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Thank you everyone. Before we get started, could the City Clerk read the land acknowledgement?

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Yes, Mayor, thank you. The West Hollywood City Council acknowledges that the land on which we gather, and that is currently known as the City of West Hollywood,

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is the occupied, unseated, seized territory of the Gabrioling, Yotanga and Gabrioling, Yokeesh peoples.

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Thank you. I'm going to go ahead and call the meeting to order, and tonight we have a special guest,

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Elasia Dunlap is going to come up and lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance.

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Elasia,

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your brother, Elasia, was here before, right?

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We go right to the mic.

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The agents to the flag of the United States come and get into the public for which is

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stand one nation under God and a visible with the brilliant justice for all.

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And stick around.

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We have a special presentation for you as well.

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City Clerk, can we have a roll call please?

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Yes, Mayor.

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Councilmember Biers.

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Councilmember Ericsson.

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Councilmember Maester.

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here. Vice Mayor Heng is absent this evening. He is attending a family funeral.

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Mayor Hengling here. And we have a quorum.

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All right. So let's move to the approval of the agenda. I believe the City Clerk has one

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item that is being continued correct. Yes, item C6 is being continued to our next meeting on June 29,

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2026. Thank you. So if you're here for C6, that item is continued. Let's turn to my

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colleagues to see if there are items that might be moved to consent. Council Member

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Ericsson is eager to move items to consent. Always eager and happy to help. I was

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wondering if I'll start at the back of Melissa, the community preparedness regarding

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the Andy's virus, a haunt of virus Ebola and other potential emerging public health threats

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That's a seven.

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That's seven.

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You know objection?

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Wonderful.

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Is there any objection to F6?

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The direction to evaluate potential modifications to the temporary advertisement installations

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under the Sunset Arts and Advertising Program and Special Event permits related to long-term

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activations.

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I have a couple of questions.

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I am going to make my direct appointment to the Social Justice Advisory Board.

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I am appointing Jonathan Harling to the Social Justice Advisory Board, but I don't know if

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we want to do the rest.

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Let's all do our appointments and then we can move at five to consent.

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Yes, so I will be appointing Joseph Soto to the Social Justice Advisory Board.

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That's great.

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And I'll be appointing Alexis Ybarra to the Russians speaking advisory board.

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And I'll be appointing Ed Holman to the older adults advice for you folks.

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And I think that completes our appointment, so F5 will be moved to consent.

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Yes, and that is for a term ending February 28th, 2027.

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Is there any objection to F4 the housing element implementation?

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Yeah, I figured.

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Okay, the levy of assessment for Santa Monica Boulevard meet means district for fiscal year 2026 to 2027?

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The consideration of the annual report of the Sunset Strip Business Improvement District,

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an adoption of the resolution of intent and to levy an assessment for fiscal year?

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And then last but certainly not, well, I might have some more.

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The consideration of the annual report for the advisory board to the West Hollywood design district

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and adoption of the resolution of intention to let be an assessment F1?

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No objection that can be moved to consent.

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What about item D2, the ordinance of the city of West Hollywood amending the

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municipal code to increase compensation for us, sadly, but it's state law?

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I think we should just leave that on regular agenda just for transparency purposes.

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And then I think, sorry, and then D1, an ordinance of the city of West Hollywood amending the portions of Title II article 1 of the West Hollywood Municipal Code.

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No objections, that will move to consent.

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I think that's all I'm allowed to do.

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Do they want to do all of that?

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Are there any other changes?

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Okay, if not, I'll entertain a motion to approve the agenda as it's been amended.

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I'll second that.

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Be me to it.

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If we can take our vote on that, and it passes noting Vice Mayor's absence tonight.

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Melissa, do you get all of those?

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Do you want to summarize for the public?

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I can summarize for members of the public.

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So the following items are moving to the consent calendar.

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So if you signed up to speak on these items,

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we will move you to the first public comment period.

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So items D1, F1, F2, F3, F5 and F7.

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We'll now turn to Levine Act Disclosure.

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Any of my colleagues have any disclosures tonight?

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So we'll move to adjournment motions and do any of my colleagues have adjournment motion.

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I have two, I would request that we adjourn in memory of former representative Barney Frank, who was a long time congressman, also a strong advocate for the LGBT community and one of the first openly gay members of congress, he also came to West Hollywood and participated in our meetings of openly LGBT

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elected officials, and so I would request that we adjourn in his memory.

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Secondly, I would request that we adjourn in memory of David Hockney,

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the famed artist who also had a studio here in West Hollywood for many, many years,

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and I would request that we adjourn in his memory.

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We do have a number of presentations tonight, and I think we'll start with

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The first one I have here, which is to a lasia.

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I hope I'm saying it, right, a lasia done lab, who honored us tonight by leading us

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in the Pledge of Allegiance, a lasia is at West Hollywood Elementary School, and I think

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your brother is too, right, all right, you're running the school, is that,

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oh, okay.

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So, well, please come up and everyone if my colleagues could come down and honor Olaisha for doing such a great job.

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And I'm going to ask Council Member Meister to help me with this one.

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We have the honor of being joined tonight by Pickle.

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the West Hollywood Dragloria,

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our first dragloria, and Pickle was selected as the Dragloria

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to serve a two-year term but we couldn't let Pickle go, so we extended it to three, and Pickle

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has been representing the city and as a singer, entertainer, a storyteller, representing the city

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at major cultural events such as We Hope Pride,

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the West Hollywood Halloween Carnival National Night out

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and really strengthening the visibility

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of drag within public life and municipal events.

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Pickle also produced educational programming

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on drag history at our Harvey Milk Day events

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has led initiatives such as free sewing workshops,

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because you make all of your gowns correct, amazing.

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So we just wanted to honor you.

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It is bittersweet that you're rotating out of this position,

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but we want to just honor you for successfully fulfilling your role

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as West Hollywood's drag laureate with creativity,

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leadership, commitment, and a great deal of compassion. Thank you, Pickle. Please join me in

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on me.

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Thank you. I didn't

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prepare.

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All I can say is thank you. I mean,

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thank you to the art staff

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of the city of West Hollywood for guiding me through this process for allowing me to do this role

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Thank you to the council members and the mayor and the vice mayor and all of the staff and everyone

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in the government

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For being a part of this. It's weird because it's

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I've remarks to people because like the number one question I got from people is like what is that?

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What do you what is a drag what so tell me what is a drag lawyer? And what do you do and I just never came up with

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I've got enough answer, you know, I think that when we, it seems so silly, but these things are important.

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And I get to work with children and sometimes I feel very silly because it's like,

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well, what is this? I'm the only one really. But I always tell my friends and people that I'm like, in 60 years.

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I'll be so proud to have been this person and I know the odious are you pending your approval.

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We'll do such a great job and it's been my honor, it's been the greatest honor of my life so far.

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To be a part of this and just to leave like a tiny little mark on a tiny little town.

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And, you know, like, we get to show up and be a part of something that is a part of something

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even bigger, and especially right now, I think things like this are really valuable and important,

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and it's been a pleasure and an honor, so thank you.

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And thank you, pickled don't go away.

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I believe my colleagues want to say a few words, but it isn't a small market, it's a huge mark. Thank you for leaving a huge mark on our community and there are many good things to come. I know that you're going to continue to be a great leader in our community. Thank you.

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Oh boy, I mean, pickle, you are just the best.

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I mean, I know council member Lauren Myster always says it's probably like the best thing we've ever done.

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I mean, we've done some good things, but like you are sunshine, rainbows, joy, personified,

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and you know, like, maybe we won't approve her.

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What does have you for another three years?

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I mean, by who knows?

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Time to start.

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But the coup begins, but Hickle, you saying somewhere

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over the rainbow when I became mayor, you were at contract cities,

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and people didn't know what a drag lawyer it was then,

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but they do now, and that's 84 cities across LA County.

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You were there at the Academy Museum when I brought all of my kids

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from my high school, and they only wanted to see you.

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I mean, they were like, his pickle here is pickle here.

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I mean, there are so many amazing memories that we all have and we will have many, many more

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because you're not going anywhere, we won't let you. Literally, we won't let you,

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we'll put up gates and we'll say, you can't go and all the things, but pick up,

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I know you had to endure some things and you came out just so more amazing than we could ever have

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So thank you for all the joy you have brought every single person in the

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entire city.

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Pickle, sunshine, rainbow, bubbles, all the things.

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Watching you with kids is a true magical moment.

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The way kids understand the world differently because of who they're looking at and seeing

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it.

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It's really amazing that we get to have this in our community.

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And I know you've been somebody who's brought drag and it's leadership in so many different

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corners of this county, and with that we're so proud of the way that you've been a vehicle

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for West Hollywood's values, all across this county, shining that light everywhere.

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And I think it's so incredible that not just through the sewing workshops and the sort

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of drag workshops, but the leadership development pipeline that you really created for

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drag queens and kings to see themselves as bigger than performers and stars and bars, but

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really like leaders in our community and advocates for change

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and visionaries and how they see the world

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and are able to help us all build it.

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So I just thank you so much for starting this spark

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that is going to turn into a bonfire

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and we really have so much to be grateful to you for

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for helping us define what seemed undefinedable in this city.

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It's because of you that we're able to help keep this going

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and we just thank you so much for starting something

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unbelievable here.

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Thank you.

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Pickle, you know, I had brought this initiative forward with one of my former colleagues.

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And honestly, I don't think we could have ever imagined how amazing this program would be.

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And that really is you. It really is.

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You've just been not only an amazing drag-lory, but an amazing first drag-lory,

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you have, as Council Member Bias said, really defined this role, but to a level that I don't think any of us ever could have expected, when you took the mic that first time, and you sang, and I was like, wait, she's singing, she's really singing, you just, you just blew us all away, and I just want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for making this initiative one that I can be so proud of,

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and I will be proud of it for rest of my days.

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So, thank you.

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Thank you.

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We have one other presentation tonight

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and it's still pride month in the city of West Hollywood.

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So, each month I've been trying to honor

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one of the organizations that serves our community

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and also donating my salary to them.

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So this month we get to honor the Los Angeles LGBT Center.

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And the Los Angeles LGBT Center is the largest organization in the world that believe

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serving the LGBT Q plus population.

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It's also one of the largest providers of HIV care in all of California.

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We're very fortunate tonight to be joined by Joe Hollandonner, the CEO of the LGBT Center.

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And I just want to take a moment to bring awareness to the outstanding services that the center provides.

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It was providing services before we became a city and then once we became a city, we began contracting with them for their services.

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comprehensive healthcare social services, advocacy, education, cultural programming, it has

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been a national leader in terms of advancing LGBTQ plus civil rights, working tirelessly

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and advocating for our community. Their commitment to youth experiencing homelessness, seniors,

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seeking community and support, individuals, navigating critical moments in their lives.

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The center is there for so many members of our community, and I'm so proud to be honoring

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the center tonight.

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If my colleagues could come and join me, please join me in honoring the LGBT Center of

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Los Angeles.

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First, I want to thank the Mayor and City Council for this very lovely honor.

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It's not often that I come to council meetings and feel a motion of joy and fight back tears for good reasons

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So thank you to pickle and thank you for that pledge of allegiance

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You know the Los Angeles LGBT Center is in fact

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The world's largest LGBT serving organization

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But we are also the first LGBT community center ever created and there is a reason for that

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And it's because of the residents of the fierce residents of Los Angeles County in general who stood behind the work of our founders back in 1969.

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And so thank you for this honor.

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Thank you for your continued investment in our work in our communities.

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It's enabling us to serve 35,000 unduplicated people each year providing them with health care, housing, and hope.

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So, and honor and pride month, I appreciate everything that you all do.

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Thank you.

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All right, it's now time for public comment.

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Madam City Clerk, how many speakers do we have in chambers and how many do we have on Zoom?

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We have 25 individuals in chambers and none in Zoom.

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Okay, I am going to limit us to the 20 minutes that we normally allocate.

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So I would ask people to cooperate and if somebody has said what you want to say,

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If you could abbreviate your remarks, that would be helpful.

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Tonight, we do need to get to the budget.

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It's required that we get through that by the end of this month.

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So that's why I want us to move to the agenda as quickly as possible.

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If we don't get you in the first round of public comments,

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there will be a second round if you're able to stay.

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And the names aren't appearing, so can you call them?

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Yes, I can. The first speaker is Helen Krieger to be followed by Tom Demell.

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And are these consent calendar? Are there no consent calendar?

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There, we have 10 consent calendar speakers.

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Thank you.

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It's showing now.

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Hello, Council. I'm here to speak about B10 on the consent calendar.

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SB9 readiness and incorporating it into our zip zoning.

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My name is Helen Krieger. I'm a resident of West Hollywood and I'm a payer of our significantly high rents.

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We know that regardless of what happens with the Skag Maps, we desperately need more housing.

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And putting that housing near transit will be good for everybody.

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Through our zoning, we may be unintentionally made housing and unnecessarily scarce resource in West Hollywood.

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In the 40 years since we've become a city, we've built 70% less housing units than in the 40 years before we were a city.

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It's gone from 16,500 housing units, down to about 5,000.

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So this is why the majority of people who work in West Hollywood have to live somewhere else.

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It's because we haven't built enough housing here.

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This is why people pay half of their income in rent every month.

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According to our census data, almost 20% of West Hollywood residents pay half or more of their income in rent every month.

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And that number is not theoretical to me because that number includes me.

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Like a lot of West Hollywood residents I work in a creative industry and that has highly variable income.

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That works fine when I was in my very affordable rent control department.

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But then that building got eliced and I had to see how high the market rents have gotten in West Hollywood.

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SB 79 has some of the best protections that we've seen for rent stabilized units while allowing the housing that we desperately need to be built and doing it near transit which will cut down on traffic.

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We have a chance to our zip process to create SB 79 ready zoning that's adapted to the unique needs of our community.

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My ask for you here tonight is to please not make this process never ending.

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Please respect all the people in West Hollywood who are paying so much and rent.

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Please respect the feedback you've already gotten on ZIP and all the residents who have taken time out of their schedules to participate in that.

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And given the extreme housing crisis, please set a deadline for staff to incorporate the resident feedback they've already received.

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And to get an SB 79 ready ZIP item on your council agenda.

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Let's start treating our housing like the human right that it is.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Tom Jamil to be followed by Mike Holtzman.

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I'm in the dark here.

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My name is Tom Jamil.

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I'm a 33 year resident in West Hollywood.

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Before I came here, I lived with Bonnie Frank for three years.

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And I didn't know until he died.

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The things he taught me, as I remember,

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he said, Tom, never take a dollar.

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Seventh campaign up.

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And never take a dollar.

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That's so great.

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And the other thing he says, if you want to be mayor,

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he says you don't have to run.

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Just be mayor and after a while, people will notice.

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Well, 33 years later, I've been the cop and boys town.

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And I just want to let the mayor know

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and the council members know that I understand the $36,000

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in my fellow residents.

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You're afraid to come to the Rainbow District

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after dark.

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And I understand that because physically,

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I only have a couple of wins left, as you can see.

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But my heart's still there, they, I had two different homeless persons, a pummel me.

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In front of a hundred of my friends and guests at Mickey's because I stopped him from stealing a purse and across the street a woman that morning was screamed bloody murder, and I went over to say, are you okay?

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And she hit me over and over again. After that she walked towards Trader Joe's before she got there, she assaulted 10 residents.

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We

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have a budget later on that I'm all in favor at this point if I win that I'm going to cut the shares budget

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Because they haven't provided a safe place for us to go more over

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Because those homeless here and violent people there will losing 10 million dollars every year in our budget

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Because of it. No movie stars no rock stars no dancers. No singers nothing

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I'm going to bring it back.

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We'll build bunkers along that whole side, doubling the sidewalk, and make it Butler's service

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only.

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We'll get a pick it up in West Hollywood.

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We'll do the sidewalks over with gay-eyed walk-of-fame, and so on.

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Thank you so much.

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November 3rd.

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November 3rd.

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Thank you.

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Mike Holtzman to be followed by Jonathan Wilson and then Kathy Walgmett.

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Good evening, Mayor and Council members.

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The micoltsman of 39, 39 year member or 39 year resident of West Hollywood.

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I appreciate Skaggs' recent decision to exclude the four proposed metro-k line stations

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affecting West Hollywood from its current SB 79 maps.

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However, that decision should not be viewed as a reason to delay planning.

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Rather it provides a valuable, potentially limited window for the city to prepare for

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the likelihood that these stations will eventually be mapped.

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to direct staff to begin developing a totap, right away.

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Given the complexity of the process and the importance of meaning,

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meaningful public engagement,

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waiting until the stations are officially mapped,

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could significantly reduce the city's flexibility

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and residents' ability to help shape future growth.

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Totap is not about opposing housing,

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it is about planning growth responsibly.

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The TOTUP would allow West Hollywood to directly direct growth to appropriate commercial

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corridors and transit-servant areas while protecting neighborhood character and respecting

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community priorities expressed during the ZIP process.

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And I couldn't at TOTUP.

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The public is consistent with the proactive approaches that Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, and soon to be called for city have taken.

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By acting now, the council can create a balanced approach that accommodates new housing while preserving the qualities that make what's Hollywood unique.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Jonathan Wilson, to be followed by Kathy Waldman.

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All right, Mayor, I'm forcing the Vice Mayor's

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now here, but council members, good to see you.

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Thank you for your opportunity to speak.

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I want to speak a little bit about the Tota app,

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and I want to say thank you again for presenting

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what you presented on May 18th.

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Unfortunately, it looks like we have decided

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to move that into consent, and we have approved that.

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What that said, I still think there's a need

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to have intentional and deliberate housing

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within our city.

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And what that said, I mean, it is extremely important,

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we think about not only what our city looks like in the future, but what our residents want

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as well.

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There's a bunch of residents are asking for a tot up at this moment and they're feeling

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unheard of at the moment.

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When we make sure that we hear, we have strong persecution, I think what would our city, our

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city, of 1.99 square miles, looks like a 9 square miles, looks like a 9 square miles,

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looks like a strong, strong, I think heard a city council to make sure that we are thinking

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thoughtfully about the impacts that we are making, also maintaining some control on West

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We can't leave our city development up to the state.

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Let's ask ourselves why Los Angeles is delaying the implementation

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and also why cities like Culver City and Beverly Hills

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have created it to it up.

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Let's be intentional about where and how we develop in this city.

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And again, the idea is not about not developing.

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It's about being an intention about where we develop and how we develop.

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Thank you.

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Thank you Kathy Waldman to be followed by Jacob Shaw.

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My name is Kathy Wall.

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Kathy, can you pull the mic down a little bit?

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I'm a 30-year West Hollywood resident in the WeHo Heights neighborhood.

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NSEES member.

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I'm here to urge the approval of SB79 Todap, given the vital protections it would afford

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our communities.

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The property street conditions and neighborhood impact are key factors in project evaluation.

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with the tow-dap our city gains the exact framework to use local context rather than passively

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proving projects that result in a natural hardship. SB 79 undermines local governments control over

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its land use decision making, our existing RSO affordable housing is under threat from this,

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likely leading to displacement and intensifying the gentrification of our city, which will make it

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challenging for low-income residents, seniors, on fixed incomes, the disabled, and working

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individuals to stay in or move to West Hollywood.

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SB 79 is a boon for developers looking to boost profits, but detrimental to our residents.

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A grim truth and is that the majority of this council supported this bill failing to protect

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its constituents.

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You'll be abandoning the residents once again if the toadap isn't supported.

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Please approve SB 79 to give City of West Hollywood the tools to protect our community.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Jacob Shaw to be followed by great rain.

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All right, good evening.

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Mayor, not vice mayor.

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Council members city manager and city staff.

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My name is Jacob Shaw and I'm honored to come to you today as the interim president and CEO of the West Hollywood Chamber of Commerce.

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I'm here tonight to express the Chamber's strong support for the continued renewal of both the

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Sunset Ship Business Improvement District and the West Hollywood Design District.

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These organizations are invaluable partners in advancing the economic vitality of West

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Hollywood through destination marketing, business advocacy, special events, and stakeholder

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engagement.

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Both districts help strengthen the commercial corridors that contribute significantly to the

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city's identity and economic success.

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The Sunset Strip and Design District are not only important business centers, they are internationally recognized brands that helped to find West Hollywood.

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They're efforts attract visitors, support local businesses, generate economic activity, and reinforce the city's reputation as a global destination for entertainment, hospitality, design and culture.

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The chamber as manager of both organization has seen first hand the positive impact they have on our businesses, property owners, residents, and visitors alike.

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Their work extends beyond their individual boundaries and the benefits the broader West Hollywood community as a whole.

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As we continue to navigate economic challenges and increasing competitive marketplace, it is critical that we support organizations that have a proven track record of promoting investment,

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driving visitation and fostering collaboration amongst stakeholders. On behalf of the West

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Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, I respectfully urge the Council to support the continued

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renewal of both the Sunset Shrip Business Improvement District and the West Hollywood

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Design District. I also want to thank the City for its continued cooperation with the

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Chamber and our business community. Together we are helping ensure that West Hollywood

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remains one of the most vibrant, innovative and economically successful cities in our region.

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Thank you. Thank you Greg Graham to be followed by Christopher Clap.

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Good evening, not our

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bold mayor. Hielman, the steam city council and city staff. Greg Graham, resident of Los Angeles

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and current executive director of the West Hollywood design district. I submitted a public comment

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so I will keep it brief. I just wanted to show up in person as you all do to say thank you for

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your continued support of the design district of our past fiscal year. Encouraging engagement and

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for collaboration in the upcoming fiscal year.

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And I also wish to pull forward for those in the chambers

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that don't know that 30 years ago,

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the design district was established

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as a business improvement district.

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And I wish to celebrate the leadership,

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the combined leadership of those on the day as tonight,

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particularly Honorable Mayor Heilman,

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his signature is on the founding documents of the design district.

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It is my absolute pleasure and privilege

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to represent this community, and I thank you for your support.

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Thank you.

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Christopher Clap, to be followed by Scott Epstein, and then Nicole Payton and Wendy Jane Carrell.

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Good evening, Mayor and esteemed members of City Council.

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I am Christopher Clap.

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I've worked in the neighborhood 18 years of patrosion on the street.

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I'm a current vice chair and treasurer of the West High Design District,

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just asking for your continued support.

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We had our best year yet, I think our best year is ahead of us.

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I have to give a special thank you to Jackie Ranko,

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public, desperate at Laura Byre and Laura D'Ambrosia for all their support.

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We love to do the work, we're a lot of volunteers.

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We just look forward to the opportunity to continue that work.

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So thank you for your support.

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Thank you.

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Scott Epstein to be followed by Nicole Payton and Wendy Jane Carroll.

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Good evening, Council members.

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Scott Epstein Director of Policy and Research with the Bunden Housing L.A.

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Here to speak in favor of SB 79 implementation and also parking reform.

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So your council showed remarkable courage in supporting SB 79.

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And you did so because you understand the depth of the housing crisis in the city,

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how many renters are burdened by the cost of housing here, and you wanted to solve it.

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and you were one of few cities to do so.

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Now it's time to move forward on that commitment

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by implementing the law.

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Unfortunately, Skag has introduced a lot of uncertainty

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into the process by making up a new criterion

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for plan rail out of thin air.

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There is nothing in statute or in HECD's guidance

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that says that plan rail stations need to have a completed environmental review process only that

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a locally preferred alternative have to have been selected, which it has. I strongly urge you

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to accept SB 79 projects when the bill goes into effect. It will also put you at less legal

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jeopardy. And then I also want to talk about parking reform. You would be the second city in

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County to support the complete elimination of parking minimum city wide. This is a bedrock of

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pro housing policy and really it's just clean up in the city of West Hollywood, right? Because

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the vast majority of your city is early part does not have to have parking requirements because of

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AB 297. But you will be saying firmly that this is a progressive policy that incentivizes driving

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and drives up the cost of housing for no reason.

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So please support both of these

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pro housing progressive policies

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appreciate your leadership.

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Thank you.

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Nicole Payton and Wendy.

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Jane Carroll.

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Good evening Mayor.

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Hielman.

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Council members and staff.

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I'm here with Wendy Jane and

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unfortunately Catherine in can't be here tonight.

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We're here to be able to share as community members

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and to five planners and deaf dualists that we're partnering with the library next door for two events that are upcoming as deaf cafes.

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This Saturday, June 20th and August 22nd, from 1030 to 12, it'll be a conversation over T and cake.

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Where we can talk about death with no agenda, no objectives and no set themes.

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It's not a great counseling or support session. It is simply conversations about death.

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And it really is a way of our bring community together to think about living life more fully.

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Happy to cheer for you.

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Thank you, Nicole.

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Good evening, everyone.

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Thank you very much.

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There are 24,000 death cafes in the world.

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They started in 2011.

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And we are really excited because there are 93 countries.

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And now West Hollywood is joining in this opportunity to discuss living well.

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Well, quality of life through the end of life.

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So if you're able to attend, you will be very welcome.

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Thank you.

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And good luck tonight.

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Thank you.

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Ignacio, Ignacio, Darnaudi, yes, to be followed

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by Kyle Brazil, and then Hernan Molina.

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Their council, as a long time resident of West Hollywood, I support

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Scacks methodology requiring environmental analysis and reliable funding

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before potential metro stops are placed on the map.

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West Hollywood faces serious financial and environmental challenges.

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I am concerned that the city may not be able to fund the billions required

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for the K-Lun extension, but I am even more troubled by a council members

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attempt during the SCAC meeting to eliminate the essential environmental review before subway stops

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are assigned towards Hollywood. Our city sits on a high-water table, La Sienaga means

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the swamp in Spanish. Large-scale underground construction in this environment presents

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extraordinary engineering and environmental challenges. Moving forward with a proper environmental

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review would expose West Hollywood to catastrophic, legal, financial and infrastructure risks.

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Also, requesting a toad up now is not about opposing SB 79.

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It is a tool allowed by SB 79 to ensure that future housing growth happens in a way

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that is thoughtful, balanced and responsive to the needs of our city.

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Proceeding with a toad up would invite hails and displacement decades before the subway even

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arrives.

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As an example, our 1133 yearly placeable rent stabilized units would become prime targets for

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predatory redevelopment.

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The good news is that Skack's current mapping decision gives West Hollywood time to plan

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responsibly.

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Please protect the weed in WeHo, not developers' profits.

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Thank you.

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Thank you, Kyle Brazil, to be followed by her non-malina and then Mike Nudel.

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I think we hear often that this is a debate about pro versus anti-housing and development, and that's simply not the case.

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I think we all want housing supply, we all want to see rents come down, but we need to be realistic about the solutions that will deliver that affordability.

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There was a paper released earlier this year by UCLA that says, quote,

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It is unrealistic to think that we can deregulate and build our way out of the affordability crisis with market rate housing,

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even with large positive supply shocks in any reasonable timeframe.

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I think we've got to be nuanced about the conversation here.

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This is about responsible development versus irresponsible development.

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This is about local control over our community

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and protecting the interests of our residents

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versus allowing Sacramento and other special interest groups

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to mandate density in all parts of our city.

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We also need nuance around locations, right?

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This is in an LA County conversation.

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West Hollywood is one of the densest cities in the country.

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We are 70% more dense than Santa Monica.

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We are as dense as San Francisco.

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We've got to be thoughtful and responsible

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in our development and our community.

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I appreciate the folks that have turned up to the council tonight to advocate for housing supply but I don't think we can let that come at the expense of doing it responsibly and thoughtfully

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So I just want to say again while I appreciate and want to be part of the creation of affordable units in housing in West Hollywood

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We really need to be thoughtful about the way we do that. Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Hernan Lina, to be followed by Mike Nadal.

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My name is Havran Molina, and I'm not here tonight as your governmental efforts this

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long. I am here as a resident, but also as the president of the Osholygur Municipal

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Employees Association. We, from the largest bargaining unit of the city, Osholygur. And I'm here

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because I see everyone. I see everyone. Could I ask everyone, we've seen you? Could you

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all sit now? So everyone else can see the speaker. Thank you. Thank you all for being here. Sorry

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And I'm here because we are certainly disappointed to hear that the city, and I was able to get a copy of the letter that this temporary workers who are seeking voluntary recognition by this city.

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The city was holding, that has advocated for human rights since its incorporation, that has

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recognized for the first time as no other local government, LGBT couples.

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The city's most progressive, the most progressive city in southern California, is refusing

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to voluntarily accept and recognize the temporary workers desire to become unionized.

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The worst part of it is that I worked with all of you.

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Not once, one person came to ask, is we from willing to agree with these workers?

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I heard about this second hand.

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I was out on this ability for two months, but neither none of my colleagues on the executive board

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were notified. That is this hardening, but most this hardening and really unbelievable is that the

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city that I go around advocating as the governmental affairs is on will not do this for its own workers

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We will not recognize these folks, and if you are being told that we should, I agree

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them, we cannot, they are a very large group of people that will, we share this in

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values.

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And I know I have to wrap up, while we share the same values, they are two different

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universities.

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Thank you very much.

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I should be recognized.

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Thank you for your time.

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Thank you, Hanna.

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Thank you, everyone.

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Mike Nudel, to be followed by Anita's guest, Swami.

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I might not all try West residents being in support of the lifeguard's effort to unionize.

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I help spearhead the effort to unionize lifeguards to help get the ball rolling, because

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I saw a need for these dedicated and hardworking individuals to have protections and have

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a voice regarding the way that they've been treated.

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I was shocked about what I learned about the West Hollywood poll has been operating.

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I would have spoken publicly sooner, but I wanted these employees to first have protections

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in place, so they wouldn't be subject to retaliation.

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As part of this effort, I listened to employees what they had to say, investigated concerns

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that were brought to me and spoke with numerous individuals, both past and present, including

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lifeguard, city employees, and others who communicated with the city with these concerns.

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Tonight, I want to raise some of these concerns, and I intend to discuss additional matters

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at a future meeting when some individuals can be present. First, lifeguard's loss alert paid

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lunch benefit. In fact, they are being paid significantly less because city decided to

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to benefit. Second, I understand there have been complaints involving the poll supervisor for

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Ted Jordan concerning inappropriate images that allegedly became accessible on a city

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iPad used by employees. It's my understanding that you may resources as aware of these concerns,

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and I question whether the response was adequate. Third, employees have been told that when

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management, including Cretes Jordan, Kim Hubbard, become upset with workers. These employees

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are removed from the schedule without notice. Workers simply receive an automated email and

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them that they are no longer scheduled. Imagine what that does to someone who was relying on

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that income to survive, particularly when the only thing that they did was speak up for

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expressed in the opinion. I've been made aware of allegations involving Cortes Jordan making

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inappropriate late-night tone calls to a young female lifeguard. Since she became a liability,

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she was just a then terminated. These are serious concerns that it deserve to be thoroughly

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investigated. These hard-working individuals deserve protections. They deserve a voice,

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and they certainly should not be treated in the manner that they have been.

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I not only support their effort to unionize, but I think it's essential that they do

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so in a very speedy manner.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Anita, Guestwami.

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Anita, after you, I'm going to call Lincoln Bone and then we're going to put everyone else

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at the end of the meeting for council comments for public comments.

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I'm sorry to interrupt.

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No worries.

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so make it really quick. First, Pride Parade was so much fun.

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We had it felt like a neighborhood again,

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and it was just wonderful to have a neighborhood Parade night,

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friends who were here and reminded me of the joy and wonder

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of what is here in West Hollywood. It truly is unique.

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Secondly, really quickly, 55 other people in myself

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wrote letters to Skag, supporting their methodology.

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I attached all those letters in the public comment that I submitted

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in writing so that you can get a chance to look at that. There were 75 comments and of those,

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me, pardon me, more than 10 were not about the actual SB79 maps, but 55 of them were

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from West Hollywood. They weren't from other places. There were residents of West Hollywood

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who feel strongly about that. It's not sensible to make decisions when there's no funding.

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Those who are concerned about climate change should be thrilled that the process isn't

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place, and ecstatic that environmental concerns, including our historical water issues, that

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these concerns are being understood and addressed.

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That's what this is about.

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Thirdly, from active citizen report, West Side City Council of government meeting was in

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lightning.

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Charles Eutida, a great job sharing it, was great to hear what other cities are doing who

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listen to the residents and act for the needs of their residents, such as Beverly Hills

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with their towed app, Los Angeles with their ordinance, local control matters to those cities.

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And I hope that we can, except that report, and we work together with zip to make it happen

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to bring local control back to West Hollywood.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Lincoln, and that will be our last speaker during this session.

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Good evening, city council and mayor.

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My name is Lincoln Bon.

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I am a temporary lifeguard at the city of West Hollywood.

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also a UCLA employee and an organizer with WeHo Temps United.

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The aquatic workers chose to form a union of our own.

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We asked the city to recognize it and the city manager said no.

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This reason was unit appropriateness.

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That is a legal question about whether we are the right group to bargain together.

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But I am here to speak about how we work together at the same pool, the same water, the same shifts.

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These are the same working conditions.

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If we're not a group with a shared interest, I don't know who it is.

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And whether we want a union and what shape it takes is our decision to make, not the

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cities.

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That is what autonomy means.

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This kind of denial is a familiar move.

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USC recently tried it with its faculty.

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He called them the wrong kind of group and said that the adjunct faculty was managers.

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This legal technicality was an attempt to block their union, but the labor board rejected that.

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The faculty voted, and they are asking the University of respect the result now.

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That is the same thing we are asking of you.

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For big employer, hoping the small group gets discouraged and walk away.

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That is not what's going to happen here.

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We are not walking away.

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We will continue to keep the pressure on.

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And I just want to state as well, the City of West Hollywood signed a neutrality pledge early in July.

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I'm sorry, January of this year.

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And this feels like not honoring that neutrality pledge at all.

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So please city council override the denial, recognize the union that we chose, and let us get to the table.

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Respect our choice.

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00:53:31,860 --> 00:53:32,720
Thank you.

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Thank you.

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00:53:39,940 --> 00:53:40,960
Thank you, everyone.

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Thank you.

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We're going to move on to the city manager's report.

662
00:53:50,250 --> 00:53:50,890
Thank you.

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00:53:50,890 --> 00:53:55,010
have a report tonight. I apologize. I do have three citizen positions

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lips for consent calendar item. I apologize. Can you read them into the

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records? Yes, I can. Thank you. I'm Elise Eisenberg in support of item

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B10. C. Dent in support of item B10 and Ed Hallman in support of item B10.

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00:54:13,390 --> 00:54:19,170
Thank you. Thank you. Now our city manager, Jackie. Good evening, Mayor. Council

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members of the public. I just want to give you a few updates and just share with you that

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I'd like to take a moment to celebrate the tremendous success of WeHo Pride Weekend

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2026. WeHo Pride is a powerful reflection of who we are as a city and it takes a village to

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make it happen and I want to thank the City Council, our event services team and staff from every

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Department and Division in our city, our event production partners at JJLA, the Los Angeles County

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Sheriff's Department, Los Angeles County Fire Department, our medical teams, and all of our

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public safety partners. It was an extraordinary and safe weekend. That once again showcase the

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very best of West Hollywood. Thank you all for helping make. We hope ride 2026 such an incredible

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success. And to celebrate World Cup, I like to share that this past weekend, the city's

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summer of soccer fan zone at Plumber Park was a tremendous success. I hope many of you had a chance

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to visit the fan zone because it was amazing. Attendance was outstanding and it was a wonderful,

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it was wonderful to see families and fans of all ages coming together in the excitement and spirit

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of World Cup Soccer.

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Thank you to our city staff, community partners,

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and everyone who helped make the fan zone

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such a memorable experience.

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The celebration will continue at West Hollywood Park

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from June 25th through June 28th

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with additional fan zone soccer match viewing.

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As part of the arts component of the fan zone,

688
00:56:00,370 --> 00:56:03,770
we'll be hosting the US premiere of disco foot,

689
00:56:04,190 --> 00:56:06,130
a hybrid dance soccer performance,

690
00:56:06,130 --> 00:56:13,910
And at this time, I'd like to welcome the creators of Disco Foot to share briefly more about this exciting program.

691
00:56:21,780 --> 00:56:31,860
Council and the Arts Council with Rebecca Eman for having invited us to come to your city and present our performance Disco Foot.

692
00:56:32,020 --> 00:56:41,880
Disco Foot was created 10 years ago, and I would like to point out that you are the first city in the US that we are being presenting this performance.

693
00:56:43,080 --> 00:56:56,260
This is a performance which is with mixed genders, it's essentially a soccer match, but the rules are a bit different. You cannot run. You have to dance.

694
00:56:59,020 --> 00:57:08,580
Also, it's not, of course, the same rules as exist in soccer, you have to make goals.

695
00:57:09,580 --> 00:57:14,260
But we also have three judges that judge how your team dance.

696
00:57:14,860 --> 00:57:19,880
So basically you can win the match by dancing better than the other team.

697
00:57:20,240 --> 00:57:23,920
So it's not a given that just because you scored that you win.

698
00:57:24,880 --> 00:57:53,100
We thought this was an important one. When we created it about 10 years ago, we thought this was also a politically important to show that this type of sport, which can often be seen as something hard and hyper masculine, we wanted to show that because it's very difficult to dance and play soccer at the same time.

699
00:57:53,100 --> 00:58:08,700
So we wanted to show the importance of mixed mixed gender teams, but also we looked at other things in society that have changed over the years.

700
00:58:08,960 --> 00:58:18,320
We looked at, for example, the costumes that how football plays used to wear much shorter shorts in the 70s.

701
00:58:18,320 --> 00:58:21,220
And we wanted what has happened to the thighs

702
00:58:21,220 --> 00:58:24,300
why have they become so dangerous suddenly.

703
00:58:24,920 --> 00:58:27,640
So we have gone back to a 70's look,

704
00:58:28,200 --> 00:58:32,260
and we hope that that can be also something to think about

705
00:58:32,260 --> 00:58:36,360
how things change in society and why do they change?

706
00:58:36,800 --> 00:58:38,440
And I'm here with my colleague Thomas.

707
00:58:39,540 --> 00:58:42,120
We'd just like to add just another thank you

708
00:58:42,120 --> 00:58:47,280
for the opportunity to find a manner to collect other artists.

