2026-10-09 - City Council

00:01independence, you know, and this

00:02is it. This is. That's it. It is

00:10a way of celebrating Mexican

00:13independence Day, but in a way

00:16where we recognize we emphasize

00:18that we are a neighbor. We are a

00:22community of Mexican Americans.

00:25Everyone is invited to our

00:26party. What it's about the

00:28history. And again, being a

00:30woman and a family of men, it's

00:33showing us to be strong and

00:34stand up for what we believe to

00:38that we are a city that has a

00:41majority Latino population, the

00:43largest concentration of

00:45Mexicans outside of Mexico City.

00:47The true meaning of El Grito. It

00:49was how ordinary people came

00:50together to fight for their

00:52independence. And one, you know,

00:53I think it's very important to

00:55just keep the roots and keep the

00:57culture alive. It's very

00:57important to just know and be

00:59proud of who we are as Latinos

01:02as our parents who made such

01:03sacrifices to be in this

01:04country, who work their butts

01:06off to be here and to let people

01:09know in higher power that we are

01:10not leaving anytime soon, and

01:12that we were here for it. We

01:14have been here and we are going

01:15nowhere. Make some noise if you

01:17are planning to go anywhere. Be

01:25to Mexico. Viva Mexico, Viva

01:29neon Mexico! Viva.

01:47God bless you and. Viva Mexico.

01:55Goes mucho Los Angeles! Qué Viva

01:58Mexico. Look in! The Japanese

02:08American National Museum has

02:09been an institution here in

02:10little Tokyo for a long time.

02:11And so we always seek to partner

02:14with other organizations around

02:15the neighborhood. In this case,

02:15being able to host our Natsu

02:17Matsuri festival, which we hold

02:19each summer here at the Budokan,

02:20is an exciting opportunity for

02:22us to bring both audiences

02:23together and to invite the

02:25community to participate in some

02:25of the programs that Janam has

02:27brought here, as well as

02:28collaborating with the Budokan

02:29to share this space here in

02:31Little Tokyo. It's an annual

02:35festival and we are here to

02:37celebrate the summer and Nisei

02:38Week as a part of our activities

02:40that are happening throughout

02:41Little Tokyo. Most of our

02:44audience, you know, isn't

02:45Japanese American for these

02:45kinds of festivals. So it's a

02:47really new opportunity to learn

02:48about a new culture and new

02:50tradition. So yeah, that's why

02:51we just wanted people to come in

02:54and celebrate with us. We're

02:55hosting a variety of activities

02:57today, from Obon dancing to our

03:01Janam volunteer Band, a program

03:03that I work in, particularly the

03:04Democracy Center specializes in

03:06programing that engages

03:07audiences of all ages and civic

03:10dialog. Arts and culture, and

03:12the ways those two fields

03:14interact with one another. We

03:15particularly want to engage

03:17younger audiences, and being

03:18more civically involved because

03:19it's so crucial that young

03:21people are involved in the

03:22infrastructure and the building

03:24of their future. So, Janam,

03:26we're closed for renovation,

03:28right now, but we are still

03:30actively doing programing. And

03:32even when we were open, this was

03:33really a good opportunity for us

03:34to get a lot of people in the

03:36door, especially new audiences,

03:37young families, new generations

03:39in the door to learn about

03:40Janam, learn about Japanese

03:42American history and culture,

03:43Japanese American history is

03:44very extensive and Janam is the

03:47largest collection of material

03:48objects of the Japanese American

03:50story and history. And so for

03:52us, it's really a great

03:53opportunity. Just like with

03:54Natsu Matsuri, to connect with

03:56multiple generations of families

03:58to come that are not only

03:59Japanese, American, but of many

04:01other cultures to be a part of

04:03this festival together. In 1997,

04:07during the construction of the

04:09Metro B-Line subway, the

04:10foundation of the original Adobe

04:12was unearthed beneath Lankershim

04:14Boulevard to ensure its legacy,

04:17a recreation of the foundation

04:19is available for viewing, while

04:20the footprint under the street

04:22and sidewalk is marked by

04:24decorative pavement in South Los

04:26Angeles, another historic

04:27landmark is being preserved that

04:29celebrates arts and culture. The

04:31city of Los Angeles has

04:33completed a major investment in

04:34Leimert Park's historic Vision

04:36Theater, transforming the venue

04:38into a vibrant gathering place

04:40for the entire community. The

04:46city has made an investment

04:47right here in Leimert Park for

04:50the vision Theater. We're so

04:52excited about what this means in

04:53South Los Angeles, what it means

04:56to artists, what it means to

04:57community. And we can't wait for

05:03the doors to be open to see our

05:08first program. In the community

05:11is at the heart of what the

05:14Department of Cultural Affairs

05:15does. We know that Leimert Park

05:16is a space where artists thrive,

05:18where we have visual and

05:20performing artists. The theater

05:21is here to help lift up our

05:23artists and our partners here in

05:24Leimert Park, and help carry

05:27forward the Leimert Park legacy

05:27of what this is going to be.

05:33It's a great thing to see this.

05:35This theater open and it's like

05:36a jewel. This is like a jewel of

05:39this community. And it's so

05:40promising. All the attention

05:42given by the city of Los Angeles

05:43to this neighborhood, the first

05:46thing I noticed was the sound

05:50impeccable. The acoustics. I'm a

05:53musician. I'm an actor, a singer

05:55, all of that other stuff. You

05:56know, I'm a performer. And the

05:58acoustics was what got me. I

06:00sing, oh, so I want to be on

06:04stage. Like I say, it's a jewel.

06:12It's really from this community

06:14and it celebrates this

06:15community. And it's a place

06:16where people can gather until

06:18such time as we have opened this

06:21beautiful, grand vision theater,

06:22we've had to find ourselves

06:24going out of our community in

06:26order to enjoy the arts, music,

06:28dance and now we can stay home.

06:32I think every detail was

06:35intentional and I'm excited for

06:37the world to see it

06:55.

06:55We're here today in the lovely

06:56Winnetka area, here in the west,

06:57San Fernando Valley on 818.

06:59We're here at Cupid's Hot Dogs,

07:00hosting their love letters to

07:02the Valley event. So we've been

07:11here for 80 years. My

07:12grandparents started Cupid, so

07:13we're third generation owners.

07:16And yeah, we've just been a part

07:17of the Valley for generations

07:19now, and it's really been our

07:20mission to kind of keep our

07:22store the same. We haven't

07:23changed a lot. We got bands

07:25playing here. We've got vendors

07:27and all kinds of fun things

07:28going on. Tell me when

07:33everybody's so. We really our

07:42motivation behind a love letter

07:44to the Valley was a way for us

07:46to bring community together, to

07:48show love to one another. We

07:50brought a variety of

07:51organizations, nonprofits, pop

07:54up vendors and musicians to all

07:57come together in this family

07:58friendly event so that we could

08:00not only show love to one

08:02another, but feel that love from

08:06one another. I think it's just

08:09good to get in, you know, IRL,

08:11as the kids say, get back into

08:13real life and let's see what's

08:14going on. You know, in the

08:16community, in person than

08:16whatever's going on online. You

08:18know, there could be a little

08:20misconstrued sometimes on there.

08:21So let's get back out and doing

08:22some fun stuff in public. You

08:24know, events like this is what I

08:27love about this job. Councilman

08:29Bob Bloomfield loves to keep our

08:31local mom and pop style

08:32businesses as healthy and

08:33thriving as he can. And so

08:36through our support and our

08:38fellow government offices,

08:38making sure that these legacy

08:40businesses stay afloat is super

08:42important.

08:57This is one of the last events

08:58that we have for the summer,

09:00culminating a great summer. We

09:03had pool parties all over the

09:04city. We had a great attendance.

09:08People from all over the city

09:09came out to enjoy our pool

09:11parties. The summer was really

09:15successful for Vienna, so we had

09:16a lot of programs, a lot of

09:18teams, for example, like water

09:19polo, artistic swimming, swim

09:20team, junior lifeguards also,

09:23kids learn how to swim, going

09:24from, you know, our tiny tots

09:26and preschool all the way up to

09:27even like level four and just

09:28being in the water during

09:30summertime because, you know,

09:31it's super hot outside. My kids

09:33use this club for two years. We

09:37love it. I'm really appreciate

09:38for L.A. city. You know, it's a

09:40good facility for the kids. What

09:44I found out, it's like a free

09:47pool party. I got so excited and

09:48I told my kids it's actually,

09:52like our first time here in Van

09:54Nuys. You know, the pool is big,

09:56and it's really a nice pool. I

09:59love it. This pool party is

10:03amazing. And bringing all

10:04community together. The kids are

10:06enjoying it. We've been coming

10:09to this park for many years. My

10:10son is in a swimming team and a

10:12water polo team in this park

10:15every single day. The council

10:19office is also here and they're

10:21going to have a few different

10:23games for the kids. Being a

10:27lifeguard, I really find a lot

10:29of joy and fulfillment in

10:31teaching kids how to swim. You

10:32know, being more confident in

10:33the water, just learning that

10:34it's not something to be scared

10:36of or fearful of. When you think

10:37of the water, you should be

10:39thinking of having a good time.

10:41You know, having fun. Obviously,

10:44swimming is a life skill that

10:46everybody should know, and we

10:47have a great program here and

10:49all over the city where we teach

10:52kids and adults how to swim.

10:57Here at Vienna. So we are a year

10:58round pool, so we offer lessons

11:00as well as team sports

11:02throughout the whole year. So

11:03not just the summertime. So

11:05currently after the Labor Day

11:07pool party, we will kick off our

11:09off season and so essentially

11:10what that means is we do offer

11:11our lessons and teams during the

11:13fall and winter months, you

11:14know, stop on by, see what we

11:16have going on. From its early

11:23beginnings, when the Adobe was a

11:24ranch house to a stagecoach mail

11:26service, to a Union troop

11:28campsite during the Civil War,

11:30and today, Los Angeles

11:31Historical Monument number 29,

11:32Campo de Cahuenga will always

11:34hold importance to the people

11:36and history it represents in

11:38Venice Beach. Another important

11:40landmark is being preserved

11:41after fears it would go away,

11:43the Venice Beach skate park is

11:45back. The restored park was

11:47designed with input from skaters

11:49and an emphasis on being a place

11:50to bring people together.

11:52Councilwoman Tracy Park was at

11:53the ribbon cutting ceremony with

11:55the Venice Beach community to

11:56celebrate the return of the

11:57skate park. I finally got back,

12:03so I'm so excited about it. Like

12:06it's amazing. It was obviously

12:08done by skaters. It's so smooth,

12:09especially the ground and the

12:11vibe is so nice. We are out here

12:13at Venice Beach where we just

12:16cut the ribbon on our

12:18restoration of the historic OG

12:22Little Skate park right here,

12:25and we have worked with the

12:26community to restore some of

12:28these historic elements. When

12:29they took out the last one, a

12:32lot of us local skaters were

12:33really sad because we didn't

12:34know that they were going to

12:35build it soon, and we honestly

12:37thought they were just going to

12:38take it away. So like we were

12:40kind of heartbroken. So just to

12:42see like all the effort and work

12:43they put into it and to make it

12:45so nice, it's like we really

12:48feel like Venice is back. I

12:48think it's sick. It's a sick,

12:51sick setup. Should have had this

12:52like 20 years ago. It's amazing.

12:54And I'm so grateful. Hallelujah

12:57Thank you God. Thank you

12:58everybody that made this happen.

12:59You know what I'm saying? I'm

13:01grateful. I think for the

13:04community, it's a great place.

13:06Venice already is a skate Mecca.

13:07I feel like people come from all

13:09over the world to skate here.

13:10Now. The community is going to

13:13be able to come here and learn.

13:14Hopefully we'll start doing some

13:15skate classes with the

13:17recreation center. So offering

13:17some more programs for everybody

13:19locally and around the world.

13:20And this is of course adjacent

13:24to one of the most iconic skate

13:26parks in the entire world. We

13:29are also going to be bringing

13:31back the legendary historic

13:33Venice pit. It brings unity. It

13:44brings family. There are people

13:46from all over Los Angeles and

13:49beyond out here in Venice today

13:53. Dude, right now the city is

13:59doing such a good job. Venice

14:01and Santa Monica has been coming

14:02to life with all the events

14:04there's been so much happiness,

14:06even with FIFA just happening

14:09too. It's been like maybe like

14:11seven years since I've seen

14:13Venice this bright and happy. I

14:16think there's going to be more

14:17people because I'm going to

14:19start skating more, because this

14:20setup is way doper. I'm about

14:22the street spots. It's got the

14:23new street benches and stuff. So

14:25I'm stoked. Maybe doing some

14:27intro to skating, getting some

14:29of our local legends, Venice

14:30Beach is full of legends who are

14:33OG skateboarders that grew up

14:34here, that learned to skate

14:35here. So hopefully they'll come

14:37back and they'll want to do some

14:38some good for the community and

14:40give back to the kids. We are

14:42super excited with La28 and the

14:43Olympics on the horizon, as

14:44we're getting our footprint here

14:47in Venice ready for the world to

14:51arrive. We're not done yet, but

14:52we're going to be camera ready

14:54by 2028. Come by Venice Beach,

14:56bring your skateboard and learn

14:57to skate out here. This is a

14:59blessing for everybody that

15:00skates out here. This is dope.

15:13We are happy today to be here to

15:15reopen the lovely Wilshire

15:17Branch Library. They have done a

15:20lot of work on making their

15:21spaces to be more sensory

15:24friendly and just welcoming and

15:25inclusive for young Angelenos.

15:27So we're very excited to be here

15:29. We are the biggest fans of

15:31this library, this library is

15:33one of the most special places

15:35in Los Angeles to make the space

15:37accessible for everyone. Nicole

15:38is always putting on fun events,

15:41sensory spaces for kids and

15:43teens means dampening the sound,

15:45lowering the lights, making the

15:47lights softer. So to speak,

15:50which we did with some different

15:52cellophane and making more

15:54accessible seating, basically

15:55making it more of an inclusive

15:57space. We actually have a

16:00sensory forecast that allows

16:03patrons to anticipate when there

16:05will be sensory friendly hours

16:07in the library, which are

16:09Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays,

16:11Saturdays for the first two

16:12hours of service and for the

16:13patrons that have lower light

16:15needs. We have lights that they

16:18can actually check out at the

16:18library. It's been amazing being

16:20here. And as you can see,

16:22there's just so much going on

16:24around and we've always been

16:26welcomed to be here. And I think

16:28that if there's anybody in the

16:30community who's looking for a

16:31space to do that, to be able to

16:33come and be themselves, and this

16:34is a great place to be. My

16:36favorite activity that we do

16:38here is probably like Legos,

16:40because you can like, go here on

16:43like a Lego day and you can make

16:45anything you want. This is our

16:47eighth location to undergo these

16:49changes to make this space more

16:50sensory friendly and inclusive

16:52for children and teens. Over 40

16:54of our locations now have

16:56sensory kits, so even if they

16:57don't have the complete space,

16:59they do have tools available to

17:00help make the library more

17:02accessible. LA will host the

17:08largest event this nation has

17:09ever hosted, and the question

17:12that determines whether it works

17:13is not just about the readiness

17:14of the particular venues. It's

17:16not just about the athletes

17:18themselves, it's about whether

17:19people can get to and around Los

17:21Angeles safely, affordably, and

17:24in a way that makes them feel

17:27good about their experience here

17:28in Los Angeles. So I hosted a

17:31panel discussion here today with

17:32some of the agencies that are

17:33going to be responsible for

17:35mobility around the upcoming

17:36Olympic and Paralympic Games.

17:40Whether you plan to go to the

17:43games or not, you're going to be

17:45impacted by an increase in

17:46traffic and an increase in

17:48visitors. Really, LA metro is

17:51the largest agency that's

17:52coordinating these efforts.

17:58During the summer's World Cup,

18:00Los Angeles showed the world

18:01what we can accomplish. More

18:04than 212,000 rides were taken on

18:06Metro's enhanced bus service. On

18:08one match day alone. Ridership

18:10on the line increased by 41, and

18:12on the C line by 23. Well, we

18:16wanted to talk about what went

18:18right during the World Cup so

18:19that we could build on that

18:21experience to make sure that the

18:23games that are coming in 2008

18:24are as seamless as possible, and

18:26that we can have mobility for

18:29the tens of thousands of

18:29visitors who are coming to Los

18:31Angeles without negatively

18:32impacting the residents of Los

18:34Angeles. We also want to make

18:41this so good for transit riders

18:43that we improve their experience

18:45going into the future, long

18:46after the games are gone.

18:48There's a lot of things that we

18:49need to fix about our transit

18:51system for transit riders that

18:53this gives us a really good push

18:55to get done quickly. We enjoy

19:00the fact that we're going to

19:01have the Olympics here in L.A,

19:04but included in that we will be

19:07looking out for the residents to

19:09make sure they're not

19:10disadvantaged and that something

19:11will be left in these

19:14communities for them. And we're

19:17also hoping that more people

19:19give transit a try. We want to

19:21give people an affordable, safe

19:24, convenient way to get around

19:25our city. We're hoping that

19:27these games give us an

19:28opportunity to do that. Campo de

19:38Cahuenga hosts an annual

19:40reenactment of the Treaty

19:41signing. While the treaty ended

19:43conflict in California, the

19:44Mexican-American War did not

19:45formally end until the Treaty of

19:47Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed on

19:50February 2nd, 1848. When we

19:53document the truth of our past,

19:54it allows us to preserve the

19:56history of communities and

19:57recover from difficult times

19:59with intention and recognition.

20:01September is national

20:03Preparedness Month in LA and the

20:04City of Los Angeles. Emergency

20:06Management Department is

20:07reminding Angelenos to be

20:09prepared. That means having

20:10emergency kits, updating out of

20:12area contacts, making a plan,

20:14and knowing where to find

20:16resources in an emergency.

20:25September is National

20:27Preparedness Month. It's an

20:29opportunity to gather your

20:30family and friends and think

20:32about if you are prepared for

20:34disasters. Here in Los Angeles,

20:36we know that we are prone to a

20:38variety of different types of

20:39things. It could be earthquakes.

20:41It could be severe weather, a

20:43lot of rain, high temperatures.

20:44You name it. So we have to be

20:47ready and we have to be

20:50prepared. So during the month of

20:51September, we encourage all

20:52Angelenos, residents and

20:54businesses to take a look at

20:56their emergency plans, to know

20:58their hazards and then to

21:00practice their plan to look at

21:01their emergency kits, to make

21:03sure all the items that might be

21:05needed during times of disaster

21:06are in place. Los Angeles being

21:10so huge, certainly responders

21:11can't get to everybody. So

21:14oftentimes we rely on our

21:15neighbors. While there is some

21:18disasters that we can plan for,

21:20such as El Nino, we need to know

21:23how to be ready for anything

21:25that could happen at a moment's

21:27notice. September is el mas

21:32Nacional del preparation. Qué es

21:33dedicado a crear conciencia

21:34publica sobre la importancia de

21:36prepararse para desastres

21:37naturales y también esos datos

21:39para ser humano. Lo importante

21:41es empezar a empezar a hablar

21:43sobre todo. Qué pueden hacer en

21:45caso de una emergencia y sepan.

21:47Qué no tienen tener miedo porque

21:49ya estan mas preparados. Ready

21:52la .org that's ready. Laforgue

21:57At this website you will see a

21:59variety of resources to be ready

22:02for any disaster. There are

22:12studies that show that 1 in 3

22:14students in LAUSD need glasses.

22:16The idea of kids going to school

22:17and not being able to see and

22:20perform well in school, to me,

22:20is just heartbreaking. Today,

22:25Powersite Foundation teamed up

22:26with Ketchum Health University

22:28with Monica Rodriguez and Radio

22:3092.3. We came out here at

22:31Pacoima to give free eye exams

22:33and free glasses. We're hosting

22:35our first ever vision clinic.

22:36We're partnering with Power of

22:38Sight to bring 150 glasses eye

22:39exams to the community. People

22:42are getting ready to go back to

22:44school, kids going back to

22:44school and we think it's so

22:45important that they have the

22:47proper vision and tools that

22:49they need in order to do well in

22:51school adults as well. We

22:52brought not only the glasses,

22:54but giveaways like backpacks.

22:55We're giving food out to the

22:57community. As we see the need is

23:01there. We've had a line since 6

23:03a.m. this is a service that a

23:05lot of people from the community

23:06desperately need. Eyeglasses are

23:07not super affordable. Sometimes

23:09we know insurance is high,

23:11eyeglasses are expensive, and

23:12the opportunity to do that for

23:15free in the community is

23:16something that we're happy to be

23:18involved with on a frequent

23:19basis. We got here at 7:00, but

23:21people were lining up before we

23:22got here two hours before we got

23:24here, like at 5 a.m, so the need

23:27here is great. What's unique

23:28about our organization? Not only

23:29do they do the eye exams, they

23:32choose their frames and we're

23:32making them today on the spot.

23:34So everyone was walking away

23:36with their glasses today.

23:38There's been many times a lot of

23:40our participants. This is their

23:41first exam ever. Sometimes

23:43they're in their mid 30s 40s

23:44even 50s. We want to make sure

23:46that the resources that

23:48sometimes our constituents need

23:48to go out to the city to

23:50receive, that we bring them to

23:52them. Right? We don't want to

23:54create an obstacle or a hurdle

23:54that they have to go to. That's

23:57our commitment to the city. If

23:59anybody is interested or

24:00bringing us to their community

24:02anywhere in LA County, reach out

24:03to us. You can visit our website

24:05at powersite dot org. We'll be

24:07happy to come out to your

24:08community. Campo de Cahuenga is

24:16one of hundreds of places in Los

24:18Angeles that tells the

24:19incredible history of a city

24:20filled with dreamers, game

24:22changers, pioneers and really

24:24good skaters. Thank you for

24:26joining us and experiencing Los

24:27Angeles. Watch these stories and

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25:32Hello Angelenos, your trusted

25:35Los Angeles Fire Department and

25:36I would like to take some time

25:38to share with you some easy to

25:40follow tips on the safe use of

25:42fire extinguishers. A very

25:45useful tool when it comes to

25:46putting out small fires for that

25:48purpose. Today we are joined by

25:49firefighters Joe and Kurt to go

25:51over the basics of pass pull,

25:54aim, squeeze and sweep.

26:02Remember, Angelenos small fires

26:03spread rapidly when it comes to

26:06fire. Be smart. Never put

26:08yourself at risk by attempting

26:10to extinguish large fires.

26:11Unlike yourself, possessions can

26:14be replaced. The time to learn

26:15how to use a fire extinguisher

26:18is never when you discover a

26:19fire. So remember, in practice,

26:21to pass pull, aim, squeeze, and

26:24sweep. One. Claiming for

26:33emergencies is smart, but does

26:35the family emergency plan

26:37include pets

38:13>> Council President: ALL

38:14RIGHT, GOOD MORNING AND WELCOME

38:15TO THE REGULARLY SCHEDULED

38:17MEETING OF YOUR LOS ANGELES

38:18CITY COUNCIL.

38:19TODAY IS FRIDAY, THE 9th DAY OF

38:23OCTOBER.

38:24IN THE YEAR OF 2026.

38:26PUBLIC COMMENT WILL BE TAKEN IN

38:29THIS CHAMBER AS WELL AS

38:31TELEPHONICALLY.

38:33MR. CLERK LET'S BEGIN BY

38:34CALLING THE ROLL.

38:35>> Clerk: BLUMENFIELD,

38:35HARRIS-DAWSON, HERNANDEZ, HUTT,

38:36JURADO, LEE, MCOSKER, NAZARIAN,

38:37PADILLA, PARK, PRICE, RAMAN,

38:37RODRIGUEZ, SOTO-MARTINEZ,

38:38YAROSLAVSKY.

38:40TEN MEMBERS AND A QUORUM MR.

38:41PRESIDENT.

38:42>> Council President: ALL

38:43RIGHT, FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS.

38:44>> Clerk: APPROVAL OF MINUTES

38:47OF OCTOBER 7, 2026.

38:49>> Council President: WHAT'S

38:50NEXT.

38:50>> Clerk: COMMENDATORY

38:55RESOLUTION FOESER APPROVAL.

38:57>> Council President: MOVED AND

38:57SECOND.

38:58CAN WE RUN THROUGH THE AGENDA.

39:00>> Clerk: 1 THROUGH 4 ARE ITEMS

39:02FOR WHICH PUBLIC HEARINGS HAVE

39:02BEEN HELD.

39:04ITEM 5 IS PUBLIC HEARING HAS

39:06NOT BEEN HELD.

39:07TEN VOTES ARE REQUIRED FOR

39:08CONSIDERATION.

39:09>> Council President: ALL

39:09RIGHT, THOSE ITEMS ARE BEFORE

39:10US.

39:11ARE THERE ANY SPECIALS, MEMBERS?

39:13ALL RIGHT, SEEING NO SPECIALS,

39:15MR. CLERK, WHAT ITEMS ARE

39:17AVAILABLE FOR VOTES AT THIS

39:17TIME.

39:19.

39:19>> Clerk: BEFORE COUNCIL ARE

39:21ITEMS 1 THROUGH 4.

39:24>> Council President: ALL

39:24RIGHT, LET'S OPEN THE ROLL,

39:26CLOSE THE ROLL, TABULATE THE

39:27VOTE.

39:28>> Clerk: 10 AYES.

39:33ALL RIGHT, WHAT'S NEXT?

39:36>> Clerk: THE COUNCIL MAY MOVE

39:40TO PRESENTATIONS.

39:40>> Council President: ALL

39:41RIGHT, WE'VE GOT AN EXCITED

39:43MORNING OF PRESENTATIONS BEFORE

39:44BUT WE DO THAT WE HAVE A COUPLE

39:47OF ANNOUNCEMENTS, MEMBERS

39:48BEGINNING WITH COUNCILMEMBER

39:48LEE OF THE 12th DISTRICT.

39:51>> J. Lee: THANK YOU, MR.

39:52PRESIDENT.

39:54GOOD MORNING, COLLEAGUES.

39:55TODAY I'M PROUD TO RECOGNIZE

39:58HUNG DAY, CELEBRATED EVERY DAY

39:60ON OCTOBER 9th TO HONOR THE

40:05KOREAN ALPHABET.

40:06AS WE COMMEMORATE THE 185th

40:09ANNIVERSARY OF PROCLAMATION AND

40:13THE 100tH CELEBRATION OF HUNAD

40:16DAY.

40:18DESIGNED SO THAT ORDINARY

40:19PEOPLE CAN LEARN TO READ AND

40:20WRITE.

40:22TODAY IT REMAINS AN IMPORTANT

40:25SYMBOL OF KOREAN CULTURE AND

40:26IDENTITY.

40:26AND HERE TO LOS ANGELES, HOME

40:29TO VIBRANT KOREAN COMMUNITY,

40:31I'M PROUD TO CELEBRATE THIS DAY

40:33TO MY COMMUNITY.

40:33AND NOW I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE

40:38MRS. MONICA CHU TO SAY A FEW

40:41WORDS ABOUT THE SIGNIFICANCE OF

40:43THIS IMPORTANT DAY.

40:44>> THANK YOU SO MUCH.

40:48>> Speaker: THANK YOU SO MUCH.

40:51HONORABLE COUNCILMEMBERS.

