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Streets and when it rains, trash goes down to the storm drain and impacts the beaches and oceans. So they're educated to that. And then at the end of the school year, we bring out a few thousand of those kids to the beach and that's what's going on today.

When you pick up trash, it's kind of fun because you can see like a lot of people here on this beach are helping the planet. I don't collect all the trash because I don't want animals to get extinct. And it helps the environment too, so it's fun for me to pick up the trash. It's sad and it's fun. We're finding a lot of plastic and we're also...

Oh look, what is this? It's like part of a straw.

We've been finding a lot of plastic. There's caps, lids, cups.

I hope that these cleanups will make the kids better environmental stewards. It really does take all of us working together to keep our natural faces clean.

A lot of kids are not aware of what we need to do to take care of our Earth. So programs like this and celebrating Earth Day, it really makes us very conscious.

Anybody find any trash? I think it's important for their future and the Earth's future. And they get this experience and they learn that their actions can affect the community as a whole.

Anybody that you talk to that's involved in this environmental movement, when they were a kid, they were at the beach and they fell in love. So this is a love project. This is getting kids down here to fall in love.

Well, good morning, everyone. Welcome to Parthenia Place. This is home to about 160 residents.

I thank you all for being here to celebrate a major investment in this community.

We are very grateful and excited with today's announcement by Congresswoman Luz Rivas, who was able to secure $750,000 for the residents of Portinia Place to be able to repurpose a room into a computer lab.

This building was built in 2021 and it houses formerly homeless and other residents. So this computer lab will be a great way to bridge the digital divide. Children and families will have access to technology and the internet. They can use it for school, apply for jobs. We want them to thrive in this building.

It's really going to heighten the experience you're working in place.

I have teenagers. I have all teenagers. And they need a place to do their homework. And being upstairs with TV and their radio and their phone, it distracts them. And actually having a computer lab for them to do their work is really good.

When I first heard it, I was like, oh my God, yes, away from my parents and away from my brothers. So I was very excited.

When we invest in the tools, the spaces, and support systems our residents need, we are investing in stability, dignity, and opportunity.

Their residents will have access to technology, to internet, to also support for students, support with homework, for adults, support with looking for a job or gaining access to their caretaker, or as the councilwoman said, also connecting with government. So we think that it's really important that we bring the resources and the support that residents need to be able to not just reach stability, but also to get ahead.

I'm trying to go back to school as well, and I think having a computer here would be great. My oldest is in college, I have a high schooler, and sometimes it's hard for them to focus in the apartment. There's TV, there are phones and everything. I feel like having it here close to home, they could do their work here. Have a space to do it away from home, away from the noise. I think it's gonna be great.

There's always something happening across Los Angeles, from cultural celebrations and local leaders to events bringing communities together. Here's a closer look at the stories making an impact in neighborhoods across our city.

The Office of Public Accountability is the official ratepayer advocate for the people of Los Angeles. The Office of Public Accountability is an independent department that evaluates the LADWP, the Department of Water and Power, that provides electric and water service for four million customers and over a quarter million businesses. The Ratepayer Advocate Office is separate from LADWP. We're not a part of the utility. We are outside to make sure that there's an independent voice and independent analysis over L.A. DWP decisions and investments. We evaluate their programs, their policies, their decisions to make sure that they're reasonable and in the ratepayers best interests to support affordability and transparency and accountability here in L.A. for the ratepayers. People contact our office all the time with challenges that they're facing. Maybe it's because their bill is too high. Maybe they don't understand what affordability programs are available to them. We help to communicate who they can contact at the department and to understand what some of the solutions are for them. We also look at these issues in total to try to understand where ratepayers overall have concerns and challenges. And we communicate those trends and issues to the department and to city leaders so that we can be the best advocate possible. So our office is working on a series of projects. We've been holding community workshops to listen to the challenges that people are facing on affordability. We've held three different workshops already in different parts of the city. We've also been developing analysis around DWP rates and their bills and how they compare to other utilities. To stay connected and updated on our work here at the Office of Public Accountability, the easiest way is to go to our website. We've been redesigning it to make sure that it's accessible and understandable to all people. We have information on where we are in the community, how to contact us by phone by email even our address here in city hall has a welcome sign on the door we love people to come in because when people connect with us that helps us be a better advocate so people should come and visit our community workshops participate in our listening sessions be a part of the conversation and give their voices show up at DWP Board of Commissioner meetings that are on the second and fourth Tuesday of every month. All of these are ways to contact and stay up to date with our office and to help us be the best ratepayer advocate possible.

We envision a country where every city, town, and village has responsive early care and education systems, where children are nurtured, families are empowered, and educators are valued.

We are at the LA Expo Center, and it is the first convening of the Early Childhood Education Consortium. It's a program that started with a technical assistance grant, from the National League of Cities.

It's such a joy to be in such good company of people who don't just want capacity for capacity's sake or look to fill solutions without thinking about holistic needs and really wanting to be making sure that the decision makers are the ones closest to young children and families.

Early childcare and educated convening is such an important piece. It's our first ever in the city of Los Angeles, and it's to bring professionals together, but also the providers that we are contracting in the next fiscal year to really learn about the challenges and how do we as a collective, as a profession, move early childcare forward and make it more accessible for our communities.

When you're working and you're trying to improve developmental outcomes for children, you always have to be mindful that you need to be working at a neighborhood level.

Rather than just sort of seeing things as, hey, this is the fix, how do we take a view of the city as a whole?

How do we make sure that the community is really the one coming up with the solutions?

You have three goals. One was to increase the number of early childhood educators, to also help organize those educators, and also to build the capacity of existing educators and early education providers.

We've been in the child care business for over 20 years. Not too many people know that, but we do have child care facilities on top of our recreation facilities as part of our amenities. And so we have a deep history in child care and just providing care for you in our community. Thank you.

The City of Los Angeles is already doing a great job supporting the early childhood community. They've undertaken a year-long process of working with child care providers, with advocates like me, to both understand the workforce issues and the actual child care facilities where people operate and run their child care businesses.

There's no greater investment that we can make as a city than in children. We spend so many dollars on trying to solve community and social problems, in my view, by not investing on the front end. And I think sometimes early childhood, prenatal to three, prenatal to five is an afterthought. It's great to do. We like to do. And to me, it's an essential part of any city budget. It's an essential part of any long-term transformation of community, particularly communities that have real community traumas and challenges. So I think from a budgetary standpoint and also just from a moral standpoint that this has to be essential in every city, particularly where you have families who face real challenges.

We believe that every conversation can start and end with early childhood because the first several years of a child's life is so interconnected in all of those different components of the system.

In 2018, the voters of Los Angeles County passed Proposition W, which in fact was a measure intended to reduce reliance on water from outside. We've received approximately $36 million a year that's allocated in different ways.

To date, the city of Los Angeles has completed seven projects. Examples would be the Haines Street Greenway project, and then we also have the East 6th Street project. There is also the low-flow diversions, which run along the LA River and Arroyo Seco. Their goal is to capture 356 million gallons of water and divert that into the sanitary sewer for water treatment and then reuse.

is making sure that we reduce our reliance on water from outside the area. In fact, for too long, we've ignored stormwater.

We do have 12 other safe clean water projects in progress. These projects are meant for water capture and water quality, and they're currently within the design and construction phases.

the city has dedicated itself to improving water and air quality in neighborhoods within Los Angeles.

These projects are important as they're a direct investment to ourselves and then our community.

Los Angeles is powered by the people, places, and stories that connect our communities. Coming up, we'll show you what's happening across the city and introduce you to the people making a difference right here at home.

Good mental health is what sets us up to handle life situations the best way we can possibly handle them. Mental health really is about how you're doing socially, emotionally, psychologically, all those factors that impact your life and the ways you can function in your life.

This event is the result of months of planning in our service area. It's meant to heighten mental health awareness, awareness about resources and the community, destigmatize mental health issues and concerns, and basically bring out to our student population particularly, but other community members, resources. So we've got fun things around self-care like massage and sound bath and art and you know just different activations that folks can do to sort of work on their coping skills manage mental health challenges when they come up and then add to that we've got music about power 106 here and we've got some yummy food vendors from our local community tacos hamburgers hot dogs all kinds of stuff for people to just enjoy and celebrate with us and become more aware about mental health resources in our community

Mental health is a very important thing. So it's really cool to have events like this to spread awareness, to have resources, offer help to people, to students. We want everybody to be successful. I think that's the most important thing as a human overall, but especially as a student. Your overall educational experience is entirely determined by your mental health. I feel like in my experience, there's some time where I wasn't doing the best mentally. So I wasn't doing well in school, you know, to reflect upon that and other things in my life as well. That's a really big thing and I think it's really nice to have this going on. You know, it's offering support to people who really need it for sure.