709
00:58:47,280 --> 00:58:49,040
these are local artists, local dancers,

710
00:58:49,260 --> 00:58:52,740
is a local DJ, and as our production team is also local.

711
00:58:52,940 --> 00:58:58,480
So the entire focus on this project is a local project.

712
00:58:58,740 --> 00:59:00,720
And I thank you for that, because most of these people

713
00:59:00,720 --> 00:59:02,040
have not met before.

714
00:59:02,720 --> 00:59:05,040
So suddenly even though they come from the Los Angeles area,

715
00:59:05,180 --> 00:59:06,060
they get a chance to meet.

716
00:59:06,480 --> 00:59:09,020
And we all know today how important it is to find a place

717
00:59:09,020 --> 00:59:09,600
to meet.

718
00:59:09,840 --> 00:59:11,620
We've been working quite a lot at the gymnasium,

719
00:59:11,860 --> 00:59:14,520
the aquatic center, is an extraordinary space.

720
00:59:15,160 --> 00:59:16,220
The staff can love it.

721
00:59:16,220 --> 00:59:19,060
It's going to just a lovely experience to be in your city.

722
00:59:19,240 --> 00:59:22,360
We don't know LA at all, and we don't know we hope,

723
00:59:22,720 --> 00:59:26,480
but we love it now, and we thank you so much for this opportunity.

724
00:59:27,080 --> 00:59:29,740
And I would just like to add on a little short thing.

725
00:59:29,960 --> 00:59:31,460
Today, it's important.

726
00:59:31,680 --> 00:59:34,020
Everybody's looking for meeting places.

727
00:59:34,580 --> 00:59:39,580
And was Thomas said about that we have been using the great hall,

728
00:59:39,940 --> 00:59:42,240
the gymnasium for us.

729
00:59:42,240 --> 00:59:51,180
we think that to bring in an arts project into a sports hall, basically, is an excellent way

730
00:59:51,180 --> 00:59:59,680
of maybe in the future also meeting of different interests if I put it like that. So why not in the future?

731
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:06,760
We hope that we can be able to mix up these kind of places, also for other types of arch and sports.

732
01:00:07,560 --> 01:00:12,400
And this could be a natural way in the future for people to recognize each other.

733
01:00:12,700 --> 01:00:14,260
Thank you, Mayor, in the council.

734
01:00:15,040 --> 01:00:17,060
Thank you very much. Thank you.

735
01:00:18,400 --> 01:00:18,780
Thank you.

736
01:00:18,780 --> 01:00:19,160
Thank you.

737
01:00:19,280 --> 01:00:20,280
Thank you, Mayor.

738
01:00:22,580 --> 01:00:23,400
Yes, they got me.

739
01:00:24,040 --> 01:00:24,320
No, we did not.

740
01:00:24,440 --> 01:00:25,620
No, we did not.

741
01:00:25,620 --> 01:00:26,740
No, we did not.

742
01:00:26,740 --> 01:00:27,480
Thank you, Mr.

743
01:00:31,610 --> 01:00:36,490
We just want to encourage everyone to join us at the upcoming We Hope Park Fan Zone and for

744
01:00:36,490 --> 01:00:42,490
more information, please visit go.wehole.org forward slash fan zones.

745
01:00:42,730 --> 01:00:44,030
So we hope to see you all there.

746
01:00:44,270 --> 01:00:45,090
Thank you very much.

747
01:00:45,250 --> 01:00:46,310
This concludes my remarks.

748
01:00:47,130 --> 01:00:47,310
All right.

749
01:00:47,450 --> 01:00:49,790
Now we'll turn to the consent calendar.

750
01:00:50,610 --> 01:00:55,250
Melissa, the fiscal impact of the consent calendar as it was amended.

751
01:00:55,530 --> 01:00:56,650
What is that tonight?

752
01:00:56,690 --> 01:00:57,390
Thank you, Mayor.

753
01:00:57,390 --> 01:01:09,850
as amended with the addition of items D1, F1, F2, F3, F5, and F7 is $2,300, $8,663 in expenditures,

754
01:01:10,730 --> 01:01:16,350
$940,000, $2,300, $8 in revenue, and $0,000 in waived fees.

755
01:01:16,790 --> 01:01:23,570
Before we take our vote on tonight's consent calendar item D1 was moved to the consent calendar.

756
01:01:23,730 --> 01:01:26,270
It is an ordinance and I'm going to read the title into the record.

757
01:01:26,270 --> 01:01:46,310
And ordinance of the City of West Hollywood amending portions of Title 2, administration and personnel, article 1, city administration, section 2.08, 0.030, city offices, hours of the West Hollywood municipal code, and with that I will entertain, we have a vote, let me start.

758
01:01:46,950 --> 01:01:48,450
We have a motion in a second.

759
01:01:49,730 --> 01:01:55,510
and I'm guessing it's going to be approved. It is and it is approved. Thank you for that.

760
01:01:56,190 --> 01:02:00,550
We do have a couple of public hearings tonight. They are fairly routine.

761
01:02:01,250 --> 01:02:06,710
We will turn to our first public hearing which is item C1, the collection of

762
01:02:07,070 --> 01:02:12,590
solid waste recycling and organic waste charges on the tax roll for fiscal years

763
01:02:12,590 --> 01:02:19,350
2026 to 2027, do any of my colleagues have any disclosures?

764
01:02:20,090 --> 01:02:25,370
No, and can I ask how this public hearing was noticed?

765
01:02:26,050 --> 01:02:26,950
Yes, thank you, Mayor.

766
01:02:27,070 --> 01:02:29,150
Typically, I would just say it's required by law,

767
01:02:29,370 --> 01:02:31,390
but being that these are the collection of fees.

768
01:02:31,590 --> 01:02:36,510
And it was posted and published on May 28th, as well as June 4th.

769
01:02:36,510 --> 01:02:38,590
And do we have any speakers on this item?

770
01:02:38,910 --> 01:02:41,090
Tom DeMell has signed up to speak on this item.

771
01:02:41,090 --> 01:02:42,950
All right, is he still here?

772
01:02:44,610 --> 01:02:45,670
Okay, great.

773
01:02:46,850 --> 01:02:51,530
But before you come and speak, can we have a brief report from our engineer?

774
01:02:52,570 --> 01:02:54,270
Good evening, my name is John Gilmore.

775
01:02:54,450 --> 01:02:56,310
I am the Engineering Division Manager.

776
01:02:56,990 --> 01:03:01,430
The city has a contract with Athens to provide solid waste, recycling, and

777
01:03:01,430 --> 01:03:03,790
organic collection services to the public.

778
01:03:03,790 --> 01:03:12,110
For the contract, Athens rates that are charged to the public for these services increase each year based on CPI,

779
01:03:12,610 --> 01:03:18,670
which for this year is 5%, also for the contract Athens in 2022,

780
01:03:19,450 --> 01:03:27,030
had to embark upon a major overhaul to comply with the new state law regarding organics recycling implementation.

781
01:03:27,030 --> 01:03:35,890
For the contract, the rates also increase each year to cover that overhaul, which for this year is 3.6%.

782
01:03:35,890 --> 01:03:41,270
Note that this year's increase is the final adjustment for this special provision.

783
01:03:42,290 --> 01:03:52,170
Lastly, the city's costs for operating the program also increase each year based on CPI, which for this year is 3.02%.

784
01:03:52,170 --> 01:04:00,430
This is the public hearing wherein Council will approve the increase in rates and the placement of charges on the property tax bill accordingly.

785
01:04:00,510 --> 01:04:03,250
This concludes the presentation for this item.

786
01:04:03,670 --> 01:04:04,450
Thank you.

787
01:04:04,470 --> 01:04:06,430
Do any of my colleagues have any questions?

788
01:04:07,330 --> 01:04:07,410
No.

789
01:04:07,730 --> 01:04:09,750
The public hearing is now open.

790
01:04:10,050 --> 01:04:12,070
We do have one speaker on the item.

791
01:04:12,830 --> 01:04:13,310
Mr. Demil.

792
01:04:15,980 --> 01:04:16,900
Thank you, Mayor.

793
01:04:17,920 --> 01:04:19,240
John Demil was Hollywood.

794
01:04:20,860 --> 01:04:22,440
Oh, I only have one question.

795
01:04:22,900 --> 01:04:23,460
Just one.

796
01:04:23,460 --> 01:04:30,540
It's just one, why you keep increasing the amount of money you're getting to these folks,

797
01:04:30,880 --> 01:04:33,680
where it's increasingly during the disgusting in our city?

798
01:04:35,260 --> 01:04:36,180
I mean, why are you doing that?

799
01:04:36,440 --> 01:04:41,920
It's like paying for 18 holes and only doing six and saying I scored a 65.

800
01:04:42,340 --> 01:04:43,040
It's just wrong.

801
01:04:43,600 --> 01:04:44,360
It's just wrong.

802
01:04:45,040 --> 01:04:46,260
And look at our alley.

803
01:04:46,540 --> 01:04:50,420
Just look at our alley from Palm Avenue to,

804
01:04:53,440 --> 01:04:53,440
you know,

805
01:04:54,400 --> 01:05:03,040
It's I don't think any of you have walked the alley. They've not walked the alley. I know you have. It's full of homeless. It's full of glass. It's full of time.

806
01:05:03,780 --> 01:05:05,160
Please address the council.

807
01:05:06,040 --> 01:05:08,380
I'm addressing address the council.

808
01:05:08,940 --> 01:05:13,360
I have to address you and the residents. May I address the council?

809
01:05:13,660 --> 01:05:15,880
36,000 people want to hear what I say.

810
01:05:15,880 --> 01:05:17,720
Tom addressed the council.

811
01:05:19,080 --> 01:05:19,780
I can't look there.

812
01:05:19,880 --> 01:05:20,600
I can't look there.

813
01:05:21,460 --> 01:05:21,840
All right.

814
01:05:22,420 --> 01:05:22,820
Okay.

815
01:05:24,480 --> 01:05:28,720
Why does my alley look like crap?

816
01:05:29,440 --> 01:05:30,520
You have your parades.

817
01:05:30,900 --> 01:05:32,360
Everything's beautiful on the other side.

818
01:05:32,660 --> 01:05:35,580
If you want to just tend to be behind you,

819
01:05:35,720 --> 01:05:36,380
oh my god.

820
01:05:38,000 --> 01:05:39,140
Is that the way we want to live?

821
01:05:39,380 --> 01:05:41,300
Is that the way of what we're paying?

822
01:05:41,540 --> 01:05:42,660
Is that what they doing for cleaning?

823
01:05:43,000 --> 01:05:43,920
Fire of them.

824
01:05:44,720 --> 01:05:45,500
Fire of them.

825
01:05:45,500 --> 01:05:51,160
Say, do what just obligated you contract did, did you?

826
01:05:51,540 --> 01:05:55,400
And I think that they should earn their bonus every single year.

827
01:05:55,460 --> 01:05:56,520
Thank you very much.

828
01:05:57,140 --> 01:05:57,740
Thank you, Tom.

829
01:05:58,920 --> 01:06:02,480
Just to clarify, these are not the people who clean alleys.

830
01:06:02,760 --> 01:06:07,820
These are the people who collect trash at residential properties, correct?

831
01:06:09,460 --> 01:06:11,020
Yeah, all the parcels in the city.

832
01:06:11,440 --> 01:06:12,320
Thank you.

833
01:06:13,360 --> 01:06:13,600
Tom?

834
01:06:13,600 --> 01:06:26,360
All right, are there any further discussion?

835
01:06:26,960 --> 01:06:31,120
Okay, if there's not now, go ahead and close the public hearing and we can take action,

836
01:06:31,520 --> 01:06:34,260
is there a motion to approve the recommendation?

837
01:06:34,640 --> 01:06:36,440
There is, and we're already voting.

838
01:06:38,480 --> 01:06:40,720
You guys are quick tonight, thank you.

839
01:06:40,720 --> 01:06:45,160
We will now move on to our next item,

840
01:06:45,520 --> 01:06:49,080
C2, the collection of sewer charges on the tax roll

841
01:06:49,080 --> 01:06:52,520
for fiscal year, 2026, 2027.

842
01:06:53,560 --> 01:06:55,820
This public hearing is now open.

843
01:06:56,040 --> 01:06:57,560
Are there any disclosures?

844
01:06:58,000 --> 01:06:58,380
None.

845
01:06:58,940 --> 01:07:01,280
And Melissa, how was this item notice?

846
01:07:01,620 --> 01:07:04,720
It was noticed the same notice for item C1.

847
01:07:04,840 --> 01:07:06,100
It was combined notice.

848
01:07:06,860 --> 01:07:08,840
And our city ended engineer.

849
01:07:08,840 --> 01:07:12,900
Good evening, my name is John Gilmore and I'm the Engineering Division Manager.

850
01:07:13,420 --> 01:07:17,480
The city owns, operates, and maintains a sewer system to serve the public.

851
01:07:18,060 --> 01:07:23,240
The cost of this system is paid for by collecting a fee from every property on their annual

852
01:07:23,240 --> 01:07:24,580
property tax bill.

853
01:07:25,120 --> 01:07:29,360
Every year, the fee is adjusted for inflation to keep up with the rising costs.

854
01:07:29,800 --> 01:07:33,920
This year's CPI increase is 3.24%.

855
01:07:33,920 --> 01:07:38,680
This is the public hearing where in council will approve the increase in rates and placement

856
01:07:38,680 --> 01:07:40,780
on the property tax bill accordingly.

857
01:07:41,300 --> 01:07:43,140
This concludes the presentation at this time.

858
01:07:43,600 --> 01:07:45,480
Do we have any speakers on this item?

859
01:07:46,160 --> 01:07:48,040
Yes, Tom DeMille signed up to speak on that.

860
01:07:48,040 --> 01:07:48,320
All right.

861
01:07:48,500 --> 01:07:49,700
Thank you, Mr. DeMille.

862
01:07:50,660 --> 01:07:51,240
Oh, yeah, all right.

863
01:07:51,380 --> 01:07:52,020
I'll see you back.

864
01:07:53,220 --> 01:07:54,360
My name is Tom DeMille.

865
01:07:55,460 --> 01:07:56,560
Again, the residence.

866
01:07:58,220 --> 01:07:58,720
Oh, my.

867
01:07:59,200 --> 01:08:02,340
Later on, this council wants to pay themselves more.

868
01:08:02,760 --> 01:08:03,640
You don't have the money.

869
01:08:03,700 --> 01:08:05,320
You don't have the money these days.

870
01:08:05,320 --> 01:08:13,480
You're not even saving for the big artist man's 27, 28, all 28 up until January 29.

871
01:08:14,980 --> 01:08:18,620
Now if you put anything away, have you done anything? No.

872
01:08:18,860 --> 01:08:24,500
It's unfortunate that you can be here a month and have $2,000 and stuff on mailbox

873
01:08:24,500 --> 01:08:29,740
and get elected in this city. Do your work. Do what I did for 33 years.

874
01:08:30,120 --> 01:08:34,180
And let's make it official. Don't do it that way. Look what we have up there.

875
01:08:34,180 --> 01:08:39,720
I'm against this. I think the residents are against paying more for the sore bills as it is.

876
01:08:39,760 --> 01:08:45,880
You know, there's water, no, no, every single building and running down the street, people are falling and, you know, it's a mess.

877
01:08:46,140 --> 01:08:52,930
It's a mess. It needs to be read done. And then, you know, again, I'll think about giving him a cola. Thank you.

878
01:08:53,920 --> 01:08:58,700
Thank you. That's our only speaker on this item. Are there any questions from council?

879
01:08:59,880 --> 01:09:03,420
None, then I would close the public hearing and I didn't retain emotion.

880
01:09:04,180 --> 01:09:05,960
is a motion to adopt.

881
01:09:10,280 --> 01:09:14,820
And it's approved. Thank you. And we have one last public hearing in

882
01:09:14,820 --> 01:09:22,160
this series. This is a public hearing to place on the tax rolls. Those who are delinquent on

883
01:09:22,160 --> 01:09:30,700
their bills. And we got an updated list today. Did everyone get that? It should be on your

884
01:09:30,700 --> 01:09:34,180
at your. Okay.

885
01:09:36,660 --> 01:09:38,840
Melissa, how was this item notice?

886
01:09:39,300 --> 01:09:45,600
At the same as C1 and C2. All right. Are there any disclosures from Council? None.

887
01:09:46,260 --> 01:09:51,400
So the public hearing is open. We do have one public speaker, Tom DeMille.

888
01:09:56,130 --> 01:10:03,810
I'm chopped the mill, the cerebells, I just told you that you know there's a link went on there bills.

889
01:10:04,630 --> 01:10:09,010
Well, I just told you a minute ago that the residents can't afford to pay a collar every single month.

890
01:10:09,650 --> 01:10:19,430
They're just increasing in all their values of their homes and their payments and they're not being able to eat six or 15 dollars.

891
01:10:20,010 --> 01:10:23,270
No wonder there's a link went, I'm against this collar.

892
01:10:23,270 --> 01:10:29,610
stop the madness. You just keep squeezing all the residents for everything. You have to realize

893
01:10:29,610 --> 01:10:34,510
that the residents are already being squeezed the other way. And this balloon is going to pop.

894
01:10:34,870 --> 01:10:38,770
If you keep doing this in the residents, this is their investment of their homes.

895
01:10:39,370 --> 01:10:43,730
West Side West, I have you back. I hear you loud and clear. Thank you.

896
01:10:44,430 --> 01:10:49,390
Thank you. That's our only speaker on this item. Are there any questions from council?

897
01:10:49,390 --> 01:10:56,710
I will make one comment, I am a homeowner and I do pay this and I want my sewer system to work.

898
01:10:57,270 --> 01:11:09,010
So I am very happy to pay this minimal increase and almost every homeowner and property owner in the city do pay their sewer bill fully and on time.

899
01:11:09,390 --> 01:11:18,430
There's only a handful of people who have not paid and oftentimes they're the same people every year who forget to pay their bill.

900
01:11:18,430 --> 01:11:20,750
and then we have to put it on their tax roll.

901
01:11:21,450 --> 01:11:23,530
All right, so there's a motion to adopt.

902
01:11:24,210 --> 01:11:25,850
We'll go ahead and vote,

903
01:11:29,400 --> 01:11:30,900
and the item is approved.

904
01:11:31,920 --> 01:11:32,700
Thank you.

905
01:11:32,760 --> 01:11:38,740
We'll now turn to item C4, the user fee study

906
01:11:38,740 --> 01:11:43,960
and proposed fee resolution for fiscal year, 2026, 2027.

907
01:11:56,150 --> 01:11:58,190
And this is another public hearing.

908
01:11:58,190 --> 01:12:00,430
the public hearing is now open.

909
01:12:00,970 --> 01:12:02,190
How was this noticed?

910
01:12:03,110 --> 01:12:06,030
This one similarly because there are fees involved.

911
01:12:06,290 --> 01:12:09,010
We are required to post and publish a notice twice,

912
01:12:09,410 --> 01:12:12,310
so it was posted on June 4th and June 11th.

913
01:12:12,490 --> 01:12:14,860
All right, and council any disclosures here?

914
01:12:20,070 --> 01:12:22,110
All right, a little premature there.

915
01:12:22,710 --> 01:12:25,570
All right, so staff going to give us a brief report.

916
01:12:25,770 --> 01:12:28,350
Are there any other speakers on this item?

917
01:12:28,970 --> 01:12:30,350
No, we do not have any speakers.

918
01:12:30,350 --> 01:12:39,770
I say. Tom, please quit disrupting the meeting. Thank you. All right, Annie.

919
01:12:40,070 --> 01:12:45,110
Good evening, Mayor. Council members. I'm Annie Ruiz, Robin Emanager. Sitting with me

920
01:12:45,110 --> 01:12:53,290
is on ex-Jones and Trump Finance Director. We are proposing to increase our fees by 3% for

921
01:12:53,290 --> 01:13:00,210
some of the fees. We will be returning back to Council in October with a comprehensive fee

922
01:13:01,830 --> 01:13:05,130
Okay, are there further questions for staff?

923
01:13:06,530 --> 01:13:10,090
I'm here and I'm grateful that you're coming back in October with a bigger fee study.

924
01:13:10,150 --> 01:13:16,490
I had noticed that things, some parking fees had not been updated since 2017.

925
01:13:17,170 --> 01:13:20,410
So I imagine that that study will include a comprehensive look.

926
01:13:20,650 --> 01:13:23,370
Looking at what our neighbors are doing for comparisons, that sort of thing.

927
01:13:23,890 --> 01:13:24,450
Okay, yes, terrific.

928
01:13:24,550 --> 01:13:28,090
Looking forward to seeing that back, especially given some concerns on the budget.

929
01:13:28,090 --> 01:13:31,750
knowing it's been certain times since we've looked at some of those pieces of meaningfuls.

930
01:13:31,810 --> 01:13:32,330
Thank you.

931
01:13:32,510 --> 01:13:33,010
You're welcome.

932
01:13:33,370 --> 01:13:34,530
Compton member, Eric, sir.

933
01:13:34,970 --> 01:13:40,030
Additionally, I know a lot of our fees for recreational services, usage of the pool,

934
01:13:40,350 --> 01:13:44,410
and other social services that we provide at the Plumber Park Community Center.

935
01:13:44,850 --> 01:13:47,410
A lot of our other cities have very similar programming.

936
01:13:47,670 --> 01:13:51,870
Would love to kind of see what analysis there might be between those usages.

937
01:13:52,650 --> 01:13:57,730
For example, I would love to know what Beverly Hills charges for pickleball or

938
01:13:57,730 --> 01:14:04,450
in that way, just to make sure that we look at everything because I know on the Plumber Park Subcommittee Council Member,

939
01:14:04,450 --> 01:14:11,450
Myster and I are always understandably frustrated that we take on a lot of burden for other cities that surround us,

940
01:14:11,450 --> 01:14:18,170
but I want to see what kind of cross-sectional fee schedule is for other cities and how we're competitive or not competitive.

941
01:14:18,810 --> 01:14:26,850
And if we're taking on, I believe 80% of Los Angeles for pickleball, it's a total, and yes, to the pickleball people we are not coming for you,

942
01:14:26,850 --> 01:14:34,190
Please do not come. I do not need a pickleball war in my hands, but I would just like to understand that the competitive nature of the prices would be that's possible.

943
01:14:36,050 --> 01:14:42,390
And in that line, I would say to look at things by resident versus non-residents.

944
01:14:43,870 --> 01:14:55,130
And you're going to be right now, you're recommending that we approve a series of fee increases, but you're coming back later in the year with a comprehensive look at our fees.

945
01:14:55,130 --> 01:14:55,970
OK, graze.

946
01:14:57,430 --> 01:14:58,670
Any other questions?

947
01:14:58,890 --> 01:14:59,810
We do have one speak.

948
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:01,380
Speaker, Tom Demill.

949
01:15:09,590 --> 01:15:09,890
Tom?

950
01:15:12,310 --> 01:15:13,510
Do you have a priest?

951
01:15:14,230 --> 01:15:20,270
Tom Demill, let's all of it. I'm the only one in the city that's going to speak about the budget. Can you believe that?

952
01:15:20,350 --> 01:15:23,310
This is not the budget, Tom. This is the fee increase.

953
01:15:23,910 --> 01:15:34,670
Well, again, you know, I, you know, not only are they scared to come into a rainbow district, but they're also fed up.

954
01:15:34,670 --> 01:15:36,690
You know, they think it's a waste of time,

955
01:15:36,830 --> 01:15:40,150
because 33 years I've lived here,

956
01:15:40,570 --> 01:15:41,790
no one's listened to anybody.

957
01:15:43,210 --> 01:15:45,010
They could talk to the blue in the face,

958
01:15:45,310 --> 01:15:46,190
and it's falling out there,

959
01:15:46,450 --> 01:15:48,990
fire it out there, you know, one abstention, maybe,

960
01:15:49,030 --> 01:15:50,130
because they feel so guilty.

961
01:15:50,870 --> 01:15:51,750
But, you know, come on.

962
01:15:52,390 --> 01:15:55,990
I mean, the residents, come out residents,

963
01:15:56,350 --> 01:15:57,730
it's safe to come out to the meetings,

964
01:15:58,510 --> 01:15:59,730
find out when the meeting is,

965
01:15:59,950 --> 01:16:03,170
make out a speaker slip and tell us what you think.

966
01:16:05,190 --> 01:16:15,410
It's your duty, it's your privilege, it's our obligation to protect your investments, your children, your dogs,

967
01:16:15,650 --> 01:16:17,930
and being one over by the food carts.

968
01:16:18,530 --> 01:16:23,950
You know, just one thing after another here, we don't even have the sidewalks to support what we have.

969
01:16:24,410 --> 01:16:26,970
And the ones that are good no one walks on.

970
01:16:26,970 --> 01:16:30,110
I can't figure that out, Mia, or Council.

971
01:16:30,790 --> 01:16:35,230
We need to figure that out why we have now, over 33 years,

972
01:16:35,690 --> 01:16:38,790
the poorest sidewalks in the country.

973
01:16:40,470 --> 01:16:44,810
And I'm ashamed, I'm just ashamed, you know?

974
01:16:45,070 --> 01:16:47,090
I'm just ashamed, thank you.

975
01:16:47,430 --> 01:16:48,070
Thank you.

976
01:16:48,330 --> 01:16:49,390
That's our last speaker.

977
01:16:49,670 --> 01:16:51,090
We'll go ahead and close the hearing.

978
01:16:51,870 --> 01:16:52,290
Thank you.

979
01:16:52,450 --> 01:16:53,810
I just want to make a comment.

980
01:16:53,950 --> 01:16:55,510
I mean, based on what's being said,

981
01:16:55,510 --> 01:17:01,130
I'm really proud that the city of West Hollywood has paved sidewalks of paved streets.

982
01:17:01,950 --> 01:17:06,530
A neighborhood councilmember, your duties are our streets, trees and sidewalks.

983
01:17:06,550 --> 01:17:10,050
I would love more trees of Tom, please. Tom?

984
01:17:10,530 --> 01:17:15,650
But Tom, this is your first official warning. If you came, okay.

985
01:17:16,610 --> 01:17:17,050
All right.

986
01:17:20,360 --> 01:17:21,980
Tom, you're out of order.

987
01:17:27,000 --> 01:17:32,180
I just want to thank, I just want to make sure public works department as well as all of our friends.

988
01:17:32,180 --> 01:17:35,260
that cleaner streets make sure sidewalks are paved.

989
01:17:35,740 --> 01:17:38,820
I know when I was going to LA Pride yesterday

990
01:17:38,820 --> 01:17:41,420
and I crossed over that border on a bike,

991
01:17:41,940 --> 01:17:44,520
I got a little shaky, quite quickly,

992
01:17:44,760 --> 01:17:47,460
but I do appreciate the work that we all try to do

993
01:17:47,460 --> 01:17:49,740
to make sure a streets streets and sidewalks are good.

994
01:17:50,120 --> 01:17:52,300
I know when I step outside my front yard,

995
01:17:52,380 --> 01:17:55,980
I'm not worried about cracking on my head on the skull

996
01:17:55,980 --> 01:17:57,520
for the sidewalks, and these key schedules

997
01:17:57,520 --> 01:17:59,240
might not have a point to what I'm saying,

998
01:17:59,680 --> 01:18:00,800
but based on everything that's been saying,

999
01:18:00,800 --> 01:18:06,500
I just want to reiterate to the public that we do have a very robust and clean neighbor

1000
01:18:06,500 --> 01:18:07,080
head and street.

1001
01:18:07,220 --> 01:18:11,540
We can always do better, but these things are something that I'm very proud of and thank

1002
01:18:11,540 --> 01:18:12,180
you very much.

1003
01:18:12,740 --> 01:18:13,420
Thank you.

1004
01:18:13,940 --> 01:18:15,220
The public hearing is close.

1005
01:18:15,400 --> 01:18:20,280
We do have a motion if we can go ahead and take a roll call.

1006
01:18:23,450 --> 01:18:26,130
The item is approved, thank you.

1007
01:18:26,130 --> 01:18:30,550
We'll now move on to item C5.

1008
01:18:31,610 --> 01:18:40,890
This also is a hearing on zone tax amendment and resolution updating parking regulations

1009
01:18:40,890 --> 01:18:43,730
and local CEQA transportation guidelines.

1010
01:18:44,430 --> 01:18:52,270
And we have a group from our community development department ready to make a presentation.

1011
01:18:54,070 --> 01:18:58,370
Good evening, Mayor, Mayor and Council, Nick Marisitch, Director of Community Development.

1012
01:18:59,110 --> 01:19:01,570
Tonight, I'm sorry, this is a public hearing, right?

1013
01:19:01,570 --> 01:19:02,730
How was this noticed?

1014
01:19:03,070 --> 01:19:04,110
As required by law.

1015
01:19:04,470 --> 01:19:06,610
And Council, any disclosures?

1016
01:19:06,870 --> 01:19:08,330
No, I'm sorry about that.

1017
01:19:08,410 --> 01:19:09,130
I'm sorry.

1018
01:19:09,490 --> 01:19:13,370
I just wanted to introduce Jordan Parish, who will be giving the present tonight.

1019
01:19:14,210 --> 01:19:15,190
Thank you.

1020
01:19:38,450 --> 01:19:40,390
Good evening, Mayor, Council members.

1021
01:19:40,970 --> 01:19:42,010
My name is Jordan Parish.

1022
01:19:42,010 --> 01:19:48,350
contract plan of the Rhincon Consultants supporting long range planning and tonight we are presenting two items

1023
01:19:49,950 --> 01:19:52,890
Tonight we are presenting two items a zone tax amendment

1024
01:19:53,530 --> 01:19:59,650
Recent state parking laws and eliminate minimum parking requirements city-wide as a response to a council directive

1025
01:19:59,650 --> 01:20:06,070
a companion resolution to clarify the city's VMT screening criteria under SQL following elimination of these amendments

1026
01:20:06,070 --> 01:20:07,190
This

1027
01:20:09,620 --> 01:20:23,860
ordinance implements two recent state laws, AB-894, which requires cities to allow shared parking of underutilized spaces between uses, and AB-1317, which requires qualifying new residential projects to unbundle parking from rent.

1028
01:20:24,520 --> 01:20:30,720
In addition, the ordinance implements the May 5, 2025 Council Directive to eliminate all parking

1029
01:20:30,720 --> 01:20:38,200
minimums within the city. While AB 297 already eliminated minimums for most uses in most

1030
01:20:38,200 --> 01:20:43,680
areas of West Hollywood due to our proximity to high quality transit, this amendment codifies

1031
01:20:43,680 --> 01:20:49,180
a complete elimination of minimums for all uses within the city. And finally, the second

1032
01:20:49,180 --> 01:20:55,040
resolution corrects a technical issue in the city's 2020 VMT guidelines, without this clarification

1033
01:20:55,040 --> 01:21:01,300
in a project that voluntarily provides parking could unintentionally trigger unnecessary VMT analysis.

1034
01:21:04,780 --> 01:21:09,900
These state laws were adopted to reduce the over construction of parking, parking construction

1035
01:21:09,900 --> 01:21:16,580
can cost, can be a substantial portion of per unit construction costs, excessive parking requirements

1036
01:21:16,580 --> 01:21:21,740
unnecessarily increased housing costs, reduced project feasibility, and subsidized car ownership

1037
01:21:21,740 --> 01:21:25,740
by bundling parking into rent, even for people who don't use personal vehicles.

1038
01:21:27,500 --> 01:21:32,340
This ordinance also aligns with West Hollywood's general plan, housing element, and climate

1039
01:21:32,340 --> 01:21:37,840
action goals by removing hidden parking subsidies, allowing shared use of underutilized parking,

1040
01:21:38,620 --> 01:21:42,600
and rethinking and modernizing how parking is distributed throughout the city.

1041
01:21:43,720 --> 01:21:49,180
In practice, these changes will have limited immediate impact because nearly all parcels and

1042
01:21:49,180 --> 01:21:53,980
most uses in the city are already exempt from parking minimums under AB 2097.

1043
01:21:55,640 --> 01:21:59,580
And unbundled parking is already common throughout the Los Angeles region.

1044
01:22:00,380 --> 01:22:06,000
This map shows the four small areas in the city with approximately 38 parcels that fall

1045
01:22:06,000 --> 01:22:10,680
just outside high quality transit areas, which are shown with the light blue overlay.

1046
01:22:10,680 --> 01:22:16,760
These four areas are not currently impacted by AB 2097, but we'll have their parking

1047
01:22:16,760 --> 01:22:22,580
minimums removed under the ordinance. So to clarify, the blue areas are where AB 2097

1048
01:22:22,580 --> 01:22:28,720
already applies and parking for most cases is not required. And then the areas highlighted

1049
01:22:28,720 --> 01:22:35,120
by the arrow show where these elimination of minimums will be extended to.

1050
01:22:35,880 --> 01:22:40,660
And note that parking can and will still be built based upon operational needs rather than

1051
01:22:40,660 --> 01:22:45,060
on prescriptive formulas that are not responsive to evolving conditions.

1052
01:22:46,700 --> 01:22:50,580
In summary, this ordinance implements AB-894 and AB-1317.

1053
01:22:51,220 --> 01:22:55,660
Incorporates the May 5-2025 council directive to eliminate parking minimum citywide.

1054
01:22:56,700 --> 01:23:00,060
Alliance of Municipal Code with state law and city policy goals

1055
01:23:00,060 --> 01:23:04,880
and clarifies the city's VMT screening criteria to avoid unintended secret triggers.

1056
01:23:06,320 --> 01:23:09,560
This concludes our presentation and we are happy to answer any questions.

1057
01:23:09,560 --> 01:23:13,240
Great. Are there any questions from Council at this time?

1058
01:23:13,920 --> 01:23:17,460
And we do have a number of speakers, but go ahead, Council Member Erickson.

1059
01:23:17,940 --> 01:23:21,420
Thank you so much. I believe I implemented this item many moons ago,

1060
01:23:21,820 --> 01:23:25,500
but in addition to the state law, so essentially what you're asking us here to do is

1061
01:23:25,500 --> 01:23:29,820
codify what's been passed at the state so our municipal code is matching all of these

1062
01:23:29,820 --> 01:23:33,700
items as well. Yes, but this also implements the city council

1063
01:23:33,700 --> 01:23:37,880
directive which goes beyond the state requirements. Wonderful. Thank you so much.

1064
01:23:37,880 --> 01:23:41,100
Okay, we do have eight speakers on this item.

1065
01:23:41,420 --> 01:23:45,600
The first one is Anita Gasswami to be followed by Brad Keesler,

1066
01:23:45,920 --> 01:23:48,560
and then Helen Krieger Scott Epstein.

1067
01:23:49,500 --> 01:23:49,880
Hi there.

1068
01:23:50,420 --> 01:23:52,980
Anita Gasswami, I'm a long-term resident of West Hollywood.

1069
01:23:53,500 --> 01:23:54,880
Anita, we can't hear you.

1070
01:23:55,300 --> 01:23:55,400
Okay.

1071
01:23:56,100 --> 01:23:58,040
Anita Gasswami, a long-term resident of West Hollywood.

1072
01:23:58,520 --> 01:24:02,020
I did submit specific references on the revision in writing.

1073
01:24:02,340 --> 01:24:04,340
First, the ZTA is written, is too broad.

1074
01:24:04,340 --> 01:24:08,140
parking is a premium resource for our people here in West Hollywood.

1075
01:24:08,460 --> 01:24:13,520
The state has taken away some, but West Hollywood is able to retain local controls, so

1076
01:24:13,520 --> 01:24:15,400
please don't give away what you've got.

1077
01:24:16,260 --> 01:24:22,300
1928-020 applicability waivers cannot reduce bicycles or loading spaces, but the revision

1078
01:24:22,300 --> 01:24:26,740
removes the word parking, meaning that changes to that when no longer follows the standard

1079
01:24:26,740 --> 01:24:27,120
procedure.

1080
01:24:28,400 --> 01:24:34,260
1928-040, no minimum mastery parking required, no the revision is overly broad and should

1081
01:24:34,260 --> 01:24:37,440
specifically state the AB 2097 scope.

1082
01:24:37,940 --> 01:24:42,700
Last item is that the current code says off-site parking shall be located within a reasonable

1083
01:24:42,700 --> 01:24:44,700
walking distance, 400 feet.

1084
01:24:45,760 --> 01:24:52,220
Proposed revision would be walking up to 2,000 feet, implications there are that landlords could

1085
01:24:52,220 --> 01:24:57,860
least they're now unbundled off-site parking at a higher price and then provide that off-site parking

1086
01:24:57,860 --> 01:25:02,420
to their tenants later without off-site parking being 2,000 feet away.

1087
01:25:02,880 --> 01:25:04,920
That's not realistic from ability challenge.

1088
01:25:05,500 --> 01:25:09,080
People carrying packages home, people bringing children home in their strollers.

1089
01:25:10,020 --> 01:25:13,640
So, I just wanted to raise those items and make sure you're aware of that.

1090
01:25:13,740 --> 01:25:15,140
Those are my concerns about this.

1091
01:25:15,420 --> 01:25:21,960
For every ZTA, I find I am asking who is benefiting from this ZTA and who's getting

1092
01:25:21,960 --> 01:25:28,420
rights taken away. So I now look at these always with that lens. And again, I'm thinking about

1093
01:25:28,420 --> 01:25:34,060
those people who are going to be walking 2,000 feet from that parking space. Thank you.

1094
01:25:34,140 --> 01:25:39,700
Thank you. Brad Keesler to be followed by Helen Krieger.

1095
01:25:42,020 --> 01:25:44,540
Hi, I'm Brad Keesler, resident of West

1096
01:25:44,540 --> 01:25:50,640
I would, and voter, and I just think I'm going crazy sometimes.

1097
01:25:51,540 --> 01:26:01,300
I don't talk about reducing parking requirements for a new construction or even anything

1098
01:26:01,300 --> 01:26:05,880
that's going to be remodeled or something, it's insane.

1099
01:26:06,680 --> 01:26:09,820
We need parking in this city.

1100
01:26:10,180 --> 01:26:13,760
I want you to go over to Korea Town.

