City Council - Regular Meeting

one hosting our third ann where we're giving out 1 to families across the dist into the new school year You gotta buy new shoes, n

They can come and get a backpack with school supplies for their kids. There's a lot of different service providers that are providing different resources and services. These events are incredibly important to the community because right now families are struggling. Uniforms are expensive, school supplies are expensive, the rent is too damn high. We are here to try to lighten the load on our families so that they can focus on staying housed, on feeding their families. And the events like these kind of close the loop for some of the struggles that they have or some of the gaps that they might ha

And we love the turnout. I think it's great. And definitely going to be here next year again.

I'm proud to stand here in the heart of South Los Angeles, where we saw so many unfortunate ICE raids last year and ongoing. And I am happy to be in full support of this bill for something that should be common sense. We shouldn't have to write a law that says if a person's injured, no matter what the situation, that aid is rendered right away.

This fire wasn't an abstract thing. It was personal. And all of these resources not reaching anybody is not an effective recovery. We were in city council voting on charter reform when I first got a text that there was a fire in our neighborhood. Hearing about there was an evacuation order, folks were being told to shelter in place, and really rushing out of council in order to make it here in time to see what was happening in the neighborhood.

This town hall isn't the last step. It's the first step. We are now in the recovery process, not that the fire is out. And the community is reeling with the scent, the odor, remediation of this neighborhood as all of the food and the building is essentially being deconstructed. All of these issues, one after the other, we're trying to make sure that we can facilitate and fast-track this cleanup effort and having more effective solutions because this is a situation that Boyle Heights didn't cause, and they shouldn't be having to pay for the consequences of a disaster.

We're here on the corner of 80th and Avalon and we're kicking off an exciting campaign to pick up abandoned vehicles, vehicles that aren't running.

It's a real problem of making people feel that they really isn't cared for. We know the trash, debris, and bulky items are a big deal, and the abandoned vehicles are as well. So this is a task force focusing specifically on abandoned vehicles.

We're always focusing on the quality of life issues. This abandoned vehicle program is an exciting initiative that we certainly want to not only encourage, empower, and educate.

or they can contact our office directly. And so we're excited that we're going to be a focal point assisting and working closely with the Department of Transportation. Because, you know, we're in this together. But we're adding additional services, adding additional points of contact to make sure that we get our streets cleaner.

We are at the beautiful Harbor Pool. It's right on the Harbor College campus. We're in Wilmington and it's open to everyone in our community. And the kids are coming out and having some great exercise. We have some great pool toys right here that folks are having a lot of fun on. So it's great for health. It's great for building community. And it's also just a fun thing to do in the summer.

The pool party is complete with hamburgers and hot dogs and treats for everyone. We have a bunch of different great organizations that have booths up giving out information to our families. Whether we're at a summer pool party or whether we're at a winter wonderland, always reach out to our office if you are in the 15 Watts, Harbor Gateway, Wilmington, Harbor City, San Pedro. We love to assist our neighbors, our families, our friends. We're on your side. Today, we're with you at a pool party.

All right, good morning everybody and welcome to the regularly scheduled meeting of your Los Angeles City Council. Today is Wednesday, the 16th day of September in the year 2026. the day after a fabulous El Grito hosted by our own Councilwoman Imelda Padilla. Another big round of applause for her for that. Celebration public comment for this morning's meeting will be taken in person in this chamber as well as telephonically. Madam Clerk, let's begin our proceedings by calling the roll.

Councilmember Price moves. Councilmember Lee seconds. What's next? Councilmember Sotomartinez moves. Councilmember Rahman seconds. Can we run through our agenda?

All right. Without objection, those items are before us. Now is the time for specials. I'll start on the right side of the horseshoe with Councilmember Rodriguez.

Thank you. Item 33 for a separate vote, please.

Mr. President, out of abundance of caution, I'm recusing myself from item 34 as my wife's employer was previously worked with an organization listed. I'm also recusing myself from item three because I am a landlord and I'd like to call item two special for an amendment which is being circulated.

All right. Council Member Soto-Martinez.

Mr. President, item 16 for a separate vote and item number 35 for a separate vote and to comment.

All right. All right, moving over, Councilmember Blumenfield.

Thank you. For item six, I'd like to move the housing committee report, which is to note and file, and then items 21 and 34 to move the budget and finance committee reports.

Seconded by Mr. McOsker. Seconded by Mr. McOsker. Councilmember Hurtado?

