Olympics leadership and the Epstein files, fast-food worker protections, and crumbling sidewalks

Unverified speaker · Public comment

Yes. My name is Gloria. I am a fast food worker in Subway. I am asking you urgently to approve the fast food fair work ordinance without further delay. Yes. The training that I learned about workers rights allowed me to to gain power in the fight against managers who were guilty of wage theft against me. How do I know my rights? I'm doing everything possible to obtain justice. But I'm also worried about the workers of the other stores that is own that is under the same owner that are going through the similar things. And we ask urgently, please approve the fast food fair work ordinance so that the fast food workers can be aware of their rights and can fight against injustices for so that …

Kevin · Public comment

Hello, my name is Kevin Ptor. I work at Weners Nitchell and District 5 in Los Angeles. I ask you urgently to please approve the fast food fair work ordinance without further delay. The roof and the wieners nits at the location that I am working has been broken for several years. and even after we have reported it to the owners and the people in charge, they have done nothing to fix it. And us the workers are very scared that it's going to collapse. When the union found us, we learned of our rights. We went on strike after forming a formal complaint against O with OSHA. But my co-workers and I, we know our rights and we will continue the fight. With your help, we will be able to make sure …

Fatima · Item 13

begins, I would like to call up Stacy Seura Bowlinger, Sally Daredy, Armando Herman, Bishop LJ Gillery, Brandon Atilano, and Candy. Good morning. Good afternoon. I signed up for public comment in item 13. Thank you. Good afternoon., my name is Fatima Muretta. I'm a senior organizer with Jobs to Move America and I'm here on behalf of the Fair Games Coalition. we're made up of a 100 organizations including unions, community groups, housing advocates, and immigration leaders. we support council member Rodriguez and Padilla's resolution. Our coalition has expressed similar concerns. The fair game coalition demands an inclusive process to choose the next leader of the 2028 Olympic and Parolympic …

Unverified speaker · General public comment

Good afternoon, Gro. I'll take all items and general public comment, please. Great. Thank you., so one of the items is a close session item regarding a settlement for lawsuit for ADA violations and injury on the sidewalk., the sidewalks in LA, the places there are sidewalks are in immense disrepair., and then a lot of places don't even have sidewalks. for example, in district 2, I don't know where Adren is., but on Vineland between like Ventura and Whipple, there's a lot of places just missing sidewalks and school children are with their families pushing their stroller basically in the gutter by the street with cars going 40 miles per hour., we really need to invest more in our pedestrian …

Unverified speaker · Items 1, 13

I'm sorry., city attorney, could you repeat for me what items are available?, yes. So, The items that are open for public comment on the agenda are items 1 and 13 through 15 for the regular meeting. So I assume items. Yes. 13 through 15 as well. 15. It's on the continuation agenda. Oh, okay. Okay. Gotcha. Got it. And I take those as well as general comment, please. Sorry to cut you off. Katie. Good afternoon. And what

Unverified speaker · Item 13

all items and nobody needs to pay attention. All right. If I can remember all those. First of all, to senior lead officer E Lauriaga, you're retiring. Sir, thank you for all the time that you been kind to us. You've been good. Can you hold us time, Mr. Listen, this is about the agenda. I'm able to speak because that time is paused. I'm making sure that I Yes, sir. Your time is paused. So, I'm trying to assist you so you can provide with public comment. The items that are open for public comment are items number one and items 13 through 15. If you would like to speak to if you'd like to continue, you can do it during general, but I'm going to ask that you requested time for the items. I'm …

Unverified speaker · General public comment

let's see. General public comment. Public Marqueesy Dawson CD8 is a food desert. The highest unemployment rate in the entire country, the highest homeless rate. Sley Marqueezy evicted the Aphiba Center, the black community's 20-year-old community and cultural center, and turned it into a COVID testing site with votes of Nitia Ramen, Bob Gaza, Genocide Bloomfield. That is what they really think about black culture. Our city, state and federal tax dollars are being used to drop bombs in yet another war for Israel and demand and I demand an immediate resolution for this criminal coward council that condemns yet another war against the Iranian people at the behest of Israel. We the people are …

Unverified speaker · Items 16, 19

13 and general public comments., I'm glad that you guys are doing something about Wasserman., I kind of was shocked to see it on the agenda., as a nation, we should be y'all doing something about the Epstein files. This is very serious. And we know that the president is in the files. We know that Wasserman's in the files. And we need justice for those victims. It's I don't know why everybody's not in the streets fighting, protesting. This government is corrupt and we're not doing anything about it. Like literally, you guys are our leaders. I started coming here April of last year because I believe that you guys had power and I realized that we all have power. We just are not using it …

Unverified speaker · Item 17

I guess I'll take all items if they're available. minutes on item 16 and 17. So,

Unverified speaker · Item 19

I believe they're all open, right? They're so would be 16 through 19. council rules are not on the agenda. No, it's not I'm not talking about council rules. I'm talking about that the homelessness funds go primarily through the the hands of people that organized a homeless and human services committee and then that chair of that committee is not here while the item for the budget and finance committee involving homelessness is being handled right now. there's there's like just about the lawsuits regarding LA Alliance or whatever. There's a whole thing. You heard a little bit about Judge Carter. I love Herman. a lot of he's very polarizing, but he's very educational., Judge Carter relates to …

Michaela Gibson · Item 19

Item 19.