1101
01:26:13,760 --> 01:26:18,240
I have a small condo over there that I've owned for many years,

1102
01:26:18,400 --> 01:26:21,100
longer than I've owned my house here in West Hollywood.

1103
01:26:22,300 --> 01:26:26,280
And I have to come, we have parking there in that condominium,

1104
01:26:26,520 --> 01:26:33,240
because back then in 1965, people building condos had to have parking.

1105
01:26:33,900 --> 01:26:40,080
So I don't remember what the ratio was, but it needs to be more than one to one anyway.

1106
01:26:40,080 --> 01:26:47,220
But I have to call him up and arrange when I want to go over there and repair or something

1107
01:26:47,220 --> 01:26:48,380
in his unit or something.

1108
01:26:48,720 --> 01:26:53,220
I have to make arrangements of when he's going to be at work or what and I have to work

1109
01:26:53,220 --> 01:26:57,340
within those time life because going over there and trying to park is ridiculous.

1110
01:26:57,940 --> 01:27:00,380
We don't want West Hollywood to become like that.

1111
01:27:01,220 --> 01:27:03,000
That we're dense enough already.

1112
01:27:03,620 --> 01:27:09,280
That place is, you know, and bicycling is very good and everything.

1113
01:27:09,280 --> 01:27:15,940
But nowadays, I, I, I, I, I, I, I better than I walk, which is not so good.

1114
01:27:16,040 --> 01:27:21,560
I need to start my walking again, but the thing is, am I gonna be able to carry my paintbrush,

1115
01:27:21,860 --> 01:27:26,260
paint, a calendar, paint, and everything on my bicycle to go over to the condo, and I don't

1116
01:27:26,260 --> 01:27:30,600
want to look at that drive that far anyways, like, three, three, four miles, I guess.

1117
01:27:32,060 --> 01:27:38,520
So anyway, we, we need to do whatever we can to do,

1118
01:27:40,500 --> 01:27:47,520
you know what I'm talking about. Thank you, Brad. Helen Krieger to be followed by Scott Epstein.

1119
01:27:48,880 --> 01:27:50,940
Scott, oh, you're still here. You moved, okay.

1120
01:27:52,520 --> 01:27:58,700
Hello, city council. My name is Helen Krieger. I'm a resident of West Hollywood and as you heard earlier, a pair of very high rents.

1121
01:27:59,520 --> 01:28:04,660
I'm in favor of this item, not because I just like parking in any way, but because I like choices.

1122
01:28:05,680 --> 01:28:09,680
having this item move forward doesn't mean that developers can't build parking and it doesn't

1123
01:28:09,680 --> 01:28:12,700
mean that we're putting any kind of limit on how much parking they can build, they can build

1124
01:28:12,700 --> 01:28:17,860
as much parking as they want, but what this does is give us choices. So developers have more choices

1125
01:28:17,860 --> 01:28:21,580
depending on what kind of housing that they want to do, what kind of price point they're targeting,

1126
01:28:21,800 --> 01:28:28,760
but more importantly, our residents and our future residents have choices. If you're somebody who doesn't have a car

1127
01:28:28,760 --> 01:28:33,460
or if you value having a cheap apartment more than having a car, then you can buy that apartment

1128
01:28:33,460 --> 01:28:36,340
and a developer can build that apartment for you.

1129
01:28:36,500 --> 01:28:38,840
This is important because parking costs money.

1130
01:28:39,380 --> 01:28:41,920
And right now, we're using housing to subsidize

1131
01:28:41,920 --> 01:28:43,020
the cost of parking.

1132
01:28:44,440 --> 01:28:46,140
The average cost of build underground parking,

1133
01:28:46,240 --> 01:28:48,380
which is the kind you have to do in a dense urban environment,

1134
01:28:48,720 --> 01:28:48,960
like ours.

1135
01:28:49,100 --> 01:28:52,580
The average cost is about $72,000 per parking space,

1136
01:28:52,580 --> 01:28:54,240
and that does not include land value.

1137
01:28:54,940 --> 01:28:57,460
So the estimate is that parking costs tenants

1138
01:28:57,460 --> 01:29:00,100
in average of $200 a month, and that gets bundled

1139
01:29:00,100 --> 01:29:02,480
with the rent, regardless of whether or not they use it.

1140
01:29:02,480 --> 01:29:08,920
So updating our parking requirements, let's us put housing people in front of housing cars. Thank you.

1141
01:29:09,120 --> 01:29:15,920
Thank you. Scott to be followed by Ignatia Ignatio Darnaud. I'm sorry.

1142
01:29:17,640 --> 01:29:20,880
Good evening again. Scott Epstein, Policy Director with the Fund Housing LA.

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01:29:21,480 --> 01:29:28,480
This is a great package of reforms. I want to congratulate City Planning Department for their excellent work on this.

1144
01:29:28,480 --> 01:29:35,040
and thank council member, Eric, and for his leadership, we have a very robust literature

1145
01:29:35,040 --> 01:29:42,920
about the harms of policies that enforce minimum parking.

1146
01:29:43,960 --> 01:29:49,860
They subsidize driving, they increase the cost of housing, and what we also know is

1147
01:29:49,860 --> 01:29:52,500
most developers will build parking.

1148
01:29:52,500 --> 01:29:56,900
They will just right-size the parking for the project.

1149
01:29:58,420 --> 01:29:59,960
They won't have to deal with...

1150
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:09,500
Our budgetary numbers, that let's say they can fit 20 parking spots in one story underground garage.

1151
01:30:10,440 --> 01:30:23,060
But the parking minimums say you have to do 21. That project will no longer pencil. That is housing that will never happen as a result of an arbitrary cap.

1152
01:30:24,140 --> 01:30:35,100
And this is cleanup, we know that the vast majority of sites in West Hollywood already don't need to have parking, but it's an important statement of your values.

1153
01:30:36,080 --> 01:30:39,230
I appreciate your leadership. Please pass this tonight. Thank you so much.

1154
01:30:40,280 --> 01:30:46,000
Thank you. Ignacio, to be followed by Kyle Brazil, then Stephen Post.

1155
01:30:47,420 --> 01:30:53,220
Dear Council members, I am here to express my strong opposition to the proposed elimination

1156
01:30:53,220 --> 01:30:58,380
of minimum parking requirements, citywide, which goes beyond supplemental requirements.

1157
01:30:59,360 --> 01:31:03,740
In spite of today's lobbyist claims, there is no evidence that parking the man in West

1158
01:31:03,740 --> 01:31:04,740
Hollywood is declining.

1159
01:31:05,640 --> 01:31:10,000
Residents rely on cars for everyday life, committing to work, grocery shopping, medical

1160
01:31:10,000 --> 01:31:11,420
appointments and getting for family.

1161
01:31:11,420 --> 01:31:16,780
The assumption that large numbers of residents will suddenly shift to bicycles or public transit

1162
01:31:16,780 --> 01:31:21,260
is not grounded in our current infrastructure or in-liped reality.

1163
01:31:22,120 --> 01:31:27,460
Realistically, how many people paying over $3,000 a month in rent in West Hollywood are choosing

1164
01:31:27,460 --> 01:31:29,380
not to own a car?

1165
01:31:30,060 --> 01:31:35,080
Eliminating important requirements benefits developers by reducing their construction cost.

1166
01:31:35,460 --> 01:31:40,360
Yet, there is no guarantee those savings will ever translate into lower rent.

1167
01:31:40,360 --> 01:31:45,860
Instead, new residents will compete for an already limited supply of street parking.

1168
01:31:46,700 --> 01:31:52,060
This concern is reinforced by the council's recent decision to grant permit parking

1169
01:31:52,060 --> 01:31:57,200
to residents of a new building on headworth that was approved without sufficient on-site

1170
01:31:57,200 --> 01:31:57,640
parking.

1171
01:31:58,640 --> 01:32:01,140
That decision demonstrates a simple fact.

1172
01:32:01,600 --> 01:32:08,880
Residents still need parking and when developments fail to provide it, the burden shifts directly

1173
01:32:08,880 --> 01:32:14,840
on to surrounding neighborhoods, allowing you construction with little or no parking will not

1174
01:32:14,840 --> 01:32:22,320
solve affordability. In fact, it may increase rental vacancies which are already about 11 percent,

1175
01:32:23,020 --> 01:32:28,040
while worsening congestion, pollution and safety concerns in neighborhoods are very

1176
01:32:28,040 --> 01:32:33,840
other pressure. New housing should reflect the real needs of the people who live here and

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01:32:33,840 --> 01:32:37,100
And parking remains one of those essential needs.

1178
01:32:37,580 --> 01:32:41,400
Please protect the we in Wehal, not developers' profits.

1179
01:32:41,960 --> 01:32:42,460
Thank you.

1180
01:32:42,740 --> 01:32:47,540
Thank you, Kyle Brazil, to be followed by Stephen Post.

1181
01:32:48,740 --> 01:32:54,000
And then, Steve Martin, thank you, Kyle Brazil, resident of West Hollywood, as support the

1182
01:32:54,000 --> 01:32:57,820
goal of reducing car dependency, and we do that by making alternatives better.

1183
01:32:58,340 --> 01:33:01,000
Tonight's item instead focuses on penalizing car ownership.

1184
01:33:01,000 --> 01:33:03,020
The basic test should be simple.

1185
01:33:03,240 --> 01:33:05,080
Does this make life better for our residents?

1186
01:33:05,680 --> 01:33:07,900
The hypothetical of watching a seven story luxury

1187
01:33:07,900 --> 01:33:10,680
development go up next door with no parking makes it simple.

1188
01:33:11,220 --> 01:33:12,120
This will make life harder.

1189
01:33:12,900 --> 01:33:15,000
Particularly when this council is actively eliminating

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01:33:15,000 --> 01:33:17,280
hundreds of parking spaces on our streets.

1191
01:33:18,020 --> 01:33:20,480
Instead of a blanket approach, council should retain

1192
01:33:20,480 --> 01:33:23,220
and advocate at the state level for local discretion

1193
01:33:23,220 --> 01:33:25,800
over issues that impact the livability of our city.

1194
01:33:26,420 --> 01:33:29,340
Instead of demonizing drivers, we should focus on improving

1195
01:33:29,340 --> 01:33:33,880
their alternatives through greater reliability, safety, and connection to existing transit.

1196
01:33:34,560 --> 01:33:39,060
Staff points to alternative transit modes as a reason to eliminate parking requirements, but

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01:33:39,060 --> 01:33:42,240
parking is not a cause of car dependency, it is a symptom.

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01:33:43,740 --> 01:33:47,680
And we hope public transit commuting declined from five to three percent.

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01:33:48,100 --> 01:33:52,980
Bike commuting remains flat below one percent, and even though we have fewer vehicles than

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01:33:52,980 --> 01:33:56,720
our neighboring cities, we still average 1.5 vehicles per household.

1201
01:33:56,720 --> 01:34:05,880
Even in one of the most walkable cities in the region, our residents recognize the need for a car for the quality of life and demand better before shifting to other modes.

1202
01:34:06,480 --> 01:34:11,220
We should also challenge this misleading notion that no parking requirements will create affordability.

1203
01:34:11,900 --> 01:34:17,900
Luxury apartments will remain unaffordable without parking because developers set rent space on market demand.

1204
01:34:18,460 --> 01:34:25,880
But the lack of new parking supply, coupled with unbundled and shared parking, means the parking for our residents will be sold out from under them

1205
01:34:25,880 --> 01:34:30,640
to the highest bidder, leaving them to fight for the declining number of parking spaces on the street.

1206
01:34:31,380 --> 01:34:36,420
We should remain grounded as we make these choices. Experts warn that these policies will not

1207
01:34:36,420 --> 01:34:40,820
lower rents, and that data makes clear people are not shifting out of cars based on our actions

1208
01:34:40,820 --> 01:34:45,440
to date. The sequencing of actions matters, and I asked this Council to do the hard work first

1209
01:34:45,440 --> 01:34:50,020
of building better transit systems to earn that shift, and then let's talk about these options

1210
01:34:50,020 --> 01:34:54,200
once we produce car dependency. Thank you, Carla. Steven Post.

1211
01:34:54,860 --> 01:34:57,340
To be followed by Steve Martin.

1212
01:34:58,740 --> 01:34:59,600
Hi, Mayor Council.

1213
01:35:00,080 --> 01:35:01,540
Steven Post-resident of Voice Hollywood.

1214
01:35:02,400 --> 01:35:04,480
I'm speaking personally in support of this item tonight.

1215
01:35:05,120 --> 01:35:09,640
For decades, cities have required developers to build parking, whether those requirements

1216
01:35:09,640 --> 01:35:10,920
were needed or not.

1217
01:35:11,340 --> 01:35:13,240
Those mandates have increased costs.

1218
01:35:13,560 --> 01:35:17,400
Made housing more unaffordable and consumed valuable land space.

1219
01:35:18,160 --> 01:35:21,260
Removing parking minimums does not eliminate parking itself.

1220
01:35:21,260 --> 01:35:27,780
It simply allows projects to provide the amount of parking that makes sense for their location and those residents,

1221
01:35:28,500 --> 01:35:31,000
especially larger developments in major transit corridors.

1222
01:35:31,940 --> 01:35:34,500
What's Hollywood is uniquely positioned to make this change?

1223
01:35:34,940 --> 01:35:39,580
We're a compact, walkable city, the most walkable in California, according to WalkScore,

1224
01:35:39,760 --> 01:35:49,620
as recently reiterated in the LA times, with growing transit access and residents who are increasingly choosing different ways to get around, like biking and public transit.

1225
01:35:49,620 --> 01:35:57,480
We need a modernized policies and drive up without driving up costs by delivering this public benefit.

1226
01:35:58,500 --> 01:36:03,100
We should stop forcing every renter and homeowner to subsidize parking spaces that they may never use.

1227
01:36:03,800 --> 01:36:09,300
And we can mitigate issues that arise from taking loss parking with tailored solutions.

1228
01:36:09,780 --> 01:36:14,300
But what we can't do is be afraid to begin moving towards greener modes of transportation.

1229
01:36:14,960 --> 01:36:19,900
I see this as a reform we have to make given state law as stated, but it also aligns with

1230
01:36:19,900 --> 01:36:23,500
West Hollywood's values, long term goals, and existing zoning changes.

1231
01:36:24,240 --> 01:36:28,400
I appreciate you listening this evening, and I also appreciate you putting SB79 on the

1232
01:36:28,400 --> 01:36:28,880
consent calendar.

1233
01:36:29,300 --> 01:36:29,760
Thank you.

1234
01:36:30,080 --> 01:36:30,580
Thank you.

1235
01:36:31,000 --> 01:36:35,700
Steve Martin and then we have some citizen positions, let's.

1236
01:36:37,610 --> 01:36:44,030
Steve Martin West Hollywood, the one thing that has not been addressed here is the actual

1237
01:36:44,030 --> 01:36:51,010
realities of what we live today, and where we have lived for over 40 years.

1238
01:36:51,750 --> 01:36:57,850
We had a parking crisis when we incorporated the city 40 years ago.

1239
01:36:59,030 --> 01:37:01,910
That's because developers don't write size.

1240
01:37:02,410 --> 01:37:08,630
Every time they get an opportunity, they will cut corners and provide less parking, which

1241
01:37:08,630 --> 01:37:12,310
is why we created parking minimums.

1242
01:37:12,310 --> 01:37:16,830
This is not rocket science, this is common sense

1243
01:37:19,810 --> 01:37:25,110
when you have a situation where we have

1244
01:37:25,110 --> 01:37:30,170
all these empty storefronts as well as thousands of empty units.

1245
01:37:31,210 --> 01:37:36,810
No one has ever, nothing in the report talks about maybe because it's a problem with parking.

1246
01:37:38,590 --> 01:37:44,930
Because when employers tell me that they're having a hard time, their employees can't find

1247
01:37:44,930 --> 01:37:51,390
place to park. People are going out of business and we have all these empty units that aren't

1248
01:37:51,390 --> 01:37:57,590
being rented. That does not mean that we have created excess parking or that we have

1249
01:37:57,590 --> 01:38:04,590
forced developers to create excess parking. I want to know what actual groundwork would

1250
01:38:04,590 --> 01:38:10,230
actual study went into this. Did we go around and check out the parking structures and find out

1251
01:38:10,230 --> 01:38:14,810
how many condos and how many buildings like the Avalon have access parking?

1252
01:38:15,910 --> 01:38:17,030
I don't think so.

1253
01:38:17,350 --> 01:38:20,910
This is based on ignorance and arrogance.

1254
01:38:22,530 --> 01:38:25,910
And you really need to think about the community you live in.

1255
01:38:26,150 --> 01:38:29,210
Because this is not about how we live here and now.

1256
01:38:29,590 --> 01:38:31,830
Admittedly things will be hopefully a lot better,

1257
01:38:32,230 --> 01:38:35,330
25 years from now when we have a subway and we can start making,

1258
01:38:35,330 --> 01:38:37,330
we should be making changes before that.

1259
01:38:37,330 --> 01:38:41,570
but we need to protect our residents right to live here now.

1260
01:38:43,190 --> 01:38:44,470
Thank you.

1261
01:38:45,570 --> 01:38:51,330
We do have a number of citizen-position slips and listen.

1262
01:38:51,610 --> 01:38:52,950
Can you read those into the record?

1263
01:38:53,310 --> 01:38:53,570
Yes.

1264
01:38:54,170 --> 01:38:58,110
Kevin Burton, West Hollywood in support of the recommended item.

1265
01:38:58,490 --> 01:39:02,150
Elise Eisenberg, West Hollywood in opposition to the recommended item.

1266
01:39:04,590 --> 01:39:04,990
Questions?

1267
01:39:05,710 --> 01:39:05,810
Yes.

1268
01:39:05,810 --> 01:39:15,990
Councilmember Maestro. Thank you Mayor. So actually Steve Martin brought up something I was going to ask which is how many vacant residential parking spaces do we have?

1269
01:39:18,660 --> 01:39:19,540
I don't have that number.

1270
01:39:20,940 --> 01:39:22,600
Okay, so we don't know that information.

1271
01:39:24,280 --> 01:39:31,880
Are we losing parking spaces because of conversion of garages and car ports to ADUs?

1272
01:39:40,040 --> 01:39:45,280
I mean, I don't have any specific numbers to share tonight, but we do have projects that

1273
01:39:45,280 --> 01:39:49,600
propose to convert different parts of existing buildings into accessory dwelling units,

1274
01:39:49,720 --> 01:39:54,600
as there are allowed to do under state law sometimes, so it's can include car ports and

1275
01:39:54,600 --> 01:39:55,280
covered parking.

1276
01:39:55,400 --> 01:39:58,920
Right, and they don't have to provide parking that they took away.

1277
01:39:58,940 --> 01:39:59,280
Correct.

1278
01:39:59,600 --> 01:39:59,780
Okay.

1279
01:40:00,040 --> 01:40:00,840
Thank you.

1280
01:40:01,480 --> 01:40:06,360
Did you reach out to the residents who live in those four areas?

1281
01:40:06,360 --> 01:40:12,120
I know they looked small, but they could be dense, densely populated, and I was just wondering

1282
01:40:12,120 --> 01:40:15,760
if anyone has done any outreach to those folks.

1283
01:40:16,920 --> 01:40:21,260
So those are the four areas that are included based on state law that you're including

1284
01:40:21,260 --> 01:40:23,200
with this citywide.

1285
01:40:24,580 --> 01:40:30,540
We include a public noticing for the residents of the areas, but we did not reach out directly

1286
01:40:30,540 --> 01:40:31,360
to them.

1287
01:40:31,360 --> 01:40:36,480
So there was no real outreach where you got feedback from them.

1288
01:40:38,300 --> 01:40:39,020
Okay.

1289
01:40:39,660 --> 01:40:40,300
Okay.

1290
01:40:41,220 --> 01:40:53,820
Is there a way that we can impose a cap on what is charged to tenants, a cap on those parking spaces that are being unbundled?

1291
01:40:57,130 --> 01:40:58,550
That is something that we discussed.

1292
01:40:58,550 --> 01:41:06,510
But after the long-range planning subcommittee and the planning commission, we opted not to include that as a part of this ordinance

1293
01:41:06,510 --> 01:41:15,810
We did speak with rent stabilization and they do currently have a system where if someone in a unit that's subject to rent stabilization

1294
01:41:16,130 --> 01:41:21,670
loses our parking the property manager it has to deduct an amount from their rent.

1295
01:41:21,670 --> 01:41:32,850
But that's not the question. The question is if parking spaces are being unbundled, can we put a cap on the parking spaces that have been unbundled?

1296
01:41:33,110 --> 01:41:41,350
In other words, what they, it says here that we give tenants the right to first refusal for those parking spaces, is that right?

1297
01:41:41,470 --> 01:41:42,050
Yes.

1298
01:41:42,050 --> 01:41:49,730
Okay, so can we impose a cap on those parking spaces so that they tendons are not being

1299
01:41:50,350 --> 01:41:56,930
you know, gouged and then, you know, can't afford to buy to rent those spaces if even

1300
01:41:56,930 --> 01:41:58,810
though they may need them?

1301
01:41:59,250 --> 01:42:01,210
The state is silent on that.

1302
01:42:01,430 --> 01:42:06,450
I'm not aware of anything within the state requirements that would prevent us from doing that.

1303
01:42:06,450 --> 01:42:15,170
Okay, can we include all of these city and state requirements regarding parking be included in the tenant

1304
01:42:15,170 --> 01:42:19,630
leases so that that we know that the tenants are being informed?

1305
01:42:21,010 --> 01:42:22,690
Yes, I think we can do that.

1306
01:42:22,690 --> 01:42:24,590
Are we planning to do that?

1307
01:42:24,730 --> 01:42:25,970
Not currently at this point.

1308
01:42:26,710 --> 01:42:27,350
Okay,

1309
01:42:30,540 --> 01:42:36,500
can we require that the lease says that there's no that the person has no car,

1310
01:42:36,500 --> 01:42:41,460
that they're signing something that says, you know, I don't have a car, so that we

1311
01:42:41,460 --> 01:42:48,140
don't, that we are clear that there is no parking on the street for them?

1312
01:42:50,890 --> 01:42:52,610
I'm sorry, can you, can you sit there again?

1313
01:42:52,730 --> 01:43:02,930
Can we require that the lease, that a landlord puts together for the tenant, that if they're getting a unit

1314
01:43:02,930 --> 01:43:08,130
without a parking space that they note that they don't have a vehicle.

1315
01:43:08,970 --> 01:43:17,130
So, the question you're asking is, can we require property managers to disclose that there's no parking available for the lease for the unit they're leasing?

1316
01:43:17,390 --> 01:43:20,790
And that the tenant is not planning to have a vehicle.

1317
01:43:22,470 --> 01:43:24,170
Yeah, I think we can do that.

1318
01:43:25,350 --> 01:43:31,390
I just want to clarify that these are not things that are currently included in the ordinance that's in front of the council tonight.

1319
01:43:31,390 --> 01:43:37,250
So if there are changes that the council would want to see made, we would need direction to go back.

1320
01:43:38,610 --> 01:43:48,030
And we could look at some of these specific issues and explore them for their to see to what extent those could be accommodated with respect to the state law and to reflect the direction of the council.

1321
01:43:48,230 --> 01:43:59,210
Yeah, and the reason I'm asking the questions is I didn't see it in the ordinance and I didn't see it in the staff report and my feeling is I'm not going to vote for something that has not been.

1322
01:43:59,210 --> 01:44:03,950
You know, thought out completely with regard to these new

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01:44:03,950 --> 01:44:04,530
items.

1324
01:44:05,450 --> 01:44:06,450
Please, people.

1325
01:44:07,970 --> 01:44:14,530
Can we confirm that we have a lot of areas that a permit parking only?

1326
01:44:15,110 --> 01:44:22,510
Can we confirm that the people in those buildings are not getting permits for the parking?

1327
01:44:23,690 --> 01:44:29,930
In other words, we have a policy in this city that if you build a new building, you either

1328
01:44:29,930 --> 01:44:35,230
provide enough parking for your building, but do not expect that the tenants in that building

1329
01:44:35,230 --> 01:44:39,330
can get permit parking, right?

1330
01:44:39,670 --> 01:44:45,810
Because obviously we have permit parking because the streets are already, I always get a

1331
01:44:45,810 --> 01:44:49,770
if he's overparked, underparked, overparked.

1332
01:44:49,790 --> 01:44:52,970
So too many people wanting to park on the street.

1333
01:44:53,670 --> 01:44:57,970
So we have not, we've put actually in the CUP

1334
01:44:57,970 --> 01:44:59,970
that we have, right, Jennifer, we have a,

1335
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:06,050
Policy, that says you don't get a permit. Are we continuing to do that?

1336
01:45:11,780 --> 01:45:17,120
Yeah, that is a policy that we've been applying to projects to come forward. It's not something

1337
01:45:17,120 --> 01:45:23,400
that's currently codified in the zoning ordinance, but it has been applied to new projects that are coming forward.

1338
01:45:23,400 --> 01:45:26,780
So we'd have to codify it then. Another thing to codify.

1339
01:45:28,880 --> 01:45:30,160
And then the last thing I want to

1340
01:45:30,160 --> 01:45:39,780
up is the issue that Anita Kusami brought up about the 400 feet going to 2,000 feet.

1341
01:45:39,960 --> 01:45:48,560
What was the rationale behind that and knowing that our city has, you know, tends to,

1342
01:45:48,760 --> 01:45:51,740
we have, we're aging in place, right?

1343
01:45:51,780 --> 01:45:59,620
We're trying to encourage aging in place, or at least I thought we were, and we have, you

1344
01:45:59,620 --> 01:46:05,480
a larger, older adult population, and we have people who are,

1345
01:46:05,480 --> 01:46:09,740
don't you? Why are you looking at me? I thought you were looking at me,

1346
01:46:10,340 --> 01:46:15,220
and we have, you know, people with disabilities. It seems to me that that's not

1347
01:46:15,840 --> 01:46:21,060
very, older adult aging in place, disability friendly.

1348
01:46:22,140 --> 01:46:27,140
Yes, so I just want to clarify that that's actually a state requirement. So West

1349
01:46:27,140 --> 01:46:28,960
Hollywood's previous requirements, 400 feet.

1350
01:46:29,220 --> 01:46:31,840
So that 2000 feet is actually what's required

1351
01:46:31,840 --> 01:46:33,020
under the state of law.

1352
01:46:33,620 --> 01:46:37,620
Okay, so who is advocating for us at the state level?

1353
01:46:37,800 --> 01:46:40,180
It seems to me they're not doing a very good job.

1354
01:46:40,600 --> 01:46:41,580
Okay, well thank you very much.

1355
01:46:41,760 --> 01:46:43,980
I can't support this item as it is.

1356
01:46:44,060 --> 01:46:44,740
I think.

1357
01:46:44,840 --> 01:46:46,800
Before I turn to my other colleagues,

1358
01:46:47,060 --> 01:46:50,160
we had one of their citizen physician, Slip Melissa.

1359
01:46:50,640 --> 01:46:51,400
Yes, we did.

1360
01:46:51,620 --> 01:46:54,040
Ed Hallman's gonna start thinking that I don't like him

1361
01:46:54,040 --> 01:46:56,220
because this is the second time I've missed Slip.

1362
01:46:56,220 --> 01:46:59,340
but at home in opposition to the item.

1363
01:46:59,660 --> 01:47:00,540
All right, thank you.

1364
01:47:01,780 --> 01:47:03,000
Council member Ericsson.

1365
01:47:03,660 --> 01:47:04,100
Thank you.

1366
01:47:04,160 --> 01:47:05,860
For some of the items and questions

1367
01:47:05,860 --> 01:47:07,360
that Councilmember Maester asked you

1368
01:47:07,360 --> 01:47:08,380
about vacant spaces,

1369
01:47:08,600 --> 01:47:09,840
were those a part of the direction

1370
01:47:09,840 --> 01:47:12,280
for you to do at any point during the study?

1371
01:47:14,220 --> 01:47:14,620
No.

1372
01:47:14,980 --> 01:47:17,320
And if you were directed to look at vacant spaces

1373
01:47:17,320 --> 01:47:18,380
and do the type of study,

1374
01:47:18,560 --> 01:47:20,060
I'm guessing you would have done that?

1375
01:47:20,380 --> 01:47:20,660
Yes.

1376
01:47:20,920 --> 01:47:21,680
Thank you.

1377
01:47:22,060 --> 01:47:24,040
Additionally, in regards to the planning commission

1378
01:47:24,040 --> 01:47:25,620
decision, could you walk me through

1379
01:47:25,620 --> 01:47:28,500
what happened at the Planning Commission on the CTA a little bit?

1380
01:47:30,910 --> 01:47:38,030
The discussion at the Planning Commission, it did center around concern about how un-bundled

1381
01:47:38,030 --> 01:47:43,590
the un-bundling of these parking spaces might impact residents of income restricted units.

1382
01:47:44,390 --> 01:47:47,930
So the additional research that we do is basically just confirming that rent stabilization

1383
01:47:47,930 --> 01:47:50,750
had some way of dealing with that.

1384
01:47:51,530 --> 01:47:56,930
So if a tenant is facing the prospect of losing their space, they would be required to receive

1385
01:47:56,930 --> 01:47:59,530
or rent credits so that they could lease another space

1386
01:47:59,530 --> 01:48:00,770
if they opted to do that.

1387
01:48:01,150 --> 01:48:01,910
Thank you.

1388
01:48:02,410 --> 01:48:03,290
Those are all my questions.

1389
01:48:03,550 --> 01:48:05,570
Would you like me to go into some comments, Mayor?

1390
01:48:06,030 --> 01:48:08,890
Yes, or if I don't have any questions.

1391
01:48:09,870 --> 01:48:10,430
OK, I'll just go ahead.

1392
01:48:10,430 --> 01:48:10,770
Wonderful.

1393
01:48:11,570 --> 01:48:12,970
So this was my item.

1394
01:48:13,270 --> 01:48:15,410
I initiated this way back when.

1395
01:48:15,890 --> 01:48:18,230
So I'm really happy to see it coming forward.

1396
01:48:18,750 --> 01:48:20,890
Parking mandates make housing more expensive.

1397
01:48:21,690 --> 01:48:22,830
The science is there.

1398
01:48:23,050 --> 01:48:23,790
It's not arrogance.

1399
01:48:24,210 --> 01:48:26,570
It's written down in a book, but people should read.

1400
01:48:26,570 --> 01:48:32,290
But additionally, structured parking can cost $50,000 to $100,000 per space to build.

1401
01:48:32,990 --> 01:48:34,870
And underground parking can cost even more.

1402
01:48:34,990 --> 01:48:37,870
Those costs get passed on to renters and home buyers.

1403
01:48:38,110 --> 01:48:39,350
It's proven it's factual.

1404
01:48:40,070 --> 01:48:43,370
We should prioritize homes for people, not parking for cars.

1405
01:48:43,430 --> 01:48:48,130
It costs more to build a parking space, and it does to build an affordable housing unit.

1406
01:48:48,230 --> 01:48:50,450
That was case and point in the weatherly project.

1407
01:48:50,550 --> 01:48:54,210
You can go back and look at that data, which is why there are parking requirements under

1408
01:48:54,210 --> 01:49:01,190
AB 284, which is a freedman bill, removed parking requirements for affordable 100% affordable housing

1409
01:49:01,190 --> 01:49:05,370
requirements, something that we all agreed to to look at because they can actually

1410
01:49:05,370 --> 01:49:08,170
write release size, what the parking looks like.

1411
01:49:09,030 --> 01:49:12,830
Requiring excessive parking means fewer homes can be built on a site and limit side

1412
01:49:12,830 --> 01:49:13,290
ability.

1413
01:49:13,990 --> 01:49:15,210
Not everyone owns a car.

1414
01:49:15,810 --> 01:49:16,210
It's fine.

1415
01:49:16,510 --> 01:49:18,090
Not trying to demonize car owners.

1416
01:49:18,610 --> 01:49:19,730
People don't own a car.

1417
01:49:19,810 --> 01:49:22,410
Some people bike, walk, lower income residents.

1418
01:49:22,410 --> 01:49:27,170
people with disabilities and those who rely on transit by King of walking are first to pay for

1419
01:49:27,170 --> 01:49:33,230
parking they don't use. I have talked to a number of residents and on the east side where I live,

1420
01:49:33,870 --> 01:49:38,110
whose landlords tried to get pretty cagey when they tried to do these things and decouple the

1421
01:49:38,110 --> 01:49:43,610
rents and try to take away their parking without even telling them and they even tried to do it

1422
01:49:43,610 --> 01:49:47,710
to a commissioner until the commissioner brought it to the city's attention. Additionally,

1423
01:49:47,710 --> 01:49:53,630
the markets can decide. Removing minimums does not ban parking. People who provide housing can

1424
01:49:53,630 --> 01:49:57,710
still provide parking based on what residents in the market demand, rather than an arbitrary

1425
01:49:57,710 --> 01:50:04,350
government requirement that frankly doesn't pin out. And more flexibility means more housing

1426
01:50:04,350 --> 01:50:09,450
gets built, which is ultimately the goal of what we should be doing. It is two cumbersome and burdens

1427
01:50:09,450 --> 01:50:15,770
to build housing in this city, in this county, in the state, and we need to do all that we can,

1428
01:50:15,770 --> 01:50:21,630
And this is why parking requirements and parking minimums make it much more harder.

1429
01:50:22,610 --> 01:50:26,810
This supports workforce and affordable housing, affordable housing developers consistently

1430
01:50:26,810 --> 01:50:33,590
identify parking mandates, so it's the biggest barriers in delivering deeply affordable

1431
01:50:33,590 --> 01:50:34,150
homes.

1432
01:50:34,550 --> 01:50:37,030
And it does encourage transit oriented communities.

1433
01:50:38,130 --> 01:50:43,570
I hate driving my car, it's literally the worst thing I have to do every day and I have

1434
01:50:43,570 --> 01:50:46,570
do it a lot more these days, and it's disgusting.

1435
01:50:46,870 --> 01:50:50,130
I love jumping on the four, the 704, or whatever,

1436
01:50:50,370 --> 01:50:53,350
or the city line, which I took for the first time,

1437
01:50:53,470 --> 01:50:55,610
an a long time, that was lovely, or the pickup.

1438
01:50:56,270 --> 01:50:58,110
Not everyone has that ability to do so,

1439
01:50:58,230 --> 01:51:00,730
which is why we also offer rideshare services

1440
01:51:00,730 --> 01:51:03,330
and discounted at no cost services for residents

1441
01:51:03,330 --> 01:51:05,290
and those with disabilities to do so as well.

1442
01:51:05,610 --> 01:51:06,650
These things all happen.

1443
01:51:07,250 --> 01:51:08,810
Some seniors and those with disabilities

1444
01:51:08,810 --> 01:51:09,790
don't have cars.

1445
01:51:09,930 --> 01:51:11,730
They rely on these other social service programs

1446
01:51:11,730 --> 01:51:12,770
to actually get around.

1447
01:51:12,770 --> 01:51:17,370
and so making them pay for or have a parking spot in their house is just frankly bad

1448
01:51:17,370 --> 01:51:18,030
signs.

1449
01:51:18,590 --> 01:51:22,830
Additionally, it does help reduce traffic and emissions over time, building communities

1450
01:51:22,830 --> 01:51:27,170
where people have more transportation choices, supports climate goals and lower screen

1451
01:51:27,170 --> 01:51:28,270
house grass emissions.

1452
01:51:28,750 --> 01:51:33,290
Many cities have already made this successful change in our in route to making this successful

1453
01:51:33,290 --> 01:51:37,910
change across California and Los Angeles by reducing or eliminating parking

1454
01:51:37,910 --> 01:51:44,050
minimums without experiencing this catastrophic opinion of like shortages in every way, shape and

1455
01:51:44,050 --> 01:51:46,050
form that sometimes opponents predict.

1456
01:51:47,530 --> 01:51:52,730
And housing affordability requires addressing every cost driver, removing parking minimums

1457
01:51:52,730 --> 01:51:56,610
isn't the only solution to the housing crisis, but it is one of the most effective local

1458
01:51:56,610 --> 01:51:59,710
actions to reduce costs and move barriers to building homes.

1459
01:52:00,150 --> 01:52:05,070
So at a time when California faces a severe housing shortage, we shouldn't be requiring

1460
01:52:05,070 --> 01:52:11,050
individuals to build costly parking spaces that many residents don't need before they build the homes

1461
01:52:11,050 --> 01:52:15,710
our communities desperately do need. I hear this from the residents in my own building and

1462
01:52:15,710 --> 01:52:21,810
individuals who need it. That don't need it. And so these are my items I plan on supporting it tonight.

1463
01:52:22,570 --> 01:52:27,750
I have a feeling with the with the four of us up here we might need to move this to another council

1464
01:52:27,750 --> 01:52:33,090
meeting so our colleague can weigh in, my vice mayor hang. But I plan on supporting this item tonight

1465
01:52:33,090 --> 01:52:35,550
and pushing it forward and getting us back into the business.

1466
01:52:35,970 --> 01:52:39,070
My only complaint is that it took so long to come back to us.

1467
01:52:39,250 --> 01:52:44,710
I believe I initiated this item back in May of last year.

1468
01:52:45,210 --> 01:52:46,150
These things take time.

1469
01:52:46,430 --> 01:52:48,570
I appreciate the dedication that you did,

1470
01:52:48,970 --> 01:52:53,470
but these things hopefully can be more expeditiously pushed forward

1471
01:52:53,470 --> 01:52:57,750
so that way we can help alleviate a lot of the general concerns.