Thank you, Council President. For Item 9, I'd like to move to approve the report from the Ad Hoc Boyle Heights Fire Recovery Committee. I have an amendment for Item 34, which should be circulating shortly, and I'd like to call Item 36 special for comments. Thank you.

Second. Seconded by Mr. McOsker. Mr. McOsker?

Thank you, Mr. President. I'd like to call Item 11 special off of the consent calendar to make comment And I'd like that matter to be heard before public comment.

All right. Any other specials members? Council Member Padilla.

I'd like to call item five special both for an amendment that's being circulated and comments.

All right. Any others? All right. Madam Clerk, where does that leave us? Oh, Council Member Rodriguez before you go, Madam Clerk.

Please, correction. Item 34. 34, not 33.

All right, let's open the roll on those items, close the roll, tabulate the vote.

All right. Madam Clerk, let's go to number 11.

Thank you very much, Mr. President. I would like to call Sheila Lewis to the center table. You may or may not have to answer any questions or say anything. It's going to be your choice. I know you didn't expect it, but I do want to say some things about you. Members, it is rare that we have an appointment to a commission where we fill up six rows in these chambers, but rare indeed is the community of Watts and the entire 1-5 because we stick up for our own. Ms. Sheila Lewis is certainly a daughter of the 1-5 living in Harbor City. and working at WLCAC for quite some time. And I want to speak a

And I would be remiss if I didn't give Ms. Lewis a chance to say a few words. Please.

Thank you. All right, with that and a gracious Expression of gratitude on behalf of this council, I'm going to ask my colleagues that we cast a unanimous vote in favor of this appointment. Madam Clerk, let's open the roll, close the roll, tabulate the vote.

Congratulations. Mr. McOsker. Madam Clerk, what's next?

All right, before we move to public comment, I just want to take a moment and recognize our neighbors, our fellow Angelenos in the San Fernando Valley who experienced a dreadful day, a dreadfully tragic day yesterday, and yield the floor to Mr. Lee to give us a review and update.

Thank you, Mr. President. Colleagues, we've all seen the news about the events that unfolded in Chatsworth yesterday afternoon and then into the evening. First, a serious traffic collision in which a vehicle collided into a Metro bus at the intersection of DeSoto and Nordhoff. Then, subsequently, a downed news helicopter nearby that had been providing aerial coverage for NBC4 and Telemundo 52. First and foremost, My heart goes out to the families and loved ones of those who lost their lives, which is, as of this morning, a total of at least five individuals. We are also praying for those who w

Thank you so much, Mr. Lee. Mr. Blumenfield.

Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Lee. What started last night, what started as a tragic bus crash in Canoga Park, or I won't say it's a crash, but this SUV literally went through that bus. I have never seen anything quite like that, and it's devastating. It became one of the worst nightmares in the West San Fernando Valley, as seen when the helicopter went down in Chatsworth right there as well. Three lives were lost due to heartbreaking helicopter trash. Two were lost because of this traffic violence. At least six were severely injured. Yesterday, during public comment, we heard from advocates urgin

thank you uh mr uh bloomingfield and again on behalf of this council to um all of the families uh and workers impacted uh yesterday our our thoughts and prayers and condolences are with the families who lost folks and with that i'll ask the clerk and the city attorney to prepare us for a public comment

Yeah, this is not in the jurisdiction of the city council.

Thank you. Thank you. Before our next speaker, I want to yield to Councilmember Nazarian for a special announcement.

Thank you, Council President. We have a wonderful opportunity to recognize a organization that's here taking a tour of City Hall. And I just wanted to recognize them on the floor. I was pleasantly surprised that they were going to stay this long. And they actually wanted to hear the democracy and work and listen to the public comments. So I just wanted to recognize Pars Equality Center. It's a immigrant-based organization helping out Iranian community members that have recently arrived and may not know everything having to do with healthcare, job placement, vocational training, financial liter

Thank you so much, Mr. Nazarian, and welcome, welcome, welcome to all of you. All right, next speaker. Good morning.

All right, let's go to telephone. public comment and we will host that from now until 20 minutes after the hour.

Let's go to general public comment for this caller, please. Thank you. You have one minute for general public comment.

With that, we'll conclude public comment for today's meeting. Thank you to everybody who came and spoke with us in person and who connected over telephone. Madam Clerk, what's before us at this time?

All right, let's open the roll on those items. Close the roll, tabulate the vote.