Mental health really exists on a spectrum. I think that's something that people don't always understand. It's just like health, right? You can be very well sometimes, or there are other times where you may not be doing very well. There are a lot of different things that impact how a person does. I think you can tell your mental health is at risk when you see changes going on. Like maybe you aren't as interested in the activities you used to enjoy. you're having problems functioning in school or at work or within your family. There are so many resources now available to people to impact and improve their mental health. We are the largest public department of mental health in the country, and we have all kinds of programs, everything from high acuity services, crisis intervention, to outpatient services, to prevention, and everything from kids to older adults. We also have a 24-7 1-800 number. That's 1-800-854-7771. and that's our mental health and substance abuse helpline. There's also our LA County Department of Mental Health website, dmh.lacounty.gov. It has listings of all the services that we have, different things going on in the community, a really wonderful resource to access. Stay locked in.

Stay locked in. Y'all do what you gotta do. Keep pushing.

thank you all for coming together to celebrate the 10th annual jewish american heritage month here in the city of los angeles this year's theme is playing it forward and it's honoring uh basically the jewish community in sports and uh and how that intersects with with los angeles and so it's uh it's a great event we had a unveiling of a exhibit at the bridge

Three, two, one.

And first, we have the legendary film and television actor, Jewish advocate, Eric Braden. He is a TV and film icon and Emmy Award winning, he's a People's Choice Award winning actor. He's a television icon and arguably the most popular character in daytime history and has starred Victor Newman on the number one rated daytime drama series, The Young and the Restless. He's been on that for over 46 years. But today, we are also celebrating him as part of the groundbreaking soccer team in Los Angeles. So, Eric, please come forward. Welcome.

I would like to recognize, first of all, Elie Mamour, who was left fullback in our team, and Moshe Hoffman, Sweeper, Abraham Cohen, Pini Bin Zakhin. They were all my teammates. You said something anti-Semitic to Elie Mamour, he would stand up to you immediately. I learned from that experience to stand up to whatever prejudice encounters you. Intelligence, genius is not only the purview of one group. It is universal. We just need to give people a chance. Anyway, I'm here in LA. I love this city. Been here for over 60 years. and let's straighten out the potholes. Thank you very much.

To be honored in front of the council with such nice words that were said by everybody after we accepted our awards just makes you feel super special. I'm very proud. I'm from Los Angeles, was born and raised out here. Went away for a while for the last 12 years, but we recently came back and it feels like we came home.

So I'm very happy to be here today.

Thank you so much. It really is my honor to be here this morning. Good morning to everybody. My Jewish life and my gymnastics life actually started as a young boy in Van Nuys, California. I went to Stephen S. Weiss Temple. My mom and dad were actually founding members of the congregation, and I spent many years there learning about the Jewish heritage and what it meant to be Jewish. And I started my training at LA Valley College on trampoline, of all events, where I learned that the love of flying was just what I was meant to do in life. I loved the feeling of flipping and twisting in the air, and that eventually morphed into the coaches wanting me to try this incredible sport of gymnastics.

Mitch Gaylord talked about the 1984 Olympics where he had just come off a national championship in gymnastics with UCLA and four months later he was winning a gold medal and scored the first perfect 10 ever in gymnastics history right here at the LA games in 1984. A great moment of pride for UCLA fans, the LA community, and for the Jewish community as well.

Our next honoree is Chelsea Goldberg, a SoCal native who started playing roller hockey at a young age and eventually took her passion to the ice, where she got recruited to play at Northeastern University. Along the way, she broke both legs, which hurt her chances to make the US Olympic team. Nonetheless, she was drafted by the Boston Blades of the Canadian Women's Hockey League.

One of the things I'm most grateful for is being able to combine two parts of my identity that means so much to me, hockey and Judaism. I truly love the intersection of faith and sport and the way both can bring people together, inspire resilience, and build community. It's really important for the city to recognize the Jewish population, the Jewish people, just because, one, it is a very highly populated Jewish city, Los Angeles, but also there's not that many of us around the world, and the Jewish population itself is so close, and when you're part of the Jewish family, we are a family, and so to recognize us and have everyone here to us, recognize us and the history behind us, I think is very powerful.

It's really a great occasion to kind of come together and celebrate, especially at a time when, to be frank, you look at the numbers and you look at the stories that people are telling us in schools and in so many other places about the bias that they're experiencing, the anti-Semitism they're experiencing, and it's good to have a time to come together and to also celebrate and to be proud.

I'm at a loss for words today because I didn't expect to feel the way I felt when we were standing up there, hearing the guys from the soccer team, the famous actor that he came from Germany, represented not only his sport, soccer, but his heritage. And it really is a message of coming together for one another.

Three, two, one.

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Today is our Salute to Recreation event. This has been going on for 44 years. This is our opportunity to really highlight some of the programs that we offer year round through the Rec and Parks program and it's our sort of celebration to celebrate all those.

We have carnival rides, we have a lot of vendors, amazing food, amazing performances, a lot of organizations giving out information, and a lot of competition for our youth and adults.

They have dancers, they have food, they have giveaways.

We do so many great programs, whether they be sports programs, summer camps, aquatics, and it's just our chance to bring out the dance crews, bring out all the different programs, and have their parents see what they've been working on.

These types of events are really to bring community together.

It's important for people to know that they can get together in love and civility. I think it's something that's missing a little bit in our society today.

Having community in Los Angeles, it's really hard. Being in places like this that can bring everybody together, it's always something to celebrate. Los Angeles needs to spend more time together.

These are the things that bring really community together, but we have all different types of opportunities across the parks.

That's a look at some of the stories and people making a difference across Los Angeles. Thanks for watching. Catch these stories and more on Channel 35 or at LACity.gov slash TV and follow at LACity on Instagram, Facebook, X, and YouTube.