1472
01:52:57,970 --> 01:53:02,090
And state law itself is working sometimes and not sometimes in tandem

1473
01:53:02,090 --> 01:53:06,190
the work that we're doing because the state is ultimately changing these laws to address these

1474
01:53:06,190 --> 01:53:11,590
concerns and so we have to update and update and update and so it is a moving target so

1475
01:53:11,590 --> 01:53:16,270
on those are my comments mayor thank you very much thank you council member buyers thank you yeah I

1476
01:53:16,270 --> 01:53:22,210
looked at this item um like it was a state law that we were implementing and went a little above and beyond

1477
01:53:22,210 --> 01:53:28,630
to make consistent an entire map for a city that consistent map of regulations will certainly help

1478
01:53:28,630 --> 01:53:34,210
make more predictable the work of developing and planning in our city so in that regard

1479
01:53:34,790 --> 01:53:40,710
this looks like something that we would do as a regular sort of update given to us by the state

1480
01:53:40,710 --> 01:53:46,170
just with a little bit of cleanup locally. I am really grateful for some of the points that

1481
01:53:46,170 --> 01:53:51,370
Councilmember Myster raised making sure that while we're seeking to create a more predictable

1482
01:53:51,370 --> 01:53:57,630
consistent and transparent map for those who will seek to build in our city that we're doing

1483
01:53:57,630 --> 01:54:02,470
the same for those who are renting in our cities, so I think it doesn't have to, for me, at least

1484
01:54:02,470 --> 01:54:05,930
be a part of the zone tax amendment, but rather something that we do to come back, making

1485
01:54:05,930 --> 01:54:10,930
sure that we're clear on what language would go into a lease. I know the mayor and I are on

1486
01:54:10,930 --> 01:54:15,770
the rent stabilization ad hoc committee, but that would only cover a certain amount of work

1487
01:54:15,770 --> 01:54:20,110
in the city, so I think making sure that we are understanding that if people are moving into

1488
01:54:20,110 --> 01:54:24,050
a building and they're not going to have parking available to them or how it will become available

1489
01:54:24,050 --> 01:54:29,370
to them that language feels really important and maybe something that this council can sign

1490
01:54:29,370 --> 01:54:35,870
off on. The conversation around putting a cap on how we would charge for parking is certainly

1491
01:54:35,870 --> 01:54:40,850
interesting, although I think as we're opening up parking to a true market conversation,

1492
01:54:41,470 --> 01:54:47,570
there's some complications to that. I think it'll become something that landlords, building owners,

1493
01:54:47,990 --> 01:54:52,750
property managers look to as a revenue stream and so I think it's certainly appropriate that

1494
01:54:52,750 --> 01:54:59,810
regards to the affordability concerns we have folks living on, you know, fixed incomes or rent

1495
01:54:59,810 --> 01:55:03,570
stabilization communities. Certainly I think it is something appropriate to look at,

1496
01:55:03,750 --> 01:55:08,750
but I'm just mindful of the way that we're opening up that can of worms. And I think in a bigger

1497
01:55:08,750 --> 01:55:14,830
picture, the idea of studying the number of vacant units, maybe after some time, doing so right now,

1498
01:55:15,030 --> 01:55:22,670
maybe complicated, but it is an interesting question because there will become a parking spaces in building

1499
01:55:22,670 --> 01:55:29,750
that may be underutilized or newly resource to the community if they're able to be least to

1500
01:55:29,750 --> 01:55:32,930
different residents. Maybe tenants in those buildings don't use them, but they're parking

1501
01:55:32,930 --> 01:55:37,470
spaces available and just down the block, there's a building who has need. So I think it is appropriate

1502
01:55:37,470 --> 01:55:42,450
that we would understand how much parking we have in the residential buildings and what is happening

1503
01:55:42,450 --> 01:55:47,490
to that parking supply. I don't know what time I'll leave that to you all planning staff,

1504
01:55:47,830 --> 01:55:51,430
but it does create a really interesting conversation around the amount of new parking that will

1505
01:55:51,430 --> 01:55:58,830
come available as residents start understand the new regulations and as these buildings are

1506
01:55:59,890 --> 01:56:05,150
endeavoring to right-sized to the state law. So that's interesting to me as a future conversation.

1507
01:56:05,310 --> 01:56:08,890
But as far as tonight's zone text amendments concerned, I'm very much in support.

1508
01:56:10,350 --> 01:56:18,390
Thank you. I'm going to jump in here. I do support adopting the aspect of this ordinance

1509
01:56:18,390 --> 01:56:22,050
that implement state law because we're required to do it.

1510
01:56:22,410 --> 01:56:24,770
I don't support going further than that.

1511
01:56:25,730 --> 01:56:29,890
I don't agree with some of the things that my colleagues have said.

1512
01:56:30,310 --> 01:56:36,710
First of all, if buildings that are being built have so much extra parking,

1513
01:56:37,390 --> 01:56:43,390
why is almost every area of West Hollywood a permit parking district?

1514
01:56:43,390 --> 01:56:48,690
because there isn't adequate parking for the residents who live here.

1515
01:56:50,150 --> 01:56:52,810
And I think part of it is, as was mentioned,

1516
01:56:53,010 --> 01:56:56,670
there are a lot of older buildings that we're built with almost no parking.

1517
01:56:57,130 --> 01:57:00,110
That's part of the reason why we have parking standards,

1518
01:57:00,270 --> 01:57:05,270
and I disagree with the notion that these are arbitrary government requirements.

1519
01:57:05,650 --> 01:57:09,770
They're requirements that are based on the number of bedrooms,

1520
01:57:09,770 --> 01:57:16,710
the number of dwelling units, we don't just pick a random number out of the sky and establish

1521
01:57:16,710 --> 01:57:24,470
that as the parking standard. The parking standard is based on estimation of the parking demand

1522
01:57:24,470 --> 01:57:32,670
from a newly constructed residential building. I obviously am very supportive of affordable housing.

1523
01:57:33,610 --> 01:57:39,410
I want us to create more housing for our residents, but it's got to be housing that people can

1524
01:57:39,410 --> 01:57:44,730
actually enjoy and use and removing all this parking,

1525
01:57:45,190 --> 01:57:48,150
I think it's gonna result in us becoming a city

1526
01:57:48,150 --> 01:57:51,470
where a lot of people will not be able to live.

1527
01:57:51,910 --> 01:57:54,170
We've already seen the housing corporation

1528
01:57:54,170 --> 01:57:55,770
has an affordable building,

1529
01:57:56,270 --> 01:57:58,330
which they had difficulty leasing

1530
01:57:58,330 --> 01:58:01,370
because they had almost no parking for the building.

1531
01:58:02,050 --> 01:58:04,550
And you would think people who are really low income

1532
01:58:04,550 --> 01:58:06,990
and desperate for housing would say,

1533
01:58:06,990 --> 01:58:13,330
Okay, I'll take it, but many people have cars and those cars are their lifeline to work.

1534
01:58:14,130 --> 01:58:19,770
And whether you're upper income or low income, it's not realistic to think that everyone

1535
01:58:19,770 --> 01:58:25,870
is going to be able to navigate Los Angeles without a car.

1536
01:58:26,270 --> 01:58:33,030
So I do support what we have to do based on state law, but I don't support going further than

1537
01:58:33,030 --> 01:58:33,530
that.

1538
01:58:33,530 --> 01:58:42,270
I also agree with Councilmember Meister that there needs to be standards built in regardless

1539
01:58:42,270 --> 01:58:48,090
of how far we're going with this new, no parking requirement.

1540
01:58:48,990 --> 01:58:50,790
There needs to be disclosure requirements.

1541
01:58:51,570 --> 01:58:55,430
There needs to be a cap on the amount that they can be rented for.

1542
01:58:56,330 --> 01:59:03,210
I don't agree that we should prohibit residents from getting permit parking in some instances

1543
01:59:03,210 --> 01:59:05,390
is because circumstances change.

1544
01:59:05,850 --> 01:59:09,890
I could move into a building with no car, lose my job,

1545
01:59:10,130 --> 01:59:13,390
then get a new job that requires me to drive.

1546
01:59:13,930 --> 01:59:15,530
And now I'm going to need parking.

1547
01:59:15,650 --> 01:59:20,130
And if we set it up, so the person can't get a permit,

1548
01:59:20,610 --> 01:59:22,470
or doesn't have parking in the building,

1549
01:59:22,670 --> 01:59:27,590
I don't think that's fair or appropriate for our new residents.

1550
01:59:30,170 --> 01:59:32,550
I don't think we're going to be able to resolve

1551
01:59:32,550 --> 01:59:40,330
all of this tonight. So we may have to maybe make some preliminary decisions about what we all agree on,

1552
01:59:40,330 --> 01:59:49,230
what we don't agree on, and then defer action on this until our vice mayor gets back. Is there anything

1553
01:59:49,230 --> 01:59:54,550
that is time sensitive tonight, that has to be decided tonight.

1554
02:00:00,000 --> 02:00:09,880
No, we are already behind an implementing the state law, so if we want to codify that into our code at a later date, that's okay.

1555
02:00:10,500 --> 02:00:17,540
But we eventually want to get this into our code, just to give developers and the community certainty about what's expected of them when they come into development.

1556
02:00:17,540 --> 02:00:27,580
Okay, so maybe we can talk about, I heard some agreement that there need to be some additional things which admittedly you weren't asked to do.

1557
02:00:29,180 --> 02:00:35,320
Some standards in terms of how much people can charge, notification for new tenants.

1558
02:00:36,160 --> 02:00:39,040
Are we in agreement that we'd like to explore that?

1559
02:00:40,840 --> 02:00:45,120
Yes, and they don't know that it needs to come back as part of the ZTA if it takes more time.

1560
02:00:45,120 --> 02:00:48,180
would be my concern, given that we're already past date.

1561
02:00:48,880 --> 02:00:50,880
So the ZTA as written could come back

1562
02:00:50,880 --> 02:00:54,080
at the next council agenda, but some of that takes more time.

1563
02:00:54,160 --> 02:00:55,260
I would be okay with that.

1564
02:00:55,480 --> 02:00:56,520
I'm not speaking for the whole council.

1565
02:00:56,640 --> 02:00:57,240
I would agree.

1566
02:01:00,000 --> 02:01:03,640
The other issue is, is there a agreement

1567
02:01:03,640 --> 02:01:08,060
that we have to do what state requires us to do?

1568
02:01:08,540 --> 02:01:11,000
I think we don't have a choice, right?

1569
02:01:11,860 --> 02:01:18,560
I understand you're not wanting to vote on it because the additional things that we'd

1570
02:01:18,560 --> 02:01:24,740
like to include, but I think we can at least bring that back at our next meeting and I

1571
02:01:24,740 --> 02:01:29,180
believe that there will be a majority to support that.

1572
02:01:29,560 --> 02:01:36,020
Maybe if you can bring it back next time with bifurcating those aspects that are mandated

1573
02:01:36,020 --> 02:01:43,100
it by St. Law and those that would expand this program more or less city broad.

1574
02:01:43,500 --> 02:01:44,540
Yes, we can definitely do that.

1575
02:01:45,480 --> 02:01:47,320
Is that our people comfortable with that?

1576
02:01:47,440 --> 02:01:50,400
That was, I'm going to remove my request to speak.

1577
02:01:50,680 --> 02:01:51,040
Okay.

1578
02:01:51,040 --> 02:01:51,980
Is that what we're just going to suggest?

1579
02:01:52,080 --> 02:01:52,520
All right.

1580
02:01:52,900 --> 02:01:54,340
We're clear on what we're doing.

1581
02:01:56,060 --> 02:02:01,420
I apologize that we weren't able to fully resolve this tonight, but you get the sense of where

1582
02:02:01,420 --> 02:02:02,400
we're headed with that.

1583
02:02:02,480 --> 02:02:03,200
Thank you, everyone.

1584
02:02:03,340 --> 02:02:03,700
Thank you.

1585
02:02:04,240 --> 02:02:05,120
Thank you.

1586
02:02:05,120 --> 02:02:07,220
Oh, and we're closing the public here.

1587
02:02:10,260 --> 02:02:13,260
I didn't see six was continued.

1588
02:02:14,160 --> 02:02:16,240
I didn't see one was moved to consent.

1589
02:02:16,520 --> 02:02:24,660
I didn't see two is an ordinance that increases the compensation for city council members.

1590
02:02:27,740 --> 02:02:31,320
Who's giving the report on that, Lauren, or Melissa?

1591
02:02:32,560 --> 02:02:32,840
Yes.

1592
02:02:32,880 --> 02:02:33,380
Thank you, Mayor.

1593
02:02:33,640 --> 02:02:36,180
Melissa Crowder, city clerk for the city of West Hollywood.

1594
02:02:36,180 --> 02:02:45,620
state law allows the city council to consider increases to their salary after every election.

1595
02:02:46,200 --> 02:02:50,800
And typically we have brought an item forward around this time.

1596
02:02:51,020 --> 02:02:55,960
So at the last time we did it, it was in 2024 before that November election.

1597
02:02:56,520 --> 02:03:00,420
And so we have an election November 3rd in an anticipation of that.

1598
02:03:00,420 --> 02:03:07,060
are bringing the site in forward. It allows for the maximum, which is 5% per year for a total

1599
02:03:07,060 --> 02:03:16,460
of 10% in increase to the council compensation, bringing it to $1,897.27 per month, with additional

1600
02:03:16,460 --> 02:03:22,780
benefits as outlined in the ordinance. And this would go into effect January 1st of 2027.

1601
02:03:24,660 --> 02:03:29,420
Are there any questions for staff? I see that we have one speaker, Mike Nuddle.

1602
02:03:29,420 --> 02:03:30,020
I

1603
02:03:37,860 --> 02:03:39,180
might not all try West.

1604
02:03:39,640 --> 02:03:41,300
I just wanted to say, I saw this,

1605
02:03:41,360 --> 02:03:44,620
and then I started to think about all of the work

1606
02:03:44,620 --> 02:03:49,180
that all of you do, and how often you take phone calls,

1607
02:03:49,360 --> 02:03:53,260
you take emails, you're at events, you hold events in the park,

1608
02:03:53,920 --> 02:03:57,680
and this is like a full-time job for all of you.

1609
02:03:57,980 --> 02:04:00,340
And I think myself and so many other people

1610
02:04:00,340 --> 02:04:02,400
see you out in the community all the time

1611
02:04:02,400 --> 02:04:04,920
doing such hard work, I don't think this is enough.

1612
02:04:05,200 --> 02:04:06,920
I think you're doing a full-time job.

1613
02:04:06,920 --> 02:04:10,360
And I just want to, in the bottom of my heart, thank you for all the work that you do.

1614
02:04:11,140 --> 02:04:11,960
Thank you.

1615
02:04:13,720 --> 02:04:18,760
That is our only speaker on this item and a council discussion.

1616
02:04:20,740 --> 02:04:24,360
Okay, I, the maximum is set by state law.

1617
02:04:24,580 --> 02:04:26,960
We are not able to increase it beyond that.

1618
02:04:26,960 --> 02:04:27,660
Council member Eric.

1619
02:04:28,660 --> 02:04:29,500
Oh, you made the motion.

1620
02:04:29,880 --> 02:04:30,700
Okay, I'll second it.

1621
02:04:32,280 --> 02:04:33,780
There's a motion in second.

1622
02:04:34,160 --> 02:04:35,100
All those in favor.

1623
02:04:37,450 --> 02:04:38,130
It's approved.

1624
02:04:38,350 --> 02:04:39,070
Thank you.

1625
02:04:39,070 --> 02:04:41,650
I didn't, Vice Mayor got a raise without even being here.

1626
02:04:41,750 --> 02:04:42,970
Yeah, that's true.

1627
02:04:45,530 --> 02:04:50,310
We will now move to item E1, the budget.

1628
02:04:53,690 --> 02:04:59,210
And I see people moving forward on a,

1629
02:05:01,450 --> 02:05:05,930
oh, in the city manager, is demoting herself and

1630
02:05:05,930 --> 02:05:08,810
going back to her staff table days.

1631
02:05:09,450 --> 02:05:10,370
Thank you, Jackie.

1632
02:05:10,370 --> 02:05:11,050
And

1633
02:05:22,600 --> 02:05:26,840
it looks like we have about five or six speakers on this.

1634
02:05:28,200 --> 02:05:32,040
We had our study session a couple weeks ago.

1635
02:05:32,220 --> 02:05:36,600
Council gave some input on some things that we wanted.

1636
02:05:37,300 --> 02:05:39,240
Perhaps restored to the budget.

1637
02:05:40,080 --> 02:05:42,540
There were requests for some other items.

1638
02:05:42,720 --> 02:05:46,020
There were discussion of things that we might look at.

1639
02:05:46,300 --> 02:05:46,720
Deleting.

1640
02:05:47,400 --> 02:05:50,980
Jackie, do you want to give the overview or.

1641
02:05:50,980 --> 02:05:55,000
Good evening, Mayor Council members and members of the public.

1642
02:05:55,280 --> 02:06:00,900
I'm Jackie Roko, the City Manager, joined by Onyx Jones, our interim finance director and

1643
02:06:00,900 --> 02:06:03,020
Melissa Lindley, our budget officer.

1644
02:06:03,800 --> 02:06:10,240
We're just going to go over a brief overview of some of the direction that we received at the

1645
02:06:10,240 --> 02:06:20,960
budget study session and present some options to consider for some items that we were

1646
02:06:20,960 --> 02:06:24,900
and with that, I will pass it over to Melissa Lee.

1647
02:06:29,050 --> 02:06:29,870
Thank you, Jackie.

1648
02:06:30,610 --> 02:06:31,310
Is that on?

1649
02:06:33,950 --> 02:06:34,530
Good evening.

1650
02:06:35,090 --> 02:06:38,150
Mayor, council members, Melissa Lee, budget officer.

1651
02:06:39,210 --> 02:06:43,770
Thank you for having us this evening to provide an overview of the proposed

1652
02:06:43,770 --> 02:06:49,270
2027 and 2028 to your operating budget and five year capital improvement plan.

1653
02:06:49,970 --> 02:06:54,310
The proposed budget reflects our commitment to maintaining fiscal sustainability

1654
02:06:54,310 --> 02:07:00,010
While continuing to deliver at the high quality services, residents, businesses, and visitors expect.

1655
02:07:00,750 --> 02:07:08,170
We will review the current economic environment budget priorities, major investments, capital planning, and the actions requested of council.

1656
02:07:10,190 --> 02:07:15,450
While the proposed budget is structurally balanced, the city continues to face a challenging economic environment.

1657
02:07:15,450 --> 02:07:22,050
Some of the things we discussed at last a month's budget study session include global uncertainty,

1658
02:07:22,590 --> 02:07:29,190
economic uncertainty, inflationary pressures and slower economic growth are affecting local governments throughout California.

1659
02:07:30,150 --> 02:07:41,750
Two of the city's most significant revenue sources, transient occupancy tax and sales tax are experiencing slower growth, international tourism remains, sorry about that.

1660
02:07:43,030 --> 02:07:58,950
Remains below historic levels affecting hotel occupancy and lodging revenues, consumers continue to face higher costs for everyday goods and services, which is impacted spending activity, and at the same time city operating costs are increasing faster than revenues.

1661
02:07:59,670 --> 02:08:04,650
Rising insurance premiums, labor costs and construction costs continue to place pressure on the budget.

1662
02:08:04,650 --> 02:08:08,930
Higher Interest rates also make capital project financing more expensive.

1663
02:08:09,750 --> 02:08:14,170
These conditions require us to remain disciplined and strategic in our budget planning.

1664
02:08:15,950 --> 02:08:20,570
Despite economic challenges, the proposed budget remains aligned with city council priorities,

1665
02:08:21,410 --> 02:08:25,410
investments continue in public safety programs that help maintain a safe community.

1666
02:08:25,970 --> 02:08:31,610
The budget preserves funding for social services and program supporting vulnerable populations.

1667
02:08:31,610 --> 02:08:37,570
have the instability remains a key focus through ongoing housing and tenant protection initiatives,

1668
02:08:38,330 --> 02:08:42,450
infrastructure investment support the maintenance of modernization of city assets,

1669
02:08:43,110 --> 02:08:48,530
technology modernization efforts improve efficiency, cybersecurity and customer service,

1670
02:08:49,290 --> 02:08:53,550
climate initiative support the city's sustainability goals and environmental leadership,

1671
02:08:54,250 --> 02:08:59,770
and long-term strategic planning ensures that today's decision support future financial stability.

1672
02:09:02,040 --> 02:09:10,420
The FY27 budget includes 235.8 million in anticipated revenues across all funds, and projected

1673
02:09:10,420 --> 02:09:14,220
expenditures of 240.9 million across all funds.

1674
02:09:14,900 --> 02:09:19,780
The general fund remains structurally balanced in both fiscal years, with revenues and expenditures

1675
02:09:19,780 --> 02:09:26,940
of 170.6 million in FY27, and 177.7 million in FY28.

1676
02:09:26,940 --> 02:09:33,600
The city's reserve policy is maintained at 35% of the general fund budget, preserving financial

1677
02:09:33,600 --> 02:09:36,000
flexibility and emergency preparedness.

1678
02:09:37,020 --> 02:09:43,140
The proposed budget focuses on maintaining core services while managing resources responsibly.

1679
02:09:44,080 --> 02:09:48,880
Overall, the budget reflects a balance between current service demands and long-term fiscal

1680
02:09:48,880 --> 02:09:49,500
sustainability.

1681
02:09:52,050 --> 02:09:55,290
The general fund serves as the city's primary operating fund.

1682
02:09:55,290 --> 02:10:02,510
It supports most municipal services including public safety, recreation, planning, administration, and community programs.

1683
02:10:03,330 --> 02:10:07,490
The following slides provide a closer look at the general fund revenues and expenditures.

1684
02:10:08,210 --> 02:10:12,950
Understanding these trends is critical as we evaluate future financial sustainability.

1685
02:10:15,800 --> 02:10:21,560
The city's revenue base remains diversified, helping reduce reliance on any single source.

1686
02:10:21,560 --> 02:10:25,100
Major revenues include property tax, sales tax, transient,

1687
02:10:26,060 --> 02:10:29,620
occupancy tax, business tax, and franchise fees.

1688
02:10:29,960 --> 02:10:34,300
Revenue is projected to reach 170.6 million in FY27,

1689
02:10:34,600 --> 02:10:38,380
and 177.7 million in FY28.

1690
02:10:39,380 --> 02:10:41,400
Revenue growth is expected to be modest,

1691
02:10:41,700 --> 02:10:45,560
projected at 2% in FY27 and 4% in FY28.

1692
02:10:46,900 --> 02:10:49,840
Staff will continue to monitor revenue performance closely

1693
02:10:49,840 --> 02:10:52,040
and adjust projections as needed.

1694
02:10:54,400 --> 02:10:57,740
This chart illustrates the distribution of general fund revenues,

1695
02:10:58,400 --> 02:11:02,160
property tax continues to provide a stable and significant revenue source,

1696
02:11:02,760 --> 02:11:05,580
sales tax and hotel tax remain important contributors,

1697
02:11:06,020 --> 02:11:07,980
but our experience in slower growth.

1698
02:11:08,680 --> 02:11:13,020
The city's diversified revenue portfolio helps mitigate economic fluctuations,

1699
02:11:14,200 --> 02:11:18,540
and continued monitoring of these revenue trends will be essential throughout the budget cycle.

1700
02:11:20,660 --> 02:11:27,020
expenditures continue to be driven primarily by personnel costs and contractual services.

1701
02:11:27,640 --> 02:11:31,600
Emplacementary pressures are affecting many operating categories.

1702
02:11:32,620 --> 02:11:40,500
Expenditures are projected to be $177.6 million in FY27 and $177.7 million in FY28.

1703
02:11:41,460 --> 02:11:47,020
The budget prioritizes maintaining service levels while carefully managing expenditure growth.

1704
02:11:47,020 --> 02:11:53,260
Staff continue to evaluate operational efficiencies and cost containment opportunities where appropriate.

1705
02:11:56,110 --> 02:12:00,370
This chart illustrates how general fund resources are allocated across departments,

1706
02:12:01,190 --> 02:12:05,510
funding supports direct community services, public safety, infrastructure maintenance,

1707
02:12:05,790 --> 02:12:07,130
and administrative functions.

1708
02:12:08,070 --> 02:12:11,510
Department budgets reflect council priorities and operational needs.

1709
02:12:12,350 --> 02:12:15,550
Resources have been allocated to ensure continued service delivery,

1710
02:12:16,090 --> 02:12:17,770
while maintaining fiscal responsibility.

1711
02:12:17,770 --> 02:12:29,330
The proposed budget includes several targeted strategic investments, approximately 700,000 is allocated to address rising insurance costs,

1712
02:12:30,110 --> 02:12:44,330
about 570,000 is support legal services and increased operational demands, 550,000 is being invested in the new transportation mobility division to support multimodal transportation initiatives,

1713
02:12:44,330 --> 02:12:54,330
About 550,000 is supporting recreation staffing to help continue to meet growing demand for programs.

1714
02:12:56,370 --> 02:13:02,210
About 400,000 has been allocated for the 20,28 Olympics planning.

1715
02:13:03,150 --> 02:13:11,550
And 300,000 is being allocated for an infrastructure assessment to support the long-term assessment,

1716
02:13:11,550 --> 02:13:16,930
long-term asset management and capital planning for city facilities.

1717
02:13:17,990 --> 02:13:22,550
These investments address both immediate operational needs and future planning objectives.

1718
02:13:25,540 --> 02:13:33,740
Dedicated capital projects fund is exist and is going to improve the transparency and long-term planning.

1719
02:13:33,740 --> 02:13:43,380
The FY-2027 Capital Programme totals approximately 18.1 million, FY-28, 4.3 million, and then

1720
02:13:43,380 --> 02:13:51,280
FY-29 through 31, about 4 million per year, for a total five-year plan of 34 million

1721
02:13:51,280 --> 02:13:52,880
across all funds.

1722
02:13:53,440 --> 02:13:57,580
Priority has been given to projects that are fully funded and ready to proceed.

1723
02:13:57,580 --> 02:14:07,540
And additionally, the due to funding constraints, projects totaling 187.5 million have been identified as unfunded.

1724
02:14:07,860 --> 02:14:15,560
Staff will continue to pursue grant opportunities and alternative funding sources to advance unfunded projects as wherever feasible.

1725
02:14:20,000 --> 02:14:29,820
The budget includes several targeted organizational enhancements, a new community and legislative affairs supervisor position will provide additional capacity and support to the city manager.

1726
02:14:29,820 --> 02:14:36,380
The conversion of a vacant position of professional services support specialist to a human

1727
02:14:36,380 --> 02:14:40,840
resources specialist will support recruitment of temporary positions primarily for the

1728
02:14:40,840 --> 02:14:46,720
recreation services division. A senior financial management analyst position will provide support

1729
02:14:46,720 --> 02:14:52,180
for the citywide budget development, implementation and monitoring functions, including oversight

1730
02:14:52,180 --> 02:14:58,080
of project accounting for capital projects and grants. Two temporary positions will be extended

1731
02:14:58,080 --> 02:14:59,960
for an additional year and...

1732
02:15:00,000 --> 02:15:12,640
The engineering department and the urban design studio. Two vacant positions are not going to be budgeted, the department, the deputy city manager and an arts coordinator position.

1733
02:15:13,380 --> 02:15:18,460
And overall, the changes result in a modest net increase of about 58,000.

1734
02:15:18,760 --> 02:15:27,020
Excuse me, if your cell phone is playing TikTok videos or something, can you please shut it off? Thank you.

1735
02:15:28,810 --> 02:15:34,430
During the budget study session, the Council identified several areas for further discussion.

1736
02:15:35,150 --> 02:15:43,970
Tonight's staff report provided a summary of the items and attachment D to the staff report provided more details, including additional information from staff.

1737
02:15:44,810 --> 02:15:53,850
Any additions or enhancements that are to be considered this evening must be offset with corresponding reductions in order to maintain the balance budget.

1738
02:15:56,350 --> 02:16:02,150
This table includes the items the Council expressed in interest in increasing funding for.

1739
02:16:02,750 --> 02:16:08,930
It includes business support initiatives, marketing and economic development efforts, and expanded community programming.

1740
02:16:09,810 --> 02:16:16,510
Staff is seeking clarification for each item on whether there is a consensus among the Council to support the budget increases here,

1741
02:16:16,910 --> 02:16:21,430
which would require corresponding budget reductions of $585,000.

1742
02:16:28,980 --> 02:16:41,220
I also wanted to, as part of these items that we're going to be evaluating, just add a couple of items that came up, but we're not, we were not able to include on this table.

1743
02:16:41,420 --> 02:16:51,000
And one was $28,000 increase to the Mishka Festival as well as $10,000 for classical music night program.

1744
02:16:51,000 --> 02:17:00,460
So those were just items that were totaling 112,000 for the new fiscal year, but I just wanted

1745
02:17:00,460 --> 02:17:07,300
to bring it up just as we're having the conversation that those two additional items can

1746
02:17:07,300 --> 02:17:13,900
be considered as part of the items that we're evaluating on this table, so the total of nine

1747
02:17:13,900 --> 02:17:14,280
items.

1748
02:17:19,820 --> 02:17:21,480
Thank you, Jackie.

1749
02:17:23,680 --> 02:17:38,920
The next table here is a part of the council discussion in the budget study session, the following items were identified as potential offsets or areas that council were interested in potentially making changes too.

1750
02:17:43,540 --> 02:17:48,360
We can pause here and go through these two tables if you'd like.

1751
02:17:48,360 --> 02:17:54,500
Why don't we hear from the public speakers and then we can come back and go through these

1752
02:17:54,500 --> 02:18:02,360
line by line and I also had the opportunity to meet with the city manager and try to figure out

1753
02:18:02,360 --> 02:18:09,140
what council wanted and try to come up with something that would still result in a balanced budget,

1754
02:18:09,460 --> 02:18:16,480
but still get council to support the various programs that council identified previously.

1755
02:18:16,480 --> 02:18:20,540
Let's hear from the public and then we'll get into council discussion.

1756
02:18:22,460 --> 02:18:32,900
Anita Gusswami is our first speaker to be followed by Jay Handel and then Suzy Borlito.

1757
02:18:35,900 --> 02:18:36,100
Hi there.

1758
02:18:36,160 --> 02:18:38,720
Anita Gusswami, resident of West Hollywood.

1759
02:18:39,380 --> 02:18:43,320
First, staff did a fantastic job putting together the budget materials.

1760
02:18:43,320 --> 02:18:49,900
The big budget book, the supporting presentations, the analyses, in the meeting agenda, everything is excellent.

1761
02:18:50,140 --> 02:18:55,460
There's a lot of information available, and I appreciate the results from their hard work.

1762
02:18:55,660 --> 02:18:56,920
So thank you to all of you.

1763
02:18:57,000 --> 02:18:59,620
It's was, no surprises, it was wonderful.

1764
02:19:00,160 --> 02:19:05,980
That said, I think we need mechanisms for better transparency on what's being spent and how much is left.

1765
02:19:06,160 --> 02:19:10,940
It would be great to have a quick summary in the city manager report of where we are financially.

1766
02:19:10,940 --> 02:19:20,100
That information would better inform Council and the public before the spending is proposed and definitely before any kind of contractor commitment is made.

1767
02:19:20,860 --> 02:19:26,340
On the register today, the demand register was almost $13 million given the economic climate going forward.

1768
02:19:26,860 --> 02:19:30,160
I asked the city consider adding a line or two to that report.

1769
02:19:30,440 --> 02:19:32,380
Basically, it's the check register.

1770
02:19:32,660 --> 02:19:33,660
Here's what's in the bank.

1771
02:19:33,900 --> 02:19:35,020
Here's what we've got in the budget.

1772
02:19:35,460 --> 02:19:36,740
Here's what we're spending this much.

1773
02:19:36,980 --> 02:19:38,460
This is what we've got left.

1774
02:19:38,460 --> 02:19:42,680
And again, visibility, so we know where we are on that budget.

1775
02:19:43,420 --> 02:19:46,420
Lastly, discussion of unfunded projects and events,

1776
02:19:46,920 --> 02:19:48,820
I think it still needs to be held.

1777
02:19:49,440 --> 02:19:54,820
So I'm going to ask you to consider a quarterly review of those projects,

1778
02:19:54,980 --> 02:19:57,900
perhaps a steady session or a subcommittee,

1779
02:19:58,280 --> 02:20:03,500
steady session that is just focused on where we are financially right now.

1780
02:20:03,820 --> 02:20:06,620
And these are now the projects and what's coming up.

1781
02:20:06,620 --> 02:20:11,080
have an understanding of what has already been committed, and then, you know, we can do an update.

1782
02:20:11,460 --> 02:20:12,920
So I suggest a quarterly update.

1783
02:20:13,240 --> 02:20:14,000
Thank you so much.

1784
02:20:14,300 --> 02:20:14,880
Thank you.

1785
02:20:15,520 --> 02:20:19,820
Jay Handel to be followed by Susie Burlito and then Diane Forte.

1786
02:20:26,530 --> 02:20:28,470
Good evening Mayor, council member of staff.

1787
02:20:29,410 --> 02:20:30,310
My name is Jay Handel.

1788
02:20:30,370 --> 02:20:33,710
I am a partner owner in the woods in the woods cafe.

1789
02:20:34,450 --> 02:20:41,790
I'm here tonight advocating to hopefully get you guys to re-look at the 2% rebate for the

1790
02:20:41,790 --> 02:20:48,470
of the stores. Right now 33% of the cannabis stores are either in receivership closed or never

1791
02:20:48,470 --> 02:20:56,590
open. Taking away this 2% will probably take another 2 or 3 into closing quite frankly.

1792
02:20:57,690 --> 02:21:03,330
So I understand this a lot of money, but I also understand we generate over a million dollars

1793
02:21:03,330 --> 02:21:10,290
in taxes. And it's probably about one third of what the bars and restaurants generate for

1794
02:21:10,290 --> 02:21:10,970
the city.

1795
02:21:13,150 --> 02:21:20,570
So taking away this incentive for this business is quite frankly is taking away

1796
02:21:20,570 --> 02:21:26,330
sales tax. And if you're looking at a 2% decrease or more in sales tax, it's going

1797
02:21:26,330 --> 02:21:32,890
to be worse because these people are not going to be able to survive. It's very clear. So

1798
02:21:32,890 --> 02:21:38,390
it's just, I can't even tell you how important it is. Especially when we look at something

1799
02:21:38,390 --> 02:21:46,410
like we're looking at about 700,800,000 dollars maybe, in a 2% and we're looking at a two-week

1800
02:21:46,410 --> 02:21:49,710
ice-ring for 700 and 11,000 dollars.

1801
02:21:50,430 --> 02:21:51,630
Where does that make sense?

1802
02:21:52,550 --> 02:21:53,890
It just doesn't make sense.

1803
02:21:54,070 --> 02:21:59,110
We generate income over and above what you're giving us back.

1804
02:21:59,670 --> 02:22:05,010
Yet, you're going to have another year of an ice-ring for 700,000 dollars.

1805
02:22:05,010 --> 02:22:09,050
It seems like fiscal fiscal is wrong to be doing it.

1806
02:22:09,190 --> 02:22:13,070
I'm not against ice rings, but to be perfectly honest with you,

1807
02:22:13,130 --> 02:22:15,610
I am against losing a $10 million investment,

1808
02:22:16,170 --> 02:22:18,690
and so are all the people that we represent in our Movelage.

1809
02:22:19,130 --> 02:22:22,390
I'm glad to see our Movelage is back up on the potential board,

1810
02:22:22,730 --> 02:22:24,010
because that also is important.

1811
02:22:24,630 --> 02:22:27,150
Only 10% of my customers come from Wehal.

1812
02:22:27,550 --> 02:22:30,330
The majority of my customers come from outside Wehal.

1813
02:22:30,770 --> 02:22:31,170
Thank you.

1814
02:22:31,270 --> 02:22:31,890
Thank you.

1815
02:22:31,890 --> 02:22:32,370
Excuse me.

1816
02:22:32,370 --> 02:22:41,530
I wanted to just bring up another item that came up after the agenda was published, and it was the green program.

1817
02:22:41,530 --> 02:22:44,070
I know several of you approached me with it.

1818
02:22:44,350 --> 02:22:51,750
We do have identified funding for the fiscal year 27 in the amount of 2, 3, 2, 5, 10.

1819
02:22:52,910 --> 02:22:56,810
And I know there will be further discussion, but I just wanted to clarify that.

1820
02:22:56,810 --> 02:23:03,790
Yeah, and I think that's what the next speakers are going to speak about, so Susie, to be followed by Diane Forty.

1821
02:23:04,650 --> 02:23:07,930
Yeah, just come on in.

1822
02:23:08,710 --> 02:23:10,570
Hi, Susie Borlito, you said it correctly.

1823
02:23:11,290 --> 02:23:13,410
From, I'm the co-is decorative director of sustainable works.

1824
02:23:14,350 --> 02:23:20,810
We're a nonprofit organization that has administered the West Hollywood Green Business Program since at launched in 2024.

1825
02:23:20,810 --> 02:23:25,990
I'm here tonight to respectfully ask for your support and continuing funding for this program.

1826
02:23:26,910 --> 02:23:29,550
The program is much more than a business assistance program.

1827
02:23:29,630 --> 02:23:35,050
It is a direct implementation strategy of the city's climate action and adaptation plan.

1828
02:23:35,790 --> 02:23:43,890
And one of the only programs that provides hands-on sustainability support directly to small and medium-sized local businesses.

1829
02:23:43,890 --> 02:23:46,390
Neighboring West Side Cities, Santa Monica,

1830
02:23:46,450 --> 02:23:49,890
Covers City, Beverly Hills, all fun this program,

1831
02:23:50,850 --> 02:23:54,630
Santa Monica since 2002, and Beverly Hills

1832
02:23:54,630 --> 02:23:57,910
just joined the network last year to offer this program.

1833
02:23:58,670 --> 02:24:00,630
We provide one-in-one technical assistance.

1834
02:24:00,870 --> 02:24:03,090
We help businesses reduce energy, water use,

1835
02:24:03,310 --> 02:24:05,570
diverse weight from length, diverse waste,

1836
02:24:05,570 --> 02:24:07,330
driverate, waste from landfills.

1837
02:24:07,890 --> 02:24:10,430
We access, we help them access rebates and incentives,

1838
02:24:10,830 --> 02:24:12,830
train employees, improved disaster preparedness,

1839
02:24:12,830 --> 02:24:16,350
and help them achieve a verified green business certification.