40:57DISTINGUISHED GUESTS, LADIES

40:57AND GENTLEMEN LADIES AND

40:58GENTLEMEN, I AM DR. MONICA RUE,

41:04PRESIDENT FOR KOREAN LANGUAGE

41:05AND CULTURE IN U.S.A.

41:07I AM PROUD TO JOIN YOU IN

41:14CELEBRATING 580 YEARS OF HUGEL

41:19LEGACY AND WE HAVE SEVERAL

41:21MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF

41:22FOUNDATION AND KOREAN CULTURE,

41:24COULD YOU STAND UP PLEASE.

41:30THANK YOU.

41:31[APPLAUSE]

41:39SO KING THE GREAT WHO CREATED00

41:48HUNGEL REMINDS OF ABRAHAM

41:53LINCOLN, BOTH MEN CHAMPIONED

41:54HUMAN DIGITY AND EQUALITY.

41:59HE THROUGH THE GIFT OF THE

42:02LITERACY AND LINCOLN THROUGH

42:09HIS ENDURING WORDS AND EQUALITY.

42:14OUR FUTURE GENERATIONS MUST

42:16BECOME GLOBAL CITIZENS.

42:19LANGUAGES INCLUDING KOREAN

42:21OPENS DOORS TO UNDERSTANDING

42:26BEYOND OUR BORDERS.

42:28FOR 35 YEARS, OUR FOUNDATION

42:30FOR KOREAN LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

42:33IN U.S.A., HAS WORKED TOWARD

42:36THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS ACROSS THE

42:38UNITED STATES.

42:41AND BEYOND TO MAKE KOREAN

42:44LANGUAGE EDUCATION ACCESSIBLE

42:47TO FUTURE GENERATIONS.

42:53HAPPY HANGEL DAY, THANK YOU.

42:56>> Council President: THANK YOU

42:57SO MUCH.

42:57[APPLAUSE]

43:00>> Council President: THANK

43:01YOU, MR. LEE, WITH THAT WE WILL

43:03GO TO COUNCILMEMBER PARK OF THE

43:0511th DISTRICT.

43:06>> T. Park: THANK YOU, COUNCIL

43:07PRESIDENT.

43:08COLLEAGUES I WANTED TO TAKE A

43:09MOMENT AND WELCOME A VISITING

43:12DELEGATION FROM THE VENICE

43:14CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, THEY ARE

43:16AN ABSOLUTELY VITAL

43:18ORGANIZATION AND COUNCIL

43:19DISTRICT 11, THEY ARE MY

43:21PARTNER IN ALL THINGS, ECONOMIC

43:24INVITIZATION ON THE WEST SIDE.

43:25WE HAVE BEEN HARD AT WORK IN

43:28THE COMMUNITY REALLY LEANING ON

43:30ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES FOR OUR

43:32SMALL BUSINESS COMMUNITY AND

43:34THE VENICE CHAMBERS WORK IN

43:36THAT AREA HAS BEEN NOTHING

43:38SHORT OF EXTRAORDINARY.

43:41THEIR REGULAR NETWORKING EVENTS

43:42AND HAPPY HOURS AND GET

43:44TOGETHERS ABSOLUTELY PACK THE

43:46HOUSE, THERE ISN'T A MORE FUN

43:49PARTY ANYWHERE ON THE WEST SIDE

43:52THAN HANGING OUT WITH THE GUYS.

43:54BUT IT'S ALSO VERY IMPORTANT

43:55FOR ORGANIZING VOICE FOR OUR

43:57SMALL BUSINESS COMMUNITY AND

43:59WITH MAJOR WORLD EVENTS RIGHT

44:00ON THE HORIZON, THEY'RE WORKING

44:02REALLY HARD TO MAKE SURE THAT

44:05OUR LOCAL SMALL BUSINESS

44:06COMMUNITY BENEFITS AS WELL.

44:08I ALSO WANT TO GIVE A MOMENT

44:09AND GIVE A NOD TO THE EDUCATION

44:12COMMUNITY AT THE VENICE CHAMBER

44:15THAT LEANS DEEPLY WITH THE WAY

44:17THEY HONOR LOCAL TEACHERS AND

44:20JACKETS OF EXCELLENCE PROGRAM

44:21HONORING STUDENTS AT VENICE

44:23HIGH SCHOOL WHO HAVE EXCELED IN

44:26ACADEMICS ATTENDANCE AND OTHER

44:29CRY TIER YA, THEY'RE PARTNER TO

44:31COUNCIL DISTRICT 11 AND ALL OF

44:33L.A. AND IT'S AN HONOR TO HAVE

44:35THEM WITH US TODAY.

44:36>> Council President: THANK YOU

44:37VERY MUCH, COUNCILMEMBER PARK

44:39AND WELCOME, WELCOME, WELCOME

44:41TO YOUR LOS ANGELES CITY

44:43COUNCIL.

44:43NEXT WE HAVE COUNCILMEMBER

44:45JURADO FROM THE 14th DISTRICT.

44:46>> Y. Jurado: THANK YOU,

44:48COUNCIL PRESIDENT.

44:49I'M GOING TO SWITCH GEARS A

44:50LITTLE BIT BUT I WANT TO THANK

44:52YOU FOR GIVING ME A MOMENT TO

44:56TALK ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED

44:57YESTERDAY IN SKID ROW.

44:58MY CONSTITUENTS AND I ARE STILL

45:00REELING, MOST OF US OR SOME OF

45:03US ON THIS HORSESHOE KNOW WHAT

45:06IT'S LIKE TO ENCOUNTER LAW

45:10ENFORCEMENT WHEN OFFICERS COME

45:12TO YOUR DOOR TO INTERVIEW A

45:13LOVED ONE OR HELICOPTER CIRCLE

45:16OVERHEAD OR PULL YOU OVER WITH

45:18YOUR KIDS IN THE BACK OF CAR.

45:23NOW IMAGINE THAT IN MASS, BEING

45:25TOLD THAT YOU CAN'T GO HOME

45:28EVEN IF YOUR HOME IS NOT FOUR

45:32WALLS FOR A TENT.

45:33EVEN IF THEY'RE NOT LOOKING FOR

45:35YOU, ARE TYING, AND YESTERDAY A

45:40FEDERAL SPARKED FEAR OF ICE

45:43RAID.

45:44SO MY TEAM GOT TO WORK, WE

45:49EXPANDED AND BROUGHT IN

45:51HOMELESS AND MENTAL HEALTH AND

45:52PUBLIC HEALTH.

45:54WE GAVE PROVIDERS SAFETY

45:57PROTOCOL TO PROTECT THEIR

45:59CLIENTS.

46:01LET'S BE CLEAR HOW SKID ROW

46:03CAME TO BE, A 1976, A DECADE

46:08BEFORE I WAS BORN, THEY DREW

46:10A-LINE AROUND POVERTY AND

46:13HOMELESSNESS DOWNTOWN AND

46:14CALLED IT THE CONTAINMENT ZONE.

46:16THE CITY CREATED A NEIGHBORHOOD

46:18OF WHAT IT DEEMED TO BE

46:20UNDESIRABLE IN IT ON PURPOSE.

46:21YOU CAN SEE IT IN THE BROKEN

46:24SIDEWALKS, YOU CAN SEE TT

46:26MISSION TRASH CANS, DEPUTY

46:29MAYOR OSBOURNE WAS FIGHTING FOR

46:3112 TRASH CANS.

46:3312.

46:34EVERY YEAR WE FIGHT FOR FIVE

46:37PUBLIC BATHROOMS, THAT'S A

46:38PUBLIC SAFETY ISSUE AND LACK OF

46:40CITY SERVICES IN A NEIGHBORHOOD

46:43THAT DESERVES MORE.

46:44BUT EVERY YEAR WE CONTINUE TO

46:46TELL THOSE PEOPLE THAT THEY

46:49DESERVE LESS.

46:49TODAY SKID ROW IS HOME TO THE

46:52DENSEST POPULATION OF SENIORS

46:53AND DISABLED AND BLACK

46:54RESIDENTS IN THE CITY OF LOS

46:55ANGELES.

46:57IN A NEIGHBORHOOD OF FRIENDS

46:58AND FAMILY, CONTRARY TO WHAT

47:01YOU MAY BELIEVE, IT IS ONE THAT

47:03HAS FRIENDS AND FAMILY.

47:04AND BELIEVE THAT HAVE GROWN-UP

47:06THERE FOR GENERATIONS IN FACT

47:09OF THEM ARE WORKING IN THIS

47:12BUILDING AND WHO THEY ARE DOING

47:14THE GREAT WORK THAT THEY'RE

47:16DOING NOT DESPITE OF BUT

47:18BECAUSE THEY'RE FROM SKID ROW

47:21AND SKID ROW COMES FROM LOGERS

47:23THAT USE THE STREET BECAUSE

47:25IT'S GREASE SKIDS AND NOW THIS

47:28NEIGHBORHOOD IS TREATED LIKE

47:30THE SCUM OF UNDER YOUR SHOES

47:34AND AFTERTHOUGHT OF OUR

47:35POLICIES.

47:36SO WHILE IT HAS BECOME

47:41SYNONYMOUS AS A NEIGHBORHOOD

47:42THAT YOU DON'T WANT YOURS TO

47:44BECOME, IT IS ONE OF THE

47:45NEIGHBORHOOD THAT I REPRESENT

47:46AND ONE THAT IS SHAKEN.

47:48AND TO MY CONSTITUENTS, BEING

47:50POOR DOES NOT MAKE YOU A

47:51CRIMINAL.

47:52IT DOESN'T MAKE YOU LESS WORTHY

47:54OF CITY SERVICES.

47:56LIVING IN PUBLIC HOUSING DOES

47:57NOT MAKE YOU A CRIMINAL AND

47:59MAKE YOU UNWORTHY OF CITY

48:01SERVICES, OF MENTAL HEALTH, AND

48:03REPRESENTATION OF YOUR LOCAL

48:07GOVERNMENT ESPECIALLY YOU'RE

48:08COUNCILMEMBER.

48:09LIVING IN A NEIGHBORHOOD

48:10SOCIETY ROAD OFF DOES NOT MAKE

48:12YOU A CRIMINAL OR UNWORTHY.

48:15SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT SKID ROW

48:17JUST REMEMBER THAT THIS IS THE

48:18HUMAN COSTS OF WHAT WE ALL CALL

48:22PROCESS LIVING IN THE SHADOW OF

48:29MARBLE BUILDINGS LIKE OURS

48:30WHERE WE TALK ABOUT MILLIONS OF

48:32DOLLARS AROUND THIS HORSESHOE

48:33AS IF IT WAS A SINGLE SET FOR

48:36PEOPLE WHO CAN'T AFFORD WATER.

48:38THIS IS DIS INVESTMENT DID NOT

48:39JUST HAPPEN IT WAS INTENTIONAL

48:41AND IT HAPPENED RIGHT HERE.

48:43SO SKID ROW IS NOT JUST A CD14

48:45PROBLEM IT IS OUR CITY'S

48:47PROBLEM JUST LIKE HOMELESSNESS

48:49IS.

48:49SO BEFORE WE LOOK AT SKID ROW

48:53RESIDENTS AS "THE" PROBLEM

48:57LET'S LOOK AT OUR HANDS.

48:59THE PEOPLE WE APPOINT, THE

49:01DOLLARS THAT WE PUT INTO OUR

49:03SYSTEMS AND ASK OURSELVES WHAT

49:05IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY.

49:05THANK YOU.

49:07THANK YOU COUNCIL PRESIDENT.

49:08[APPLAUSE]

49:17>> Council President: THANK YOU

49:20SO MUCH COUNCILMEMBER JURADO.

49:21AND NOW WE WILL GO TO ALL

49:24RIGHT, NOW WE GO TO CD1.

49:28COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ FOR OUR

49:29FIRST PRESENTATION.

49:30I LOST TRACK OF YOU THERE, FOR

49:32A SECOND.

49:34>> E. Hernandez: CAN I HAVE YOU

49:37ALL JOIN ME PLEASE.

49:40WHOEVER WOULD LIKE TO JOIN,

49:42THANK YOU.

49:49COUNCILMEMBER JURADO, I HEAR

49:50YOU, I HOPE OUR COLLEAGUES HEAR

49:51YOU.

49:52IT'S SOMETHING THAT THE WHOLE

49:54CITY IS RESPONSIBLE FOR.

49:55SO THANK YOU FOR REMINDING US.

49:58POWERFUL, POWERFUL.

50:08GOOD MORNING, I FEEL EVEN MORE

50:12ENERGIZED AFTER HEARING THE

50:13WORDS OF COUNCILMEMBER JURADO

50:15AND I'M MORE EXCITED TO BE ABLE

50:17TO INTRODUCE SOME FOLKS WHO YOU

50:19KNOW, HAVE OFTEN BEEN

50:20OVERLOOKED BUT ARE THE TRUE

50:22CARE TAKERS OF THIS LAND FROM

50:24THE BEGINNING.

50:25AND WE ARE AS WE HAVE EVERY

50:27YEAR, MAKING SURE THAT THIS

50:31HORSESHOE REMEMBERS THAT AND

50:32THAT WE ACT ACCORDINGLY.

50:34SO WELCOME EVERYONE TO THE CITY

50:36HALL CHAMBERS AS WE GATHER TO

50:40RECOGNIZE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S

50:41DAY HERE IN THE CITY OF LOS

50:42ANGELES.

50:44AND BEFORE WE BEGIN, WOULD I

50:45LIKE TO INVITE THE SAN GABRIEL

50:51INDIANS TO LEAD US IN A LAND

50:53ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

51:11>> NEHAW, [SINGING IN NATIVE

51:13LANGUAGE]

51:40>> Speaker: WE'RE HERE TO

51:42CELEBRATE THE SAN GABRIEL BAND

51:46OF NATIVE INDIAN.

51:48SPECIAL THANK YOU TO THE

51:53UNISSES HERNANDEZ FOR GATHERING

51:54US HERE.

51:55LET US ACKNOWLEDGE THE AN

52:06ANCESTRYIAL LANDS AND NOW I'M

52:07GOING TO PASS IT, I'M THINKING

52:10OF MY SUCCESSION TEAM AND THE

52:12NEXT GENERATION AND IT'S MY

52:14PRESSURE AND HONOR TO INTRODUCE

52:17SAMUEL LOPEZ.

52:18[APPLAUSE]

52:24>> Speaker: NEHAW, [SPEAKING

52:27NATIVE LANGUAGE] WELCOME

52:28EVERYBODY AS SHE MENTIONED MY

52:30NAME IS SAMUEL.

52:31I WANT TO RECOGNIZE THAT TODAY

52:33IS AN HONOR FOR US TO REMEMBER

52:35THAT THE UNITED STATES WAS AND

52:37IS AND WAS AND WILL ALWAYS BE

52:40NATIVE LAND, IT'S IMPORTANT

52:41THAT WE UNDERSTAND THAT MOVING

52:42FORWARD.

52:43IT GIVES THE L.A. CITY COUNCIL

52:45TO HONOR THAT LIVING HISTORY.

52:48AND TO ASK FIRST NATION

52:51COMMUNITIES BETTER QUESTIONS

52:53BECAUSE RESO PROCESSITY IS NOT

52:56A DESTINATION BUT IT'S A

52:58PRACTICE THAT WE CONTINUE TO

52:59PERFECT.

53:00CELEBRATIONS LIKE THIS INVITE

53:02US TO RECOGNIZE INDIGENOUS

53:04PEOPLE.

53:05HOW CAN OUR CITY BETTER HONOR

53:09NATIVE VOICES AND NATIVE PEOPLE

53:11HAVE NOT SIMPLY ACKNOWLEDGED

53:16DURING CEREMONIES.

53:18FOR GENERATIONS FIRST NATIONS

53:20ACROSS OUR ISLAND HAVE

53:22EXPERIENCED THE LOSS OF

53:23LANGUAGE AND SUPPRESSION AND

53:27ERASURES OF OUR HISTORIES, YET

53:28OUR PEOPLE HAVE ENDURED,

53:32EQUACHEN WE ARE STILL HERE.

53:35OUR CONNECTION TO THIS LAND IS

53:36HERE.

53:38SO TODAY, I ASK THE CITY OF LOS

53:41ANGELES TO MAKE INDIGENOUS DAY,

53:44MORE THAN EDUCATION, LET IT BE

53:47EDUCATION, CULTURAL

53:48PRESERVATION AND NATIVE

53:52COMMUNITY OF HOME LANDS WE

53:53OCCUPY.

53:55SO LOS ANGELES RECOGNIZE THAT

54:00GABRIELINO ARE NOT PART OF THE

54:02HISTORY WE'RE PART OF THE

54:03PRESIDENT AND WE WILL BE PART

54:04OF THE FUTURE.

54:05THANK YOU.

54:16>> E. Hernandez: THANK YOU,

54:18TODAY WE RECOGNIZE THE PEOPLE

54:19OF THE LAND WHO'S STORIES AND

54:22TRADITIONS CONTINUE TO BREATHE

54:25LIFE INTO THE CITY.

54:27THEY HAVE STRUCK CORDS WITH

54:28THEIR WORDS, WE HEAR DRUMS SO

54:32LOUDLY THAT YOU CAN FEEL THE

54:35ROOM VIBRATE.

54:36AND TO HELP US RECOGNIZE

54:39INDUJOUS PEOPLE DAY, TODAY

54:41WE'RE JOINED BY NATIVE AMERICAN

54:44INDIAN COMMISSION, THE UNITED

54:47INDIAN INVOLVEMENT AND

54:52COMMUNITYDADES CIELO, IT

54:54REMINDS US THAT HONORING THE

54:56FIRST PEOPLE MEANS SHOWING UP

54:57EVERY DAY AND THROUGH OUR

54:59BUDGET.

54:59LOS ANGELES IS HOME TO OVER

55:03327,000 INDIGENOUS PEOPLE WHO

55:05IDENTIFY AS NATIVE AMERICAN OR

55:07CALIFORNIA INDIAN, ALSO HOME TO

55:0930 UNIQUE COMMUNITIES FROM

55:11MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA.

55:14HONORING INDIGENOUS PEOPLE HAS

55:15TO MEAN PROTECTING THE LAND,

55:17FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE, EXPANDING

55:19LANGUAGE ACCESS AND MAKING SURE

55:21THAT THE FIRST PEOPLE ARE AT

55:22THE TABLE AND NOT ON THE MENU.

55:25AND NOW WE'LL HERE FROM THE

55:27NATIVE INDIAN COMMISSION WHICH

55:29WAS ESTABLISHED ON JUNE 25,

55:321976 AND INSTRUMENTAL IN

55:34ESTABLISHING INDIGENOUS

55:35PEOPLE'S DAY IN LOS ANGELES.

55:36FOR OVER 50 YEARS, THEY HAVE

55:39BEEN THE FACE AND VOICE OF

55:41NATIVE AMERICANS IN LOS ANGELES.

55:44JOINING US TODAY IS VICE CHAIR

55:47BRICE LOUIS SMITH AND

55:50DISMISSINGER, DENISE, TED AND

55:56MONO MORALES RICARDY, PLEASE

55:57WELCOME THE CHAIR OF THE

55:59COMMISSION, MARK VILLA SENOR.

56:02[APPLAUSE]

56:03>> Speaker: GOOD MORNING, THANK

56:04YOU FOR HAVING US ALLOWED TO

56:08SPEAK ON THIS DAY.

56:09I'M MARK I'M A CITIZEN OF THE

56:13MISSION INDIAN AND CURRENTLY

56:14THE CHAIR OF THE NATIVE INDIAN

56:17COMMISSION.

56:19DEFINITELY APPRECIATE THE

56:20CELEBRATION OF THIS DAY WHILE

56:21THE COMMISSION ITSELF HAS

56:23WORKED HARD FOR 50 YEARS TO

56:26ADVOCATE FOR NATIVE CAUSES

56:27WITHIN THE CITY AND COUNTY OF

56:29LOS ANGELES, BEING HOME TO THE

56:31LARGEST POPULATION WITHIN THE

56:33UNITED STATES TO URBAN NATIVE

56:35AMERICANS.

56:36WE ALSO WANT TO SUPPORT ALL OF

56:40OUR INDIGENOUS PEOPLE WHETHER

56:41THEY COME FROM THE AMERICAS,

56:45FROM AFRICA AND EUROPE AND WHAT

56:47I LIKE TO SEE TODAY, WE HAD

56:51INDIGENOUS PEOPLE CELEBRATING

56:54HUNGUL DAY THE INDIGENOUS

56:57PEOPLE OF KOREA.

56:58YOU CAN SEE IT THAI TOWN, IN

57:07KOREATOWN, LITTLE TOKYO, WE

57:08REALLY WANT TO FOCUS ON WHAT

57:10MAKES PEOPLE GREAT AND THAT'S

57:13WHAT THE CELEBRATE IS FOR AND

57:14ALSO TO CELEBRATE THE CAUSES.

57:17NOT FOR GETTING THE FIRST

57:19PEOPLE BUT SEPARATING THEM THAT

57:21NOW CALL THEIR HOME LOS ANGELES.

57:23SO ONCE AGAIN, THANK YOU

57:25EVERYONE AND THANK YOU FOR

57:26ALLOWING ME TO SPEAK.

57:36[APPLAUSE]

57:36>> E. Hernandez: AND CHAIR, YOU

57:38CAN SPEAK WHATEVER YOU WANT,

57:41THIS IS YOUR HOUSE.

57:42WE'LL MAKE IT AVAILABLE.

57:44NEXT WE'LL HERE FROM INDIAN

57:46INVOLVEMENT A ORGANIZATION HEAD

57:49QUARTET IN COUNCIL DISTRICT 1,

57:51FOUNDED IN SKID ROW BY TWO

57:56NATIVE WOMEN, MARRIAN AND BUBBA

57:58COOPER IN RESPONSE TO URBAN

58:02RELOCATION POLICIES, UAI HAS

58:03GROWN INTO THE LARGEST PROVIDER

58:05OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

58:11AND ALASKAN NATIVE.

58:14HOPE CAEG COULAO AND DARLENE

58:19INTERIM DIRECTOR OF BOYS AND

58:20GIRLS CLUB AND ERIN HE ESPINOZA

58:23TO SHARE A FEW WORDS WITH US ON

58:26BEHALF OF THE ORGANIZATION.

58:28NOW PLEASE JOIN ME BY WELCOMING

58:34KEITH, EII VICE PRESIDENT TO

58:35SHARE A FEW WORDS.

58:40>> Speaker: HI, IT'S A GREAT

58:42HONOR TO BE HERE.

58:44IT'S THE SECOND TIME I'VE BEEN

58:45HERE BUT I'M PART OF THE

58:49RELOCATION ACT.

58:54I AM BLACK FEET FIRST NATIONS,

58:59WE CAME HERE IN 1953.

59:03UAI WAS CREATED, 1947, 1974.

59:11>> E. Hernandez: .

59:12>> Speaker: THAT WOULD MAKE ME

59:14ALMOST 200 YEARS OLD.

59:15IT WAS CREATED BY TWO WOMEN,

59:19AND THEIR WORK WAS TO TAKE CARE

59:22OF PEOPLE THEY PUT US INTO

59:25HOTELS UNTIL THEY FOUND

59:27SUITABLE HOUSING FOR US IN SKID

59:28ROW.

59:29AND THE CHILDREN AND THEIR

59:31FAMILIES USED TO GO AND THAT

59:34WAS THEIR DREAM.

59:35NOW IT HAS EXPANDED, WE FULL

59:39SERVICE CARE, WE INVITED

59:41ANYBODY TO COME DOWN AND, LOOK

59:45AT ANY ISSUES THEY HAVE FROM

59:47BEHAVIOR HEALTH TO SUBSTANCE

59:49ABUSE TO DENTISTRY TO MEDICAL

59:53AND EVERYTHING, OUR DOORS ARE

59:54OPEN TO COMMUNITY.

59:56ONCE AGAIN, THANKS FOR

59:57EVERYTHING FROM THE COMMISSION

59:58AND THIS LADY RIGHT HERE, WE

1:00:00JUST RECENTLY HAD A POW WOW AND

1:00:05WE HAD A COUNCILMEMBER COME AND

1:00:07ENJOY THAT DAY WITH US AND THAT

1:00:10WAS VERY HELPFUL FOR US.

1:00:11IT'S IMPORTANT, IF YOU EVER GET

1:00:13A CHANCE COME TO POW WOW AND

1:00:17YOU CAN SEE ALL OF THE PEOPLE,

1:00:21ALL THE BEAUTIFUL REGALIA AND

1:00:23THIS IS HOW WE CELEBRATE LIFE.

1:00:31[APPLAUSE]

1:00:44>> Speaker: [SPEAKING IN NATIVE

1:00:46LANGUAGE]

1:00:48MY NAME IS HOPE GREG, I'M FROM

1:00:56MISGOGI PEOPLE AND I SAY

1:00:58BECAUSE THAT IS VERY IMPORTANT.

1:01:00YOU WOULD NEVER HEAR ME SAY I

1:01:02AM A CITIZEN OF THE MISSGOGI

1:01:06PEOPLE, CITIZEN IS A COLONIZED

1:01:10CONCEPT AND I WANT TO YOU

1:01:12UNDERSTAND THAT.

1:01:14MY PEOPLE SURVIVED FOR ME TO BE

1:01:15HERE AND THAT'S REALLY

1:01:17IMPORTANT FOR ME.

1:01:19SO I STAND IN FRONT OF YOU WITH

1:01:22HUMIDITY AND FIRST I WANT IT

1:01:25SAY MADOW TO COUNCILWOMAN

1:01:29HERNANDEZ FOR BRINGING US HERE,

1:01:30BECAUSE ALL OF US HERE WHO

1:01:35NATIVE PEOPLE, WE ARE HERE

1:01:37BECAUSE WE ARE DESCENDENTS.

1:01:43OF PEOPLE WHO SURVIVED FOR US

1:01:45TO BE HERE.

1:01:46SO TO BE ABLE TO STAND IN THESE

1:01:48CHAMBERS, I WANT YOU ALL TO

1:01:50UNDERSTAND, IT IS OUR

1:01:52RESPONSIBILITY TO CARRY ON WITH

1:01:55OUR ANCESTORS HAVE SUFFERED FOR

1:01:56US TO BE HERE.

1:02:14OUR AND THAT IS MY MISSION IS

1:02:17TO BE HERE IN PER PE SUITE.

1:02:25AND--PERPETUITY.

1:02:28I LOOK TO STAND WITH US, TO

1:02:30WORK TOGETHER NOT AGAINST EACH

1:02:32OTHER, BECAUSE SOMETIMES THAT

1:02:33CAN HAPPEN.

1:02:35SO I'M JUST, IT'S AN HONOR TO

1:02:38BE HERE WITH YOU ALL.

1:02:40AND TO ASK YOU ALL TO STAND

1:02:41WITH US BECAUSE RIGHT NOW THE

1:02:45UNITED AMERICAN INDIAN, NOT

1:02:46JUST WE PROVIDE SERVICES, BUT

1:02:48WE'RE ALSO ADVOCATES.

1:02:50RIGHT NOW WE'RE FIGHTING A HUGE

1:02:53BATTLE WITH HUMAN TRAFFICKING

1:02:54OF OUR RELATIVES THAT ARE BEING

1:02:58TRAFFICKED BY FRAUDULENT DRUG

1:02:59PROGRAMS AND WE'VE BEEN

1:03:01FIGHTING THAT BATTLE BY

1:03:02OURSELVES.