Bienvenidos al Consejo Municipal. Hoy es el martes 16 de julio de junio de 2026. Aceptaremos comentario público en la cámara. La lista, Blumenfield, Harris, Dawson, Hernandez, Hutt, Jurado, Lee, McCusker, Nazarian, Padilla, Park, Price, Roman, Rodriguez, Soto, Martinez, Jaroslawski, 13 miembros presentes y un coro, señor presidente. Aprobación en los minutos del 12 de junio de 2026. Resolutions to be approved. Rodríguez Hueve. Liz Secunda, who else? Mr. President, today is Tuesday, the day for the salute to the flag. If everyone can stand up and follow the advice in the series for the salute to the flag. On the heart, I swear loyalty to the flag of the United States of America. a republic that represents a nation under God, invisible, with loyalty and justice for all. With liberty and justice for all, sorry. Well, very well, Mr. Secretary, now the agenda. 1 to 17, the public audience, which has been celebrated, 8 and 9, the revelations have been archived, the archives are ready. For the topic number 9, a corrective report has been circulated, y se publicó en el archivo del consejo el tema es un nombramiento no renombramiento 18 59 no han celebrado audiencia pública y para 29 se presentó una declaración de impacto a la comunidad por el consejo vecinal del noreste de san pedro y se publicó en el archivo del consejo se requieren 10 votos para la consideración Without protest, those issues remain before us. Now is the time for the specials. Before the specials, there are requests to continue with issue number 1, 16, and 57 to 58 for tomorrow, June 17. Well, let's call on issue number 59, special for comments. Señor Price, lo veo parado. Gracias, Presidente. Me va a reclusar para el tema número 4, porque la empleadora de mi esposa trabajó, y también el tema número 59. Bueno, muy bien. Gracias, señor Price, concejal La Parque. Gracias, Presidente. A la solicitud del agua, quisiera no aprobar el tema número 11, para que el agua pueda corregir unos Problems irrepressible vera present are el paquete a la junta de comisarios de aeropuertos no seria para notary archivar senior secretario en realidad es una moción para no aprobar el tema es un voto o lo podemos hacer la moción va a necesitar un segundo y lo podemos votar una secundada por el señor McCaskill bueno gracias concejala concejala Roman I was waiting to pause the issue number 13 for an amendment that will circulate in a few moments. Councilor Rodríguez, I would like to request issue number 5 for the comments and 55 for a separate vote. Councilor Blumenfield, an amendment for 16 that are circulating. Councilor Jurado, my issue was called. Thank you, President. To confirm, Mr. President, Councilor Blumenfield, the amendment was for issue number 16, correct? That issue has been continued until June 23. Well, Councilor Hernandez, thank you, President. I would like to call on issue number 1 and 56 for a separate vote. 1 and 56. To confirm, issue number 1 has been continued until June 30. Another special student, members. No, thank you. We are going to not have them. Well, what other issues do we have open to vote now? The council can vote for 2 to 4. Mr. Price, question number 2, 3, 7 to 12, 14, 15, and 17. The list for these issues, close the list and count the votes. 15 in favor, what else? Well, what else? There is a request for issue 55 so that it can be approved immediately without protest. 55 was not called by someone special. Councilor Rodríguez for a separate vote. If we do not vote yet, I want to make the request. Thank you, President. Councilor, do you want to go ahead with the comments of the public? There is no need to vote for 55 now. Well, very well. Well, the public comments. Mr. Municipal Attorney General. Yes, Mr. President. For the people giving the public comment, when it is your turn to speak, indicate what topic of the agenda you want to talk about. We will give you a topic, one minute per topic, three minutes in total for the public comment topics. While we are talking about the topics, we must focus on the topic. Our purpose is to go through as many speakers as possible. If we do not focus on the topic, we cannot determine it. We will give you a brief warning. Y en ese momento se debe centrar inmediatamente. Al no hacerlo, o si se desvía nuevamente del tema, va a perder el resto de su tiempo para hablar. Y vamos adelante con el siguiente orador. Los temas abiertos para comentario público en la agenda hoy son los temas 18 a 56. Los temas abiertos para comentario público hoy son los temas 18 hasta 56 y 59. Los temas 57 y 58 los han continuado para mañana y no están abiertos para comentario público. Los miembros del público pueden hablar por hasta un minuto. Durante comentario público en general, los miembros del público pueden hablar sobre cualquier cosa que tiene que ver con la ciudad. Le informaremos cuando se le acaba su tiempo. Otros anuncios, el intérprete puede hacer los anuncios. Si requiere interpretación en español, por favor pausen después de cada frase para darle al intérprete la oportunidad a traducir. Y no se preocupen, les pausaremos el tiempo mientras el intérprete está hablando, entonces recibirán la misma cantidad de tiempo que las otras personas. Gracias. Y adicionalmente... If he made an accommodation request, according to EDI, to use the wireless microphone, or if he wanted to do it, when it's his turn to speak, please raise your hand so that the sergeant knows that he can finally use the wireless microphone to receive as many people as possible. We ask that, please, Esperen hasta que escuchen el nombre bajo el cual se anotaron antes de hacer la fila. En cualquier orden, a la parte izquierda de la cámara para hablar. La orden en cómo se llaman los nombres es al azar. Se genera al azar. Gracias. Bill Wright, Luis Vela, Kelly Elliott, Angelina Jiménez, Eva Guerrero. Sí, hola, buenos días. ¿De cuáles temas quiere comentar? A public comment, please. Un minuto adelante. Yes, hello. So I don't want to take too much time because you postponed the item that we came for for tomorrow. But I would like to ask, please, the contract that you need to sign in April, please don't let it take longer than that you should have signed in April. Please don't let it take longer than the 1st of July because it's just way too much to come and go and have to keep coming here. It takes too much time for us. And this problem is only being suffered by the renters. So please, I leave this as a homework for you. Put your hand over your heart and think about the renters. Thank you. . of the agenda 57 57 plan continued for tomorrow but you can speak for public comment general has a minute ahead good morning I am will wright work for the letter of American architects thanks for your leadership and your availability to serve the city Recently, I came from the EIA conference in San Diego. I was on the train, I walked the sidewalks of San Diego. It is healthy and clean because they have investments. I ask that they take the reforms of End It, Don't Mend It to make strategic improvements to the ULA measure so that they can continue to make Los Angeles Thank you. Next speaker. Before the next speaker, other names. Ellie Levy. Lawrence Vasquez. Will Wright, Satoshi Nakamoto, and Clifford Hingleton. Good morning. What do you want to talk about? A public comment, one minute. A month ago, Spindler said that Nithya was a communist. Now, I don't know if Nithya wants my opinion on this. I'm not talking to her, but... Yo estoy mucho más cerca de la izquierda que ella y hace un mes y tres semanas, ella ha ayudado a un desarrollador. Está ayudando a un desarrollador en una calle pequeña. Esto no es comunismo. Yo no le hablé al inicio. Pero si ella lo quiso o no. Y mientras tanto, si está en la izquierda, yo lo que quiero hacer es dar un comentario comunitario y tengo que elegir a un concejal a quien hablarle nadie quiere estar cerca de cualquiera a la izquierda entonces me están discriminando y mientras tanto si alguien vio a journey ella es una bibliotecaria hermosa ella estuvo gracias se le acabó su tiempo buenos días de que quiere hablar Who wants to speak? 16. 16 is not open for public comment, but I can speak in general. So you have a minute ahead. Hello, I am Eva Valera. I am in eviction. I live in Los Angeles. I am a single woman who had unfortunate events that left me in this situation. Por suerte, pude encontrar EDM para ayudarme por el proceso de desalojamiento y sin la ayuda de EDM, estaría sin hogar y miles de otras personas también. EDM saca 60% de los empleados en Los Angeles. Eso solamente les va a permitir proveer videos y clases, pero hace falta más que eso para tener el apoyo y la familia cuando foreign is I want to make a general comment. I am Luis Vela, good morning. I am with SAGE, Strategic Action for a Fair Economy. I ask that they do not put the ULA in the municipal vote. People have already decided in 2022. The council created an ad hoc committee to review the evidence. And that's exactly it. After months of analysis, the facts are clear. URA is working and generating critical resources for housing, prevention of housing shortages, and protection for tenants. Please work with the ARHOC Committee and make decisions for developers and approve the State Housing Laws contract for the assignment to the neighbors. Thank you for your time. Next speaker. Buenos dias, de que quiere hablar? Hola, yo soy Lawrence Vasquez. Soy alumno de la red de desalojamiento de inquilinos y programa de empoderamiento de inquilinos y hasta ahora me ayudaron a deshacer de dos detenciones ilícitas y yo tengo mi casa todavía. EDN va a despedir al 66% de sus empleados And as a resident of Los Angeles, the EDN is only going to provide me with videos, classes. While I am grateful for the videos and classes, they are not enough. I need the help to find out, to answer, and preparing to negotiate during the trial. Thank you. Good morning. What do you want to comment on? Yes, good morning. What topic do you want to comment on today? general please yes good morning my name is vilma vasquez i'm a member of sage and i am one of the several people who have benefited from the ula measure The dignity of my life and my right to affordable housing has been threatened. And this harm means that I am not doing well physically, emotionally, mentally. And thank you to ULA. I feel strong given these situations where I have been under serious risk of being on the street. And it's a blessing that many of you that are sitting there don't know about the anxiety that one faces when they are at risk of being on the street. And hopefully you'll never feel this. Thank you. Next speaker. Hello, I'm Eli Levy. I'm going to ask that the Jewish supremacist state of Israel. Genocide, ethnic cleansing. I am Jewish, Israeli, and I am a citizen of the United States and of naturalization, which means that both cities are co-genocide. It's a horror beyond words. I don't know what's more pathetic, that you don't do a shit of this president, this holocaust. And I know that you are not going to do anything. Do the right thing. It has been done for a long time. I want to express my disappointment. in delaying again. How many reform commissions of letter until we can do something? Voting for election of measure. And I don't think everyone understands why it's very good. Now we have plurality elections where you can win with less majority. The biggest part of the vote, but still not a majority, which is half. What we need to do is alter the voting mechanism. Why are you laughing? I don't agree with what is happening. Well, in the last race, everyone has 51%. Before the next commentator... Quiero seguir con lo que dice Matthew Jones, Sherry Heer, Kutza Farr, Cynthia Gee, Nathan Lewis Gordon, Matthew Boyd, and Jenny Park. Buenos días. ¿De qué quiere hablar? Comentario general. Many people come here to talk because they know that things are very bad. But in fact, things are much worse than what people know. The police ignore all the most violent crimes, which cannot be explained easily. If people realized how bad things are, perhaps they would have the same conclusion that I had, that urgently we need a military-level investigation of misconduct. S-M-X-C-K-R-N 2

I'm a resident. Sorry, sir. Before you start, can you get closer to the microphone? If you can, if not, because we can't hear you. That's better, yes.