1840
02:24:16,990 --> 02:24:20,710
These are services, many small businesses simply would not have the time,

1841
02:24:21,270 --> 02:24:24,070
staffing or expertise to pursue on their own.

1842
02:24:25,290 --> 02:24:28,710
In the last two years, we've had 45 West Hollywood businesses have enrolled.

1843
02:24:29,290 --> 02:24:35,170
25 have achieved the certification and nearly $28,000 in rebates and minigrants

1844
02:24:35,170 --> 02:24:37,530
have been distributed to these businesses.

1845
02:24:37,530 --> 02:24:43,250
the environmental results are significant together and you will lead these businesses are reducing

1846
02:24:43,250 --> 02:24:54,550
more than 1.58 million pounds of carbon emissions, 576,000 gallons of water and 117,000 kilowatt

1847
02:24:54,550 --> 02:25:02,050
hours of electricity and diverting over 1.1 million pounds of waste from landfills. Beyond

1848
02:25:02,050 --> 02:25:06,510
these environmental benefits, these programs help businesses save money, operate more efficiently,

1849
02:25:06,510 --> 02:25:11,050
and build resilience during a time when many small businesses are struggling with rising costs.

1850
02:25:11,330 --> 02:25:12,450
Thank you for your support.

1851
02:25:13,110 --> 02:25:13,750
Thank you.

1852
02:25:13,810 --> 02:25:19,310
Diane Fortay to be followed by Jonathan Wilson, then Ron Cortez and Steve Martin.

1853
02:25:24,920 --> 02:25:25,460
Good evening.

1854
02:25:26,380 --> 02:25:27,440
Mayor, members of the council.

1855
02:25:27,800 --> 02:25:28,740
Jackie, thanks for that.

1856
02:25:28,900 --> 02:25:29,240
Good news.

1857
02:25:29,880 --> 02:25:36,420
Maybe, I don't need to speak so much, but we're here to support the Green, Green Business

1858
02:25:36,420 --> 02:25:37,700
Certification Program.

1859
02:25:38,520 --> 02:25:41,540
California, Southern California, Edison has been a long time.

1860
02:25:41,540 --> 02:25:44,260
funder over 10 years since I've been working.

1861
02:25:44,560 --> 02:25:47,280
I also formally on the advisory board.

1862
02:25:48,140 --> 02:25:50,820
And you can see firsthand what environmental leadership

1863
02:25:50,820 --> 02:25:54,640
does with small business community and the savings

1864
02:25:54,640 --> 02:25:55,700
that they do.

1865
02:25:56,320 --> 02:26:01,300
So in terms of the budget itself, I don't know if you need to exercise

1866
02:26:01,300 --> 02:26:06,480
your right to remove it from the study session

1867
02:26:06,480 --> 02:26:10,400
so that it's completely not funded or Jackie Dimension.

1868
02:26:10,400 --> 02:26:15,340
we did get funding to the following year, but to continue it, to disrupt it in the middle

1869
02:26:15,340 --> 02:26:21,040
of it would stop the great leadership that West Hollywood has shown and we'd like to continue

1870
02:26:21,040 --> 02:26:26,920
to funding through the contract period that the nonprofit has signed.

1871
02:26:27,240 --> 02:26:32,920
So thank you, so nice to see some of you in person, I was here for the public comments section

1872
02:26:32,920 --> 02:26:34,520
if you don't go to late, I'll come back.

1873
02:26:35,440 --> 02:26:39,380
But thank you so much for your leadership and I appreciate your support for this great program.

1874
02:26:39,780 --> 02:26:39,960
Thank you.

1875
02:26:39,960 --> 02:26:45,880
Thank you, Jonathan Wilson, to be followed by Ron Cortez and then Steve Mark.

1876
02:26:48,550 --> 02:26:49,890
Good evening, Mayor and council members.

1877
02:26:50,090 --> 02:26:50,570
Thank you again.

1878
02:26:50,630 --> 02:26:51,670
My name is Jonathan Wilson.

1879
02:26:51,930 --> 02:26:54,850
I am a resident, and also a business owner here in the city.

1880
02:26:55,010 --> 02:27:01,210
I don't know if you guys know about my background, but prior to actually having

1881
02:27:01,210 --> 02:27:06,030
own company actually works with corporations in the Fortune 500 and Fortune 100.

1882
02:27:06,810 --> 02:27:10,430
Many of those corporations have budgets significantly larger than $300 million

1883
02:27:10,430 --> 02:27:18,230
as you know, I personally am the Energy Division of Budget and Projects that we're above $3,000,000, and I applaud the staff significantly for their efforts.

1884
02:27:18,990 --> 02:27:26,470
The key is not how we actually vote today and how we manage this budget piece on today's, or how we do today's budget,

1885
02:27:26,810 --> 02:27:34,810
but how we manage the budget on a monthly basis and how we thought fully approve new capital projects and address budget changes.

1886
02:27:35,610 --> 02:27:41,930
Right now, we're focused very much on, we're saying that we're focused very much on the businesses.

1887
02:27:42,250 --> 02:27:44,910
Yet, we have $0.00 allocated to the Eastside Marketing.

1888
02:27:45,490 --> 02:27:48,270
We have a hundred-cater cord cannabis, and we have the loss.

1889
02:27:48,870 --> 02:27:53,330
We have a hundred-cater towards the Rainbow District, and a hundred-cater towards the Wea Loves of Locals.

1890
02:27:53,790 --> 02:27:58,090
I believe that we all have significant capital projects that we actually need to be rethinking.

1891
02:27:58,590 --> 02:28:01,990
For example, the ice skating program in the Sunset Music Festival.

1892
02:28:01,990 --> 02:28:07,170
I do support under the handsome, the smaller budget items that we have increased a little

1893
02:28:07,170 --> 02:28:11,990
of the budget, which is the LGBTQ Commission staff recommendation for the key rainbow

1894
02:28:11,990 --> 02:28:17,270
key awards and the social justice advisory board recommendation for the Juneteenth event.

1895
02:28:18,170 --> 02:28:20,370
With that said, I want to say thank you very much.

1896
02:28:20,510 --> 02:28:24,230
I really hope we continue to support our businesses and think about our businesses in lieu

1897
02:28:24,230 --> 02:28:27,970
of some of these larger programs that are more social in nature.

1898
02:28:28,250 --> 02:28:29,150
So thank you very much.

1899
02:28:29,150 --> 02:28:33,470
Thank you, Ron Cortez, to be followed by Steve Martin.

1900
02:28:37,020 --> 02:28:37,280
Good evening.

1901
02:28:37,580 --> 02:28:40,460
I'm Ron Cortez, longtime resident of the city of West Hollywood,

1902
02:28:40,520 --> 02:28:44,480
getting being mayor, past mayors, and current council members.

1903
02:28:45,740 --> 02:28:50,020
I come to you on behalf of our city's LGBTQ plus commission,

1904
02:28:51,080 --> 02:28:54,880
and by unanimous vote at our June 11th meeting,

1905
02:28:55,980 --> 02:28:58,120
I'd like to make the following public comment.

1906
02:28:58,120 --> 02:29:18,260
Regarding council agenda item E1, the LGBTQ plus commission recommends council to approve the budgeted special event Rainbow Key Awards at or above the fiscal year 2027 amount of $16,400 as outlined in E1 Attachment C.

1907
02:29:18,260 --> 02:29:25,640
Since its inception, in 2023, the LGBTQ Plus Commission has presented three annual rainbow

1908
02:29:25,640 --> 02:29:30,800
key awards, each showing market and significant improvement over previous years.

1909
02:29:31,140 --> 02:29:38,080
In 2024, we kept to tradition and delivered a much-awaited ceremony at here at Council

1910
02:29:38,080 --> 02:29:44,160
Chambers for five awardees chosen by our predecessor, Elgab, the Lesbian Gay Advisory

1911
02:29:44,160 --> 02:29:51,740
board. In 2025, our commission selected awardees, whose contributions to the local and broader

1912
02:29:51,740 --> 02:29:58,700
LGBTQ plus community, proved significant during an intense social and political climate

1913
02:29:58,700 --> 02:29:59,960
that threatened our transit.

1914
02:30:00,000 --> 02:30:09,260
Number nine, non-binary folks, and queer youth. And that ironically coincided with the devastation caused by the palisades and altadena fires.

1915
02:30:09,780 --> 02:30:20,180
The 2025 show utilized the autocorred outside for arrivals. This council chambers for the ceremony and live performance by an award-winning trans non-binary artist.

1916
02:30:20,820 --> 02:30:25,220
And for the first time a post show reception on the aquatic. I am 14 seconds.

1917
02:30:25,220 --> 02:30:55,200
This year, the Commission began planning it's planning many months in advance, taking a risk by moving the awards to the Pacific Design Center, Silver Screen Theatre, where we projected onto the big screen, professionally edited short films, about each of the seven awardees, and our selection for awardees has had an impact, and I just have to cut to the end of my statement, which is our selection.

1918
02:30:55,200 --> 02:30:56,920
somebody host your time.

1919
02:30:57,440 --> 02:30:58,080
Thank you.

1920
02:30:58,080 --> 02:30:59,100
Thank you.

1921
02:30:59,160 --> 02:30:59,980
We get the idea.

1922
02:31:00,380 --> 02:31:00,900
Thank you.

1923
02:31:01,200 --> 02:31:01,740
Steve Martin.

1924
02:31:08,550 --> 02:31:09,810
Steve Martin was Hollywood.

1925
02:31:10,530 --> 02:31:12,790
And you know, there's just a lot to be grateful in this budget.

1926
02:31:14,530 --> 02:31:25,810
And it really demonstrates just years and years of hard work and fiscal, I think people

1927
02:31:25,810 --> 02:31:28,350
take their fiscal responsibility seriously here.

1928
02:31:28,350 --> 02:31:40,990
I think all of you do, we always have some things, but I have to say, I remember when our budget was $70,000 and we thought that was a lot of money.

1929
02:31:42,990 --> 02:31:46,370
So, you know, when we say, well, maybe we shouldn't spend on this, just spend it on that.

1930
02:31:46,590 --> 02:31:48,670
I mean, but I look back on it, it seems.

1931
02:31:50,270 --> 02:31:55,350
But I look back on it, finally, because John and I were on the budget subcommittee for I think eight or nine years together.

1932
02:31:55,350 --> 02:32:01,870
Just a couple of things on the legislative affairs supervisor, I would like to have more transparency

1933
02:32:01,870 --> 02:32:07,050
on and reports to the public on what we're doing in Sacramento because it seems like we

1934
02:32:07,050 --> 02:32:08,550
the residents are getting screwed.

1935
02:32:10,130 --> 02:32:14,730
We don't know what's being lobbied, we don't know what's being lobbied against and we're

1936
02:32:14,730 --> 02:32:22,190
throwing money at these lobbyists and we don't know who's side there on and it's difficult

1937
02:32:22,190 --> 02:32:27,010
because the resonance feel blindsided by a lot of these

1938
02:32:27,010 --> 02:32:28,610
e-dix coming down from Sacramento.

1939
02:32:29,230 --> 02:32:34,010
And that's not what we asked for when we incorporated.

1940
02:32:34,570 --> 02:32:36,910
And it's not also what we asked for when you got elected,

1941
02:32:37,350 --> 02:32:40,050
because you got elected, because you said you were going to fight for us,

1942
02:32:40,250 --> 02:32:41,730
not fight against us.

1943
02:32:43,790 --> 02:32:46,730
You know, there's some things that maybe we can put off.

1944
02:32:46,850 --> 02:32:50,630
I know there's been an additional $100,000 request for the ringbo district.

1945
02:32:50,630 --> 02:33:04,510
I would like to see that money not be appropriated and maybe focus more time on cleaning up the issues with the violence and the vendors up there on Saturday nights because it's going to get to a point where spending money to promote it isn't going to make a sense.

1946
02:33:04,770 --> 02:33:07,710
And I also support what Jay Handel said about the 2% rebate.

1947
02:33:07,990 --> 02:33:16,830
We've worked so hard on our cannabis industry to really get to really get classy places that don't exist anywhere else. So I hope you can restore that. Thank you.

1948
02:33:16,950 --> 02:33:17,610
Thank you.

1949
02:33:19,560 --> 02:33:28,420
are there citizen decisions? Melissa can we bring back on the screen and then we can

1950
02:33:28,420 --> 02:33:36,200
and I'll sort of present what Jackie and I talked about previously. Okay, so here

1951
02:33:36,200 --> 02:33:44,080
just to clarify where it says council discussion and proposed budget, the 100,000 is

1952
02:33:44,080 --> 02:33:53,320
in the budget, Council proposed increasing it to 180, which is what the staff initially requested.

1953
02:33:54,340 --> 02:34:02,200
So to do that, we would need another 80,000. For the rainbow district marketing, we would need

1954
02:34:02,200 --> 02:34:12,200
another 125,000. If we wanted to do the east side marketing, that was requested, that would be another 100,000.

1955
02:34:12,200 --> 02:34:20,120
to do the cannabis marketing or rebate of some sort, we can figure that out later,

1956
02:34:20,840 --> 02:34:25,860
it would increase from 100 to 250, so another 150,000.

1957
02:34:26,600 --> 02:34:31,020
The Russian library was another 10,000.

1958
02:34:32,020 --> 02:34:35,980
And then I had two other items that are on the next thing.

1959
02:34:35,980 --> 02:34:40,700
that really were discussions of ads to the budget,

1960
02:34:40,900 --> 02:34:45,780
which was Mishka Festival and the Mishka Classical Night,

1961
02:34:45,920 --> 02:34:48,240
which were combined and lumped together,

1962
02:34:48,880 --> 02:34:52,880
separating them out with 10,000 for the Mishka event

1963
02:34:52,880 --> 02:34:58,040
and 28,000 additional for the Mishka Festival.

1964
02:34:58,400 --> 02:35:03,560
And if we did all of those, those seem to be what Council talked about,

1965
02:35:03,560 --> 02:35:08,780
that would require us to find 503,000.

1966
02:35:09,600 --> 02:35:13,840
We had talked about reducing the overall council programs

1967
02:35:13,840 --> 02:35:18,100
from 250, maybe down to 200,

1968
02:35:18,780 --> 02:35:21,960
which would be still more than we did this year.

1969
02:35:22,600 --> 02:35:27,420
And then there was a discussion of reducing the sunset strip

1970
02:35:27,420 --> 02:35:28,260
music festival.

1971
02:35:28,480 --> 02:35:32,060
Remember we added sort of a million dollars in case

1972
02:35:32,060 --> 02:35:42,380
we got a great performer if we deleted 453,000 from that, that would get all of those things

1973
02:35:42,380 --> 02:35:48,700
done and still allow us to move forward with some kind of sunset strip music event.

1974
02:35:49,280 --> 02:35:53,860
I know that a number of people spoke about the ice skating ring, but I believe we already

1975
02:35:53,860 --> 02:36:02,300
have an agreement with JJLA for this year, but there is a private party who is coming forward

1976
02:36:02,300 --> 02:36:12,920
to try to propose a, some kind of holiday activation that would include a ice ring that

1977
02:36:12,920 --> 02:36:18,100
would not be funded by the city. So that would be something that could be explored for future

1978
02:36:18,100 --> 02:36:23,180
years. For future years, because if we were to cancel it, I mean there will still be cancellation

1979
02:36:23,180 --> 02:36:24,320
and fees associated.

1980
02:36:26,140 --> 02:36:28,700
So with that, I see council member Ericsson.

1981
02:36:30,360 --> 02:36:32,880
You have your hand up, and then council member buyers,

1982
02:36:34,860 --> 02:36:36,540
and council member, myster.

1983
02:36:36,980 --> 02:36:38,680
Yes, thank you so much, Mr. Mayor.

1984
02:36:38,820 --> 02:36:40,200
I'm in thank you very much to all members

1985
02:36:40,200 --> 02:36:43,040
of the public that came out and spoke into the staff

1986
02:36:43,040 --> 02:36:46,060
for this very complicated, but I think very well

1987
02:36:46,060 --> 02:36:47,880
thought about budget proposal.

1988
02:36:48,340 --> 02:36:51,060
In regards to one of the public comments regarding the legislative

1989
02:36:51,060 --> 02:36:54,740
report, the city of West Hollywood, and correct me if I'm wrong, and I don't think her

1990
02:36:54,740 --> 02:36:57,100
non-still here, right?

1991
02:36:57,440 --> 02:36:58,140
I don't see it.

1992
02:36:58,140 --> 02:37:01,960
But the city of West Hollywood has a legislative framework that's been adopted by the

1993
02:37:01,960 --> 02:37:08,120
Council and a legislative report about what bills we are supporting, not supporting, because

1994
02:37:08,120 --> 02:37:13,900
they fall into that type of scorecard, and any kind of more in quotes controversial, unquote

1995
02:37:13,900 --> 02:37:18,800
bill, like we would have to vote on as a council if it existed outside of that framework

1996
02:37:18,800 --> 02:37:24,200
correct and that's available to the public should they want it and we've had regular updates

1997
02:37:24,200 --> 02:37:29,360
on our council agenda maybe not one most recently but those things have been available to

1998
02:37:29,360 --> 02:37:36,320
the public if not. I mean I'm sure accessible we can do that but it is available. I just think

1999
02:37:36,320 --> 02:37:40,440
I just see it always as like a capital improvements update that we always get having that type of

2000
02:37:40,440 --> 02:37:47,380
update I think is really reasonable. Additionally I don't know if I heard you say this mirror but

2001
02:37:47,380 --> 02:37:53,880
back by from Rowan, but we did talk about combining all 30,000 awards, ceremonies that are

2002
02:37:53,880 --> 02:37:58,760
by three boards and commissions, maybe it just under 30,000, but there are quite a number

2003
02:37:58,760 --> 02:38:04,880
of them, but I know that was a discussion at our previous meeting, and was that something that

2004
02:38:04,880 --> 02:38:10,020
Council wanted to talk about about how that would present some tip of cost savings benefit?

2005
02:38:10,640 --> 02:38:16,060
I think that at least my understanding was that the budget subcommittee would continue to work

2006
02:38:16,060 --> 02:38:25,300
that and refine the item that Andy brought to us about whether to combine some of the boards

2007
02:38:25,300 --> 02:38:32,600
and commissions their events. So I think that's something that is still on the table but

2008
02:38:32,600 --> 02:38:38,880
we didn't want to include it as a budget savings right now until we figured out what we wanted

2009
02:38:38,880 --> 02:38:42,900
to do. Wonderful. Thank you very much. But one of the attachments has a set of recommendations so

2010
02:38:42,900 --> 02:38:45,920
at least can give some idea of what that would look like.

2011
02:38:46,480 --> 02:38:46,900
OK, wonderful.

2012
02:38:47,780 --> 02:38:53,180
And then I guess my biggest question is, and I do support this,

2013
02:38:53,620 --> 02:38:57,300
but is there an appetite mayor for the council to claw back

2014
02:38:57,300 --> 02:39:00,160
that million from the sense that strip music festival

2015
02:39:00,160 --> 02:39:03,120
that contingency to then give us this flexibility of open

2016
02:39:03,120 --> 02:39:04,200
because if we're all in agreement,

2017
02:39:04,220 --> 02:39:07,080
I think we can make this a much easier conversation

2018
02:39:07,080 --> 02:39:09,240
than not, than not.

2019
02:39:09,240 --> 02:39:14,620
And we wouldn't, based on what Council requested, we wouldn't even have to

2020
02:39:14,620 --> 02:39:16,220
club back the full million.

2021
02:39:16,460 --> 02:39:22,420
It would be about 453,000 is I think what we identified.

2022
02:39:23,020 --> 02:39:27,380
Unless Council tonight has additional things they would like to add.

2023
02:39:28,120 --> 02:39:29,680
I'm not interested in adding anything.

2024
02:39:30,380 --> 02:39:33,420
For the record, I was this one, because I know we gave authority for

2025
02:39:33,420 --> 02:39:36,080
I think it was up to or in whatever way that was.

2026
02:39:36,080 --> 02:39:44,100
I have spoken with the event producer, and you know, I believe he's going to even operate within the framework without that contingency, which is great.

2027
02:39:44,440 --> 02:39:47,180
So I think we can have that conversation about those dollars.

2028
02:39:47,400 --> 02:39:51,100
So people here can understand where we can come to that agreement.

2029
02:39:51,500 --> 02:39:54,020
So good. It sounds like we're all in agreement for that.

2030
02:39:55,060 --> 02:39:57,500
And those are all my questions and comments so far. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

2031
02:39:57,500 --> 02:40:01,540
council member buyers. Thank you. Really grateful I was doing some

2032
02:40:01,540 --> 02:40:04,000
short-handed math and I'm really grateful for how much pre-work you did

2033
02:40:04,000 --> 02:40:08,680
mayor to get to this place where we can come into agreement. A few things I wanted

2034
02:40:08,680 --> 02:40:13,480
to get clarity on. The chart in front of us has the cannabis marketing budget

2035
02:40:13,480 --> 02:40:18,180
at 250,000. The proposed budget including 100,000. What I'm hearing is that we

2036
02:40:18,180 --> 02:40:24,340
support going back up to the 250,000. My understanding is that that is separate

2037
02:40:24,340 --> 02:40:27,720
from the 2% rebate though, those are two separate things.

2038
02:40:27,880 --> 02:40:30,760
The marketing fund would be the emerald village marketing fund

2039
02:40:30,760 --> 02:40:32,960
and the 2% rebate.

2040
02:40:33,000 --> 02:40:35,360
Is that how we're funding that to?

2041
02:40:35,760 --> 02:40:38,640
No, my understanding with the city manager

2042
02:40:38,640 --> 02:40:42,020
is that we would increase this to 250,

2043
02:40:42,640 --> 02:40:45,020
and then come back at a subsequent meeting

2044
02:40:45,020 --> 02:40:50,220
to decide whether that is going to go towards tax rebate

2045
02:40:50,220 --> 02:40:53,820
or continued funding of emerald village.

2046
02:40:54,800 --> 02:40:57,460
If we are able to reduce the music festival

2047
02:40:57,460 --> 02:41:01,080
by the total one million, we could do both tonight, though.

2048
02:41:02,340 --> 02:41:04,880
I don't know the exact amount of the...

2049
02:41:04,880 --> 02:41:06,380
I know it's hard to predict a 2% remake.

2050
02:41:07,600 --> 02:41:08,980
Let me just do some quick telling.

2051
02:41:09,360 --> 02:41:10,060
Thank you.

2052
02:41:10,340 --> 02:41:12,340
And then the other question I had that would probably

2053
02:41:12,340 --> 02:41:14,800
require since Halloween City Manager,

2054
02:41:15,100 --> 02:41:17,860
you said that you had bound or secured funding

2055
02:41:17,860 --> 02:41:20,060
for partially for the Green Business Program.

2056
02:41:20,240 --> 02:41:24,100
That was something I wanted to ensure was funded in full.

2057
02:41:24,720 --> 02:41:26,460
I hear you say for one year.

2058
02:41:27,100 --> 02:41:28,840
So I presume we could come back after a year.

2059
02:41:29,340 --> 02:41:32,060
But what I'm hearing is that program continuity is essential.

2060
02:41:32,900 --> 02:41:35,620
So I would hope that we would be able to do it for both years.

2061
02:41:35,760 --> 02:41:36,060
Is that possible?

2062
02:41:36,060 --> 02:41:38,900
For the second year, it would be 238-550

2063
02:41:38,900 --> 02:41:40,160
that we would need to identify.

2064
02:41:40,920 --> 02:41:45,040
And right now, I believe we have a contract for the next two years.

2065
02:41:45,040 --> 02:42:00,000
So it is fully funded in this year's budget but the understanding was that we would come back during the year and probably at the mid year to try to ensure that we had the money for the second year.

2066
02:42:00,000 --> 02:42:02,580
Otherwise, presumably, find other places to make it happen.

2067
02:42:02,680 --> 02:42:04,960
So that essential contract is not being cut.

2068
02:42:07,960 --> 02:42:10,540
I'll let the math play out, but I just want to reiterate

2069
02:42:10,540 --> 02:42:13,420
it's a port for the full 2% and full funding.

2070
02:42:14,000 --> 02:42:15,800
And again, gratitude, Mayor, you really worked out a lot

2071
02:42:15,800 --> 02:42:17,020
and I'm really grateful for it.

2072
02:42:17,760 --> 02:42:18,800
Council Member Meister.

2073
02:42:19,160 --> 02:42:20,660
Yeah, I had some thoughts.

2074
02:42:21,840 --> 02:42:28,120
We have over 45 events that council members go to.

2075
02:42:28,120 --> 02:42:31,180
over 45 conferences.

2076
02:42:31,320 --> 02:42:32,080
Just 45?

2077
02:42:32,520 --> 02:42:33,300
Over 45.

2078
02:42:34,580 --> 02:42:35,500
I think it's 46.

2079
02:42:37,260 --> 02:42:39,280
And what I would suggest, I mean,

2080
02:42:39,280 --> 02:42:45,160
I think locally, especially like the ones

2081
02:42:45,160 --> 02:42:50,140
that are very active on a regular basis,

2082
02:42:50,580 --> 02:42:53,540
like the League of Cities and contract cities.

2083
02:42:53,900 --> 02:42:57,020
You know, I don't have any issues with that,

2084
02:42:57,020 --> 02:43:06,660
But I think we should consider that on ones that are out of state, especially, that we should

2085
02:43:06,660 --> 02:43:12,940
appoint one or two council members to go and then they come back and they report back.

2086
02:43:13,460 --> 02:43:17,900
I think, first of all, it doesn't look great that three council members are more go because

2087
02:43:17,900 --> 02:43:27,000
of the whole, you know, form situation, but I think, you know, we could save some money, you

2088
02:43:27,000 --> 02:43:33,360
that, you know, if we had a policy that, you know, only one or two council members went

2089
02:43:33,360 --> 02:43:39,540
to a specific event. I mean, there are enough events to go around, apparently, over 45

2090
02:43:39,540 --> 02:43:47,780
a year. So, I think that that's something that should be considered. I'm also, okay, with

2091
02:43:47,780 --> 02:43:54,680
reducing the amount that each council member gets for their, you know, their pet projects or

2092
02:43:54,680 --> 02:44:04,160
whatever. And then definitely support limiting sponsored and co-sponsored events throughout

2093
02:44:04,160 --> 02:44:08,520
the year. We have so many events and on any given day we could have three different

2094
02:44:08,520 --> 02:44:13,880
events going on and we don't even know which one to go to. It's like, you know, so I would

2095
02:44:13,880 --> 02:44:20,600
suggest that. I did have a question about the IT request. Can you do you have that on

2096
02:44:23,060 --> 02:44:30,640
The IT request, the funding request, and what was being requested, and what is being funded,

2097
02:44:42,960 --> 02:44:43,620
you know, if...

2098
02:44:43,620 --> 02:44:59,960
While you're looking for that, maybe the issue of events and travel to additional events, maybe that can be looked at by the subcommittee as well, along with...

2099
02:45:01,440 --> 02:45:09,060
So, are you referring to the attachment e or the capital program?

2100
02:45:09,340 --> 02:45:18,800
I think it's e. So, I guess my question is, is the money being requested for security purposes?

2101
02:45:18,800 --> 02:45:27,940
And, I mean, my feeling is if it's for security, it's very important that we include

2102
02:45:27,940 --> 02:45:33,840
that, because, you know, I mean, we've all gotten fishing requests, whatever.

2103
02:45:34,020 --> 02:45:41,520
I mean, I think for a city to, for something to affect the security of the city's operations

2104
02:45:42,280 --> 02:45:47,540
is something, especially now, like we're all these things are happening around the world.

2105
02:45:47,540 --> 02:45:55,960
And we are more vulnerable, not only us, but cities around the country, that I would prefer

2106
02:45:55,960 --> 02:46:03,760
to give what is needed if that's what that money is needed for, to improve our systems

2107
02:46:03,760 --> 02:46:12,700
so that we are our systems are more secure and that our IT department is comfortable with

2108
02:46:12,700 --> 02:46:16,600
that, you know, that they have what they need to keep us safe.

2109
02:46:18,300 --> 02:46:24,540
I believe what you're referring to is the request for in the capital section, and it is a part

2110
02:46:24,540 --> 02:46:25,360
of the budget.

2111
02:46:26,000 --> 02:46:26,180
Okay.

2112
02:46:26,380 --> 02:46:30,540
But yes, thank you because we also support that it's very important.

2113
02:46:31,240 --> 02:46:31,500
All right.

2114
02:46:31,680 --> 02:46:31,700
Great.

2115
02:46:31,800 --> 02:46:35,280
I just wanted to make sure about that because, and they would just so many attachments.

2116
02:46:35,280 --> 02:46:54,740
And so, and I think, and then regarding the sunset event, I agree, that, you know, considering, I think also we had a budget that was on the initial request and then all of a sudden it became 500,000 more than it became a million more and then it became like, maybe we need even more than that.

2117
02:46:54,740 --> 02:46:57,680
I think we should stick with the original budget.

2118
02:46:58,380 --> 02:47:02,640
I have some thoughts about, we don't really have specific

2119
02:47:02,640 --> 02:47:08,060
information on that event yet, like how much we need

2120
02:47:08,060 --> 02:47:11,760
to close the streets and how much we, what we're expecting

2121
02:47:11,760 --> 02:47:15,220
like, is it all day, is it just at night, is it just an afternoon?

2122
02:47:16,440 --> 02:47:19,260
I think some of my colleagues will remember that when

2123
02:47:19,260 --> 02:47:28,680
and John played up on sunset, it was kind of a, you know, impromptu concert that happened.

2124
02:47:29,360 --> 02:47:34,900
It lasted just a couple of hours, but it was a major thing that happened, and I don't

2125
02:47:34,900 --> 02:47:39,340
know what it cost, but I don't know that it cost $4 million, $5 billion.

2126
02:47:40,140 --> 02:47:46,060
The other thing that we might want to consider is that if we keep it in a smaller space, maybe

2127
02:47:46,060 --> 02:47:55,560
We can get out billboard companies to sign on to broadcast the concert across sunset.

2128
02:47:55,860 --> 02:47:59,240
And I think that could be amazing and cost efficient.

2129
02:48:01,710 --> 02:48:02,810
So anyway, those are my thoughts.

2130
02:48:03,630 --> 02:48:08,370
Wasn't the concert in where the sunset spectacular is?

2131
02:48:08,510 --> 02:48:09,250
Isn't that where the action is?

2132
02:48:09,330 --> 02:48:16,610
It was by tower, it was tower, but we could do something in our parking lot.

2133
02:48:16,610 --> 02:48:26,650
Right, and people on the street and limit the street closures and have this broader thing happening with the billboards company billboards.

2134
02:48:27,350 --> 02:48:36,430
I will say that Elton and Lady Gaga did not charge us for their appearance when they were up on sunset, so I'm sure that plays a role.

2135
02:48:36,430 --> 02:48:42,010
And I think it's, I see Clio hearing our conversation.

2136
02:48:43,830 --> 02:48:50,090
Let's not try to design the sunset strip music festival up here tonight.

2137
02:48:50,170 --> 02:48:55,270
Let's ask staff to come back to us with an update as to where we're at with it.

2138
02:48:55,390 --> 02:48:56,790
Or give her a heart attack by saying,

2139
02:48:56,790 --> 02:48:58,030
Elton, John, and Lady Gaga.

2140
02:48:58,710 --> 02:48:59,270
Yeah, it's a time.

2141
02:49:00,110 --> 02:49:04,110
Yeah, why can't we get a couple of quick comments in the vein of events

2142
02:49:04,110 --> 02:49:06,450
that we're sun setting or doing the way with.

2143
02:49:06,510 --> 02:49:08,350
I noticed world dog day is something we're not

2144
02:49:08,350 --> 02:49:10,210
going to continue a co-sponsorship with.

2145
02:49:10,390 --> 02:49:12,670
I don't know to what extent that has been communicated,

2146
02:49:12,950 --> 02:49:15,470
but I think that has been an event planned year after year

2147
02:49:15,470 --> 02:49:18,410
by that organization in our park and was sort of surprised

2148
02:49:18,410 --> 02:49:20,550
to see that on the list right away.

2149
02:49:20,890 --> 02:49:23,330
I'm certainly supportive of continuing it.

2150
02:49:23,450 --> 02:49:26,630
Should they be, especially for the low cost of $10,000 a year

2151
02:49:26,630 --> 02:49:29,390
for the activation and promotion they bring to the city,

2152
02:49:29,530 --> 02:49:30,670
but if there's maybe some other information

2153
02:49:30,670 --> 02:49:33,130
I just don't have, I just wanted to throw that out there.

2154
02:49:33,130 --> 02:49:36,410
and then the last thing before you respond and I promise I'm done on the budget.

2155
02:49:37,490 --> 02:49:43,710
There was an item I had hoped to bring forward regarding enforcement of bike lanes, safety,

2156
02:49:44,010 --> 02:49:48,690
around parking, but I understand that our vehicles for parking enforcement need upgrading.

2157
02:49:49,170 --> 02:49:54,490
So I imagine those are much bigger budget items but I have lingering concerns about the timing

2158
02:49:54,490 --> 02:50:00,330
of those items and just want to name that because I know we're investing in events and

2159
02:50:00,330 --> 02:50:05,710
and business activity in that way, but want to make sure that we're also prioritizing safety concerns.

2160
02:50:06,310 --> 02:50:10,230
I know the parking citations will be back as part of a study later this October.

2161
02:50:11,250 --> 02:50:14,830
And so I think as part of all of that, I will continue to be thinking of that just wanted to name it.

2162
02:50:15,070 --> 02:50:15,850
Thank you.

2163
02:50:16,110 --> 02:50:22,690
One of the recommendations in terms of consolidating some of the events is that, as you know,

2164
02:50:22,850 --> 02:50:29,030
we are focusing on these regional sporting events that are going to be taking up a lot of space at the park.

2165
02:50:29,030 --> 02:50:31,330
and, you know, just the coordination of events

2166
02:50:31,330 --> 02:50:34,770
and what we're finding is that, you know,

2167
02:50:34,850 --> 02:50:37,210
sometimes these events are happening back to back

2168
02:50:37,210 --> 02:50:38,890
or they're happening at the same time

2169
02:50:38,890 --> 02:50:40,910
that other events are taking place.

2170
02:50:42,310 --> 02:50:44,730
And, you know, they strain, you know, sort of the resources

2171
02:50:44,730 --> 02:50:48,530
that we have and restoring the park after certain events.

2172
02:50:48,870 --> 02:50:52,190
So we just looked, our teams, they looked more holistically

2173
02:50:52,190 --> 02:50:54,750
to see some of the events that we're not getting,

2174
02:50:54,850 --> 02:50:58,390
the kind of attendance or where they're really so close together

2175
02:50:58,390 --> 02:51:03,910
to other events that perhaps for the next year or so we need to pause some of these events so

2176
02:51:03,910 --> 02:51:11,590
that internally we can do a comprehensive evaluation and then come back to Council with some solid

2177
02:51:11,590 --> 02:51:17,250
recommendations so that, you know, to your point earlier, Council Member Meister, like what are

2178
02:51:17,250 --> 02:51:23,370
the events that continue to be well attended, can be fully funded, do not interfere with other

2179
02:51:23,370 --> 02:51:31,030
events that are already scheduled at the park and other areas of the city and then we'll have something more substantive to discuss.

2180
02:51:31,930 --> 02:51:41,410
And to your point about the the fee schedules that we're evaluating and some of the other items we do it need to come back with,

2181
02:51:41,450 --> 02:51:48,590
you know, where we stand with that and I think also one of the things that in addition to this year for the first time having a study,

2182
02:51:48,590 --> 02:51:54,250
budget study session, it's having a priority session at the beginning of the year, so January,

2183
02:51:54,510 --> 02:51:59,590
so that we talk about what are the policy areas that we really want to focus on, so then that

2184
02:51:59,590 --> 02:52:07,330
informs mid-year budget updates and subsequent budget years, so that will also help us have a more

2185
02:52:07,330 --> 02:52:09,490
focus conversation going forward.

2186
02:52:13,100 --> 02:52:20,440
I just want to bring up one more thing, and that is on the

2187
02:52:20,440 --> 02:52:26,860
project on there. And I just, I think there's, it's sort of misleading because that project,

2188
02:52:27,140 --> 02:52:32,720
when that project got approved, it was decided that we were not going to put any money

2189
02:52:32,720 --> 02:52:40,560
towards that project, that the money that, if there was grant money for that project, and the

2190
02:52:40,560 --> 02:52:47,240
project is also, it still has to, it would still have to go to the public to see what it would look

2191
02:52:47,240 --> 02:52:51,400
Like, I mean, it's not a fixed project, right?

2192
02:52:52,040 --> 02:52:56,240
And my understanding is that there are grant applications

2193
02:52:56,240 --> 02:53:00,840
out there that could possibly come in for that project.

2194
02:53:01,100 --> 02:53:03,400
So I just, I would hate to like totally

2195
02:53:03,400 --> 02:53:07,540
can that project when it's actually not costing us

2196
02:53:07,540 --> 02:53:11,960
any money, what's the money that is being used for studies

2197
02:53:11,960 --> 02:53:14,980
and for anything that happens in the future

2198
02:53:14,980 --> 02:53:21,220
was already decided by this council that it would be your previous council that it would be

2199
02:53:21,220 --> 02:53:28,060
grant money not money that comes out of our general fund. So I just want to just say that

2200
02:53:28,060 --> 02:53:36,680
because I hate to see that being totally taken off the charts if grant money comes in then I think

2201
02:53:36,680 --> 02:53:42,500
we need to, you know, I mean I'd hate to see us throw away grant money. That's for that project

2202
02:53:42,500 --> 02:53:43,460
very specifically.

2203
02:53:44,140 --> 02:53:48,080
We've been looking at, I mean, not just this project, but, I mean, just in general, I mean,

2204
02:53:48,220 --> 02:53:54,040
if we have been trying for some time now and have not been successful in identifying

2205
02:53:54,040 --> 02:54:00,580
grand funding, the challenge is how much more do we, how much more time is dedicated

2206
02:54:00,580 --> 02:54:05,200
of staff to continue to work on a project that is not likely to be funded.