1:03:02SO THIS IS ALSO A CALL OUT TO

1:03:06COUNCILMEMBERS AS WELL, IS TO

1:03:07STAND WITH US AND ALSO OUR

1:03:09BROTHERS AND SISTERS OUT HERE

1:03:11IN OUR COMMUNITY TO STAND WITH

1:03:12US AS WELL.

1:03:14BUT ALSO MOST IMPORTANTLY, NOT

1:03:16ONLY DO WE PROVIDE SERVICE BUZZ

1:03:19WE'RE ALSO ABRIDGED TO HOME,

1:03:21CULTURE AND LANGUAGE, THAT IS

1:03:23ALSO OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO.

1:03:26SO IF YOU DON'T KNOW YOUR

1:03:29LANGUAGE, LEARN IT.

1:03:30IT'S MORE THAN JUST SAYING WHO

1:03:32YOU ARE AS CHEROKEE, MISSGOGI,

1:03:36YOUR LANGUAGE IS WHO YOU ARE

1:03:38AND THAT'S WHAT KEEPS USZ ALIVE.

1:03:58>> E. Hernandez: WE ARE VERY

1:04:00HAPPY TO HAVE SUE GUYS.

1:04:03LASTLY WE'LL HEAR FROM CIELO,

1:04:06FIGHTING RACISM AND BUILDING

1:04:10SOLUTIONS FOR INDIGENOUS

1:04:11COMMUNITY.

1:04:12SHE HAS HELPED BREAK DOWN

1:04:13BARRIERS BY PARTNERING WITH THE

1:04:16LAPD TO DEVELOP LANGUAGE

1:04:19IDENTIFICATION CARDS AND

1:04:23TRAINING INDIGENOUS INTERPRET

1:04:24INVENTORIES MAKE SURE LANGUAGE

1:04:25IS NEVER A BARRIER TO ESSENTIAL

1:04:27SERVICES.

1:04:28REPRESENTING CIELO TODAY OUR

1:04:31CO-FOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE

1:04:36DIRECTOR JANET MARTINEZ.

1:04:41TO SHARE A FEW WORDS ON BEHALF

1:04:46OF CIELO, PLEASE WELCOME ODELIA

1:04:50ROMERO.

1:04:54>> Speaker: [SPEAKING NATIVE

1:04:56LANGUAGE]

1:05:06GOOD MORNING MEMBERS OF THE

1:05:07COUNCIL.

1:05:08FIRST OF ALL, GRATITUDE TO

1:05:11MOTHER EARTH FOR BEING HERE

1:05:15TODAY AND TO OUR NATIVE

1:05:23RELATIVES TONGUA FOR BEING HERE

1:05:24IN MEMORIAL.

1:05:27WE APPRECIATE THE TERRITORY.

1:05:29THIS RECOGNITION AND THIS

1:05:30MOMENT I WANT TO DEDICATED TO

1:05:32THE PEOPLE BEING CRIMINALIZED

1:05:33AT THE MOMENT.

1:05:35WHY?

1:05:38BECAUSE THEY'RE SHORT, BROWN

1:05:39AND BEAUTIFUL.

1:05:41THEY FIT THE RACIAL PROFILE

1:05:44THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS

1:05:46ESTABLISHED WHO CAN STAY AND

1:05:48WHO NEEDS TO BE ARRESTED AND

1:05:53WHO GETS TO BE IN A

1:05:55CONCENTRATION CAMP.

1:05:56THAT IS US.

1:05:57THE DATA SHOWS THAT THE MOST

1:06:01IMPACTED PEOPLE HAVE BEEN

1:06:02INDIGENOUS PEOPLE.

1:06:03GIVE ME A MOMENT.

1:06:05SO THIS RECOGNITION GOES TO

1:06:06THEM.

1:06:08TO MY STAFF, TO THE COMMUNITY,

1:06:11AND I ASK OF YOU ALL TO THINK

1:06:18OF LANGUAGE AS A TOOL OF

1:06:20OPPRESSION AND LIBERATION.

1:06:22WHEN WE CANNOT COMMUNICATE IN

1:06:24OUR LANGUAGE, WE CALL IT

1:06:25LANGUAGE VIOLENCE.

1:06:27BECAUSE THROUGH THAT, WE LOSE

1:06:28OUR CHILDREN TO THE SYSTEM, WE

1:06:30DO NOT HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO

1:06:32TELL OUR SIDE OF THE STORY AND

1:06:35WHY WE'RE HERE, HOW WE'VE BEEN

1:06:37PUSHED HERE.

1:06:38SO I ASK THE COUNCIL WHEN YOU

1:06:41THINK ABOUT BUDGET, THINK ABOUT

1:06:42LANGUAGE, BECAUSE IT'S LINKED

1:06:43TO OUR RIGHTS.

1:06:45JUST IMAGINE GU TO GERMANY AND

1:06:48YOU DON'T SPEAK GERMAN AND YOU

1:06:51GET ARRESTED, HOW WOULD YOU

1:06:53COMMUNICATE YOUR RIGHTS?

1:06:53OR IF YOU GO TO KOREA AND YOU

1:06:57DON'T SPEAK KOREAN, WHAT WOULD

1:06:58HAPPEN?

1:06:59HOW WOULD YOU RELATE THE STORY

1:07:02HOW WOULD YOU ORDER THE FOOD?

1:07:04IT'S A BASIC FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN

1:07:11RIGHT.

1:07:11I KNOW YOU ALL AND WE ALL HAVE

1:07:14CONVERSATION ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS.

1:07:15I ASK TO YOU PUT IT IN YOUR

1:07:17BUDGET.

1:07:18TO THINK ABOUT HOW WE CAN

1:07:21BETTER SERVE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE

1:07:22IN L.A. CITY.

1:07:23YOU HAVE THE LARGEST POPULATION

1:07:26OF DISPLACED COMMUNITIES FROM

1:07:29GUATEMALA, FROM MEXICO THERE

1:07:32ARE 36 INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES

1:07:34SPOKEN HERE AND WE ALL HAVE A

1:07:37MIGRATION STORY, WHY ARE WE

1:07:38HERE?

1:07:39IN THE CASE OF GUATEMALA, IT'S

1:07:42OVER A BANANA.

1:07:43IN THE CASE OF MEXICO, IT'S

1:07:45LAND, WATER.

1:07:46SO THERE IS ALWAYS SOMETHING

1:07:52THAT FORCES OUT.

1:07:54I'M GOING TO PASS THE

1:07:55MICROPHONE TO JANET THE VICE

1:07:57EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR.

1:08:01>> Speaker: THANK YOU, UNISSES

1:08:04FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY.

1:08:05I WOULD LIKE TO THANK ALL THE

1:08:07PEOPLE IN THE CHAMBERS AND I DO

1:08:12WANT TO RECOGNIZE THE DIVERSITY

1:08:14THAT WE HAVE AT CIELO, WE HAVE

1:08:18MAYA, WE HAVE PAPOTECOS AND

1:08:21THAT'S A REALLY BEAUTIFUL

1:08:23DIVERSITY TO AND IN A TEAM THAT

1:08:25TAKES CARE OF CITY.

1:08:47TO BE THERE FOR THE COMMUNITY

1:08:51AND HAVE INTER, I'M THANKFUL

1:08:53FOR THE CIELO TEAM, FOR

1:08:57ANTONIA, FOR AL VA, I CANNOT

1:08:59FORGET ALL OF THEM.

1:09:00BUT THEY KNOW THAT WE REALLY

1:09:02APPRECIATE THEM AND ALL OF

1:09:03THEIR HARD WORK HAS BEEN

1:09:07FUNDAMENTAL FOR CIELO TO HAVE

1:09:08THE IMPACT FROM THE FOOD BOX TO

1:09:10SEE THE INTERPRETATION.

1:09:10THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH.

1:09:35>> Council President:

1:09:36COUNCILMEMBER RAMAN.

1:09:37>> N. Raman: THANK YOU

1:09:39COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ AND

1:09:39THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO IS

1:09:41HERE, DELIGHTED TO SEE HOPE AND

1:09:44KEITH FROM UAII AND IT WAS A

1:09:46PLEASURE TO ATTEND THE POW WOW

1:09:53IN JULY AT CAL STATE L.A.

1:09:56THE WORK IS REMARKABLE.

1:09:58I'M SO GRATEFUL TO BE IN THIS

1:09:59SPACE WITH ALL OF YOU.

1:10:01THIS IS YOUR LAND, YOUR

1:10:05COUNTRY, AND I JUST WANTED TO

1:10:07THANK YOU AND WELCOME YOU HERE

1:10:08ONCE AGAIN TO CITY HALL AND

1:10:10HOPE THAT THIS IS NOT JUST A

1:10:13ONCE A YEAR OCCURRENCE THAT WE

1:10:15CAN FIND WAYS THAT IN THE

1:10:16BUDGET AND IN OUR WORK MAKE

1:10:18SURE THAT WE ARE WORK WITHING

1:10:25ALL THE GROUPS AND BEYOND.

1:10:26SO THANK YOU SO MUCH.

1:10:41WE ARE SO GRATEFUL TO ALL OF

1:10:45YOU THAT, DESPITE. DISPLACEMENT.

1:10:49DESPITE THE TRAUMA, DESPITE THE

1:10:52OPPRESSION AND DESPITE THE

1:10:53INTENTION THAT YOU ALL NOT

1:10:55EXIST AND NOT BE HERE TO STAND

1:10:57WITH US TODAY, WE THANK YOU FOR

1:10:59MAKING A HOME ALONGSIDE ALL OF

1:11:01US BECAUSE IT MAKES LOS ANGELES

1:11:02ONE OF THE MOST AMAZING PLACES

1:11:04TO LIVE ANYWHERE ON PLANET

1:11:06EARTH.

1:11:07AND SO WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR

1:11:09STRUGGLE, WE THANK YOU FOR THE

1:11:11CULTURE, AND WE THANK YOU FOR

1:11:13BEING OUR NEIGHBORS.

1:11:16COUNCILMEMBER UNISSES HERNANDEZ.

1:11:17>> E. Hernandez: THANK YOU,

1:11:18COUNCIL PRESIDENT.

1:11:34STARTING WITH THE LOS ANGELES

1:11:36COUNTY NATIVE AMERICAN, INDIAN

1:11:37COMMISSION.

1:11:37THANK YOU.

1:11:44WE HAVE THE UNITED INDIAN

1:11:46INVOLVEMENT.

1:11:54THANK YOU.

1:11:57AND INDIDGE RUSS PEOPLE'S DAY

1:11:592026, THAT'S GOING TO OUR

1:12:04HONOREE CIELO SIGNED BY ALL

1:12:06COUNCILMEMBERS.

1:12:08[APPLAUSE]

1:12:10THANK YOU COLLEAGUES FOR

1:12:10ALLOWING US TO DO THIS ANNUALLY

1:12:15BUT, I'LL TAKE THAT BACK.

1:12:16WE'RE GOING TO DO THIS ANNUALLY

1:12:19AND YES, I LOOK FORWARD TO

1:12:21SEEING HOW WE CAN BE MORE

1:12:24SUPPORTIVE IN OTHER PARTS OF

1:12:25THE GOVERNMENT.

1:12:27>> Council President: THANK YOU

1:12:28SO MUCH.

1:12:31INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S DAY.

1:12:33ANOTHER BIG ROUND OF APPLAUSE

1:12:34EVERYBODY.

1:12:40AND NOW AS THEY ARE, HEADED TO

1:12:45THE PRESS ROOM.

1:12:56I'LL CALL FOR COUNCILMEMBER

1:12:57PADILLA FOR AN ANNOUNCEMENT.

1:13:00>> I. Padilla: WAIT A MINUTE.

1:13:03>> Council President: OKAY.

1:14:14I. P

1:14:16THINK I'M READY ALL RIGHT A LOT

1:14:17OF MOVEMENT.

1:14:20FOR THE RECORD, I HAVE ALSO

1:14:26DONE THE INDIGENOUS BEFORE,

1:14:29IT'S NOT ALWAYS BEEN JUST CD1.

1:14:38REALLY QUICK, COUNCILMEMBERS

1:14:39AND MEMBERS OF THE AUDIENCE, I

1:14:40WANT TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO THE

1:14:45CSUN MATADORS THAT ARE HERE

1:14:46TODAY AT CITY HALL.

1:14:47CAN IS HAVE THEM STAND UP

1:14:50PLEASE, YAY, WELCOME.

1:14:51CAN WE GIVE THEM A ROUND OF

1:14:54APPLAUSE PLEASE.

1:14:59SCHOLARS IT'S AN HONOR TO HAVE

1:15:01YOU HERE.

1:15:02I WANT TO CONGRATULATE YOU AND

1:15:05SUCCESS UP TO THIS POINT.

1:15:06I ALWAYS LIKE TO LET FOLKS

1:15:09KNOW, THIS BUILDING BELONGS TO

1:15:11YOU, CITY HALL BELONGS TO YOU

1:15:13AND YOUR VOICE MATTERS AND THE

1:15:15RESPONSIBILITIES OF OUR LOCAL

1:15:16GOVERNMENT IS SOMETHING THAT

1:15:17SHOULD NOT BE STRANGERS TO

1:15:19YOURSELF.

1:15:20THANK YOU FOR FOLLOWING FOR

1:15:21BEING LEADERS OF YOUR FAMILY

1:15:23AND COMMUNITY AND SEEKING

1:15:25HIGHER EDUCATION AND GETTING

1:15:27INVOLVED IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT.

1:15:29I AM ALSO A PROUD MATADOR WHO

1:15:33GOT MY MASTERS FROM CSUN AND

1:15:35I'M SO PROUD AND GRATEFUL FOR

1:15:37MY TIME THERE.

1:15:38ONE OF THE BEST NETWORKS GOT

1:15:42FOR MY HIGHER EDUCATION

1:15:46JOURNEY, BELIEVE OR NOT.

1:15:49I'M MORE PROUD OF CSUN THAN MY

1:15:52UNDERGRAD.

1:15:53MAY YOU HAVE A GREAT SEMESTER

1:15:56AND MAY EVERYTHING YOU LEARN

1:15:58HERE BE SUPPLEMENTAL TO YOUR

1:16:01JOURNEY IN THE TIME YOU REACH

1:16:02YOUR DEGREES.

1:16:03HAVE FUN AND KNOW THAT WE'RE

1:16:05ONLY A PHONE CALL OR EMAIL AWAY.

1:16:08>> Council President: THANK YOU

1:16:11SO MUCH COUNCILMEMBER PADILLA

1:16:12AND WELCOME ONE OF OUR HOME

1:16:15SCHOOLS, CSUN AND WITH THAT

1:16:16WE'LL HEAR FROM COUNCILMEMBER

1:16:17HUTT WITH A VERY SPECIAL

1:16:19PRESENTATION.

1:16:20>> H. Hutt: THANK YOU SO MUCH,

1:16:21MR. PRESIDENT.

1:16:23COLLEAGUES GOOD MORNING.

1:16:29I BELIEVE WE HAVE TO START WITH

1:16:30A VIDEO SO WE CAN GET EXCITED.

1:16:32CAN WE PLAY THE VIDEO?

1:16:56>> A MISSION, A PASSION, IT'S

1:16:57THE WHY MAKE ING THE

1:16:59IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE, AND THE

1:17:01MANTRA IS WHY NOT.

1:17:02BECAUSE WE BELIEVE YOUNG PEOPLE

1:17:05DESERVE BIGGER BRIGHTER FUTURES

1:17:06AGAINST ALL ODDS.

1:17:08>> TO ME LEGACY IS WHAT SHOULD

1:17:10BE LEFT BEHIND.

1:17:11>> THE LOCAL READING ROOM.

1:17:15OUR POKER NIGHT FUNDS YOUTH

1:17:17ENVIRONMENT.

1:17:20WHEN WILDFIRES DEVASTATED LOS

1:17:21ANGELES, WE HELP THE CITY

1:17:23RECOVER AND REBUILD.

1:17:26OUR ATHLETIC PROGRAMS EQUIP YOU

1:17:27WITH SKILLS AND CONFIDENCE TO

1:17:28THRIVE.

1:17:29>> I LOVE GIVING BACK TO THE

1:17:31KIDS IN THE COMMUNITY FOR FREE.

1:17:36>> INFLUENCE FOR IMPACT AND OUR

1:17:39NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRAMMING FOR

1:17:40FAMILIES IN NEED.

1:17:41AND WE'RE JUST GETTING STARTED.

1:17:44AHEAD OF 2028 OLYMPICS WE'RE

1:17:48HARNESSING SPOTLIGHT THROUGH

1:17:49ECONOMIC IMPACT AND CLEAN

1:17:50ENERGY.

1:17:52WE'RE ALSO EQUIPING

1:17:54ENTREPRENEUR FOR SUCCESS AND

1:17:56FURTHER ELEVATING WITH UPSCALE

1:17:59CAMPUS AND CAREER FOUNDATIONS.

1:18:00FOR THE NEXT STAGE OF IMPACT,

1:18:03WE HOPE YOU KEEP COOPERATING

1:18:05WITH US AS WE BUILD ON THE

1:18:08MANTRA THAT STARTED IT ALL,

1:18:09BECAUSE WHY NOT.

1:18:12[APPLAUSE]

1:18:15>> H. Hutt: THANK YOU FOR

1:18:16SHOWING US THAT VIDEO.

1:18:18LISTEN, SOME PEOPLE JUST PLAY

1:18:21BASKETBALL, BUT SOME MAKE

1:18:24CHANGE, WHAT THE GAME MEANS TO

1:18:25THE CITY.

1:18:27TODAY WE'RE CELEBRATING

1:18:28SOMEBODY WHO DID BOTH.

1:18:30RUSSELL WEST BROOKE IS LOS

1:18:32ANGELES THROUGH AND THROUGH.

1:18:33HE CAME UP PLANNING OUR GYMS,

1:18:38STARED AT UCLA AND CAME HOME TO

1:18:40WEAR A LAKERS JERSEY AND A

1:18:43CLIPPERS JERSEY.

1:18:45HE'S THE M.V.P., ALL-STAR AND

1:18:47HE MADE MORE TRIPLE DOUBLES

1:18:50THAN EVEN ICE CUBE SONG, THAT'S

1:18:52NOT WHAT IT SAYS.

1:18:55BUT ANYONE IN HISTORY.

1:18:57AS FAMILIES IN SOUTH L.A. ABOUT

1:19:01RUSSELL, THEY WILL NOT TALK

1:19:03ABOUT THE STATSZ, THEY WILL

1:19:04TALK ABOUT THE READING ROOM HE

1:19:08BUILT AT 70th STREET ELEMENTARY

1:19:09THE SAME SCHOOL HE WALKED INTO

1:19:11AS A LITTLE BOY.

1:19:13THEY WILL TALK ABOUT THE

1:19:17CRENSHAW YMCA WHERE I WENT AND

1:19:20HE HELPED DESIGN A ROOM.

1:19:24AND EVERY THANKSGIVING, THEY

1:19:25TALK ABOUT LINING UP WITH OWENS

1:19:28PARK THE PARK WHERE RUSSELL

1:19:32LEARNED TO PLAY WHERE THEY

1:19:33SERVE THOUSANDS OF MEALS TO

1:19:36FAMILIES FOR OVER A DECADE.

1:19:38IT'S THAT LEGACY THAT I'M

1:19:40IMMENSELY PROUD TO HONOR TODAY.

1:19:42FOR MORE THAN 15 YEARS, RUSSELL

1:19:45KEPT SHOWING UP FOR THE YOUNG

1:19:47PEOPLE OF THE CITY.

1:19:48WHEN THE PANDEMIC HIT AND THE

1:19:50FAMILIES WERE STRUGGLING TO

1:19:52MAKE RENT AND PUT FOOD IN THE

1:19:54STABLE, RUSSELL AND NINA DID

1:19:56NOT WAIT, THEY PARTNERED WITH

1:19:58THE MAYOR'S OFFICE ON THE

1:20:00ANGELINO CAMPAIGN TO GET DIRECT

1:20:01HELP TO FAMILIES THEY NEEDED IT

1:20:03THE MOST.

1:20:05IN 2021, HE FOUNDED WEST BROOKE

1:20:07ACADEMY WITH THE PROMISE FUND A

1:20:10MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL, A

1:20:12MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL FOR

1:20:16STUDENTS IN SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST

1:20:18LOS ANGELES, FOR YEARS STUDENTS

1:20:21LEARNED TO IN TEMPORARY SPACES.

1:20:23TODAY THEY HAVE A PERMANENT IN

1:20:27SOUTH GATE, AND WELLNESS CENTER

1:20:31BUILT TO SUPPORT.

1:20:32IT'S A SCHOOL THAT SEES ITS

1:20:35STUDENTS AS ACADEMIC ACHIEVERS,

1:20:37ATHLETES, ARTIST AND ACTIVIST.

1:20:41AND HE'S INVESTING IN THE

1:20:42FUTURE OF THE NEIGHBORHOODS

1:20:46ITSELF, AT VERMONT AND

1:20:48MANCHESTER WE KNOW FROM 1992

1:20:51AND IT SAT NEGLECTED FOR

1:20:53DECADES.

1:20:53RUSSELL IS ONE OF THE COMMUNITY

1:20:56INVESTORS WHICH BRINGS 180

1:20:58AFFORDABLE HOMES FOR SENIORS

1:21:00AND FAMILIES, A NEW SCHOOL AND

1:21:02LOCAL BUSINESSES THAT THE

1:21:03COMMUNITY ASKED FOR.

1:21:08READING, ROOM, SCHOOLS, MEALS,

1:21:10HOMES, RUSSELL HAS NEVER

1:21:12TREATED SOUTH L.A. AS A PLACE

1:21:14HE CAME FROM, HE TREATS IT AS A

1:21:16PLACE HE'S RESPONSIBLE FOR.

1:21:18HE DOESN'T JUST WRITE CHECKS,

1:21:20HE KEEPS COMING BACK.

1:21:23RUSSELL DEDICATED HIS EN STIER

1:21:26CAREER TO MAKING A LASTING

1:21:27IMPACT HERE AT HOME.

1:21:28AND AS WE KNOW, BEHIND EVERY

1:21:31POWERFUL MAN IS EVEN MORE

1:21:33POWERFUL WOMAN.

1:21:34SO I WANT TO RECOGNIZE HIS WIFE

1:21:37NINA WHO IS NOT HERE BUT

1:21:39HOPEFULLY YOU'RE WATCHING, NINA

1:21:41WHO STOOD BEHIND HIM FOR

1:21:43DECADES AS HE MADE

1:21:45ACCOMPLISHMENTS BOTH ON AND OFF

1:21:46THE COURT AND HIS FAMILIES WHO

1:21:49ARE HERE TODAY THAT WORK SO

1:21:51HARD SIDE BY SIDE TO MAKE A

1:21:53DIFFERENCE IN OUR CITY.

1:21:55WHEN YOU SEE A HOMETOWN HERO

1:21:58AND POUR INTO THE NEIGHBORHOODS

1:22:01THAT RAISED HIM, IT SHOWS HIM

1:22:03THAT WHERE YOU START IS IS NOT

1:22:04WHERE YOU NEED TO GET AWAY FROM.

1:22:07SO AS RUSSELL WRAPS UP THIS

1:22:09CHAPTER OF HIS CAREER, WE'RE

1:22:11NOT SAYING GOODBYE, WE'RE

1:22:12SAYING THANK YOU AND WELCOMING

1:22:15HIM HOME FOR THE WORK THAT IS

1:22:17STILL AHEAD.

1:22:20[APPLAUSE]

1:22:43RUSSELL WEST BROOKE AND SO ON

1:22:44BEHALF OF THE CITY OF LOS

1:22:46ANGELES, IT'S MY HONOR TO

1:22:47PRESENT YOU WITH COUNCIL

1:22:51CERTIFICATE RECOGNIZING YOUR

1:22:53INCREDIBLE CAREER AND

1:22:53EVERYTHING YOU DO FOR YOUTH AND

1:22:55WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAY A FEW

1:22:56WORDS.

1:22:56>> SURE.

1:22:59[APPLAUSE]

1:23:00>> Speaker: YOU GOT IT.

1:23:04>> Council President: IT'S ALL

1:23:06YOU.

1:23:06>> Speaker: NO, NO, WE'RE IN

1:23:07YOUR HOUSE.

1:23:08>> Council President: WE GOT A

1:23:10FEW MEMBERS ON THE QUEUE AS YOU

1:23:12MIGHT IMAGINE.

1:23:12SO WE'RE GOING TO LET THEM

1:23:15SPEAK SO YOU'LL BE EVEN MORE

1:23:18EMOTIONAL WHEN YOU'RE GETTING

1:23:19READY TO MAKE YOUR COMMENTS.

1:23:21WE'LL BEGIN WITH COUNCILMEMBER

1:23:22RODRIGUEZ.

1:23:23>> M. Rodriguez: THANK YOU, SO

1:23:25MUCH.

1:23:27COUNCILMEMBER HUT I WANT TO

1:23:28THANK YOU FOR THIS PRESENTATION

1:23:30AND FOR CAPTURING ALL THE

1:23:32IMMENSE CONTRIBUTIONS THAT YOU

1:23:33MADE TO OUR BEAUTIFUL CITY OFF

1:23:34THE COURT.

1:23:35YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE, MY HUSBAND

1:23:39AND I HAD THE CONVERSATION

1:23:41WHEN, WE ACTUALLY MET, I

1:23:43REMEMBER WE WERE AT AN EVENT

1:23:46WITH MARK RIDLEY-THOMAS A FEW

1:23:47YEARS AGO AND YOU WERE THERE.

1:23:50AND MY HUSBAND WAS LIKE OH MY

1:23:52GOSH, YOU KNOW, GOT VERY

1:23:53EXCITED.

1:23:55AND WAS YOU KNOW, NEVER FELT

1:23:58LIKE YOU GOT THE KIND OF

1:24:04RECOGNITION FOR THE COURT YOU

1:24:11WERE DESERVING OF.

1:24:14THE SPIRIT OF WHO YOU ARE OFF

1:24:15THE COURT IS ELECTRIC.

1:24:16SO I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU.

1:24:18YOU KNOW, WE LOVE OUR CITY AND

1:24:21FOR THOSE OF US THAT ARE

1:24:22BLESSED TO BE IN A SITUATION BY

1:24:25AND I THINK, YOU KNOW,

1:24:29COUNCILMEMBER HUTT SAID IT

1:24:30BEAUTIFUL, THE COMMUNITY THAT

1:24:31GAVE YOU SO MUCH YOU CONTINUE

1:24:33TO SHOW UP FOR.

1:24:34BECAUSE WE'RE ALL A PRODUCT OF

1:24:35THE COMMUNITIES THAT WE COME

1:24:37FROM, WE WERE RAISED BY THESE

1:24:40NEIGHBORHOODS AND FOR YOU TO

1:24:41CONTINUE TO REMEMBER THAT AND

1:24:43COME BACK IS JUST SOMETHING

1:24:44THAT MAKES YOU SO WORTHY OF

1:24:46THIS RECOGNITION AND THIS

1:24:47CELEBRATION.

1:24:48SO I JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK

1:24:50YOU SO MUCH FOR EVERYTHING THAT

1:24:51YOU'VE BEEN NOT JUST ON THE

1:24:52COURT BUT WHAT YOU'VE DONE FOR

1:24:54US OFF THE COURT.

1:24:55GOD BLESS YOU.