What did you want to talk about?

My name is Matthew, and I'm a tenant at Boyden's resident in Skid Row. I have a minute to generate. I'm a member of L.A. Kennedy. I'm here talking about the ULA measure. La medida ULA tiene recursos efectivos para asegurarse que la gente no se quede en la calle y permitido que mucha gente no caiga a tener no vivienda y darnos vivienda asequible. Vivienda provisional no va a funcionar y no hay vivienda permanente al cual mudarme. I'm very worried that the municipal council now wants to make amendments in terms of ULA and put them on the ballot paper. Don't put yourself under that pressure. Everything is done by promoters of root goods who want to put pressure on you. Hello, everyone. My name is Cynthia Gonzalez, and I am a program manager for State House LA. Our agenda was moved to tomorrow, but we still wanted to be here, and we wanted to give a public comment on the reason why we are against any measure in the ballot. Queremos asegurarnos que todos ustedes entienden que sus constituyentes ya han votado en cuanto ULA. No hay necesidad para hacer enmiendas. Y no hay necesidad para hacer débil para lo cual votamos los votantes hace dos años. Queremos que todos entiendan. Va a haber mucha gente aquí mañana hablando sobre eso. Espero que los escuchen. Y escuchan la razón por la cual estamos en contra de cualquier medida. George Herd, Maya Finley, Catalina Rodas, Herman Thunder Spirit, Mario Hercules, and Martha Castro. Good morning. Do you have a minute?

My name is John Jardy. I'm a resident of Koreatown and I'm here with Kiwa.

I'm here to ask that you reject any amendment to change the measure of ULA on the ballot. Como trabajadora inmigrante que ha vivido en Los Angeles por más de 20 años, veo que nuestra comunidad está en riesgo debido al precio de vivienda y también una crisis de vivienda y también los incendios. Sin los programas con fondos de ULA, nuestra comunidad va a seguir sufriendo por falta de protección contra los desalojos.

Thank you.

Tiene tres minutos para los temas. Antes de comenzar, sospecho que vamos a escuchar unas cosas que son bastante ofensivas, ofensivos, y les doy la bienvenida a irse de la sala, les doy la bienvenida a irse si no lo quieren. Si quieren oír, lo pueden hacer también. La manera más rápido de hacer esto es simplemente ignorarlo y estamos agradecidos por su paciencia. Tres minutos para los temas y un minuto para el general. Thank you, Korean Asshole Fag. Rent Escrow Account Program, R.A.P. Known as R.A.P. in 202, 1st Street. Oh, sorry, Mr. Price. I meant lasers. It's the wrong address, actually. It's the property 40, 61, calle, caso 704855. Cabeza de pija, estoy en sujeto. 41, curero, presta atención. Deje de interrumpir mi pinche tiempo. Estúpido. Mire número 40. Cabrón. Pido que se centre en el tema, si no lo vamos a continuar. No, jódese. Caso numero 558069. Analista, identificación 5107-01022. Otra cuenta de escrow de alquiler en Distrito 9. A la mierda con ustedes. Current price. Ven la gente aquí. Yo controlo la narrativa mientras ese puto coreano ahí Ya lo amonestamos. Esto no es parte de la agenda. No es parte de la agenda. Vamos al comentario general. No. Jódase. Jódase. Eh, culero. Jódase, culero. Levante la cabeza y escuche a mi crítica, culero. Esto es su última advertencia. Pause el tiempo. Esto es su última advertencia. En este momento está interrumpiendo la reunión. le estoy tratando de dar instrucciones en su primera amonestación formal. No interrumpe mis instrucciones. Es comentario público general. Se le permite insultarme, pero lo tiene que conectar con la jurisdicción de la ciudad. Señor Herman, quedó advertido que ha elegido para ser removido, si usted quiere...

Muy bien, Sr. Herman. Usted lo tenemos que quitar de esta reunión. Si usted estuviera escuchando, le di la advertencia y le pedí que escuchara las instrucciones que yo le di. Y paramos su reloj. Le dimos la advertencia y el fiscal y el presidente le ha removido.

Adiós, Sr. Herman.

is is Muchas veces, y continuamos a darle instrucciones de cómo él se puede quedar aquí y dar su comentario público, pero él se rehúsa a seguir las instrucciones. Fuck China, fuck ASA, fuck the DA, and fuck you, Mr. Attorney General. De nuevo, les pedimos disculpas. No sé si para hacerlo claro, sus palabras no reflejan este organismo, esta ciudad, cualquiera persona que está aquí. Nosotros les pedimos disculpas. Buenos días, comentarista, ¿de qué le gustaría hablar? Estoy hablando comentario público general. Tiene un minuto. Soy Nathan Lewis-Borton, y los contratos de State House Delay lo hemos atrasado por más de 15 meses. Soy un voluntario con EFFICIENT DEFENSE NETWORK. desalojo de minorías y las personas representadas. Por favor, permitan la moción en la agenda, no más que junio 23 y para el atraso, para que no tengamos que despedir a más gente. Next commenter. Good morning. What would you like to talk about? General comment. You have one minute. Good morning, Council. I am Shari Goodsifar. I am an actor and an activist, and I am a human being who believes in democracy, which I believed in as a child. I have collected more than 1,500 signatures, and I have spoken with their constituents. La Comisión de la Carta se creó porque necesitamos reforma de la Carta Constitucional y sugirieron voto por rango y extender el Consejo Municipal. Lo hemos estudiado en los últimos 22 años. Ya han habido 800 elecciones con voto de rango y 8,000 papeletos de voto que usan el rango. Irvine voted 5-2 to create the language for their November ballot for rank. Irvine, San Francisco has it, New York has it, and who's next? Irvine, please listen to your constituents and expand the council and also vote for rank this November, thank you. Next commentator. Good morning, what would you like to talk about? Before I eat, could you bring the microphone closer so we can hear you? If you allow me, sir.

My name is and we vote for our government. And what I've noticed is that it turns out that when there's an organization that's out there to help us,

We need those organizations because when you look around, our government doesn't look down towards us because

we're poor because we come from third world places and that's not how things should be. So ULA has helped me a lot. In fact, they've helped me during and after the pandemic. For a while, I was in a van in which I had to sleep. But thanks to ULA, I have been able to keep my apartment and pay my rent.

Next commentator.

