.

2097
03:15:40,000 --> 03:15:49,000
So staff wouldn't start on that work until it is budgeted for in the next budget update. And so that's where my concern around feasibility and timing come in.

2098
03:15:49,000 --> 03:15:59,000
And that's just to stay with the commitment we've been trying to make of not over throwing priorities as exciting as a music festival at staff in about less than a year's notice.

2099
03:15:59,000 --> 03:16:14,000
So I guess my response to that is I don't think we can wait with sunset sunset is really more abundant right now and if we don't do something now, we're losing the energy that we could have up there.

2100
03:16:14,000 --> 03:16:24,000
And we're we're facing more businesses closing so I understand your concerns and they're quite legitimate, but I don't think we can wait.

2101
03:16:24,000 --> 03:16:31,000
Can someone be here tonight? I saw the council more hangs in the queue.

2102
03:16:31,000 --> 03:16:36,000
You go. Thank you.

2103
03:16:36,000 --> 03:16:48,000
So the way I look at it at this is like I said, we invest heavily in pride and both pride and Halloween.

2104
03:16:48,000 --> 03:17:08,000
The investment in the sunset strip is not equitable should we look at this through should we look at this festival through the same lens right and I think the mayor mentioned the new budget cycle the new budget cycle happens when February I believe.

2105
03:17:08,000 --> 03:17:13,000
That's fully your budget cycle would be starting July 1 of 2026.

2106
03:17:13,000 --> 03:17:18,000
Mid year happens in February the current budget.

2107
03:17:18,000 --> 03:17:24,000
I mean, I am an agreement with the vice mayor.

2108
03:17:24,000 --> 03:17:31,000
If we push this any longer, I don't want to see any more businesses close on sunset.

2109
03:17:31,000 --> 03:17:53,000
I'm not suggesting that that might happen, but you just never know the state of our economy is perilous right now and our community leaders in the chamber and in the bid have been sounding the fire alarm for sunset boulevard for many many many many years and we have a chance to.

2110
03:17:53,000 --> 03:17:58,000
Make that happen right now and I think we should still seize the moment. Thank you.

2111
03:17:59,000 --> 03:18:07,000
I hear us all wanting to get to some type of agreement, but with regards to what the mayor said.

2112
03:18:07,000 --> 03:18:13,000
The next budgetary cycle will be 27 28 right in January if I'm.

2113
03:18:13,000 --> 03:18:20,000
That's the mid year for 26 to get an update and then 20 to what you're talking to the process for 27.

2114
03:18:21,000 --> 03:18:28,000
Having done events I and I do understand the serious time commitment.

2115
03:18:28,000 --> 03:18:35,000
I don't want to commit to a date certain at the moment because I don't feel like that's fair to staff at this point.

2116
03:18:35,000 --> 03:18:42,000
But I would like to find a way to give if the mayor would go along with it.

2117
03:18:42,000 --> 03:18:49,000
Is there a way in which we could do some type of pop up in some way event at the end of 2026?

2118
03:18:49,000 --> 03:18:57,000
I don't know if that looks like and then plan for a larger festival in 2027.

2119
03:18:57,000 --> 03:19:05,000
Vice Mayor maybe we should hold this until councilmember mysterious back.

2120
03:19:05,000 --> 03:19:06,000
Sure.

2121
03:19:06,000 --> 03:19:09,000
Would whatever the council wants to do.

2122
03:19:09,000 --> 03:19:14,000
I'm going to move that we table this until the next meeting.

2123
03:19:14,000 --> 03:19:17,000
Okay our best decisions are made in five.

2124
03:19:17,000 --> 03:19:19,000
Thank you all so much.

2125
03:19:19,000 --> 03:19:21,000
Do you need a motion.

2126
03:19:21,000 --> 03:19:23,000
Please.

2127
03:19:29,000 --> 03:19:33,000
The motion on the floor is to table the item to November.

2128
03:19:33,000 --> 03:19:35,000
Terrific.

2129
03:19:35,000 --> 03:19:37,000
We are.

2130
03:19:37,000 --> 03:19:40,000
Voting.

2131
03:19:40,000 --> 03:19:42,000
And the motion passes for zero.

2132
03:19:42,000 --> 03:19:44,000
Thank you very much.

2133
03:19:44,000 --> 03:19:46,000
We are at the end of our agenda.

2134
03:19:46,000 --> 03:19:49,000
Very modified agenda tonight.

2135
03:19:49,000 --> 03:19:54,000
We are an excluded consent and we don't have anything that was pulled for that.

2136
03:19:54,000 --> 03:20:00,000
So we're in our final period of public comment city clerk did we have anyone sign up for this final public comment period.

2137
03:20:00,000 --> 03:20:02,000
I don't have anyone.

2138
03:20:02,000 --> 03:20:04,000
No one on to my there.

2139
03:20:04,000 --> 03:20:05,000
Okay.

2140
03:20:05,000 --> 03:20:11,000
So we can move on to councilmember comments and meeting attendance reports which of us would like to begin.

2141
03:20:12,000 --> 03:20:15,000
I attended numerous events of the city.

2142
03:20:15,000 --> 03:20:19,000
Thank you very much to the staff at the Halloween carnival.

2143
03:20:19,000 --> 03:20:22,000
We use Halloween carnival this past week.