1:24:56>> Council President: THANK YOU

1:24:56SO MUCH.

1:24:58COUNCILMEMBER NAZARIAN?

1:25:02>> A. Nazarian: THANK YOU,

1:25:03COUNCIL PRESIDENT.

1:25:05I JUST WANTED TAKE A MINUTE AND

1:25:08SAY FIRST AND FOR MOST, TO MY

1:25:11COUNCIL COLLEAGUE, THANK YOU

1:25:14FOR HIGHLIGHTING THIS

1:25:14INITIATIVE.

1:25:16TO MY FORMER COLLEAGUE, SO NICE

1:25:18TO SEE YOU.

1:25:19RUSSELL WE GOT A MOMENT TO

1:25:21SPEAK IN THE BACK, I VERY MUCH

1:25:22APPRECIATE WHAT YOU DO.

1:25:24A PERSON'S DEXTERITY AND

1:25:25ABILITY IS NOT JUST IN ONE

1:25:27THING THAT THEY DO BUT HOW THEY

1:25:29BAM --BALANCE ALL THE THINGS

1:25:33THAT THEY DO.

1:25:34THANK YOU FOR MAKING AN

1:25:36INVESTMENT OF NOT ONLY JUST IN

1:25:38LOS ANGELES BUT IN THE FUTURE

1:25:40SUSTAINABILITY OF LOS ANGELES.

1:25:42WHAT YOU'RE DOING WITH LACY,

1:25:44WHICH IS THAT AMAZING LITTLE

1:25:48ENGINE THAT DWP INVESTED YEARS

1:25:50AGO AND CONTINUING THE

1:25:52FOREFRONT FIGHT OF OUR

1:25:55TECHNOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY IN

1:25:56LOS ANGELES BOTH IN WATER AND

1:25:58POWER, THANK YOU FOR CONTINUING

1:26:00TO CONTRIBUTE TO THAT

1:26:03SUSTAINABILITY, PUSHING FOR IT,

1:26:04BEING A SPOKESPERSON, BRINGING

1:26:07A NEW GENERATION OF INTEREST

1:26:09AND TALENT TO THAT GENERATION

1:26:11AND CONTINUE TO GO MAKE LOS

1:26:12ANGELES A STRENGTH' HUB OF

1:26:15INNOVATION FOR CRITICAL

1:26:17INFRASTRUCTURE WORK.

1:26:17SO THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU DO

1:26:19AND AGAIN THANK YOU

1:26:21COUNCILMEMBER FOR HIGHLIGHTING

1:26:22THIS.

1:26:22>> THANK YOU VERY MUCH, I

1:26:23APPRECIATE IT.

1:26:24>> Council President:

1:26:25COUNCILMEMBER PRICE.

1:26:26>> C. Price: THANK YOU, MR.

1:26:28PRESIDENT.

1:26:29COUNCILMEMBER HUTT THANK YOU

1:26:30FOR BRINGING THIS THIS

1:26:32EXTRAORDINARY HERO WITH US

1:26:32TODAY.

1:26:34RUSSELL YOU'RE A PIONEER NOT

1:26:36JUST ON THE COURT BUT AS

1:26:38MENTIONED BEFORE BUT IN THE

1:26:40COMMUNITY AND YOUR DEDICATION

1:26:41TO YOUTH AND EDUCATION IS

1:26:43SECOND TO NONE, WE JUST

1:26:45APPRECIATE THE POSITIVE ROLE

1:26:46MODEL THAT YOU ARE, YOU ARE

1:26:50DEMONSTRATE ITING.

1:26:51SO AGAIN, THANKS FOR YOUR

1:26:52SUPPORT.

1:26:53THANKS FOR YOUR COMMITMENT.

1:26:55CONGRATULATIONS AND KEEP UP THE

1:26:57GOOD WORK.

1:26:58>> Speaker: THANK YOU VERY

1:26:59MUCH, I APPRECIATE IT.

1:27:00>> Council President: THANK YOU

1:27:01SO MUCH MR. PRICE AND

1:27:03COUNCILMEMBER HUTT THANK YOU SO

1:27:04MUCH FOR MAKE THISING VERY VERY

1:27:07IMPORTANT PRESENTATION HAPPEN.

1:27:09THIS ACKNOWLEDGMENT IS SO

1:27:11IMPORTANT TO THIS CITY AND SO

1:27:12IMPORTANT THAT IT BE DONE IN

1:27:15THIS BUILDING.

1:27:16YOU KNOW, WE SEE EACH OTHER ALL

1:27:18THE TIME IN THE STREETS AND

1:27:20YOU'RE OUTDOING THE WORK AND

1:27:21DOING THE WORK QUIETLY AND NOT

1:27:23ASKING FOR A LOT OF CREDIT OR

1:27:26THROWING PRESS CONFERENCES, YOU

1:27:27JUST SHOW UP AND GET THE WORK

1:27:29DONE.

1:27:30WHICH IS, WE LOVE OUR FOLKS

1:27:32THAT SEND A CHECK, THAT'S

1:27:33WONDERFUL.

1:27:34WE EVEN MORE THE FOLKS THAT

1:27:38SHOW UP WHETHER IT WAS THE

1:27:39OPENING OF THE MARATHON STORE,

1:27:42SOME TEN YEARS AGO NOW, THAT

1:27:44WAS TO THE WORK OF THE WHY NOT

1:27:48FOUNDATION TO THE THANKSGIVING

1:27:50AND CHRISTMAS GIVEAWAY AND

1:27:52OPENING THE SCHOOL.

1:27:53AND THEN EVERY MONT, EVER MONT

1:27:58MEMBERS IS NO SMALL THING.

1:28:00IF YOU WERE AROUND TO WATCH THE

1:28:041992 CIVIL UNREST, THE BIGGEST

1:28:06FIRE, IN THE WHOLE CITY WAS AT

1:28:10VERMONT MANCHESTER AND THAT

1:28:13BUILDING BURNED AND THAT LOT

1:28:16STAYED EMPTY EVERY DAY FOR 27

1:28:19YEARS!

1:28:21EVERY DAY THE COMMUNITY HAD TO

1:28:24LOOK AT THAT VACANT LOT AND

1:28:27COMMUNITY COALITIONS RIGHT

1:28:28ACROSS THE STREET, MY OFFICE

1:28:30WAS RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET SO

1:28:33WE SEE IT EVERY DAY.

1:28:34I WANT TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO

1:28:37COUNCILMAN AND MARK RID DETOMAS

1:28:42WHO INTERVENED.

1:28:42AND ALLOWED DEVELOPERS TO COME

1:28:43IN.

1:28:44BUT THERE WAS A MOMENT WHERE

1:28:46THEY GOT STUCK AND IT WASN'T

1:28:48CLEAR HOW IT WAS GOING TO

1:28:49HAPPEN.

1:28:49AND OUT OF NOWHERE IN COMES AN

1:28:53ANGEL BY THE NAME OF RUSSELL TO

1:28:54MOVE THE PROJ PEKT FORWARD.

1:28:58--PROJECT FORWARD.

1:29:01YES, A BIG ROUND OF APPLAUSE.

1:29:04AND THE PROJECT GOT A LITTLE

1:29:07SHAKY, BECAUSE TARGET, WHEN

1:29:12TRUMP GOT ELECTED, BUT WHEN

1:29:15PRESIDENT TRUMP GOT ELECTED,

1:29:18TARGET PULLED OUT OF THE

1:29:19PROJECT.

1:29:20AND THE DEVELOPERS COULD HAVE

1:29:21WALKED AWAY.

1:29:22THAT WAS THE WHOLE DEI AND

1:29:26BLACK PEOPLE ARE OUT OF FASHION

1:29:28AND LATINO MORE OUT OF FASHION

1:29:30THAN THAT.

1:29:31YOU COULD HAVE WALKED AWAY FROM

1:29:34THAT PROJECT AND SAID, IT DOES

1:29:35NOT WORK, IT DOES NOT PENCIL,

1:29:38YOU'RE STUCK WITH THAT NOW.

1:29:39THE UNITS OF HOUSING ARE

1:29:42OCCUPIED, THERE IS A SCHOOL

1:29:43THERE NOW THAT FOLKS ARE

1:29:46ATTENDING AND NEXT YEAR, WE'RE

1:29:48GOING TO ANNOUNCE THE OPENING

1:29:50OF A FULL SERVICE GROCERY STORE

1:29:53WITH A DELI AND A BAKERY AND

1:29:56HUNDREDS OF EMPLOYEES SO THANK

1:29:58YOU SO MUCH ON BEHALF OF ALL

1:29:59THE PEOPLE OF SOUTH L.A.

1:30:01[APPLAUSE]

1:30:04THAT, THAT IS ONE OF THE

1:30:06STICKIEST FOOD DESERTS THAT WE

1:30:09KNOW ANYWHERE IN CALIFORNIA AND

1:30:10NOW WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A

1:30:12GROCERY STORE RIGHT IN THE

1:30:14MIDDLE OF IT.

1:30:16SO WE CANNOT THANK YOU ENOUGH

1:30:18AND I'M GRATEFUL TO THE

1:30:19OPPORTUNITY TO THE

1:30:20COUNCILMEMBER HUTT TO MAKE YOU

1:30:23STAND THERE AND TELL YOU, TELL

1:30:25US HOW AMAZING YOUR WORK IS AND

1:30:28WHAT IT MEANS TO SO MANY OF US.

1:30:30THANK YOU AGAIN AND BACK TO YOU

1:30:32COUNCILMEMBER HUTT.

1:30:34>> H. Hutt: BEFORE I GIVE HIM

1:30:37THE MIC, I JUST WANT AS A

1:30:40MOTHER, THANK YOU FOR RAISING A

1:30:43SON WHO BELIEVES IN THE CITY.

1:30:45WE DON'T ALWAYS GET OUR FLOWERS

1:30:48BUT WE WANT TO GIVE YOU YOUR

1:30:52FLOWERS, ESPECIALLY ME P I HAVE

1:30:54THREE SONS.

1:30:57THANK YOU SO MUCH.

1:30:58[APPLAUSE]

1:30:59>> Council President: SORRY,

1:31:01NOW YOU GOT MOM INTO IT.

1:31:02SO I HAVE TO TALK.

1:31:05SO MOM, I WANT THANK YOU FOR

1:31:06THIS.

1:31:07THERE IS ALL THE COMMUNITY

1:31:08WORK, BUT THE OTHER PIECE

1:31:10YOU'LL NEVER BE ABLE TO COUNT

1:31:12AND ADD UP, BUT YOU RAISED A

1:31:16SON, THAT SO MANY YOUNG PEOPLE

1:31:19EVER TIME THEY SAW STEP ON THE

1:31:22COURT, IT WAS AT 110 PERCENT.

1:31:25SO NOT ONLY DOES HE SHOW UP,

1:31:28BUT HE SHOWS UP ALL THE WAY

1:31:30EVERY TIME FROM THE OPENING

1:31:32MINUTE TO THE FINAL BELL SOUNDS

1:31:35AND THAT, EVERY TIME HE DOES

1:31:38THAT, HE'S TEACHING YOUNG

1:31:41PEOPLE THAT'S HOW YOU SHOW UP.

1:31:42AND THERE IS A LOT OF YOUNG

1:31:44PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY WATCH YOUR

1:31:46SON, THEY DON'T KNOW ANY OTHER

1:31:48BUSINESS.

1:31:49SO THAT'S A GIFT THAT WILL

1:31:50CONTINUE TO GIFT FOR

1:31:52GENERATIONS, THANK YOU MOM.

1:31:53AND NOW BACK TO YOU,

1:31:55COUNCILMEMBER HUTT.

1:31:57>> Speaker: COUNCILMEMBER HUTT,

1:31:58THANK YOU AGAIN.

1:31:59I APPRECIATE IT.

1:32:00PRESIDENT, COUNCILMEMBERS I

1:32:02APPRECIATE YOU GUYS ALLOWING ME

1:32:03TO BE HERE IN YOUR HOME FIRST

1:32:05AND FOR MOST.

1:32:06ALWAYS GIVE ALL MY THANKS AND

1:32:09GLORY TO GOD FOR ALLOWING ME TO

1:32:11BE IN THIS POSITION AND HAVING

1:32:14A PLATFORM TO HELP AS MANY

1:32:15PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE.

1:32:17I WILL NOT BE ABLE LONG, MY

1:32:20PARENTS, HE LEFT AND WENT TO GO

1:32:23PLAY GOLF, BUT BEING ABLE TO

1:32:26GIVE BACK STARTED WHEN I WAS

1:32:27YOUNG.

1:32:28ALWAYS SEEING ANY PARENTS AND

1:32:30SHE DON'T KNOW THIS, I NEVER

1:32:32TOLD HER THIS STORY, I ALWAYS

1:32:34SAW MY MOM AND DAD CAN GIVE,

1:32:36GIVE, GIVE SO MUCH AND AS A

1:32:38YOUNG CHILD, YIZ REALLY

1:32:40UNDERSTAND WHY OR HOW HOW THAT

1:32:42MADE SENSE.

1:32:44BECAUSE WE DIDN'T HAVE MUCH

1:32:45GROWING UP.

1:32:47I ALWAYS SEE MY PARENTS ALWAYS

1:32:49GIVE AND GIVE AND I REMEMBER

1:32:51ASKING, HER ONE DAY, LIKE YOU

1:32:54KNOW, DO WE GET ANYTHING IN

1:32:55RETURN.

1:32:57WHAT HAPPENS YOU GIVE SO MUCH

1:32:58YOU DON'T GET ANYBODY IN RETURN.

1:33:00I REMEMBER HER TELLING ME, YOU

1:33:01DON'T DO IT TO GET SOMETHING IN

1:33:04RETURN, YOU DO IT BECAUSE YOU

1:33:06CARE AND YOU WANT TO IMPACT.

1:33:09TO THIS DAY, THAT HAS BEEN MY

1:33:12MOTTO TO IMPACT AND INSPIRE

1:33:14MANY YOUNG PEOPLE.

1:33:15WE DO THAT THROUGH EDUCATION

1:33:17AND MENTAL HEALTH AND

1:33:18WORKFORCE, AS A LOT OF YOU GUYS

1:33:20MENTIONED.

1:33:21I'M JUST GRATEFUL TO BE IN THIS

1:33:23POSITION AND GET ACKNOWLEDGED

1:33:24AND I'M SO GRATEFUL.

1:33:26I WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO BE HERE

1:33:28WITHOUT MIA MAZING SUPPORT

1:33:30STAFF, MY DIRECTOR, MY TEAM OF

1:33:33PEOPLE THAT SUPPORT ME

1:33:34THROUGHOUT AND THE CITY OF

1:33:36L.A., QUITE FRAFRPGLY.

1:33:36I'M L.A. TO THE CORE, IF YOU

1:33:40KNOW, I WRITE L.A. ANYWHERE I

1:33:43GO ON THE COURT, OFF THE COURT

1:33:45AND I WANT TO BE THE

1:33:46REPRESENTATION OF LOS ANGELES.

1:33:48MY GOAL IS WHEN I'M DONE

1:33:50PLAYING, LEGACY IS SOMETHING

1:33:51THAT IS IS NOT WHAT YOU DO ON

1:33:53THE COURT WHAT YOU'LL BE ABLE

1:33:54TO DO WITH THE PLATFORM AND GOD

1:33:58HAS GIVEN A PLATFORM.

1:34:01WHEN PEOPLE THINK OF LOS

1:34:02ANGELES AND GIVING BACK, I WANT

1:34:04MY NAME TO BE ON TOP.

1:34:05THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME HERE

1:34:07AND I'M GRATEFUL TO BE IN YOUR

1:34:08PRESENCE.

1:34:09SO THANK YOU.

1:34:09[APPLAUSE]

1:34:23>> H. Hutt: I HAVE A

1:34:26CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION.

1:34:27IT TALKS ABOUT WHY YOU'RE GREAT.

1:34:29AND IT IS SIGNED BY ALL MEMBERS

1:34:33OF CITY COUNCIL AND MAYOR KAREN

1:34:35BASS.

1:35:10>> H. Hutt: THIS ONE IS FOR THE

1:35:12WEST BROOKE ACADEMY FOR THE

1:35:14WORK THAT YOU DO FOR CHILDREN.

1:35:19>> Speaker: SORRY A LITTLE

1:35:22HISTORY ON WESTERN ACADEMY, WE

1:35:25HAVE VERONICA THAT IS GRATEFUL

1:35:30TO COLAB WITH L.A. FUND.

1:35:34THEY HAVE AMAZING--OF00 PLUS

1:35:38STUDENTS.

1:35:39AND WE'RE GRATEFUL FOR AMAZING

1:35:41CAMPUS AND SHE ALLOWED US TO

1:35:43ADD ON AND ADD DIFFERENT THINGS

1:35:45TO CURRICULUM.

1:35:46THIS IS FOR THE STUDENTS.

1:35:48THANK YOU VERONICA.

1:35:49[APPLAUSE]

1:35:50>> H. Hutt: YOU SHOULD BRING UP

1:35:54L.A. PROMISE, THIS ONE IS FOR

1:35:55L.A. PROMISE, WE WANT ALL YOUR

1:35:58WALLS FULL OF L.A. STUFF.

1:35:59THIS IS FOR THE L.A. PROMISE

1:36:02FUND.

1:36:03>> Speaker: THANK YOU.

1:36:04>> H. Hutt: AND THIS IS FOR THE

1:36:06WORK YOU DO AT A PLACE I GREW

1:36:11UP, CRENSHAW Y.

1:36:12[APPLAUSE]

1:36:14>> Speaker: AND A SMALL STORY

1:36:18CRENSHAW Y CAME ABOUT REALLY

1:36:20AUTHENTICALLY.

1:36:22I GREW UP IN THE LOS ANGELES

1:36:26AND CRENSHAW MEANT TO SO MANY

1:36:28PEOPLE.

1:36:30I'M GRATEFUL, THEY CALLED TO US

1:36:31COME AND HELP AND IT WAS A NO

1:36:34BRAINER FOR ME, BECAUSE THE

1:36:35YOUTH MATTERS AND NEXT

1:36:37GENERATION MATTERS AND I'M

1:36:37PROUD TO BE PART OF THE

1:36:40CRENSHAW WHY.

1:36:41THANK YOU.

1:36:42>> City Attorney: THANK YOU

1:36:43EVERYONE.

1:36:55>> Council President: ALL

1:36:57RIGHT, LET'S DO ANOTHER BIG

1:37:00ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR OUR

1:37:05HOMETOWN HERO, THE ONE AND ONLY

1:37:09RUSSELL WESTBROOKE.

1:37:10ALL RIGHT AS THEY TRANSITION

1:37:12BACK TO THE MEDIA ROOM, I'LL

1:37:15CALL ON COUNCILMEMBER JURADO

1:37:16FROM THE 14th COUNCIL DISTRICT.

1:37:55>> Y. Jurado: DID SOMEONE

1:38:00FORGET THEIR, I DON'T KNOW WHAT

1:38:02THIS IS. OKAY.

1:38:08OKAY.

1:38:13ALL RIGHT.

1:38:13THANK YOU.

1:38:15THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER HUTT

1:38:16FOR SUCH AN INSPIRING

1:38:20PRESENTATION WITH RUSSELL

1:38:22WESTBROOKE, YOU KNOW, WE LOVE

1:38:24PEOPLE WHO STAY HERE IN L.A.

1:38:27IT'S AN HONOR TO WELCOME

1:38:31ADVOCATE.

1:38:33TODAY WE COLLECT SOLIDARITY AND

1:38:36EMPOWERMENT, A GROUP THAT

1:38:37CONTINUES TO DEMONSTRATE A TRUE

1:38:39INHERIT TO THE EAST SIDE,

1:38:43TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGE IS BUILT

1:38:44THROUGH COLLECTIVE ACTION.

1:38:46I CANNOT THINK OF ANY OTHER

1:38:50ORGANIZATION THAT SAYS EL

1:38:55PUEBLO SALVA EL PUEBLO.

1:38:59AND BUILDING TRUE TENANT POWER

1:39:01ACROSS LOS ANGELES AS A

1:39:03FOUNDING LOCAL OF THE LOS

1:39:06ANGELES TENANTS UNION.

1:39:15UNION DE BECINOS ARE LEAD TO

1:39:20COURAGEOUS MUJERES TO DEMAND A

1:39:22VOICE TO WHERE THE NEIGHBORHOOD

1:39:23WAS SHAPED.

1:39:26THEY LITERALLY PUT THE BODIES

1:39:28TOWARDS BULLDOZERS.

1:39:30SHAIKD OUT OF BOYLE HEIGHTS BUT

1:39:32INSTEAD THE DEVELOPMENT WAS

1:39:34SHAPED FOR CURRENT RESIDENTS

1:39:36AND FOR GENERATIONS TO COME.

1:39:38YOU MAY KNOW UVD FROM THE

1:39:41VARIOUS CAMPAIGNS TO THE FOOD

1:39:43NOT RENT.

1:39:44YOUR ADVOCACY HAS INVOLVED SO

1:39:47MANY DIVA SETS DEFENDING PEOPLE

1:39:49FROM THEIR HOMES AGAINST

1:39:52HARASSMENT AND UNSUAVE

1:39:53CONDITIONS AND RENT INCREASES

1:39:55AND ILLEGAL EVICTIONS, FIGHTING

1:39:56FOR TRAFFIC LIGHTS AND SAFER

1:39:59STREETS, THEY RECLAIM NEGLECTED

1:40:01ALLEYS, CREATED COMMUNITY

1:40:02GARDENS AND MADE ROOM FOR

1:40:04CHILDREN TO PLAY AND FOR

1:40:05NEIGHBORS TO GATHER.

1:40:07YOU TURN LOCAL KNOWLEDGE IN

1:40:09YEARS OF ORGANIZING IN LASTING

1:40:11CHANGE THROUGH CITY POLICIES,

1:40:13POLICIES THAT PROTECT TENANTS

1:40:15AND DELIVER JUSTICE AND

1:40:17DEMANDED MORE ACCOUNTABLE

1:40:19LEADERSHIP, ME INCLUDED.

1:40:19AND THE RESULT IS SIMPLE BUT

1:40:21POWER PFL.

1:40:22POWERFUL.

1:40:23YOU GET PEOPLE FAITH NOT ONLY

1:40:25IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS NOT ONLY

1:40:27IN THE BRIGHTER FUTURE BUT IN

1:40:29THEMSELVES IN THEIR POTENTIAL

1:40:31TO BECOME MORE THAN PASSIVE

1:40:33RESIDENTS BUT AS COMMITTED

1:40:36LEADERS, PEOPLE WHO GREW UP

1:40:38SENIOR WORK IN ACTION HAVE

1:40:40STEPPED INTO THEIR POWER AS

1:40:43POLICY WORKERS AND URBAN

1:40:44PLANNERS AND NEIGHBORHOOD

1:40:44LEADERS.

1:40:45I HAVE THE GREAT LUXURY OF

1:40:48ASHLEY AND ALSO AN URBAN

1:40:51PLANNER AND ONE OF YOUR

1:40:53PROTEGES.

1:40:55THE UNION WAS BUILT DOOR BY

1:40:58DOOR AND BLOCK BY BLOCK AND

1:41:02FIGHT BY FIGHT.

1:41:05IT'S UNSTOPABLE SPIRIT OF HOPE

1:41:06THAT LIVES ON THE COUNTLESS

1:41:10LIFES YOU'VE TOUCHED.

1:41:11THANK YOU.

1:41:14MUCHAS GRACIAS POR TODOS.

1:41:18AND NOW I WOULD LIKE TO

1:41:21INTRODUCE LEONARDO.

1:41:23LY LEONARDO'S WORK--I'M

1:41:31GRATEFUL FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP

1:41:33AND UNWAIVERING COMMITMENT TO

1:41:35WORKING CLASS COMMUNITIES IN

1:41:37BOYLE HEIGHTS, PLEASE JOIN ME

1:41:41IN WELCOMING LEO.

1:41:45>> Speaker: LEADERSHIP OF

1:41:46ORGANIZATION HAS ALWAYS BEEN

1:41:47WOMEN.

1:41:49OUR ORGANIZATION WAS BORN FOR

1:41:51THE POOR, THAT MEANS THAT

1:41:53WHATEVER WE DO TAKES THE MOST

1:41:57MARGINIZED AND POOR.

1:41:59THAT'S WHY WE STARTED IN PUBLIC

1:42:02HOUSING, WE WERE BORN WHEN THE

1:42:05GOVERNMENT DECIDED TO ABOLISH,

1:42:09AND GABBY AND ANA HERNANDEZ AND

1:42:15SOPHIA AND LAURA AND GONZALEZ,

1:42:18STARTED THE FIGHT.

1:42:20ALMOST EVERY INSTITUTION

1:42:21SUPPORTED THE NO WILL ISING OF

1:42:23OUR HOUSING, THE CITY, THE

1:42:25MAYOR, THE CITY COUNCIL, THE

1:42:26MEDIA AND EVEN THE CHURCH AND

1:42:30ORGANIZATIONS, EVERYBODY TOLD

1:42:31US THAT WE COULD NOT FIGHT

1:42:37HACLA.

1:42:37WE KNEW BETTER, WE KNEW THE

1:42:39PUBLIC HOUSE HADING MEANT

1:42:42DESTROYING COMMUNITIES,

1:42:43DISPLACE ING FAMILIES AND

1:42:44TAKING AWAY ONE OF THEIR

1:42:46PROTECTION WHERE PEOPLE HAD.

1:42:49OVER 1200 UNITS WERE DEMOLISHED.

1:42:54HERE 30 YEARS LATER, TENS OF

1:42:57THOUSANDS ARE LIVING IN THE

1:42:59STREETS AND MANY BEING EVICTED,

1:43:01AND MANY LIVING WITH

1:43:06COCKROACHES AND RATS.

1:43:07WHY DID THEY GIVE US NOTHING.

1:43:10IT CREATE WORSENED THE PROBLEM

1:43:12AND TODAY MORE PUBLIC HOUSING

1:43:14HAS BEEN PRIVATIZED BY THE CITY

1:43:18AND PEOPLE WHO PROTECT THIS

1:43:19PROCESS.

1:43:20BUT WE'RE STILL FIGHTING.

1:43:21THIS IS THE COUNCIL

1:43:23RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT THIS

1:43:24COMMUNITIES.

1:43:25IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY TO DO

1:43:27SOMETHING SO WE STOP THE

1:43:29DISPLACEMENT.

1:43:30WHEN WHICH TALK ABOUT THE MOST

1:43:32POOR, IT'S NOT JUST THE PEOPLE

1:43:33WHO LIVE IN PUBLIC HOUSING BUT

1:43:36THE PUBLIC THAT LIVES IN THE

1:43:39RVs, NO 4118 THAT DON'T DO

1:43:41ANYTHING FOR THEM BUT WITH THE

1:43:43REAL HOUSING THAT THEY NEED AND

1:43:45DESERVE, TO BE PUBLIC HOUSING

1:43:47IS HOUSING FOR THE POOREST

1:43:49PEOPLE IN OUR COMMUNITIES.

1:43:50WE ALSO BELIEVE IN THE RIGHT OF

1:43:52THE PEOPLE TO REMAIN IN THE

1:43:53LAND THAT THEY HAVE BUILT.

1:43:54EVERY TIME WE LIVE TOGETHER, WE

1:43:59BUILD COMMUNITY AND

1:44:00NEIGHBORHOODS AND HOUSING THAT

1:44:01WE DESERVE.