Hello, my name is Maya and I'm here with the Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice. I'm rejecting the investments in the funds of Lasers and LAFPP that are used Israel has killed more than 75 million Palestinians, including more after they said they were going to stop the attacks. Now Israel is against Israel and the United States is against the people of Lebanon and Iran. We should not allow this genocide with money from our labor. Apart from that, it contributes to environmental destruction. The irony is that they are allowing their pension funds, in fact, it will ensure that they will not have a future for the workers. We want to divert that money from the retirement funds of LACERS and LAPP, they are designated to be removed No se vuelven a designar eso. Nazi L.A., Scott Sheffer, Jefferson Dogg, Marlene Delgado, Jay Buckets, Nathan Goretz, Nate Seven. Bueno, si, es de que le gustaría hablar. Los contratos de State House de L.A. Tiene un minuto para generar. Estoy aquí para hablar sobre los contratos de State House de L.A., el cual no ha sido firmado por un total de 15 meses. Este contrato designa dinero para recursos importantes. Por ejemplo, este Consejo Legal contra el Desalojo, que en este año ha cerrado más de 1,150 casos de desalojo. Esos son angelinos cuya vivienda fue salvada y que ahora no van a quedar en la calle. Es una desgracia que la fiscal municipal se rehúsa a firmar este contrato por 15 meses. Estas organizaciones están a punto de perder todo, incluyendo su personal y negar servicios esenciales a Los Angeles, a las personas más vulnerables de Los Angeles. Antes de que comience el próximo comentarista, quiero llamar a unos nombres más. Elba Cuevas, Valeres, Patricia MC Callister, Seymour Justice, Elena Popp, y Michael Ackerman. Bueno, así es de que le gustaría comentar. Comentario público general tiene un minuto. Good morning. My name is Marta Castro. I am with SAGE and I live in room 13. I am here to ask you to protect EULA on behalf of the Hard Drivers Initiative, which is going to take $300 million from eviction prevention. EULA has generated $1,000 million to allow people to have housing and not give more money to property promoters. Y entonces, ULA ha ayudado que la gente tenga vivienda. Y la gente ya ha votado, entonces pido que sigan protegiendo la medida de ULA. Ha ayudado a muchos y va a continuar a ayudar a más angelinos. Gracias. Próximo comentarista. Buenos días, comentarista. Me imagino que va a hacer todos los artículos y comentario público general. Son 18, 56, incluyendo 59. Y un minuto para general. Adelante. Esos son muchos putos artículos. Ahora, número 18. La tarifa para desarrollo de artes. Que se joda. El arte hoy es nada más graffiti, entonces estoy en contra 19. Tenemos el demonio. 19 19 19 20. Este, un cartel coordinado de calles para un festival del 2026. ¿Para qué Heather Hutt? No vale nada. And another one, Heather Hutt, removing the lines for development. Supplement prices, that's good. On the 21st, we need to put trash bags in the trash can so that when people come without housing and burn the trash can, they have a bag to help light the fire. And I think that Karen Price just sat down and I think she supported that. Doce cargos de delito mayor. Okay. Es el mejor. A ver aquí. Tenemos a los agentes de forestería del río. ¿Qué hacen ellos? Merca River Rangers. ¿Qué es esto, Imelda? Eso parece un juego. Parece una padilla. Eso es que MRCA. Eso es lo que es. Son parte del 18, Imelda. Es lo que usted tiene ahí. No, no apoyamos esa mierda. And here is Tracey O'Rean Park. Her district office does not answer the phone or the... Mensajes de voz, sigue y sigue la agenda, 27, que se joda, 27, que se joda, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, que se joda, 35, que se joda, joda, joda, 36, que se joda, 37, 38, 39, 40, paca, paca, 41, 42, 43 y 45. Y ahora comentario público general. ¿Ustedes sabían que alguien le mandó a la campaña, que alguien incendió la oficina de campaña de Spencer Pratt? ¿Escucharon eso? ¿Es lo que vamos a hacer, Marquise? ¿Vamos a jugar ese jueguito? um is Wow. Wow. Good morning. What would you like to comment on? Public comment in general. I'm Scott from the Harry Tubman Center for Justice. I oppose the way the city is dealing with two retirement accounts from city employees. We are the first, but what we can see is that it seems that between $250,000 and $300,000 are being invested in Israel, most of the amount in the military sector of Israel. And honestly, I am me sorprende que mientras que sigue el genocidio y sigue subiendo el número de bebés, abuelos, esos cuerpos siguen matando más gente, mientras que nadie aquí en el Consejo quiere propone un cambio en esas inversiones. No pueden invertir en el genocidio. No pueden invertir en el genocidio. Ese es el comienzo de una campaña. Si ustedes creen que les vamos a dejar en paz después de hoy, créeme que no es el caso. Vamos a seguir presionándolos. Próximo comentarista. Buenos dias, de que le gustaría hablar? Buenos dias, quiero hablar sobre comentario publico general. Adelante, si se podría acercar un poquito más el micrófono, lo apreciaría. Tiene un minuto.

OK, muy bien.

Buenos dias, me llamo Marlene Delgado y soy un estudiante del EDN, Eviction Defense Network. Me ayudó mucho el programa para que yo pueda mantener mi apartamento en un periodo donde no tenía nadie ahí para apoyarme. Me había comunicado con el distrito 13 y con el consejo municipal miembro Soto Martinez, pero nadie contestó a mis correos para ayudarme. EDN estaba ahí para ayudarme. Me creó una familia y si EDN despide 66% de su personal, solo van a proveer clases y videos. Y aunque estoy agradecida por las clases y videos, me ayudarán a mí mucho. Necesitamos ayuda. Before the next commentator, I'm going to call more names. Pat Barrett, Paira Rivera, Sexy, Killer Cut, BJ Emerson.

Abel Faber, Jasmine P, Dick, and Tito Choco. What do you want to comment on? General public comment. A minute ahead. Hello, I am Eva, the woman of three million dollars. I am from Asset District 1 in Los Angeles. They sued me for three million dollars, my owner, and if it weren't for State House Delay, I would be on the street. They are canceling the contracts. Salve, experience the house delay. Hello, I want to speak on two issues. One is a general comment and the other is... 14 for the lack of housing a general comment and issue number 14 I think it is 14 is the report of the lack of housing committee it is not 14 to the extent related to hula that has continued until tomorrow those comments those issues will be open for public comment tomorrow but I can speak for a minute today well first I want to say that the council Tiene que estar aquí para proteger a la gente y darnos la mejor situación que podemos tener. Ahora no lo están haciendo. Canal 5 dijo que somos la ciudad más oscura de la ciudad número uno. Número dos es que yo estoy en Distrito 14. Por 16 años estoy. Y las dos personas quienes dan ejemplos para que otros sigan es Mónica Rodríguez y Tracy Park. Y así es como ustedes deben because the city is very bad. I ask for more police to have, because we only have New York, it has 472 square miles, 30,000 police, Chicago, 234 square miles, 12,000 police, Los Angeles, 469 miles, 8,700 police. The center of Los Angeles, we had an assassination next to the crypto center, Se le acabó su tiempo. Muchas gracias. Unos días. ¿De qué quiere hablar? Estaba aquí para ULA, pero comentario general ahora. Un minuto para general. Hola, yo soy un profesor de UTLA para la OSD en Los Ángeles. Enseño en el distrito del concejal McCusker, el distrito 15. Hola, concejal McCusker. Estoy aquí para... separarnos en los contratos de gente mala el genocidio en gaza y lebanon y líbano vamos a hablar de el mal las atrocidades muchas grandes no por monstruos fanáticos pero por gente burocrática quienes conforman a normas societales y obedecen órdenes y no piensan críticamente de las consecuencias de su inversión, de las pensiones y los contratos militares, libertad a Palestina. Siguiente comentarista. Vamos a llamar más nombres. Irma López, Cynthia Hodges, John Parker y Marlene Delgado. Good morning, what do you want to comment? General public matter, a minute ahead. I am Elena Papp, Executive Director of the Defense Displacement Network. Thank you for looking at me. I have been here more than 100 times, surely in my career, and I am not yet used to when you do not pay attention. Typically, I come here with requests and statistics. This time I sent them with anticipation to each of you and your key employees. And we are going to visit your offices this afternoon because this is extremely urgent. If you did not receive the message, we were going to dismiss 66% of the employees on Friday. I postponed it because we increased money. We had the hope from the mayor that you would do something about this. El fiscal municipal causó el problema, pero es su responsabilidad arreglarlo. Y si no se arregla, 2,000 angelinos no van a tener ayuda. Gracias. Se le acabó su tiempo. Siguiente orador. Buenos días. ¿De qué desea comentar? Comentario público general.

Un minuto adelante.