2144
03:20:22,000 --> 03:20:24,000
It was wonderful.

2145
03:20:24,000 --> 03:20:29,000
And truly just amazing and every year it gets better and better.

2146
03:20:29,000 --> 03:20:31,000
So I couldn't disagree.

2147
03:20:31,000 --> 03:20:35,000
I couldn't agree more with what members of the community were saying.

2148
03:20:35,000 --> 03:20:38,000
A wonderful job to the events team on AIDS walk.

2149
03:20:38,000 --> 03:20:39,000
And that's all I have to say right now.

2150
03:20:39,000 --> 03:20:40,000
Thank you.

2151
03:20:40,000 --> 03:20:44,000
Councilmember vice mayor for paying yourself.

2152
03:20:44,000 --> 03:20:45,000
Yes.

2153
03:20:45,000 --> 03:20:47,000
I have nothing to report.

2154
03:20:47,000 --> 03:20:51,000
I did want to report that I've been in touch with councilmember myster.

2155
03:20:51,000 --> 03:20:56,000
She as we know she had a problem with her eye that needed to be attended to.

2156
03:20:56,000 --> 03:20:59,000
And she is getting appropriate medical attention.

2157
03:20:59,000 --> 03:21:04,000
So hopefully all will be well and she'll be fine tomorrow.

2158
03:21:04,000 --> 03:21:06,000
Thank you for the report.

2159
03:21:06,000 --> 03:21:07,000
Councilmember.

2160
03:21:08,000 --> 03:21:09,000
Thank you mayor.

2161
03:21:09,000 --> 03:21:11,000
As far as my meetings at attendance were concerned.

2162
03:21:11,000 --> 03:21:15,000
I attended the Art Reception for the unveiling of a new Maryland title.

2163
03:21:15,000 --> 03:21:19,000
Calavera Lamentos by Artists Scoot at Skybar at the Monterey hotel.

2164
03:21:19,000 --> 03:21:24,000
I attended the AIDS walk Los Angeles with my colleagues here in the dias.

2165
03:21:24,000 --> 03:21:27,000
I attended the West Hollywood Youth Halloween carnival.

2166
03:21:27,000 --> 03:21:30,000
And I attended the National Prep Day celebrations.

2167
03:21:30,000 --> 03:21:34,000
And I'm wishing councilmember myster a speedy recovery.

2168
03:21:35,000 --> 03:21:36,000
Thank you.

2169
03:21:36,000 --> 03:21:37,000
My attendance.

2170
03:21:37,000 --> 03:21:42,000
I attended the La Cosa rent her protections in homelessness prevention committee meeting.

2171
03:21:42,000 --> 03:21:49,000
The regular board meeting of La Cosa as well as the human capital committee of La Cosa is a lot of meetings for La Cosa.

2172
03:21:49,000 --> 03:21:52,000
I attended the West Side City Council of Governments.

2173
03:21:52,000 --> 03:21:55,000
The National League of Cities LGBTQ Caucus meeting.

2174
03:21:55,000 --> 03:21:59,000
And of course the League of California cities annual conference.

2175
03:21:59,000 --> 03:22:04,000
I was sworn in as the president of the LGBTQ Caucus at the League of California cities.

2176
03:22:04,000 --> 03:22:07,000
And I also served on three different panels throughout the conference.

2177
03:22:07,000 --> 03:22:14,000
The crisis communications cities support for trans community as well as child care as critical infrastructure.

2178
03:22:14,000 --> 03:22:17,000
My comments were also included the AIDS walk.

2179
03:22:17,000 --> 03:22:21,000
It was a really terrific morning being out with so many people celebrating the 40th.

2180
03:22:21,000 --> 03:22:24,000
I also wanted to congratulate my colleagues on their recognition.

2181
03:22:24,000 --> 03:22:26,000
You're welcome.

2182
03:22:26,000 --> 03:22:28,000
And wish you all a very great night.

2183
03:22:28,000 --> 03:22:30,000
Thank you all for this very short and abbreviated meeting.

2184
03:22:30,000 --> 03:22:31,000
We'll go back to Vice Mayor Halman.

2185
03:22:31,000 --> 03:22:32,000
One more closing comment.

2186
03:22:32,000 --> 03:22:36,000
I also attended the League of California cities conference.

2187
03:22:36,000 --> 03:22:41,000
And got to hear our mayor speak and she did a great job representing us.

2188
03:22:41,000 --> 03:22:44,000
And I also attended the AIDS walk.

2189
03:22:44,000 --> 03:22:45,000
Thank you.

2190
03:22:45,000 --> 03:22:46,000
Thank you.

2191
03:22:46,000 --> 03:22:47,000
Thank you very much.

2192
03:22:47,000 --> 03:22:48,000
Anything else?

2193
03:22:48,000 --> 03:22:49,000
Okay.

2194
03:22:49,000 --> 03:22:50,000
We are really done this time.

2195
03:22:50,000 --> 03:22:51,000
Thank you all so much.

2196
03:22:51,000 --> 03:22:55,000
We'll adjourn the meeting to November 3rd at 6 p.m.

2197
03:22:55,000 --> 03:22:57,000
West Hollywood Council Chambers.

2198
03:22:57,000 --> 03:22:58,000
We'll see you then.

2199
03:22:58,000 --> 03:22:59,000
Happy.