1:44:03SO WE BELIEVE IN-HOUSING AND

1:44:06PROTECTIONS AND DISPLACEMENT.

1:44:07WE ASK YOU TO TAKE ACTION

1:44:09AGAINST THE EVIL EVICTIONS AND

1:44:11THE TORTURE ABOUT HOUSE HADING.

1:44:12WE WANT TO YOU STOP LOOKING AT

1:44:16AFFORDABLE AND START LOOKING AT

1:44:18THE REAL HOUSING CRISIS.

1:44:21IT WILL NOT REPAIR HOMES, IT

1:44:24WILL NOT COVER THE LIDS, IT

1:44:25WILL NOT ERADICATE THE

1:44:30COCKROACHES AND THE MICE.

1:44:32AFFORDABLE HOUSING IS

1:44:34AFFORDABLE TO THE PEOPLE WHO

1:44:36REALLY NEED IT.

1:44:37SO WHEN YOU GO OUT TO THE

1:44:40STREETS AND SAY WE'RE BRINGING

1:44:42AFFORDABLE HOUSE HADING, YOU'RE

1:44:43PUSHING PEOPLE OUT OF THE

1:44:44NEIGHBORHOODS.

1:44:45THE MARKET IS NOT THE SOLUTION.

1:44:47THE MARKET IS ONE CREATING THE

1:44:49PROBLEM.

1:44:50TALENT ALSO, TELL PEOPLE THAT

1:44:52MORE HOUSING WILL SOLVE THEIR

1:44:56PROBLEMS DOES NOTHING FOR

1:44:57FAMILIES WHO LIVE WITH HIGH

1:45:00RENTS AND OVER THE PEOPLE, MORE

1:45:03HOUSING IN THE LONG TERM IS

1:45:05GOOD.

1:45:06BUT MORE HOUSING TODAY DOES NOT

1:45:07PROTECT ANYBODY WHO HAS BEEN

1:45:10DISPLACED AND ATTACKED BY

1:45:11SPECULATION.

1:45:12PEOPLE NEED STABILITY, THEY

1:45:13NEED TO KNOW THAT THEY CAN STAY

1:45:15IN THEIR HOMES, RAISE THEIR

1:45:19CHILDREN, FIND COMMUNITIES

1:45:23AND--OUR COMMUNITY IS

1:45:29IMMIGRANTS, GUATEMALA, MEXICAN,

1:45:30PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY WHO

1:45:31HAVE BEEN STRUGGLING TO HAVE A

1:45:32PLACE.

1:45:33WE KNOW THE STRUGGLE FROM 17

1:45:37AND HOW WE'RE TO CHANGE FOR THE

1:45:42POLITICAL CHANGE.

1:45:45IN 1986, THE RIGHT TO REMAIN.

1:45:48250 FAMILIES WON A CONTRACT TO

1:45:50REMAIN.

1:45:51THEY BECAME A CITY TO OF A

1:45:55LARGER MOVEMENT, AND IMPROVE

1:45:57THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD AND PUSH.

1:46:01THIS MOVEMENT HAS TURNED INTO

1:46:04COVERED IN 16 COMMUNITIES AND

1:46:05FIGHTING FOR THE RIGHT FOR

1:46:07PEOPLE TO REMAIN FOR DIGNIFIED

1:46:09HOUSING AND FOR THE RIGHT TO

1:46:11BUILD A PLACE.

1:46:14FOR 15 YEARS, PEOPLE HAVE THE

1:46:15CAPACITY TO ORGANIZE, TO GO

1:46:17OVER THEIR COMMUNITY AND TO

1:46:19CREATE SOLUTIONS TO THEIR

1:46:21PROBLEMS.

1:46:22PEOPLE KNOW HOW TO SOLVE IT AND

1:46:24TAKE ACTION FOR THAT.

1:46:25IT IS TIME TO SOLVE THEM.

1:46:28PEOPLE HAVE THE PROBLEM OF THIS

1:46:30CITY.

1:46:30BUT HAVE YOU TO TRUST THE

1:46:31PEOPLE.

1:46:32YOU HAVE TO GIVE THE COMMUNITY.

1:46:35WE DON'T NEED THE GREAT IDEAS

1:46:37AND GREAT PLANS, WE NEED TO

1:46:39TAKE ACTION WITH US WHEN WE

1:46:40TELL YOU WHAT TO DO.

1:46:42NONE OF THIS IS POSSIBLE IN OUR

1:46:45HOUSE HADING STABILITY.

1:46:47IF YOU DON'T GIVE THE HOUSING,

1:46:50WE DON'T BUILD THE COMMUNITY.

1:46:52YOU CANNOT ORGANIZE FAMILIES

1:46:54WHERE FAMILIES ARE BEING PUSHED

1:46:56FROM ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER.

1:46:57YOU CANNOT BUILD A FUTURE AND

1:46:59THIS INCLUDES THE HOMELESS.

1:47:02YOU KEEP PUSHING THEM AROUND,

1:47:03YOU'RE NOT ABLE TO BUILD

1:47:05SOMETHING FOR THEM AND WITH

1:47:06THEM.

1:47:08WITHOUT SERVICES, 30 YEARS,

1:47:11LATER, WE'RE STILL HERE, STILL

1:47:15ORGANIZING, STILL DEFENDING OUR

1:47:17NEIGHBORHOODS.

1:47:19TODAY, AS WE CELEBRATE 30 YEARS

1:47:21AND AS WE'RE HERE WITH YOU, NOT

1:47:23STREAMING LIKE OTHER TIMES, WE

1:47:24STILL WANT YOU TO WORK WITH US

1:47:26AND SOLVE OUR PROBLEMS.

1:47:28TODAY WE ASK YOU TO FULFILL OUR

1:47:32STABILITY.

1:47:33THANK YOU.

1:47:34[APPLAUSE]

1:47:41>> Y. Jurado: THANK YOU, LEO,

1:47:45VERY POWERFUL.

1:47:48NEXT IS ELIZABETH COMMITMENT TO

1:47:50ORGANIZING A LONG SIGN

1:47:52RESIDENTS REFLECTS THE

1:47:54ORGANIZATION'S PURPOSE,

1:47:55LISTENING TO NEIGHBORS,

1:47:58NURTURING LEADERSHIP, I'M

1:47:59GRATEFUL FOR ADVOCACY AND THE

1:48:01CARE THEY BRINGS TO THE

1:48:04FAMILIES TO REMAIN IN THEIR

1:48:05COMMUNITIES.

1:48:06PLEASE JOIN ME IN WELCOMING

1:48:08ELIZABETH.

1:48:13>> THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER

1:48:15JURADO AND ALL COUNCILMEMBERS

1:48:16HERE TODAY FOR RECOGNIZING THE

1:48:19WORK OF UNION DE VECINOS,

1:48:28THEY'RE NOT JUST FOUNDERS,

1:48:31THEY'RE ACTIVE, STILL FIGHTING

1:48:34THE FIGHT, THE CARMEN, THE

1:48:39DELMIRAs, THEY FIGHT FOR

1:48:40HOUSING FOR EVERYONE.

1:48:42THEY FIGHT FOR, FOR HOUSING TO

1:48:45BE PUBLIC, THEY FIGHT AGAINST

1:48:47THE PRIEFIZATION OF THEIR OWN

1:48:49PUBLIC HOUSING.

1:48:51THEY FIGHT AGAINST HUDS RACIST

1:48:53AND DISCRIMINATORY PROPOSAL TO

1:48:56EVICT UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS

1:48:58JUST BECAUSE THEY'RE

1:48:59UNDOCUMENTED.

1:49:01BUT JUST AS IMPORTANT AS THE

1:49:04FOUNDERS OF UNION DE BECINIOS,

1:49:10THE OPHELIA, THE SO CORROS WHO

1:49:19HAVE BEEN ADDRESSED THE

1:49:20PEDESTRIAN SAFE NEEDS IN THEIR

1:49:21COMMUNITY.

1:49:22NEEDS THAT THE CITY HAS NOT

1:49:24BEEN ABLE TO FULFILL.

1:49:26THEY ORGANIZE SWAP MEETS AND

1:49:29FOOD DISTRIBUTIONS TO THIS DAY

1:49:32TO MEET ECONOMIC NEEDS IN THEIR

1:49:33NEIGHBORHOODS AND COMMUNITY.

1:49:35AND THEY ORGANIZE CULTURE

1:49:37EVENTS AND CELEBRATION TO SEE

1:49:38BUILD COMMUNITY AND STRONG

1:49:40BONDS BETWEEN THE NEIGHBORS IN

1:49:43BOYLE HEIGHTS AND IN THE CITY

1:49:44OF MAY WOOD.

1:49:45WE ALSO RECOGNIZE THAT TERESAS,

1:49:48THE ELSA, THE FERNANDOS,

1:49:51MIGUEL, THE LOUISES AND IRMA

1:49:54WHO WITH EVERY DEMAND FOR

1:49:57DESENT SAFE AND ACCESSIBLE

1:49:59HOUSING ARE CHANGING THE

1:50:00BALANCE OF POWER BETWEEN TENANT

1:50:02AND LANDLORD.

1:50:09UNION DE VECINOS WILL CONTINUE

1:50:11TO FIGHT FOR FOOD AND WATER ARE

1:50:14NOT JUST A DREAM BUT A REALITY.

1:50:16WE WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH ON

1:50:18CITY OFFICIALS AS YOURSELVES

1:50:19UNTIL WE SEE THAT VISION

1:50:25REALIZED IN THE YEARS TO COME.

1:50:25THANK YOU.

1:50:26[APPLAUSE]

1:50:29>> Y. Jurado: THANK YOU, LIZETH.

1:50:35THE LEGACY ALSO LIVES IN THE EL

1:50:39COSER.

1:50:41JOINING THE ORGANIZATION AT

1:50:43JUST 18 AND NOW A MOTHER OF

1:50:45THREE CONTINUES TO BRING THE

1:50:47STRUGGLES OF TENANTS AND

1:50:50WORKING CLASS FAMILIES THROUGH

1:50:53UNION OF VECINOS SHE HAS

1:50:55CARRIED VOICES.

1:50:57I'M GRATEFUL FOR CONVICTION

1:50:59THAT PEOPLE MOST AFFECTED BY

1:51:02INJUSTICE MUST HELP THE LEAD IN

1:51:05THE CHARGE CHANGE.

1:51:06PLEASE WELCOME ME IN JOINING

1:51:08KENYA.

1:51:09>> Speaker: THANK YOU SO MUCH

1:51:10FOR RECOGNIZING THE WORK OF

1:51:15UNION DE VECINOS, I STARTED

1:51:19ORGANIZING IN 2003 AS A YOUNG

1:51:21IMMIGRANT.

1:51:22MY FAMILY MIGRATED FROM

1:51:26GUERRERO ACAPULCO IN 19 89 AND

1:51:30ONE THING I WANT IT SAY THAT

1:51:33UNION HAS TAUGHT ME THAT I

1:51:34DON'T NEED TO BE A U.S. CITIZEN

1:51:37OR VOTE IN ORDER TO BE A PERSON

1:51:40CREATING WITH MY COMMUNITY THE

1:51:41THINGS THAT WE WANT TO SEE

1:51:43WITHIN OUR COMMUNITIES.

1:51:45A LOT OF MEMBERS ARE MIXED

1:51:47STATUS, U.S. CITIZENS AND U.S.

1:51:48RESIDENT SXZ WE HAVE IMMIGRANTS

1:51:50AND ALL OF THEM HAVE POWER TO

1:51:53CHANGE THEIR COMMUNITY AND TO

1:51:54BUILD THE COMMUNITY THAT THEY

1:51:55WANT TO SEE.

1:51:56AND THEY HAVE ALL BEEN DOING

1:51:58THE WORK EVERY DAY TO NOT JUST

1:52:00BUILD THE COMMUNITY BUT TO

1:52:01PROTECT THAT COMMUNITY.

1:52:05IN UNION BECINOSES WE HAVE

1:52:06LEARNED THAT WE ARE THE ONES

1:52:08THAT NEED TO PROTECT OUR

1:52:09COMMUNITIES AND TERRITORIES.

1:52:10AND AFTER THE IMMIGRATION RAIDS

1:52:13THAT HAVE TARGETED LOS ANGELES,

1:52:14WE HAVE BEEN THE ONES OUT THERE

1:52:16DOING THE WORK EVERY DAY TO

1:52:17MAKE SURE THAT OUR COMMUNITIES

1:52:18ARE SAFE AND PROTECTED FROM

1:52:22ICE, FROM POLICE, FROM

1:52:26DEVELOPERS FROM ANYBODY THAT

1:52:28WANTS TO DESTROY WHAT WE HAVE

1:52:29BUILT.

1:52:30SO TODAY, WE ARE HERE NOT JUST

1:52:32TO SAY THANK YOU, BUT TO SAY WE

1:52:34NEED THE CITY TO DO ITS WORK.

1:52:37THE ADMINISTRATION HAS NOW

1:52:40PROMISED 45 DAYS OF TERROR IN

1:52:42CALIFORNIA, WHERE THEY ARE

1:52:43TARGETING OUR COMMUNITIES AND

1:52:45OUR SAYING THAT ICE AGENTS WILL

1:52:48TAKE OVER OUR STREETS AND WE

1:52:49ARE SAYING WHAT ARE YOU GOING

1:52:50TO DO FOR THOSE 45 DAYS?

1:52:54WE ARE GEARING UP TO PROTECT

1:52:56OUR COMMUNITIES FOR THOSE 45

1:52:58DAYS AND OUR COMMUNITY IS READY

1:53:00TO PROTECT OURSELVES BUT WE

1:53:02NEED THE CITY TO DO THE SAME TO

1:53:04USE ALL OF ITS POWER AND MIGHT

1:53:07TO PROTECT THE COMMUNITIES FROM

1:53:11THESE TERRIBLE THINGS TO START

1:53:12HAPPENING.

1:53:16A MAN GOT SHOT IN FRONT HIS

1:53:21CHILD, THAT IS THE TYPE OF

1:53:22TERROR THAT THEY WANT TO BRING

1:53:23TO OUR COMMUNITIES AND THAT IS

1:53:24THE TYPE OF THINGS THAT WE WILL

1:53:26BE FIGHTING AGAINST BUT WE NEED

1:53:29THE SUPPORT FROM THE CITY TO

1:53:31ACTUALLY SUPPORT US IN DOING SO.

1:53:33WE NEED OUR POLICE OFFICERS TO

1:53:34PROTECT US FROM THESE THUGS

1:53:37THAT ARE COMING INTO OUR

1:53:40COMMUNITIES TO PUSH AGENDAS,

1:53:43ESPECIALLY RIGHT BEFORE OUR

1:53:44ELECTIONS WHEN OUR COMMUNITY IS

1:53:46GOING TO BE VOTING FOR Y'ALL,

1:53:48WHEN OUR COMMUNITIES ARE GOING

1:53:49TO BE PUSHING FOR PEOPLE THAT

1:53:53ARE PROTECTING OUR COMMUNITIES.

1:53:54TODAY WE'RE HERE TO SAY, SOLO

1:54:07EL PUEBLO VAL--SALVA EL PUEBLO.

1:54:12[CHANTING]

1:54:21APALUDAN, LA UNION DE VECINOS

1:54:29HE ESTA PRESENTE AQUI.

1:54:39SI SE PUEDE.

1:54:42>> Y. Jurado: THANK YOU, WE

1:54:45HAVE BEEN CELEBRATING WE'RE

1:54:46CELEBRATING YOU BECAUSE YOU'RE

1:54:48PART OF THE CITY'S

1:54:49INFRASTRUCTURE, YOU HAVE SHAPED

1:54:51POLICY AS LAY POLICY MAKERS TO

1:54:54MAKE SURE WE HOLD OURSELVES TO

1:54:56THE HIGHER STANDARDS THAT OUR

1:54:59CONSTITUENTS DESERVE.

1:55:01AND AS A FORMER RIGHTS ATTORNEY

1:55:04MYSELF I'M SO PROUD TO STAND

1:55:06BESIDES YOU ALL.

1:55:09YOU HELD MY FEET TO THE FIRE

1:55:12AND YOU MADE ME CRY AND MADE ME

1:55:18MORE ACCOUNTABLE AND BETTER

1:55:19OFFICIAL.

1:55:22CONGRATULATIONS.

1:55:23>> Council President: BEFORE

1:55:26YOU GIVE THE SERT, THERE IS A

1:55:27FEW MEMBERS.

1:55:29WITH THAT WE'LL MOVE TO

1:55:30COUNCILMEMBER PADILLA.

1:55:31>> I. Padilla: OKAY.

1:55:34WELL, HELLO, WELL FIRST TO

1:55:38COUNCILWOMAN JURADO FOR THIS

1:55:39GREAT PRESENTATION.

1:55:41CONGRATULATIONS 30 YEARS IS A

1:55:42LONG TIME.

1:55:44FOR ANY NONPROFIT TO LAST 30

1:55:46YEARS IS A BIG DEAL, I

1:55:48CONGRATULATE.

1:55:49I KNOW YOU'RE SUCCESSFUL

1:55:51BECAUSE YOUR WORK IS ROOTED IN

1:55:53THE COMMUNITY AND WHAT THE

1:55:55COMMUNITY KNOWS AND NEEDS FOR

1:55:57ITSELF.

1:55:58I'VE BEEN THINKING A LOT ABOUT

1:56:00YOU ACTUALLY, ESPECIALLY

1:56:01BECAUSE I RECENTLY WAS FINALLY

1:56:05GIVEN THE TEN-YEAR REVIEW OF

1:56:07CLEAN UP GREEN UP AND THAT'S

1:56:10WHERE OUR HISTORY GOES BACK.

1:56:11I HAVE SO MANY MEMORIES OF ALL

1:56:13THE WORK THAT WE DID BETWEEN

1:56:15THE YEARS OF 2009 AND 2013 TO

1:56:19SEE IT IMPLEMENTED IN 2016 AND

1:56:22NOW TEN YEARS LATER, I'M

1:56:24LOOKING AT THE REPORT AND SEE

1:56:26THAT OUR WORK WAS RESPECTED BUT

1:56:28KIND OF GONE IN VAIN.

1:56:30IT'S RECOGNIZED AS BEING GOOD

1:56:31BUT IT WAS NOT GOOD ENOUGH TO

1:56:33BE FUNDED AND, YOU KNOW, AND I

1:56:37REFLECT BACK AND I THINK ABOUT

1:56:38THAT DAY WHERE WE HAD A LOT OF

1:56:40DISCUSSION ABOUT WHETHER WE

1:56:41THOUGHT IT WAS A GOOD THING OR

1:56:43A BAD THING OR WHAT IT MEANT

1:56:45THAT A MAYORAL CANDIDATE HAD

1:56:48LITERALLY COPY AND PASTED INTO

1:56:50THEIR PLATFORM AS A CAMPAIGN

1:56:53PROMISE, RIGHT.

1:56:54AND YET, WHILE THERE WAS A

1:56:58DIVERSE AMOUNT OF OPINIONS

1:56:59ABOUT WHETHER THAT WAS GOOD OR

1:57:02BAD TO COPY AND PASTE THE WORK

1:57:05AND MOVE FORWARD AND WHAT I SEE

1:57:08NOW IS WE HAVE TO CONTINUE AS

1:57:12NONPROFITS AND AS INDIVIDUAL

1:57:13COMMUNITY LEADERS TO NEVER LET

1:57:14GO OF OUR ADVOCACY AND WORK.

1:57:18WITH ALL DUE RESPECT, NOW WE

1:57:21DO, THAT THE CANDIDATE DID

1:57:24BECOME MAYOR.

1:57:25NOTHING HAPPENED WITH IT, SO TO

1:57:28SPEAK.

1:57:28BUT WHAT I WILL SAY IS I'M

1:57:30HAPPY TO SEE THAT COUNCILMEMBER

1:57:33McOSKER TAKES CLEAN UP GREEN UP

1:57:36VERY SERIOUS.

1:57:38I DO HAVE TO GIVE MATT PROPS TO

1:57:42BOYLE HEIGHTS FOR INCORPORATING

1:57:44IT INTO YOUR COMMUNITY PLAN AND

1:57:46THE PACE ON HOW TO ELEVATE IT

1:57:49FROM EXISTING STRUCTURES SO

1:57:50MATT PROPS TO THE ENTIRE

1:57:52COMMUNITY OF BOYLE HEIGHTS FOR

1:57:54THAT.

1:57:55AND I'M LOOKING VERY FORWARD TO

1:57:58BEING ABLE TO DO WHAT BOYLE

1:58:01HEIGHTS DID IN PACOIMA SUN

1:58:06VALLEY AS PLANS COME FORWARD.

1:58:08IT DIDN'T HAVE TO HAVE A

1:58:12MAYORAL CANDIDATE THE COPY AND

1:58:13PASTE.

1:58:15I'VE SEEING IT AS WE SPEAK.

1:58:17SO WITH THAT, I JUST WANT TO

1:58:19SAY THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING

1:58:21YOU'VE DONE FOR TENANTS AND

1:58:22EVERYTHING YOU KEEP DOING FOR

1:58:24BOYLE HEIGHTS.

1:58:24THIS IS CONTINUE THE END OF

1:58:29CLEAN UP GREEN UP.

1:58:31I LOOK FORWARD TO MAKE ITING

1:58:34STRONGER AND, LOOKING FORWARD

1:58:36TO BRINGING YOU GUYS BACK TO

1:58:38THE TABLE SO WE CAN REMEMBER

1:58:40WHAT IT TOOK TO GET THAT DONE

1:58:42AND HOW TO MAKE SURE THAT IT

1:58:51GETS INSTITUTIONALIZED.

1:58:52GLAZESING AGAIN ON 30 YEARS OF

1:58:55GREAT WORK.

1:58:56>> Council President: THANK YOU.

1:58:58AND THEN MR. HUGO SOTO-MARTINEZ.

1:59:08>> H. Soto-Martinez: THANK YOU

1:59:10SO MUCH MR. CHAIR.

1:59:13COUNCILMEMBER JURADO THANK YOU

1:59:13FOR BRINGING AN INCREDIBLE

1:59:15ORGANIZATION TO THIS BUILDING.

1:59:17[SPEAKING SPANISH]

1:59:31FIRST OF ALL I WANT TO SAY THE

1:59:35ORGANIZERS THAT ARE

1:59:36REPRESENTING FOLKS THEIR VOICES

1:59:37ARE NOT HEARD HERE IN CITY HALL.

1:59:40THE BEAUTIFUL THING ABOUT THE

1:59:43WORK AND ORGANIZING, THAT

1:59:44THEY'RE DOING THEY'VE BEEN ABLE

1:59:45TO BRING ISSUES TO US, THE

1:59:48POLICY MAKERS AND ACTUALLY WORK

1:59:49TOGETHER AND I KNOW THAT'S NEW

1:59:52IN THE CITY, RIGHT?

1:59:53IT HAS NOT ALWAYS BEEN THE CASE

1:59:56THAT TENANT ADVOCATES AS

1:59:58MILITANT AS YOU ARE, WORKING

2:00:01PARTNERSHIP WITH ELECTED

2:00:04OFFICIALS AND I THINK THAT'S A

2:00:06BEAUTIFUL THING.

2:00:08[SPEAKING SPANISH]

2:00:22I WANT TO SAY THIS, I'VE BEEN

2:00:24TO SOME OF THE MEETINGS AND I'M

2:00:26GOING TO SAY TO YOU WHAT I TOLD

2:00:28THEM, DON'T DEPEND ON THE

2:00:30POLITICAL SYSTEM TO SAVE YOU.

2:00:32THE WORK THAT Y'ALL DO IS NEVER

2:00:34GOING TO CHANGE NO MATTER WHO

2:00:36IS IN POWER HERE.

2:00:38WE NEED FOLKS TO CHALLENGING

2:00:41POWER AND YES LIKE

2:00:43COUNCILMEMBER JURADO SAYS, IT'S

2:00:44OKAY TO HOLD US ACCOUNTABLE, I

2:00:53I DON'T CRY WITH THAT

2:00:55ACCOUNTABILITY, I CRY IN

2:00:56PRIVATE.

2:00:57BUT AGAIN, IN THE CITY WHERE WE

2:00:59NEED SO MANY DIFFERENT PEOPLE

2:01:02DOING WORKS.

2:01:03I'LL DO MY BEST HERE BUT THE

2:01:05ROLE THAT YOU PLAY IS I THINK

2:01:08IS MORE VALUABLE ONE.

2:01:09THANK YOU AGAIN FOR BRINGING

2:01:10FOLKS HERE.

2:01:11[SPEAKING SPANISH]

2:01:42GRACIAS.

2:01:43[APPLAUSE]

2:01:51>> Council President: LET ME

2:01:52ADD MY VOICE.

2:01:5330 YEARS, THANK YOU FOR BEING

2:01:54HERE.

2:01:55AND I WANT TO SEND IT BACK TO

2:01:58YOU COUNCILWOMAN TO CLOSE.

2:01:59>> Y. Jurado: OKAY, ON BEHALF

2:02:00OF THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES WE

2:02:03HAVE THIS OFFICIAL RESOLUTION

2:02:04SIGNED BY EVERYBODY HERE AT THE

2:02:07CITY COUNCIL FOR UNION DE

2:02:12VECINOS.

2:02:13[APPLAUSE]

2:02:25>> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH]

2:03:00>> Speaker: THIS IS MANUELA

2:03:11SHE HOPES SHE HOPES SHE CAN

2:03:13LIVE 100 MORE YEARS TO SUPPORT

2:03:15OUR COMMUNITY BUT IN ORDER TO

2:03:16DO THAT, SHE NEEDS ALL OF OUR

2:03:17SUPPORT.

2:03:18THANK YOU.

2:03:19>> THANK YOU, CHAIR.

2:03:28>> Council President: OKAY,

2:03:29THANK YOU SO MUCH.

2:03:30AS THEY'RE HEADING BACK TO THE

2:03:32MEDIA ROOM.

2:03:33IF I CAN ASK COUNCILMEMBER

2:03:36PADILLA TO HEAD TO THE PODIUM

2:03:39FOR THE SPECIAL PRESENTATION ON

2:03:4510-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF CHAMBER

2:03:47OF COMMERCE.

2:04:44COUNCILMEMBER PADILLA THE FLOOR

2:04:45IS YOURS.

2:04:45>> I. Padilla: HAPPY FRIDAY,

2:04:47JUST WAITING FOR A FEW MORE

2:04:49FOLKS TO COME UP.

2:04:50ALL RIGHT, SO TODAY, I AM

2:04:51HONORED TO BE CLOSING OUT

2:04:55LATINO HERITAGE MONTH IN SUCH A

2:04:59SPECIAL WAY BY RECOGNIZING AN

2:05:00ORGANIZATION THAT HAS GIVEN SO

2:05:02MANY TO THE AN FERN VALLEY.

2:05:05WITH THAT, IT'S MY HONOR TO

2:05:11COMMEMORATE PANORAMA CHAMBER OF

2:05:16COMMERCE.

2:05:18YEAH I DON'T LIKE THAT LOUDER.

2:05:21[APPLAUSE]

2:05:23I'M LOOKING, I'M LOOKING.

2:05:25I KNOW, I KNOW.

2:05:26IT'S ALREADY FRIDAY, LIKE WE

2:05:27SAID.