Yo soy Isaac, alumno de la red de defensa. Yo no podría haber dicho mejor que Elena. In nine months, more than 1,500 cases were closed. I don't know what to do without the eviction defense network. I had a motorcycle accident last year. I broke my leg. It wasn't my fault. While riding a motorcycle, it's difficult not to crash. Tuve que volver a aprender a cómo caminar y sin esperanza, siendo desalojado con padres solteros. Volví a no tener trabajo y si no fuera por la red de defensa de desalojamientos, estaría sin casa y no hubiera sabido dónde estaban mis hijos. ¿De qué quiere hablar? Buenos días, Comentario Público General. Si puede acercarse al micrófono, nos ayuda a escucharlo un minuto adelante. Yo solo quiero pedir un desinversión de cualquier cosa que están asignando a Israel para bombas o cualquier cosa que tiene que ver con matar niños en Palestina y en Líbano. Y ustedes lo están mandando dinero allá también. Y toda la gente que está acá, aquí en la ciudad de Los Ángeles, trabajando muy duro, You are taking their money and sending it to Israel. Why? This is something that you definitely have to analyze. Yes, well, that's all. You really suck your ass. Your time here... You must do something good with your time, for once. Comentario publico general. Ayuden a sus hijos. Enseñeles a amar. Bueno. Hola, está aquí para quedarse. Yo soy señor Pancake, organizador de vivienda en Los Angeles, LA CAN, una de las coaliciones para los miembros quienes trabajan duro para aprobar esta medida en 2022, Canvas, Home Bank, etcétera. . . . . . Estoy apoyando el contrato para Steakhouse LA y quisiera extender un feliz día de padre a todos los padres. Vámonos. Hola, Onisys. ¿Cómo le va? Gracias. Siguiente comentarista. Antes del siguiente comentarista, vamos a llamar más nombres. Janice Bowden, Megan Hardwood, Emmanuel M., Jumbo Shrimp, Angie Birdsong y Eli. Buenos días, ¿quiere hablar? Yes, hello. My name is Irma Lopez. I'm a member of SAGE. I am asking that you protect ULA. This measure has already been voted on democratically. I don't know why you want to put it up for election again. I ask that you deal with facts, not in arguments done by developers. And this council cannot assign funds in the millions that were supposed to be for affordable housing. We ask that you take decisions based on evidence, evidence that we give you, the poor people of the community. This measure is working for us. It's really benefiting us and they want to take it away from us. It's not possible. And it's unacceptable to take away funds from the community for the sake of developers, and these funds should have been done by, should have been reassigned for community members, people who are lacking resources. We need to be safe on our streets and in our houses, and this measure is allowing us to do that, so we ask for your support in that. Thank you. Good day, what do you want to talk about? For the general comment. One minute ahead. Well, from 1865, after slavery, to 1950, there were 6,500 African-Americans hanged at that time. And if you look at the photos, you can see spectators looking, not only looking at people being hanged, and mutilation, and horror. Ahora en Israel hay espectadores mirando el genocidio y holocausto en contra de Gaza. Pero ahora ellos no son los únicos espectadores. Ustedes también son los espectadores, pero están haciendo algo peor. Están ayudando a un gobierno a cometer un holocausto en Israel. No necesitamos espectadores. Necesitamos gente quienes tienen el coraje para pelear a favor de la humanidad. Entonces, básicamente, No necesitamos genocidio. Necesitamos desinversión. No necesitamos dinero lleno hacia el horror y supremacía blanca. Gracias, orador. Se le acabó su tiempo. Buenos días. ¿De qué desea hablar? Comentario público general. Yo soy de la tienda Fiction Defense Network. Me han ayudado a ganar dos casos y estamos en el caso número tres. Estoy siendo desalojada porque quieren aumentar el costo de la tierra al valor del mercado. Si la red de defensa despide al 66% de sus empleados, van a dejar de ofrecer manejo de caso y representación a la ciudad de Los Angeles. Los clases y los votantes no son suficientes y en nueve meses solamente cerraron más de 1,500 casos, 97% de ellos exitosamente, incluyendo uno de los míos. Por favor, comentarista se le acabó su tiempo siguiente comentarista buenos dias que desea hablar buenos dias yo soy cheryl campbell estoy aquí hablando en cuanto la red de defensa desalojamientos como un constituyente de muchos de ustedes a quien voté a muchos de ustedes y ayudé a poner en la oficina les pido por favor que apoyen a EDN porque yo recientemente tuve tres operaciones de corazón y me consideran sin discapacidad And I face this with no representation and I think that as a voter you owe it to me because I am facing something like a woman of color, an old woman, like a disabled human being. I have to appeal to my municipal council to do the right thing. They don't see our photos, our houses, they only see the votes. Gracias siguiente comentarista. Antes del próximo quiero llamar más nombres. Shut Up Pumpkinhead, Phil Mavazquez, Nathan, Gilbert Salceda, y Lina Sullivan. Buenos días, ¿de qué quiere hablar? Yo quisiera hacer un comentario general. Tiene un minuto de adelante. Hola a todos, yo soy Eli, con Harriet Tubman Center. Onisis, ahí atrás, es mi representante. Como muchos de ustedes saben, The LACERS system, the pension funds for workers, has large investments in Israel with a market value of more than $100 million. Now we are aware that LACERS does not care about geopolitical conflicts. This is something that we have to talk about immediately. The people of LACERS ask for the disinvestment of LACERS funds and the FPP More specifically, the campaign to boycott the people of Palestine. You are going to hear a lot more from us today. Freedom to Palestine. Liberate Palestine. Next commentator. Who do you want to talk to? Good morning, I am Megan Harwood, General Commentator. One minute ahead. I am Megan. . and I saw how bad the contract that was resolved for 15 months had to be signed by the city. The municipal prosecutor said two weeks ago that it had to be signed, and now it's two and a half weeks later. I'm a survivor of fires in Pasadena to be housed. I concur with the position. I'm a student of the IDEN program, and as many have heard this morning, before IDEN, Thank you, next commentator. Let's call the names. Cheryl Campbell, Claudette Contreras, Hilda Flores, Ezequiel Olvera, and Maggie. I see the group back there in front of the pavilion. I see they're leaving the room. I ask you to please do it. en silencio. Nuevamente, gracias por la paciencia de todos, por ser amables durante el comentario público. Muchos están aquí hace mucho tiempo. Yo sé que es importante que todos quienes se anotaron, estamos agradecidos por su amabilidad y bien educación para que la gente pueda dar sus comentarios. Bueno, comentario público general tiene un minuto adelante. Primero quiero decir o solicitar to advance the motion of the agenda of April of this year and to sign the contract for IDN. This year I had a stroke and I was fighting for my life and for the roof that I had and if it had not been for the lawyers in IDN who fought for me and who continue to fight for me when I could not fight for me. I ask you to sign the contract and que lo tengan para el 11 de junio, junto con mis angelinos y los alumnos para el programa de empoderamiento. Gracias, siguiente orador. Buenos días, ¿de qué quiere hablar? Comentario general. I would like to ask for the attention of Mr. Harris Dawson. I am here. I am the queen of my three children, my partner and my family. We experienced harassment. We successfully won a eviction against our family for having a new child thanks to the IDN, the eviction program, the empowerment of tenants program, which helps us to learn. how to support each other in the courts if it hadn't been for them, the coalition, we wouldn't be here and my children wouldn't have a home. We were harassed again with threats from our owners. Today we are experiencing this harassment and without them I cannot have a lawyer. So I ask, please, pay attention to us. They are citizens who need help and a house. We all need a house and not all of us can have a lawyer. Thanks to IDEA and the Coalition for having a home, we are here. I request, please, Free the funds. Next speaker. Good morning, what do you want to talk about? Hello, I'm Clara Contreras. I'm from District 14. Jurado is our councillor. I speak to the development in our neighborhood. Hemos estado aquí antes, es mi primera vez aquí para comentario público, pero hemos pedido ayuda para parar al desarrollador, quien sigue moviendo adelante sin permisos o opinión comunitaria. Hablamos con la oficina del concejal y no hicieron nada y demoraron. Y ahora están destrozando algo que no tienen permiso. This is the third time they demolished something without adequate permits, without following the requirements of AQMD. They were there to stop them there too. This morning we went there again. Every time they have a police escort, there were four policemen helping them when we told them they didn't have permits. Nothing was published. It's still happening. Today the guy laughed at us. He said, well, do something. Call someone. So we drive here now. And here we are. We are asking her to help us. Good morning.