Thank you very much, Mr. President. Thank you very much, Mr. President. I'd like to call Ishmael Lee Williams to the center table and his cup of coffee. Lee Williams is a reappointment to the Harbor Commission and he is also the embodiment of the measure that we adopted last session to guarantee in the charter that there would be one representative from San Pedro and one representative from Wilmington on the Harbor Commission. And that measure, being a great success, has also generated another measure which will enable the airport commission to equally have local representation, which is a suc

I'll do what you didn't do. I want to welcome Sarah Williams to our chambers, who is the expectant mother and also a card-carrying member of the ILWU.

All right. Thank you, Mr. Commissioner. Your speech was well received in so much as we've already voted. There's nobody who wants to re-vote. So congratulations and great neck wear. Thank you so much for being with us today. All right. Madam Clerk, what's next?

Oh, you did pull it out. All right. Let's open the roll on 13, close the roll, tabulate the vote. All right, there you go, unanimous. Thank you so much. All right, what's next?

All right, before we go to that, Councilmember Rahman?

All right, without objection, that'll be the order. All right, Madam Clerk, can you restate what's before us?

All right, let's open the roll, close the roll, tabulate to vote.

All right, let's open the roll, close the roll, tabulate the vote. Oh, sorry, before we tabulate, Councilmember Padilla.

Yes, I want to go back to 5A and make some verbal amendments on instruction number five.

May I say them now? Okay, yes. So replace the word recommendations with awards. And the words prior to making awards with on a quarterly basis.

Okay. All right, Madam Clerk, let us know when you're ready to go.

Thank you, I just have some comments. Thank you, Council President. Colleagues, I just wanna uplift. Here's another program funded by Measure ULA that will help keep people housed and build up our affordable housing stock. The Small NOAA program is another tool to fight against the eviction to homelessness pipeline. The funding will help make sure tenants don't have to worry about getting kicked out of their building by their landlord. Genesis LA is the natural choice for administrator. They've administrated over $167 million in affordable housing loans and administered over $10 million for LA

THANK YOU. THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER HERNANDEZ. LET'S OPEN THE ROLL. COUNCIL MEMBER PARK?

THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT. I HAD A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS. I THINK WE HAVE REPRESENTATIVES FROM LAHD HERE.

Just folks, real quickly, you gotta wave your hands. For some reason, our button system isn't working today. So just wave until one of us notices. Council Member Park.

Hi, thank you, Council President. So when we heard this item recently in committee, I raised some concerns and tried to sound the alarm about the fact that this was authorizing more than $100 million to a single contractor When we had a lot of outstanding questions, caps on admin costs, caps on per unit costs, what the pre-qualification process was going to be and what the criteria were, what loans would be forgivable, who would decide that, the underwriting standards, we don't even have a staffing plan. yet for Genesis and apparently was not included as part of the RFP and it struck me that t

Okay. Well, again, I'm just going to say this as a word of caution. You know, these are relatively small properties, three to 20 units. They shouldn't be all that complicated. This is an astonishing amount of money for such a small program when we have city departments that will not see a $100 million budget over the course of five years. to the extent that a lot of that can be agreed upon ahead of time, part of the parameters of the RFP so that we are confident that the money is being used to actually support the programs and we don't even know what the cap on the admin costs can potentially

We still don't know maximum loan limits, allowable developer fees. There's just endless amount of materials and continuing questions. And so, again, we'll just reiterate that as we continue to make these allocations of our dollars, I'm going to really be looking at the contracts to be clear and accomplish up front what our intents and our program parameters are going to be so that we don't end up in disputes on the back end later.

Thank you. I just, I appreciate Ms. Park, your comments and questions associated with this. And just as a, you know, reminder of what we're seeing, for example, in the space of homelessness and what we're just seeing again with LASA and some of the failures. We have an obligation to make sure that all the dollars that are being programmed from ULA are measured and accounted for. And what I don't want to see happen is the lack of oversight and evaluation associated with what is being funded so that we can ensure taxpayers that their dollars are being managed wisely. And so as this continues, I

All right. Yeah, Councilmember Hernandez, you were a no on that after speaking in, yeah, okay. So can we, do we need to re-vote or can we, do you want to be recorded as a yes or a no?

Does anybody want to be recorded as a no, that was a yes, since this thing is not reliable today. All right. So we will change that and move to the next item, Madam Clerk.

All right. Let's open the roll, close the roll, tabulate the vote.

All right, let's open the roll, close the roll, tabulate the vote.

All right, let's open the roll on this item, close the roll, tabulate the vote.

All right. Next. We want to record another no vote?

Yes, I'd like to be recorded as a no vote. Thank you.