2:05:29BUT ANYWAY FOR THOSE OF YOU NOT

2:05:33FAMILIAR, THE CHAMBER OF

2:05:35COMMERCE WAS ESTABLISHED IN

2:05:432016 CHAMBERS WHERE YOU CAN

2:05:44SHOP AND RAISE A FAMILY.

2:05:46AND I'M SURE GETTING THIS

2:05:48TEN-YEAR MILD STOEP HAS COME

2:05:50THROUGH CHALLENGES.

2:05:51BUT THROUGH THE YEARS THEY HAVE

2:05:54ADVOCATED FOR BUSINESSES AND

2:05:57CHAMPIONED THE GROWTH.

2:05:58AND I VIVIDLY REMEMBER WHEN

2:06:02THEY STARTED TO EMMERSE

2:06:04THEMSELVES AND COME TOGETHER,

2:06:07THEY'VE MY FAVORITE PART IS

2:06:11THEY'VE IMMERSED THEMSELVES AND

2:06:13SO MUCH MORE WHICH WAS NOT

2:06:15BEING DONE BEFORE.

2:06:17CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, PLAY SUCH

2:06:19AN IMPORTANT RULE BY GIVING OUR

2:06:21SMALL BUSINESSES A VOICE

2:06:24CONNECTING THEM WITH RESOURCE

2:06:26SXZ GIVING THEM ON OPPORTUNITY.

2:06:27AND WHEN YOU THINK WHAT IT

2:06:29TAKES TO ESTABLISH A CHAMBER

2:06:32PARTICULARLY IN A PLACE LIKE

2:06:38PANORAMA CITY.

2:06:39THIS IS THEM COMING TOGETHER SO

2:06:42THAT EVERYBODY HAS AN

2:06:44OPPORTUNITY TO THRIVE.

2:06:44AND I ALSO HAVE TO SAY THAT I

2:06:48VIVIDLY REMEMBER THAT THEY CALL

2:06:49CAME TOGETHER THAT THE ONCE

2:06:52UPON A TIME DISTRICT HAD

2:06:54DECIDED.

2:06:54SO IT WAS LIKE A CALL TO ACTION

2:06:56ON THEIR BEHALF TO SAY, WELL IF

2:06:59THE BIG OPERATORS DON'T WANT TO

2:07:01BE UNITED AND REPRESENT US,

2:07:03WELL WE THE SMALLER BUSINESSES

2:07:05STILL NEED TO COME TOGETHER AND

2:07:09BRING PA MORA PA ON THE MAP.

2:07:12I'VE SEEN THE GROWTH SINCE

2:07:14TAKING THAT UP.

2:07:16AS SOMEBODY WHO GREW UP IN THE

2:07:20SAN FERNANDO VALLEY, I

2:07:22APPRECIATE THAT THEY TOOK

2:07:23MATTERS INTO THEIR OWN HANDS

2:07:27WHEN NOBODY ELSE WOULD.

2:07:28BY BEING PART OF THIS

2:07:30ORGANIZATION, WE KNOW SOMETIMES

2:07:31IT TAKES ON THEIR OWN PERSONAL

2:07:33TIME AND KEEPING THEM FROM

2:07:35THEIR OWN FAMILIES IN THE NAME

2:07:37OF CARING FOR THEIR OWN

2:07:38COMMUNITIES.

2:07:40SO FOR THAT, I THANK YOU.

2:07:42THANK YOU FOR SUPPORT FOR

2:07:45FAMILY BUSINESSES WHO MOST OF

2:07:46THEM THROUGH THE YEARS HAD A

2:07:48LOT OF SACRIFICE JUST TO STAY

2:07:52AFLOAT.

2:07:53SMALL BUSINESSES WE KNOW THAT

2:07:55THEY CREATE JOBS, THEY SUPPORT

2:07:57THE FAMILY AS A WHOLE AND ALSO

2:07:59CREATE A SPACE OF COMMUNITY

2:08:01THAT'S NOT FAR AWAY FROM HOME.

2:08:21IT'S ABOUT MAKING SURE MANY

2:08:24THINGS IN PANORAMA CITY ARE

2:08:27TAKEN CARE OF FOR BEING CLEANER

2:08:29AND MORE BEAUTIFUL AND HOSTING

2:08:31SPACES FOR EVERYONE TO COME AND

2:08:32JUST BE A FAMILY.

2:08:33SO AGAIN, AS WE CLOSE LATINO

2:08:36HERITAGE MONTH, I CAN THINK NO

2:08:39BETTER WAY THAN RECOGNIZING

2:08:41PEOPLE IN ORGANIZATIONS WHO IN

2:08:43MY LATINO HEAVY DENSE COMMUNITY

2:08:46CONTINUE TO THINK ABOUT HOW

2:08:47THEY BUILT THEIR FUTURE FROM

2:08:51ECONOMIC WORK SPER RESPECTIVE.

2:08:52THANK YOU AGAIN AND WITH THAT,

2:08:54IT IS MY HONOR TO RECOGNIZE THE

2:08:59LEADERSHIP OF SAUL MEJIA THE

2:09:02EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND I WOULD

2:09:03LIKE TO SAY A FEW WORDS ABOUT

2:09:05THIS INCREDIBLE MILESTONE AND

2:09:07WHAT THEY BROUGHT THE CHAMBER

2:09:09TO US TODAY AND A LITTLE BIT OF

2:09:10WHERE IT'S GOING.

2:09:11SAUL?

2:09:13>> Speaker: GOOD MORNING,

2:09:16EVERYBODY, I'M I APOLOGIZE IF I

2:09:19AM A LITTLE BIT OFF, BUT I

2:09:21DON'T GET UP THIS EARLY.

2:09:23THANK YOU BEFORE WE ESTABLISHED

2:09:25THE CHAMBER I WAS WITH THE

2:09:27COMMERCE CHAIR BEFORE WE HAD A

2:09:28CHAMBER.

2:10:41Because he was one of the people

2:10:43that really created me. So

2:10:45nowadays we're blessed and we're

2:10:46very happy to actually have full

2:10:48support ACTUALLY HAVE

2:10:49FULL SUPPORT FROM OUR ELECTED

2:10:51SUPPORT THAT KNOWS WHERE MY

2:10:53NEIGHBORHOOD IS AT, WE HAVE A

2:10:56MAYOR THAT KNOWS WHERE MY MOM

2:10:59AND KNOWS WHO I AM AND BLESSED

2:11:02TO HAVE A COUNCILWOMAN WHO

2:11:05KNOWS ME FOR ABOUT 15 YEARS AND

2:11:09SUPPORTIVE OF OUR CHAMBER.

2:11:11NOT IN THE BUSINESS OF

2:11:13CELEBRITY.

2:11:14SHE IS IN THE BUSINESS OF BEING

2:11:17A SERVANT AND SHOWING UP TO

2:11:18CLEAN UP.

2:11:20YOU CAN CATCH PICTURES OF MAYOR

2:11:26AND COUNCILMEMBER HOLDING A

2:11:27BROOM.

2:11:28I'M SORRY O TO SAY, YOU DO NOT

2:11:32SEE THAT WITH EVERYBODY.

2:11:34THEY ARE THE FIRST HOLDING A

2:11:37BROOM THAT IMPACTED IF HE AND

2:11:40INSPIRED ME.

2:11:41WE'RE BLESSED.

2:11:42I'VE BEEN A VOLUNTEER 30 YEARS

2:11:45AND TEN WITH THE COUNCIL AND

2:11:48TEN WITH THE CHAMBER, AND I WAS

2:11:50READY TO HANG THE TOWEL AND

2:11:53AFTER WE GOT IMELDA AND MAYOR

2:11:56BASS ELECTED, I'M NOT GOING

2:11:57ANYWHERE.

2:11:59THANK YOU TO THE MAYOR AND

2:12:02COUNCIL FOR GIVING US AN

2:12:03OPPORTUNITY TO CONTINUE TO GROW

2:12:04AND I LOOK FORWARD TO MANY

2:12:08YEARS AGO AHEAD.

2:12:11AND I WANT GOING TO PASS THE

2:12:13MIC.

2:12:15>> Y. Jurado: --

2:12:17>> I. Padilla: I'M GOING TO

2:12:21INTRODUCE THE PRESIDENT.

2:12:22YOU GAVE ME A THROW BACK WHEN

2:12:24YOU WERE IN THE COMMERCE

2:12:25COMMITTEE.

2:12:26I REMEMBER WORKING SO HARD WHEN

2:12:28I WORKED AT LANE AND WE WERE

2:12:30THE RAISE THE WAGE CAMPAIGN AND

2:12:33I FINALLY GOT MY ITEM ON OT

2:12:37AGENDA.

2:12:37IT WAS THE TIMELINE WITH THE

2:12:40FED ARE LANE AND VERSUS THE

2:12:43MAYOR, AND MAYOR GARCETTI TRIED

2:12:45TO TAKE MY ITEM AND THEN IT

2:12:47TURNED INTO A HUGE FIGHT

2:12:48BECAUSE THEY TRIED TO TAKE MY

2:12:51ITEM.

2:12:53BUT THE MOST FUNEST PART IS

2:13:00WHEN I ASKED IF THEY THOUGHT

2:13:05McDONALD'S WAS THE SMALL

2:13:06BUSINESS.

2:13:07IT'S ONE OF MY EN TRENCHED

2:13:12MEMORIES AND THEN WE RAISED THE

2:13:13WAGE.

2:13:14SO THANK YOU FOR REMINDING ME

2:13:15OF THAT.

2:13:16GOOD, GOOD TIMES.

2:13:17BUT NOW I WANT TO BRING TO THE

2:13:20PODIUM, SOMEBODY WHO I HAVE

2:13:22SEEN REALLY GROW UP AS A YOUTH

2:13:25LEADER ONCE UPON A TIME ON THE

2:13:36PANORAMA COUNCIL OF CHAMBERS.

2:13:38ONCE UPON A TIME WHEN I WAS

2:13:42WORKING FOR HEALTHCARE AND WE

2:13:43WERE IN THE AT&T BUILDING ON

2:13:46ROSCOE AND VAN NUYS, I RAN INTO

2:13:57--WHERE HE DOES TECH AND

2:13:60LOGISTICS FOR A DOCTOR.

2:14:32>> Speaker: HELLO EVERYONE,

2:14:33THANK YOU SO MUCH YOUR THE

2:14:35PERFECT MATCH MAKER, I'M

2:14:37HAPPILY IN LOVE AND NO PROBLEMS

2:14:40NO DRAMA, THANK YOU, I SHOULD

2:14:42LISTEN TO YOU OFTEN.

2:14:43I WANT TO SAY HELLO EVERYBODY,

2:14:45I JUST WANT TO COME AND SAY, I

2:14:49HAVE NO COMPLAINTS.

2:14:50IT'S FRIDAY.

2:14:51THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY

2:14:52TO BE HERE.

2:14:53I WOULD SAY THANK YOU IMELDA,

2:14:56THE WHERE CAN I A LITTLE BIT

2:14:58NERVOUS HERE BUT THE DREAM IS

2:15:01ALIVE AND WELL AND WHAT BETTER

2:15:03PLACE THAN THE CITY OF L.A.

2:15:05SO I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT.

2:15:07I WANT TO SAY TO MONICA

2:15:11RODRIGUEZ, YOUR OFFICE ALWAYS

2:15:12TREATED US WELL.

2:15:42BUT WE WERE THERE CLEANING UP

2:15:44AND MAKING A DIFFERENCE AND THE

2:15:48HOT SUN UNPAVED AND READY TO

2:15:49WORK.

2:15:50THAT'S WHAT I HAVE OF YOU AS AN

2:15:55IMAGE AND YOU'RE NOW CITY

2:15:57OFFICIAL.

2:15:57I WOULD SAY HOW CRAZY THIS LIFE

2:16:00IS AND HOW CRAZY LIFE TURNS,

2:16:02AND YOU'RE A PROOF AND THANK

2:16:03YOU FOR THE SUPPORT, THE

2:16:06GUIDANCE, THE ADVISE, THE

2:16:07CHAMBER FEELS SUPPORTED AND

2:16:08BACKED UP BECAUSE OF YOUR

2:16:11OFFICES AND OFFICES HERE

2:16:12MENTIONED.

2:16:13I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU SO MUCH

2:16:15AND THANK YOU FOR THE

2:16:15OPPORTUNITY.

2:16:17IT'S AN HONOR IT'S A DREAM COME

2:16:19TRUE, IT'S GOING TO FEEL GOOD.

2:16:21I'M GOING TO CELEBRATE TONIGHT.

2:16:22THANK YOU GUYS.

2:16:24[APPLAUSE]

2:16:28>> Speaker: TEN YEARS STRONG.

2:16:31I WANT TO BRING THEIR SECRETARY

2:16:34TO SAY A FEW WORDS TOO.

2:16:37ADELANTE.

2:16:40>> Speaker: M P*U Y BUENOS DIAS.

2:16:44[SPEAKING SPANISH]

2:16:47>> Interpreter: GOOD MORNING,

2:16:51FOR BEING HERE, I'D LIKE TO

2:16:52THANK YOU.

2:17:12>> Interpreter: THANK YOU FOR

2:17:13ALL OF YOU HERE FOR MAKING THIS

2:17:15MOMENT POSSIBLE AND FOR THE

2:17:16CELEBRATION AND FOR ALL THE

2:17:18WORK WE HAVE DONE.

2:17:20>> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH]

2:17:32>> Interpreter: IT WAS TEN

2:17:33YEARS AGO THAT WE THOUGHT ABOUT

2:17:36CREATING THIS CHAMBER.

2:17:37THROUGH THESE MEMBERS THAT MADE

2:17:38IT POSSIBLE.

2:17:39>> Speaker: [SPEAKING SPANISH]

2:17:57>> Interpreter: THANK YOU ALSO.

2:18:01COUNCILMEMBER PADILLA WHO HAS

2:18:02BEEN HERE AND MADE THIS

2:18:04POSSIBLE FOR THE LAST THREE

2:18:06YEARS SHE HAS BEEN HERE.

2:18:08>> I. Padilla: MUCHAS GRACIAS.

2:18:16[APPLAUSE] OKAY NOW SO ON

2:18:17BEHALF OF THE CITY OF LOS

2:18:18ANGELES.

2:18:18>> Council President: BEFORE

2:18:19YOU GIVE THE CERTIFICATE CAN WE

2:18:21GO TO THE MEMBERS ON THE QUEUE.

2:18:24FIRST STARTING WITH

2:18:26COUNCILMEMBER SOTO-MARTINEZ.

2:18:26>> H. Soto-Martinez: THANK YOU

2:18:28SO MUCH, COUNCILMEMBER PADILLA

2:18:30FOR THIS REALLY INSPIRING

2:18:32PRESENTATION.

2:18:34I WAS VERY MOVED BY THE STORY

2:18:36AND THE GENESIS OF HOW FOLKS

2:18:39STARTED ORGANIZING, I'M A BIG

2:18:41FAN OF ANYONE ORGANIZING, IT

2:18:43DOES NOT MATTER.

2:18:44BECAUSE WHAT THAT MEANS YOU SAW

2:18:47AN ISSUE AND VOICES ARE NOT

2:18:51BEING HEARD AND YOU ARE LIKE

2:18:53YOU KNOW WE'RE GOING TO MAKE A

2:18:54DIFFERENCE.

2:18:56YOU KNOW, AND I REPRESENT

2:18:58DISTRICT 13 WHICH HAS

2:19:03HOLLYWOOD, LOFPMONT AND SILVER

2:19:05LAKE AND MANY PLACE RIGHT SIDE

2:19:06IGNORED.

2:19:06LET ME TELL YOU THE NICE

2:19:11AFFLUENT PLACES, THEY HAVE A

2:19:13CHAMBER AND A BED, THE KNIT

2:19:16COMMUNITIES OF THOSE AREAS.

2:19:17BUT I DON'T HAVE A CHAMBER OR

2:19:21BID IN LITTLE ARMENIA OR THAI

2:19:24TOWN OR HISTORIC FILIPINO TOWN.

2:19:28I'M ENCOURAGING THE AREAS TO

2:19:30FORM SOMETHING THAT BRINGS YOU,

2:19:32THAT TIES YOUR DESTINIES

2:19:33TOGETHER.

2:19:33AND I THINK THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL

2:19:35EXAMPLE OF WHAT MINORITY

2:19:37COMMUNITIES OR EVEN COMMUNITIES

2:19:39THAT ARE IGNORED HOW THEY CAN

2:19:41HAVE A VOICE, HOW THEY CAN HAVE

2:19:43A PLATFORM AND REALLY ADVANCE

2:19:46COMMON GOALS SHARED BY MANY

2:19:48BUSINESSES.

2:19:48THANK YOU FOR THE INCREDIBLY

2:19:52STORY AND HERE'S TO 30 MORE

2:19:54YEARS.

2:19:55THANK YOU.

2:19:59>> I. Padilla: THANK YOU.

2:20:00>> Council President:

2:20:01COUNCILMEMBER NAZARIAN.

2:20:03>> A. Nazarian: THANK YOU,

2:20:05COUNCIL PRESIDENT, I DIDN'T

2:20:06WANT TO MISS THE OPPORTUNITY TO

2:20:08RISE UP AND SAY A WORD.

2:20:11COUNCILMEMBER COUNCILWOMAN

2:20:12THANK YOU FOR HIGHLIGHTING NOT

2:20:15JUST A CHAMBER BUT ALSO

2:20:19PANORAMA CITY.

2:20:19THANK YOU FOR THE WORK THAT

2:20:21YOU'RE DOING ON BEHALF OF THE

2:20:22CITY.

2:20:23I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO

2:20:26REPRESENT PANORAMA CITY IN

2:20:28LEGISLATURE.

2:20:29>> I. Padilla: THAT'S RIGHT.

2:20:31>> A. Nazarian: AND TO ME THE

2:20:35ANCHOR WAS THE CHAMBER AND

2:20:36NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL.

2:20:38I WOULD GO TO THEIR EVENTS

2:20:39OFTEN AND TRY TO WORK WITH THEM

2:20:42AS ELECTED OFFICIAL, WE ALL

2:20:43KNOW THE VALUE OF COMMUNITY

2:20:48ACTIVIST WHO STEP UP AND RAISE

2:20:49THEIR HAND AND SAY I WANT TO

2:20:51GET INVOLVED AND I WANT TO HELP.

2:20:54YOU RELISH HAVING FOLKS LIKE

2:20:55THAT.

2:20:58AND TO HAVE INDIVIDUALS WHO

2:20:59WANT TO GIVE UP THEIR TIME OF

2:21:02THEMSELVES, I ALWAYS

2:21:03APPRECIATED VERY DEEPLY AND

2:21:05CONTRIBUTED TO TRIBUTE BACK BY

2:21:07DOING WHATEVER IT WAS I COULD

2:21:09DO.

2:21:09THANK YOU FOR DOING WORK THAT

2:21:11YOU'VE BEEN DOING FOR ALL OF

2:21:13THIS TIME.

2:21:13I WISH YOU NOTHING BUT

2:21:15CONTINUED ENERGY AND STRENGTH

2:21:16TO KEEP UP THAT WORK BECAUSE

2:21:18EVEN WHEN YOU THINK YOU'RE THE

2:21:21ONLY ONES DOING IT AND IT COULD

2:21:23BE LONELY, TRUST ME THERE IS A

2:21:25LOT OF PEOPLE RELYING ON YOU.

2:21:26THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU DO.

2:21:28>> I. Padilla: ANOTHER FLASH

2:21:30BACK.

2:21:31AND YOU WERE A ASSEMBLY MEMBER,

2:21:34YOU HELPED ME TAKE 50 STUDENTS

2:21:38FROM BLIGHT STREET TO HOLLYWOOD

2:21:41BOWL.

2:21:41GOOD TIMES.

2:21:42>> Council President: AND

2:21:43COUNCILMEMBER RODRIGUEZ.

2:21:43>> M. Rodriguez: I LOVE THIS

2:21:47WALK DOWN MEMORY LANE, IMELDA.

2:21:50IT'S GREAT.

2:21:50FIRST OF ALL, CONGRATULATIONS

2:21:52ON THIS REALLY SPECIAL

2:21:54MILESTONE.

2:21:55YOU KNOW WITH SO MANY BUSINESS

2:21:57THAT'S CONTINUE TO STRUGGLE AND

2:21:58SO OFTEN DON'T GET TO CELEBRATE

2:22:01THIS LEVEL OF ANNIVERSARY

2:22:02BECAUSE OF THE ECONOMIC CLIMATE

2:22:04AND THE CONDITIONS THAT

2:22:07EVERYBODY IS STRUGGLING WITH.

2:22:08IT'S A TESTAMENT TO YOUR

2:22:10COMMITMENT TO PANORAMA CITY BUT

2:22:17IT'S REFLECTIVE OF WHO WE ARE.

2:22:19WE NEVER HAD VERY STRONG

2:22:22PRESENCE OF CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

2:22:24WE HAD A NUMBER OF COMMUNITY

2:22:26ORGANIZATIONS, WE OBVIOUSLY HAD

2:22:28THE NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCILS BUT,

2:22:32THE FINANCIAL EXPECTATIONS AND

2:22:33OBLIGATIONS OF HAVING AN

2:22:36AFFECTIVE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

2:22:37REALLY COMES DOWN TO THE LEVEL

2:22:39OF ORGANIZATIONS TO HELP MAKE

2:22:41SURE THE LOCAL BUSINESS

2:22:43COMMUNITY IS SUPPORTED THAT YOU

2:22:44HELP THEM ACCESS THE RESOURCES

2:22:47AND THE SUPPORT THAT THEY NEED

2:22:48TO BE SUCCESSFUL.

2:22:51YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE SOME

2:22:53WONDERFUL BUSINESSES AND

2:22:54INSTITUTIONS.

2:22:55GROWING UP FOR ME, THAT'S WHERE

2:22:57I USED TO GO BY MY RECORDS AND

2:22:59GO TO THE TOWER RECORDS ON VAN

2:23:06NUYS, YOU KNOW TO THE AMERICANA

2:23:09BACK WHEN IT WAS A THEATER.

2:23:11THE OLD SIZZLER, THAT'S WHO WE

2:23:15ARE, IT DID NOT MATTER IF YOU

2:23:18LIVED NORTH OF ARLETA, WE'RE

2:23:20ONE VALLEY.

2:23:21I THANK YOU FOR THE RECOGNITION

2:23:23OF SUPPORT.

2:23:24THERE ARE NO BORDERS BETWEEN

2:23:26OUR COUNCIL DISTRICTS BECAUSE

2:23:28OUR COMMUNITIES ARE

2:23:32INEBBSINGING TRICKABLY LINKED.

2:23:34TOGETHER WE'RE ONE STRONG SAN

2:23:36FERNANDO VALLEY.

2:23:37AND I WANT TO THANK IMELDA FOR

2:23:40BEING SUCH A GOOD PARTNER, OUR

2:23:43COMMUNITIES ARE SO WELL

2:23:44CONNECTED AND THAT'S WHY WE

2:23:47WORK WELL TOGETHER, WE

2:23:48UNDERSTAND THERE ARE NO BORDERS

2:23:51WHEN WE OPENED THAT DAM, THERE

2:23:54IS A REASON WHY, IT'S BECAUSE

2:23:55OUR COMMUNITIES DON'T KNOW

2:23:58THOSE BORDERS BECAUSE WE'RE ONE

2:23:59COMMUNITY IN THE SAN FERNANDO

2:24:00VALLEY.

2:24:01I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THE

2:24:03WORK THAT YOU DO AND LET'S

2:24:05CONTINUE TO EXPAND THE

2:24:08COLLABORATION, BETWEEN THE ICON

2:24:11CDC SO TOGETHER WE CAN IMPROVE

2:24:14THE CAPACITY OF OUR REG YONL.

2:24:15WE ARE SMALL BUT MIGHTY.

2:24:18AND THEY SHOULD NEVER

2:24:20UNDERSTATEMENT OUR ABILITY TO

2:24:21SHOW UP FOR OUR COMMUNITY.

2:24:25I CONGRATULATE YOU.

2:24:26CONTINUED SUCCESS.

2:24:27THANK YOU.

2:24:29>> Council President: LET ME

2:24:31ADD MY CONGRATULATIONS AND I'LL

2:24:33SEND IT BACK TO YOU

2:24:34COUNCILWOMAN TO CLOSE.

2:24:35>> I. Padilla: THANK YOU, FOR

2:24:37THOSE WHO ARE NOT FAMILIAR WITH

2:24:45PANORAMA CITY, WACHA, THEY ARE

2:24:48HAVING THINGS TRANSFORMED.

2:24:50ESPECIALLY ALONG THE VAN NUYS

2:24:52SECTION BUT ALSO IN PLACES LIKE

2:24:55IS SEPULVEDA.

2:24:58LOTS OF GREAT WORK.

2:25:00AND NOW ON OT BEHALF OF CITY OF

2:25:02LOS ANGELES, I WANT TO GIVE YOU

2:25:06THIS CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION

2:25:07FOR BEING TEN YEARS STRONG,

2:25:10CONGRATULATIONS AGAIN.

2:25:48>> Council President: THAT

2:25:51CONCLUDES OUR PRESENTATIONS.

2:25:52WHAT IS NEXT?

2:25:53PUBLIC COMMENT.

2:25:55>> Clerk: YES, AS INDICATED ON

2:25:56THE AGENDA MEMBERS OF THE

2:25:58PUBLIC WISHING TO OFFER PUBLIC

2:25:59COMMENT SHOULD CALL TOLL FREE,

2:26:11165917 PROMPTED ID.

2:26:13ONCE COUNCIL ENTERS THE PUBLIC

2:26:15COMMENT, PLEASE STAR 9 TO

2:26:18REQUEST TO SPEAK.

2:26:23LET ME REPEAT.

2:26:45>> City Attorney: WE HAVE A

2:26:47SLIGHTLY NEW PROCEDURE, TO

2:26:49PEOPLE PROVIDING PUBLIC

2:26:50COMMENT, PLEASE STATE WHICH OF

2:26:52THE AGENDA ITEM YOU WOULD LIKE

2:26:54TO SPEAK TO.

2:26:56ACTUALLY, THERE IS ONE MINUTE

2:26:58TO SPEAK TO TODAY, SO YOU'LL

2:27:00HAVE ONE MINUTE FOR THAT.

2:27:13IF YOU DO NOT DO SO, YOU WILL

2:27:16FORFEIT THE REST OF YOUR

2:27:18SPEAKING TIME AND WE WILL MOVE

2:27:20TO THE NEXT SPEAKER.

2:27:22THE ITEM OPEN IS ITEM 5.

2:27:24MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC MAY ALSO

2:27:26SPEAK FOR UP TO ONE MINUTE FOR

2:27:28GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT.

2:27:28MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC MAY SPEAK

2:27:31TO ANY OF THE ITEMS.

2:27:33WE WILL TELL YOU WHEN YOUR TIME

2:27:35IS UP.

2:27:35I HAVE A FEW MORE ANNOUNCEMENTS

2:27:38BEFORE WE BEGIN.

2:27:38I'LL ASK THAT THE INTERPRETERS

2:27:40FIRST MAKE THIS ANNOUNCEMENT

2:27:42ALLOWED TO THE ROOM.

2:27:46>> IF YOU REQUIRE A SPANISH

2:27:49LANGUAGE INTERPRETER, PLEASE

2:27:50MAKE SURE TO PAUSE EVERY FEW

2:27:52SENTENCES SO THE INTERPRETERS

2:27:54CAN INTERPRET.