Next commentator. Good morning. What would you like to talk about? Public comment. You have a minute. Good morning, council. I'm Ezequiel. I'm here with you today to talk about the story, the story of a member of the council who was here in this room called Edward Roybal, who was a person who was discriminated against when he went to buy a house in Monterey Park. The story often forgets the achievements of Mr. Roybal. There's a law, 686, Miguel Santiago. Thank you, commentators. I have run out of time. President of the Council, are all of us registered to give public comment? Muy bien. Gracias a todos quien compartieron con nosotros hoy. Señor secretario que está ante nosotros. Gracias. Antes de votar, hay una petición para cambiar la fecha de continuación de 16 para viernes, junio 26 del 26. Gracias, señor presidente. Vamos a votar artículo 6, 18 a 54. Vamos a abrir la lista, cerrarla y contar los votos. All right, what's next? Now you can vote on Article 5, considered special by Rodríguez, for comments. Rodríguez, thank you, colleagues. As we continue forward for the goals for the LA Alliance agreement, I wanted to reiterate that the county has a position and we have the responsibility to push the court to ensure that they are responsible for their part. As part of the agreement, the county debe de trabajar dentro de los sitios de vivienda provisional y permanentes de la ciudad para identificar individuos que requiere más cuidado de salud mental y conectarlos con los recursos necesarios y una cama. Pero sin embargo, escuchamos que eso está fallando. um to make sure that the county does its part. The county ensures to evaluate millions and millions of dollars from taxpayers' taxes and tax increases that are currently separated from LASA so that they can continue to operate their own system and even if they fail, to the people of this city in terms of their promises to ensure that we have equitable access to mental health, y camas para asegurar que aunque estamos en desacuerdo con el acuerdo de alliance, que utilicemos eso como ventaja como podamos para asegurar que el condado haga su parte. Quiero animarlos a cada uno de ustedes que también haga lo mismo con sus esfuerzos subsecuentes para asegurar que el condado haga su parte. I'm going to give you a copy of the letter I sent to Judge Carter, but I want to remind you that this is an opportunity to make a unified voice to make sure that the county is doing its part, because while our citizens are paying for this system, they don't have a full refund, and our community and our city and our housing Thank you. Muy bien, muchísimas gracias y con eso vamos a abrir la lista para número 15, cerrarla y contar los votos. 15 a favor, ¿qué es lo que sigue? Ahora pueden votar para el artículo 13, reconocido como especial de parte de Raman, para una enmienda y se está circulando. Muy bien, se está circulando. Vamos a abrir la lista, cerrarla y tabular el voto. 15 a favor. Muy bien. ¿Qué es lo que sigue? Ahora pueden votar para 55, reconocido como especial de parte de Rodríguez, por un voto por separado. Rodríguez, ¿comentarios? Ningún comentario. Vamos a tabular el voto. 11 a favor, 4 en contra. ¿Qué es lo que sigue? Nada más quiero confirmar 55. Se pide que siga adelante sin atraso. Sin protestas, será la orden y luego 56 especial de parte de Hernández para un voto por separado. Vamos a abrir la lista, cerrarla y tabular el voto. Dos a favor y tres en contra. Muy bien. ¿Qué es lo que sigue? Ahora pueden votar artículo 4 y 59, reconocidos como especial para Price, para recusarse y también comentarios para 59. ¿59 de quién son? De parte de usted, señor presidente. Los comentarios no son del señor Price. Correcto. Eso sería raro. Muy bien. Entonces, vamos a abrir la lista para artículo 4, cerrarla y tabular el voto. Very good, 14 in favor. That brings us to 55 members. We have before us a motion, a response regarding the action of the administration of Trump to take LASA funds through the Department of Urban and Housing Development. That resolution is against that action and promises that the city will fight on behalf of our neighbors without housing. This action Some would say that it shouldn't surprise us, others would say that it is a surprise. We don't exactly know what the source is. There are many rumors about what the federal government is doing, and also many of us, many here in the press, and many at the county level, and small towns have criticism of LASA, they have documented it. But what I want to ask this council and this city to do is say, yes, maybe there are problems with fraud, maybe there are problems with administration and governance. Don't you solve that? to evict people who are already homeless. It's not the way they do it. Just like last summer, I can recognize that there are people in the country who shouldn't be here, who didn't get here legally, and one doesn't resolve that by going and accusing people in daycare centers. If you want to do something about the fraud, you're in charge of that. Don't evict people. vulnerable society. And this motion asks us to denounce the action and ask HUD to reconsider. And again, keep our people safe, investigate, do whatever you want. That is typical for organizations to have challenges. That doesn't mean that I have two members who want to comment. I wanted to just, now that we're discussing this, I would like to draw the attention of many people who are here to talk about ULA. Tomorrow when we are discussing ULA, I hope you remember that technically what we are putting in front of us, we were going to cut 30% of our funds that we as a city ourselves have been requiring. to respond to the housing crisis. So now that they don't have housing funds, but we have municipal sources, we have that, let's think about this before putting something on the ballot for the cutoff. Member Rodríguez? Yes, thank you. I appreciate the spirit of this. And to make sure that our voices are heard. But colleagues, I'm going to remind you is a conversation that we've had for two years. And there are certain people who want to make sure that the county has reversed. That should have warned us that we should be taking action. action but no lo hemos hecho y lo que yo animo es que no continuamos estar atados a lo que claramente es un sistema que no está respondiendo que no está funcionando y tenemos una responsabilidad para este dar los recursos a las personas sin amparo y tener un sistema que funciona ahorita todavía el condado But sadly, But anyway, this is a moment for us to take this as a signal to take action and not allow people to wait for them to have a job promotion before they do their job. Member McOsker. Thank you very much, Mr. President. Thank you for your comment, Mr. President. I very much agree that the answer is not to suspend and evict more people. And Councilor Rodriguez, I agree that we need to move and move at a faster pace. We will be in committee today in the proposal and finance discussing a motion that a jury member and I authorize. tenemos en cuanto el paso no alterable en cuanto el cuidadosamente, si es que no rápidamente, removernos del asa para que podamos estar en una posición en donde estamos enfocados en las personas um is It is not a complete support of the ASA, but it is a support, a commitment to take care of the people who are our residents and who deserve our care. And I think the world has changed, and I think today's discussion on financial and budget will be different due to the letter we received from the federal government a few days ago. I want to encourage you to vote in favor and to commit. I am going to commit, and we are in the process of having a more effective system to work with each level of government, county, state, and federal. Thank you. Thank you very much, Mr. McCosker. Thank you very much, President, and thank you very much to my colleagues. Last week, when we received that news on Friday, it was terrible. People started to panic when they thought about and all the people in my district and beyond, and thinking about the impacts it would have. Now we have decisive leadership in this city, to change this situation. We are opposing what the federal government is doing, but I support what Mr. McCoskey said, his motion and mine, to make actionable decisions in terms of what we're going to do with LASA and do it quickly, because we can't wait. We have to make sure we take action. So, colleagues, as we continue to work on this issue, we are all united that we have to do something, But we have to take the next steps. So thank you very much. And thank you, members. I agree with the comments of all the members today. I think everything is on point. And thank you all for reaffirming our responsibility to Los Angeles. This is the City Council of the City of Los Angeles. And our first responsibility is to our people, especially the most vulnerable people. And again, ro ni siquiera puedo estar aquí y decir quién está trabajando de parte quién está trabajando con el gobierno federal y quién está trabajando de parte de nuestra gente no puedo decir nada de esto con confianza pero lo que sí puedo decir es que este consejo esta ciudad Thank you, Mr. President. For the act, the ordinance for 55 will be held for Tuesday, the 25th, for the 26th, for consideration as the vote was not unanimous. Tienen mociones para publicar y archivar anuncios miembros. Consejera Nazarian. Gracias, Presidente. Colegas, MCC, Iglesia United Church of Christ tiene un centro. for LGBTQ youth who need housing, can bathe, eat, and have a place where they feel welcome. To make this happen, we are looking for donations. We are making an effort so that they have resources, they need resources to Thank you. Este miembro de Bloomin' Field. Esta semana que ha transcurrido era una importante en cuanto a los cumpleaños. Y como todos ustedes saben, yo no estoy hablando sobre alguien en la Casa Blanca. Estoy hablando sobre Sharon Tso y también Tim McClosker, que ambos cumplieron años. Este fin de semana, feliz cumpleaños a los dos. Feliz cumpleaños y feliz cumpleaños a ambos. Consejera Padilla. Collegas, hoy estamos unidos con corazones pesados al reconocer el aniversario de la bandera de la nación. Como todos saben que nosotros sentimos este dolor ayer, Air Force B-52 crashed at the base area of Edward. We are thinking about the families of those service members, and we pray for them, and we remember that our freedoms are often at the expense of their sacrifice, and reflecting on that sacrifice is something that we honor during this June 14th. Day of the Flag marks the moment in 1717 when the Continental Congress adopted the flag of stripes and stars, and since then it has been a symbol of democracy, Resiliencia es nuestra responsabilidad, es sostener esos ideales, no solo en nombre, pero también en servicio público, proteger y también proteger a las voces de los constituyentes. Nuestro trabajo aquí está basado en el compromiso del pueblo de Los Ángeles, haciendo prioridad de servicios, seguridad y asegurar que cada residente tiene una voz en su gobierno. In honor of these values, I am proud to recognize the 29th and 16th Aviation Battalion, also known as the Raptors, under the leadership of Colonel Michael A. Skuza. Based in Fort Irwin, this battalion is an example of leadership and to keep our communities safe. The Raptors provide support for aviation for more than 50,000 people. members of the military service, In urban, más allá de sus servicios, se ha conocido su is un recurso vital para la región como una de las unidades de evacuación aeromédico en los Estados Unidos. Muchos de sus miembros llaman a Los Angeles su hogar. Entonces, eso nos recuerda su dedicación a la ciudad y también a . Representan lo mejor que honramos en Día de la Bandera, servicio, sacrificio y preparación y compromiso al proteger a otros. Conmigo hoy tenemos al cadete de Military Explorers 124, que trabajó para tener sus habilidades de liderazgo, que alinea con nuestras metas para empoderar a la próxima generación de líderes en nuestra ciudad. Representan recomendación especial para nuestro consejo con la bandera en Fort Irwin. Entonces, esto es para nosotros consejo para el consejo. Es mi honor también reconocer 2916 Batallón de Aviación de Raptors por su increíble servicio hacia nuestra nación y comunidad. Muchísimas gracias por su servicio, liderazgo y su compromiso continuo para asegurar que nuestras comunidades y países se queden seguros. Gracias por esta presentación.

