Remarks by Caroline Torosis
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Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the October 27th meeting of the City Council. We will ask that everyone turn off their phones or turn them to vibrate so as not to disrupt the meeting. Council Member Raskin, will you lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance?
And Council Member Negrete, would you like to do the land acknowledgement?
Great. And I will defer to the clerk now.
Here. Great. And I believe there's a Levine Act disclosure. No? Does anyone want to recuse themselves from any items on the agenda? Okay. So for agenda management, a motion would be in order to move the city manager's report and the mayor's highlight before general public input and then proceed accordingly. I'll make that motion. Great.
Yes, great. So we will, are you doing the city manager's report first or the mayor's highlight? Okay, great, go ahead.
Thank you so much. So we're going to move on to the mayor's highlight, which is a really special one today. As you recall, we highlight our unsung heroes in our city team. And so tonight I want to highlight Motor Coach Operator Antonise Walton. On October 1st, 2026, at approximately 5.09 p.m., Big Blue Bus Motor Coach Operator Antonise Walton contacted BBB Dispatch from Bus 2504 after observing Culver City bus 7158 idling in the middle of the street with the operator appearing unconscious. Believing that the Culver City bus operator may have experienced a medical emergency, MCO Walton took…
Okay, we'll now move on to general public comment on a recording in progress. Great. I hope that recorded our amazing motor coach operator. In any event, we're going to move on now to the general public comment. And just to remind everyone, this is comment on items not on the agenda. And we ask that if you are commenting on an agendized item, that you please talk to our clerk and make sure that you get in the appropriate queue. Otherwise, we will ask you to reframe your comments. We do have 25 comments, so everyone will have one minute.
Oh, and four on the phone. Okay, Jerry Rubin, Andrew Hoyer, Denise Barton, Mike Feinstein, Lynn Sturgis.
Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
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So I'm hoping that somebody will agendize that at a future meeting. Thank you. Thank you, mr. fonten. Lynn sturges. And then I'm going to call up some other names. Freddie luis, John Medlin, adel huizar, Dick Lucas, Karina Rojas.
Thank you. Thank you, Dick Lucas. And then we have Karina Rojas.
OK, after Karina Rojas, we have Farah Suti, Roku, Sean A. House, Clarence McDowell, John Berry. Are you Karina Rojas? Oh, yeah, you can come up and speak. Yeah.
We do have staff here in the back. Yeah, I think they're coming to talk to you. For us, Suti Roku. Great.
Thank you, we have a team member Josh in the back who can chat with you Shawn a house Caroline Heidi and Oliver
New speaker thank you. You can address me as mayor Tarosis next time. Clarence McDowell, John Berry, rev.
Thank you, John Berry. And then after Jim Kahn, we have Susan McQuarrie and Jonathan Buster.
Thank you very much. Bye-bye. Thank you so much. And we love our community gardens. JONATHAN FOSTER, AND THEN WE HAVE MORGAN HUNTER-GROSS, JOE De ROSA, CAMERON CASH, ZOE MUNTENER.
Thank you, Jonathan. Morgan Hunter Gross.
Thank you. Cameron Cash, Zoe Muginera, Erica Leslie, John Cyrus-Smith.
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New speaker great. We will now move on to the consent calendar. and we will move on to public input on items under the consent calendar in closed session only. We have Morgan Hunter-Gross, Zoe Moutonniere, and Karina Rojas. Two minutes.
Thank you. Thank you, Morgan. Zoe Moutonair.
Thank you. Thanks so much. Karina Rojas? Is Karina Rojas here? Do not see her. She might have left. Okay. Well, oh, she's coming back. Great.
I'm so sorry, but you have to be talking about an agenda item on the agenda. Is there an agenda item here?