2:28:01>> Interpreter: [SPEAKING

2:28:03SPANISH]

2:28:03>> City Attorney: DON'T WORRY

2:28:05WE WILL PAUSE YOUR TIME WHILE

2:28:06THE INTERPRETERS ARE

2:28:07INTERPRETING SO YOU WILL GET

2:28:08THE SAME AMOUNT OF TIME AS

2:28:10EVERYONE ELSE.

2:28:11>> Interpreter: [SPEAKING

2:28:12SPANISH]

2:28:25>> City Attorney: IF YOU WOULD

2:28:27LIKE TO USE THE WIRELESS

2:28:29MICROPHONE AFTER YOU HEAR THE

2:28:30NAME YOU SIGNED UP UNDER, CALL

2:28:32ALOUD, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND

2:28:34SO THE SERGEANT CAN PROVIDE YOU

2:28:36WITH THE MICROPHONE.

2:28:37FINALLY IN ORDER TO RUN AN

2:28:41EFFICIENT COMMENT PERIOD,

2:28:41PLEASE WAIT UNTIL YOUR NAME IS

2:28:43CALLED BEFORE YOU LINE UP TO

2:28:45SPEAK.

2:28:45THANK YOU.

2:28:47>> Clerk: FOR PUBLIC COMMENT

2:28:49BECAUSE THERE ARE MORE PEOPLE

2:28:50SIGNED UP FOR PUBLIC COMMENT

2:28:52THAN THERE ARE IN CHAMBERS,

2:28:54PLEASE LINE UP TO THE LEFT SIDE

2:28:55OF THE CHAMBERS AND SERGEANT

2:28:57WILL DIRECT YOU.

2:28:57AGAIN IF YOU REGISTERED FOR

2:28:59PUBLIC COMMENT AND WOULD LIKE

2:29:00TO SPEAK, PLEASE LINE UP TO THE

2:29:02LEFT SIDE OF THE CHAMBERS AND

2:29:05THE SERGEANTS WILL DIRECT YOU.

2:29:07>> Speaker: I WISH TO SPEAK ON

2:29:09ITEM 5 AND NON-AGENDA PUBLIC

2:29:11COMMENT.

2:29:11>> City Attorney: YOU HAVE A

2:29:12MINUTE FOR EACH.

2:29:13PLEASE BEGIN WITH THE ITEM.

2:29:14>> Speaker: HELL YEAH.

2:29:21[SINGING] SOMETIMES THE MAGIC

2:29:23THEATER, I WANT TO TALK ABOUT

2:29:26THIS TO EVERYONE ABOVE.

2:29:29INCREASES.

2:29:32EXPENDITURE AUTHORITY BY

2:29:35RESULTING IN EXCESSIVE

2:29:36CORRUPTION.

2:29:38ON S■EPTEMBER 29, 2029, THERE

2:29:42WILL BE A CITY HAND ARD.

2:29:50--STANDARD.

2:29:51I HEAR THAT I'LL BE INCLUDED ON

2:30:00THE STANDARD PROVISIONS FOR THE

2:30:01CITY THAT I USED LOVE.

2:30:06NOW I HATE IT BECAUSE IT'S NOT

2:30:12GREAT ANYMORE.

2:30:14I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU THINK

2:30:17ABOUT ME, BOB, FUCK YOU.

2:30:18>> City Attorney: ONE MINUTE.

2:30:21>> Speaker: HEY SMOKING SCAN, I

2:30:25HAVE TWO MILK DOESED ONE

2:30:27SITTING IN McOSKER SEAT AND THE

2:30:29OTHER FOOL THAT DOES NOT READ

2:30:32THE AGENDA, THAT THERE IS ONLY

2:30:34ONE ITEM, THIS IS HOW LAME THEY

2:30:37ARE THAT'S WHY HERE TO

2:30:40LIMPBIZKIT SO WE CAN GET THE

2:30:42NOOK ON, HOMEY MILK DUD.

2:30:44THAT'S RIGHT, I WANT TO SUPPORT

2:30:47A BUDGET THAT BRINGS LIMPBIZKIT

2:30:50INTO L.A. TO PROVIDE A

2:30:52BEAUTIFUL STAR, A WONDERFUL

2:30:54STAR RIGHT NEXT TO THE DONALD J

2:30:59TRUMP FOR THE RECORD, THAT SAYS

2:31:01TO L.A., FUCK YOU.

2:31:04REALLY, REALLY, YOU HAD A SKID

2:31:10ROW RAID AND YOU WANTED TO TAKE

2:31:13THE CREDIT, LAPD.

2:31:15KEEP THAT STUPID PADILLA AND

2:31:17SOTO OUT OF OUR LIVES, FUCK

2:31:22BECERRA VOTE NO.

2:31:31>> City Attorney: SPEAKER WOULD

2:31:32YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO THE ITEMS

2:31:33OR BOTH?

2:31:34>> Speaker: I'M GRACE HUT I'M

2:31:37ASSISTANT DIRECTOR WITH SAGE

2:31:38AND I'M HERE THIS MORNING TO

2:31:41THANK THE COUNCIL OFFICES THAT

2:31:42HAVE BEEN PUSHING ALONG THE

2:31:45TEMPERATURE THRESHOLD ORDINANCE

2:31:46AND ENCOURAGE THAT WE DO

2:31:47EVERYTHING THAT WE CAN IN OUR

2:31:50POWER TO GET THE REPORT BACK ON

2:31:53THIS MOTION DONE AS SOON AS

2:31:54POSSIBLE.

2:31:55THIS LAST WEEK, WAS THE LONGEST

2:31:58CONSECUTIVE STRETCH OF 100

2:32:01DEGREE DAYS AND ANYONE WHO

2:32:03STEPPED OUT OUTSIDE THIS WEEK,

2:32:06KNOWS HOW OPPRESSIVE THE HEAT

2:32:09HAS BEEN BUT.

2:32:12AND POORLY INSULATED APARTMENT

2:32:14WITHOUT COOLING FOR FIVE

2:32:16CONSECUTIVE DAYS ABOVE 100

2:32:18DEGREES, NO RELIEF NOT EVEN AT

2:32:20NIGHT.

2:32:21THIS WAS THE REALITY FOR SO

2:32:23MANY ANGELINOS THIS WEEK.

2:32:25SO SI ASK WE DON'T LET THE

2:32:30RELIEF BE A WAY TO SLOW DOWN.

2:32:31THANK YOU.

2:32:41>> Speaker: GENERAL COMMENT.

2:32:42>> City Attorney: YOU'LL HAVE

2:32:43ONE MINUTE.

2:32:44>> Speaker: ONE AGAIN AT THE

2:32:46LAST COUNCIL MEETING, THE CITY

2:32:48ATTORNEY FELT THE NEED TO TELL

2:32:51THE ONE OF THE SPEAKERS TO

2:32:53REQUEST HELP.

2:32:53THIS IS NOT A SOLUTION, IT'S

2:32:58UNSEEMLY TO TELL PEOPLE THAT

2:32:59THEY NEED TO SEEK HELP.

2:33:02THE CITY STAFF HAS BECOME

2:33:04CORRUPTED, THEY CASH THEIR

2:33:06PAYCHECKS BUT THEY DON'T DO

2:33:07THEIR JOBS.

2:33:09RIGHT HERE SIX OR SEVEN POLICE

2:33:12OFFICERS WHO'S JOBS IS TO LOOK

2:33:14AT PEOPLE IN DANGER BUT THEY

2:33:16IGNORE.

2:33:17WHAT YOU SHOULD DO MRS.

2:33:18ATTORNEY IS IS THE SAME THING

2:33:20THE COUNCILMEMBERS SHOULD DO.

2:33:22ISSUE A PUBLIC STATEMENT

2:33:25DEMANDING A MILT' LEVEL OF

2:33:26INVESTIGATION OF PUBLIC

2:33:27CORRUPTION STARTING WITH

2:33:29CORRUPT PROSECUTED.

2:33:30IT'S TRAGIC THAT YOUR

2:33:31SUPERVISORS AND COLLEAGUES ARE

2:33:34MORALLY DEPRIVED BUT THEY ARE,

2:33:36AND THIS IS THE ONLY SOLUTION.

2:33:46>> Speaker: GENERAL PLEASE.

2:33:47>> City Attorney: YOU HAVE ONE

2:33:48MINUTE.

2:33:49>> Speaker: TODAY IS NOT

2:33:51FRIDAY, SORRY, TODAY IS

2:33:53SATURDAY, OCTOBER THE 10th AND

2:33:54DO NOT BELIEVE ALL THE

2:33:56PROPAGANDA THESE PEOPLE ARE

2:33:57TELLING YOU ABOUT ICE, WE HAVE

2:33:59HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS

2:34:01UNDOCUMENTED ICE IS NOT GOING

2:34:02TO TAKE THEM ANYWHERE, THIS IS

2:34:03THEIR HOME.

2:34:06IF SOMEBODY IS GETTING ARRESTED

2:34:08IS YOU GUYS.

2:34:09I STAND HERE AS A HIGH RISK

2:34:12WHISTLEBLOWER AND VICTIM OF

2:34:14TRAFFICKING.

2:34:16AND THESE PUBLIC MEETINGS ARE

2:34:19DONE IN SUPPORT IN TRYING TO

2:34:20SILENCE ME.

2:34:21AND I SEE WE CHANGED THE

2:34:26PRESIDENT INTO LUCIFERIAN, MY

2:34:28TRAFFICKER IS SITTING IN FRONT

2:34:29OF ME.

2:34:35A FACADE OF CITY HALL, THE FREE

2:34:39MASONS, I STOPPED SKID ROW

2:34:43MODERN SLAVELY CAMP, A TOWN

2:34:45HALL, A RED LIGHT DISTRICT.

2:34:47I TOLD THEM I WOULD BE THEIR

2:34:49VOICE.

2:34:53>> City Attorney: THANK YOU,

2:34:54SPEAKER YOUR TIME IS UP.

2:34:55>> Speaker: THANK YOU.

2:35:11>> Speaker: JUST GENERAL PUBLIC

2:35:12COMMENT, JUST AS OBJECTIVE

2:35:17OBSERVER, IT SEEMS THE BALANCE

2:35:18BETWEEN PANDERER AND POLICY IS

2:35:23NOT ENOUGH IN POLICY.

2:35:24IT WOULD BE GREAT IF THIS

2:35:28COUNCIL WOULD DEBATE SERIOUS

2:35:31PUBLIC POLICY.

2:35:33NUMBER 2, I WANT TO PRAISE MRS.

2:35:36HUTT THE CASH THAT SHE PUT HER

2:35:40CASH WHERE HER MOUTH AND HEART

2:35:41IS, OUT OF 50,000 OUT OF HER

2:35:44CASH DASH SHE WAS ABLE TO PUT

2:35:46IN AND REPAIR JACKIE ROBINSON

2:35:49TRACK STADIUM AND WE'RE TALKING

2:35:52ABOUT THE YOUTH GOING FORWARD.

2:35:55I HAVE TO TELL MRS. HUTT,

2:35:57EVERYBODY APPRECIATES WHAT YOU

2:35:59DID FOR THEM.

2:36:01I JUST WANT TO TAKE THIS

2:36:03OPPORTUNITY AND FINALLY, IT

2:36:04WOULD BE NICE IF MRS. PARK HAD

2:36:07A HEARING THERE IS MANY SERIOUS

2:36:10ISSUES.

2:36:26>> City Attorney: WOULD YOU

2:36:26LIKE TO SPEAK TO THE ITEMS OR

2:36:28PUBLIC COMMENT OR BOTH.

2:36:30>> Speaker: NONE.

2:36:32NON-AGENDA.

2:36:33>> City Attorney: OKAY, YOU'LL

2:36:35HAVE ONE MINUTE.

2:36:40>> Speaker: I'M JENER, I AM THE

2:36:46FIRST CONTRACTOR I'M ANGRY AND

2:36:54HOMELESSNESS SEEN LIKE IT.

2:36:57FIRST OF ALL, RAMAN CHAIRMAN

2:37:00DEPARTMENT AND I SAY, I DON'T

2:37:06SUPPORT FALSE INFORMATION AT

2:37:08ALL AND FOR KAREN BASS

2:37:10REELECTION.

2:37:12GOD BLESS.

2:37:22>> THANK YOU, NEXT SPEAKER.

2:37:24>> GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT.

2:37:28THANK YOU FOR HAVING US.

2:37:31MY COMPANY IS WE PRODUCE

2:37:33SUPPORTING EVENTS THAT

2:37:35HIGHLIGHT OUR DIVERSITY AND

2:37:37CREATIVE, IT WAS GREAT TO SEE

2:37:40THE GROUPS OUT HERE TODAY.

2:37:42I WOULD LIKE YOU TO COME OUT ON

2:37:45DECEMBER 31, WE HAVE DIA DE

2:37:53LOS MUERTOS, WE HAVE

2:37:57TRADITIONAL AZTEC DANCERS OUT

2:37:58THERE.

2:37:58AND THEN AFTER THAT,

2:38:01THANKSGIVING DAY, WE HAVE THE

2:38:04TURKEY TROT LOS ANGELES.

2:38:05RIGHT HERE IN FRONT OF CITY

2:38:08HALL, 10,000 PEOPLE, MANY

2:38:10LANGUAGES, MANY CULTURES, I SAY

2:38:12COME ON DOWN, I THINK WE HAVE

2:38:15COUNCILMEMBER JURADO IT'S FOR A

2:38:17CITY OF JUST PEOPLE.

2:38:18COME ON DOWN.

2:38:18THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.

2:38:35>> Council President: NEXT

2:38:37SPEAKER PLEASE.

2:38:45DID WE CALL THE NAMES?

2:38:51ARE THERE ADDITIONAL SPEAKERS?

2:39:05>> City Attorney: SPEAKER WOULD

2:39:06YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO THE ITEM

2:39:07OR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT OR

2:39:08BOTH.

2:39:09>> Speaker: ONE MINUTE PLEASE.

2:39:10>> City Attorney: YOU HAVE A

2:39:11MINUTE.

2:39:13>> Speaker: GOOD MORNING, LOS

2:39:14ANGELES.

2:39:24[SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

2:39:28>> Interpreter: IN THE PAST

2:39:32POLITICS RELY ON THOSE WHO MOVE

2:39:34MOUNTAINS.

2:39:40>> Speaker: [SPEAKING FOREIGN

2:39:42LANGUAGE]

2:39:44>> Interpreter: NOW IT RELIES

2:39:46ON THOSE WHO MOVE EACH OTHER.

2:39:54>> Speaker: [SPEAKING FOREIGN

2:39:56LANGUAGE]

2:40:07>> Interpreter: BUTTERFLY

2:40:08FLYING TOWARDS THE SPRING,

2:40:11BUTTERFLY FLYING TOWARDS THE

2:40:14CANDLE IS MEDICINE AND LAW.

2:40:18>> Speaker: [SPEAKING FOREIGN

2:40:19LANGUAGE]

2:40:20>> Interpreter: I'M HERE FOR

2:40:21THE DIALOGUE.

2:40:24FOR CONSTRUCTIVE DIALOGUE.

2:40:26BUT NOT FOR THE MONOLOGUE.

2:40:31>> Speaker: GRACIAS.

2:40:32>> Interpreter: THANK YOU.

2:40:47>> Speaker: HELLO >> City

2:40:48Attorney: HELLO WOULD YOU LIKE

2:40:49TO SPEAK TO THE ITEM OR GENERAL

2:40:50PUBLIC COMMENT OR BOTH.

2:40:52>> Speaker: GOOD MORNING I'M

2:40:54SARAH AND I'M HERE WITH DANIEL

2:41:01AND MA ESTERO, A GUEST VISITING

2:41:05FROM YUCATAN, A MEMBER OF SATUR

2:41:08ACCOUNTSER TODAY WE'RE HERE TO

2:41:10GIVE A LETTER, WE DON'T SEE

2:41:14HER, COUNCILMEMBER JURADO, BUT

2:41:17WE'RE CARBON COPY UNISSES

2:41:21HERNANDEZ, YOU KNOW ABOUT OUR

2:41:25MUNDO VALE DAY YACATAN, WE'RE

2:41:29ASKING TO HELP US DECLARE A DAY

2:41:34OF DIA DE LA GUALLAVERA HELD

2:41:43ON MARCH 21, 2027.

2:41:46THAT DAY WE WANT TO DECLARE IT

2:41:52TO HONOR OUR DIASPORA.

2:41:54THANK YOU AND WE HAVE A LETTER

2:41:57FOR YOU IF WE CAN GIVE YOU A

2:41:58COPY PLEASE.

2:41:59>> City Attorney: SPEAKER YOUR

2:42:00TIME IS UP.

2:42:03>> Clerk: COUNCIL PRESIDENT

2:42:04THERE IS NO ONE ELSE LINED UP

2:42:06FOR PUBLIC COMMENT.

2:42:08>> Speaker: OKAY, SO IN-PERSON

2:42:10PUBLIC COMMENT IS CLOSED AND

2:42:11WE'LL MOVE TO THE VIRTUAL

2:42:13PUBLIC COMMENT, PLEASE.

2:42:14>> City Attorney: I'LL NOW

2:42:16EXPLAIN THE PROCEDURE FOR

2:42:19VIRTUAL PUBLIC COMMENT.

2:42:20PLEASE DO NOT ATTEMPT TO RAISE

2:42:23YOUR HAND UNTIL I'VE FINISHED

2:42:26EXPLAINING THE PROCEDURE, AFTER

2:42:28I'VE EXPLAINED THE PROCEDURE,

2:42:30I'LL ASK FOR RAISE HAND.

2:42:33AFTER YOU PRESS STAR 9 TO

2:42:34REQUEST TO SPEAK, YOU WILL HEAR

2:42:36A MESSAGE STATING THAT YOUR

2:42:39HAND HAS BEEN RAISED.

2:42:40CALLERS WHEN IT'S YOUR TURN TO

2:42:43SPEAK, A AUTOMATED MESSAGE WILL

2:42:45ASK YOU TO PROMPT YOURSELF.

2:42:48AT THAT POINT, YOU NEED TO

2:42:51IMMEDIATELY UNMUTE YOURSELF OR

2:42:52YOU WILL FORFEIT YOUR TIME AND

2:42:54YOU WILL MOVE ON TO THE NEXT

2:42:56SPEAKER.

2:42:57FINALLY BETWEEN A LIVE DELAY,

2:42:59TWO THINGS ARE IMPORTANT.

2:43:00FIRST WHILE YOU'RE WAITING FOR

2:43:02YOUR TURN TO SPEAK, KEEP AN EAR

2:43:04TO THE PHONE SO YOU HEAR IN

2:43:07REALTIME WHEN IT'S YOUR TURN TO

2:43:09PRESS STAR 6.

2:43:11PLEASE TURN DOWN THE VOLUME ON

2:43:14THOSE DEVICES WHEN IT'S YOUR

2:43:15TURN TO SPEAK.

2:43:18BETWEEN THE FEEDBACK, IT WILL

2:43:19CAUSE A GREAT DEAL OF FEEDBACK

2:43:21IF YOU CONTINUE TO LISTEN ON

2:43:24OTHER DEVICES.

2:43:24THE ITEM OPEN FOR TODAY PUBLIC

2:43:28COMMENT IS ITEM 5.

2:43:31AND STAFF CAN ENABLE THE RAISE

2:43:33HAND FUNCTION.

2:43:38>> Clerk: PRIVATE CALLER UNMUTE

2:43:41YOURSELF AND STATE YOUR NAME

2:43:42AND THE ITEM YOU WOULD LIKE TO

2:43:44SPEAK TO.

2:43:46>> Speaker: DANIEL GUS SUB

2:43:48STACK.COM.

2:43:49I'M GOING TO GO TO GENERAL

2:43:51PUBLIC COMMENT.

2:43:52>> City Attorney: YOU'LL WITH

2:43:53ONE MINUTE.

2:43:54>> Speaker: YEAH, SO YOU GUYS

2:43:58HAD THIS NATIONWIDE

2:44:00EMBARRASSMENT YESTERDAY.

2:44:03AFTER YOUR FAILURES AND

2:44:06CORRUPTION RESULTED IN A

2:44:08FEDERAL GOVERNMENT RAID OF SKID

2:44:12ROW WITH LAPD COOPERATION, BY

2:44:14THE WAY BUT NOT LEAD BY MAYOR

2:44:16BASS AS SHE CLAIMS AND THERE

2:44:19WAS A FUCKEN WORD ABOUT THE

2:44:21HORROR SHOW THAT YOU ENABLED

2:44:22THERE THAT WAS EXPOSED

2:44:25YESTERDAY OTHER THAN YSABEL

2:44:30JURADO DEFENDING IT AND SAYING

2:44:32SHE'S PROUD TO REPRESENT SKID

2:44:33ROW?

2:44:34WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU PROUD

2:44:35ABOUT?

2:44:38YOU REPRESENT AN AREA THAT WAS

2:44:41EXPOSED TO FROM COAST TO COAST

2:44:43AND ACROSS THE PLANET, IS A

2:44:48DISGRACE OF TORTURE AND

2:44:49SUFFERING AND EXPLOITATION AND

2:44:51DEATH OF HUMANS AND ANIMALS

2:44:53ALIKE AND YOU'RE PROUD OF THAT?

2:44:55>> City Attorney: SPEAKER YOUR

2:44:57TIME IS UP.

2:45:00>> Clerk: PRIVATE CALLER PLEASE

2:45:02UNMUTE YOURSELF AND STATE YOUR

2:45:03NAME AND THE ITEM YOU WOULD

2:45:05LIKE TO SPEAK TO.

2:45:11>> Speaker: HE'S NUTS.

2:45:12>> City Attorney: SPEAKER WOULD

2:45:15YOU LIKE TO SPEAK TO THE ITEM

2:45:17OR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT OR

2:45:18BOTH?

2:45:19>> Speaker: BOTH.

2:45:22>> City Attorney: YOU'LL HAVE

2:45:23ONE MINUTE FOR THE ITEM.

2:45:31SPEAKER, YOU'LL HAVE ONE MINUTE

2:45:32FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT.

2:45:34>> Clerk: CALLER WITH THE LAST

2:45:38FOUR DIGITS 3784 PLEASE UNMUTE

2:45:39YOURSELF AND STATE YOUR NAME

2:45:41AND WHAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO

2:45:42SPEAK TO.

2:45:43>> Speaker: GENERAL PUBLIC

2:45:44COMMENT.

2:45:44>> City Attorney: YOU'LL HAVE

2:45:45ONE MINUTE.

2:45:46>> Speaker: OKAY, SO YESTERDAY,

2:45:48SO ALL OF YOU KEEP SUPPORTING

2:45:51KAREN BASS AND YESTERDAY, SHE

2:45:54WORKED ALONGSIDE THE TRUMP

2:45:56ADMINISTRATION AND LAPD TO

2:46:00TERRORIZE SKID ROW, PEOPLE ARE

2:46:02STILL UNABLE TO RETURN TO THEIR

2:46:04TENTS AND THEIR BELONGINGS.

2:46:06SO AND THIS IS ALL KAREN BASS'S

2:46:11LEADERSHIP MA GA McDONALD IS

2:46:20LEADERSHIP AND.

2:46:20AND YOU NEED TO FIRE HIM.

2:46:24THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR WHY HE

2:46:27IS STILL THERE.

2:46:28YOU CAN FIRE JIM McDONNELL AND

2:46:32YOU REFUSE TO DO IT.

2:46:35NOW CONTINUE TO HAVE THIS

2:46:38RIDICULOUS BACKGROUND.

2:46:39I'M NOT SURE IF IT'S CHANNEL 35

2:46:42OR QUHO PUTS IT, BUT IT GIVES

2:46:45ME A HEADACHE, EVERY TIME I

2:46:46WATCH.

2:46:48YOU ZOOM IN.

2:46:53>> Clerk: PRIVATE CALLER PLEASE

2:46:56UNMUTE YOURSELF AND STATE YOUR

2:46:57NAME AND WHAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO

2:46:58SPEAK TO.

2:46:59>> Speaker: I'M JASON AND I'M A

2:47:03SMOKING SCAN VIEWER.

2:47:03>> City Attorney: WOULD YOU

2:47:04LIKE TO SPEAK TO ITEM FIVE,

2:47:06GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT OR BOTH.

2:47:08>> Speaker: LET ME GET BOTH.

2:47:12>> City Attorney: I'M SORRY CAN

2:47:13YOU REPEAT AT THAT?

2:47:16>> Speaker: LET ME GET ALL

2:47:18AVAILABLE ITEMS AND GENERAL

2:47:20PUBLIC COMMENT.

2:47:20>> City Attorney: ONLY ITEM

2:47:22AVAILABLE IS ITEM 5 AND YOU CAN

2:47:24HAVE ONE MINUTE AND THEN ONE

2:47:29MINUTE FOR GENERAL PUBLIC

2:47:30COMMENT.

2:47:30AND YOU MUST REMAIN ON TOPIC.

2:47:33>> Speaker: THE OTHER DAY I'M

2:47:36ON FIGUEROA AND I PAID 5

2:47:39DOLLARS AND SHE WAS TELLING ME.

2:47:42>> City Attorney: SPEAKER YOU

2:47:43HAVE TO SPEAK TO THE AGENDA

2:47:45ITEMS SO YOU NEED TO TIE IT TO

2:47:47ITEM 5.

2:47:48>> Speaker: YES, MA'AM, THAT'S

2:47:52I WAS GETTING THERE,

2:47:56[INDISCERNIBLE]

2:47:57WE GOT ALL NIGHT.

2:47:59ANYWAY, SHE WAS TELLING ME HOW

2:48:01COME DOWN AND I TOLD SHE CALLED

2:48:04IN.

2:48:05>> City Attorney: YOU'RE NOT

2:48:06TYING ANYTHING TO ITEM 35,

2:48:09WE'RE MOVING YOU TO--5.

2:48:13WE'RE MOVING YOU TO PUBLIC

2:48:14COMMENT.

2:48:15>> Speaker: THAT'S MIGHTY

2:48:17WHITEY, YOU'RE LOOKING GOOD

2:48:17TODAY.

2:48:18WE'RE TALKING ABOUT MS. JURADO,

2:48:25SHE IS A FEMALE THERE, SHE IS

2:48:29ONE OF THOSE, CARPET, THE BEST

2:48:33PART ABOUT LESBIAN IS THE THEY

2:48:40MAKE.

2:48:42WOMEN ON WOMEN ACTING THERE.

2:48:44>> City Attorney: SPEAKER YOU

2:48:46NEED TO SPEAK TO SOMETHING OF

2:48:49THE JURISDICTION OF THE BODY.

2:48:51WE CAN MOVE ON TO THE NEXT

2:48:53CALLER.

2:48:54>> Clerk: CALLER WITH THE LAST

2:48:58FOUR DIGITS, 7533, PLEASE STATE

2:48:59YOUR NAME AND WHAT YOU WOULD

2:49:01LIKE TO SPEAK TO?

2:49:03>> Speaker: THIS IS AUDIT L.A.,

2:49:05I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK TO ALL

2:49:07ITEMS, WELL IT'S NUMBER 5, IT'S

2:49:10A TOUGH CHOICE AND I'LL TAKE

2:49:13THAT AND PUBLIC COMMENT.