Thank you, Mr. President. Theodore Larry Kirkland, Sr., whom we call T. Larry Kirkland, a distinguished spiritual leader, community servant, a bishop of Los Angeles. Bishop Kirkland had 114 chosen from the Afro Methodist Church, known with a message I remember it so clearly. He gave his sermon of Judgment Day at the age of 17, and he dedicated himself to strengthening the communities and serving those left behind in 1947. In 1977, he was assigned to be in the community church of Brooklyn. It was a missionary church. fortaleza, fortaleza, fortaleza. rompió barreras políticas y fortaleció a la familia durante los momentos más difíciles. Y dio ideologías para aquellos fallecidos. Y como Ukele, él fue a varios estados en África, Alabama, Arkansas, y estableció iglesias en clínicas La clínica menos servida de Birmingham expandió acceso a entrenamiento de literatura en su comunidad. Yo la eulogía por leyenda de derechos civiles Rosa Parks. Presento al senador Barack Obama para su campaña de presidencia. Ofreció una oración para la campaña de Kamala Harris y el encargado general. Siempre trató a todos con dignidad y compasión y convicción de que cada vida tiene valor intrínseco. Y hoy tiene su esposa de 60 años, la señora Mary Kirkland, sus hijas, Dietrich Kirkland Bond, Makita Kirkland Robinson, Sharon Bergman y Carol Robinson. También está sobrevivido por su hijo, Theodore, y sobrinos y nietas. sobrinas y amigos cercanos a la familia Kirkland, por favor que sepan que la ciudad de Los Angeles se une a celebrar y recordar una vida definida por liderazgo y servicio. El legado de Kirkland va a durar en los institutos que fortaleció las comunidades que sirvió y las miles de vidas que tocó, las generaciones de líderes que inspiró Que T. Larry Kirkland, que descanse en paz y poder y que su vida sea un ejemplo para seguir a guiarnos a todos. El Obispo Theodore Larry. Gracias, Consejera Hadley. Con su permiso. Si me pueden agregar a la moción. Bishop, fue uno de los pastores... and so he's truly an obispo Kirkland and so he's truly an obispo Kirkland and so he's truly an obispo Kirkland and so he's truly an obispo Kirkland Thank you for being here with us. Thank you, Mr. President. I also want to be added to this motion of closure. Mr. Kirkland was really very strong in District 8, 9, and 10 in his spirit. And his calm leadership will be missed forever. Thank you. I would like to add that if we have a resolution for Bishop Theodore T. Larry Kirkland, signed by the mayor and all the members of the council, I will present it now to the family. Thank you very much. And with that, the session is lifted. Thank you very much, everyone.

Sales department and advertisement, it boomed to where they had to build something larger. So by the time 1952 came along, the plant had five tables inside of it, eight tables, 850 women cleaning fish.

Plant 4 was built in 1952. It was on 4 1⁄2 acres of land. It cost $2 million for, I think, the land and maybe a million dollars to build the plant at the time. And Plant 4, by the way, was the largest single-unit tuna cannery in the world. It contributed $350 million a year in salaries. That all went into the local economy. It was the economic engine in San Pedro.

The economic stimulus that Stark Hits Plant for and all of the other seafood canneries operating in the Port of Los Angeles gave to the local community was massive. The industry was a key driver for good middle-class jobs and was especially important to women because of the unique opportunities to work that it provided.

It was very important because there was no other work for the women except being a housewife or working in a retail store.

Only women were cleaning fish. You had a thousand women dressed in white standing all day long, you know, cleaning fish. And it was a hard job. I mean, and they'd take the ferry back and forth to San Pedro, to Terminal Island, back and forth every day, catch the bus down there in Harbor Boulevard. Those canneries employed a lot of people in San Pedro, a lot.

Most of the women that worked in the cannery too, their husbands fished. So there was a lot of dual payrolls there, one from the fishing industry and one from the canning industry.

Although cannery jobs taken by women played a major role in creating dual incomes for many San Pedro households, it was an even more important job for the single moms. As an example, Belia Olguin Smith's mother had a job at a cannery that helped her provide for Belia and her seven siblings after their father left the family. It was a job she took great pride in.

She was wonderful. She was fast at her work. I remember that because her lady friends would come that worked with her would say, your mother, she's so fast. And it was real positive and it seemed very positive situation. My mother was wonderful.

Although the fishing and seafood canning business at the Port of Los Angeles experienced tremendous growth during the 1950s, it still wasn't large enough to meet the growing demand and local industry leaders began to look overseas.

The popularity of tuna and the amount that was required to keep the population supplied was huge. And around 1957, my father realized that the supply was not meeting the demand, and he made a major trip to Japan to investigate and begin importing tuna to this country. It would come here frozen. And then it would go through the same process as when we had the fresh fish that would be offloaded from the boats.

In 1957, we were already starting to build parts to build a plant in Puerto Rico. And not because we're trying to get away from the labor dollar. We needed more tuna.

In the mid-50s, Starkist had a small cannery down in Peru, and they needed to have some of the gentlemen, the fishermen here, go down to Peru and fish. But it was a long run for the guys to go all the way down to Peru, fish, and bring all the way back to San Pedro. So eventually, my father, Butch Zuwanich, and his brother, Larry Zuwanich, went down to Peru and actually developed the tuna industry down there for Starkist.

The importance of the fishing and canning industry to Los Angeles was massive. It played such a key role that an image of a tuna was placed on the official seal of the County of Los Angeles. In addition, the Fisherman's Fiesta, a blessing of the local fishing fleet by the Catholic Archbishop of Los Angeles, was the second biggest annual event in Southern California, only behind the Rose Bowl game and parade. Although the popularity of tuna continued to grow, the expansion of the industry would eventually spell doom for local cannery workers and fishermen at the Port of Los Angeles.

Beginning in the early 1960s, there was a shift in the industry and the conglomerates entered the scene and started to take over.

In San Pedro, the demise of the fishing industry came about around 1962, and that was because multinational companies purchased the local canneries. Starkus, which was the biggest, was purchased by H.J. Heinz, and I believe Van Camp was purchased by Ralston Purina. And so these multinational companies are more bottom line focused than, say, on the welfare of the workers or the fishermen and that kind of thing. They're bottom line driven because they have shareholders to answer to. So those companies looked for ways to run plants that had labor costs that were less, that had less environmental restrictions, that had just less regulation. And so they looked overseas.

So for instance, Starkist built a big plant in Puerto Rico. They also built a plant in American Samoa. So it was a process of looking at the numbers and the cost of the labor and all the expenses for that. The labor dollar got to be expensive.

Remember, everything could be automated on tuna except the cleaning. Cleaning has to be done by hand. And they decided to go someplace else. They decided that they could handle everything in Puerto Rico and Samoa and shut down Plan 4 because of the labor dollar.

It's a very sad thing because this town, Terminal Island, San Pedro, fed the nation with tuna. And we provided jobs.