Remarks by Caroline Torosis
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I mean, L.A. County is the wage theft capital of the United States. That seems... shockingly low for what might be happening here.
Correct. Like, let's do better is what I would say.
Okay. Thank you so much. I'm sorry. I know we are late and we're trying to get through a bunch of stuff. So thanks a lot. I don't see any other questions. Do we want to go into comments? Counselor Zernskaya.
Yeah. I don't see anyone else in the queue, so I'll just make a couple of comments, and then I'm prepared to make a motion. I just want to also say thank you. I think we've had dialogue back and forth. There have been several folks that I've talked to who could have qualified for the POD program, but Missed it just by a little bit. I have actually talked to people in deed restricted housing who cannot continue to just given their income pay for their required rent. And so I just think very smart to be able to do this. I hope that in the future we're able to find additional money and even look…
There is a solution on the books. We're just not letting the citizens know about it.
Yeah, sure. No, that's fine. I'll second the substitute motion. Great. Let's vote on that.
Do we want to consider the original motion on the floor?
Yes. And again, I would just ask that our city attorney come back to us with options when we hear about the wage enforcement program. And I'm very clear that we need to work with our workers centers on the ground. Yeah. Thank you so much. Thank you. Appreciate you all. Thank you for your amazing work. Okay, we will now move on to 11B, which is our El Nino state of emergency.
Well, I have a presentation, but I'm happy to just... How long is your presentation?
I was just going to say maybe we can scroll through the PowerPoint presentation while people are asking questions just in case we want to look at it. Maybe Walford or someone could do that. Sorry. Council Member Negrete.
Sorry, I just have one quick question about the price gouging. Shouldn't sandbags be covered in this anti-price gouging if we're having sandbag Saturdays?
Okay, but don't you have to procure sandbags? They're not free to you.
I'm just making sure if everyone knows that everyone's preparing for El Nino, just similar to when everyone was buying hand sanitizer.
I'm just making sure we're not getting taken for a ride. We have to be fiscally responsible.
Can you just you guys put out some great content this week about what we're doing? And can you just tell us about the Pico-Kentner Canyon storm drain and like what we've been doing to clear the storm drains to make sure that this is not Do you can you specifically mention that just because I have gotten a lot of questions. Okay, and after we cancelled after The decision was made to cancel Ocean Way. I think people are very concerned. So I just want to elucidate that.
Right had not cleared it and prepped it but we have essentially done that work now yeah okay fantastic I don't see any other questions I would just say as we move it I really appreciate that we're taking this very seriously and we're being proactive so that we're not caught off guard thank you I don't think we can take this too seriously especially given our example about the peer so just want thank you to the city manager thank you to fire thank you to oem really appreciate you all and public works so so sorry And I have seen the prop palm fronds cutting happening and we appreciate it. Yes.…
Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
Great, thank you, and I think we'll hear the staff report, and I think Oh, do we disclose first? My apologies. Thanks for the reminder. Okay, go ahead. Council Member Snell.
And I had a conversation on Zoom with a representative of the applicant, Nina Fresco, on September 30th. I've also received intermittent text messages and have visited the site. I believe that is all of our disclosures.
Great. So I believe those are all of the disclosures. I think what typically would happen is we'd have the staff report and Is there going to also be, sorry because I messed this up last time, a report from the applicant afterwards or the appellant?
Great. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Any abstentions?
Okay. Sure. Okay. So we have five five zero to one Great. Let us start with the staff report.
That concludes my report Okay, I want to make sure that we get the we're gonna do questions so council member Hall Do we do questions of staff now, or do we hear that? Well, I don't know. My order here says questions of staff now.
Council Member Raskin, then I have some.
Done? Okay. So staff compared this house to the over 170 craftsmen properties that are in the city. Shouldn't the comparison have been Shouldn't the comparison be to surviving airplane bungalows or to surviving pre-1920 homes in the Pico neighborhood rather than all the craftsman's in the city?