2207
02:54:05,560 --> 02:54:11,080
So that's a serious conversation that we need to have about these projects and also, I mean,

2208
02:54:11,080 --> 02:54:13,860
I know there's a desire to activate some of these streets,

2209
02:54:14,320 --> 02:54:16,820
but we have seen the impact of closing,

2210
02:54:17,020 --> 02:54:19,360
sand the sanded tape between Santa Monica and Meloros

2211
02:54:19,360 --> 02:54:21,040
for Pride and for Halloween,

2212
02:54:22,120 --> 02:54:25,580
and how many more events are likely to take place

2213
02:54:25,580 --> 02:54:27,780
that would utilize that, and then especially,

2214
02:54:28,080 --> 02:54:30,560
and we know that the K-line is some time away,

2215
02:54:30,820 --> 02:54:33,360
but there's gonna be a lot going on in that area,

2216
02:54:33,480 --> 02:54:36,480
so it was just an evaluation and saying,

2217
02:54:36,840 --> 02:54:39,940
is this really stick or do we really focus

2218
02:54:39,940 --> 02:54:46,220
on some of the projects that we have a more realistic opportunity to get funding for so that

2219
02:54:46,220 --> 02:54:51,220
we can, again, having limited resources in terms of staffing can have those dedicated

2220
02:54:51,220 --> 02:54:52,560
to those projects.

2221
02:54:54,860 --> 02:54:59,660
Melissa, did you calculate the 2%.

2222
02:54:59,660 --> 02:55:11,260
So in terms of the cannabis rebate, the previous information that we had was that it was

2223
02:55:13,980 --> 02:55:28,840
So I think it would I think it would be helpful to go through each of these items and then the list of things on attachment D that are not on here and see which ones that Council supports so we can tell the full cost.

2224
02:55:29,360 --> 02:55:40,280
Okay. So first before we do that I heard a couple of things that I want to make sure that we delegate to the budget subcommittee to continue to look at.

2225
02:55:40,280 --> 02:55:50,120
I heard events, and by that I am understanding Council Member Meister to be talking about conferences

2226
02:55:50,120 --> 02:55:51,900
where the council is traveling.

2227
02:55:53,460 --> 02:56:01,200
And then also special events in co-sponsorship, particularly I heard World Dog Day as one

2228
02:56:01,200 --> 02:56:03,400
that maybe we don't.

2229
02:56:05,750 --> 02:56:10,330
Okay, but that's something that can be brought up by the subcommittee and look back.

2230
02:56:11,290 --> 02:56:17,530
the discussion of combining some of the awards events from our boards and commissions.

2231
02:56:18,630 --> 02:56:28,690
And then the San Vicente sky streetscape event, you know, whether or not we should keep it,

2232
02:56:28,810 --> 02:56:31,290
or whether or not we should defer it.

2233
02:56:32,150 --> 02:56:38,750
That can be something that I think can be deferred to the subcommittee and brought back at a later date

2234
02:56:38,750 --> 02:56:40,510
for a budget discussion.

2235
02:56:41,370 --> 02:56:44,890
Yes, and my, on the, was it on the next slide

2236
02:56:44,890 --> 02:56:47,030
that you had a, what comes from a reminder,

2237
02:56:47,350 --> 02:56:48,750
it said that we weren't supposed to be spending

2238
02:56:48,750 --> 02:56:54,490
any money on it, but what have we spent on this guy

2239
02:56:54,490 --> 02:56:55,350
saying she worries?

2240
02:56:58,880 --> 02:57:05,220
So, the budget is currently over the last fiscal year's 23,

2241
02:57:05,540 --> 02:57:09,340
24 and 25, the combined budget was about 510,000

2242
02:57:09,340 --> 02:57:12,780
of that 285,000 was grant funds.

2243
02:57:13,300 --> 02:57:17,020
I believe there's about 144,000 of grant funds

2244
02:57:17,020 --> 02:57:20,520
that are not committed, but not yet, and covered,

2245
02:57:20,780 --> 02:57:21,640
but not yet spent.

2246
02:57:22,240 --> 02:57:25,120
But those are the general fund portion of spend.

2247
02:57:25,600 --> 02:57:29,360
So the grant funds can't be repurposed for anything.

2248
02:57:29,680 --> 02:57:31,160
I'll say they need to continue.

2249
02:57:31,400 --> 02:57:32,540
Wait, how much was spent?

2250
02:57:33,180 --> 02:57:35,760
There's about a grant funds general funds.

2251
02:57:35,760 --> 02:57:39,200
How much of general funds was spent on the sky sanctuaries?

2252
02:57:40,800 --> 02:57:45,400
If you have 10 less to 85, so.

2253
02:57:45,920 --> 02:57:48,560
Because my understanding was 25.

2254
02:57:49,160 --> 02:57:56,180
So we spent $25,000 for a dog that's not going to hunt essentially.

2255
02:57:58,940 --> 02:58:01,980
I personally think we should can this guy sing, she always thing.

2256
02:58:02,160 --> 02:58:04,400
I mean, or we should not be spending any more money on it.

2257
02:58:04,540 --> 02:58:10,680
I mean, that was three years ago, I remember Mayor, I serve on the subcommittee.

2258
02:58:10,680 --> 02:58:12,440
I'm a naysayer for the project.

2259
02:58:12,700 --> 02:58:15,540
I think it is a waste of dollars at this point,

2260
02:58:15,560 --> 02:58:17,680
especially in the type budgetary line.

2261
02:58:17,840 --> 02:58:21,240
I'm this year, but I'll leave that to a longer discussion

2262
02:58:21,240 --> 02:58:22,820
when the vice-merit gets here.

2263
02:58:23,360 --> 02:58:25,340
But I didn't think we were going to be spending that much money

2264
02:58:25,340 --> 02:58:27,820
on the program from general funds, but anyways,

2265
02:58:27,980 --> 02:58:29,480
because I look at the Black History

2266
02:58:29,480 --> 02:58:32,940
a month program, and I would like to make sure we're doing

2267
02:58:32,940 --> 02:58:34,460
something for Black History Month,

2268
02:58:34,520 --> 02:58:36,080
and nothing's funded currently.

2269
02:58:36,600 --> 02:58:38,900
Maybe that is something that could be done in collaboration

2270
02:58:38,900 --> 02:58:44,280
with the lesbian, that what's the arts program?

2271
02:58:44,300 --> 02:58:48,200
The arts programing, but also the social justice advisory board,

2272
02:58:49,500 --> 02:58:53,120
the LGBTQ Commission, and across collaborative event

2273
02:58:53,120 --> 02:58:56,700
that they could maybe put their minds together to do,

2274
02:58:57,300 --> 02:59:00,220
but I don't want to make sure, I want to make sure that we're not

2275
02:59:00,220 --> 02:59:03,240
doing something for Black History Month in this city.

2276
02:59:03,420 --> 02:59:05,580
I don't know how my colleagues feel, but maybe they could,

2277
02:59:05,600 --> 02:59:07,760
the boards could get creative and figure out.

2278
02:59:07,760 --> 02:59:11,660
We are doing something and it will be coming out of the arts fund.

2279
02:59:12,040 --> 02:59:14,080
It's correct, then I don't know.

2280
02:59:14,300 --> 02:59:15,960
It's part of our general arts funding.

2281
02:59:16,020 --> 02:59:19,120
Great. I just want to make sure the public is aware of that.

2282
02:59:19,260 --> 02:59:22,720
Because it just looks very glaring, but there's a zero next track.

2283
02:59:23,020 --> 02:59:32,000
I think the thing that we need to clarify is that the arts funding for Black History Month was a one-time event in 2026.

2284
02:59:32,000 --> 02:59:50,380
So we do have ongoing programming as part of June 16th, the June 19th, sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm too Juneteenth, I'm sorry, and that funding has been increased, but we don't have an ongoing budget for Black History.

2285
02:59:50,460 --> 02:59:59,460
Yes, so I'm saying in 2027 we have currently nothing programmed and nothing budgeted for that, which is what I'm kind of focusing on.

2286
03:00:00,000 --> 03:00:05,800
However, arts does do things within the we have reached program and the other.

2287
03:00:06,060 --> 03:00:10,200
Yeah, that's great. I just want to make sure that we can get an update at a later time.

2288
03:00:10,280 --> 03:00:16,240
So I don't think this is the appropriate time that I would love to know moving forward before I vote to approve this budget.

2289
03:00:16,560 --> 03:00:21,300
That there is something in mind for Black History Month in 2027.

2290
03:00:21,820 --> 03:00:28,080
And whether that's arts and everyone getting their brilliant brains together to figure what that looks like.

2291
03:00:28,080 --> 03:00:33,580
or Jackie telling the council, but it is, it is important for this community that we uplift

2292
03:00:33,580 --> 03:00:37,540
the black community and the work that we're doing in 2027. We already did it this year.

2293
03:00:37,660 --> 03:00:41,100
I'm sort of along the lines of your one-time list of questions.

2294
03:00:42,560 --> 03:00:45,540
And I'm happy to even take many of whatever slush fund

2295
03:00:45,540 --> 03:00:51,020
pocket programs we have now or whatever it is. I don't even know right and I'm happy to do it myself,

2296
03:00:51,460 --> 03:00:54,900
but I think it's a city priority and it shouldn't just come from one of us.

2297
03:00:54,900 --> 03:01:04,960
Okay, so going back to going through all of these items lined by line just to clarify on the sky, sanctuary,

2298
03:01:05,540 --> 03:01:13,180
Santa Sunday, is there anything in this year's budget for that other than the grant funds that are restricted?

2299
03:01:14,080 --> 03:01:22,980
There is no new budget at this time the cost would be really staff time working on the project trying to seek additional grant funds.

2300
03:01:22,980 --> 03:01:28,860
Okay, so that'll be something that the Subcommittee looks at and brings back with a recommendation.

2301
03:01:29,680 --> 03:01:34,560
Let's go through the items. Is everyone comfortable with increasing?

2302
03:01:35,440 --> 03:01:41,560
We hope loves locals from the 100 in the budget to the 180 that council request it.

2303
03:01:41,960 --> 03:01:46,980
Yes. Rainbow district marketing increasing that 125,000.

2304
03:01:49,660 --> 03:01:53,580
the east side marketing, putting 100,000 in.

2305
03:01:53,600 --> 03:01:55,400
It's comfortable with that.

2306
03:01:57,260 --> 03:01:59,540
Increasing cannabis marketing.

2307
03:02:00,580 --> 03:02:04,000
Now, this is where I think we have some discussion.

2308
03:02:05,160 --> 03:02:08,260
This was for marketing, which would be emul village,

2309
03:02:08,560 --> 03:02:12,760
but you're saying that to restore the 2%

2310
03:02:12,760 --> 03:02:14,840
that would be about 330.

2311
03:02:16,520 --> 03:02:17,000
$390.

2312
03:02:17,880 --> 03:02:18,360
$390.

2313
03:02:19,080 --> 03:02:19,560
$390.

2314
03:02:20,120 --> 03:02:21,540
So the total I have in all of that, very

2315
03:02:21,540 --> 03:02:24,980
Amir is $700,000 or $745,000.

2316
03:02:27,720 --> 03:02:28,200
$640.

2317
03:02:28,200 --> 03:02:28,820
I'm cannabis.

2318
03:02:29,780 --> 03:02:33,420
No, let's just go through these one by one.

2319
03:02:34,760 --> 03:02:34,900
Let's let's.

2320
03:02:35,100 --> 03:02:38,280
Okay, so the next thing on the list is

2321
03:02:39,200 --> 03:02:40,980
Russian library, $10,000.

2322
03:02:41,100 --> 03:02:42,100
We went too far.

2323
03:02:42,240 --> 03:02:44,080
We have a lot to get to cannabis.

2324
03:02:44,500 --> 03:02:44,860
All right.

2325
03:02:44,860 --> 03:02:47,820
Well, there's some disagreement about campus.

2326
03:02:48,160 --> 03:02:48,820
Let's hold that.

2327
03:02:48,820 --> 03:02:51,380
Let's go through the ones where I think there is agreement.

2328
03:02:51,920 --> 03:02:55,280
Are we comfortable increasing the Russian library?

2329
03:02:56,560 --> 03:02:56,780
Okay.

2330
03:02:57,400 --> 03:03:03,780
And the Black History Month, Jackie, you were saying that that's already part of the arts programming.

2331
03:03:04,180 --> 03:03:06,840
But not to the degree of the 20,000.

2332
03:03:06,980 --> 03:03:09,960
That was once one time funding by council.

2333
03:03:09,960 --> 03:03:11,680
I'm not suggesting 20,000.

2334
03:03:11,680 --> 03:03:18,740
I'm suggesting maybe it's 5,000 or whatever I'm making sure that the board we could look at boards and commissions

2335
03:03:18,740 --> 03:03:24,040
I mean, I don't want to dedicate a dollar amount to it, but if they could come back to us with something

2336
03:03:24,040 --> 03:03:28,540
I think within reason and Jackie would know she's not supposed to spend a hundred thousand dollars

2337
03:03:28,540 --> 03:03:33,260
So that would be another thing that the subcommittee looks at and

2338
03:03:33,260 --> 03:03:36,400
All right, okay, are we comfortable with that?

2339
03:03:36,400 --> 03:03:57,880
And then, I think on the next page, we're the two items regarding Mishka, separating Mishka and Mishka and Mishka, classical night, the allocation from Mishka was 10,000 pulling that out separately and then increasing Mishka by 28,000.

2340
03:04:02,660 --> 03:04:15,420
It's on the next page, but it's not on any of these, it was a discussion that I raised at the council meeting about whether we were funding those appropriately.

2341
03:04:16,440 --> 03:04:26,140
The Mishka Festival, the cost of the, the cost of the staging alone, eats up most of the budget.

2342
03:04:26,140 --> 03:04:33,440
So that's why I was recommending that very well-intended this year, yeah.

2343
03:04:33,640 --> 03:04:36,500
And I do believe that there were sponsorships that I'll grant you.

2344
03:04:36,800 --> 03:04:42,220
I know Athens, Sponsored, and others, so I wouldn't, you know, I want to support the increase,

2345
03:04:42,440 --> 03:04:47,620
but I also think that sponsorships are available for that to make up that cost.

2346
03:04:47,820 --> 03:04:49,240
I think that's a benefit.

2347
03:04:49,440 --> 03:04:53,420
I mean, it was an amazingly attended event and I thought it was amazing, but, you know,

2348
03:04:53,420 --> 03:04:58,500
I think if we're looking at what events were increasing, decreasing,

2349
03:04:58,500 --> 03:05:01,340
keeping neutral, it would be great to see if we could go back

2350
03:05:01,340 --> 03:05:03,420
to some sponsors first and foremost,

2351
03:05:04,320 --> 03:05:06,900
all the people to see if they could make up some of that cost.

2352
03:05:07,080 --> 03:05:10,580
And that was something that Jackie and I also talked about.

2353
03:05:10,920 --> 03:05:13,060
We have the Banner Program on Sunset.

2354
03:05:13,060 --> 03:05:15,080
We have the Banner Program on the Arts.

2355
03:05:15,260 --> 03:05:18,060
Looking at whether we might be able to expand that

2356
03:05:18,060 --> 03:05:21,380
for the Rainbow District, the East Side.

2357
03:05:22,160 --> 03:05:28,600
Also, increasing sponsorship generally for a lot of our signature programs.

2358
03:05:29,120 --> 03:05:31,880
Okay, so those were all agreements.

2359
03:05:32,000 --> 03:05:37,880
Can we now go back to cannabis and see if, oh, yes, just want to get a clarification.

2360
03:05:38,220 --> 03:05:43,480
Do you see that the total increase to Mishka that you're proposing is 28,000?

2361
03:05:43,820 --> 03:05:51,220
Yes, there's 102 in there and it would increase to 130 and then having a separate

2362
03:05:51,220 --> 03:06:02,160
allocation for May sky of 10,000. Right now, the 102 includes, I think, 10,000 for May sky.

2363
03:06:04,000 --> 03:06:09,340
And Iván can tell you, I've been, I've been saying for the last four years, these should

2364
03:06:09,340 --> 03:06:15,660
be separated out, because it doesn't make sense to their two separate events.

2365
03:06:18,000 --> 03:06:30,120
So, the total budget currently in the FY27 is 112,000, so 102 for Mishka and 10,000 for the classical music night.

2366
03:06:30,700 --> 03:06:37,260
Okay, so take the 10,000 out and then increase Mishka to 130.

2367
03:06:39,690 --> 03:06:40,590
Does that make sense?

2368
03:06:40,730 --> 03:06:41,310
Yes.

2369
03:06:46,160 --> 03:06:54,500
So, right now, right now with, let's just go to this, make sure we're all in agreement.

2370
03:06:55,640 --> 03:07:04,500
We have love circles, increase of 80,000, rainbow district marketing, an increase of 125,000.

2371
03:07:04,500 --> 03:07:08,300
Decide marketing an increase of 100,000.

2372
03:07:08,580 --> 03:07:11,920
Russian library an increase of 10,000.

2373
03:07:12,120 --> 03:07:15,660
Meshka festival an increase of 28,000.

2374
03:07:16,040 --> 03:07:20,640
And then a reduction in revenues for a cannabis tax

2375
03:07:20,640 --> 03:07:23,180
rebate of 390,000.

2376
03:07:23,460 --> 03:07:30,140
So that brings our total to 733,000 that we need to find

2377
03:07:30,140 --> 03:07:31,180
offsets for.

2378
03:07:31,180 --> 03:07:48,360
Okay, and we had talked about the possibility of reducing the council programs budget from $250 to $200, and then the rest of it would come from the Sunset strip music contingency

2379
03:07:48,360 --> 03:07:49,780
That was at it.

2380
03:07:50,000 --> 03:07:52,060
I have a question, I'm sorry.

2381
03:07:52,060 --> 03:08:01,620
So for the rainbow district marketing, you're saying to increase it, I won $125 to bring it to a total of $2.25, right?

2382
03:08:02,520 --> 03:08:05,560
And then, but not the additional $100,000.

2383
03:08:05,600 --> 03:08:06,800
That one will wait?

2384
03:08:07,260 --> 03:08:07,860
Yes.

2385
03:08:08,840 --> 03:08:09,800
So zero on that.

2386
03:08:10,380 --> 03:08:14,480
And then, for Canada, okay, we haven't completed the cannabis.

2387
03:08:14,940 --> 03:08:21,000
But also for the Russian library, we've already, there was a request for $12,500.

2388
03:08:21,000 --> 03:08:23,460
but we've already budgeted a 2,500.

2389
03:08:24,500 --> 03:08:26,800
Which is an increase of 10,000.

2390
03:08:26,920 --> 03:08:29,460
Right, so it's the 10,000 increase.

2391
03:08:29,960 --> 03:08:31,760
I'm just keeping track of the increases.

2392
03:08:33,100 --> 03:08:34,800
Melissa is doing that.

2393
03:08:36,240 --> 03:08:38,420
Right, I trust Excel.

2394
03:08:39,020 --> 03:08:44,140
OK, so we're at 733,000 right now.

2395
03:08:44,440 --> 03:08:48,200
OK, so now, so I just want to,

2396
03:08:48,200 --> 03:08:58,200
And the 50,000 out of the special council program funds, it's just want to point you to attachment

2397
03:08:58,200 --> 03:09:04,080
D page nine because the spending that would bring it down to 200,000, but the spending

2398
03:09:04,080 --> 03:09:06,460
over the last two years has exceeded that.

2399
03:09:06,760 --> 03:09:11,880
So we just need to make sure everybody's comfortable, but we can live within 200,000.

2400
03:09:12,300 --> 03:09:14,400
That's all out of the vice mayor's budget.

2401
03:09:16,780 --> 03:09:19,960
So we're good that we're all agreed to make that decision.

2402
03:09:22,640 --> 03:09:29,980
And then can we go back to the cannabis discussion?

2403
03:09:30,440 --> 03:09:30,500
Okay.

2404
03:09:30,580 --> 03:09:36,560
Because there was, and if you go back to the previous screen, there was a request to increase the

2405
03:09:36,560 --> 03:09:45,220
marketing as well as restore the 2% are we saying that we want to do both or do we want

2406
03:09:45,220 --> 03:09:51,980
to defer exactly what we're going to do with this pool of money with either tax decrease

2407
03:09:51,980 --> 03:09:59,440
or tax rebate or marketing and have a broader discussion about that at a later date.

2408
03:09:59,720 --> 03:10:04,200
What was the 2026 budget for cannabis marketing?

2409
03:10:16,030 --> 03:10:22,490
So we're not really increasing yet, we're just saying to keep it the same as 2020-6.

2410
03:10:23,470 --> 03:10:33,500
So if we're talking about 250 for ML Village and then 390 for the 2% rebate, then that's

2411
03:10:33,500 --> 03:10:34,700
a total of 640.

2412
03:10:34,960 --> 03:10:38,660
We had only budgeted 100,000 when we started.

2413
03:10:39,320 --> 03:10:42,020
So, we would need 540.

2414
03:10:43,960 --> 03:10:53,880
I will say that at some point, we're marketing the business, and we're also giving the business tax rebates,

2415
03:10:53,900 --> 03:11:02,860
and I know it's a new industry, but I feel like there's a little bit of unfairness in terms of our other businesses.

2416
03:11:02,860 --> 03:11:10,180
So I would like us to have maybe a broader discussion of that, maybe we'd put this amount in the budget.

2417
03:11:10,920 --> 03:11:18,860
But then come back before we actually make determinations of what we're going to do moving forward.

2418
03:11:19,960 --> 03:11:20,600
Yeah.

2419
03:11:21,400 --> 03:11:22,260
I agree.

2420
03:11:22,440 --> 03:11:28,160
I mean, I want to support the 2% rebate that we were talking about.

2421
03:11:28,160 --> 03:11:33,500
But at a certain time, I just don't see the payoff coming

2422
03:11:33,500 --> 03:11:35,960
because I think we are exactly doing what you're saying

2423
03:11:35,960 --> 03:11:38,580
is that we're paying for it, we're doing the rebates,

2424
03:11:38,780 --> 03:11:42,680
we're marketing it, we're paying for a business improvement

2425
03:11:42,680 --> 03:11:45,400
district by whatever name it is in the Emerald Village.

2426
03:11:45,780 --> 03:11:47,320
And I know what saying they're not doing good work.

2427
03:11:47,820 --> 03:11:50,040
But the businesses themselves are not paying

2428
03:11:50,040 --> 03:11:53,560
into or doing the work that should have happened

2429
03:11:53,560 --> 03:11:56,420
within the Emerald Village to really make sure it takes off

2430
03:11:56,420 --> 03:12:02,860
that can be self-sustaining, and how many times we're going to kick that can down the road without

2431
03:12:02,860 --> 03:12:07,400
actually having that. So I do support a larger conversation. I don't want to get Scott a

2432
03:12:07,400 --> 03:12:13,240
heart attack tonight while he's watching this at home, but I do think that I can't in good faith

2433
03:12:13,240 --> 03:12:17,960
continue to invest in something that I just don't see the payoff coming, especially if the

2434
03:12:17,960 --> 03:12:22,780
businesses themselves don't even want to invest in it in the way that I think they were originally

2435
03:12:22,780 --> 03:12:31,480
It's supposed to or are required to in accordance with the ordinance from the legacy businesses and in and in that such.

2436
03:12:31,820 --> 03:12:35,120
So that's just currently where I'm at on it, but happy to have a larger conversation.

2437
03:12:35,560 --> 03:12:45,980
Well, why don't we look at taking that rebate of 2% and splitting it between the marketing and going back to the businesses or something?

2438
03:12:45,980 --> 03:12:53,110
You can consider that, you know, maybe that's something that, again, the subcommittee should look at.

2439
03:12:53,700 --> 03:12:57,340
So I don't think it's something we can negotiate tonight.

2440
03:12:58,020 --> 03:12:58,280
Right, right.

2441
03:12:58,500 --> 03:12:59,340
I mean, I don't.

2442
03:12:59,460 --> 03:13:00,500
I'm not necessarily,

2443
03:13:03,820 --> 03:13:11,020
I think that rebate of 2% which you say is approximately 390,000.

2444
03:13:11,020 --> 03:13:15,900
I think that can be looked at as splitting that between marketing and rebate.

2445
03:13:15,900 --> 03:13:24,080
I suppose to, you know what I mean to you know, it's not 600 something thousand that maybe it's 500 or 400.

2446
03:13:24,880 --> 03:13:25,540
So we're invulnerable.

2447
03:13:26,240 --> 03:13:33,700
How locating 250 now and then adding to the list of items to the budget subcommittee to evaluate the two percent.

2448
03:13:34,660 --> 03:13:34,780
Okay.

2449
03:13:35,800 --> 03:13:35,880
Yes.

2450
03:13:36,340 --> 03:13:39,440
I'll say I'm short of a bit all tonight and we'll remain that way.

2451
03:13:39,560 --> 03:13:40,780
Do you think this is the period?

2452
03:13:40,780 --> 03:13:43,000
You know that this was not going to go on forever.

2453
03:13:43,000 --> 03:13:47,920
there's just no way it could, but in the next two years, we're garnering the biggest

2454
03:13:47,920 --> 03:13:51,720
national, you know, international draw possible, and I think the way that Emerald

2455
03:13:51,720 --> 03:13:55,940
Village and the industry's position right now makes the most sense to invest in it.

2456
03:13:55,980 --> 03:13:59,680
It's some supportive of investing in fall with the idea that this would of course

2457
03:13:59,680 --> 03:14:03,240
sunset, and we need to make sure that they're prepared for that eventuality.

2458
03:14:03,800 --> 03:14:10,440
Well, why don't we then go ahead and put it all in the budget, which is the two percent

2459
03:14:10,440 --> 03:14:18,080
and the 250, we can come back to it because if we take the $1 million contingency away from

2460
03:14:18,080 --> 03:14:22,560
the Sunset strip, we will have an up money to cover all of these things.

2461
03:14:23,260 --> 03:14:25,740
Yeah, because we're close to the $1 million mark.

2462
03:14:28,770 --> 03:14:33,310
Right now, just feels like that time to invest in what is proven and working, and I appreciate

2463
03:14:33,310 --> 03:14:37,770
the idea that the Sunset Music Festival can be the reason we're able to do that.

2464
03:14:37,770 --> 03:14:47,850
So, and the cannabis marketing has made us a city do better than the state overall.

2465
03:14:48,410 --> 03:14:51,050
So there's obviously something that's being done right.

2466
03:14:53,050 --> 03:14:54,630
And are we ready now?

2467
03:14:54,730 --> 03:14:56,490
I think we've reached agreement.

2468
03:14:56,850 --> 03:14:59,890
Do you have an amendment to the resolution?

2469
03:15:00,000 --> 03:15:02,680
And for us, too.

2470
03:15:04,260 --> 03:15:05,540
To read them to the record.

2471
03:15:08,070 --> 03:15:18,710
Okay. So, the resolution will be modified to include an additional $80,000 for rainbow district marketing.

2472
03:15:19,310 --> 03:15:20,870
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

2473
03:15:21,430 --> 03:15:28,770
$80,000 for WeHo loves locals. 125,000 for rainbow district marketing.

2474
03:15:30,750 --> 03:15:41,350
$100,000 for east side marketing, $150,000 for cannabis marketing, $10,000 for the Russian library,

2475
03:15:42,930 --> 03:15:46,650
and that is a grant agreement that needs to be executed.

2476
03:15:47,830 --> 03:15:48,990
So we need to deal with that.

2477
03:15:48,990 --> 03:16:01,290
$28,000 for the Meshka Festival, a reduction in revenues of $390,000 for an extension of the cannabis 2% tax rebate.

2478
03:16:01,670 --> 03:16:04,070
You missed 10,000 for Meshka?

2479
03:16:06,710 --> 03:16:11,370
That's already in the current budget, so for the classical music night?

2480
03:16:11,810 --> 03:16:13,110
Okay, you're right.

2481
03:16:13,110 --> 03:16:13,410
Okay,

2482
03:16:15,450 --> 03:16:25,090
so that is a total net increase of $883,000 and it's going to be offset by a million

2483
03:16:25,090 --> 03:16:33,890
dollar reduction to the sunset music festival and $50,000 to special council programs.

2484
03:16:35,430 --> 03:16:36,670
Those are both.

2485
03:16:36,670 --> 03:16:43,510
the Sunset Music Festival is an FY26 budget so everything that we're doing is going to be

2486
03:16:43,510 --> 03:16:50,310
would be for one-time allocations and any future changes would have to be addressed and our

2487
03:16:50,310 --> 03:16:55,230
future years would have to be addressed separately. Okay and that's something that the budget

2488
03:16:55,230 --> 03:17:02,350
subcommittee will work on to do. Amen, we'll quickly. Yeah. I just want to reiterate to Jackie

2489
03:17:02,350 --> 03:17:09,810
And I think my colleagues is that I still remain very concerned about the music festival.

2490
03:17:09,890 --> 03:17:15,850
I understand I'm going to support the budget tonight and what's I mean I intend to and have someone make the motion.

2491
03:17:16,270 --> 03:17:19,030
Because I think that was a good way for us to figure out how to do everything.

2492
03:17:19,870 --> 03:17:26,950
But I believe it was a member of the public or someone said like that stuff needs to be out like four weeks ago.

2493
03:17:26,950 --> 03:17:34,110
So I don't know what's going on, but, you know, and I trust the producer, but it's October

2494
03:17:34,110 --> 03:17:39,370
16th from what I'm understanding, right, and I don't know what I'll be doing on October

2495
03:17:39,990 --> 03:17:40,510
16th.

2496
03:17:40,590 --> 03:17:45,550
I think a lot of people don't know, but to have a festival that is going to, in quotes, save

2497
03:17:45,550 --> 03:17:53,110
the sunset strip, is already quite far behind, right, and so Jackie, I hope that you reiterate

2498
03:17:53,110 --> 03:17:58,310
to our amazing special events team who I know is also stressing about that and Halloween

2499
03:17:58,870 --> 03:18:05,770
14 days and 15 days later. And I know they would do a great job, but I really would like to

2500
03:18:05,770 --> 03:18:10,550
be, I would really like to eat my words, I want some, I want the mayor and the vice mayor and

2501
03:18:10,550 --> 03:18:15,170
everyone comes to say, see John, we told you, you know, but like, I don't know if that's going to happen.

2502
03:18:15,830 --> 03:18:18,030
And they need to start marketing the thing.

2503
03:18:20,140 --> 03:18:22,820
And I hope the city really implores and takes that

2504
03:18:22,820 --> 03:18:29,080
seriously because it's four plus million dollars out of our general reserves, two-thirds of the

2505
03:18:29,080 --> 03:18:34,480
social services program that we just went and took over right so I want to be able to look

2506
03:18:34,480 --> 03:18:41,000
at the public and the face and say it was money will spent and it is in I implore the sunset strip

2507
03:18:41,000 --> 03:18:52,600
business community to get involved and invest in this festival because if they expect JJLA who

2508
03:18:52,600 --> 03:19:00,720
TOT and everything from this past weekend to carry that load and for us to carry that load when all they do is come to us and

2509
03:19:00,720 --> 03:19:03,660
Have very vocal opinions about things then you know

2510
03:19:04,360 --> 03:19:09,700
I'm gonna be quite disappointed so I really expect and I hope the Sun's that's right business community here is that

2511
03:19:09,700 --> 03:19:14,540
Getting involved right now and make this things successful because if you don't then

2512
03:19:14,540 --> 03:19:20,680
It's gonna be a larger conversation and I'd like to see the Billboard companies as well. I included them in the

2513
03:19:20,680 --> 03:19:25,800
like all the businesses on census strip billboards you name it everyone needs this

2514
03:19:25,800 --> 03:19:29,160
thing to be successful because when it's popping up there and I've been there we

2515
03:19:29,160 --> 03:19:33,160
were there with Lincoln Park was there it's popping right but I you know I want to

2516
03:19:33,160 --> 03:19:40,310
make sure we all really invest in this time all right are we prepared to make a

2517
03:19:40,310 --> 03:19:45,010
motion to approve the budget with an understanding that there's going to be

2518
03:19:45,010 --> 03:19:52,950
revisions to the subsequent year budget, there's a motion in a second.

2519
03:19:53,590 --> 03:19:58,310
Mr. Mayor, could I just recommend some language to add to the motion just to clarify that

2520
03:19:58,310 --> 03:20:02,910
it includes the changes that Melissa read into the record and any minor clerical corrections

2521
03:20:02,910 --> 03:20:07,890
needed to implement those changes in cases other places where we need to make minor corrections.

2522
03:20:07,890 --> 03:20:10,230
Yes, such as grant agreements, et cetera.

2523
03:20:10,990 --> 03:20:11,310
Yes.

2524
03:20:12,370 --> 03:20:14,790
So that seems like that's a motion, Melissa.

2525
03:20:15,330 --> 03:20:18,530
And I just want to clarify with Lauren that I will

2526
03:20:18,530 --> 03:20:21,850
have to revise the numbers and the attachment

2527
03:20:21,850 --> 03:20:24,890
to the budget resolution in accordance with these and that.

2528
03:20:26,090 --> 03:20:26,690
That's.

2529
03:20:26,990 --> 03:20:29,550
Yes, I think you have specific enough direction to do that.

2530
03:20:30,070 --> 03:20:30,710
Thank you.

2531
03:20:31,070 --> 03:20:32,670
Thank you.

2532
03:20:32,670 --> 03:20:33,290
No, we don't.

2533
03:20:33,930 --> 03:20:36,730
Is this coming back to us at our June meeting?

2534
03:20:36,730 --> 03:20:40,590
because we do have it in the end of humanity.

2535
03:20:40,790 --> 03:20:42,070
We have another chain meeting.

2536
03:20:42,330 --> 03:20:46,110
I think we're just trying to clarify that we can make those edits

2537
03:20:46,110 --> 03:20:51,210
to improve the resolution with those changes incorporated tonight

2538
03:20:51,210 --> 03:20:53,810
so that we don't have to come back to the next meeting.

2539
03:20:54,690 --> 03:20:59,450
And to my language gave the ability to make any minor technical corrections

2540
03:20:59,450 --> 03:21:01,750
that are needed to implement those changes.

2541
03:21:02,470 --> 03:21:03,110
Thank you.

2542
03:21:03,250 --> 03:21:06,170
So everyone's clear on the motion and the motion includes

2543
03:21:06,170 --> 03:21:14,350
what Melissa read into the record, along with the City Attorney's edition that staff has the authority

2544
03:21:14,350 --> 03:21:20,210
to make minor adjustments and revisions to everything in the budget document.

2545
03:21:21,250 --> 03:21:21,610
All right.

2546
03:21:21,770 --> 03:21:24,970
I think we have a motion in a second, something we're missing.

2547
03:21:25,390 --> 03:21:29,630
I see panic looks from Ana and Melissa and the other Melissa.

2548
03:21:30,430 --> 03:21:31,590
Yes, I'm sorry.

2549
03:21:31,610 --> 03:21:35,170
I think we need the city clear, possibly to read each of the motion.

2550
03:21:35,170 --> 03:21:43,390
there are separate motions we're voting on this evening. Yes. So there's a motion on the

2551
03:21:43,390 --> 03:21:49,990
floor to adopt the resolution as amended by both the budget officer and the city attorney.

2552
03:21:52,340 --> 03:21:58,200
There's the recommendation number two is to adopt the Department of Capital Work plans in the

2553
03:21:58,200 --> 03:22:04,280
two year operating budget and capital work plan and approve the list if pre-approved organizations

2554
03:22:04,280 --> 03:22:09,880
and events for city council members to attend at the city's expense in alignment with

2555
03:22:10,760 --> 03:22:17,620
AB1234 and approve the list of budgeted special events. Approved and are denying

2556
03:22:17,620 --> 03:22:24,500
a budget request identified during the budget study session which we went through. I got a

2557
03:22:24,500 --> 03:22:26,640
poll because I can't see the rest of this.

2558
03:22:33,570 --> 03:22:37,750
And to approve the fiscal year 2026 citywide,

2559
03:22:37,750 --> 03:23:01,850
salary, schedule, reflecting all city positions and associated salaries to meet the California Public Employees Retirement System Requirements a government code Section 20636B1 and California Code of Regulation Section 570.5 and I'm assuming that that motion included all of those is that correct all right in the second degrees.

2560
03:23:01,850 --> 03:23:02,590
Yes, Mayor.

2561
03:23:02,910 --> 03:23:03,110
All right.

2562
03:23:03,230 --> 03:23:09,930
Now, I think we are prepared to vote, which we already did, and we now have approved our

2563
03:23:09,930 --> 03:23:10,310
budget.

2564
03:23:10,450 --> 03:23:14,750
Thank you, everyone, for your input and your patience tonight.

2565
03:23:14,910 --> 03:23:20,950
We're going to take a 10 minute break, and then we just have a few items left, so we'll

2566
03:23:20,950 --> 03:23:21,530
be back.

2567
03:24:12,310 --> 03:24:13,250
Thank you, everyone.

2568
03:24:13,290 --> 03:24:15,890
I think that we have just three items.

2569
03:24:16,470 --> 03:24:18,950
Our next one is F4.

2570
03:24:18,950 --> 03:24:21,010
Are you

2571
03:24:26,260 --> 03:24:26,920
ready, ma'am?

2572
03:24:27,160 --> 03:24:27,740
Yeah, okay.

2573
03:24:28,060 --> 03:24:32,260
Before, and do we need a lengthy staff report?

2574
03:24:33,100 --> 03:24:33,120
No.

2575
03:24:34,740 --> 03:24:40,580
If you want to just give us a brief idea of what is before us tonight,

2576
03:24:40,580 --> 03:24:42,200
and I had a couple of questions.

2577
03:24:43,200 --> 03:24:46,380
Certainly, Mayor Council, Nick Marisage,

2578
03:24:46,560 --> 03:24:48,180
Director-Community Development, Adrias Souver,

2579
03:24:48,360 --> 03:24:51,200
from our Long Range Planning team, we'll give a brief overview.

2580
03:24:53,570 --> 03:24:56,190
Good evening Mayor, council members and members of the public.