All right, let's open the roll. Close the roll and tabulate to vote.

All right. Mr. Price has recused himself out of an abundance of caution. So let's open the roll on this item, close the roll. Tabulate to vote. All right. Do we have any other items for which Mr. Price is recused?

Thank you. For item 34 I'd like to move to approve both the homelessness and health as amended, committee as amended and budget and finance report.

Got it. All right. You're seconded by Mr. Bloomfield.

That means since it's the other one withdrawing the previous motion because this covers both.

Got it. All right. Okay, everybody. All right. Let's open the roll, close the roll, tabulate the vote.

All right. We'll welcome Mr. Price back. And what's next?

Thank you so much, Mr. President. I just want to let folks know that I voted no on this item in committee because I have some serious concerns that have not been answered about these fusion centers. Fusion centers, which are federal sites designated to increase collaboration between law enforcement agencies, including LAPD, could be used by the federal government to carry out their fascist agenda. I want to thank Councilmember Onisa Hernandez for asking follow-up questions in the Budget and Finance Committee, which revealed more of the unanswered questions. In committee, when the department wa

Thank you, Mr. Soto-Martinez. All right, seeing no other speakers on this item, let's open the roll, close the roll, tabulate the vote.

I would like to be recorded as a no vote.

Councilmember Jurado, Councilmember Hernandez, Councilmember Soto-Martinez recorded as no votes. Any other no votes? Councilmember Price, Councilmember Rahman. You wanna reopen the roll? All right, let's reopen the roll on this item. Close the roll, tabulate the vote.

It's not working. I'd like to be recorded as a no, please.

All right, can we do a voice vote on this, Madam Clerk?

Thank you, Council President. Colleagues, Boyle Heights families have carried the consequences of the Lineage Warehouse fire long after the flames were extinguished and the rotten food was removed. But recovery doesn't finish when the site is cleaned up. My motions before us today would help ensure that residents aren't left to navigate recovery alone or bear the financial burden of an emergency they did not create. Item 36 would require an immediate report on creating a mitigation response fund of up to $10 million, including resources for pest control, case managers, utility bill assistance,

Thank you so much, Councilmember Hurtado. Let's open the roll on this item. Close the roll. Tabulate to vote.

All right. Everybody's everybody with this. All right, what's next?

All right, members, as you're aware, our city is preparing for the possibility of severe storms, heavy rainfall, and other weather events associated with one of the strongest El Nino systems that we've seen in our lifetimes. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate Prediction Center, there is an over 90% probability that this will occur. and will pose significant threats to Southern California and beyond. We have items 10, 38, and 39 on today's agenda that are a series of reports on our citywide emergency preparedness plans designed to address these impacts. W

Thank you, Council President. And we heard these items because we hear the urgency and we just want to make sure that we're prepared for what's coming. And so last week in Public Works we convened all five of the bureaus, sanitation, street services, street lighting, contract administration and engineering to discuss the El Nino preparedness, response and recovery efforts. We've already seen early rains and high coastal tides and experts warn that we may see heavier rain starting October through March 2027. Our public works bureaus are also a critical part of our public safety ecosystem. When

Thank you, Mr. President. Colleagues, as the Chair of Public Safety, I'd first like to start by thanking my colleagues and city departments for being proactive in our efforts to keep our city safe during what is projected to be the largest El Nino weather event this city has ever seen. Now, during normal rainy winter seasons, we are tasked with all different types of weather-related and this year we need to be to increase our efforts to make sure that small incidents don't grow to larger problems. And with us at the desk is the Emergency Management Department of the City of Los Angeles and we'

All right, before we go to discussion members, thank you all. I just, I want to call up the leader of our Board of Public Works to talk about the Public Works Department. So if you guys can create space for them to come forward.

All right, thank you all so much. Thank you to everybody who presented, and thank you to our chairs for queuing this up for us. We've got a number of members on the queue with questions, so if everybody can just stand by, we'll begin with Council Member Park.