2:49:14>> City Attorney: YOU'LL HAVE

2:49:16ONE MINUTE FOR THE ITEM AND ONE

2:49:18MINUTE FOR PUBLIC COMMENT.

2:49:19PLEASE START WITH THE ITEM.

2:49:20>> Speaker: ON ITEM, OKAY, WE

2:49:23WERE DOING SOME KIND OF

2:49:26RESTATED PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

2:49:27AGREEMENT, IT SOUNDS LIKE

2:49:28NOBODY CAN GET THEIR ACT

2:49:30TOGETHER WHICH IS A SHOCK.

2:49:33I MEAN, SMOKING SCAN WILL

2:49:36AGREE, WINK, WINK, WINK.

2:49:40I'M CONCERNED ALREADY, DEALING

2:49:41WITH YOUR CONTRACT.

2:49:43I DON'T FEEL YOU DO A GOOD

2:49:45ENOUGH JOB.

2:49:45AND YOU DON'T HAVE A REASONABLE

2:49:49WAY OUT.

2:49:52LIKE ILLEGALLY CHANGED THE WAY

2:49:55TO L.A. RON HUBBARD WAY.

2:49:58I COULD SHOW YOU ALMOST

2:50:00FRAUDULENT THE TRUCK WAS

2:50:02BECAUSE OF SCIENTOLOGY.

2:50:04BUT NRR PERMITS, THEY'RE HAVING

2:50:06ABIDED BY IT AND THE ENTIRE

2:50:09TIME THEY HAD IT FOR DECADES.

2:50:12HOW DO WE KNOW THAT IT WAS THIS

2:50:18AMEND SECOND CHANCE.

2:50:25OKAY I'M HERE I'M GOING TO BE

2:50:27SO BAD.

2:50:28AND I KNOW IT'S GOING TO

2:50:30HAPPEN, IT'S GOING FOB

2:50:32DISGUSTING IF YOU USE THE

2:50:34SCREENING ROOM FOR THE

2:50:37CHRISTMAS PARADE.

2:50:38IF YOU DO IT, THEN YOU SUPPORT

2:50:41HUMAN TRAFFICKING.

2:50:47YOU'LL BE GRADED ON AUDIT L.A.

2:50:49ON YOUTUBE.

2:50:51AND TALK ABOUT HER EXPERIENCES

2:50:54AND BEING A GAY PERSON IN

2:50:57SCIENTOLOGY AND THE HELL SHE

2:50:58WENT THROUGH.

2:51:00YOU'RE SUPPORTING HOW SHE WAS

2:51:01TREATED BY YOU HAVING ANYTHING

2:51:03TO DO WITH SCIENTOLOGY.

2:51:06YOU'RE SUPPORTING THE ABUSE.

2:51:08YOUR SUPPORTING THE CHILD

2:51:11SLAVERY AND HUMAN SLAVERY.

2:51:14YOU'RE SUPPORTING THAT BY USING

2:51:16THE GREEN ROOM.

2:51:20I WANTED TO BE, DO YOU THINK

2:51:23WHAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY AT SKID

2:51:25ROW WAS--SKID ROW WAS A SHAME?

2:51:30>> Clerk: PLEASE UNMUTE

2:51:32YOURSELF AND STATE YOUR NAME

2:51:33AND WHAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO

2:51:34SPEAK TO?

2:51:36>> Speaker: I WOULD LIKE TO DO

2:51:39GENERAL COMMENT PLEASE >> City

2:51:39Attorney: YOU'LL HAVE ONE

2:51:40MINUTE.

2:51:40>> Speaker: THANK YOU.

2:51:44GOOD AFTERNOON, COUNCIL.

2:51:47COUNCILMEMBER RODRIGUEZ,

2:51:48COMMERCE AVENUE IN TUJUNGA, THE

2:51:52STREET IS COMPLETE DARK.

2:51:53WE'RE ASKING THAT YOU PLEASE

2:51:58INTRODUCE AN ITEM TO GET THEM

2:52:00UP AND WORKING.

2:52:00THAT'S ONE THING I WOULD LIKE

2:52:02TO SAY.

2:52:03THE SEC THING I WOULD LIKE TO

2:52:08SOMETHING IS BEING DONE TO GIVE

2:52:10IT TO THE PUBLIC TO USE INSTEAD

2:52:13OF THE DRUG DEALERS TAKING OVER

2:52:17McARTHUR PARK.

2:52:19AND FUELING THIS CRISIS AND

2:52:21TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE

2:52:23VULNERABLE POPULATION WHICH IS

2:52:24THE HOMELESS PEOPLE.

2:52:26AND WHAT IS SAD IS THAT THESE

2:52:29GANGS ARE CHARGING RENT TO

2:52:31THESE HOMELESS PEOPLE WHO WANT

2:52:33TO PITCH A TENT AND SLEEP ON

2:52:37THE AREA AND ON SKID ROW.

2:52:40SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE.

2:52:47>> Clerk: PRIVATE CALLER PLEASE

2:52:48UNMUTE YOURSELF, STATE YOUR

2:52:50NAME AND WHAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO

2:52:51SPEAK TO?

2:52:52>> Speaker: YES, ALL ITEMS AND

2:52:5435 --5 AND GENERAL PUBLIC

2:52:57COMMENT.

2:52:58>> City Attorney: YOU'LL HAVE A

2:52:59MINUTE FOR EACH.

2:53:00PLEASE START WITH THE ITEM.

2:53:01>> Speaker: SO NUMBER 5 HAS

2:53:03DIRECT TIES TO ISRAEL.

2:53:06I'M SURPRISED WHY NITHYA RAMAN

2:53:10WILL NOT COMMENT ON THE STANCE

2:53:14ON ISRAEL.

2:53:16I FIND THAT HA LAYERIAN THAT

2:53:18THAT PEOPLE RUN AROUND WITH

2:53:20THIS HORSE SHIT TALKING ABOUT

2:53:22WE'RE SO AGAINST GENOCIDE AND

2:53:26ALL OF THESE BULLSHIT POLITICS,

2:53:30YET THEY CAN'T MAKE A PUBLIC

2:53:34STANCE ON THE ISRAEL.

2:53:36HERE'S YOUR CHANCE, BUDDY, YOU

2:53:38HAVE A COMPANY THAT YOU'RE

2:53:40PAYING MONEY THAT IS TIED TO

2:53:42ISRAEL.

2:53:42THEY ARE CONNECTED WHERE THEY

2:53:46WORK WITH NRTL BODIES AND THEIR

2:53:55SUB SIDIARIES.

2:53:58THE MOST LIBERAL CITY IN L.A.

2:54:00BUT GROUP OF POLITICS.

2:54:02>> City Attorney: SPEAKER YOUR

2:54:04TIME IS UP.

2:54:06ONE MINUTE FOR GENERAL.

2:54:08>> Speaker: GENERAL PUBLIC

2:54:08COMMENT.

2:54:10THIS IS OFFICIAL SEAS AND

2:54:13ASSIST FOR THE CITY OF L.A. TO

2:54:18STOP HARASSING HERMAN.

2:54:20I KNOW HE'S BEEN A LOT OF TO DO

2:54:30FOR MISCONDUCT BUT HE'S BEEN

2:54:32DELIVERING DOCUMENTS IN THE

2:54:35PUBLIC HALLWAY SHORT RIDGE

2:54:38COURT HOUSE ADMITTED THAT THEY

2:54:42STOPPED PROSECUTOR A

2:54:44SCIENTOLOGY PEDOPHILE.

2:54:46SO AGAIN, STOP HARASSING

2:54:49HERMAN, IT'S POLITICAL

2:54:51INTIMLATION.

2:54:54I WILL SUE THE FUCK OUT OF THE

2:54:55CITY.

2:54:57AND NO LONGER THE PRESIDENT OF

2:54:58THE AID FOUNDATION.

2:55:00THE CITY CAN GO FUCK ITSELF

2:55:03THAT'S 200 PAGES OF SOLID

2:55:05EVIDENCE.

2:55:06>> CALLER WITH THE LAST FOUR

2:55:10DIGITS, 1403, PLEASE UNMUTE

2:55:12YOURSELF STATE YOUR NAME AND

2:55:13WHAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK TO?

2:55:16>> Speaker: ALL GOD DAMN ITEMS

2:55:19AND GENERAL COMMENT.

2:55:19>> City Attorney: YOU'LL HAVE

2:55:21ONE MINUTE FOR ITEM 5 AND ONE

2:55:24FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT.

2:55:25PLEASE START WITH THE ITEM.

2:55:27>> Speaker: YEAH, I'M SORRY, I

2:55:30STOLE THIS PHONE LAST TUESDAY

2:55:32AT OUT OF MR. SPINDLER'S HOUSE,

2:55:35I JUST WANT TO STAY ON TOPIC.

2:55:37I KNOW YOU SHOULD NOT MOTHER

2:55:41FUCKEN EXTEND THE CONTRACTS

2:55:45WITH LLC, LLC ARE BUNCH OF

2:55:48CRIMINALS IN MY OPINION.

2:55:50OH SHIT, THAT'S THE COPS ALL

2:55:52RIGHT, ALL RIGHT, I COOL, I

2:55:54COOL, I COOL.

2:55:56LET ME CONTINUE.

2:55:59NOW THESE MOTHER FUCKEN

2:56:01CONTRACTS, YOU'RE NOT DOING

2:56:03YOUR CONFLICTS Y'ALL LIKE WHAT

2:56:05YOU DID TO CURREN FOOL, ALL

2:56:09YOUR STAFF AIN'T CHECKING THE

2:56:12MOTHER FUCKEN CONFLICTS, THAT'S

2:56:14I COULDN'T GOT A BROTHER OVER

2:56:15THERE IN TROUBLE.

2:56:17YOU SEE I'M ON PAROLE MYSELF.

2:56:20AND I DON'T WANT ANYBODY ELSE

2:56:22TO GET FUCKED ON THE CONFLICTS.

2:56:25YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING.

2:56:26>> City Attorney: ONE MINUTE

2:56:27FOR GENERAL.

2:56:28>> Speaker: YEAH, NOW TO

2:56:30GENERAL, WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU

2:56:31DOING HOMES?

2:56:34WHY ARE YOU SENDING OVER TO

2:56:37THIS GUY'S HOUSE?

2:56:39NOW, I DID IT AND I GOT TO

2:56:41RETURN HIS PHONE AND I'M GOING

2:56:43TO RETURN IT, IF YOU'RE OUT

2:56:45THERE, WHATEVER YOUR NAME IS,

2:56:47WHATEVER YOUR FUCKEN NAME IS,

2:56:49THAT'S NOT EVEN THE GUY'S REAL

2:56:51NAME IS.

2:56:51YOU DON'T KNOW WHO THIS GUY IS,

2:56:54SMALL.

2:56:54YOU GOT ME IN TROUBLE, DWRO

2:56:56WANT TO GO BACK TO STATE

2:56:59PRISON, YOU UNDERSTAND.

2:57:01BOB?

2:57:02, YOU GOT TO TELL US BOB WHO

2:57:06YOU SENT US OVER.

2:57:09YOU BETTER TELL US HE'S OVER

2:57:12THERE HE'S CALLING IT I GOT TO

2:57:19SELL MYSELF SIFP, IF I DON'T

2:57:22GET MY MONEY THEN MY HOMES GETS

2:57:24MY MONEY AND NOBODY GETS THE

2:57:26MONEY AND WE'VE GOTS TO GET

2:57:28PAID, YOU GET WHAT I'M SAYING.

2:57:31>> Clerk: COUNCIL PRESIDENT WE

2:57:33HAVE TAKEN THE ALLOTTED TIME

2:57:35FOR VIRTUAL PUBLIC COMMENT.

2:57:37>> Council President: OKAY,

2:57:39PUBLIC COMMENT IS OFFICIALLY

2:57:40CLOSED.

2:57:41WHAT IS NEXT.

2:57:42>> Clerk: BEFORE COUNCIL IS

2:57:44ITEM 5.

2:57:44>> Council President: ITEM 5 IS

2:57:46BEFORE US, ANY MEMBERS WISH TO

2:57:48SPEAK ON THIS ITEM.

2:57:49SEEING NO MEMBERS ON THE QUEUE,

2:57:51OPEN THE ROLL, CLOSE THE ROLL,

2:57:54TALLY THE VOTES.

2:57:55>> Clerk: 12 AYES.

2:57:56>> Council President: THAT

2:57:57MATTER IS APPROVED.

2:57:59WHAT'S NEXT?

2:58:00>> Clerk: COUNCIL HAS MOTIONED

2:58:02FOR POSTED AND REFERRAL.

2:58:03>> Council President: THEY ARE

2:58:05POSTED AND REFERRED.

2:58:07COLLEAGUES, ADJOURNMENTS?

2:58:09>> J. Lee: THANK YOU, I'M DOING

2:58:11AN ANNOUNCEMENT ON BEHALF OF

2:58:14COUNCILMEMBER McOSKER AND

2:58:16SOMETHING THAT I'VE TOO MANY

2:58:17TIMES, YOU WANTS YOU TO ASK

2:58:19EVERYBODY IN THE CITY TO JOIN

2:58:21HIM OCTOBER 10th IN THE 1-5 FOR

2:58:25ONE OF THEIR BIGGEST I VENTS.

2:58:29FESTIVE ITALIANA, BY. ITALIAN

2:58:34ASSOCIATION.

2:58:35CELEBRATES THE START OF ITALIAN

2:58:37HERITAGE MONTH BY HIGHLIGHTING

2:58:41ITALIAN CULTURE WITH AMAZING

2:58:43FOOD AND LOCAL VENDORS.

2:58:44AND THANKS TO THE L.A. GALAXY,

2:58:47THERE WILL BE A KID ZONE FOR

2:58:50COKER ACTIVITIES.

2:58:51THERE WILL BE ON SAN PEDRO AND

2:58:58EXPECT MASSIVE CLOUDS, WE WERE

2:58:59THERE LAST YEAR AND HAD A GREAT

2:59:04TIME, IT DOES NOT END UNTIL

2:59:0710:00 P.M. SO YOU HAVE LOTS OF

2:59:09TIME TO JOIN THE FESTIVITY.

2:59:13RIDE SHARING OR TRANSPARENT

2:59:18TRANSPORTATION IS ENCOURAGED.

2:59:19WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEE YOU

2:59:21THERE, BRING AN APPETITE AND

2:59:24HELP ALL OF US CELEBRATE

2:59:28ITALIAN CULTURE.

2:59:29>> Council President: BONO BONO

2:59:31BONO.

2:59:33COUNCILMEMBER HERNANDEZ?

2:59:33>> E. Hernandez: THANK YOU.

2:59:35JUST WANT TO INVITE CD1 ANNUAL

2:59:40FESTIVAL, WE'LL BE CLOSING DOWN

2:59:43FIGUEROA FROM AVENUE 55 TO

2:59:47AVENUE 58, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE

2:59:50A RESOURCE FAIR.

2:59:51OUR HEAD LIEPERS IS FEVRE, COME

2:59:56ON BUY EVERYTHING IS FREE AND A

2:59:59LOT OF GOOD STUFF FOR THE

3:00:00FAMILY.

3:00:02YAERT.

3:00:04>> Council President: THANK

3:00:05YOU, ANY OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS.

3:00:07COUNCILMEMBER PADILLA.

3:00:08>> I. Padilla: NOT TOO MUCH

3:00:11ANNOUNCEMENT, BUT I DON'T WANT

3:00:13TO FORGET TELLING THIS MRS.

3:00:15HERNANDEZ, I DROVE BY McARTHUR

3:00:20PARK YESTERDAY AND IT'S GREAT

3:00:21WORK.

3:00:22CONGRATULATIONS.

3:00:23>> Council President: ALL

3:00:24RIGHT, ANY OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS?

3:00:28COUNCILMEMBER HARRIS-DAWSON.

3:00:30>> M. Harris-Dawson: YES, I

3:00:33JUST WANT TO GIVE AN UPDATE.

3:00:36THIS MORNING AT THE CONTINUUM

3:00:39OF CARE GENERAL BOARD MEETING

3:00:41WHERE THERE WAS GOING TO BE A

3:00:42VOTE ON THE COUNTY TAKING OVER

3:00:46FOR LAHSA, FOLKS SHOULD KNOW

3:00:47THAT THE CITY SHOWED ENFORCE

3:00:50BOTH IN-PERSON AND ONLINE, IN

3:00:54FACT, THE CHAIRWOMAN OF

3:00:55HOMELESS IS THERE ALONG WITH

3:00:58MR. McOSKER IS THERE NOW.

3:01:00THE MEETING GOT SHUT DOWN BY

3:01:02BOARD BECAUSE THERE WERE 1500

3:01:05PEOPLE TRYING TO LOG ONLINE,

3:01:08THEIR CAPACITY WAS ONLY 1,000.

3:01:11MY UNDERSTANDING OF ZOOM IS YOU

3:01:12CAN INCREASE THE CAPACITY OF A

3:01:15ZOOM WITH A PUSH OF A FEW

3:01:18BUTTONS BUT SOMEHOW THAT HAS

3:01:20NOT BEEN DONE.

3:01:21OUR MEMBERS ARE STILL THERE,

3:01:22BUT I JUST WANT FOLKS TO KNOW

3:01:24OUR CHAIRWOMAN AND THE MAYOR'S

3:01:26OFFICE AND THIS COUNCIL, MANY

3:01:30OFFICES DID MOBILIZATION TO THE

3:01:32MEETING WE WERE ABLE TO CAUSE

3:01:34THEM AT LEAST WHEN THEY GOT TO

3:01:36MEET AGAIN AND MAKE THIS

3:01:38DECISION, THAT IS THE LATEST

3:01:40FROM C O.C. THIS MORNING.

3:01:42>> Council President:

3:01:43APPRECIATE THAT THANK YOU.

3:01:45OKAY, COLLEAGUES ANY OTHER

3:01:46ANNOUNCEMENTS?

3:01:47WITH THAT, ARE THERE ANY

3:01:49ADJOURNING MOTIONS?

3:01:50IF I CAN ASK EVERYBODY TO RISE

3:01:52FOR ADJOURNING MOTIONS AND WE

3:01:54WILL START WITH COUNCILMEMBER

3:01:55HERNANDEZ.

3:01:56>> E. Hernandez: THANK YOU,

3:01:57COUNCIL PRESIDENT.

3:01:58COLLEAGUES, I WOULD LIKE TO

3:02:02ADJOURN TODAY'S MEET ING IN

3:02:05THE MARIA CARMEN WHO PASSED

3:02:07AWAY THIS WEEK AT THE AGE OF 87

3:02:12IN MADRID SPIN.

3:02:13SHE HAD LIVED IN HER HOME FOR

3:02:15MORE THAN 70 YEARS AFTER

3:02:20INVESTMENT FIRM PURCHASED HER

3:02:23BUILDING, SHE FACED OWNSING ON

3:02:26SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 23, SHE HAD

3:02:28EVICTED FROM HER HOME AND

3:02:30PASSED AWAY TWO WEEKS LATER

3:02:33BEFORE SHE COULD RETURN.

3:02:35HER STORY IS A REMINDER THAT

3:02:38THE AFFORDABILITY CRISIS IS NOT

3:02:39JUST LOS ANGELES IT'S AN

3:02:41INTERNATIONAL CRISIS.

3:02:42ACROSS THE WORLD SOME OF OUR

3:02:44MOST VULNERABLE RESIDENTS ARE

3:02:47ELDERS WHO ARE FACED

3:02:50DISPLACEMENT.

3:02:51AND FOR PEOPLE LIVING PAYCHECK

3:02:54TO PAYCHECK OR SURVIVING ON A

3:03:00SET INCOME, IT THREATENS THEIR

3:03:01HEALTH AND STABILITY AND AS

3:03:03WE'RE SEEING, IT CAN CAUSE

3:03:04THEIR LIVES.

3:03:05BUT ALSO IGNITED A MOVEMENT.

3:03:09THOUSANDS HAVE TAKEN TO THE

3:03:11STREETS ACROSS SPAIN DEMANDING

3:03:13HOUSING PROTECTION SXZ REFUSING

3:03:15TO ACCEPT A SYSTEM THAT PROFITS

3:03:17OVER PEOPLE'S LIVES.

3:03:19HOUSING IS NOT A COMMODITY AND

3:03:23THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN THE

3:03:25COMMUNITIES WE CALL HOME.

3:03:28WE MAY WE HONOR BY PROTECTING

3:03:30OTHERS FROM DISPLACEMENT AND

3:03:32MAY, MAY SHE BE RESTING IN THE

3:03:35WARM EMBRACE OF OUR ANCESTORS.

3:03:36THANK YOU.

3:03:37>> Council President: THANK

3:03:38YOU, ARE THERE ANY OTHER

3:03:40ADJOURNING MOTIONS?

3:03:40LOOKING TO MY LEFT?

3:03:42LOOKING TO MY RIGHT, ADJOURNING

3:03:45MOTIONS?

3:03:48SEEING NONE, GO OUT THERE AND

3:03:50SERVE THE CITY.

3:03:51MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

3:03:52THIS IMMEDIATING IS ADJOURNED.

3:05:12What's the plan? So we'll follow

3:05:17up on the two encampments that

3:05:19have been over here recently.

3:05:21There's one up on this hillside

3:05:22. The last time I was here, it

3:05:24was occupied by two. Both ended

3:05:27up having felony warrants, which

3:05:28we didn't find out until after.

3:05:30We'll see if anybody's home

3:05:32today. I hear a dog. So we

3:05:34definitely have at least a dog

3:05:36here. I didn't know it was more

3:05:42geared towards law enforcement

3:05:43that I wasn't aware of until I

3:05:45started, like coming to the

3:05:47station and talking to some of

3:05:48the other Rangers. My favorite

3:05:49part is the law enforcement

3:05:51aspect. I feel like that's my

3:05:52calling. LA city Park Rangers,

3:05:54anybody inside? I hear your dog.

3:05:57Is your dog gonna hurt me? It's

3:06:01a little pit. Do you see anybody

3:06:03else in there? No Unoccupied.

3:06:05Okay. Law enforcement is so

3:06:07broad. It's not just going after

3:06:08the bad guys. Citing arresting

3:06:10or warning. It's also people

3:06:11relations. They're coming up to

3:06:13you for whatever problems. A lot

3:06:15of times, it's their worst day

3:06:17of their lives. Traumatic

3:06:18experiences and then my job is

3:06:21to kind of console them, give

3:06:22them resources, help them out as

3:06:24much as I can. And that to me

3:06:27feels good. I love trying to get

3:06:28people help when they they want

3:06:30it, when they ask for it. And

3:06:31being just a friendly face to a

3:06:35person that is having a really

3:06:37bad day. So you're doing law

3:06:44enforcement like you're dealing

3:06:45with homeless encampments.

3:06:45You're responding to calls and

3:06:47you're doing it without the

3:06:48firearm. We have our tasers. We

3:06:49have our batons, we have our

3:06:51pepper spray. But if they pull

3:06:53out a knife or a machete, which

3:06:56a lot of these encampments, they

3:06:58have, then we have to redeploy.

3:06:59So we have to back away. Call

3:07:01LAPD and hope that, you know, we

3:07:04can get to our vehicles before

3:07:05they can get to us. So we had a

3:07:11Ranger that got shot at in 2020.

3:07:12And I know that was a big eye

3:07:15opener for everybody because the

3:07:16call came out as a couple

3:07:18drinking in the park, something

3:07:19that can be handled pretty

3:07:20easily, just turned into kind of

3:07:22the worst case scenario. It was

3:07:23October first, 2020. We were in

3:07:26Elysian Park. A male and a

3:07:28female drinking and smoking in

3:07:29the park. Things escalated where

3:07:31they became argumentative. The

3:07:33male got agitated with my

3:07:35trainee and got more aggressive

3:07:37to the point where he pulled out

3:07:39a handgun from his front

3:07:41waistband. And it goes to show

3:07:45how dangerous this job is,

3:07:47because I wasn't able to protect

3:07:49myself. My partner. The security

3:07:51officers or the community.

3:07:53Khakis on foot, heading down

3:07:57towards 600 Park Drive. Shots

3:07:59fired. Probably focused on one

3:08:03west side of Buena Vista meadows

3:08:06along the fence line.

3:08:06Correction. That's going to be

3:08:08two people. Code six on two

3:08:09males and two. So stay right

3:08:11here for me. No nothing in your

3:08:14pockets. Right now. Okay. You

3:08:16don't have to reach for

3:08:18anything. Don't return anything.

3:08:19Nope I always knew that I wanted

3:08:21to be a public servant in some

3:08:23way or another. You are living

3:08:26here. So I couldn't decide

3:08:27between police officer or

3:08:29firefighter. I heard about this

3:08:30position. LA City Park rangers.

3:08:32We get to do both. I didn't

3:08:34really know that this existed

3:08:35and I'm so glad that I found it.

3:08:38This is your violation.

3:08:39Trespassing in this area. Very

3:08:40high fire. An open container of

3:08:43alcohol. See those? Those

3:08:46charges? One, two. Park ranger

3:08:49Hernandez graduated the academy.

3:08:50I believe in March of this year.

3:08:53It's always exciting to see

3:08:55females in this field. It's just

3:08:57good having that sisterhood

3:09:00grow. You can't identify you, so

3:09:01you have to take you down to the

3:09:03jail, get you fingerprinted.

3:09:04Okay We were unable to identify

3:09:08him. He's not coming back in the

3:09:10system. If we get his

3:09:11information, he'll also be cited

3:09:13out on on just a ticket. And

3:09:14then he'll most likely be

3:09:17released pending. He doesn't

3:09:18have any active warrants. We

3:09:22have a field trip going on, and

3:09:24a parent has come across some

3:09:26questionable items. She would

3:09:27like to speak with the ranger in

3:09:30regards. To.

3:09:40So boys, we're gonna show the

3:09:42officer where you guys found

3:09:44everything. So there's a school

3:09:49that was having a field trip. It

3:09:51looks like two of the boys came

3:09:53up this way. We're exploring

3:09:54being kids and they found this

3:09:56area and the questionable items

3:09:57was right by the tree. There was

3:09:59a hoodie with looks like blood

3:10:01spatter. Possibly on it. And in

3:10:04the bag there's a syringe. It

3:10:07looks like someone's just using

3:10:08this area to do drugs. This is a

3:10:11really good spot to hide. As you

3:10:13can see. Like you're covered by

3:10:14the trees here. And it's right

3:10:16here overlooking where a bunch

3:10:17of kids are playing right now.

3:10:19You don't know what history they

3:10:20have. Obviously they're doing

3:10:21drugs really close to the

3:10:22children. Code six on an

3:10:25unoccupied encampment. The

3:10:27questionable items was a bloody

3:10:28sweater and a syringe and

3:10:29syringe in the bag. I'll be

3:10:31conducting a foot patrol. As I'm

3:10:38patrolling the area, especially

3:10:39on a day like today, it's a very

3:10:42high fire danger today. So I'm

3:10:46making sure that I'm not seeing

3:10:47any signs of smoke or fires. If

3:10:53there's a fire within Park

3:10:54property, we respond to that and

3:10:55help. LAFD. This is a type seven

3:10:57brush patrol. It holds 100

3:10:59gallons of water, and I have

3:11:01about 3 to 400ft of hose. It's a

3:11:03fast response vehicle, which is

3:11:04made to show up to a small fire

3:11:07and be able to prevent that from

3:11:08becoming a big fire