Unverified speaker · Public comment

16.

Unverified speaker · Item 18

That concludes our public comment for the special meeting. Madam clerk, what's before us? The council may now vote on item 18. All right, let's open the role in 18. I have All right, close the role. Tabulate the vote. 12 eyes. All right. What's next? Would the council like to move on to items 16 and 17 called special by council member Rodriguez for 16 and 17 are reforested. Council member Rodriguez. Yes., I [clears throat] had questions regarding 17 17. All right. For CAO and or housing, The sort of beauty of the TLS design in general is that it does help encourage throughput in the system. So we are for the city TLS program, the new TLS program, it will prioritize individuals who are in …

Councilmember Traci Park · Council discussion

Council member Mccaskker seconds. What's next? Commendatory resolutions for approval.

Councilmember Heather Hutt · Item 13

Council member Sto Martinez seconds. Can we go through our agenda? Thank you, Mr. President. Would council like all items on this on the agenda to go forth with today? All items forth with today. Thank you. Thank you. Item number one is an item notice for public hearing. Items 2 through 12 are items for which public hearings have been held. The committee reports for items 11 and 12 have been posted and submitted to the respective council files. Item 13 is an item for which public hearing has not been held. Item 14 is a close session item and item 15 on the continuation agenda is an item for which public hearings have been held. All right, specials members. Specials for this morning's …

Councilmember Monica Rodriguez · Council action

Also 17 for questions. Questions on 17. 17. All right. Any other specials? Members going. All right. Madame clerk, what items are available for votes at this time? The council may now vote on items 2 through 8 and 10 through 12. All right, let's open the roll, close the roll, tabulate the votes, 12 eyes. All right, what's next? Would the council like to move on to presentations? We would very much like to move on to presentations. We will begin our exciting morning of presentations with our member from the5, Council Member Mccuscer. And as he's coming to the table, I want to call on Council Member Park for a special recognition. Thank you, Council President. Today it is my pleasure to …

Unverified speaker · Budget and funding

Last year when I did uh Cinco de Mayo, you said, "I really like your idea of taking back the holiday from a very like um Americanized I was doing it Mexican-American. you are about elevating Irishameans. So, I'm glad you had your presentation. Really liked hearing the story about the Irish-American um friendship group and knowing that you're the largest one. So, congratulations on a beautiful um presentation and um I hope everyone does have a good holiday. Thank you for being the one to bring this here. Thank you. Thank you so much, Council Member Padia, Council Member Hut. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Mr. McGosker, for bringing this in. It's so delightful to see these original …

Councilmember Nithya Raman · Council action

Thank you so much, Council Member Hernandez. Thank you for bringing this presentation forward. Senator Palano and everyone who is here. It's just been really incredible to listen to your memories of building power and to understand that where we are today came about because of the work that and the vision that you had for it and every step that you took towards it. It's been all inspiring to hear it and to understand um what it took to build it and to know that if we want to continue building that power today, we have to be as deliberate, as thoughtful, as generous to other people, as open to bringing more people into this work as you were. And I just want to say thank you. Um and thank you …

Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martínez · Budget and funding

Thank you so much, Council President. Uh, thank you so much, Council Member Nandez, for putting this together. Senator Escoutia, MFA, Marilena Duraso, Congressman Gardinas, and Senator Alone. You know, I um I love reading about history, uh you know, American history, Latino history, CHO history, the black civil rights history, and you all just gave me like an incredible history lesson of so much work being done in Southern California, but it really crystallized when you started speaking, uh Senator, it's um you talked about the Great Society and the funding that came from the federal government to grassroots organizing. I don't think a lot of people understand how incredible that was at the …

Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez · Council action

Thank you, Council President. Um, Senator, if you could please join me up here. A happy belated 75th birthday. The city is better because of you and you deserve your flowers. Now, therefore, uh, I just want to share a little bit of love and gratitude from the city of Los Angeles. And I want to express our profound gratitude to you uh to Senator Richard Palano for his distinguished legislative career uh his transformative contributions to public policy and his enduring service to the residents of the city of LA and the state of California and many wishes of continued success into all your future endeavors. Thank you for letting us recognize you and for being here today with us. Let's take a …

Unverified speaker · Item 15

Yeah, just real fast, I want to add my voice to the chorus, thanking you, Reverend, for the work that you and LA Voice do at this moment right now. having interfaith work um moving Los Angeles forward um in ways that benefit all Angelinos is something that we desperately need and and the space that you create, the community that you build to push forward um um toward a brighter future for our city is something that I'm really grateful for. I'm really grateful from the partnership that you um and my team have been able to build and develop. And so, congratulations on this well-deserved honor. Thank you. Thank you so much. Congratulations again, Reverend Zach Hoover and LA Voice. All right. …

Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez · Council action

Uh point of order, Council President. Uh can I uh call the question on this? You are allowed to call the question. Thank you. Is there any objection? All right. Seeing no objection, let's uh open the roll on this item as amended. Close the roll. Tabulate the vote. All right. What's next? I voted no. Okay. Was that vote? Yeah, I voted no. I voted no. It came up. Turned out red. No, we didn't need a vote. There was no objection. That That was on the item. We didn't We didn't need a vote. There was no objection to calling the question. So, we called the question on the We called the RO on the item on the item, but I voted. So, Council Member Rodriguez would like to be noted as a no vote. So …