Council president and colleagues I have a few questions Thank you all for being here and for the diligence and the work that I know is going into our wet weather preparation I think you all know council district 11 and council district 15 as our coastal districts are the recipients of the watershed for the entire LA region All of the trash, garbage, litter, toxins and pollutants that are picked up from our streets, gutters, trash, sidewalks, storm drains, catch basins, all move through our waterways and out to the ocean. Colleagues, I have handed out some images and I want everybody to see thi

Well, and I appreciate that. And I know that throughout the year the work is ongoing. But when we know and we can anticipate that we're going to have a wet weather event, the focus on those waterways just, it's so critically important. This is our ocean. This is our marine habitat. And we are destroying it in real time. And when it's gone, it's gone. There's no do over. And so when I get frustrated that our coastal teams get cut out of the budget, that's not just me complaining. That is because this is what we're dealing with in the real impacts. And so I'll appreciate continuing to work with

Okay, good. Glad to know that that area is on there and happy to work with you guys one-on-one on that as well. We have a lot of highly specific and detailed information about where along the coast we're seeing problems and where we need some additional support.

Great, thank you. With respect to potential evacuations, this is a challenge that we have certainly seen in Council District 11, although I suspect many of my colleagues experienced this as well, and we saw it just last week with the Getty Fire when it comes to evacuations and traffic management. If we have to evacuate because of flooding or a coastal surge, what is the protocol for notification? What technology are we using? I know about MyNotifyLA and those alerts. Are we using any kind of modeling? Is there any strategic planning going on now on how we're going to educate and communicate to

Well, thank you for mentioning beaches and harbors, and we do work closely with them, but the berms aren't up, and we're expecting rain to hit in October. and the berms aren't in place. And so I hear you, but there is a lot of vulnerability. So to the extent we can continue that pre-coordination effort, because we know what's to come. We know what's gonna happen. Also wanted to take a moment and thank you for the diligence and the incredible work over the last 20 months or so in the Palisades. We got through some very difficult weather challenges last year. A lot of those mitigation measures r

There's probably always more to be done.

Okay, because I know we've, you know, in some places we've shored up our bulkheads, we've put in some new retaining walls, but I'm watching the landslide work around the areas that we've stabilized. So anyway, I think you all know there are some major, major challenges there. Really appreciate the ongoing partnership and coordination as we head into what inevitably is going to be a difficult winter. Thank you, Council President.

Thank you, Council Member Park, and thank you for these visual aids. I'll just offer for the Discussion I know my friends in business won't like this at all, but there's some parts of the world where if your trash With your logo shows up in a place like that the city sends you a bill And I can see about five companies here just in the picture that you sent me So that's just something they do in other places that we might talk about at some point. Mr. McCaskill.

Thanks very much Before you start my time, actually, we had a project when I was at AltaSea where we brought in a contractor who does this around the United States. It's a nonprofit. And they actually gave everyone phones. And they were all volunteers. And they went around our beaches. And they took pictures of trash, all of the trash. And somehow, through technology, they were able to assess where that trash came from, and we had a list of our largest providers of plastics, especially. I won't say who they are, because that's not what this session is for. But thank you, Council Member Park, f

Thank you, Council President. And thank you to the departments and Council Member Hernandez for your foresight and making sure that we have this conversation and all the council members who put this forward. And the city family really coming together. I appreciate all that you're doing and just want to make sure that we are prepared. One of the things that we experienced during the Boyle Heights recovery is the text response system and just wanting to make sure that it is as agile and comprehensive as it can be in terms of being able to deliver longer messages. You know, that's something we ra

And is the system able to accommodate consecutive messages? One of the issues you ran into is that when we wanted to send a message in English and subsequently in Spanish of the same message, I needed to go through the general manager in order to make sure I got approval to send two text messages. And so can we send consecutive text messages without having to need a subsequent approval process?

OK, perfect. Thank you. I just want to make sure that in emergencies, the texts are important. People are always on their phone. That's the minimum that they have. And sometimes our websites are not super accessible. And so appreciated the work that you all put in to making sure that for our emergency, our website was in English and Spanish and taking the lessons learned and making sure that we can be as agile as we needed to meet the emergency with urgency. I have another question. So for our District 14, it's very diverse, but we do have a number of hillsides in our district, specifically in

So I hear the longer term solution. Is monitoring what the city is going to do during El Nino in order to prepare this hillside for El Nino? Is that all we can offer our constituents, even though they've been promised paving and it hasn't happened?

Okay, great. Yeah, at this moment in time, it seems the departments are at an impasse, and even at one point, one of the departments said, it's not even our job to do it. And so I think that's unacceptable, and as we prepare for an emergency, we need to mitigate the circumstances, especially when this council had decided for that resurfacing, and it just hasn't come to fruition. So thank you.