2581
03:24:56,590 --> 03:25:00,690
This item is the community, land trust, feasibility, study, and potential pilot strategy.

2582
03:25:01,750 --> 03:25:05,690
So I'll kind of go through it pretty briefly, initially, why this matters.

2583
03:25:06,250 --> 03:25:09,070
Some of the findings and then the ultimate recommended direction.

2584
03:25:09,990 --> 03:25:12,770
So first of all, what's Hollywood is primarily a renter community.

2585
03:25:13,150 --> 03:25:18,410
The study found that ownership opportunities are limited with median condo prices well above

2586
03:25:18,410 --> 03:25:21,870
what many households can afford and also a modest wholesale pipeline.

2587
03:25:21,870 --> 03:25:27,290
facilities being evaluated as one potential tool to create permanently affordable home ownership

2588
03:25:27,290 --> 03:25:35,030
opportunities. So the consultants did a feasibility study where they model a 30-unit

2589
03:25:35,030 --> 03:25:41,690
condominium project on city owned land serving households at 80 to 120 percent AMI. But even

2590
03:25:41,690 --> 03:25:46,610
with the favorable land assumption, the project showed an estimated $6 million gap or about

2591
03:25:46,610 --> 03:25:50,350
200 in 2000 per unit before additional subsidy was added.

2592
03:25:51,290 --> 03:25:55,830
Ultimately, the base case is infeasible without this additional subsidy, but a pilot

2593
03:25:55,830 --> 03:25:59,010
may be viable if an adequate site, mission-aligned partner,

2594
03:25:59,610 --> 03:26:01,970
layered funding, and buyer assistance all aligned.

2595
03:26:03,730 --> 03:26:07,370
So the study ultimately recommended partnering with an existing CLT,

2596
03:26:07,530 --> 03:26:10,770
rather than creating a new city sponsored CLT at this time.

2597
03:26:11,790 --> 03:26:16,250
This significantly reduces start-up risk while allowing the city to retain funding

2598
03:26:16,250 --> 03:26:19,030
and policy oversight through negotiated agreements.

2599
03:26:19,450 --> 03:26:21,590
A new city CLT would be a future alternative.

2600
03:26:23,710 --> 03:26:26,030
So ultimately, staff recommends that this council

2601
03:26:26,030 --> 03:26:28,730
receive and file the study, direct staff

2602
03:26:28,730 --> 03:26:30,970
to a partnership first implementation strategy,

2603
03:26:31,610 --> 03:26:33,110
engage existing CLTs,

2604
03:26:33,330 --> 03:26:34,610
and mission-aligned development partners,

2605
03:26:35,290 --> 03:26:39,790
and continue monitoring, available funding opportunities.

2606
03:26:41,790 --> 03:26:44,350
Lastly, to authorize the city manager or design need

2607
03:26:44,350 --> 03:26:47,430
to apply for appropriate grants with any agreements or funding

2608
03:26:47,430 --> 03:26:49,670
commitments returning to Council for consideration.

2609
03:26:50,590 --> 03:26:52,090
Lastly, I did want to know that tonight

2610
03:26:52,090 --> 03:26:55,550
does not authorize, creating a city-sealty, committing

2611
03:26:55,550 --> 03:26:58,730
city funds, approving a site or specific project,

2612
03:26:59,010 --> 03:27:01,970
or proceeding without the aforementioned partner

2613
03:27:01,970 --> 03:27:04,130
capacity, feasible site, funding strategy,

2614
03:27:04,270 --> 03:27:05,170
and governance framework.

2615
03:27:05,890 --> 03:27:08,090
That concludes the presentation.

2616
03:27:08,590 --> 03:27:11,030
Also, we do have a consultant from HRNA

2617
03:27:11,030 --> 03:27:13,530
to the Taylor for any technical questions?

2618
03:27:14,590 --> 03:27:14,610
Great.

2619
03:27:14,850 --> 03:27:16,270
Are there any questions?

2620
03:27:17,750 --> 03:27:22,590
I had one comment and maybe a question or comment.

2621
03:27:23,910 --> 03:27:25,010
One is a comment.

2622
03:27:27,490 --> 03:27:28,410
Are there speakers?

2623
03:27:29,610 --> 03:27:29,830
OK.

2624
03:27:30,990 --> 03:27:32,270
We'll get to you in a minute.

2625
03:27:32,530 --> 03:27:35,290
I need a one comment is the report.

2626
03:27:35,450 --> 03:27:37,090
There were a number of photographs

2627
03:27:37,090 --> 03:27:43,970
that appeared to represent West Hollywood, but I think they're actually representing the

2628
03:27:43,970 --> 03:27:49,950
hills above West Hollywood. So if we're actually going to issue this as a report, we might

2629
03:27:49,950 --> 03:28:04,090
want to switch those photos out. The second more substantive question is looking at the

2630
03:28:04,090 --> 03:28:14,030
cost of a median, focusing on median income, and then a medium-priced condo, or medium-priced

2631
03:28:14,030 --> 03:28:24,370
purchase, and what I didn't understand is why the focus on a medium-priced condominium, most

2632
03:28:24,370 --> 03:28:29,650
people who would be buying their first home would not be buying the median price, they

2633
03:28:29,650 --> 03:28:37,150
would be buying more likely a starter or lower income because there are condos currently

2634
03:28:37,150 --> 03:28:43,390
that are available in West Hollywood for 500,000, 550,000.

2635
03:28:44,450 --> 03:28:48,910
So that to me seemed like a flaw in the study.

2636
03:28:49,310 --> 03:28:57,450
Your ultimate conclusions I agreed with and I support the recommendation, but I just had

2637
03:28:57,450 --> 03:29:01,730
question about the study, and I don't know if anyone is available to answer that.

2638
03:29:02,110 --> 03:29:06,610
While you're thinking about that, and while they're thinking about who's best to answer

2639
03:29:06,610 --> 03:29:09,970
that, let's take our public comment, and then I'll come back to you.

2640
03:29:10,150 --> 03:29:10,790
How's that?

2641
03:29:11,690 --> 03:29:12,950
Yes, Anita Guesswami.

2642
03:29:15,620 --> 03:29:15,740
Hi.

2643
03:29:16,840 --> 03:29:21,280
Anita Guesswami, long term West Hollywood resident.

2644
03:29:22,060 --> 03:29:28,600
Two points, number one, West Side Cities Council Governments, just voted to create a housing

2645
03:29:28,600 --> 03:29:36,240
trust. Yes, great. How does that fit into this effort by West Hollywood? Because in this era

2646
03:29:36,240 --> 03:29:42,360
of scarce financial resources, number one I did, I'd expect duplication to be reduced because

2647
03:29:42,360 --> 03:29:48,240
how are they going to work together? I don't know. I am just posing that question. Whenever

2648
03:29:48,240 --> 03:29:54,740
we're looking at municipal funding going on for this, then what's going on with the other

2649
03:29:54,740 --> 03:29:59,620
organizations that are pursuing the same type of objective.

2650
03:30:00,000 --> 03:30:07,960
Which is let's look at increasing housing and especially increasing housing for the, you know, at a much lower price point.

2651
03:30:09,060 --> 03:30:17,080
Secondly, I know, Cogs had reviewed their monies from La Casa, their housing trust would support building encouraged by SB79.

2652
03:30:18,240 --> 03:30:29,440
Chelsea, you'll remember this comment. I urge West Hollywood to consider incentives to use public transportation rather than punishing people who need their cars.

2653
03:30:29,440 --> 03:30:34,640
because we know there's several empty buildings where those who need that affordable housing,

2654
03:30:35,260 --> 03:30:37,940
they need their cars the most to get to their jobs and commitments.

2655
03:30:38,600 --> 03:30:43,800
So whatever you're putting money into, if you are going to fund any kind of housing,

2656
03:30:44,400 --> 03:30:52,700
consider that parking associated, consider how will the people actually move about and do their work,

2657
03:30:52,840 --> 03:30:54,520
get to their places.

2658
03:30:55,100 --> 03:30:57,320
So those are really the two things that I'm asking.

2659
03:30:57,700 --> 03:30:58,500
Thank you so much.

2660
03:30:58,500 --> 03:31:01,920
Okay, are there any other questions or comments?

2661
03:31:02,180 --> 03:31:05,980
Let's go back to staff and then we can quickly wrap this up.

2662
03:31:07,080 --> 03:31:10,480
We can solton, should be able to answer your question,

2663
03:31:10,740 --> 03:31:11,480
just virtually.

2664
03:31:12,300 --> 03:31:13,180
Oh, okay.

2665
03:31:15,970 --> 03:31:18,490
Council members, my name's Judith Taylor

2666
03:31:18,490 --> 03:31:23,270
and with each R&A advisors and we help to support the CLT analysis.

2667
03:31:23,890 --> 03:31:27,150
I understood that there was a question about the comparison

2668
03:31:29,250 --> 03:31:40,310
the affordability to a median condo available in West Hollywood. We typically do look at that

2669
03:31:40,310 --> 03:31:46,570
median home price. It basically doesn't mean 50% of property sold, you know, we're higher

2670
03:31:46,570 --> 03:31:52,910
than that 50% were lower. We do, you know, we would expect that folks who are looking to purchase

2671
03:31:52,910 --> 03:31:59,630
would be looking to purchase at the lower end, but nonetheless, there is a significant

2672
03:31:59,630 --> 03:32:09,570
gap between that median home sale price, which was approximately 890,000 for median

2673
03:32:09,570 --> 03:32:18,590
condo, and what folks could afford, which was approximately 404,000, and so it's a substantial

2674
03:32:18,590 --> 03:32:26,190
difference and even that, I know somebody just mentioned 550,000, there's still a bit of

2675
03:32:26,190 --> 03:32:34,110
a gap there. And so we were looking to a CLT to provide for sale affordable options for a

2676
03:32:34,110 --> 03:32:40,910
variety of different incomes. And then one of the residents also asked a question about how

2677
03:32:40,910 --> 03:32:48,330
this would work with other CLTs. There are other CLTs and in terms of this particular

2678
03:32:48,330 --> 03:32:53,890
process rather than the city of West Hollywood creating its own CLT, we're actually advocating

2679
03:32:53,890 --> 03:33:01,030
that they partner, particularly with an existing CLT and potentially a affordable housing

2680
03:33:01,030 --> 03:33:08,970
developer to actually construct new units that would be for sale. And hopefully that helps

2681
03:33:08,970 --> 03:33:15,230
answer your questions. That answered my question. Thank you, Judith, for

2682
03:33:15,230 --> 03:33:19,510
answering in for all the work you do for our city. Thank you.

2683
03:33:20,250 --> 03:33:24,170
I don't know if there are no further questions. I'd entertain a motion to approve

2684
03:33:24,170 --> 03:33:25,290
staff's recommendation.

2685
03:33:26,930 --> 03:33:30,450
Mayor, by can you respond quickly to what Anita raised?

2686
03:33:30,950 --> 03:33:35,690
Team mentioned the west side cause creation of a housing trust that will come to a future

2687
03:33:35,690 --> 03:33:40,630
council agenda here for our city to opt into or choose not to do so.

2688
03:33:40,630 --> 03:33:47,830
But your idea is correct and need that the trust that is being set up and that is now receiving funds from La Cossa.

2689
03:33:48,290 --> 03:33:52,590
Those funds could be allocated to any number of any of the participating cities

2690
03:33:53,190 --> 03:33:59,750
Different housing goals including in the case as we're about to do set up a community land trust and help finance that.

2691
03:33:59,970 --> 03:34:02,350
So it's great thinking. Thank you there.

2692
03:34:02,750 --> 03:34:06,310
So there is a motion and second to approve the recommendation.

2693
03:34:08,070 --> 03:34:09,870
And it is approved.

2694
03:34:09,970 --> 03:34:12,510
Thank you, everyone, for your work on this.

2695
03:34:12,650 --> 03:34:15,550
Our next item is item F6.

2696
03:34:18,950 --> 03:34:21,170
This wasn't item I brought forward.

2697
03:34:21,510 --> 03:34:26,870
The idea here is to evaluate and potentially approve potential

2698
03:34:26,870 --> 03:34:32,390
modifications to our arts and advertising program and special events

2699
03:34:32,390 --> 03:34:32,810
permits.

2700
03:34:33,490 --> 03:34:38,470
So I had learned that there are a number of property owners who

2701
03:34:38,470 --> 03:34:41,090
would like to differently activate their property,

2702
03:34:41,750 --> 03:34:42,690
leveraging advertisement.

2703
03:34:43,750 --> 03:34:46,750
We also know that this policy is currently restricted to sunset.

2704
03:34:47,550 --> 03:34:50,630
So both on sunset and many of the vacant large parcels,

2705
03:34:50,830 --> 03:34:53,350
parcels that may be vacant for a long period of time due

2706
03:34:53,350 --> 03:34:57,270
to whatever sort of situation that property owner may be in.

2707
03:34:57,390 --> 03:35:01,210
We could differently and more for a longer period of time

2708
03:35:01,210 --> 03:35:04,810
activate them by leveraging the advertisement that's available,

2709
03:35:05,530 --> 03:35:07,630
things like dog parks, pumpkin patches,

2710
03:35:07,630 --> 03:35:09,750
is ice skating rinks themselves.

2711
03:35:10,410 --> 03:35:12,590
But we could also not just be limited to sunset

2712
03:35:12,590 --> 03:35:15,410
with this ability to leverage advertising differently.

2713
03:35:15,650 --> 03:35:18,550
We could see this happen in the very many different parks.

2714
03:35:18,810 --> 03:35:22,530
I've heard already that Santa Monica because of their policies

2715
03:35:22,530 --> 03:35:27,010
is able to leverage the ice rink that they have

2716
03:35:27,010 --> 03:35:29,850
is paid for by Netflix each year.

2717
03:35:30,470 --> 03:35:31,970
So instead of the city investing,

2718
03:35:32,350 --> 03:35:34,890
it's $700,000 a year into an ice rink.

2719
03:35:34,890 --> 03:35:40,510
They have a policy that allows them to have a private company, bring those sort of, you know,

2720
03:35:40,630 --> 03:35:45,530
fun pop up activations to the community just because they're allowing the advertisement to happen in

2721
03:35:45,530 --> 03:35:50,630
different places. So this policy was just looking at where and for how much longer we would consider

2722
03:35:50,630 --> 03:35:56,890
as a city allowing for advertisement to be a mechanism to create activations, things that the public can

2723
03:35:56,890 --> 03:36:03,450
engage in, things even including music festivals. We know that when the private, we have more

2724
03:36:03,450 --> 03:36:09,370
at participation in opportunity available. The public could benefit from that so long as we control it,

2725
03:36:09,530 --> 03:36:14,130
which I know is why this advertisement program was created in its instance, but in hearing

2726
03:36:14,130 --> 03:36:17,610
about the very many opportunities we may be missing out on, I wanted to bring it to the council for

2727
03:36:17,610 --> 03:36:18,130
consideration.

2728
03:36:20,250 --> 03:36:27,310
Do we have any speakers on this item? No. No, man, we do not. I like the idea of exploring

2729
03:36:27,310 --> 03:36:34,850
it and as you've explained it, there's some community benefit. So with our advertising

2730
03:36:34,850 --> 03:36:43,910
program, we get resources, so we get some public benefit. And I like the idea of allowing

2731
03:36:43,910 --> 03:36:51,290
these things to occur with a public benefit. One of the things I'm concerned about are

2732
03:36:51,290 --> 03:36:58,730
our vacant properties on sunset, and maybe actually rewarding them by allowing advertising

2733
03:36:58,730 --> 03:37:07,870
that gives them revenue, doesn't give us any, and, you know, in a sense, they're continuing

2734
03:37:07,870 --> 03:37:10,750
to get revenue off of a property that should be developed.

2735
03:37:11,150 --> 03:37:16,890
So I don't want to incentivize that, but I'm all in favor of exploring this.

2736
03:37:17,570 --> 03:37:19,070
Are there other comments?

2737
03:37:19,170 --> 03:37:20,390
Yeah, Council Member Meister.

2738
03:37:20,390 --> 03:37:25,810
The concerns I had about it were the environmental impacts.

2739
03:37:26,670 --> 03:37:35,770
We have a program, excuse me, in the IAR, that was done for the number of signs that we had

2740
03:37:35,770 --> 03:37:39,710
and if we're talking about, I don't know if you're talking about digital signs or how big

2741
03:37:39,710 --> 03:37:41,370
the signs would be.

2742
03:37:41,410 --> 03:37:48,430
I just want to make sure that they don't impact residents where this is going to be something

2743
03:37:48,430 --> 03:37:51,450
that they're going to be not wanting.

2744
03:37:52,070 --> 03:37:54,910
This is not more digital, the boards, that's not this item.

2745
03:37:55,630 --> 03:38:01,330
I imagine this being things like wrapping the walls of the ice rink with an advertisement,

2746
03:38:01,950 --> 03:38:06,530
so that that is the way that the resources generated, the financial mechanism is paid for

2747
03:38:06,530 --> 03:38:09,370
because the advertisement exists that way, not digital.

2748
03:38:09,530 --> 03:38:11,690
So I appreciate your idea around EIRs.

2749
03:38:11,870 --> 03:38:15,370
I don't think that this is going to rise to that level of environmental impact.

2750
03:38:15,370 --> 03:38:21,450
It certainly not meant to unleash more digital bill boards in the park just for temporary activations.

2751
03:38:21,710 --> 03:38:35,370
Rather, look at the way we can more strategically activate under utilized space or leverage some bigger public programming like the festivals we want to host like the ice ring with a private partnership instead of the public dollars we've been investing into it.

2752
03:38:36,550 --> 03:38:39,350
And that certainly would work for pride as well.

2753
03:38:39,750 --> 03:38:41,470
There's a lot of opportunity I think with it.

2754
03:38:41,470 --> 03:38:47,490
Okay, if there's no further discussion, we'll go ahead, there's a motion and a second.

2755
03:38:47,690 --> 03:38:49,890
We can go ahead and vote on this

2756
03:38:53,250 --> 03:38:55,050
and the item is approved.

2757
03:38:55,090 --> 03:38:57,990
Thank you for bringing this forward in our last item.

2758
03:38:58,210 --> 03:39:01,790
I believe it's item F-8 and that is Councilmember Meisters.

2759
03:39:02,090 --> 03:39:11,070
Yes, so the item is to increase affordable housing opportunities by regulating storage space and other amenities and new developments.

2760
03:39:11,070 --> 03:39:17,210
the item direct staff to evaluate zoning amendments that would prevent developers from using

2761
03:39:17,210 --> 03:39:23,410
oversized storage or amenity spaces as a loophole to later create market rate ADU's

2762
03:39:23,410 --> 03:39:28,850
wall avoiding affordable housing requirements. The proposal seeks to ensure that spaces

2763
03:39:28,850 --> 03:39:33,870
labeled as storage or amenities are genuinely intended for those purposes into explore

2764
03:39:33,870 --> 03:39:39,210
state legislative changes that would preserve affordable housing opportunities when such

2765
03:39:39,210 --> 03:39:46,290
conversions occur, I just want to address some of the things that I saw in public comment.

2766
03:39:46,750 --> 03:39:49,590
So this is not a proposal to restrict ADUs.

2767
03:39:50,050 --> 03:39:53,770
The item does not prohibit ADUs or existing state ADUs rights.

2768
03:39:53,770 --> 03:39:59,170
It only has staff to study whether some projects are intentionally designed to circumvent

2769
03:39:59,170 --> 03:40:02,970
inclusionary housing requirements and to recommend appropriate solutions.

2770
03:40:02,970 --> 03:40:06,430
So what we have seen coming to planning commission

2771
03:40:06,970 --> 03:40:12,110
are new development projects with all of us in space

2772
03:40:12,110 --> 03:40:17,250
on the fifth floor, that they're saying is for storage,

2773
03:40:17,510 --> 03:40:20,850
which would make no sense to have storage on the fifth floor

2774
03:40:20,850 --> 03:40:22,150
of an apartment building.

2775
03:40:23,670 --> 03:40:26,570
And then, and it's actually come out.

2776
03:40:27,010 --> 03:40:27,990
The truth comes out.

2777
03:40:27,990 --> 03:40:35,310
And, you know, that they're planning to convert those to 80 use once the project is already built

2778
03:40:35,310 --> 03:40:42,170
and they've already gotten their entitlements to, you know, and the number of affordable units

2779
03:40:42,170 --> 03:40:45,610
that they had to build based on the previous number of units.

2780
03:40:46,330 --> 03:40:53,910
So this is really just to prevent abuse, not to reduce housing production, the intent is to close

2781
03:40:53,910 --> 03:40:58,950
a loophole that may reduce affordable housing applications while allowing the city to support

2782
03:40:58,950 --> 03:41:05,030
overall housing creation and staff is directed to evaluate options that maximize housing

2783
03:41:05,030 --> 03:41:07,430
opportunities including affordable units.

2784
03:41:08,990 --> 03:41:13,910
And obviously any future regulations would have to be carefully reviewed for consistency with

2785
03:41:13,910 --> 03:41:15,010
state law.

2786
03:41:16,710 --> 03:41:19,410
And let's see what else says.

2787
03:41:19,410 --> 03:41:24,090
hopefully staff will consider options such as affordable affordability, true ups or

2788
03:41:24,090 --> 03:41:30,130
legislative advocacy to address situations where unit accounts increase after project approval

2789
03:41:30,130 --> 03:41:33,830
rather than broadly limiting future housing flexibility.

2790
03:41:35,010 --> 03:41:41,410
The other thing I just wanted to add, we had some examples of what we might be able to do

2791
03:41:41,410 --> 03:41:42,410
in terms of regulating.

2792
03:41:43,190 --> 03:41:48,170
One thing I think we need to do regardless of where this goes in particular.

2793
03:41:48,170 --> 03:41:59,090
or I think we need to ask staff to come up with a definition of current or existing housing

2794
03:41:59,090 --> 03:42:04,670
or development, because I think what's happening is because they built the project, they

2795
03:42:04,670 --> 03:42:08,010
say, well, now it's existing, but really it's a new development.

2796
03:42:09,570 --> 03:42:16,270
And so we need to be very clear about what current development or what existing, what existing

2797
03:42:16,270 --> 03:42:21,470
housing means, and we don't have that in our code right now.

2798
03:42:22,350 --> 03:42:27,250
We do have one speaker and some citizen position slips.

2799
03:42:27,630 --> 03:42:28,730
Let's hear from our speaker.

2800
03:42:29,290 --> 03:42:30,730
I need a swammy.

2801
03:42:33,610 --> 03:42:35,930
I need a swammy.

2802
03:42:36,310 --> 03:42:37,470
I love my city.

2803
03:42:37,710 --> 03:42:38,950
That's why I'm here.

2804
03:42:39,270 --> 03:42:40,570
A long time resident of West Hollywood.

2805
03:42:41,130 --> 03:42:42,370
Two points here.

2806
03:42:42,770 --> 03:42:47,250
I'm pleased to see this item because it would close a bad loophole in the zoning.

2807
03:42:47,250 --> 03:42:57,750
This was most blatant with the storage units with a view and the balconies on the 5th and 6th floor of the 948 Hay with Project, which I raised at Planning Commission in February.

2808
03:42:58,250 --> 03:43:10,090
The applicant proposed 12 units on the architectural plans, while the fire-life safety plans showed 15 units, so the city and renters lost out on another affordable unit.

2809
03:43:10,090 --> 03:43:15,670
I also saw a few thousand feet of amenity space on the shore and project last month.

2810
03:43:16,130 --> 03:43:22,130
So this is really going on a lot using storage and amenity spaces to reduce the number

2811
03:43:22,130 --> 03:43:28,230
of affordable units on the initial permitting to me seems to be a deliberate strategy.

2812
03:43:28,910 --> 03:43:30,950
So again, I'm glad the loophole is being closed.

2813
03:43:31,590 --> 03:43:37,230
Second point, there is a contract with a housing workshop from March because that was where

2814
03:43:37,230 --> 03:43:43,390
submitted public comment on the contract, including the actual screen captures from the

2815
03:43:43,390 --> 03:43:50,330
948 Hayworth plans. And item four, in that work, is further's custodied of conversion

2816
03:43:50,330 --> 03:43:56,750
of nonhabitable spaces, e.g. storage or parking areas, to habitable units, including potential

2817
03:43:56,750 --> 03:44:02,330
in lieu fee applicability. It would include a technical review of city ordinances by staff

2818
03:44:02,330 --> 03:44:05,630
to ensure that conversions of space to market rate,

2819
03:44:05,630 --> 03:44:08,130
multifamily residential uses are covered.

2820
03:44:08,570 --> 03:44:11,810
So that's in the contract that was approved in March

2821
03:44:11,810 --> 03:44:12,990
with the housing workshop.

2822
03:44:13,470 --> 03:44:18,570
My comment on this is simply to consider having staff go back

2823
03:44:18,570 --> 03:44:21,510
to that contract and incorporate some of that information

2824
03:44:21,510 --> 03:44:25,830
because I think there's a lot of synergy around that.

2825
03:44:26,050 --> 03:44:27,530
So just wanted to bring that to your attention

2826
03:44:27,530 --> 03:44:30,270
because closing this loophole would give the city

2827
03:44:30,270 --> 03:44:41,910
And the people who need it that just fully required number of just units less expensive houses that they can afford, so that would be a good thing.

2828
03:44:42,430 --> 03:44:42,770
Thank you.

2829
03:44:42,810 --> 03:44:43,650
Thank you.

2830
03:44:43,790 --> 03:44:47,290
And Melissa, there were some positions slips.

2831
03:44:48,770 --> 03:44:49,210
Yes, Mayor.

2832
03:44:49,330 --> 03:44:53,910
We have one citizen positions from Kyle Brazil in support of the item.

2833
03:44:54,290 --> 03:44:55,150
Okay, great.

2834
03:44:56,210 --> 03:44:57,250
Council discussion.

2835
03:44:58,830 --> 03:44:59,830
Sure, I'm happy.

2836
03:45:00,000 --> 03:45:07,060
Get started. Yeah, this is definitely an interesting and curious phenomenon that's popping up.

2837
03:45:07,940 --> 03:45:16,540
And loop holes, it seems created by a number of different realms of policy. So I really appreciate the discussion bringing this forward.

2838
03:45:17,960 --> 03:45:24,820
It seems to me that in this scenario, the outcome is that we're gaining a number of housing units that were meant to be there.

2839
03:45:24,820 --> 03:45:29,700
It's not that these buildings are losing the storage or not getting something in the housing

2840
03:45:29,700 --> 03:45:30,280
not being built.

2841
03:45:30,380 --> 03:45:34,340
The housing will be built eventually, but it's the concern we have that it's not the affordable

2842
03:45:34,340 --> 03:45:38,780
housing that would otherwise have fallen under our inclusionary zoning policy.

2843
03:45:39,280 --> 03:45:47,080
And to me this raises a couple of concerns and flags, one that the developer has found a pathway

2844
03:45:47,080 --> 03:45:53,420
of least resistance, a pathway that allows for them to build within the sort of formula that

2845
03:45:53,420 --> 03:45:59,320
have intended we know that building the affordable housing increases or changes that formula

2846
03:45:59,320 --> 03:46:05,400
that they have to work with. And to me that comes back to the discussion we had during the inclusionary

2847
03:46:05,400 --> 03:46:12,220
housing ordinance discussion about shifting that policy to a more predictable and guaranteed way

2848
03:46:12,220 --> 03:46:23,400
of creating affordable housing which is funding it. We right now are telling developers that they

2849
03:46:23,400 --> 03:46:29,040
city are losing out on the affordability because we're not guaranteed by funding that affordability

2850
03:46:29,040 --> 03:46:33,800
and creating a pathway of predictability and guarantee that we're getting those units because

2851
03:46:33,800 --> 03:46:39,140
they will be funded and financed by us as a city. That there is a loophole and a pathway of least

2852
03:46:39,140 --> 03:46:45,260
resistance for the developer makes sense to me. They are working in complicated funding formulas that

2853
03:46:45,260 --> 03:46:51,260
are trying to pencil out while dynamics are changing. Over the course of time we as a city would

2854
03:46:51,260 --> 03:46:56,320
at the best guarantee that we're funding and creating affordable units if we fund them.

2855
03:46:57,220 --> 03:47:02,560
So I can appreciate the ability for staff to look at ways to ensure that that's happening

2856
03:47:02,560 --> 03:47:08,220
but to me the way that we do that is funding them during a funded inclusionary housing policy.

2857
03:47:08,720 --> 03:47:14,160
So I'm not sure what sort of advocacy our city would be impactful at creating at the state level,

2858
03:47:14,540 --> 03:47:20,740
though, of course, interested, but more so in how we as a city keep within our own control,

2859
03:47:20,740 --> 03:47:22,600
the ability to create affordable units.

2860
03:47:23,000 --> 03:47:26,200
And in these specific scenarios, I'm curious and wonder

2861
03:47:26,200 --> 03:47:29,360
that if we had funded that and made it possible

2862
03:47:29,360 --> 03:47:31,940
that these developers wouldn't have found the pathway out of it,

2863
03:47:32,160 --> 03:47:34,180
they would have had a guaranteed financing mechanism

2864
03:47:34,180 --> 03:47:36,620
that would contribute to their overall total cost

2865
03:47:36,620 --> 03:47:40,980
of the project, and they would be part of their pathway

2866
03:47:40,980 --> 03:47:41,860
towards development.

2867
03:47:42,260 --> 03:47:44,160
Without it, it makes sense to me that they're

2868
03:47:44,160 --> 03:47:45,640
going to find that path of least resistance.

2869
03:47:45,820 --> 03:47:47,280
I'm not saying it's a good thing.

2870
03:47:47,520 --> 03:47:49,860
I certainly want to see as much affordable housing as possible,

2871
03:47:49,860 --> 03:47:52,360
which is, again, why I want to bring that back into our control.

2872
03:47:53,200 --> 03:47:56,280
So those are the first thoughts I come to mind on this item for me.

2873
03:47:56,540 --> 03:47:58,300
Thank you, Council Member Erickson.

2874
03:47:59,680 --> 03:48:00,120
I have no comments.

2875
03:48:01,800 --> 03:48:03,520
I support this item.

2876
03:48:04,000 --> 03:48:08,820
I think that developers are always trying to do

2877
03:48:08,820 --> 03:48:10,860
what they're supposed to be doing,

2878
03:48:11,080 --> 03:48:13,340
which is to maximize their profit.

2879
03:48:13,980 --> 03:48:15,860
That's why they're in business.

2880
03:48:15,860 --> 03:48:21,820
and instead of thinking of us funding the inclusionary units,

2881
03:48:22,560 --> 03:48:28,960
they're trying to essentially game the system here by having a proposal

2882
03:48:28,960 --> 03:48:34,200
that doesn't include the full number of units that they actually want to build.

2883
03:48:34,860 --> 03:48:41,100
They're trying to propose something that will have less units and more storage space

2884
03:48:41,100 --> 03:48:55,840
And then after the fact convert that storage space to occupiable units and they're doing that to maximize their profit by avoiding the inclusionary requirements that we have.

2885
03:48:57,080 --> 03:49:03,100
So this to me is completely contrary to what state law was envisioning.

2886
03:49:03,100 --> 03:49:11,880
and state law envisioned that there was an existing building that was already built and somebody could add an ADU to it.

2887
03:49:12,100 --> 03:49:20,960
What developers are now doing are proposing a new building and not including the full number of units that they want to build.

2888
03:49:21,660 --> 03:49:29,720
And then even before they built the units coming back and saying now we want to apply for an ADU.

2889
03:49:29,720 --> 03:49:39,300
That seems contrary to the intent of the legislature and it should be something that the state legislature should fix.

2890
03:49:40,140 --> 03:49:51,100
The intention was never that a new development that was being proposed could be proposed and then immediately thereafter add ADUs to it.

2891
03:49:51,160 --> 03:49:56,520
If they're coming forward and they want to build 15 units, that should be their proposal.

2892
03:49:56,520 --> 03:50:01,180
and they should be subject to the inclusionary policies and all other policies.

2893
03:50:01,700 --> 03:50:06,940
Otherwise, we're just rewarding them for gaming the system.

2894
03:50:08,600 --> 03:50:19,520
So, I know that the item before us tonight is really to direct staff to explore and to come back with recommendations for

2895
03:50:19,520 --> 03:50:38,460
I would add to it that it isn't just storage space, it's parking spaces as well, where they're proposing a project with 10 parking spaces and then coming back right away and saying we're going to convert that parking space to an ADU.

2896
03:50:38,980 --> 03:50:42,840
We shouldn't be allowing them to do that. That wasn't the intent of state law.

2897
03:50:42,840 --> 03:50:52,380
And that's really the point about having a better definition for existing or current in our codes.

2898
03:50:52,680 --> 03:50:56,800
So that way we're very clear, you know, when you're talking about an existing building,

2899
03:50:57,100 --> 03:50:59,820
it's a building that's been there for a number of years.

2900
03:51:00,080 --> 03:51:04,320
And they have maybe like the parking under the building, and they say they want to build an ADU.

2901
03:51:04,520 --> 03:51:11,900
It's very different from just doing the project and not, and they're being disingenuous about it.

2902
03:51:11,900 --> 03:51:14,940
And it just feels like a bait and switch.

2903
03:51:15,940 --> 03:51:19,340
So hopefully this would help to close that loophole.

2904
03:51:20,200 --> 03:51:25,960
I said it in your comments, but you know, Tata, I triggered that you did that you'd

2905
03:51:25,960 --> 03:51:26,420
very triggered.

2906
03:51:27,080 --> 03:51:30,680
But no, I'm looking forward to seeing what this brings about in the study.

2907
03:51:31,020 --> 03:51:35,460
And I think any definition that can be cleaner and clearer for the guidance is helpful

2908
03:51:35,460 --> 03:51:41,000
and then see what that comes back for affordability and development at the end of the day

2909
03:51:41,000 --> 03:51:42,160
for a larger conversation.

2910
03:51:43,420 --> 03:51:44,860
You know, you inspired it.

2911
03:51:44,860 --> 03:51:47,840
Remember, you said, I want to see more affordable units.

2912
03:51:48,040 --> 03:51:49,400
No, I'm not going to say that.

2913
03:51:49,400 --> 03:51:49,860
We're doing that.

2914
03:51:50,080 --> 03:51:50,900
You're doing that item.

2915
03:51:51,700 --> 03:51:55,180
And we might also need to ask our state legislators

2916
03:51:56,260 --> 03:52:01,020
to clarify whether this is something that they intended

2917
03:52:01,600 --> 03:52:05,740
as part of the ADU law and some of the other laws

2918
03:52:05,740 --> 03:52:07,060
that they have.

2919
03:52:09,360 --> 03:52:11,340
You might know a guy in a few months.

2920
03:52:12,320 --> 03:52:21,000
All right, there is a motion to approve, there's a second, and this is just direction to study,

2921
03:52:23,300 --> 03:52:25,960
I think we can vote, yay.

2922
03:52:29,140 --> 03:52:30,380
All right, it is approved.

2923
03:52:30,440 --> 03:52:32,060
Thank you for bringing this forward.

2924
03:52:32,160 --> 03:52:34,500
Thank you to the public speaker.

2925
03:52:35,000 --> 03:52:40,240
We have amazingly come to the end of our agenda tonight.

2926
03:52:40,240 --> 03:52:51,900
We do have some additional public comment, and again, I apologize that we didn't get to all of you at the beginning, but of course, we had to get through our budget tonight.

2927
03:52:52,240 --> 03:53:05,340
So thank you for your patience. I see Zee Spazano, is Zee Spazano here, David Nash, to be followed by Anthony Mills, Lynn, etc.

2928
03:53:09,460 --> 03:53:12,040
Thank you, Mayor Heilman and Council members.

2929
03:53:12,600 --> 03:53:13,800
My name is David Nash.

2930
03:53:14,060 --> 03:53:17,380
I've lived in West Hollywood for 27 years,

2931
03:53:19,320 --> 03:53:23,300
but I see the issues of accessibility continually.

2932
03:53:24,300 --> 03:53:28,280
I was lucky enough to have an offer to write in the gay

2933
03:53:28,280 --> 03:53:32,420
pride parade, and I was on a flat boat bed truck that

2934
03:53:32,420 --> 03:53:36,180
was greatly raised, and if other members of the board

2935
03:53:36,180 --> 03:53:41,380
that I'm on, we're there, like Annie Semonko or Yola Dorey.

2936
03:53:41,680 --> 03:53:46,320
I don't know how they would have been lifted up to that platform.

2937
03:53:46,680 --> 03:53:47,900
It's just not accessible.

2938
03:53:49,420 --> 03:53:54,440
And Yola tells me that in the past there were accessibility features available, either

2939
03:53:54,440 --> 03:53:59,000
some sort of elevator lift or another means of getting them up there accessibility,

2940
03:54:00,460 --> 03:54:05,320
but it was not accessible this year and I hope that will change in the future.

2941
03:54:06,460 --> 03:54:14,420
I have a big issue with public works and the way they manage the sidewalk dips at the corners,

2942
03:54:14,580 --> 03:54:19,020
especially up at this intersection here at Sandman Centay and Santa Monica.

2943
03:54:19,580 --> 03:54:24,760
The crosswalks are wider than the dip to get up them.

2944
03:54:25,260 --> 03:54:32,320
And in some places there are no red markings which should go in my opinion down to where the

2945
03:54:32,320 --> 03:54:41,340
Kerbline flattens out and meets the streets and shouldn't end a foot and a half or two feet before because if you ride up to them on a wheelchair

2946
03:54:41,340 --> 03:54:47,780
And you miss the flat area you get a very nasty walk and a stopped dead

2947
03:54:48,320 --> 03:54:56,620
It's just not right and there's been a slowness in putting the yellow caps in which there is one of on that intersection

2948
03:54:57,260 --> 03:55:04,760
one of the four corners has won. The others don't. I don't know why we're so slow in adding those to major intersections.

2949
03:55:05,280 --> 03:55:11,460
The formula for doing them only when the property is remodeled just doesn't work.

2950
03:55:11,760 --> 03:55:14,460
Doesn't catch up with the need. Was that my two minutes?