Thank you. Ms. Jurado, there was, I don't know if it was related to this motion, but I think it might have been back in like 2018-19 that I had co-introduced a motion with your predecessor on prioritization for evacuation routes of hillside streets for that paving. I know we worked with BOE. There is a prioritization list because there are a number of streets that are substandard that, especially with the hillside communities I have, River would for example in my district that gets isolated and is strictly limited to a fire road for Accessing that space and I know EMD is all too familiar with

Okay. Well, and then lastly, I appreciate that and I look forward to that work coming online. I know there was during budget conversation just the Clean Streets initiatives and things that we're trying to do. I know many of us, all of us, have additional supplemental crews that we are helping to mitigate the trash and debris that enters our waterways as a means of helping to proactively not just wait for scheduling with sanitation, but to, you know, I have Operation Bright Spot. We all have our various efforts. But making sure that, you know, we're actively... you know, full pedal to the metal

Thank you so much. I got Councilmember Yaroslavsky.

Thank you, Councilmember Jaroslawski. And we'll have Councilmembers Hernandez and Lee to close.

Thank you, Council President. Thank you, colleagues, for being here today. I just have a couple questions and then to close out because we will continue these conversations in the Public Works Committee so that we can continue to get details and continue to hash out some of this information. My question is for June. In committee you highlighted the urgent need for continued investment in Hyperion. and our other wastewater treatment facilities. Can you please explain to the council why these investments are critical, particularly during heavy rainfall, and what risks Angelenos could face if we

Thank you. And I ask this question because it is a vulnerability for us. And even when there's not rains, it is vulnerable. And so I want to make sure my colleagues knew the urgency, particularly the Hyperion. And at some point, I would like to know, and it doesn't have to be today, but out of those 29 entities, when was the last time those fees or rates were increased for them using our system? And if they don't get charged, can we start charging them? You don't have to answer now, but just something I want us to dig into later. And then my next question is for Keith. In committee your team m

Great, thank you. So you're able to maneuver people to do it, but it's still going to take us a significant amount of time because we need more of those teams or more resources or...

Understood. I've heard descriptions that our city's just, because we haven't invested enough in our shoe repair, we're just a big pothole. But that's why it's important that we invest those resources. And I'll end with this, is that you brought up the mini-profilers. And there's a handful of council districts that have hillsides that have not been repaved. But we fought for the mini-profilers to be bought this last budget cycle. And so when we invest in the things, we can do the things. And so I just want us to bring the same energy when we have to discuss funding these departments in the futu

So when I hear this, I just want to say I appreciate the conversations that all of our departments and bureaus are having together to prepare for what is looming ahead for us here in the city of Los Angeles. When I look at all the different departments that are involved with getting us ready for this, whether it be MD, police department, fire department, who weren't called to the table, and all the different bureaus, you are what I say is the core responsibility of the City of Los Angeles. You provide the core services of what we do. So it isn't sometimes, you know, as general managers, it's n

Thank you so much, Mr. Lee, and thank you to our Board of Public Works, our Public Works Bureaus, police, fire, emergency management for sharing with us today. I suspect we're going to be seeing a lot of each other over the next six to nine months, and hopefully we are having good interactions. and declaring our victories over Mother Nature during this time period. So thank you all for that, and thank you to the chairpersons and the members of the council.

Bringing this conversation to chamber so that we could all be a part of the conversation because it's impacting all of us. Thank you for your leadership on that.

Absolutely. Thank you so much. All right, Madam Clerk, what's before us? I think we have a few motions on El Nino.

Yes, let's open the roll on those items, close the roll, tabulate the votes.

They are posted and referred. Are there any announcements, members? Any announcements? Seeing no announcements, I'll ask everyone, Councilmember Padilla.

Members, I just wanted to express some gratitude to all of you who came yesterday, those that, some of you partners, some of you attended, most of you sent me a text of some sort congratulating me on a great event. Well, I couldn't have done it alone. But I also want to give a lot of gratitude to the Department of Cultural Affairs They really were the lead on this with me. And just everyone that played a role, the best comment that I got this morning was from GSD when they told me, we can't tell you how much we love it when this building is activated and how much attention was put into that. S

Thank you so much, and thank you so much for doing the city so proud last night. Council Member Rodriguez.

Thank you. I just wanted to take a moment to congratulate you, Council Member Padilla, and your team. It is, in fact, a lot of work, but it's, frankly, the example and the standard of what we should be expecting every single year. Our community is deserving of this type of celebration with this much attention and care, and I thought you guys did a beautiful job, so congratulations on a job well done.

Thank you so much. Any other announcements? Seeing none, I'll ask if there are any adjourning motions. Seeing no adjourning motions, we are adjourned. See you all on Friday.