2951
03:55:14,700 --> 03:55:21,640
Yeah, it was. Thank you, David. Anthony Mills. I don't see him.

2952
03:55:21,640 --> 03:55:26,460
Lenette Settarach would be followed by Shane Quay, he.

2953
03:55:32,360 --> 03:55:34,960
Lenette Settarach was Hollywood resident.

2954
03:55:35,780 --> 03:55:38,620
First congratulations to John Erickson.

2955
03:55:38,700 --> 03:55:44,960
It's nice to see someone who has walked the walk of being an activist for decades acknowledged.

2956
03:55:45,440 --> 03:55:49,620
More politics later have way more important to report.

2957
03:55:49,620 --> 03:55:54,200
Keyhodee's studio studios as in Don Keyhodee,

2958
03:55:54,260 --> 03:55:56,480
a national business is downsizing.

2959
03:55:56,900 --> 03:55:59,380
They have shuttered their huge studio lot

2960
03:55:59,380 --> 03:56:03,000
at 1011 North Fuller, all while keeping some storage,

2961
03:56:03,380 --> 03:56:05,900
which goes from the parking lot of smart and final

2962
03:56:05,900 --> 03:56:09,220
to the ponies, say, at a park open field.

2963
03:56:09,640 --> 03:56:11,780
Please, and I'm baking you.

2964
03:56:12,460 --> 03:56:15,660
Can you, our council members, contact them and ask

2965
03:56:15,660 --> 03:56:17,620
what they would sell it for, say yes,

2966
03:56:17,620 --> 03:56:22,140
put it in a bond proposition, hopefully for this November election.

2967
03:56:22,760 --> 03:56:29,220
One of the major reasons to acquire this is I've been living next door to Plumber

2968
03:56:29,220 --> 03:56:30,780
Parts since 1984.

2969
03:56:31,080 --> 03:56:36,060
I can't count the amount of times I've checked out in an event that the attendance was

2970
03:56:36,060 --> 03:56:36,440
awful.

2971
03:56:36,760 --> 03:56:37,180
No parking.

2972
03:56:37,740 --> 03:56:43,700
Kyoto Studios, huge lot can be an overflow, Plumber Park parking.

2973
03:56:43,700 --> 03:56:47,760
It's a half a block away and a possible fountain bike

2974
03:56:47,760 --> 03:56:52,980
Avenue parking lot and ride route and east side swimming pool

2975
03:56:52,980 --> 03:56:57,020
and the West Hollywood community development apartment building

2976
03:56:57,020 --> 03:56:58,940
could be built here.

2977
03:56:59,260 --> 03:57:01,540
That a pool could be built that would be used

2978
03:57:01,540 --> 03:57:03,860
for the Fairfax Jewish neighborhood.

2979
03:57:04,360 --> 03:57:06,500
How cool would that be?

2980
03:57:06,740 --> 03:57:08,820
A bond would pass hugely.

2981
03:57:08,820 --> 03:57:14,980
I beg you to walk that block and see how huge that lot is.

2982
03:57:15,340 --> 03:57:20,400
I think it's almost as huge as the movie Town Plaza was.

2983
03:57:20,880 --> 03:57:23,740
The things that could be built there.

2984
03:57:24,740 --> 03:57:31,500
Child care, kindergarten, all sorts of things, and will we ever get this opportunity

2985
03:57:31,500 --> 03:57:32,220
again.

2986
03:57:34,380 --> 03:57:43,820
Thank you, Shane, Shane, John O'Brien, to be followed by Evette Ilam.

2987
03:57:45,400 --> 03:57:47,580
Shane, that's made to go first, which I appreciate.

2988
03:57:48,080 --> 03:57:53,440
At the recent Pride event, my group, out against war, was again denied a boot,

2989
03:57:53,920 --> 03:57:57,960
and because we're against war, and it was a political decision by the council members

2990
03:57:57,960 --> 03:58:04,120
and the city to support Israel and the Shah Palavis and have to go over it so fine.

2991
03:58:04,560 --> 03:58:06,580
My issue isn't what the city wants to support.

2992
03:58:06,720 --> 03:58:08,240
My issue is what you didn't support.

2993
03:58:09,120 --> 03:58:14,320
As a original Stonewall rebellion participant, who was one of the four who used a parking

2994
03:58:14,320 --> 03:58:19,460
meter on that bar to get to the police and then I founded the Gay Liberation Front and

2995
03:58:19,460 --> 03:58:23,280
was one of the first four pride organizers who did that.

2996
03:58:23,280 --> 03:58:29,500
What happened when I set up a tent was I was approached by six armed west Hollywood

2997
03:58:29,500 --> 03:58:34,480
shares department, more than once, who threatened me that if we didn't take the tent down,

2998
03:58:35,560 --> 03:58:39,140
we would, I would be arrested. I told them you can arrest me,

2999
03:58:39,260 --> 03:58:43,640
but you have to carry me out in front of the crowd, which already was angry at the shares.

3000
03:58:44,140 --> 03:58:48,520
And they tried twice during the day, but it was more than that. The reason I needed a tent covering,

3001
03:58:48,520 --> 03:58:52,840
And the reason I needed tables, because in October my long time

3002
03:58:52,840 --> 03:58:56,220
companion of over 50 years died, and when I tried to pick

3003
03:58:56,220 --> 03:59:00,440
up off the floor, I got a spinal fractured injury.

3004
03:59:01,240 --> 03:59:04,220
I'm wearing this here.

3005
03:59:07,980 --> 03:59:13,100
I'm elderly, and disabled, and a city council, instead of just

3006
03:59:13,100 --> 03:59:15,820
respecting my right to be there, all I did was give out a

3007
03:59:15,820 --> 03:59:19,160
flyer about Donald Trump trying to remove democracy

3008
03:59:19,160 --> 03:59:24,700
the elections, okay in October, instituting the insurrection act, and then organizing the community

3009
03:59:24,700 --> 03:59:27,980
about that. That's what the player, the only thing I get about, not looking for any money,

3010
03:59:28,120 --> 03:59:34,220
not into games work. But instead, what I got was that. So the city sponsor, instead, Jeff Bezos

3011
03:59:34,760 --> 03:59:40,880
Amazon, as a sponsor for the pride thing. They had boots for McDonald's, which funds Trump,

3012
03:59:41,480 --> 03:59:46,920
and they had a boot for the KTLA owner who lives in Texas and is a big supporter of Trump.

3013
03:59:46,920 --> 03:59:53,180
And he is the presently, he's the National Association of Great.

3014
03:59:53,760 --> 03:59:59,640
And he's in progress with Elisant to remove all the public media to have Trump own that and take away.

3015
04:00:00,000 --> 04:00:28,820
There are public media in this country. Thank you, John. You're so missing. I asked the city. One, I wanted a policy. And two, I want, they find me. And they gave me a, they gave me a, you don't get to do that. Your time is, yes, Shane, if you want to come, please come forward. And that, uh, if on, or I'm sorry, a vet, alarm will be next.

3016
04:00:28,820 --> 04:00:29,880
And if you don't get

3017
04:00:37,440 --> 04:00:40,360
it, thanks for the opportunity to address you.

3018
04:00:40,740 --> 04:00:44,460
I'm a member of Outer Games War, which has done said

3019
04:00:44,460 --> 04:00:48,200
was actually formed in West Hollywood in Plumber Park,

3020
04:00:50,480 --> 04:00:57,300
and which had a vigil for many, many years at the

3021
04:00:57,300 --> 04:01:11,400
of Santa Monica and Santa Santee to protest to try to prevent and protest the Iraq war.

3022
04:01:11,400 --> 04:01:40,390
And then to support the case of Bradley, now Chelsea Manning, and also the cause of peace throughout the world and nonviolence.

3023
04:01:40,390 --> 04:02:10,370
And that's essentially what we wanted to talk about and persuade our people, the gay, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender communities that the spirit of Stonewall should be revived in terms of all people being able to have a child.

3024
04:02:10,370 --> 04:02:18,810
a voice in any kind of decision-making and also to improve the current system.

3025
04:02:20,510 --> 04:02:27,630
And I know that some of you think that the current system doesn't need much improving,

3026
04:02:28,390 --> 04:02:31,030
but we beg to differ on that.

3027
04:02:31,030 --> 04:02:40,370
So, that's, and John is hot and so of organization.

3028
04:02:41,510 --> 04:02:42,530
Thank you.

3029
04:02:45,710 --> 04:02:45,950
Sorry.

3030
04:02:46,150 --> 04:02:47,330
Thank you, Shane.

3031
04:02:48,090 --> 04:02:53,150
Event, Elam, to be followed by Diane Forte, Event.

3032
04:02:54,990 --> 04:02:55,950
Brett Hugh.

3033
04:02:56,470 --> 04:02:57,650
Brett Hugh.

3034
04:02:59,250 --> 04:03:10,630
Cody Christianson, oh, Diane, okay, Diane Forte, Brett Hugh, I don't see and then Cody Christianson.

3035
04:03:11,850 --> 04:03:15,230
Good evening, Mayor, members of Council and staff.

3036
04:03:16,250 --> 04:03:25,270
I hear it's evening and wanted to thank you for your earlier leadership and wanted to thank the public work staff that we've worked with for a number of years for their partnership.

3037
04:03:25,270 --> 04:03:41,950
I shared some literature with your assistant city clerk to pass out to you on just on general reliability, which is very good within the city, but also to remind everyone to be prepared in the event of a service interruption.

3038
04:03:42,110 --> 04:03:53,770
We have a lot of resources on our website. If you rely on oxygen to apply for a medical baseline program, which gives you an offset real electricity.

3039
04:03:53,770 --> 04:04:01,690
And if you're in a high fire area, there's also some battery storage programs that are available to you, you know, an out-inch could happen.

3040
04:04:01,910 --> 04:04:08,430
We had a dump truck that went down and hit the whiskey a go-go and took out a lot of power.

3041
04:04:09,250 --> 04:04:11,530
So, you know, could be an earthquake and just want you to be prepared.

3042
04:04:12,070 --> 04:04:16,430
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me and sharing my contact information.

3043
04:04:16,950 --> 04:04:20,270
But what you have, but it's really good to see you all, and thank you again.

3044
04:04:20,270 --> 04:04:29,790
Thank you, Brett Pew, Cody Christianson, to be followed by Buffalo, and then Kelly Polarsky.

3045
04:04:33,980 --> 04:04:35,500
Hello, Council, Mayor.

3046
04:04:35,920 --> 04:04:42,800
I was great to see some of you at the 48th anniversary of the WeHo Farmers Certified Farmers Market this morning.

3047
04:04:43,380 --> 04:04:51,660
I was kind of hoping we would be here to vote on the Toadat today, but I see it pushed a little bit back.

3048
04:04:52,500 --> 04:04:58,620
But I've heard of the last meeting and this meeting is that this community is not anti-housing.

3049
04:04:58,820 --> 04:05:01,360
Actually, most of us are all pro-housing.

3050
04:05:02,360 --> 04:05:06,040
This is some silly names like NMB and YMB.

3051
04:05:06,500 --> 04:05:12,140
But I think most of us are Symbi Watts, S-I-M-B-Y-B-W-A-P.

3052
04:05:12,340 --> 04:05:13,980
Sure in my backyard, but with the plan.

3053
04:05:15,620 --> 04:05:18,740
So it's great that we're not on the Skag map for this round.

3054
04:05:18,740 --> 04:05:23,680
So we have a lot more time to actually come up with the creative plan, the creative city.

3055
04:05:24,240 --> 04:05:30,260
So I'm hoping this comes back in front of us sooner rather than later, because if Beverly Hills

3056
04:05:30,260 --> 04:05:34,040
has already done it, why don't we just go ahead and plan it now?

3057
04:05:34,200 --> 04:05:34,980
We want more houses.

3058
04:05:35,000 --> 04:05:36,540
We want more affordable housing.

3059
04:05:37,060 --> 04:05:38,380
We just want to plan.

3060
04:05:38,940 --> 04:05:39,920
So thank you.

3061
04:05:40,160 --> 04:05:46,740
Thank you, Buffalo, to be followed by Kelly Polarsky and then Richard Eastman.

3062
04:05:51,200 --> 04:05:56,040
Hi, my name is Buffalo, good evening to all of you, and thank you for your time today.

3063
04:05:57,300 --> 04:06:02,300
I am employed in the city of West Hollywood, and I'm also employed by the city of West Hollywood.

3064
04:06:02,980 --> 04:06:09,940
I'm here today to ask that the city support our efforts to unite in the way in which we see fit.

3065
04:06:10,920 --> 04:06:17,800
I'm an aquatic aid, and I'm part of the group that was referenced for why we can't unionize the way that we want to.

3066
04:06:18,760 --> 04:06:31,680
And I would like to say that I reject that reasoning because my position is much more in alignment with that of life guards than say people in City Hall, which was what was suggested.

3067
04:06:32,720 --> 04:06:45,260
We are training EEP the same way. We are trained with the same medical devices. We are trained for the same emergency preparedness in the same way that the life guards are. I have nothing in common with a lot of other temporary employees in the City of Las Hollywood.

3068
04:06:45,260 --> 04:06:48,640
I have a lot in common, and I work directly with the lifeguards.

3069
04:06:48,940 --> 04:06:52,500
We want to unite together in the way that we see fit.

3070
04:06:54,740 --> 04:07:02,540
Yeah, I am really excited to be a part of what I am in the city of West Hollywood

3071
04:07:02,540 --> 04:07:03,600
at the Aquatic Center.

3072
04:07:04,020 --> 04:07:05,020
I think it's a beautiful place.

3073
04:07:05,160 --> 04:07:09,740
I think the city has an opportunity to, once again, set an example with how you move

3074
04:07:09,740 --> 04:07:14,480
and what you get to show to not only West Hollywood citizens, but also the city of L.A.

3075
04:07:14,480 --> 04:07:20,000
Also, the state of California also, the U.S. as a whole as West Hollywood has done many, many times.

3076
04:07:20,660 --> 04:07:22,380
We want to unionize the way that we see fit.

3077
04:07:22,620 --> 04:07:23,420
Give us that opportunity.

3078
04:07:23,840 --> 04:07:30,520
Please support our effort to unionize and protect our livelihoods through immunization.

3079
04:07:30,740 --> 04:07:31,540
Thank you.

3080
04:07:31,840 --> 04:07:32,420
Thank you.

3081
04:07:32,720 --> 04:07:37,240
Kelly Polarsky to be followed by Richard Eastman and that's our last speaker.

3082
04:07:41,020 --> 04:07:43,300
Good evening, Mayor and City Council members.

3083
04:07:43,300 --> 04:07:48,500
Many Ms. Kelly Plarski, City of West Hollywood resident, and speaking tonight as a resident.

3084
04:07:49,980 --> 04:07:51,440
I just want to say, I'm exhausted.

3085
04:07:51,920 --> 04:07:55,660
Twelve hour days, planning conferences, baby showers, managing my parents' appointments,

3086
04:07:56,620 --> 04:07:58,840
LinkedIn profile, volunteering at events.

3087
04:07:59,000 --> 04:08:00,760
I mean, we're all doing the most.

3088
04:08:01,300 --> 04:08:04,060
But I wanted to make sure that I came tonight to use my privilege

3089
04:08:04,060 --> 04:08:07,100
to because I absolutely love this city and it's people.

3090
04:08:08,740 --> 04:08:13,060
And I wanted to say goodness, looking at the list of pre-approved events in our city,

3091
04:08:13,060 --> 04:08:15,580
budget that we already spend money on.

3092
04:08:15,800 --> 04:08:17,480
You would think that we're like white,

3093
04:08:17,620 --> 04:08:20,140
perhousing, and quite pro-multi-motolism.

3094
04:08:21,060 --> 04:08:23,260
So I want to just speak tonight as a 41-year-old

3095
04:08:23,260 --> 04:08:25,040
unless Hollywood, as you know,

3096
04:08:25,160 --> 04:08:26,980
West Hollywood's population skudes heavily

3097
04:08:26,980 --> 04:08:30,580
towards working age adults with the largest concentration

3098
04:08:30,580 --> 04:08:32,700
roughly 49% of its residents.

3099
04:08:33,160 --> 04:08:35,760
I want to just speak today as many of my peers

3100
04:08:35,760 --> 04:08:37,280
are not able to make these meetings

3101
04:08:37,280 --> 04:08:39,260
because they're raising generation alpha

3102
04:08:39,260 --> 04:08:42,020
or also fully exhausted by the day.

3103
04:08:43,120 --> 04:08:46,120
We are a generation that is moving back towards the urban core.

3104
04:08:46,280 --> 04:08:48,680
We're looking for cities that feel like our living rooms

3105
04:08:48,680 --> 04:08:49,720
that are filled with friends,

3106
04:08:49,980 --> 04:08:51,620
with activated sidewalks, cafes,

3107
04:08:52,320 --> 04:08:54,140
where reliance on private vehicle ownership

3108
04:08:54,140 --> 04:08:57,420
is not a necessary expense for life.

3109
04:08:58,500 --> 04:09:01,240
Where a generation that was too young to have a voice

3110
04:09:01,240 --> 04:09:03,160
about the historical buildings, neighborhoods,

3111
04:09:03,320 --> 04:09:05,020
and public spaces that were destroyed

3112
04:09:05,020 --> 04:09:06,900
for private vehicle use.

3113
04:09:07,860 --> 04:09:12,480
I appreciate the smart growth discussions, but I feel like sometimes I just want to say,

3114
04:09:12,620 --> 04:09:16,100
like, whoa, we got to wake up and get with the program.

3115
04:09:16,620 --> 04:09:21,520
The future generation is double what that was in the 80s and asked different things of our

3116
04:09:21,520 --> 04:09:21,780
cities.

3117
04:09:22,020 --> 04:09:28,120
And we don't need to look too far to in the world or just our neighboring cities to see it.

3118
04:09:28,320 --> 04:09:35,640
Perhaps we need to do a little Marie-Condo moment and say gratitude for the old ways and welcome

3119
04:09:35,640 --> 04:09:43,380
some new rebalanced ways in the future. Thank you. Thank you Kelly. Richard Eastman is our last speaker.

3120
04:09:46,220 --> 04:09:53,520
Oh boy, the two young men, the elderly third guy. John Hollman, I want to thank you on behalf

3121
04:09:53,520 --> 04:10:00,200
of the family of the rainbow barn grilled whiskey, Robbie Krieger break on through to the other side.

3122
04:10:00,200 --> 04:10:07,040
nobody good or a lot and the birthday gift you gave to me in the family that for a lifetime

3123
04:10:07,040 --> 04:10:14,220
service of the sunset and saving millions of lives with HIV and AIDS and you left out the

3124
04:10:14,220 --> 04:10:20,820
first amendment were on Friday night and front of the mother load I was not accosted by 15 police

3125
04:10:20,820 --> 04:10:27,160
but they were behind me with your hot dog license, guidance and saying oh Mr Ethan you're blocking

3126
04:10:27,160 --> 04:10:34,480
on the sidewalk. We're having heard that before. Stonewall, San Francisco, Harvey Melch,

3127
04:10:34,580 --> 04:10:40,600
Dennis Farrell, these two young gentlemen and the future of Stanneter, if he's lucky.

3128
04:10:41,720 --> 04:10:47,100
I want to thank the city of West Hollywood for letting Jimmy Kimmel, a month ago, say,

3129
04:10:47,280 --> 04:10:52,020
oh, Richard Eastman, you're on Hollywood Boulevard, and they actually said, what did

3130
04:10:52,020 --> 04:10:56,860
you do? I said, I rebuilt the Hollywood sign, and they didn't run out, they ran.

3131
04:10:56,860 --> 04:10:58,540
I was homeless in Hollywood.

3132
04:10:59,220 --> 04:11:02,180
Many of you know on record for over 41 years,

3133
04:11:02,620 --> 04:11:04,780
I arrived in this town in 1965.

3134
04:11:05,660 --> 04:11:10,160
Homeless, broke, dead on the odd John F. Kennedy

3135
04:11:10,160 --> 04:11:12,400
and my grandmother who worked for him.

3136
04:11:12,640 --> 04:11:14,900
And one of the odd get for George Moth County,

3137
04:11:15,360 --> 04:11:17,460
and Harvey Mouth, and Paramount Pictures,

3138
04:11:17,800 --> 04:11:19,980
and one of us, and Hollywood signs,

3139
04:11:20,340 --> 04:11:23,300
and millions of people living around the world with age.

3140
04:11:23,820 --> 04:11:26,040
I will successfully sue this city

3141
04:11:26,040 --> 04:11:28,920
over the First Amendment infringement rights,

3142
04:11:29,180 --> 04:11:32,580
were they to loom me on Pennsylvania Avenue while I'm smoking

3143
04:11:32,580 --> 04:11:34,220
a medical marijuana cigarette?

3144
04:11:35,020 --> 04:11:37,000
Yes, the National Park Service.

3145
04:11:37,540 --> 04:11:39,940
We have a president that needs to go to hell.

3146
04:11:40,500 --> 04:11:43,860
And we have a city that I hope design and develop.

3147
04:11:44,080 --> 04:11:45,240
What do you believe it or not?

3148
04:11:45,520 --> 04:11:46,400
So God bless you.

3149
04:11:46,500 --> 04:11:49,180
Thank you, John, for telling everybody I did all the work.

3150
04:11:49,400 --> 04:11:50,300
Thank you.

3151
04:11:50,720 --> 04:11:51,620
Thank you.

3152
04:11:51,700 --> 04:11:54,120
We'll now turn to Council Member Commons.

3153
04:11:54,120 --> 04:11:57,340
Anyone want to start Councilmember Erickson?

3154
04:11:57,840 --> 04:12:00,500
Thank you for a very robust meeting tonight.

3155
04:12:00,840 --> 04:12:05,220
Mayor, the budget conversation was complicated, but I was really happy to see how we got through that.

3156
04:12:06,440 --> 04:12:10,380
In terms of events, I've attended a since the last council meeting.

3157
04:12:10,600 --> 04:12:13,680
I attended the liability trust fund oversight board twice.

3158
04:12:14,300 --> 04:12:19,720
The Harvey milk day event where I still cannot believe some of those people did what they did on that poll.

3159
04:12:19,720 --> 04:12:23,980
I just, I'm still shook by that individual, I abs of steel.

3160
04:12:24,920 --> 04:12:30,360
We help pride arts festival, the Russian speaking, May Sky Classical Night Concert, the

3161
04:12:30,360 --> 04:12:36,300
hundred years in Hollywood, Rotary event, the Contract Cities, Ledge Committee meeting twice,

3162
04:12:37,140 --> 04:12:39,800
the S4M I knew arts and cultural affairs commissioner Trevor.

3163
04:12:40,260 --> 04:12:46,240
The Jewish American Heritage Month program, I did an interview with KPFK for Pride, I attended

3164
04:12:46,240 --> 04:12:51,760
week of pride we can activities and I don't think we've stopped so we are all very tired.

3165
04:12:52,180 --> 04:12:56,780
It's a very long month for us gaze and those that love them and keeps going and getting

3166
04:12:56,780 --> 04:13:02,000
longer and longer. I additionally attended the Equality California Pride Party for Los Angeles

3167
04:13:02,000 --> 04:13:08,200
Pride and marched in the LA Pride parade with Equality California as a council member. I attended

3168
04:13:08,200 --> 04:13:16,820
the West Side City's cog west side bus virtual meeting quite exciting there. I attended the

3169
04:13:16,820 --> 04:13:21,620
kaleidoscope event, Bravo, I thought that event was beautifully well done. I attended the

3170
04:13:21,620 --> 04:13:27,440
Pride House party that we hope fans don't world cup event just truly what an amazing couple of days

3171
04:13:27,440 --> 04:13:32,960
that was for the world cup not only a four one win but I thought they transformed the park in

3172
04:13:32,960 --> 04:13:36,800
such an amazing space. I mean I didn't want to like leave. I think it was like one of the last

3173
04:13:36,800 --> 04:13:39,300
people there with Andrew and Cali and Silvers.

3174
04:13:39,760 --> 04:13:41,620
She broke her necklace and that's a whole other story.

3175
04:13:41,840 --> 04:13:43,840
Sorry for the little silver things all around.

3176
04:13:44,300 --> 04:13:46,940
We have a plumber park, but it was truly amazing.

3177
04:13:48,000 --> 04:13:50,240
And then this morning, the Helen Elpert 40th anniversary

3178
04:13:50,240 --> 04:13:54,820
farmers market event where I thought it was such a well done.

3179
04:13:55,280 --> 04:13:57,720
And I don't think we normally have that seating area

3180
04:13:57,720 --> 04:14:00,740
for those tables, but kind of a really nice addition.

3181
04:14:01,220 --> 04:14:02,940
So maybe keep doing it.

3182
04:14:02,960 --> 04:14:05,700
But add a little bit of shade, if you can.

3183
04:14:05,700 --> 04:14:07,980
but I thought it was a really well use of the space.

3184
04:14:09,180 --> 04:14:12,020
Additionally, I just want to thank everyone

3185
04:14:12,020 --> 04:14:14,660
from the bottom of my heart for pride.

3186
04:14:14,880 --> 04:14:17,680
I mean, it was, it was really good.

3187
04:14:17,780 --> 04:14:19,400
Like, I mean, everyone's saying it was good,

3188
04:14:19,480 --> 04:14:20,600
but like, it was really good.

3189
04:14:20,600 --> 04:14:22,160
I need to say, yeah, it was great, right?

3190
04:14:22,800 --> 04:14:25,940
But there was just like so much love and joy out there

3191
04:14:25,940 --> 04:14:27,960
and I thought that was such a beautiful thing.

3192
04:14:28,100 --> 04:14:30,580
Especially after a lot of all that we all go through.

3193
04:14:31,000 --> 04:14:31,880
It was great.

3194
04:14:31,880 --> 04:14:36,580
Uh, nudging Councilmember Meister onto the bike, um, from the stage she didn't know that

3195
04:14:36,580 --> 04:14:41,040
was coming, but when we got on a bike again, um, I think I've got anyone at twice when

3196
04:14:41,040 --> 04:14:44,760
we kind, I think when you were mayor the last time and then the second time, so it's a great

3197
04:14:44,760 --> 04:14:49,960
tradition, but it was wonderful. Um, I thought it was wonderful the team, JJ LA, public safety,

3198
04:14:50,120 --> 04:14:54,720
I mean, everything was really well done and the pride parade was also really special. I don't know

3199
04:14:54,720 --> 04:14:59,280
what it was about it, but I love pride, float, hopping with Councilmember Biers.

3200
04:15:00,000 --> 04:15:11,000
And going from float to float to float, we walked all the way down on the float, and we walked all the way back, and then we walked all the way back again, and it was great to see all the joy, glitter, and rainbows everywhere.

3201
04:15:11,680 --> 04:15:19,960
And then, especially the sober event that happened down at the log cabin, what a nice like homage to what that was, but like seriously I thought it was such a wonderful event.

3202
04:15:20,020 --> 04:15:28,840
And I know we might not have seen it at that time when we were thinking about the different types of programming and activations, but it turned out just truly, truly wonderful.

3203
04:15:28,840 --> 04:15:38,940
So I just want to thank everyone for their hard work into that and I was really really thankful I did not have to wake up at 5am to do interviews for the first time in many years

3204
04:15:38,940 --> 04:15:43,900
And so I got to sleep in just a little bit longer, and I know the mayor was out there very early

3205
04:15:43,900 --> 04:15:46,660
But the sun wasn't out so for a little while so it was helpful

3206
04:15:47,420 --> 04:15:55,960
And then in addition I just want to thank individuals from the public who have thanked me over this and come up to me and it should congratulations

3207
04:15:55,960 --> 04:16:01,480
It was really special to not only move into first place at Pride, but it was really wonderful to

3208
04:16:01,480 --> 04:16:02,700
have the community response.

3209
04:16:03,000 --> 04:16:07,080
So I just want to thank those who have reached out to me privately and publicly about that.

3210
04:16:07,300 --> 04:16:09,620
I can't thank you enough and looking forward to November.

3211
04:16:10,060 --> 04:16:10,540
Thanks all.

3212
04:16:15,260 --> 04:16:15,840
I will jump in.

3213
04:16:16,140 --> 04:16:17,780
Thank you for attendance.

3214
04:16:18,160 --> 04:16:22,400
I attended the National League of Cities Transportation Infrastructure Services Committee meeting,

3215
04:16:22,800 --> 04:16:28,240
the Metro Service Council meeting where I was elected Vice Chair, the Lakasa LA County

3216
04:16:28,240 --> 04:16:32,700
affordable housing solutions, agency board meeting, the California League of Cities, Transportation,

3217
04:16:32,860 --> 04:16:37,560
Public Works and Communications Committee meeting, the Southern California Association of Governments

3218
04:16:37,560 --> 04:16:43,260
Regional Council and CEHD Policy Committee, and then I attended the West Side Cog Meeting

3219
04:16:43,260 --> 04:16:46,620
where I serve my final meeting as chair, really grateful for that tenure.

3220
04:16:47,120 --> 04:16:51,080
And of course, so many wonderful community events, many of which Council Member Erikson

3221
04:16:51,080 --> 04:16:59,180
listed for my comments, pride, pride, pride, it was so incredible this year in addition to all

3222
04:16:59,180 --> 04:17:03,800
of that Councilmember Erickson said, thank you for just want to uplift how tremendous I thought

3223
04:17:03,800 --> 04:17:09,740
the women's freedom festival was, that street was overflowing at times, knowing that we

3224
04:17:09,740 --> 04:17:14,900
have such a well-programmed space that is free all day long throughout the weekend, just meant

3225
04:17:14,900 --> 04:17:20,940
the most mixed altar was just the perfect cherry on top of that cake. And then I want to give

3226
04:17:20,940 --> 04:17:25,840
So a huge round of applause and gratitude to all the photography, John Vaskot running through

3227
04:17:25,840 --> 04:17:28,400
the streets, 30,000 photos on the flicker account.

3228
04:17:28,540 --> 04:17:31,060
If you don't look on the city's flicker account, you're missing out.

3229
04:17:31,140 --> 04:17:32,580
There's so much good stuff there.

3230
04:17:32,780 --> 04:17:34,580
Now is the time to start getting caught up.

3231
04:17:34,820 --> 04:17:38,320
But huge thank you to everyone who makes those extraordinary days happen in our city.

3232
04:17:38,760 --> 04:17:43,220
I'm always so grateful that we have the economic study to prove the impact that that event

3233
04:17:43,220 --> 04:17:47,760
has and look forward to seeing that in the months and years ahead and just again happy

3234
04:17:47,760 --> 04:17:48,080
pride.

3235
04:17:48,300 --> 04:17:49,280
We're still in the midst of the month.

3236
04:17:49,280 --> 04:17:54,020
only halfway through. I want to also thank everyone for the fans' own activations and

3237
04:17:54,020 --> 04:17:57,300
other things that were only halfway through. We have another weekend, not this one, but

3238
04:17:57,300 --> 04:18:02,800
the following to look forward to. And with this go foot too, it should be so fun, go Team USA,

3239
04:18:03,780 --> 04:18:07,800
watching the World Cup and community like that. It plumber park people on picnic blankets,

3240
04:18:08,020 --> 04:18:12,480
kids, face painted. It was just exactly what you imagine, a giant global event like that happening,

3241
04:18:12,840 --> 04:18:18,500
being hyper localized, right in community, having those memories created together. We celebrated

3242
04:18:18,500 --> 04:18:24,360
and thanked Pickle tonight and I feel like we're only cutting the tip of the sphere or

3243
04:18:24,360 --> 04:18:28,140
tip of the iceberg, whatever the expression is, just getting started on the gratitude to

3244
04:18:28,140 --> 04:18:32,700
that extraordinary individual. But we also have a new drag glory at that will begin and we got to

3245
04:18:32,700 --> 04:18:38,060
mark that tonight with a consent calendar item that just went off really quickly. So I just want to

3246
04:18:38,060 --> 04:18:44,760
also welcome the next drag glory to the city, how exciting that is. There was one item on consent.

3247
04:18:44,760 --> 04:18:49,260
I didn't pull, I thought it meant too much, and I noticed that it was also a city manager

3248
04:18:49,260 --> 04:18:49,860
directive.

3249
04:18:50,380 --> 04:18:54,040
There's a working group that I believe a member of the Arts and Cultural Affairs Commission

3250
04:18:54,040 --> 04:18:58,740
could be a meaningful addition as many times as they saw throughout the report, art being

3251
04:18:58,740 --> 04:19:03,800
a missing or under-utilized aspect of that part would just offer a consideration to add somebody

3252
04:19:03,800 --> 04:19:08,300
from that commission to that working group as that next phase of the programming begins, should

3253
04:19:08,300 --> 04:19:12,420
that be amenable to the subcommittee and our city manager of course, and then just lastly,

3254
04:19:12,420 --> 04:19:17,240
want to give a huge congratulations to Councilmember Erickson, jumping from 3rd to 1st place

3255
04:19:17,240 --> 04:19:21,740
that Saturday afternoon with something I will certainly never forget and look forward to

3256
04:19:21,740 --> 04:19:24,260
your five months of run ahead in your eventual win in November.

3257
04:19:24,880 --> 04:19:26,420
Thank you.

3258
04:19:27,640 --> 04:19:28,200
Councilmember.

3259
04:19:28,580 --> 04:19:28,740
Yep.

3260
04:19:29,900 --> 04:19:35,180
I attended many of the same events as Mike colleagues, Harvey Milk Day, Russian speaking community

3261
04:19:35,180 --> 04:19:37,780
Award's presentation, Mishka Festival,

3262
04:19:38,440 --> 04:19:40,500
Jewish American Heritage Month program.

3263
04:19:41,340 --> 04:19:45,300
We hope Pride, Tlement Park, Community Briefing,

3264
04:19:45,800 --> 04:19:50,280
Pride House, and We hope Fanzone, among others.

3265
04:19:51,940 --> 04:19:55,780
And also very excited to see the Dreg Laureate program

3266
04:19:55,780 --> 04:19:56,920
go to the next level.

3267
04:19:57,240 --> 04:19:59,660
But I will definitely miss pickle.

3268
04:20:00,220 --> 04:20:03,580
I think that she's just been an incredible asset

3269
04:20:03,580 --> 04:20:12,500
to this program. I want to thank Helen Collins and Stephanie Martinez and Rick Abramson for

3270
04:20:12,500 --> 04:20:17,560
all their work on the Plumber Park Comprehensive Improvement Program and regarding the steering

3271
04:20:17,560 --> 04:20:21,880
committee. I just want to make sure that it's balanced and includes community members

3272
04:20:21,880 --> 04:20:28,540
from the get-go that have a stake in how this comprehensive improvement plan moves forward.

3273
04:20:28,540 --> 04:20:37,880
I wanted to just announce the city of celebrating June 10th on Saturday, June 20th, 3 to 7 p.m. in West Hollywood Park.

3274
04:20:38,020 --> 04:20:39,220
I hope to see you there.

3275
04:20:39,640 --> 04:20:42,540
And just wish all the fathers happy Father's Day.

3276
04:20:42,740 --> 04:20:44,120
I believe this is coming weekend.

3277
04:20:45,180 --> 04:20:45,940
Thank you.

3278
04:20:46,280 --> 04:20:50,900
I attended the Abby 35th Anniversary of the Meski Classical Night.

3279
04:20:50,960 --> 04:20:56,800
The Harvey Milk Day, the Pride Festival, and I agree it was a wonderful and magical weekend.

3280
04:20:56,800 --> 04:21:05,680
I represented the city at the Sanitation District and the City Selection Committee meeting

3281
04:21:06,680 --> 04:21:15,200
went to kaleidoscope, the fan zones, a group of local residents are off to the gay

3282
04:21:15,200 --> 04:21:21,780
games in Valencia, so it was there for their kickoff and the 40th anniversary of the

3283
04:21:21,780 --> 04:21:22,660
farmer's market.

3284
04:21:22,660 --> 04:21:28,040
I agree that pride was wonderful and magical.

3285
04:21:28,580 --> 04:21:31,340
I heard Mr. O'Brien's complaint here.

3286
04:21:31,700 --> 04:21:38,240
We don't actually make the decisions of who goes and who is not in the festival.

3287
04:21:39,460 --> 04:21:51,380
I think this is something that needs to be clarified going forward as well as the decision of who is being honored as an icon because there was controversy about that as well.

3288
04:21:51,380 --> 04:22:07,940
So, at some point, I think that needs to come to the council for clarification and how do we go about making sure that the public is aware who's making those decisions and how those decisions are made.

3289
04:22:07,940 --> 04:22:15,480
The one final direction I wanted to give there has been a pop-up at the corner of Lassianica

3290
04:22:15,480 --> 04:22:21,100
in Santa Monica, something having to do with Ariana Grande, it's been great.

3291
04:22:22,240 --> 04:22:28,660
The visitors have been all well behaved, but there's a lot of them, and there's trash and

3292
04:22:28,660 --> 04:22:35,640
other effects, so I'm hoping that we can have a conversation with the owners to figure out

3293
04:22:35,640 --> 04:22:39,280
how do we manage the crowds so that they're not sitting out,

3294
04:22:39,280 --> 04:22:43,100
we're standing out in the sun or sleeping on the sidewalks,

3295
04:22:43,280 --> 04:22:45,980
waiting for the activation to begin.

3296
04:22:46,720 --> 04:22:50,660
So that I wanted to put that on the City Manager's list

3297
04:22:50,660 --> 04:22:51,680
of things to do.

3298
04:22:51,860 --> 04:22:53,700
Do we do see you don't like Ariana Grande?

3299
04:22:54,000 --> 04:22:55,940
No, I'm fine with Ariana Grande.

3300
04:22:56,280 --> 04:22:57,740
I want to match that line.

3301
04:22:58,260 --> 04:23:00,860
I want to make sure that we accommodate all the people

3302
04:23:00,860 --> 04:23:04,280
who are waiting to get whatever the merchandise is

3303
04:23:04,280 --> 04:23:12,620
they're selling there. All right. Yeah. I think we're deteriorating now. We are now finished with

3304
04:23:12,620 --> 04:23:15,940
our agenda. We are adjourned. Thank you everyone.